A few generations ago, college students showed their romantic commitments by exchanging special objects: rings, pins, varsity letter jackets. Pins and rings were handy, telling everyone in local communities that you were spoken for, and when you broke up, the absence of a ring let everyone know you were available again. Is being Facebook official really more complicated, or are status updates just a new version of these old tokens?
Many people are now fascinated by how new media has affected the intricacies of relationships and their dissolution. People often talk about Facebook and Twitter as platforms that have led to a seismic shift in transparency and (over)sharing. What are the new rules for breaking up? These rules are argued over and mocked in venues from the New York Times to lamebook.com, but well-thought-out and informed considerations of the topic are rare.
Ilana Gershon was intrigued by the degree to which her students used new media to communicate important romantic information—such as "it's over." She decided to get to the bottom of the matter by interviewing seventy-two people about how they use Skype, texting, voice mail, instant messaging, Facebook, and cream stationery to end relationships. She opens up the world of romance as it is conducted in a digital milieu, offering insights into the ways in which different media influence behavior, beliefs, and social mores. Above all, this full-fledged ethnography of Facebook and other new tools is about technology and communication, but it also tells the reader a great deal about what college students expect from each other when breaking up—and from their friends who are the spectators or witnesses to the ebb and flow of their relationships. The Breakup 2.0 is accessible and riveting.

这本书提出了两个重要概念：不确定性和信息。不确定性是指特定情景下各种事件发生的可能性。不确定性促使决策者具体地收集信息。当个体面临多种不确定性的选择方案时，信息往往起着重要的作用。

亚马逊网络书店特别推荐图书
台湾《中国时报》开卷一周好书
《联合报•读书人》年度最佳书奖
畅销书作家奥利弗•萨克斯
和“火星上的人类学家”一起
再一次引领我们走进想象之外的国度
探索人类大脑最为神奇、最不可思议的秘密
他们就在我们周围 他们却都是“外星人”
内容简介：
《火星上的人类学家》是“萨克斯医生讲故事”系列的第二本（第一本为《错把妻子当帽子》），讲述了七名脑神经病患者的真实故事，叙述他们因患病而遭受的巨大生活变故。
作者怀着深刻的人文关怀的精神，以独特的视角，深情的文字，以平等的立场，成功地塑造出特色鲜明的人物，讲述他们奇特的命运。展示了人类积极的生活态度，人类大脑惊人的重建和适应能力。车祸后患上色盲症、双眼看不见色彩的画家，反而迎来事业的高峰；从小失明的男孩，因爱情而手术，恢复视觉后，却想再度变回盲人；对生活绝望的男人，因为患上怪病，意外成为才华横溢的画家；自己是无法治愈的病人，却成为最优秀的外科医生、最勇敢的飞行员；被周围一切人排斥的自闭症患者，在苦难中成长为著名的动物学专家……
七个脑神经患者浴火重生的故事，神奇而曲折，令人震惊，使人泪下！
 他是画家，车祸后患上色盲症、双眼看不见色彩，反而迎来事业的高峰
 他从小失明，因心爱的人而手术，恢复视觉后，却想再度变回盲人
 他对生活彻底绝望，却因为患上怪病，意外成为才华横溢的画家
 他是无法治愈的神经病人，却又是最优秀的外科医生、最勇敢的飞行员
 她是自闭症患者，被周围所有人排斥，却成长为著名的动物学专家
相关评价：
萨克斯的故事如此动人，它们不仅给现代医学以启示，更给现代人的生活以巨大的启发。 ——《纽约时报》
迷人的文字、温暖的情感、广博的知识，萨克斯为传统的故事带来全新的力量，他的科学故事，将病历变成了优雅的艺术。 ——《时代》周刊
萨克斯有着惊人的天赋，他的文笔明晰晓畅而又动人心弦，人物刻画精致细腻，让当今大多数的小说家相形见绌。 —— 《每日电讯》
萨克斯用他的故事给我们的人生以绝妙的启迪！ ——《卫报》
一部多才多艺的杰作，令人感动。萨克斯于希望被放逐之地找到希望，这种艺术让本书成为无价之宝。 ——《芝加哥论坛报》
目录：（章节概览）
自序 想象之外的国度
第一章 火星上的人类学家
第二章 外科医生的完美生活
第三章 宁愿再度失明的人
第四章 怪病患者的艺术人生
第五章 自闭症神童
第六章 看不见色彩的画家
第七章 世界上最后一个嬉皮士

