Among the most widely cited books in the social sciences, "The External Control of Organizations" has long been required reading for any student of organization studies. The book, reissued on its 25th anniversary as part of the Stanford Business Classics series, includes a new preface written by Jeffrey Pfeffer, which examines the legacy of this influential work in current research and its relationship to other theories. The "External Control of Organizations" explores how external constraints affect organizations and provides insights for designing and managing organizations to mitigate these constraints. All organizations are dependent on the environment for their survival. As the authors contend, "it is the fact of the organization's dependence on the environment that makes the external constraint and control of organizational behavior both possible and almost inevitable." Organizations can either try to change their environments through political means or form interorganizational relationships to control or absorb uncertainty. This seminal book established the resource dependence approach that has informed so many other important organization theories.

Organizations act, but what determines how and when they will act? There is precedent for believing that the organization is but an extension of one or a few people, but this is a deceptively simplified approach, and in reality makes any generalization in organizational theory enormously difficult. Modern-day organizations -- manufacturing firms, hospitals, schools, armies, community agencies -- are extremely complex in nature, and several strategies, employing a variety of disciplines, are needed to gain a proper understanding of them.Organizations in Action is a classic multidisciplinary study of the behavior of complex organizations as entities. Previous books on the subject focused on the behavior of people in organizational contexts, but this volume considers individual behavior only to the extent that it helps explain the nature of organizations. James D. Thompson offers 95 distinct propositions about the behavior of organizations, all relevant regardless of the culture in which they are found.Thompson classifies organizations according to their technologies and environments. That organizations must meet and handle uncertainty is central to his thesis. Organizations in Action is firmly grounded in concepts and theories in the social and behavioral sciences. While it does not offer an actual theory of administration, the book successfully extends the scientific base upon which any emerging administrative theory must rest. This classic work is of continuing value to organizational and management specialists, behavioral scientists, sociologists, administrators, and policymakers.

Since the mid-2000s, public opinion and debate in China have become increasingly common and consequential, despite the ongoing censorship of speech and regulation of civil society. How did this happen? In The Contentious Public Sphere, Ya-Wen Lei shows how the Chinese state drew on law, the media, and the Internet to further an authoritarian project of modernization, but in so doing, inadvertently created a nationwide public sphere in China—one the state must now endeavor to control. Lei examines the influence this unruly sphere has had on Chinese politics and the ways that the state has responded.
Using interviews, newspaper articles, online texts, official documents, and national surveys, Lei shows that the development of the public sphere in China has provided an unprecedented forum for citizens to influence the public agenda, demand accountability from the government, and organize around the concepts of law and rights. She demonstrates how citizens came to understand themselves as legal subjects, how legal and media professionals began to collaborate in unexpected ways, and how existing conditions of political and economic fragmentation created unintended opportunities for political critique, particularly with the rise of the Internet. The emergence of this public sphere—and its uncertain future—is a pressing issue with important implications for the political prospects of the Chinese people.
Investigating how individuals learn to use public discourse to influence politics, The Contentious Public Sphere offers new possibilities for thinking about the transformation of state-society relations.

Talk of love surrounds us, and romance is a constant concern of popular culture. Ann Swidler's "Talk of Love" is an attempt to discover how people find and sustain real love in the midst of that talk, and how that culture of love shapes their expectations and behaviour in the process. To this end, Swidler conducted extensive interviews with middle Americans and wound up offering us something more than an insightful exploration of love: "Talk of Love" is also a compelling study of how much our culture affects even the most personal of our everyday experiences.

