In An Engine, Not a Camera, Donald MacKenzie argues that the emergence of modern economic theories of finance affected financial markets in fundamental ways. These new, Nobel Prize-winning theories, based on elegant mathematical models of markets, were not simply external analyses but intrinsic parts of economic processes. <br /> <br /> Paraphrasing Milton Friedman, MacKenzie says that economic models are an engine of inquiry rather than a camera to reproduce empirical facts. More than that, the emergence of an authoritative theory of financial markets altered those markets fundamentally. For example, in 1970, there was almost no trading in financial derivatives such as "futures." By June of 2004, derivatives contracts totaling $273 trillion were outstanding worldwide. MacKenzie suggests that this growth could never have happened without the development of theories that gave derivatives legitimacy and explained their complexities. <br /> <br /> MacKenzie examines the role played by finance theory in the two most serious crises to hit the world&rsquo;s financial markets in recent years: the stock market crash of 1987 and the market turmoil that engulfed the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management in 1998. He also looks at finance theory that is somewhat beyond the mainstream--chaos theorist Benoit Mandelbrot&rsquo;s model of “wild” randomness. MacKenzie&rsquo;s pioneering work in the social studies of finance will interest anyone who wants to understand how America&rsquo;s financial markets have grown into their current form.

A narrative history of the movement that turned “Orientals” into Asian Americans
Until the political ferment of the Long Sixties, there were no Asian Americans. There were only isolated communities of mostly Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos lumped together as “Orientals.” Serve the People tells the story of the social and cultural movement that knit these disparate communities into a political identity, the history of how—and why—the double consciousness of Asian America came to be.
At the same time, Karen Ishizuka’s vivid narrative reveals the personal epiphanies and intimate stories of insurgent movers and shakers and ground-level activists alike. Drawing on more than 120 interviews and illustrated with striking images from guerrilla movement publications, the book evokes the feeling of growing up alien in a society rendered in black and white, and recalls the intricate memories and meanings of the Asian American movement. Serve the People paints a panoramic landscape of a radical time, and is destined to become the definitive history of the making of Asian America.

Asians and Latinos comprise the vast majority of contemporary immigrants to the United States, and their growing presence has complicated America's prevailing White-Black race hierarchy. "Imperial Citizens" uses a global framework to investigate how Asians from U.S.-dominated homelands learn and understand their place along U.S. color lines. With interviews and ethnographic observations of Koreans, the book does what others rarely do: venture to the immigrants' home country and analyze racism there in relation to racial hierarchies in the United States. Attentive to history, the book considers the origins, nature, and extent of racial ideas about Koreans/Asians in relation to White and Black Americans, investigating how immigrants engage these ideas before they depart for the United States, as well as after they arrive. The author shows that contemporary globalization involves not just the flow of capital, but also culture. Ideas about American color lines and citizenship lines have crossed oceans alongside U.S. commodities.

世卫组织认为，2014年的埃博拉疫情显示，“对于应对严重的流感大流行和全球公共卫生突发事件，世界并没有做好准备”。
埃博拉流行病更像是某种模式的一部分，这是一种新发病毒跳出生态系统后造成的震荡波。病毒在人群中自我增殖，吞噬生命，遭遇人类这个物种的反抗，最终偃旗息鼓。然而，下一个震荡波会是什么？
随着过去渐渐变成未来，现在，我打算预测一场全球性爆发，由某种生物安全四级的新发病毒引起，它能通过空气在人与人之间传播，没有疫苗，用现代医药无法医治，用术语说，这是一起四级事件。
约翰•霍普金斯大学公共卫生学院最近完成的一项研究表明，美国所有医院加起来一共只有142张红区床位可以收治感染出血热病毒（例如埃博拉）的患者，另有不到400张红区床位可以收治感染空气传播的高危病毒的患者。
因此，假如爆发四级事件，整个美国加起来也只有542张红区床位。
我们必须问一个问题：假如一种四级新发病毒扩散到北美或任何一个大陆的百万级人群之中，医院是否有能力处理这么多的患者并照护他们？假如感染人数超过百万，流行病学家是否有能力追踪并打破传染链？
现在，守护在病毒圈大门口的战士明白他们面对的敌人强大得可怕，这场战争势必旷日持久。他们的许多武器终将失效，但另一些会开始发挥作用。人类在这场战斗中占据一定的优势，拥有病毒所缺少的某些要素，其中包括自我意识、团队作战的能力和愿意牺牲的精神。
既然病毒可以突变，那么我们也能改变。