鼻塞、腹痛、关节疼痛，这些对身体异常和不适反应的切身感受，是我们无法回避的生命体验。
疾痛的主要问题，在于它给日常生活造成了大量的困难。腰酸背痛使我们分神，影响工作效率；头痛会让我们无法集中注意力，成绩下降；而有些疾病引发的性无能，甚至会导致婚姻破裂。
对一位单身母亲而言，高血压不仅意味着要少吃盐，还跟女儿的失学和早孕有关；而作为一位弱势群体的成员，社会的歧视、不公以及孤立，或许才是其身体持续疼痛的根源。长期紧张的父子关系，导致病患的双腿突然麻痹瘫痪；而换一个压力不那么大的工作环境，也会使一度恶化的哮喘慢慢痊愈。
然而，在大多数医生眼中，疾病才是问题所在。现代医疗系统，将我们鲜活的疾痛经验，解释为一种生物结构或是生理功能的变异，仅仅与身体有关。
对此，哈佛精神病医师与人类学家克莱曼博士，从其20年来的临床治疗和数百个真实病案中发现，疾痛不仅属于身体，而且连接着自我与社会。讲述这些疾痛故事，不但对于病患、家属和医护人员有着极大的使用价值，而且，对于认识医患关系和人性化的医疗体系改革，意义深远。

此书如今已成经典，二十余年来在英语世界不断隆订再版。在充满细节的真实历史背景中，此书论述了那些打造了和继续在打造社会学传统的思想家的生平与思想。它不仅阐述了19至70世纪经典传统的发展，还讨论了当代理论的各种发展方向，将理论作为一项正在进行着的、与我们的生活息息相关自勺伟大事业呈现在我们面前。全书通俗易懂又引人人胜，显示出著者作为杰出的社会学家的深厚功底。

This classic text addresses one of the most important issues in modern social theory and policy: how social inequality is reproduced from one generation to the next. With the original 1987 publication of Ain’t No Makin’ It Jay MacLeod brought us to the Clarendon Heights housing project where we met the “Brothers” and the “Hallway Hangers.” Their story of poverty, race, and defeatism moved readers and challenged ethnic stereotypes. MacLeod’s return eight years later, and the resulting 1995 revision, revealed little improvement in the lives of these men as they struggled in the labor market and crime-ridden underground economy. The third edition of this classic ethnography of social reproduction brings the story of inequality and social mobility into today’s dialogue. Now fully updated with thirteen new interviews from the original Hallway Hangers and Brothers, as well as new theoretical analysis and comparison to the original conclusions, Ain’t No Makin’ It remains an admired and invaluable text. Contents Part One: The Hallway Hangers and the Brothers as Teenagers
1. Social Immobility in the Land of Opportunity
2. Social Reproduction in Theoretical Perspective
3. Teenagers in Clarendon Heights: The Hallway Hangers and the Brothers
4. The Influence of the Family
5. The World of Work: Aspirations of the Hangers and Brothers
6. School: Preparing for the Competition
7. Leveled Aspirations: Social Reproduction Takes Its Toll
8. Reproduction Theory Reconsidered Part Two: Eight Years Later: Low Income, Low Outcome
9. The Hallway Hangers: Dealing in Despair
10. The Brothers: Dreams Deferred
11. Conclusion: Outclassed and Outcast(e) Part Three: Ain’t No Makin’ It?
12. The Hallway Hangers: Fighting for a Foothold at Forty
13. The Brothers: Barely Making It
14. Making Sense of the Stories, by Katherine McClelland and David Karen

这本以《近距离：怀俄明故事》命名的短篇小说集收录了安妮・普鲁创作的11篇作品。所有故事均以怀俄名州为背景，讲述了在蛮荒严酷、狂暴无常的自然环境中，农场人生活的艰辛、凶险、孤寂与奋争。作者用锐利的笔法剖开牛仔粗野狂放的生活方式背后的生活激情与渴望，用诗一般的语言在残酷、粗砺的题材中表现出美和希望。
目录
感谢
半剥皮的阉牛
脚下泥巴
工作史
血红棕马
身居地狱但求杯水
荒草天涯尽头
一对马刺
孤寂海岸
怀俄明历届州长
加油站距此五十五英里
断背山

本书以内容丰富的故事情节和极富洞察力的生活细节，考察了书中那些贫困家庭、工人阶级家庭、中产阶级家庭及富有家庭孩子在学校和在家里的生活，颇具思想性地展示了不同社会分层的人们占有不同的资源，这种不同表现在日常生活中养育子女的点滴例行上，并有可能对孩子获得更高的社会地位、实现美国梦的机会产生巨大的影响。

