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郭建龙“密码三部曲”
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历史作家郭建龙“密码三部曲”，从财政、军事、哲学视角解读古代中国各王朝的兴衰起落！《财政密码》以历代财政制度之得失，探朝代更替之内因！《军事密码》以地理、战争为脉，看各朝军事战略成败!《哲学密码》在政治哲学脉络中寻找古代中国王朝的统治逻辑！俞敏洪、刘苏里、余世存、杨斌、施展、罗振宇、李硕、张明扬鼎力推荐！ 《财政密码》 本书从土地制度、货币垄断、官营产业三方面说明古代中国王朝兴衰与财政之间的关系。全书以中央王朝财政体系演变的三个周期为划分标准。*周期为秦汉魏晋南朝时期，以汉武帝建立的官营产业、王莽的金融垄断，以及魏晋时期的土地和户籍制度为线索；第二周期为北魏北周隋唐两宋时期，以北魏的土地改革为始，论及均田制，以宋朝金融改革引起的大崩溃收场；第三周期为辽金元明清时期，自元朝政府试验性的财政政策讲起，进而论述明清时期的保守财政，以晚清财政近代化的努力及其惰性为终。 《军事密码》 本书对古代中国的军事地理进行了详细剖析，分析了历朝战争中*关键的地理要素，以及这些要素是如何在战争中发挥作用的。通过实地考察和史料引用，选取了各个时代*典型的战争及军事行动，阐述了战略要地从关中本位制向长江流域、边疆地区的移动，其中也伴随着王朝的统一、分裂与扩张。分析了重大战争背后的军事逻辑及其对历朝兴衰的影响。 《哲学密码》 本书从西汉讲起，叙述大一统时代到来之后的思想流变。通过讲解哲学发展的来龙去脉，让读者清晰地看到中国哲学如何演化、为什么这么演化，理解政治与哲学互动的奥秘。 中央王朝的政治哲学可以被视作思想格式化与反格式化的历史。本书将其分为两个大周期：*周期从西汉的儒教开始，经过魏晋南北朝玄学的“反叛”、佛学的诞生，直到隋唐的三教并存、互相竞争；第二周期从宋代持续到晚清，包括宋代道学体系的建立、理学的思想控制、明代心学的诞生及反思、清代实学的兴起及发展等。
人邮经管大师课:知识管理系列(套装全8册)(套装共8册)
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当下，我们越来越难以独立完成一项工作，尤其是规模较大的工作，此时，我们就需要调动更多的人与资源，协同工作以实现具有挑战性的目标。而要调动人们的积极性，构建互相信任的人际关系，靠的不是理论与分析，而能使人们产生同感或共鸣的信念。 《信念 冲破低迷状态 实现业绩跃迁》从信念管理的概念入手，并详细介绍了基于“信念”的信念管理框架和实战指南，阐述了信念管理对于个人和企业经营的价值，后总结出实践智慧型领导者应具备的6种能力。书中的“实践智慧”部分向读者生动地展示了信念管理理念如何在企业管理实践中落地，从而调动员工的工作激情，激发企业的持续创新，推动个人自我价值与企业“以新型全球化公司为目标”的高质化愿景的同步实现。 当下的企业与非企业组织已经进入一个多变、模糊、复杂与不确定的时代，新生代流动率加大，核心人才频频出走，附着在人才身上的隐性知识来不及萃取出来就白白流失了。因此，成为一个创造知识型组织逐渐成为共识。在这一命题之下，我们需要弄明白“知识是什么”“知识创造的本质是什么”“知识创造的方法论是什么”，《创造知识的方法论》从传统哲学与现代知识入手，带领我们了解各个方面的哲学与社会科学理论，聚焦于哲学家、社会学家如何将知识转化、构建为方法论，借此，我们得以搞清楚上述问题，深刻理解创造知识的过程，进而通过自己的经验积累，成长为真正的知识型员工与创新型人才。 企业持续创新的能力来自创新管理，知识管理则是创新管理的基础。追求基业长青是所有企业的理想，要实现这个理想，要重视德鲁克所说的“今天重要的资源”——知识，充分萃取、沉淀、标准化、分享、组合、更新和再造知识，为企业的持续发展积累可复用的无形资产。 《创造知识的企业 领先企业持续创新的动力》是“知识创造理论之父”野中郁次郎关于知识管理的奠基之作，也是该领域被引次数较多的一本著作。在本书中，作者提出了SECI模型，知识创造的过程做了阐述，并结合日美企业借助知识创造称霸汽车和电子工业的案例，告诉我们如何将知识创造应用于提升产品创新和技术创新能力，获得持续的竞争优势。 任何组织的发展都离不开创新，但是很多企业都切身感受到，无论付出多少努力都难以实现创新这一目标，对此，《创造知识的实践》给出的解决方案是：创造知识并付诸实践！在这一方案之下，作者给出了实现创新的具体方法，从横向关系和纵向关系入手，并结合从获得日本服务大奖的公司中选取的8家“地方创生大臣奖”获奖企业的案例，从组织性知识创造理论的视角来阐述如何向用户提供出色服务，并进一步从组织层面打造企业的整体创新能力，彻底破解创新困境。 《创新的本质》从个人与组织的关系出发，分析了本田、佳能、松下、吉卜力、三得利等13家知名企业的产品开发案例，解密了其开发模式，即充分发挥个体的主动参与能力，通过灵活运用企业储备的知识，运用显性知识与隐性知识之间的传递、转化，创造出企业产品特有的“理念”。这给处于后发地位的中国企业提供了鲜活的的案例及理论指导，能够有效地帮助他们突破产品创新的瓶颈，打造出具有爆发力和生命力的卓-越产品。 当下，我们正在从以工业为主体的经济向以知识为主体的经济转变，可是目前的管理学，特别是战略论和组织论，都以封闭的企业框架内部的模型为基础，分析性战略以及“战略与实践的分离”成为基本的思考过程，这一工业社会的管理范式业已失效，新的经济形态——知识经济呼唤新的管理范式。 