Among the first anthropologists to work in Eastern Europe, Katherine Verdery had built up a significant base of ethnographic and historical expertise when the major political transformations in the region began to take place. In this collection of essays dealing with the aftermath of Soviet-style socialism and the different forms that may replace it, she explores the nature of ...(展开全部)

Katherine Verdery is Julien J. Studley Faculty Scholar and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology. Since 1973 she has conducted field research in Romania, initially emphasizing the political economy of social inequality, ethnic relations, and nationalism. With the changes of 1989, her work has shifted to problems of the transformation of socialist systems, specifically changin...(展开全部)

Among the first anthropologists to work in Eastern Europe, Katherine Verdery had built up a significant base of ethnographic and historical expertise when the major political transformations in the region began to take place. In this collection of essays dealing with the aftermath of Soviet-style socialism and the different forms that may replace it, she explores the nature of ...(展开全部)

Katherine Verdery is Julien J. Studley Faculty Scholar and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology. Since 1973 she has conducted field research in Romania, initially emphasizing the political economy of social inequality, ethnic relations, and nationalism. With the changes of 1989, her work has shifted to problems of the transformation of socialist systems, specifically changin...(展开全部)

If farce follows tragedy, what follows farce? Where does the double predicament of a post-truth and post-shame politics leave artists and critics on the Left? How to demystify a hegemonic order that dismisses its own contradictions? How to belittle a political elite that cannot be embarrassed, or to mock party leaders who thrive on the absurd? How to out-dada President Ubu? And...(展开全部)

A beautiful fable about the nature of love, from beloved, award-winning picture book creators Mac Barnett and Carson Ellis. "What is love?" a young boy asks. "I can't answer that," his grandmother says, and so the boy goes out into the world to find out. But while each person he meets—the fisherman, the actor, and others—has an answer to his question, not one seems quite right....(展开全部)

“我们如此深爱着自己的孩子，但不知什么原因，他们就是不听我们的。” 《因为爱，所以节制》是美国家庭教育专家布伦达•加里森教育孩子的心得，也是写给天下父母的心灵成长课。她告诉我们：“如果把孩子的生活当作我们自己的生活来处理，那样只会拉大他们和我们之间的距离。” 本书通过不同案例，讲述了父母与青春期孩子相处的方式方法，从孩子和父母两个角度分析了建立亲密关系的必要性，因为亲密关系是一切教育问题的基础。“因为没有了与孩子的融洽关系，我们就什么都没有了，没有了影响力，没有了帮助孩子的途径，也没有办法引领他们走向成长。” 要想与孩子保持密切的关系，做父母的必须真诚，实实在在地关爱孩子，而不要想着怎么搞定他们，更不能担心别人怎么看我们。 如果只能对孩子做一件事，那就是让他们知道：“无论发生什么，亲爱的孩子，我们都爱你。”

Like people, buildings change with age, forced to adapt to the needs of current occupations. This provocative examination of buildings that have adapted well, and some that haven't, calls for a dramatic rethinking in the way new buildings are designed, one that allows structures to grow and change easily with the environment. Photos.

乔治·阿克洛夫：2001年诺贝尔经济学奖获得者，国际货币基金组织客座学者，加州大学伯克利分校杰出荣誉教授。著有《现实主义经济学之路》等。 约瑟夫·斯蒂格利茨：2001年诺贝尔经济学奖获得者，哥伦比亚大学教授。著有《让全球化造福全球》、《国际间的权衡交易——贸易如何促进发展》、《东亚奇迹的反思》、《经济学（第四版）》、《公共部门经济学（第三版）》等。