《众病之王：癌症传》是一部饱含人文主义色彩的社科文化著作。作者悉达多•穆克吉历时六年，凭借翔实的历史资料、专业文献、媒体报道、患者专访等众多信息，向读者阐述了癌症的起源与发展，人类对抗癌症、预防癌症的斗争史。作者借由医学、文化、社会、政治等视角透露出一种社会化关怀；生动、文学性的写作手法展现出鲜活的人物和历史事件，让读者为之动容。

Now in its fifth edition, Diffusion of Innovations is a classic work on the spread of new ideas. It has sold 30,000 copies in each edition and will continue to reach a huge academic audience. In this renowned book, Everett M. Rogers, professor and chair of the Department of Communication & Journalism at the University of New Mexico, explains how new ideas spread via communication channels over time. Such innovations are initially perceived as uncertain and even risky. To overcome this uncertainty, most people seek out others like themselves who have already adopted the new idea. Thus the diffusion process consists of a few individuals who first adopt an innovation, then spread the word among their circle of acquaintances--a process which typically takes months or years. But there are exceptions: use of the Internet in the 1990s, for example, may have spread more rapidly than any other innovation in the history of humankind. Furthermore, the Internet is changing the very nature of diffusion by decreasing the importance of physical distance between people. The fifth edition addresses the spread of the Internet, and how it has transformed the way human beings communicate and adopt new ideas.

Market societies have created more wealth, and more opportunities for more people, than any other system of social organization in history. Yet we still have a rudimentary understanding of how markets themselves are social constructions that require extensive institutional support. This groundbreaking work seeks to fill this gap, to make sense of modern capitalism by developing a sociological theory of market institutions. Addressing the unruly dynamism that capitalism brings with it, leading sociologist Neil Fligstein argues that the basic drift of any one market and its actors, even allowing for competition, is toward stabilization. The "Architecture of Markets" represents a major and timely step beyond recent, largely empirical studies that oppose the neoclassical model of perfect competition but provide sparse theory toward a coherent economic sociology.Fligstein offers this theory. With it he interprets not just globalization and the information economy, but developments more specific to American capitalism in the past two decades - among them, the 1980s merger movement. He makes new inroads into the "theory of fields," which links the formation of markets and firms to the problems of stability. His political-cultural approach explains why governments remain crucial to markets and why so many national variations of capitalism endure. States help make stable markets possible by, for example, establishing the rule of law and adjudicating the class struggle.State-building and market-building go hand in hand. Fligstein shows that market actors depend mightily upon governments and the members of society for the social conditions that produce wealth. He demonstrates that systems favoring more social justice and redistribution can yield stable markets and economic growth as readily as less egalitarian systems. This book will surely join the classics on capitalism. Economists, sociologists, policymakers, and all those interested in what makes markets function as they do will read it for many years to come.

Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do Americans have higher rates of teenage pregnancy than the French? What makes the Swedish thinner than the Greeks? The answer: inequality. This groundbreaking book, based on years of research, provides hard evidence to show: how almost everything - from life expectancy to depression levels, violence to illiteracy - is affected not by how wealthy a society is, but how equal it is; that societies with a bigger gap between rich and poor are bad for everyone in them - including the well-off; and, how we can find positive solutions and move towards a happier, fairer future. Urgent, provocative and genuinely uplifting, "The Spirit Level" has been heralded as providing a new way of thinking about ourselves and our communities, and could change the way you see the world.

As soon as the financial crisis erupted, the finger-pointing began. Should the blame fall on Wall Street, Main Street, or Pennsylvania Avenue? On greedy traders, misguided regulators, sleazy subprime companies, cowardly legislators, or clueless home buyers?
According to Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, two of America's most acclaimed business journalists, the real answer is all of the above-and more. Many devils helped bring hell to the economy. And the full story, in all of its complexity and detail, is like the legend of the blind men and the elephant. Almost everyone has missed the big picture. Almost no one has put all the pieces together.
All the Devils Are Here goes back several decades to weave the hidden history of the financial crisis in a way no previous book has done. It explores the motivations of everyone from famous CEOs, cabinet secretaries, and politicians to anonymous lenders, borrowers, analysts, and Wall Street traders. It delves into the powerful American mythology of homeownership. And it proves that the crisis ultimately wasn't about finance at all; it was about human nature.