本书原创性地提出了知识创造管理这一管理范式，它不同于以有形资产为资源的、以竞争优势和追求利润为基点的管理及战略思维方式，而以组织的“知识创造过程”为中心，关注企业如何创造可复用、可传承的知识资产。书中各个章节围绕知识创造管理实践，就企业遇到的问题展开讨论，分别阐述了“知识创造管理的视角”“指导实践的十大原则”和“实践中的要点”，力求帮助企业认清管理的发展趋势，及早调整管理思维及战略，以寻找到一条可持续发展之路。 阅读提示： 正文三个部分中的每一章都以工作指南的形式编排，具体分析知识创造管理法则，读者可根据阅读需要查阅。 这是一个经济全球化的时代，很多企业走出国-门，在全球各地寻找新的发展机会，并在当地打造新的增长引擎。要实现这一点，毫无疑问必须把企业内部的隐性知识与当地人才所掌握的知识结合起来，寻求更优的人力资本配置，进行持续的知识共创，惟其如此，企业的创新才会获得源头活水。 《全球知识共创》以“讲故事”的方式叙述了日产北美技术中心和欧洲技术中心的发展历程，系统总结了日产海外研发所经历的困难及采取的解决方式，从“全球知识共创”的角度出发，介绍了日产海外研发的成功经验。作为一名企业管理者或决策参与者，在企业在走向全球化的进程中，或面临跨国企业的竞争时，也许可以从日产的成功经验中得到一些启示。 日产构建的全球知识共创体系的三大典型特征： ·全球知识共创； ·基于美好愿景的实践主义； ·全球化的知识创造团队。 经过20多年的传播，隐性知识的概念被越来越多人的所熟知和认同，也被国内很多组织应用于知识管理的实践当中。不过，目前大部分应用偏产品研发端，在野中郁次郎看来，这种应用远远不够。 尤其是对于企业，如何把隐性知识创造的智慧以新方式转换为价值，即以知识为导向进行商业模式变革，才是企业家和知识管理工作者需要重点思考的问题。 相对知识管理早被提出来时的时代，新的商业模式只有考虑了环境、资源、人的协调，追求可持续、有意义的发展，才是完整的、有价值的，组织也才能拥有不竭的创新动力。 《商业模式创新实践 如何将知识转化为价值》由活跃在“业务创新模型”实践和研究领域的领军人执笔，他们从各个角度对“业务创新模型”展开了分析。所谓“业务创新模型”，其目的正是以知识为导向，帮助企业在“共同善”的基础上建立系统性知识创造的框架，打破现有产业的固有观念和企业内部障碍，重建商业模式，打造新格局。 在《商业模式创新实践 如何将知识转化为价值》中，作者们介绍了组织在商业模式变革中遇到的困境，并阐述了如何运用业务创新模型来摆脱束缚，同时讲了变知识为价值的领导力在商业模式脱困中的作用，之后从实践智慧的角度，进一步提出了统合型业务创新模型及其对于组织长远发展的战略意义。
Mackenzie Blue Complete Collection
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Tween readers will love following the adventures of Mackenzie "Zee" Blue. California girl Zee is an expert shopper, plays the guitar and writes songs, and makes purses and jewelry. She knows how it feels to have a huge crush. And she knows how to be a good friend and keeps in touch via texts and emails. Tween fans of the Dork Diaries and Diary of a Wimpy Kid series will love the Mackenzie Blue books. This collection includes books 1 through 5.Mackenzie Blue: Meet Mackenzie Blue, aka Zee. She has it all—smarts, talent, humor, and style. Is it enough to survive middle schoolCountdown to a 7th Grade Meltdown. . .Mackenzie Blue #2: The Secret Crush: Mackenzie Blue has a crush! But how can she get Landon—the cutest boy in school—to notice herThe class's new rock-and-roll musical is her chance. Between her crush, the musical, and her friends—not to mention school work—Zee is torn in a thousand different directions. With all the real-life drama going on, will she lose sight of what's really important?Mackenzie Blue #3: Friends Forever?: Zee and the rest of her class from the Brookdale Academy are off on a camping trip to