罗新教授近年撰写了许多“与专业反思有关”的学术随笔，反映他对历史、历史学和历史学工作的反思与理解。这些与他走出书斋用自己的脚步丈量历史、发现中国、认识世界异曲同工，一个目的即追索历史的纵深感，尝试发现和讲述不一样的历史故事。
本书用一系列个案讨论了诸如历史学家的美德、史料的运用及反思、历史叙述的多样及其背后的原因、历史的记忆与遗忘、怎样超越民族主义史学、古代民族的起源传说与神话、历史研究的想象空间、华夏文明西部边界的进退波动、帝国帝制的内外轻重等问题，以历史学家的方式质疑传统的历史论述，示范了一种健康的看待和解释历史的态度、方法。
★ 我们的历史知识从哪里来？
★ 传统的历史叙述、众所周知的历史认识会不会出错？
★ 为什么历史会被滥用和错用？历史知识为什么会有偏差和错误？
★ 匈奴是故事还是历史？以狼为祖先的是传说还是真实？
★ 西欧骑士身上的佩剑真的来自中国吗？
★ 忽必烈的历史挑战到底是什么？
★ 反思历史叙述的单一与纯粹，示范如何独立、健康地分析和观察历史的典范
我们无时无刻不在使用历史。确保历史知识的正确与准确，不滥用或错用历史，关乎人类的精神健康与心智发育，而这正是历史学家的职责。确保这一职责得以履行的，是历史学家的美德：批判、怀疑与想象力。
我们熟悉的历史，包含着大量的神话与伪史，其中有些将会被揭穿、剔除和取代，有些则因史料匮乏、证据单一而使质疑者无可奈何。怀疑与批判的美德使我们不仅勇于揭破神话、创造新知，而且有助于我们在那些暂时难以撼动的新老神话面前保持警惕、保持距离。

《远山淡影》是石黑一雄技惊文坛的处女作，一部问世30年仍在不断重印的名著。其“感伤与反讽”的融合、平衡令人犹记。这是一段迷雾重重、亦真亦幻的回忆。战后长崎，一对饱受磨难的母女渴望安定与新生，却始终走不出战乱的阴影与心魔。剧终，忆者剥去伪装，悲情满篇。

Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation - awkward but electrifying - something life-changing begins.
Normal People is a story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find they can't.
'The literary phenomenon of the decade.' - Guardian

Three years into her graduate studies at a demanding Boston university, the unnamed narrator of this nimbly wry, concise debut finds her one-time love for chemistry is more hypothesis than reality. She's tormented by her failed research--and reminded of her delays by her peers, her advisor, and most of all by her Chinese parents, who have always expected nothing short of excellence from her throughout her life. But there's another, nonscientific question looming: the marriage proposal from her devoted boyfriend, a fellow scientist, whose path through academia has been relatively free of obstacles, and with whom she can't make a life before finding success on her own. Eventually, the pressure mounts so high that she must leave everything she thought she knew about her future, and herself, behind. And for the first time, she's confronted with a question she won't find the answer to in a textbook: What do I really want? Over the next two years, this winningly flawed, disarmingly insightful heroine learns the formulas and equations for a different kind of chemistry--one in which the reactions can't be quantified, measured, and analyzed; one that can be studied only in the mysterious language of the heart. Taking us deep inside her scattered, searching mind, here is a brilliant new literary voice that astutely juxtaposes the elegance of science, the anxieties of finding a place in the world, and the sacrifices made for love and family.

