In Geneologies of Religion, Talal Asad explores how religion as a historical category emerged in the West and has come to be applied as a universal concept.
The idea that religion has undergone a radical change since the Christian Reformation―from totalitarian and socially repressive to private and relatively benign―is a familiar part of the story of secularization. It is often invokved to explain and justify the liberal politics and world view of modernity. And it leads to the view that "politicized religions" threaten both reason and liberty. Asad's essays explore and question all these assumptions. He argues that "religion" is a construction of European modernity, a construction that authorizes―for Westerners and non-Westerners alike―particular forms of "history making."

我們每一個人都住在違建的父權房子中，身上被千千萬萬纏雜不清的性別絲縷牽引著、束縛著。換言之，我們活在打結的性別關係中，看不清自己的處境，也不知從何解套。我們或許意識到自己深受社會制度與無所不在的文化承傳的限制，卻只能嘆息人微言輕
、無力改變。若你對這種處境感到似曾相識、心有戚戚焉，那麼，你就非得好好翻翻這本書不可。

作者亞倫．強森(Allan Johnson) 雖然身為白種中產階級異性戀男性，但因生逢六０年代的狂飆洗禮，受到女性主義的啟蒙並積極在日常生活中實踐，他對自己享有的性別、階級與族群特權做了深刻反省，並融合豐厚廣博的社會研究知識，在本書中細密鋪陳父權體制與個人行動者相互形塑的關係。與其他以提升女性性別意識為目的的書不同，這本書是寫給共同住在父權房子中的男人和女人看的。

本书是对政治学领域进行研究设计的基本问题的方法论介绍，内容浅显易懂，是一本使用的操作指南，适合政治学、社会学、人类学、经济学和历史学专业的研究生和本科生及其导师使用。全书分为六章，分别论述研究设计与相关知识的构建；研究问题的提出如何影响研究结果；研究对象和案例的选择如何影响研究结果；研究论据的采用如何影响研究结果；研究方法和技术的选择如何影响研究结果；以及最后的总结。

The technologically tethered, iPhone-addicted figure is an image we can easily conjure. Most of us complain that there aren't enough hours in the day and too many e-mails in our thumb-accessible inboxes. This widespread perception that life is faster than it used to be is now ingrained in our culture, and smartphones and the Internet are continually being blamed. But isn't the sole purpose of the smartphone to give us such quick access to people and information that we'll be free to do other things? Isn't technology supposed to make our lives easier?
In Pressed for Time, Judy Wajcman explains why we immediately interpret our experiences with digital technology as inexorably accelerating everyday life. She argues that we are not mere hostages to communication devices, and the sense of always being rushed is the result of the priorities and parameters we ourselves set rather than the machines that help us set them. Indeed, being busy and having action-packed lives has become valorized by our productivity driven culture. Wajcman offers a bracing historical perspective, exploring the commodification of clock time, and how the speed of the industrial age became identified with progress. She also delves into the ways time-use differs for diverse groups in modern societies, showing how changes in work patterns, family arrangements, and parenting all affect time stress. Bringing together empirical research on time use and theoretical debates about dramatic digital developments, this accessible and engaging book will leave readers better versed in how to us

Language is mankind's greatest invention-except, of course, that it was never invented." So begins linguist Guy Deutscher's enthralling investigation into the genesis and evolution of language. If we started off with rudimentary utterances on the level of "man throw spear," how did we end up with sophisticated grammars, enormous vocabularies, and intricately nuanced degrees of meaning?
Drawing on recent groundbreaking discoveries in modern linguistics, Deutscher exposes the elusive forces of creation at work in human communication, giving us fresh insight into how language emerges, evolves, and decays. He traces the evolution of linguistic complexity from an early "Me Tarzan" stage to such elaborate single-word constructions as the Turkish sehirlilestiremediklerimizdensiniz ("you are one of those whom we couldn't turn into a town dweller"). Arguing that destruction and creation in language are intimately entwined, Deutscher shows how these processes are continuously in operation, generating new words, new structures, and new meanings.
As entertaining as it is erudite, The Unfolding of Language moves nimbly from ancient Babylonian to American idiom, from the central role of metaphor to the staggering triumph of design that is the Semitic verb, to tell the dramatic story and explain the genius behind a uniquely human faculty.

