In The Philosophy of Marx, Etienne Balibar provides an accessible introduction to Marx and his key followers, complete with pedagogical information for the student to make the most challenging areas of theory easy to understand. Examining all the key areas of Marx’s writings in their wider historical and theoretical context—including the concepts of class struggle, ideology, hu...(展开全部)

This is the only guide to Marx that the student and scholar will need. This is an excellent introduction to Marx's thought from a major French philosopher. Providing a lucid, succinct, and accessible introduction to Marx and his key followers, complete with pedagogical information for the student, Balibar makes the most difficult areas of theory easy to understand. Balibar exam...(展开全部)

How to Change the World provides vivid profiles of social entrepreneurs. The book is an In Search of Excellence for social initiatives, intertwining personal stories, anecdotes, and analysis. Readers will discover how one person can make an astonishing difference in the world. The case studies in the book include Jody Williams, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for the inter...(展开全部)

When this best-seller was published, it put the mother-daughter relationship and female psychology on the map. The Reproduction of Mothering was chosen by Contemporary Sociology as one of the ten most influential books of the past twenty-five years. With a new preface by the author, this updated edition is testament to the formative effect that Nancy Chodorow's work continues t...(展开全部)

安德鲁·芬伯格（Andrew Feenberg，1943~）致力于技术批判理论的研究，著作颇多，也提出了很多有建树的思想，芬伯格的著作有《卢卡奇、马克思和批判理论的来源》，还有技术批判三部曲《技术批判理论》(1991)，《可选择的现代性———哲学和社会科学中的技术转向》( 1995)和《质问技术》( 1999)。《实践哲学》是芬伯格2014年的新作。这些著作为安德鲁·芬伯格赢得了很多声誉，也使他成为技术批判理论第二代的重要代表。其中，《可选择的现代性——哲学和社会科学中的技术转向》《技术批判理论》的中文译本，已于2003年由中国社会科学出版社正式出版发行，并在我国学术界产生了很大的影响。

When the first edition of The Media Monopoly was published in 1983, critics called Ben Bagdikian's warnings about the chilling effects of corporate ownership and mass advertising on the nation's news "alarmist." Since then, the number of corporations controlling most of America's daily newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, book publishers, and movie companies ha...(展开全部)

In an epilogue provided for his incomparable study of Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), Donald Richie reflects on Kurosawa's life work of thirty feature films and describes his last, unfinished project, a film set in the Edo period to be called The Ocean Was Watching. Kurosawa remains unchallenged as one of the century's greatest film directors. Through his long and distinguished car...(展开全部)

Ivars Peterson 是美国《科学新闻》周刊的科学记者，主要从事对数学和物理学（包括计算机科学）领域最新发展的采访和报道。在迄今为止的20年里，该周刊登载了众多由他写的关于这两门学科的新成就的报道和专题文章。在其工作的基础上，他先后撰写了两本描述数学最新成就的科普著作：《数学巡礼》和《真理群岛》。