Reyner Banham was a pioneer in arguing that technology, human needs, and environmental concerns must be considered an integral part of architecture. No historian before him had so systematically explored the impact of environmental engineering on the design of buildings and on the minds of architects. In this revision of his classic work, Banham has added considerable new material on the use of energy, particularly solar energy, in human environments. Included in the new material are discussions of Indian pueblos and solar architecture, the Centre Pompidou and other high-tech buildings, and the environmental wisdom of many current architectural vernaculars.

Mathematical models and computer simulations of complex social systems have become everyday tools in sociology. Yet until now, students had no up-to-date textbook from which to learn these techniques. "Introduction to Mathematical Sociology" fills this gap, providing undergraduates with a comprehensive, self-contained primer on the mathematical tools and applications that sociologists use to understand social behavior. Phillip Bonacich and Philip Lu cover all the essential mathematics, including linear algebra, graph theory, set theory, game theory, and probability. They show how to apply these mathematical tools to demography; patterns of power, influence, and friendship in social networks; Markov chains; the evolution and stability of cooperation in human groups; chaotic and complex systems - and more. "Introduction to Mathematical Sociology" also features numerous exercises throughout, and is accompanied by easy-to-use Mathematica-based computer simulations that students can use to examine the effects of changing parameters on model behavior. It provides an up-to-date and self-contained introduction to mathematical sociology. It explains essential mathematical tools and their applications. It includes numerous exercises throughout. It features easy-to-use computer simulations to help students master concepts.

《文化与社会人类学引论》讲述了:人类社会已经进入了21世纪。如果说人类在20世纪的现代文明成就超越了以往所有时代的成果，那么人类对自然的破坏也叠加了所有时代的恶果而且以前所未有的速度在增长，正在威胁着人类自身的存在，这一切都缘于人类对自身认识的不明，亦即对人类在宇宙中的位置及价值认识的欠缺，这就是终极的文化问题或哲学问题。而文化人类学正是研究这类终极问题的基础学科，它旨在描述社会文化的起源和发展，揭示文化的特征和类型，比较各种文化间的异同及其与社会的关系，分析文化的传播及相互渗透等。这种研究途径，无疑为深入解剖人类本身、向人类自我复归开拓了新的方向。

《反景入深林:人类学的观照、理论与实践》不是一般的社会／文化人类学的导论书，而是以作者过去几十年的田野研究与人生经验为基础，对人类学这门外来知识所作的全面回顾与反省。因此，《反景入深林:人类学的观照、理论与实践》充满着一个非西方社会的知识分子对这门学问的憧憬、热忱、执着、质疑与创造等心路历程，更满怀着对于这片土地及土地上的人的未来之关怀与期盼。希望读者不仅能从此书了解人类学对日常生活各个层面有趣而生动，却又广泛而深入的知识内涵，更能体会人类学特有的全人类社会文化的整体视野、被研究者及比较的观点、处处可见的反省与挑战已有理论知识及研究者已身文化所具有的文化偏见之观照，而有所创新的反思性。因此这也是一本以人为出发点，综合人类学导论、人类学史、人类学理论以及人类学田野研究经验与成果的综合著作。