No judgement of taste is innocent. In a word, we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the modern world. France's leading sociologist focusses here on the French bourgeoisie, its tastes and preferences. Distinction is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind. In the course of everyday life people constantly choose between what they find aesthetically pleasing and what they consider tacky, merely trendy, or ugly. Bourdicu bases his study on surveys that took into account the multitude of social factors that play a part in a Frenchperson's choice of clothing, furniture, leisure activities, dinner menus for guests, and many other matters of taste. What emerges from his analysis is that social snobbery is everywhere in the bourgeois world. The different aesthetic choices people make are all distinctions-that is, choices made in opposition to those made by other classes. Taste is not pure. Bourdieu finds a world of social meaning in the decision to order bouillabaisse, in our contemporary cult of thinness, in the "California sports" such as jogging and cross-country skiing. The social world, he argues, functions simultaneously as a system of power relations and as a symbolic system in which minute distinctions of taste become the basis for social judgement. The topic of Bourdieu's book is a fascinating one: the strategies of social pretension are always curiously engaging. But the book is more than fascinating. It is a major contribution to current debates on the theory of culture and a challenge to the major theoretical schools in contemporary sociology.

哪些作品能被称作艺术品而哪些不能，由谁来评判？
艺术品都是艺术家独立完成的吗？
艺术家是否像人们想象中的那样特立独行？
艺术家、评论家、艺术品商人、收藏家之间有着怎么样的关系？
贝克尔的艺术社会学经典著作《艺术界》为这些问题提供了答案。
对艺术的传统分析往往局限于艺术家和艺术品，而贝克尔则以社会学之眼审视艺术，将艺术看作一种集体活动，对“艺术界”这一概念进行了丰富而精微的阐发。在贝克尔看来，艺术界通常与它试图与之划清界限的世界有着千丝万缕的联系，因此，本书的每一章都从一个略有不同的视角窥探艺术界，讨论了艺术品创作进程及其参与者之间的合作与冲突，艺术活动中的特殊惯例，新的艺术家分类，艺术与国家的关系，以及艺术的名声问题等等，展现了一幅艺术界运作与变化的生动全景图。

过去一千多年来，江南三角洲始终是中国经济发展的核心地区。其中，江南发达的市镇以及市镇网络的存在，既是江南持续发展的关键因素，又是江南经济繁荣的重要表现。这种独特现象引发了中国本土及海外几代学人的长期关注。
1988年到1991年间，来自名古屋大学文学部及教养部的6位中国史、地理学学者，对江苏、上海、浙江等地的市镇进行了四次实地调查。调查范围远至上古人类遗迹、生物化石，近及现代村治、工业生产，还包括地形、公共设施、家族、祭祀、信仰、遗产保护、史志编纂等问题。本书就是这六位学者在此次调查基础上，辅以文献资料完成的学术成果的汇编，涉及镇域的形成方式、镇董的作用、居委会的地位、市集的运作、一个市镇的通史，乃至整个江南三角洲的地貌特点。在方法上，这些研究无不体现出时间与空间的互动、田野与文献的对话，也为研究主题与问题意识的跨学科交流提供了范例。

1815年6月18日，有人在拿破仑•波拿巴的马车座驾中发现了一些书籍文件，其中包括一份手稿……让人喜出望外的是，这份手稿不仅是《君主论》的新译本，而且页边还标有出自波拿巴之手的评注，这些评注涵盖了他担任将军、执政官、皇帝乃至被流放在厄尔巴岛的多个时期。
波拿巴不同的评注与不同的社会情形和政治局势息息相关，组合起来就成了一份非常有价值的评论，让人不带成见地辨别出马基雅维利的话中哪些是针对“新君主”所说，哪些是针对其他人所说……马基雅维利思想的本质将呈现在我们的这一版本中。
本书采取权威的《君主论》英文本和拿破仑批注法文本，两种译文相对照，详细展现了拿破仑在将军、执政官、皇帝、流放等四个时期对《君主论》的不同批注内容，有助于人们深化对《君主论》和拿破仑的认识，是西方政界特别珍视的“资治宝典”。