对于 “世俗化” 的出现和理解可谓众说纷纭。有人主张 “世俗化” 始于1950─1960年间，也有人认为可追溯至三十年战争、启蒙运动，甚至宗教改革等时代。但有一点可以肯定的是，它在宗教社会学中是一个十分重要的课题，有学者更认为它是示教社会学的理论和实践上最重要的问题。而本书则是世俗化理论发展的一个重要的里程碑，标志着世俗化理论一个逆转的方向：“世俗化”。

现实生活中荆棘丛生，苦难重重。没有得到的苦苦追求，有时却两手空空；已经得到的，有时偏偏又要失去。人们每天都在追求、憧憬、失望、痛苦中煎熬。每个人都要永无休止的经受挫折、失意、疾病、孤独、失恋的折磨和威胁。人们渴望找到解脱的药方。《荒漠甘泉》、《黑门山路》正是一剂求也良药，征服了东西方亿万读者。从纽约的摩天大厦到伦敦东区的贫民窟，从澳洲辽阔的草原到非洲燠热的矿场，无论市井平民、虔诚教徒，还是将军元帅、总统议员，都有它的读者。有的作为座右铭摆在案头，有的作为醒世箴言传至后代。本书的可贵之处在于作者考门夫人虽是在写读经感受，行文却毫无经味、教味、派味。每篇小文都是一篇优美的散文，或摘引寓言，叙述故事；或描述景物、寓情于景；或揭示心态、直抒胸臆，都有声、有色、有情、有理。在本书的编辑中，又摘选了若干条《圣经》名言、诗歌穿插其中，更增加了色彩、深度和可读性。
这部在全球家喻户晓、广为传播的文艺珍品，由于种种历史原因，在中国大陆却鲜为人知。今天重编印此书，让广大读者同赏奇文、相析异义，领略人生真谛。

《制造同意:垄断资本主义劳动过程的变迁》是马克思主义社会学家迈克尔·布若威的重要代表作，在工业社会学领域具有突破性意义。作者布若威运用民族志的参与观察法，力图通过对工作现场的呈现来阐明一个关于资本主义劳动过程的理论框架。“为什么工人这么努力地工作？”布若威的研究揭示出恰恰是工人自发的同意与资本主义微妙的强制二者的结合塑造了生产行为。内部劳动市场与内部国家的运作是“制造同意”的两大重要机制。

苏俄1987–1991年的变革是历史上最出人意料的事件之一。苏联当时正处于它在世界权力上的巅峰，并和美国处于核均势状态。没有迹象表明巨变将至。经过20年的镇压，几乎所有知名的异见者都被打入冷宫。外部观察家或苏维埃政府内部人士均没有预料到苏俄历史上这场令人目眩的变革。
在这本书中，列昂•阿伦指出，苏联解体的关键在于民众所经历的快速且剧烈的道德演变。开放所激起的前所未有的智识与道德上的自审推动了一场举国上下对良心的自我反省，激起了苏俄人民对真相、尊严、有尊严的生活方式以及公民与政府之间有尊严的关系的渴求。
阿伦筛选了超过8,000页的原始俄语文件，展示了变革性的思想和理念如何通过文章、评论以及重见天日的俄语文学杰作而得到广泛、迅速的传播，这些思想和理念如何激发了知识分子和普通民众同时参与的公开辩论。这些文字揭穿了苏维埃体制的正当性神话，曝光了国民经济中的浪费、渎职与掠夺。它们审视了斯大林主义的遗产以及它对人民灵魂的破坏。在引人入胜的叙事中，阿伦考察了这些新思想如何扩散到全国上下的每一个角落，如何动摇了苏维埃意识形态的哲学根基，如何最终导致了苏联的解体。
阿伦揭示了民心思变的道德冲击，认为它是现代革命的重要内容。他指出，国家权力与公民良心之间的斗争不仅是美国革命以来一切伟大的反专制抗争的核心内容，同样也是这场苏俄变革的关键所在。要了解政治与道德觉醒的机制，以及思想在唤起政治行动中的力量，本书是一本必不可少的指南。

Deep China investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry perspective, Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett Zhang, Pan Tianshu, Wu Fei, and Guo Jinhua delve into intimate and sometimes hidden areas of personal life and social practice to observe and narrate the drama of Chinese individualization. The essays explore the remaking of the moral person during China’s profound social and economic transformation, unraveling the shifting practices and struggles of contemporary life.

《新东方•GRE考试官方指南》内容简介：The GRE General Test is changing. If you're taking the test on or after August 1,2011, you'll see new question types and a new test-taker friendly design. Make sure you have the most accurate preparation available! Turn to the people who know the new test best——the GRE test-makers at ETS.
This Official Guide has been created by the ETS team that actually makes the test. Only ETS can show you exactly what to expect on the revised exam and give you hundreds of authentic test questions for practice! This guide is packed with everything you need to succeed on the test——and move forward toward your graduate or business degree.

生命的尊严：透析哈莱姆东区的快克买卖（第二版），ISBN：9787301151020，作者：（美）菲利普·布儒瓦 著，焦小婷 译