中国的近代是个风云变幻的过渡时代。这个时代的读书人，尽管社会定位和自定位都出现了变化，却始终在两难的窘境下徘徊、调适，并继续努力，真如《诗经》所说的“风雨如晦，鸡鸣不已”（封面采蔡元培先生题字）。本书讲述的，就是中国近代这一激变时代的读书人和读书事。
本书为史家罗志田先生的随笔集，集中关注近代读书人的学术与思想世界，包括张之洞、章太炎、梁启超、梁济、陈独秀、胡适、梅光迪、傅斯年、陈寅恪、梁漱溟、缪钺、吴天墀、张芝联等诸先生。本书非学院写作，无意追求系统全面， 所述故事或许惊天动地、荡气回肠，也可能不过就是一些细枝末节。但这些大小不一的行事，多少都反映出所处时代的社会心灵。

Sociologist Ashley Mears takes us behind the brightly lit runways and glossy advertisements of the fashion industry in this insider's study of the world of modeling. Mears, who worked as a model in New York and London, draws on observations as well as extensive interviews with male and female models, agents, clients, photographers, stylists, and others, to explore the economics and politics - and the arbitrariness - behind the business of glamour. Exploring a largely hidden arena of cultural production, she shows how the right 'look' is discovered, developed, and packaged to become a prized commodity. She examines how models sell themselves, how agents promote them, and how clients decide to hire them. An original contribution to the sociology of work in the new cultural economy, "Pricing Beauty" offers rich, accessible analysis of the invisible ways in which gender, race, and class shape worth in the marketplace.

比尔，是她的初恋男友；阿三，是也画画的笔名。大学时，阿三不惜被开除也要和美国男友比尔在一起。因为，她说：“我爱比尔。”与比尔分手后，阿三在宾馆或别的地方结交上法国人马丁、陌生的美国老头、美国专家、比利时人和更多的外国人，都只是想找和“比尔”在一起的异国情调。劳教农场的暗娼们给阿三取了个绰号“白做”。

It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress when it comes to providing every child with a quality education. The problem wasn't one of the usual scapegoats: lazy teachers, shoddy facilities, lack of accountability. It was something no one was talking about: the elementary school curriculum's intense focus on decontextualized reading comprehension "skills" at the expense of actual knowledge. In the tradition of Dale Russakoff's The Prize and Dana Goldstein's The Teacher Wars, Wexler brings together history, research, and compelling characters to pull back the curtain on this fundamental flaw in our education system--one that fellow reformers, journalists, and policymakers have long overlooked, and of which the general public, including many parents, remains unaware.
But The Knowledge Gap isn't just a story of what schools have gotten so wrong--it also follows innovative educators who are in the process of shedding their deeply ingrained habits, and describes the rewards that have come along: students who are not only excited to learn but are also acquiring the knowledge and vocabulary that will enable them to succeed. If we truly want to fix our education system and unlock the potential of our neediest children, we have no choice but to pay attention.

In the decades following World War II, factories in many countries not only provided secure employment and a range of economic entitlements, but also recognized workers as legitimate stakeholders, enabling them to claim rights to participate in decision making and hold factory leaders accountable. In recent decades, as employment has become more precarious, these attributes of industrial citizenship have been eroded and workers have increasingly been reduced to hired hands. As Joel Andreas shows in Disenfranchised, no country has experienced these changes as dramatically as China. Drawing on a decade of field research, including interviews with both factory workers and managers, Andreas traces the changing political status of workers inside Chinese factories from 1949 to the present, carefully analyzing how much power they have actually had to shape their working conditions.

A rich, multi-faceted examination into the attitudes and beliefs of parents who choose not to immunize their children.
The measles outbreak at Disneyland in December 2014 spread to a half-dozen U.S. states and sickened 147 people. It is just one recent incident that the medical community blames on the nation’s falling vaccination rates. Still, many parents continue to claim that the risks that vaccines pose to their children are far greater than their benefits. Given the research and the unanimity of opinion within the medical community, many ask how such parents—who are most likely to be white, college educated, and with a family income over $75,000—could hold such beliefs.
For over a decade, Jennifer Reich has been studying the phenomenon of vaccine refusal from the perspectives of parents who distrust vaccines and the corporations that make them, as well as the health care providers and policy makers who see them as essential to ensuring community health. Reich reveals how parents who opt out of vaccinations see their decision: what they fear, what they hope to control, and what they believe is in their child’s best interest. Based on interviews with parents who fully reject vaccines as well as those who believe in “slow vax,” or altering the number of and time between vaccinations, the author provides a fascinating account of these parents’ points of view.
Placing these stories in dialogue with those of pediatricians who see the devastation that can be caused by vaccine-preventable diseases and the policy makers who aim to create healthy communities, Calling the Shots offers a unique opportunity to understand the points of disagreement on what is best for children, communities, and public health, and the ways in which we can bridge these differences.