compete in an environmental scavenger hunt. Zee is extra psyched because her best friend, Ally, is visiting from Paris. It should be fabulous having all her friends in one place, but for some reason everyone is fighting!Mackenzie Blue #4: Mixed Messages: Zee and her friends from Brookdale Academy launch Bluetopia, a fab social media site—which is perfect, because Zee's band, The Beans, is about to have its biggest show ever. Everyone is talking about it on Bluetopia. At least it would be perfect if a glitch in the Bluetopia system didn't threaten to ruin the show—and Zee's life!Mackenzie Blue #5: Double Trouble: Mackenzie Blue is a star! Or she will be . . . as soon as she gets the part of an aspiring singer on a new TV pilot! But juggling auditions and the rest of her life turns out to be harder than Zee thought. Zee's friends are helping her hold everything together. But Zee doesn't like having to bail on plans—and her friends—to run to another audition. Is being a star worth it?
中国农村调查(总第53卷村庄类第22卷黄河区域第3卷)
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本书收录了两个村庄的调查报告：一是河南省驻马店市汝南县罗店镇楚铺村，二是河南省焦作市武陟县龙源镇任徐店村。前者属于多精英主导型村庄，后者属于农商结合型村庄。两份报告均从村庄由来、自然、经济、社会、文化、治理六方面，对村庄的传统形态行深描，兼涉其历史变迁与现状，为深了解黄河区域村户社会的底色与特质提供了翔实的一手资料。
从哲学的角度看问题(套装12册)
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● 试着想象一下，有一架飞机失事紧急降落，着陆后断成了三截。机舱里浓烟滚滚，飞机上的每个人都意识到：必须离开这里。那么接下来将会发生些什么呢？ 在A星球上，乘客们纷纷询问邻座的人有没有受伤。那些需要帮助的人第壹时间被救出了飞机。人们愿意献出自己的生命去救助他人，哪怕面对的是完全陌生的人。 在B星球上，大家为了自身安全各自匆忙逃离。于是恐慌爆发，出现了推搡和踩踏现象。一些儿童、老人和残疾人被踩在了脚下。 现在的问题是：人类今天生活在哪个星球上？ 在《人类的善意》中，鲁特格尔·布雷格曼告诉我们，大约有97%的人认为我们生活在B星球上，然而真正的事实是，几乎在所有的情况下，我们都生活在A星球上。 ● 如果说有一种信念将左派和右派、心理学家和哲学家、古代思想家和现代思想家团结在一起，那就是人性本恶这一心知肚明的假设。这个概念驱动着报纸头条，指引着塑造我们生活的法则。从马基雅维利到霍布斯，从弗洛伊德到平克，这种信仰的根源深深扎根于西方思想中。我们被教导说，人类天生自私，主要受私利支配。 但如果这不是真的呢?布雷格曼为过去20万年的人类历史提供了新的视角，旨在证明我们天生良善，更倾向于合作而不是竞争，更倾向于信任而不是不信任。事实上，这种本能有着坚实的进化基础，可以追溯到智人的起源。 从现实的蝇王到战争后的团结，从津巴多的监狱实验到曼德拉孪生兄弟的故事，布雷格曼向我们展示了相信人类慷慨与合作的现实，慷慨与合作对社会运作会产生巨大的影响。 当我们把人想得更坏的时候，政治和经济似乎也会变得更坏。但如果我们相信人类的善良和利他主义的现实，它将成为实现社会真正变革的基础。
大师的陪伴：漪然译作精选
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“大师的陪伴：漪然译作精选”是我国儿童文学翻译家、“冰心奖”得主漪然生前核心译作的结集。其中包括《一个孩子的诗园》《莎士比亚戏剧故事集》《七条龙》《海精灵》《轻轻公主》《花朵的故事》。 在“大师与童年”系列中，漪然如“小王子”一般进入了7位世界儿童文学大师的幻想世界，翻译呈现了包括天真诗意的《一个孩子的诗园》，启蒙人性的《莎士比亚戏剧故事集》，让孩子感受到爱的重量的《轻轻公主》，与龙共舞的勇敢之书《七条龙》，包容一切的海洋童话《海精灵》，写在花瓣上的美丽童话《花朵的故事》。 本套系内的作家，都是世界儿童文学史上的大师，包括了改写莎士比亚剧本的兰姆姐弟，世界范围被翻译次数多的儿童诗作家罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森，J·K·罗琳的“文学祖母”、开创了当代儿童幻想文学写法，影响了《哈利波特》《纳尼亚》《魔戒》的英国作家内斯比特，以及包括“英国维多利亚时代童话之王”乔治·麦克唐纳，《绿野仙踪》作者莱曼·弗兰克·鲍姆，《小妇人》作者露易莎·梅·奥尔科特。可谓大师云集的阵容。 整个套系作品经典、诗意、温暖、励志，值得被每一个孩子读到。