"纳博科夫1950年代在康奈尔大学等高等学府讲授欧洲文学，其后以这些讲稿为基础整理编辑成《文学讲稿》（以及《俄罗斯文学讲稿》）出版。彼时正逢新批评理论在西方文评界盛行，纳博科夫以注重文本分析（有时具体到了几乎逐字逐句讲述的地步）、独特的艺术观和批评方法，丰厚的语言和文学修养，昆虫学研究训练出的逻辑性和严谨风格，使《文学评论》成为运用新批评理论对作家和文学作品具体研究的典范之作。
纳博科夫在这本书里讨论了《曼斯菲尔德庄园》《包法利夫人》《变形记》《尤利西斯》等七部名作，相当于带领学生做了七次艺术侦查和解剖，皆以简洁明晰的语言、深入浅出的方式，极为鲜明地表达他对作品的看法，同时从文本而非观念出发，细致地捕捉和艺术特点，点明作品在艺术上成功的原因。
《文学讲稿》还有一个特点，即较多地引用了作品的原文。这一方面保留了此书原为课堂讲稿的本色，另一方面也具体说明了作者的见解是如何形成的。由此也形成了本书的魅力，即经过纳博科夫的讲解，他把作品中那些原来并未显示出深长意味和特殊价值的文字，如珍珠出蚌般的展示给读者。
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她们是谁？ 她们是家庭主妇、医院护士、学校教师、工厂职工， 她们也是女儿、母亲、妻子、儿媳， 她们是大时代里平凡的女性。 倾听100多位阿嬷的生命故事， 在她们的讲述中发现历史。 本书是台湾“中研院”近史所研究员游鉴明运用口述材料研究女性历史的学术专著。书稿收录了她对收集整理女性口述史料，以及挖掘、研究女性口述历史的观点和看法。采写对象多为台湾女性，采写内容为她们个人的生活经历，部分内容涉及其在1949年前在大陆生活的经验，对有志于了解、从事口述历史的读者有很好助益。

In the 1980's, Jane Collier revisited a village in Andalusia, where she and others had conducted fieldwork twenty years earlier, to investigate changes in family relationships and to explore the larger question of the development of a 'modern subjectivity' among the people. Whereas the villagers she met in the sixties stressed the importance of meeting social obligations, the people she interviewed more recently emphasized the need to think for oneself: status concerns in choosing a spouse had apparently been replaced by romantic love, patriarchal authority by partnership marriages, parental demands for obedience by hopes of earning children's affection, mourners' respect for the dead by personal expressions of grief.In each of these areas, the author detected a modern concern for 'producing oneself', which emerged with changes in how villagers experienced social inequality. Collier notes that when inheritance appeared to determine social status, villagers protected family reputations and properties by demonstrating concern for 'what others might say'. Once villagers began participating in the national job market, where individual achievement appeared to determine a worker's income, they focused on realizing their inner abilities and productive capacities. Sensitivity to one's feelings, thoughts, and aptitudes, along with 'rational' assessments of the costs and benefits entailed in 'choosing' how to use them, testified to a person's unceasing efforts to realize inner potentials. The author also traces shifts in the meaning of 'tradition', suggesting that although 'modern' people cannot 'be' traditional, they must have traditions in order to produce themselves.

"Economists and Societies" is the first book to systematically compare the profession of economics in the United States, Britain, and France, and to explain why economics, far from being a uniform science, differs in important ways among these three countries. Drawing on in-depth interviews with economists, institutional analysis, and a wealth of scholarly evidence, Marion Fourcade traces the history of economics in each country from the late nineteenth century to the present, demonstrating how each political, cultural, and institutional context gave rise to a distinct professional and disciplinary configuration. She argues that because the substance of political life varied from country to country, people's experience and understanding of the economy, and their political and intellectual battles over it, crystallized in different ways - through scientific and mercantile professionalism in the United States, public-minded elitism in Britain, and statist divisions in France. Fourcade moves past old debates about the relationship between culture and institutions in the production of expert knowledge to show that scientific and practical claims over the economy in these three societies arose from different elites with different intellectual orientations, institutional entanglements, and social purposes. Much more than a history of the economics profession, "Economists and Societies" is a revealing exploration of American, French, and British society and culture as seen through the lens of their respective economic institutions and the distinctive character of their economic experts.

The collapse of the Berlin Wall has come to represent the entry of an
isolated region onto the global stage. On the contrary, this study argues
that Communist states had in fact long been shapers of an interconnecting
world, with 1989 instead marking a choice by local elites about the form
that globalisation should take. Published to coincide with the thirtieth
anniversary of the 1989 revolutions, this work draws on material from local
archives to international institutions to explore the place of Eastern Europe
in the emergence, since the 1970s, of a new world order that combined
neoliberal economics and liberal democracy with increasingly bordered
civilizational, racial, and religious identities. An original and wide-ranging
history, it explores the importance of the region’s links to the West, East
Asia, Africa, and Latin America in this global transformation, reclaiming
the era’s other visions such as socialist democracy and authoritarian modernization
that had been lost in triumphalist histories of market liberalism.