千禧一代的代言人
英国图书奖、科斯塔图书奖有史以来最年轻的获奖者
九零后爱尔兰女作家萨莉•鲁尼力作
网络交流文体精准捕捉当下青年现状
横扫社交平台的惊喜之作
-
在危急关头，我们都必须一次又一次地决定，
我们究竟要爱谁。
-
爱尔兰女大学生弗朗西丝写诗，爱文艺。21岁那年的夏天，她和女友博比结识了小有名气的女作家梅丽莎和她的演员丈夫尼克。在书店、花园、咖啡馆、公寓楼，弗朗西丝和她的新朋旧友谈天说地，妙语连珠之间，人与人的关系或拉近，或疏离。不知不觉，弗朗西丝与尼克开始了一段明知不会有结果的婚外恋。
生活渐渐失控，价值理念归零，弗朗西丝在爱欲和伤痛中迎来第二次成长，重新审视自己的脆弱与偏见，拷问并习得关于友谊、爱情、婚姻、金钱、宗教、疾病等一系列问题的答案。要明白世界与自身必须先要经历生活，弗朗西丝发现，她不能总是做一个纸上谈兵的人……
《聊天记录》是一个由年轻诗人讲述的故事。小说语言清澈直白，处理的却是现代社会的个体面对的一系列道德难题。弗朗西丝，或者说作者萨莉·鲁尼，像一个小小的哲人，勇敢地面对生活中的困惑，真诚地思考人与世界的关系。
-
【编辑推荐】
★ 九零后爱尔兰女作家，英国图书奖、科斯塔图书奖有史以来最年轻的获奖者莎莉•鲁尼的处女作。
★ 被誉为“千禧一代第一个伟大的作家”，小说平易近人的谈话风格充满了智慧和对人际关系中复杂动态的洞察，精准地捕捉了“后金融危机”时代年轻人的现状。
★ “不可救药地悲伤着的”年轻人，对自身的身体、智力、阶层的深刻敏感触发对权力的思考。
★ 电子邮件、网络聊天、短信、脸书融入角色的日常生活，网络交流口吻构建出一种全新的叙事文体和张力。
★ 青年作家张悦然、周嘉宁，青年翻译家陈以侃力荐！
-
鲁尼精准地捕捉了当代年轻人的现状：对话在电邮、短信、眼神之间无缝穿梭，对性爱与创作充满自信，爱慕写电邮时首字母全部小写的年长男人。她的第一人称叙述者、21岁的弗朗西丝，是一个无时无刻不在细致观察的人，然而鲁尼留出空间，让读者看到弗朗西丝忽视的一切。
——《巴黎评论》年度最佳小说推荐语
鲁尼这本从头到尾都精彩绝伦的小说，一大美妙之处就在于她犀利地洞察了与所谓的自知之明常常伴生的自欺欺人。……《聊天记录》是一本别出心裁的理念之书。但它对人的观察甚至更为聪慧。
——《纽约客》
鲁尼出色地描写了一个有才华、但有自残倾向的年轻女人，捕捉了她的精神与生理状态。她敏锐地意识到，表面的自由其实受制于肉眼看不见的栅栏。……鲁尼能言善辩的人物们或许没能表达脆弱的自己，她却用独有的声音替他们发声。
——《卫报》
我爱读那种让人根本无法相信是处女作的处女作……《聊天记录》刻画了一个冰雪聪明的女大学生与一个年长的已婚男人恋情纠缠的微妙画像，令人手不释卷。
——扎迪·史密斯
萨莉·鲁尼是文坛上冉冉升起的作家。《聊天记录》用B.E.埃利斯早期的那种紧凑、从容到酷的文风，写出一群二十一世纪的年轻人，活像塞林格笔下那种实诚、自命不凡的年轻的爱尔兰后裔。
——科林·巴雷特（《格兰贝的年轻人》作者）

From Publishers Weekly
The timely question, What caused the current global financial crisis? provokes answers usually aimed at the level of institutions and the more abstract market logic. Ho's refreshing ethnography of the daily lives of Wall Street investment bankers takes another tack and outlines a web of practices, beliefs and structures that may be vital to understanding what keeps the market system in place despite built-in instabilities. Ho, a former business analyst and now an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota, unpacks constant downsizing, high risk/high reward job liquidity, shortsighted compensation structures, prestige and the ruse of shareholder value. Her keen eye for the significance of space illuminates workplace narratives, e.g., segregating staff by floor, function and prestige; constant and lavish recruiting events at Princeton and Harvard; and anticlimactically tawdry office space for most workers. The author exposes how elite undergraduates are immersed in a culture promoting finance as the only legitimate job, how educational pedigrees reinforce the financial world's self-image—while the actual jobs remain rigidly hierarchical (stratifying women, people of color and non–Ivy League graduates), highly unstable and isolating, encouraging a culture in which making money is the only value. (Aug.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Review
"We're pretty familiar with the economic rationale for the regime of cost-cutting and downsizing throughout corporate America in recent decades. But Karen Ho's research greatly enriches our understanding of how Wall Street's own peculiar culture of transient relationships and relentless competition has contributed to the shareholder revolution. And, along the way, her interviews and fieldwork offer a very revealing picture of the mind of Wall Street. A fascinating and important book." Doug Henwood, editor of Left Business Observer " Karen Ho has picked an excellent time to publish her fascinating new study...patient ethnographic analysis has produced a fascinating portrait that will be refreshingly novel to most bankers...Ho peppers her account with revealing eyewitness stories...Most fascinating of all is her account of how Wall Street becomes deluded by its own rhetoric about "market efficiency"...I, for one, would vote that Ho's account becomes mandatory reading on any MBA (or investment banking course); if nothing else, it might be more entertaining than the other texts that bankers swallow so uncritically." Gillian Tett, Financial Times, 2nd October 2009