The Fate of Texas
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The Civil War in the West has a single goal: to promote historical writing about the war in the western states and territories. It focuses most particularly on the Trans-Mississippi theater, which consisted of Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, most of Louisiana (west of the Mississippi River), Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma), and Arizona Territory (two-fifths of modern-day Arizona and New Mexico), but also encompasses adjacent states, such as Kansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi, that directly influenced the Trans-Mississippi war. It is a wide swath to be sure, but one too often ignored by historians and consequently too little understood and appreciated.
Internationalization of Palace Wars
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How does globalization workFocusing on Latin America, Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth show that exports of expertise and ideals from the United States to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico have played a crucial role in transforming their state forms and economies since World War II.Based on more than 300 extensive interviews with major players in governments, foundations, law firms, universities, and think tanks, Dezalay and Garth examine both the production of northern exports such as neoliberal economics and international human rights law and the ways they are received south of the United States. They find that the content of what is exported and how it fares are profoundly shaped by domestic struggles for power and influence-"e;palace wars"e;-in the nations involved. For instance, challenges to the eastern intellectual establishment influenced the Reagan-era export of University of Chicago-style neoliberal economics to Chile, where it enjoyed a warm reception from Pinochet and his allies because they could use it to discredit the previous regime.Innovative and sophisticated, The Internationalization of Palace Wars offers much needed concrete information about the transnational processes that shape our world.
