How politics is played by one who knows the game... Chris Matthews has spent a quarter century on the playing field of American politics -- from righthand man of Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill to host of NBC's highest rated cable talk show Hardball. In this revised and updated edition of his political classic, he offers fascinating new stories of raw ambition, brutal rivalry, and exquisite seduction and reveals the inside rules that govern the game of power.

This work explores a wide range of cultural strategies to promote participation and empowerment in both First and Third World settings. The book starts by analyzing contemporary debates on cultures, communities and identities, in the context of globalization. This sets the framework for the discussion of cultural strategies to combat social exclusion and to promote community participation in transformative agendas for local economic and social development. The final chapter focuses upon the use of cultural strategies and new technologies across national boundaries, at the global level.

In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global 'overshoot, ' or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental scientists Donnella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows have teamed up again to update and expand their original findings in "The Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Global Update."Meadows, Randers, and Meadows are international environmental leaders recognized for their groundbreaking research into early signs of wear on the planet. Citing climate change as the most tangible example of our current overshoot, the scientists now provide us with an updated scenario and a plan to reduce our needs to meet the carrying capacity of the planet.Over the past three decades, population growth and global warming have forged on with a striking semblance to the scenarios laid out by the World3 computer model in the original "Limits to Growth." While Meadows, Randers, and Meadows do not make a practice of predicting future environmental degradation, they offer an analysis of present and future trends in resource use, and assess a variety of possible outcomes.In many ways, the message contained in "Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update" is a warning. Overshoot cannot be sustained without collapse. But, as the authors are careful to point out, there is reason to believe that humanity can still reverse some of its damage to Earth if it takes appropriate measures to reduce inefficiency and waste.Written in refreshingly accessible prose, "Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update" is a long anticipated revival of some of the original voices in the growing chorus of sustainability. "Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Update" is a work of stunning intelligence that will expose for humanity the hazy but critical line between human growth and human development.

在未来四十年中，人口数量将会达到多少？
地球是否能承受得了这么多人的生存需求？
下一代人是否愿意为这一代人的养老与债务买单？
气候与环境会不会一直恶化下去？
西方式的民主能否解决人类面对的巨大问题？
世界经济的主导地位将如何过渡给中国？
乔根·兰德斯，《增长的极限》作者之一，聚合了全球顶尖的科学家、经济学家与未来学研究者，就经济、能源、自然资源、气候、食品、城市化、养老金等问题，对未来四十年进行了趋势预测。好消息是，在能源效率方面我们将看到深刻的进步，我们会更多地关注人类福祉而不是人均收入的增长；但变化也许并不会如我们期望的一样发生：最贫穷的20亿人口仍然生活在穷困当中，失去控制的全球变暖也是可能出现的。
那么，我们该如何为未来做好准备？兰德斯将我们导向一条通往未来的现实之路，讨论我们可以为自己以及子孙们的更美好的未来做些什么。

在工业国家，个人品味与消费行为密不可分。享乐的工业化使奢侈品高于必需品，感性高于理性，诱惑高于判断。然而，品味并非资本主义开发的新领域。
早在欧洲的封建时代，宫廷贵族们就已发展出一种以闲逸和品味为特征的生活方式，以好的品味作为彰显与提升其高贵身份的标准。宫廷朝臣之间的这种竞争关系是否就是自由主义最早的先声？如果说品味的基本价值是所谓经济意义上的非生产力，那么，工业生产如何能够将品味转化成消费增长的动力？
资本主义发展的前景，在于使美观、愉悦等非必需的产物转变成可以衡量、可以交换并能够覆盖社会生活大部分领域的价值。本书证明，审美资本主义的博弈超出了纯粹感官享受的范畴，审美之战已经成为工业文明社会里经济战争的核心。

身兼建筑史家和建筑家的藤森昭信，看待建筑的角度非常独特。藤森昭信认为西方建筑对日本建筑的文脉具有一定的破坏作用，其中是现代主义破坏性最强，深及建筑与人类的关系。而藤森昭信在这本小书里试图追寻人类发展的线索，重新梳理建筑发展的脉络，将重新解体的文化碎片重新捡起，与破坏之后完全做别的东西的现代主义相比较，破坏之后再重新组合建立的就是藤森流。

In this remarkable publication, the celebrated photographic artist Wolfgang Tillmans draws together a comprehensive overview of his work to date, incorporating over 2,400 images. Tillmans's breadth of vision is captivating: whether as still life, portrait, landscape or abstract composition it challenges and expands the viewer's visual and temporal awareness.

