In this lucid, stimulating and original book, Zygmunt Bauman and Tim May explore the underlying assumptions and tacit expectations which structure our view of the world. The authors elucidate key concepts in sociology: for example, individualism versus community, and privilege versus deprivation. While charting a course through sociology's main concerns, Bauman and May also exa...(展开全部)

Widely acclaimed insight on the human condition, updated to view modern issues through a sociological lens Now in its third edition, Thinking Sociologically continues to offer a stimulating exploration of the underlying assumptions and tacit expectations which structure our view of the world. This best-seller has been translated into 12 languages to bring key sociological conce...(展开全部)

For thirty-five years Visual Thinking has been the gold standard for art educators, psychologists, and general readers alike. In this seminal work, Arnheim, author of "The Dynamics of Architectural Form", "Film as Art", "Toward a Psychology of Art", and "Art and Visual Perception", asserts that all thinking (not just thinking related to art) is basically perceptual in nature, a...(展开全部)

For thirty-five years Visual Thinking has been the gold standard for art educators, psychologists, and general readers alike. In this seminal work, Arnheim, author of "The Dynamics of Architectural Form", "Film as Art", "Toward a Psychology of Art", and "Art and Visual Perception", asserts that all thinking (not just thinking related to art) is basically perceptual in nature, a...(展开全部)

This book about thinking presents readers with a systematic, practical, and friendly approach that encompasses all fields of study and business. It explores a valuable skill that will inspire and enlarge people's ability to think through life. Chapter topics cover what thinking is, personal barriers, sensing, brain and memory, language, feeling, creative thinking, organizing, l...(展开全部)

弗兰茨·奥本海默（英语：Franz Oppenheimer，1864年3月30日－1943年9月30日），生于柏林，死于加州洛杉矶，德国犹太社会学家，政治经济学家，出版的作品涉及主权国家的基本社会理念。 在弗雷堡和柏林学习了医学后，奥本海姆在1886至1895年间在柏林行医。自1890年以后，他开始倾向于研究社会政治学和社会经济学问题。在结束医生生涯后，他成为了《上午世界》（Welt am Morgen）杂志的主编，在这里结识了弗雷德里克·瑙曼，当时瑙曼还在替不同的报社挨家挨户送报纸。 1909年，奥本海姆凭借一篇论述经济学家大卫·李嘉图的论文获得了基尔大学的博士学位。自1909年至1917年，奥本海姆在柏林先是做无薪讲师，然后做了两年挂名教授。在1914年他成了“解放俄国犹太人德国委员会”组织的联合创始人之一。1919年他接受了法兰克福的约翰-沃尔...(展开全部)

"The Sociologically Examined Life" is a lively and concise text that uses analyses of everyday life to inspire students to think sociologically about society and about themselves as social actors.

弗兰茨·奥本海默（英语：Franz Oppenheimer，1864年3月30日－1943年9月30日），生于柏林，死于加州洛杉矶，德国犹太社会学家，政治经济学家，出版的作品涉及主权国家的基本社会理念。 在弗雷堡和柏林学习了医学后，奥本海姆在1886至1895年间在柏林行医。自1890年以后，他开始倾向于研究社会政治学和社会经济学问题。在结束医生生涯后，他成为了《上午世界》（Welt am Morgen）杂志的主编，在这里结识了弗雷德里克·瑙曼，当时瑙曼还在替不同的报社挨家挨户送报纸。 1909年，奥本海姆凭借一篇论述经济学家大卫·李嘉图的论文获得了基尔大学的博士学位。自1909年至1917年，奥本海姆在柏林先是做无薪讲师，然后做了两年挂名教授。在1914年他成了“解放俄国犹太人德国委员会”组织的联合创始人之一。1919年他接受了法兰克福的约翰-沃尔...(展开全部)

"The Sociologically Examined Life" is a lively and concise text that uses analyses of everyday life to inspire students to think sociologically about society and about themselves as social actors.

In a nutshell, this book is about systems. This book is written for those thinkers and practitioners who have come to realize that while the whole is becoming more and more interdependent parts display choice and behave independently, and that paradoxes are the most potent challenge of emergent realities. With a practical orientation and yet a profound theoretical depth, the bo...(展开全部)