A Grammar of Murder
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The dark shadows and offscreen space that force us to imagine violence we cannot see. The real slaughter of animals spliced with the fictional killing of men. The missing countershot from the murder victim's point of view. Such images, or absent images, Karla Oeler contends, distill how the murder scene challenges and changes film.?Reexamining works by such filmmakers as Renoir, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Jarmusch, and Eisenstein, Oeler traces the murder scene's intricate connections to the great breakthroughs in the theory and practice of montage and the formulation of the rules and syntax of Hollywood genre. She argues that murder plays such a central role in film because it mirrors, on multiple levels, the act of cinematic representation. Death and murder at once eradicate life and call attention to its former existence, just as cinema conveys both the reality and the absence of the objects it depicts. But murder shares with cinema not only this interplay between presence and absence, movement and stillness: unlike death, killing entails the deliberate reduction of a singular subject to a disposable object. Like cinema, it involves a crucial choice about what to cut and what to keep.
Black New Orleans, 1860-1880
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Reissued for the first time in over thirty years, Black New Orleans explores the twenty-year period in which the city's black population more than doubled. Meticulously researched and replete with archival illustrations from newspapers and rare periodicals, John W. Blassingame's groundbreaking history offers a unique look at the economic and social life of black people in New Orleans during Reconstruction. Not a conventional political treatment, Blassingame's history instead emphasizes the educational, religious, cultural, and economic activities of African Americans during the late nineteenth century."e;Blending historical and sociological perspectives, and drawing with skill and imagination upon a variety of sources, [Blassingame] offers fresh insights into an oft-studied period of Southern history. . . .In both time and place the author has chosen an extraordinarily revealing vantage point from which to view his subject.?"e;-Neil R. McMillen, American Historical Review
Culture in Chaos
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Fought in the wake of a decade of armed struggle against colonialism, the Mozambican civil war lasted from 1977 to 1992, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives while displacing millions more. As conflicts across the globe span decades and generations, Stephen C. Lubkemann suggests that we need a fresh perspective on war when it becomes the context for normal life rather than an exceptional event that disrupts it. Culture in Chaos calls for a new point of departure in the ethnography of war that investigates how the inhabitants of war zones live under trying new conditions and how culture and social relations are transformed as a result.Lubkemann focuses on how Ndau social networks were fragmented by wartime displacement and the profound effect this had on gender relations. Demonstrating how wartime migration and post-conflict return were shaped by social struggles and interests that had little to do with the larger political reasons for the war, Lubkemann contests the assumption that wartime migration is always involuntary. His critical reexamination of displacement and his engagement with broader theories of agency and social change will be of interest to anthropologists, political scientists, historians, and demographers, and to anyone who works in a war zone or with refugees and migrants.
Science in the Age of Sensibility
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Empiricism today implies the dispassionate scrutiny of facts. But Jessica Riskin finds that in the French Enlightenment, empiricism was intimately bound up with sensibility. In what she calls a "sentimental empiricism," natural knowledge was taken to rest on a blend of experience and emotion.Riskin argues that sentimental empiricism brought together ideas and institutions, practices and politics. She shows, for instance, how the study of blindness, led by ideas about the mental and moral role of vision and by cataract surgeries, shaped the first school for the blind; how Benjamin Franklin's electrical physics, ascribing desires to nature, engaged French economic reformers; and how the question of the role of language in science and social life linked disputes over Antoine Lavoisier's new chemical names to the founding of France's modern system of civic education.Recasting the Age of Reason by stressing its conjunction with the Age of Sensibility, Riskin offers an entirely new perspective on the development of modern science and the history of the Enlightenment.
Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions
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Ants are probably the most dominant insect group on Earth, representing ten to fifteen percent of animal biomass in terrestrial ecosystems. Flowering plants, meanwhile, owe their evolutionary success to an array of interspecific interactions-such as pollination, seed dispersal, and herbivory-that have helped to shape their great diversity. The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions brings together findings from the scientific literature on the coevolution of ants and plants to provide a better understanding of the unparalleled success of these two remarkable groups, of interspecific interactions in general, and ultimately of terrestrial biological communities.The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions synthesizes the dynamics of ant-plant interactions, including the sources of variation in their outcomes. Victor Rico-Gray and Paulo S. Oliveira capture both the emerging appreciation of the importance of these interactions within ecosystems and the developing approaches that place studies of these interactions into a broader ecological and evolutionary context. The collaboration of two internationally renowned scientists, The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions will become a standard reference for understanding the complex interactions between these two taxa.