本书是一部关于中国秘密社会历史的重要著作，1912年（民国元年）由商务印书馆出版，截止到1927年，已经出至六版，足见其受欢迎之程度。一百年来，有关中国秘密社会史的研究成果大量涌现，但是，这部书在学术史上仍占有重要地位，至今仍为治中国秘密社会史者所必读。秘密社会是中国历史上的一个重要社会现象，书中以明清时期的秘密社会为研究对象，从社会史角度，讲述中国历史上具有代表性的秘密社会组织及其生存状态，以及他们在政治动乱和社会变革中扮演的角色。

持续至今的真实“北漂”史。转型中的中国城市、流动人口、经济与社会。北京“浙江村”与“浙江村人”三十年生活记录研究。
“浙江村”，20世纪80年代起渐次于北京天安门以南5公里的 南苑地 区汇聚成形。30年来，其经济生产与社会再生产的特殊面貌、内部空间与外部环境的互动演变，已成为研究改革开放以来中国流动人口与城市社会经济发展，体制、权力与政策的鲜活样本。
作者借同乡之便，于90年代中期6年时间里对“浙江村”进行实地调查，深入“浙江村人”的日常生活，以近乎白描的写作手法，细致呈现了“浙江村”这一流动群体的落地、发展和变化中的诸多细节。对于“浙江村”的形成、结构、运作、变迁，“浙江村人”作为“外来人口”在北京的生活、生产经营、乡情民愿、与流入地及户籍所在地管理部门的互动等等，均加以极近距离的分析记录。
本书时隔20年后修订再版，除对前版内容进行补充订定外，于新增序言部分特别回顾了“浙江村”和中国社会自2000年以来的变化，对“正规化”及“分割—攫取模式”进行了分析阐述。同时为便于历史比照，增绘了2017年“浙江村”疏解前分布示意图。