从什么时候开始，不再期望在荒原、巨山，或者无法泅渡之河中遇见另一位伙伴。
人生更像是漫游在大海里的哥伦布，甚至不抱有遇见一块大陆的希望。
只有抛却失望的人，才能继续穿行在黑漆漆的密林中。
——周嘉宁
21世纪初的上海，二十岁的阳阳觉得自己与周围的一切格格不入，她在地下文学论坛、里弄咖啡馆与边缘音乐会中寻找着同类。十年过去，大部分的文艺青年被无益的幻觉耗干，生活一路走向沉闷，也有少部分人获得了命运的垂青，获得了世俗的成功。从什么时候开始，人生于阳阳而言更像是漫游在黑漆漆的密林，不再期望能遇见另一位伙伴。
她曾深刻地爱过一个浑然天成的天才，也在最迷惘失落时陷入与一个已成名中年作家的关系。然而她并不想成为谁的女友，她想成为的是艺术家本人——单独地，直接地，以正面强攻的姿态，面对整个外部世界……
在这部小说中，周嘉宁以冷峻穿透的笔触，勾画出一整代文学青年的精神流浪简史，独具一种忧郁气质。

1985年惠特布莱德奖获奖作品
英国英语系学生必读的经典读物
入选《卫报》死前必读的1000本小说
改编成BBC热门剧集，荣获戛纳最佳剧本等多项大奖
讲述每个人都会有的爱、悲伤和愤怒
一部温暖、机智、有趣的成长小说
张悦然作序推荐 《鲤》杂志首次参与策划
————————————————————
二十年来我读到的最有意思的作家。
——戈尔•维达尔（美国作家）
珍妮特•温特森是这类题材的大师，一个极具天赋的作家。
——穆里尔•斯帕克（英国作家）
她不会装腔作势，只想坦诚地书写她想写的，我认为这很有启发性。
——萨拉•沃特斯（英国作家）
《橘子不是唯一的水果》无疑是温特森小说世界的入口，故事从这里开始。而所有的故事，其实也都在这里了。与她的其他小说一样，这是本聪明而有趣的小说。
——张悦然（作家）

《呐喊》是鲁迅1918-1922年所作的短篇小说的结集，收有《狂人日记》、《孔乙己》、《药》、《明天》、《一件小事》、《头发的故事》等14篇作品。当时正值五四革命精神高扬时期。作者创作小说意在描写“病态社会的不幸的人们”，“揭出病苦，引起疗救的注意”，并为新文化运动“呐喊”。作品真实地描绘了从辛亥革命到五四时期的社会生活，揭示了种种深层次的社会矛盾，对封建制度及陈腐的传统观念进行了深刻的剖析和彻底的否定，表现出对民族生存的浓重的忧患意识和对社会变革的强烈渴望。

这是一部“感动沈从文家人”的沈从文传记，一部令《活着》作者“感慨万分”的人物传记，一部获得中国国家图书馆“文津奖”的新经典传记（增订版）。
沈从文逝世三十周年暨2018年“增订版”，新增《沈从文的后半生：这是什么样的故事》（绝境的故事，个人和时代关系的故事，创造力的故事，爱的故事，时间胜利的故事），并首次收入沈从文作为“绝笔”的《一点记录——给几个熟人》。
沈从文，生于1902年，逝于1988年。“如果他在世，肯定是1988年诺贝尔文学奖的有力的候选人。”不少人喜欢这样的说法，以此来加重对沈从文的崇仰和表达遗憾。《沈从文的后半生：1948—1988》认为，这固然是个很大的遗憾，不过实在说来，获奖与否并没有多么重要。重要的是，对沈从文的认识，能走到多远多深。1988年，远未到盖棺定论的时候。“重新发现”沈从文的工作仍将继续……
从1948年始，沈从文在时代大转折关口的精神危机和从崩溃中的恢复，成为他后半生重新安身立命、成就另一番事业的起点。《沈从文的后半生：1948—1988》这部著作由此起笔，沿着他生命的坎坷历程，翔实叙述他的社会遭遇、个人选择和内心生活，叙述他为始终不肯放弃的物质文化史和杂文物研究而做的超常努力和付出。
《沈从文的后半生：1948—1988》这部传记，特别着力于呈现沈从文后半生漫长而未曾间断的精神活动。在时代的剧烈变动中，这种连续、细密、复杂的个人精神活动，清晰见证了一个弱小个人的全力挣扎，一个平凡生命以柔弱的方式显现的强大勇气和信心，一个“有情”的知识者对历史文化长河的深沉而庄严的爱——一如他爱家乡的那条长河，曾经不知疲倦地抒写那条河的故事，他的后半生甘受屈辱和艰难，不知疲倦地抒写历史文化长河的故事。