Gabriel Tarde On Communication and Social Influence
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Gabriel Tarde ranks as one of the most outstanding sociologists of nineteenth-century France, though not as well known by English readers as his peers Comte and Durkheim. This book makes available Tarde's most important work and demonstrates his continuing relevance to a new generation of students and thinkers.Tarde's landmark research and empirical analysis drew upon collective behavior, mass communications, and civic opinion as elements to be explained within the context of broader social patterns. Unlike the mass society theorists that followed in his wake, Tarde integrated his discussions of societal change at the macrosocietal and individual levels, anticipating later twentieth-century thinkers who fused the studies of mass communications and public opinion research.Terry N. Clark's introduction, considered the premier guide to Tarde's opus, accompanies this important work, reprinted here for the first time in forty years.
Good Fences, Bad Neighbors
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Border fixity-the pro*ion of foreign conquest and the annexation of homeland territory-has, since World War II, become a powerful norm in world politics. This development has been said to increase stability and peace in international relations. Yet, in a world in which it is unacceptable to challenge international borders by force, sociopolitically weak states remain a significant source of widespread conflict, war, and instability.In this book, Boaz Atzili argues that the process of state building has long been influenced by external territorial pressures and competition, with the absence of border fixity contributing to the evolution of strong states-and its presence to the survival of weak ones. What results from this norm, he argues, are conditions that make internal conflict and the spillover of interstate war more likely. Using a comparison of historical and contemporary case studies, Atzili sheds light on the relationship between state weakness and conflict. His argument that under some circumstances an international norm that was established to preserve the peace may actually create conditions that are ripe for war is sure to generate debate and shed light on the dynamics of continuing conflict in the twenty-first century.
Neighborhood That Never Changes
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Newcomers to older neighborhoods are usually perceived as destructive, tearing down everything that made the place special and attractive. But as A Neighborhood That Never Changes demonstrates, many gentrifiers seek to preserve the authentic local flavor of their new homes, rather than ruthlessly remake them. Drawing on ethnographic research in four distinct communities-the Chicago neighborhoods of Andersonville and Argyle and the New England towns of Provincetown and Dresden-Japonica Brown-Saracino paints a colorful portrait of how residents new and old, from wealthy gay homeowners to Portuguese fishermen, think about gentrification.The new breed of gentrifiers, Brown-Saracino finds, exhibits an acute self-consciousness about their role in the process and works to minimize gentrification's risks for certain longtime residents. In an era of rapid change, they cherish the unique and fragile, whether a dilapidated house, a two-hundred-year-old landscape, or the presence of people deeply rooted in the place they live. Contesting many long-standing assumptions about gentrification, Brown-Saracino's absorbing study reveals the unexpected ways beliefs about authenticity, place, and change play out in the social, political, and economic lives of very different neighborhoods.
Solidarity in Strategy
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Popular conceptions hold that capitalism is driven almost entirely by the pursuit of profit and self-interest. Challenging that assumption, this major new study of American business associations shows how market and non-market relations are actually profoundly entwined at the heart of capitalism.In Solidarity in Strategy, Lyn Spillman draws on rich documentary archives and a comprehensive data set of more than four thousand trade associations from diverse and obscure corners of commercial life to reveal a busy and often surprising arena of American economic activity. From the Intelligent Transportation Society to the American Gem Trade Association, Spillman explains how business associations are more collegial than cutthroat, and how they make capitalist action meaningful not only by developing shared ideas about collective interests but also by articulating a disinterested solidarity that transcends those interests.Deeply grounded in both economic and cultural sociology, Solidarity in Strategy provides rich, lively, and often surprising insights into the world of business, and leads us to question some of our most fundamental assumptions about economic life and how cultural context influences economic.