Donors, leaders of nonprofits, and public policy makers usually have the best of intentions to serve society and improve social conditions. But often their solutions fall far short of what they want to accomplish and what is truly needed. Moreover, the answers they propose and fund often produce the opposite of what they want over time. We end up with temporary shelters that increase homelessness, drug busts that increase drug-related crime, or food aid that increases starvation.
How do these unintended consequences come about and how can we avoid them? By applying conventional thinking to complex social problems, we often perpetuate the very problems we try so hard to solve, but it is possible to think differently, and get different results.
Systems Thinking for Social Change enables readers to contribute more effectively to society by helping them understand what systems thinking is and why it is so important in their work. It also gives concrete guidance on how to incorporate systems thinking in problem solving, decision making, and strategic planning without becoming a technical expert.
Systems thinking leader David Stroh walks readers through techniques he has used to help people improve their efforts to end homelessness, improve public health, strengthen education, design a system for early childhood development, protect child welfare, develop rural economies, facilitate the reentry of formerly incarcerated people into society, resolve identity-based conflicts, and more.
The result is a highly readable, effective guide to understanding systems and using that knowledge to get the results you want.
Review
“I don't know of another book in this field that presents the ideas of systems thinking in such a clear and practical way, with so many real-world examples."--Janice Molloy, managing editor, Reflections: The SoL NorthAmerica Journal on Knowledge, Learning, and Change
Publishers Weekly-
"This dense volume will be of genuine use to many in the nonprofit world ... Stroh has a valuable insight to impart: Becoming a more effective systems thinker is not just an analytical task 'but also an emotional, physical, and ultimately spiritual one.' For those dedicated enough to stay with Stroh's message, this book will be a useful beginning.”
“Stroh has offered an important gem in his new book, Systems Thinking for Social Change. Both illuminating and immediately useful, the book shares the key dynamics and success factors gleaned from his long career of working with organizations struggling with society’s most persistent issues. A must read for anyone whose aim is to make a difference on the ground.”--Kristina Wile, co-president, Leverage Networks, and managing partner, Systems Thinking Collaborative
“If there is only one book you read on systems thinking, it should be Systems Thinking for Social Change. If you’re new to systems thinking, I consider this a must read. If you’ve been involved in systems thinking for some time and want a renewed and extended perspective, I highly recommend it. Stroh’s new work covers all the relevant areas appropriate for a solid introduction to systems thinking, though it doesn’t stop there. It makes a serious contribution by detailing a number of real-world situations that have been investigated and improved using the approach presented in the book. And it does very well something that I’ve not seen done before: it not only shows how to map the current system, but also shows how to then create a revised map of how the system is intended to work in the future. This approach ends up identifying where measurements should be made on an ongoing basis to ascertain whether the system is undergoing the intended transformation.”--Gene Bellinger, director, Systems Thinking World, Inc.
“The philanthropic sector has shifted from a ‘charity’ mindset to a focus on changing systems to create sustainable change. Systems Thinking for Social Change offers practical tools for those serious about improving communities and organizations. It doesn’t minimize the complexity, but rather empowers social-change agents with tools to understand the complexity and identify the leverage points.”--Teresa Behrens, director, Institute for Foundation and Donor Learning
“Over fifteen years ago, David Stroh was instrumental in introducing systems thinking to the peace-building field, using tools that have proven to be powerful for improving the effectiveness of our work. This book is a valuable resource for our field ― a must read for all practitioners who have been seeking practical and easy-to-understand guidance on using systems thinking for conflict analysis and strategic planning for better impacts.”--Diana Chigas, professor of practice, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and co-director of collaborative learning, CDA Collaborative Learning Projects
“This is a must read for public leaders and citizens who are interested in the learning disciplines required for a sustainable, proactive approach to preserving our shared resources.”--Georgianna Bishop, president, The Public Sector Consortium
“For those who have worked for many years in the social-service sector, and who have grown cynical or disillusioned as to whether it is even possible to effect major social change, David Peter Stroh’s book, Systems Thinking for Social Change, is a must read―a clear, thoughtful, and practical guide for those desiring to create lasting social change. But reader beware! Systems thinking is more than a new way of thinking. As Stroh puts it, it is a new way of being. It requires the ability to look at things in a new way, to interact with others differently, to have a clear vision of where you want to go, a willingness to see things the way they are and, finally, the courage to take responsibility for why the system as is isn’t working. If you want to help create long-lasting, effective social change, if you want to say ‘we’re doing it―we’re actually making progress,’ then read this book.”--Anne Miskey, executive director, Funders Together to End Homelessness
“David Stroh, in his invaluable new book, shows that good intentions are not enough for those who aspire to make lasting progress on fundamental social issues―and also how the language and tools of systems theory can provide a deeper understanding of the root causes and help identify the leverage points for productive and sustainable change.”--Russell Eisenstat, executive director, Center for Higher Ambition Leadership
“Societal problems are a swirl of causes, effects, interactions, and contributing relationships. Yet, too often, simplistic answers are applied by the well-intended that only touch on one strand of what is (in reality) a complex and interconnected web. Stroh’s work provides an actionable guide on how to model these relationships―and more importantly how to have a meaningful and lasting impact on them.”--Jason E. Glass, superintendent and chief learner, Eagle County Schools

Economists seem to be everywhere in the media these days. But what exactly do today's economists do? What and how are they taught? Updating David Colander and Arjo Klamer's classic The Making of an Economist, this book shows what is happening in elite U.S. economics Ph.D. programs. By examining these programs, Colander gives a view of cutting-edge economics--and a glimpse at its likely future. And by comparing economics education today to the findings of the original book, the new book shows how much--and in what ways--the field has changed over the past two decades. The original book led to a reexamination of graduate education by the profession, and has been essential reading for prospective graduate students. Like its predecessor, The Making of an Economist, Redux is likely to provoke discussion within economics and beyond.
The book includes new interviews with students at Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Chicago, and Columbia. In these conversations, the students--the next generation of elite economists--colorfully and frankly describe what they think of their field and what graduate economics education is really like. The book concludes with reflections by Colander, Klamer, and Robert Solow.
This inside look at the making of economists will interest anyone who wants to better understand the economics profession. An indispensible tool for anyone thinking about graduate education in economics, this edition is complete with colorful interviews and predictions about the future of cutting-edge economics.