During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her sometimes flashy, always fashionable appearance in city streets and cafes, in films, advertisements, and illustrated magazines. Modern Girls smoked cigarettes; they wore high heels and sexy clothes. They applied lipstick and face creams and other cosmetics. Adorned in provocative attire, in hot pursuit of romantic love, Modern Girls appeared on the surface to disregard prescribed roles of dutiful daughter, wife, and mother. Contemporaries debated whether the Modern Girl was looking for sexual, economic, or political emancipation, or whether she was little more than an image, a hollow product of the emerging global commodity culture. The contributors to this collection track the Modern Girl as she emerged as a global phenomenon during the 1920s and 1930s.Scholars of history, women's studies, English, cultural studies, and area studies follow the Modern Girl around the world, analyzing her manifestations in Germany, Australia, China, Japan, France, India, the United States, Russia, and South Africa. Along the way, they demonstrate how the economic structures and cultural flows that shaped a particular form of modern femininity crossed national and imperial boundaries. At the same time, they highlight the gendered dynamics of interwar processes of racial formation, showing how images of the Modern Girl were used to shore up or critique racial formations. This volume concludes with commentaries by Kathy Peiss, Miriam Silverberg, and Timothy Burke. It's contributors include: Davarian L. Baldwin; Tani E. Barlow; Timothy Burke; Liz Conor; Madeleine Y. Dong; Anne E. Gorsuch; Ruri Ito; Kathy Peiss; Uta G. Poiger; Priti Ramamurthy; Mary Louise Roberts; Barbara Sato; Miriam Silverberg; Lynn M. Thomas; and, Alys Eve Weinbaum.

成年人的词典里，没有容易二字。
无论你现在是20岁还是70岁，你都可能觉得已经过去的人生里出了一些岔子，其中有的部分无法修补，有的令人懊悔。
你觉得自己选错了专业，跳槽过于频繁，也有可能你正为要不要生孩子而纠结，或正在出轨边缘徘徊。
当你选择了一个方向、一份职业、一种生 活方式甚至一个人，也意味着你放弃了其他的可能性。
那些可能性让人着迷，甚至勾引你放弃现有的生活重新来过。
重启毕竟是一个高成本的选择，人生不是一场随时存档读档的游戏，在这之前你需要充分模拟、推演、检查，做好准备再上路。
这本书就是为这样的顾虑而准备的，它写给所有与不可逆的时间搏斗的人。
你能在这里快速学习哲学家如何给不同的事物赋分，表彰它们给予人生的不同价值，看到哲学家如何从自己的中年危机里突围，他们甚至写过多篇论文探讨是不是应该放弃上面提到的其他可能性。
即使你不打算改写人生，或者觉得人生过于乏味，这本书也能帮你换种思路，继续生活。
【编辑推荐】
★ 达标式的都市人生缺点东西
在都市搏斗的人们有着一些共享的人生目标，例如升任高管、创业上市或拿到教职，接下来则是安家落户、买房买车、结婚生子（女）……很多人耗费半生完成了这些但仍然没觉得“岁月静好”，这本书会提醒你，这种达标式的人生缺了点什么。
★ 零风险的重启预案
导演/医生/诗人/企业家……人生的无数选择每次只能取其一二，当你行至途中想要重新来过或者开启不同的人生，必然担心自己需要付出什么代价、能够获得什么回报。这本书会以作家和哲学家的虚构故事、实际案例和思想实验来为你解答困惑，整个过程如存取游戏进度般可在躺椅中完成。
★ 适合90后的“青年危机”自我诊疗手册
90后正在遭遇青年危机，当一年换两份工作成为年轻人的常态，我们更需要想清楚，选择不同的工作和方向意味着什么，必须为此放弃什么。
★ 无门槛的哲学工具书
本书会结合具体案例展开哲学分析，这种分析方法没有技术门槛或专业壁垒，普通读者能够理解使用。
【名人评价】
笔调简洁而富于黑色幽默，这本书是高级人生技巧的哲学富矿，它也提供了富于反思的方式，来帮助我们消解空虚感和和懊悔这些常伴随中年而来的感受。
——吉姆•霍尔特，《世界为何存在？》作者
作为一个自7岁以来就和中年危机形影不离的人，我觉得这本书给人教益和安慰。如果它不能帮你缩减腰围或者避开死亡，这恰恰说明了它是通往空虚路上一份友善的指南，如同一个忠实的伴侣或者宠物。它甚至能让你理解变成一个42岁的中年人的优点，至少它对我起到了这样的效果。
——约书亚•弗里斯，布克奖短名单《曼哈顿的孤独诊所》作者