本书为一综合性的著述，注重纸和印刷在中国和世界文化史中的地位、作用和影响。范围包括历史上的每一个时代，上自二者最早出现，下迄19世纪末期，即手工业时代结束为止。全书分十章：首章绪论为全书的提要；纸和印刷（包括制墨和装订）各占三章；传播和影响也占三章，其中最后一章以纸和印刷对中国和世界文明的功能和影响作为结论。全书结构简明而有系统，内容分配平均，数据包括实物和文献，另有插图174幅，附录《中国印刷史书目》千余条，可供研究者作进一步的参考。

Sometimes, the legacy of depression includes a wisdom beyond one's years, a depth of passion unexperienced by those who haven't traveled to hell and back. Off the charts in its enlightening, comprehensive analysis of this pervasive yet misunderstood condition, The Noonday Demon forges a long, brambly path through the subject of depression--exposing all the discordant views and "answers" offered by science, philosophy, law, psychology, literature, art, and history. The result is a sprawling and thoroughly engrossing study, brilliantly synthesized by author Andrew Solomon.
Deceptively simple chapter titles (including "Breakdowns," "Treatments," "Addiction," "Suicide") each sit modestly atop a virtual avalanche of Solomon's intellect. This is not a book to be skimmed. But Solomon commands the language--and his topic--with such grace and empathy that the constant flow of references, poems, and quotations in his paragraphs arrive like welcome dinner guests. A longtime sufferer of severe depression himself, Solomon willingly shares his life story with readers. He discusses updated information on various drugs and treatment approaches while detailing his own trials with them. He describes a pharmaceutical company's surreal stage production (involving Pink Floyd, kick dancers, and an opener à la Cats) promoting a new antidepressant to their sales team. He chronicles his research visits to assorted mental institutions, which left him feeling he would "much rather engage with every manner of private despair than spend a protracted time" there. Under Solomon's care, however, such tales offer much more than shock value. They show that depression knows no social boundaries, manifests itself quite differently in each person, and has become political. And, while it may worsen or improve, depression will never be eradicated. Hope lies in finding ways--as Solomon clearly has--to harness its powerful lessons. --Liane Thomas

The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatisation of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. Offering a critique of the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor Ostrom here provides a unique body of empirical data to explore conditions under which common pool resource problems have been satisfactorily or unsatisfactorily solved. Dr Ostrom first describes three models most frequently used as the foundation for recommending state or market solutions. She then outlines theoretical and empirical alternatives to these models in order to illustrate the diversity of possible solutions. In the following chapters she uses institutional analysis to examine different ways - both successful and unsuccessful - of governing the commons. In contrast to the proposition of the tragedy of the commons argument, common pool problems sometimes are solved by voluntary organisations rather than by a coercive state. Among the cases considered are communal tenure in meadows and forests, irrigation communities and other water rights, and fisheries.