“知我罪我，让天下后世评说，我梁启超就是这样一个人而已。”
在《三十自述》里，梁启超曾这样描述自己出生的时代背景：“余生同治癸酉正月二十六日，实太平天国亡于金陵后十年，清大学士曾国藩卒后一年，普法战争后三年，而意大利建国罗马之岁也。”然而生在这“数千年未有之变局”的大时代里，也注定了其一生的跌宕起伏。
本书以梁启超的一生经历为纵轴，以梁启超与康有为、袁世凯、严复、孙中山、杨度、宋教仁、蒋百里、胡适、徐志摩等人的交往为横轴，以点带面、以人带史，以宽广的视野和宏大的格局讲述了晚清民初诸多重大历史事件，同时也以梁启超为中心再现了时代大变局中一代知识分子的担当、求索和彷徨。

本书是巴赫金最缺乏信心然而也是他最重要的文学批评专著。巴赫金认为，在世界文学的所有伟大作家之中，拉伯雷在俄国最不著名，最缺乏研究，对他的理解和评价也最为不够。巴赫金敏锐的注意到，在近代文学的创建者当中，拉伯雷是最民主的一个，他与民间源头的联系比其他人更紧密、更本质。在这部专著当中，巴赫金极为深刻的注意到民间文化的诙谐问题。

New Narratives of Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities offers nine empirical studies to examine the social, legal and governance dimensions of the great urban transformation in Republican China pertaining to the cultural realm of the urban space.

这是一部有关中国独生子女研究的经典民族志作品。作者于1997—2002年间在中国大连进行了共计27个月的田野调查，通过收集统计数据、问卷调查、访谈和参与观察等方法，对大连市独生子女及其家庭进行了全面系统而深入细致的研究。作者对何种政治、经济、文化、社会力量造就了独生子女一代及其独特的成长经历和体验，以及独生子女身份对于青少年的主体性、渴盼、体验带来的影响，进行了生动细致的描绘和深刻有趣的探讨。该书曾获2005年美国东亚人类学学会授予的许烺光图书奖。

所有的父母都希望自己的孩子能够得到最好的照顾和教育，然而，父母能够给予自己深爱的孩子们的资源、天赋、机会却不尽相同。
本书以内容丰富的故事情节和极富洞察力的生活细节，考察了贫困家庭、工人阶级家庭、中产阶级家庭孩子在学校和在家里的生活，从而确认了，父母的社会地位会以一种在很大程度上是无形的但又是强有力的方式冲击着孩子的人生经历，并标识出了不平等的社会地位是如何影响教育方式的。

In this landmark book, Scott Page redefines the way we understand ourselves in relation to one another. "The Difference" is about how we think in groups - and how our collective wisdom exceeds the sum of its parts. Why can teams of people find better solutions than brilliant individuals working alone? And why are the best group decisions and predictions those that draw upon the very qualities that make each of us unique? The answers lie in diversity - not what we look like outside, but what we look like within, our distinct tools and abilities. "The Difference" reveals that progress and innovation may depend less on lone thinkers with enormous IQs than on diverse people working together and capitalizing on their individuality.Page shows how groups that display a range of perspectives outperform groups of like-minded experts. Diversity yields superior outcomes, and Page proves it using his own cutting-edge research. Moving beyond the politics that cloud standard debates about diversity, he explains why difference beats out homogeneity, whether you're talking about citizens in a democracy or scientists in the laboratory. He examines practical ways to apply diversity's logic to a host of problems, and along the way offers fascinating and surprising examples, from the redesign of the Chicago "El" to the truth about where we store our ketchup. Page changes the way we understand diversity - how to harness its untapped potential, how to understand and avoid its traps, and how we can leverage our differences for the benefit of all.

本书被英语学术界视为人类学经典读物，重点检讨人类学家与他们的研究对象之间的关系，特别提出“人类学是西方世界的一种宇宙观”的看法，并为文化批评学家、哲学家和历史学家所从事的有关人类社会的研究提出了新的方向。费边指出，人类学家常常将自己的立场假定为“在此时此地者”，与此同时将他们的研究对象假定为“在彼时彼地者”。因而，人类学将其研究对象作为与研究者所处的时代错开的“他者”。费边在这本书中挑战了西方人类学的“他者”假定。根据他的洞见，在西方人类学发展的历史中，由于人类学家们对“多样性时间”的娴熟运用，人类学的产生、发展和转变，都涉及到人类学背后的权力与不平等关系。许多著名学者因此给了该书极高的评价，乔治?马库斯认为，该书“是对人类学书写的彻底的认识论批评。”