While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the European bourgeoisie, the emergence of the middle class and bourgeois culture was by no means exclusive to Europe. The Global Bourgeoisie explores the rise of the middle classes around the world during the age of empire. Bringing together eminent scholars, this landmark essay collection compares middle-class formation in various regions, highlighting differences and similarities, and assesses the extent to which bourgeois growth was tied to the increasing exchange of ideas and goods. The contributors indicate that the middle class was from its very beginning, even in Europe, the result of international connections and entanglements.
Essays are grouped into six thematic sections: the political history of middle-class formation, the impact of imperial rule on the colonial middle class, the role of capitalism, the influence of religion, the obstacles to the middle class beyond the Western and colonial world, and, lastly, reflections on the creation of bourgeois cultures and global social history. Placing the establishment of middle-class society into historical context, this book shows how the triumph or destabilization of bourgeois values can shape the liberal world order.
The Global Bourgeoisie irrevocably changes the understanding of how an important social class came to be.

本书运用历史比较方法，围绕“国家形成”这一核心概念，深入探讨了英国、法国、美国等国家教育体系的起源及发展过程。全书包括“各国国民教育体系发展的不平衡性、国民教育体系的社会起源、教育与国家形成、欧洲大陆的教育和中央集权制、美国的经验：教育、民族性和地方分权、英国教育和自由国家”六个部分，作者以另类视角运用了马克思主义的国家理论、葛兰西的意识形态和霸权理论阐明了国家形成对于解释现代教育制度起源的重要意义，分析了国家形成与教育之间的关系，指出了教育在国家形成过程中的作用。该书具有较高的理论价值及实践意义。
本书是英国伦敦大学教育学院比教育学家和教育历史学家安迪·格林教授撰写的一部享誉西方教育学术界的教育比较史研究著作，作者在翻译过程中尽管碰到语言上、思想上、学术上的诸多问题，但尽力准确地传达作者在本书中的所思、所想。

The expansion of the Black American middle class and the unprecedented increase in the number of Black immigrants since the 1960s have transformed the cultural landscape of New York.
In The New Noir, Orly Clerge explores the richly complex worlds of an extraordinary generation of Black middle class adults who have migrated from different corners of the African diaspora to suburbia. The Black middle class today consists of diverse groups whose ongoing cultural, political, and material ties to the American South and Global South shape their cultural interactions at work, in their suburban neighborhoods, and at their kitchen tables. Clerge compellingly analyzes the making of a new multinational Black middle class and how they create a spectrum of Black identities that help them carve out places of their own in a changing 21st-century global city.
Paying particular attention to the largest Black ethnic groups in the country, Black Americans, Jamaicans, and Haitians, Clerge’s ethnography draws on over 80 interviews with residents to examine the overlooked places where New York’s middle class resides in Queens and Long Island. This book reveals that region and nationality shape how the Black middle class negotiates the everyday politics of race and class.

口述史学书,为人们提供了一个国内的口述史学的范本。这本书的起因是钟少华1993年在日本客座研究时，深感中日间理解之困难。回国后即向早年留日前辈18人请教，将其中14人的录音整理出来成为此书。这本书是田野作业和书斋作业相结合的产物，采用的是国际通用规范程序。

Caring for Our Own inverts an enduring question of social welfare politics. Rather than ask why the American state hasn't responded to unmet social welfare needs by expanding social entitlements, this book asks: Why don't American families view unmet social welfare needs as the basis for demands for new state entitlements? The answer, Sandra Levitsky argues, lies in a better understanding of how individuals imagine solutions to the social welfare problems they confront and what prevents new understandings of social welfare provision from developing into political demand for alternative social arrangements. Caring for Our Own considers the powerful ways in which existing social policies shape the political imagination, reinforcing longstanding values about family responsibility, subverting grievances grounded in notions of social responsibility, and in some rare cases, constructing new models of social provision that transcend existing ideological divisions in American social politics.

A study on the lesser-known origins of affirmative action argues that key programs passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal era of the 1930s and 1940s were purposefully discriminatory, revealing how Southern democrats widened the gap between black and white Americans through specific restrictions in social security, the GI bill, and landmark labor

At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China’s formative era of pharmacy (200–800 CE), poisons were strategically employed as healing agents to cure everything from abdominal pain to epidemic disease. Healing with Poisons explores the ways physicians, religious figures, court officials, and laypersons used toxic substances to both relieve acute illnesses and enhance life. It illustrates how the Chinese concept of du—a word carrying a core meaning of “potency”—led practitioners to devise a variety of methods to transform dangerous poisons into effective medicines.
Recounting scandals and controversies involving poisons from the Era of Division to the Tang, historian Yan Liu considers how the concept of du was central to how the people of medieval China perceived both their bodies and the body politic. He also examines the wide range of toxic minerals, plants, and animal products used in classical Chinese pharmacy, including everything from the herb aconite to the popular recreational drug Five-Stone Powder. By recovering alternative modes of understanding wellness and the body’s interaction with foreign substances, this study cautions against arbitrary classifications and exemplifies the importance of paying attention to the technical, political, and cultural conditions in which substances become truly meaningful.

