Culture Machine

What does 'anticapitalism' really mean for the politics and culture of the twenty-first century?Anticapitalism is an idea which, despite going global, remains rooted in the local, persisting as a loos

Written in the shadow of war, City of Panic argues that cities everywhere have been the dedicated target of political and technological terror throughout the 20th century. The wanton erasure of the p

本書以被擄―歸回時期為背景，聚焦以斯拉―尼希米記及相關先知書，系統剖析異族通婚對歸回社群的宗教、家庭與族群認同衝擊。作者採用經文細讀、考古與外典證據比對，並結合社會學與人類學理論，從族群結構、文化再生產、女性角色與宗教儀式等面向，還原波斯時期猶大省的社會動態，指出跨族通婚如何在第二、三代造成信仰弱化、祭司職分污染、土地繼承與母語傳承的危機。本書重要貢獻在於：一、將文本研究與物質文化、外典資料互證，提升歷史論證力；二、強調婦女在婚姻移民中的關鍵地位，提出文化傳承與同化的具體機制；三、以古事例回應當代議題，特別借鑑台灣跨國婚姻與移民現象，提供教會與社會對婚姻、身份認同與信仰實踐的反思與牧養建議。章節安排清晰，從導論的方法論出發，逐章呈現亡國被擄生活、通婚實況、族群自我認同、文化承載者、迦南宗教影響、婦女角色到通婚衝擊評估，既有學術深度，也具牧養關懷。適合舊約研究者、教牧、婚姻家庭輔導者、關心移民與族群議題的讀者；也可作為神學院課程與教會訓練之教材。若你想理解古代如何以宗教與婚姻維繫族群邊界，或尋找歷史視角下對今日跨文化婚姻的洞見與實務建議，本書將是兼具史實證據與跨學科詮釋的必讀之作。《以色列人歸回後的婚姻挑戰》讀者攻略本書運用跨學科研究方法，深入探討波斯時期以色列歸回社群的異族通婚危機，為現代讀者帶來多重實務效益。● 學術與信仰整合本書結合聖經文學、考古學與社會人類學，提供讀者嚴謹的學術視角和深度的信仰反思。讀者能學習如何以多元進路解讀聖經文本，培養批判思考與跨學科整合能力，這種思維訓練對各領域專業發展都極具價值。● 婚姻家庭建造通過歷史案例分析，讀者能重新檢視婚姻中的信仰優先性，理解配偶選擇對家庭文化傳承的深遠影響。本書特別強調女性在跨文化婚姻中的關鍵角色，幫助現代夫妻建立更穩健的家庭根基，對教會婚前輔導和家庭事工具高度參考價值。● 當代應用與牧養效益書中古代異族通婚的教訓直接回應當今全球化時代的跨文化婚姻議題，為教會牧者提供歷史智慧和實務指導。讀者能從中獲得處理信仰與文化衝突的具體策略，建立既尊重多元又堅持信仰核心的平衡觀點，提升個人的文化敏感度和牧養能力。

★歷史評論家公孫策推薦：「本書採用小說筆法，易於入口，若能細嚼緩嚥，則不難體會箇中原因。」疆域不如楚國，經濟不如齊國，軍事不如魏國，文化不如任何一國，如此人見人欺的弱小秦國，如何在亂世之中崛起，最終一統天下？◎從秦國的崛起中你會看見，有了天時與地利，好的管理還得盡人事、求人和！戰國時代，原本稱霸七雄的魏國，有了絕佳的天時、地利，也有了人才，卻不注重人和，導致好人才外流，甚至反咬自己一口。相對之下，

Suspected of involvement after the Regimental High Command is destroyed as they prepared to go to a new level of existence called Sublime, Lieutenant Commander Vyr Cossont must find a nine-thousand-ye

Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the first three bestselling Culture novels are now gathered into one collectible boxed set.CONSIDER PHLEBAS.The war raged across the galaxy. The Idirans fought for th

It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters.It begins with a murder.And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself.Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated,

In a world where the dead live on as digital entities in online heavens and hells, a murdered woman seeks revenge on her killer, a man who holds the key to moving the battles between the heavens and h

It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters.It begins with a murder.And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself.Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated

The Twin Novae battle had been one of the last of the Idiran war, and one of the most horrific: desperate to avert their inevitable defeat, the Idirans had induced not one but two suns to explode, sn

In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For h

The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military action.The woma

The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer a

Rock and Popular Music examines the relations between the policies and institutions which regulate contemporary popular music and the political debates, contradictions and struggles in which those mus