《儿童法案》中的菲奥娜•迈耶是一位高等法院的女法官，向来以严苛的睿智、精确和理性闻名。可她成功的职业生涯却无法掩盖家庭的不睦。多年的不育以及丈夫的出轨令她长达三十年的婚姻陷入了危机。
十七岁的男孩亚当由于宗教信仰拒绝输血治疗，命悬一线。时间在流逝，控辩双方都给出了理由，为了做出公正合理的裁决，菲奥娜决定亲自前往医院探望男孩。一番恳谈触动了菲奥娜内心深藏已久的情感，最终，她的裁决将给两人带来怎样意想不到的后果……
麦克尤恩在《儿童法案》中向读者展现了一个道德与法律的困境：到底是尊重宗教信仰、个人意志，还是应该坚持生命至上的原则？背负着文明社会的沉重枷锁，人性的天平最终将向哪一边倾斜？
“这是自《在切瑟尔海滩上》后，麦克尤恩写得最好的小说。”——《卫报》

Governing the Soul is now widely recognized as one of the founding texts in a new approach to analyzing the links between political power, expertise and the self. This governmentality perspective has had important implications for a range of academic disciplines including criminology, political theory, sociology and psychology and has generated much theoretical innovation and empirical investigation. The second edition contains a new introduction, which sets out the methodological and conceptual bases of this approach. Also, a new final chapter has been added that considers some of the implications of recent developments in the government of subjectivity.

Americans are taught to believe that upward mobility is possible for anyone who is willing to work hard, regardless of their social status, yet it is often those from affluent backgrounds who land the best jobs. Pedigree takes readers behind the closed doors of top-tier investment banks, consulting firms, and law firms to reveal the truth about who really gets hired for the nation's highest-paying entry-level jobs, who doesn’t, and why.
Drawing on scores of in-depth interviews as well as firsthand observation of hiring practices at some of America’s most prestigious firms, Lauren Rivera shows how, at every step of the hiring process, the ways that employers define and evaluate merit are strongly skewed to favor job applicants from economically privileged backgrounds. She reveals how decision makers draw from ideas about talent—what it is, what best signals it, and who does (and does not) have it—that are deeply rooted in social class. Displaying the "right stuff" that elite employers are looking for entails considerable amounts of economic, social, and cultural resources on the part of the applicants and their parents.
Challenging our most cherished beliefs about college as a great equalizer and the job market as a level playing field, Pedigree exposes the class biases built into American notions about the best and the brightest, and shows how social status plays a significant role in determining who reaches the top of the economic ladder.

沈从文，生于1902年，逝于1988年。
“如果他在世，肯定是1988年诺贝尔文学奖的最有力的候选人。”不少人喜欢这样的说法，以此来加重对沈从文的崇仰和表达遗憾。《沈从文的后半生：1948—1988》认为，这固然是个很大的遗憾，不过实在说来，获奖与否并没有多么重要。重要的是，对沈从文的认识，能走到多远多深。1988年，远未到盖棺定论的时候。“重新发现”沈从文的工作仍将继续……
从1948年始，沈从文在时代大转折关口的精神危机和从崩溃中的恢复，成为他后半生重新安身立命、成就另一番事业的起点。《沈从文的后半生：1948—1988》这部著作由此起笔，沿着他生命的坎坷历程，翔实叙述他的社会遭遇、个人选择和内心生活，叙述他为始终不肯放弃的物质文化史和杂文物研究而做的超常努力和付出。
《沈从文的后半生：1948—1988》这部传记，特别着力于呈现沈从文后半生漫长而未曾间断的精神活动。在时代的剧烈变动中，这种连续、细密、复杂的个人精神活动，清晰见证了一个弱小个人的全力挣扎，一个平凡生命以柔弱的方式显现的强大勇气和信心，一个“有情”的知识者对历史文化长河的深沉而庄严的爱——一如他爱家乡的那条长河，曾经不知疲倦地抒写那条河的故事，他的后半生甘受屈辱和艰难，不知疲倦地抒写历史文化长河的故事。