从“大日本帝国”时代开始直至战后，单一民族神话一直是“日本人”主流的自画像。本书旨在从历史学的角度研究单一民族神话的起源以及它的发展轨迹，并且从社会学的角度分析其功能和作用。
“日本人”究竟是从什么时候开始称自己为单一的、纯粹的民族的呢？那是在什么样的状况下，出于一种什么样的动机呢？这方面的研究不仅有利于帮助我们更加深刻地认识日本的历史，而且有利于解决现代国际社会上出现的纯种民族意识、单一的国民国家意识、排斥乃至歧视异民族等等这样一些重大问题。

Sociologists in Action will provide vivid examples of how sociologists are using sociological tools to make a positive impact on our society. In each chapter, four or five public sociologists will describe, in vivid detail, how they have used sociology to understand and influence the world around them. The chapters will cover the key topics in sociology courses and the pieces will bring the subject matter of sociology to life for students, giving them clear examples of the power and usefulness of sociology as they learn the course content. The discussion questions and suggested additional readings and resources at the end of every chapter will provide students the opportunity to delve further into the topics covered and help create full and nuanced discussions, grounded in the oreal worldo work of public sociologists.Sociologists in Action, will include original, brief, highly readable articles from a wide array of Public Sociologists in Action, describing some of their work that has impacted society. The authors carefully choose sociologists who are using their skills and research on a wide range of issues, and through a wide variety of sociological methods and venues. Each chapter will contain four or five, 3-5 page PSIA pieces that will correspond closely to each of the first 11 chapters in The Engaged Sociologist, discluding the chapters on theory and methods. The majority of the PSIA sections will be written by the PSIAs themselves and carefully edited by Korgen and White. The SIA pieces in The Engaged Sociologist: Public Sociologists in Action will be significantly longer than the one-page SIA boxes in The Engaged Sociologist. This will allow for a deeper exploration of the specific sociological tools being applied as well as the methods and processes leading to critical social change. At the end of each chapter, the authors will include discussion questions that relate the SIA pieces to the topics in the corresponding chapters in The Engaged Sociologist, and provide additional readings and resources on the various topics. The result will be a public sociology reader that can be used in any course, but that will have a particularly strong synergy as a supplement to The Engaged Sociologist. 10% of the proceeds from this book will be donated to Free the Children.

“小学毕业的时候，是1997年的夏天，和之后每一次毕业一样，炎热而干燥。”
从那个时候开始，关于一切痛苦和欢愉，我都准备好了。
90年代末的东北小城，那个外面一切都在激变的夏天，对于十三四岁的少年来说却是一首悠长的朦胧诗。故事的主角是108中校园里的一群初中生，小说通过少年李默“我”的讲述视角，叙写了七个凌厉的少年成长故事，如同奈保尔的《米格尔街》，这些人物相互独立又命运交织，有着互文性，勾连起“我”的成长轨迹。科学怪人刘一达、天才少年霍家麟、古怪早熟的迷人女孩安娜，永远穿白衬衫的艾小男……一生自我意识的觉醒时刻，来自成人世界的权力之手也在拨弄着这群少年：被监控的教室、枯燥无味的书本、充满戾气而势利的老师。面对与外部世界的第一次冲撞，有人激烈反抗，有人陨灭、失去踪迹，更多的孩子变得沉默寡言。《聋哑时代》勾勒出80一代的精神成长史。大雪覆盖的工业城市，下岗潮中陷入困境的家庭，在少年们的内心世界投射挥之不去的影子，校园生活也始终有一层压抑暗沉的时代底色。
《聋哑时代》是小说家双雪涛的自愈之作，如同把往事说进树洞，泥巴封好，日后好好珍存。不同于《平原上的摩西》的锋利冷硬，他用温柔的笔调、元气饱满真挚的汉语、爱与温存的目光，打量少年时代的梦和伤痕，为和自己一样活过的人们做传，把聋哑时代失声者的故事讲出来。这部长篇小说写于28岁，那时他过着白天在银行上班，晚上回家写作的双面人生，“写完那天，已经是夏天了。我知道自己再也写不了这样的东西，可能我成了另一个人吧，从那时开始，我就要作为另一个人活着。”
【编辑推荐】
★80一代青春终曲，唤醒成长之痛。我们总会一次次回到少年时代，那里保存着生命最初的模样。90年代末的东北小城，暗色调的108中校园，七个凌厉的少年故事，一段温柔陡峭的青春回忆，一部80后的精神成长史。任何一个夏天都无法与那个夏天相比，少年们沉默不语，少年们凶猛炽烈，他们 的脸上有着和我们当初一样的表情。
★为聋哑时代的失声者作传，这本书，是我们的眼睛，我们的耳朵。关于成长路上的疼痛与代价，关于那些远去的人，朦胧的爱情、年少的挚友，关于少年的锋芒如何陨落黯淡，向平庸的现实妥协，关于一个人如何在荒谬的世界孤独地长大，一一交出自己最心爱的事物。这是一代人的青春，也是所有人的青春。
★小说家双雪涛的自愈之作，新版完整呈现。新版恢复原作千余字篇幅，保存小说原初面貌，作品首次完整呈现。不同于《平原上的摩西》的锋利冷硬，小说家用温柔的笔调、元气饱满真挚的汉语、爱与温存的目光，打量少年时代的梦和伤痕，为同代人的青春留下存证，替沉默的人说出自己的故事。
★汉语小说青春书写的开拓性作品，双雪涛的少年故事，有塞林格式的叛逆与反思精神。
不同于我们熟悉的80后青春叙事，小说以锋芒之笔，剔开青春温暖背后世界的残酷；以少年之眼勘察人性明暗，书写个体与世界冲撞之间对自由和自我的恒久探寻；以一部鲜活的东北少年人物志，交织出时代暗影之下一代人的青春与命运，形成自己独特的美学风格和历史深度。