Nancy Fraser's powerful new book documents the "movements of feminism" and the shifts in the feminist imaginary since the 1970s. Fraser follows the history of feminism from the ferment of the New Left, during which "Second Wave" feminism emerged as a struggle for women's liberation alongside other social movements, to its emersion in identity politics following the decline of its initial utopian energies. Alongside this detailed history, Fraser recognizes the need for a reinvigorated feminist radicalism to respond to the crisis in neoliberalism. She argues for a feminism that could join other egalitarian movements in struggles aimed at subjecting capitalism to democratic control, while retrieving the core utopian insights of feminism's earlier phases.

《白鸽木兰：烽火中的大爱》中的主人公薛介民、姚明珠，正是作家李黎从未谋面的公公与婆婆，他们二人在50年代台湾白色恐怖中不幸落难牺牲。但牺牲的原因和真相，长久以来并不为人所知，周遭讳莫如深，迷雾重重。李黎通过大量日记、书信、档案和对当事人采访等一手资料，追索家族遗事，叩询民族历史，描绘出薛、姚二人不同寻常的革命工作，并试图提出这样的问题——烽火遍地的年代，一对乱世儿女，矢志为那个风雨飘摇的国家付出大爱，为何竟给他们带来悲惨的结局？

In "The Truly Disadvantaged", renowned American sociologist William Julius Wilson takes a look at the social transformation of inner city ghettos, offering a sharp evaluation of the convergence of race and poverty. Rejecting both conservative and liberal interpretations of life in the inner city, Wilson offers essential information and a number of solutions to policymakers. "The Truly Disadvantaged" is a wide-ranging examination, looking at the relationship between race, employment, and education from the 1950s onwards, with surprising and provocative findings. This second edition also includes a new afterword from Wilson himself that brings the book up to date and offers fresh insight into its findings.

【编辑推荐】
如今，通俗浪漫小说研究已经成为了一个范围广阔、成果颇多的学术领域，不仅拥有相关的国际联盟组织可以每年召开世界级的研讨大会，还持续稳定地出版了一系列学术期刊。而为所有这一切可喜发展打下关键性基础的，正是珍妮斯•A. 拉德威这本于三十多年前写就的经典著作。
20世纪下半叶，为什么作为出版业最有利可图的类别之一的浪漫小说会吸引数百万女性读者?作者从复杂的出版和发行业务到个人读者与文本的接触，多角度深入探讨女性阅读浪漫小说事件肌理，挑战女权主义者、文学评论家以及大众文化理论家对阅读浪漫小说的贬低，认为应该鼓励浪漫主义读者在现实中发声，而不是在想象的孤独中表现出来。
【名人评价及推荐】
《阅读浪漫小说》是独一无二的。它为文化研究设定了一个标准，几乎没有后来者可以达到其高度，即通过密切接触那些可能受到大众文化影响的人群，来检验关于大众文化效应的理论。
——《美国历史杂志》
本书针对浪漫主义小说及其热诚的消费者，做出了非常精彩且透彻的分析。
——《纽约时报书评》
珍妮斯•拉德威对当代女性阅读小说的现象，以及享受这类小说的女性如何看待自己的生活，进行了巧妙而动人的描绘。
——《传播学期刊》
本书不仅探讨了浪漫小说的成规惯例，还对小说及其读者如何对抗某些特定的刻板印象进行了考察，这类印象通常是由那些不读此类书的人塑造出来的。拉德威的研究是社会性文学批评的一个既有趣又有争议的方面。
——《大都会》
【内容介绍】
女权主义者、文学批评家和大众文化理论家总是忽视浪漫主义阅读。他们声称，“浪漫情节”会促进女性读者对男人的依赖，以及对流行文化所传达的压制性意识形态的接受。珍妮斯•拉德威挑战了这一说法，认为批评的注意力必须从孤立地考虑文本本身，转移到阅读背后那复杂的社会事件上。
《阅读浪漫小说》一书因其革新性、突破性的人种志调研方式而获得了极高的赞誉。在针对流行艺术的研究领域，本书具有不可替代的参考意义。这本里程碑式的著作不仅破除了流行文化中的消费“神话”，并借此分析了女性读者这一特定群体的审美和消费倾向。