Maps and Civilization
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In this concise introduction to the history of cartography, Norman J. W. Thrower charts the intimate links between maps and history from antiquity to the present day. A wealth of illustrations, including the oldest known map and contemporary examples made using Geographical Information Systems (GIS), illuminate the many ways in which various human cultures have interpreted spatial relationships.The third edition of Maps and Civilization incorporates numerous revisions, features new material throughout the book, and includes a new alphabetized bibliography.?Praise for previous editions of Maps and Civilization:"e;A marvelous compendium of map lore. Anyone truly interested in the development of cartography will want to have his or her own copy to annotate, underline, and index for handy referencing."e;-L. M. Sebert, Geomatica
The Cybernetic Brain
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Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this beguiling book, a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics can be traced from the 1940s to the present.The Cybernetic Brain explores a largely forgotten group of British thinkers, including Grey Walter, Ross Ashby, Gregory Bateson, R. D. Laing, Stafford Beer, and Gordon Pask, and their singular work in a dazzling array of fields. Psychiatry, engineering, management, politics, music, architecture, education, tantric yoga, the Beats, and the sixties counterculture all come into play as Pickering follows the history of cybernetics' impact on the world, from contemporary robotics and complexity theory to the Chilean economy under Salvador Allende. What underpins this fascinating history, Pickering contends, is a shared but unconventional vision of the world as ultimately unknowable, a place where genuine novelty is always emerging. And thus, Pickering avers, the history of cybernetics provides us with an imaginative model of open-ended experimentation in stark opposition to the modern urge to achieve domination over nature and each other.
Catholic Social Imagination
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The reach of the Catholic Church is arguably greater than that of any other religion, extending across diverse political, ethnic, class, and cultural boundaries. But what is it about Catholicism that resonates so profoundly with followers who live under disparate conditionsWhat is it, for instance, that binds parishioners in America with those in MexicoFor Joseph M. Palacios, what unites Catholics is a sense of being Catholic-a social imagination that motivates them to promote justice and build a better world.In The Catholic Social Imagination, Palacios gives readers a feeling for what it means to be Catholic and put one's faith into action. Tracing the practices of a group of parishioners in Oakland, California, and another in Guadalajara, Mexico, Palacios reveals parallels-and contrasts-in the ways these ordinary Catholics receive and act on a church doctrine that emphasizes social justice. Whether they are building a supermarket for the low-income elderly or waging protests to promote school reform, these parishioners provide important insights into the construction of the Catholic social imagination. Throughout, Palacios also offers important new cultural and sociological interpretations of Catholic doctrine on issues such as poverty, civil and human rights, political participation, and the natural law.
Community Built on Words
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H. Jefferson Powell offers a powerful new approach to one of the central issues in American constitutional thinking today: the problem of constitutional law's historicity, or the many ways in which constitutional arguments and outcomes are shaped both by historical circumstances and by the political goals and commitments of various actors, including judges. The presence of such influences is often considered highly problematic: if constitutional law is political and historical through and through, then what differentiates it from politics per se, and what gives it integrity and coherencePowell argues that constitutional theory has as its (sometimes hidden) agenda the ambition of showing how constitutional law can escape from history and politics, while much constitutional history seeks to identify an historically true meaning of the constitutional text that, once uncovered, can serve as a corrective to subsequent deviations from that truth.Combining history and theory, Powell analyzes a series of constitutional controversies from 1790 to 1944 to demonstrate that constitutional law from its very beginning has involved politically charged and ideologically divisive arguments. Nowhere in our past can one find the golden age of apolitical constitutional thinking that a great deal of contemporary scholarship seeks or presupposes. Viewed over time, American constitutional law is a history of political dispute couched in constitutional terms.Powell then takes his conclusions one step further, claiming that it is precisely this historical tradition of argument that has given American constitutional law a remarkable coherence and integrity over time. No matter what the particular political disputes of the day might be, constitutional argument has provided a shared language through which our political community has been able to fight out its battles without ultimately fracturing.A Community Built on Words will be must reading for any student of constitutional history, theory, or law.