'While reading Tyranny of the Moment, I found myself both charmed and challenged. The subject is an important one, and Thomas Hylland Eriksen handles it with style, a light touch, and many amiable provocations.' Todd Gitlin The turn of the millennium is characterized by exponential growth in everything related to communication -- from the internet and email to air traffic. Tyranny of the Moment deals with some of the most perplexing paradoxes of this new information age. Who would have expected that apparently time-saving technology results in time being scarcer than ever? And has this seemingly limitless access to information led to confusion rather than enlightenment? Eriksen argues that slow time -- private periods where we are able to think and correspond without interruption -- is now one of the most precious resources we have. Since we are theoretically 'online' 24 hours a day, we must fight for the right to be unavailable -- the right to live and think more slowly. It is not only that working hours have become longer -- Eriksen also shows how the logic of this new information technology has permeated every area of our lives. Exploring phenomena such as the internet, wap telephones, multi- channel television and email, Eriksen examines this non-linear and fragmented way of communicating to reveal how it affects working conditions in the economy, changes in family life and, ultimately, personal identity. Eriksen argues that a culture lacking a sense of its past, and therefore of its future, is effectively static. Although solutions are suggested, he demonstrates that there is no easy way out.

Martha Gelhorn's journalism tracks many of the flashpoints of the twentieth century; as a young woman she witnessed the suffering of the American Depression and risked her life in the Spanish Civil War. Her dispatches from the front made her a legend, yet her private was often messy and volcanic. Her determination to be a war correspondent - and her conspicuous success - contributed to the breakdown of her infamously stormy marriage to Ernest Hemingway. In this mesmerising biography of a life that spanned the twentieth century, Moorehead reveals how passionately Martha fought against injustice, and how determined she was to catch the human story.

对时间与空间的态度、时空形象及概念并不是超越文化差异的普遍性东西，各种文化一旦有其固有的模式。那么日本文化具有怎样的时空观呢？独特的时空概念使日本文化别具怎样的特征呢？
这是被誉为日本“百科图书式”学者加藤周一文化研究的经典之作。

Wilde’s scintillating drawing-room comedy revolves around a blackmail scheme that forces a married couple to reexamine their moral standards. A supporting cast of young lovers, society matrons, and a formidable femme fatale exchange sparkling repartee, keeping the action of the play at a lively pace.

《權力的毛細管作用：清代的思想、學術與心態》收錄中央研究院院士王汎森研究清代學術、思想、心態方面的12篇專文和一篇附錄。本書標題「權力的毛細管作用」，說明了清代社會中政治、道德等權力無遠弗屆的影響。
「權力的毛細管作用」觀念來自傅柯（Michel Foucault, 1926-1984）。傅柯對權力的了解很有創見，他不像過去的人只注意權力在大的、公開的場面的展示，同時也注意到權力在微小的、隱密的、日常生活空間中的作用。從《權力的毛細管作用：清代的思想、學術與心態》一書中可以看到「政治」、「道德」、「權力」等各種力量，就像水分子的毛細管作用一般，滲入日常生活中每一個可能的角落，並發揮意想不到的影響。
思想史」與「生活史」的聯繫也是《權力的毛細管作用：清代的思想、學術與心態》一書的主軸之一，譬如〈明末清初的人譜與省過會〉、〈日譜與明末清初思想家〉這兩篇專文，就是以「人譜」、「省過會」等修身冊籍及團體為例，展示道德意識呈現的方式與轉化，以及道德理想如何影響日常生活的實踐。

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Fooling Some of the People All of the Time is the gripping chronicle of the ongoing saga between author David Einhorn’s hedg fund, Greenlight Capital, and Allied Capital, a leader in the private finance industry. Page by page, it delves deep inside Wall Street, showing why the $6 billion hedge fund decided to short shares of Allied Capital and how Allied responded with a Washington, D.C.-style spin-job—attacking Einhorn and disseminating half-truths and outright lies.