闪烁着霓虹灯的疫区，墨鱼人藏身的超大型地铁站，逐步变异的公司职员，新星球上建设社会的伟大历程……本书是沈大成新近创作的短篇小说精选，作者以其独有的黑色幽默，塑造了一群仿佛生活在地球的双生星上的人类，并将他们置于不确定的未来即将落下的时刻。
一个异质而又有其自身逻辑的世界，读者既可将之看作愉快的脑内小革命，也难以忽视其中现实主义的一面。而我们当代生活的一部分特质，就在沈大成小说独特的显影法下逐步显现。

In Civic Gifts, Elisabeth S. Clemens takes a singular approach to probing the puzzle that is the United States. How, she asks, did a powerful state develop within an anti-statist political culture? How did a sense of shared nationhood develop despite the linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences among settlers and, eventually, citizens? Clemens reveals that an important piece of the answer to these questions can be found in the unexpected political uses of benevolence and philanthropy, practices of gift-giving and reciprocity that co-existed uneasily with the self-sufficient independence expected of liberal citizens Civic Gifts focuses on the power of gifts not only to mobilize communities throughout US history, but also to create new forms of solidarity among strangers. Clemens makes clear how, from the early Republic through the Second World War, reciprocity was an important tool for eliciting both the commitments and the capacities needed to face natural disasters, economic crises, and unprecedented national challenges. Encompassing a range of endeavors from the mobilized voluntarism of the Civil War, through Community Chests and the Red Cross to the FDR-driven rise of the March of Dimes, Clemens shows how voluntary efforts were repeatedly articulated with government projects. The legacy of these efforts is a state co-constituted with, as much as constrained by, civil society.

《现代政治的思想与行动》是日本著名政治思想史学者丸山真男的代表著作之一，收录了作者自第二次世界大战结束之后约十年间发表的有关政治学及现代政治问题的主要论文。丸山被称为日本战后最著名的思想家、政治哲学家，他对日本现实政治的分析和看法，基本构成了战后日本政治学的走向，也由此诞生出“丸山学派”。
本书初版1957年由日本未来社出版，1964年出版增补版，删去之前的两篇文章，第三卷增加了两章，并在旧版追记上增加了新的注解，更便于读者的阅读和理解。增补版至今重印160多次，经久不衰。

丸山真男是日本著名的思想史大师，他认为，思想史家的特征是：埋没于历史中时表现得傲慢，从历史中脱出时表现得谦逊。一方面是严守历史的拘束性，另一方面是自己对历史的能动工作(所谓“对历史”，并不能误解为对现代，这是指自己对历史对象的能动工作)。在受历史制约的同时，积极对历史对象发挥能动作用，在这种辩证的紧张关系中再现过去的思想。这就是思想史本来的课题，也是思想史之妙趣的源泉。本书是其思想史论著的精粹，可以引领我们深入了解丸山思想史学的内涵，具有重要的学术价值。