From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of Balthus and Patron Saints—the first full-scale life of le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded is a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his death.
He was a leader of the modernist movement that sought to create better living conditions and a better society through housing concepts. He predicted the city of the future with its large, white apartment buildings in parklike settings—a move away from the turn-of-the-century industrial city, which he saw as too fussy and suffocating and believed should be torn down, including most of Paris. Irascible and caustic, tender and enthusiastic, more than a mercurial innovator, Le Corbusier was considered to be the very conscience of modern architecture.
In this first biography of the man, Nicholas Fox Weber writes about Le Corbusier the precise, mathematical, practical-minded artist whose idealism—vibrant, poetic, imaginative; discipline; and sensualism were reflected in his iconic designs and pioneering theories of architecture and urban planning.
Weber writes about Le Corbusier’s training; his coming to live and work in Paris; the ties he formed with Nehru . . . Brassaï . . . Malraux (he championed Le Corbusier’s work and commissioned a major new museum for art to be built on the outskirts of Paris) . . . Einstein . . . Matisse . . . the Steins . . . Picasso . . . Walter Gropius, and others.
We see how Le Corbusier, who appreciated goverments only for the possibility of obtaining architectural commissions, was drawn to the new Soviet Union and extolled the merits of communism (he never joined the party); and in 1928, as the possible architect of a major new building, went to Moscow, where he was hailed by Trotsky and was received at the Kremlin. Le Corbusier praised the ideas of Mussolini and worked for two years under the Vichy government, hoping to oversee new construction and urbanism throughout France. Le Corbusier believed that Hitler and Vichy rule would bring about “a marvelous transformation of society,” then renounced the doomed regime and went to work for Charles de Gaulle and his provisional government.
Weber writes about Le Corbusier’s fraught relationships with women (he remained celibate until the age of twenty-four and then often went to prostitutes); about his twenty-seven-year-long marriage to a woman who had no interest in architecture and forbade it being discussed at the dinner table; about his numerous love affairs during his marriage, including his shipboard romance with the twenty-three-year-old Josephine Baker, already a legend in Paris, whom he saw as a “pure and guileless soul.” She saw him as “irresistibly funny.” “What a shame you’re an architect!” she wrote. “You’d have made such a good partner!”
A brilliant revelation of this single-minded, elusive genius, of his extraordinary achivements and the age in which he lived.

本书在两个主题下对甘肃大川进行了精细的考察。第一个涉及人的受难，包括个人的遭遇和社区的挫败，第二个涉及对灾难的处理，以及在ZZ迫害、经济萧条、文化中断之后的复苏。

What does the durability of political institutions have to do with how actors form knowledge about them? Andreas Glaeser investigates this question in the context of a fascinating historical case: socialist East Germany's unexpected self-dissolution in 1989. His analysis builds on extensive in-depth interviews with former secret police officers and the dissidents they tried to control as well as research into the documents both groups produced. In particular, Glaeser analyzes how these two opposing factions' understanding of the socialist project came to change in response to countless everyday experiences. These investigations culminate in answers to two questions: why did the officers not defend socialism by force? And how was the formation of dissident understandings possible in a state that monopolized mass communication and group formation? He also explores why the Stasi, although always well informed about dissident activities, never developed a realistic understanding of the phenomenon of dissidence. Out of this ambitious study, Glaeser extracts two distinct lines of thought. On the one hand he offers an epistemic account of socialism's failure that differs markedly from existing explanations. On the other hand he develops a theory - a sociology of understanding - that shows us how knowledge can appear validated while it is at the same time completely misleading.

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"An important approach to social inequality."--M. M. Denny, "Choice
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Charles Tilly, in this eloquent manifesto, presents a powerful new approach to the study of persistent social inequality. How, he asks, do long-lasting, systematic inequalities in life chances arise, and how do they come to distinguish members of different socially defined categories of persons? Exploring representative paired and unequal categories, such as male/female, black/white, and citizen/noncitizen, Tilly argues that the basic causes of these and similar inequalities greatly resemble one another. In contrast to contemporary analyses that explain inequality case by case, this account is one of process. Categorical distinctions arise, Tilly says, because they offer a solution to pressing organizational problems. Whatever the "organization" is--as small as a household or as large as a government--the resulting relationship of inequality persists because parties on both sides of the categorical divide come to depend on that solution, despite its drawbacks. Tilly illustrates the social mechanisms that create and maintain paired and unequal categories with a rich variety of cases, mapping out fertile territories for future relational study of durable inequality.