Practical tools for finding common ground and healing a politically divided America Liberal and progressive frustration, grief, and alarm over Trump's destructive political agenda and behavior have prompted mounting disdain for Trump supporters and other conservatives. This reaction is contributing to political polarization and unwittingly serving to strengthen Trump’s hand as ...(展开全部)

Practical tools for finding common ground and healing a politically divided America Liberal and progressive frustration, grief, and alarm over Trump's destructive political agenda and behavior have prompted mounting disdain for Trump supporters and other conservatives. This reaction is contributing to political polarization and unwittingly serving to strengthen Trump’s hand as ...(展开全部)

After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There--after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fourteen she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patr...(展开全部)

After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There--after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fourteen she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patr...(展开全部)

In The Great Divide, Joseph E. Stiglitz expands on the diagnosis he offered in his best-selling book The Price of Inequality and suggests ways to counter America’s growing problem. With his signature blend of clarity and passion, Stiglitz argues that inequality is a choice―the cumulative result of unjust policies and misguided priorities. Gathering his writings for popular outl...(展开全部)

约瑟夫 E. 斯蒂格利茨 约瑟夫 E. 斯蒂格利茨(Joseph E. Stiglitz)，全球最尖端的经济学家之一，哥伦比亚大学教授，同时担任哥伦比亚大学全球思想委员会的联合主席。 2001年，因其对信息经济学的开创性工作而荣获诺贝尔经济学奖。在此之前，他还获得了约翰·贝茨·克拉克奖。 斯蒂格利茨教授先后执教于耶鲁大学、普林斯顿大学、斯坦福大学、麻省理工学院和牛津大学，是著名的经济学教育家之一。 他还曾担任克林顿政府经济顾问委员会主席、世界银行副行长兼首席经济学家等一系列重要职务。 斯蒂格利茨教授提出了经济全球化观点，是公共部门经济学领域著名的专家。他的教材是世界上畅销的教材之一，他的著作常能引起学术界和大众的共鸣。 近期代表作：《重构美国经济》《不平等的代价》《自由市场的坠落》《全球化及其不满》《欧元》。 译者简介： 蔡笑，供职于中信建投证券股份...(展开全部)

Alistair MacLeod musters all of the skill and grace that have won him an international following to give us No Great Mischief , the story of a fiercely loyal family and the tradition that drives it. Generations after their forebears went into exile, the MacDonalds still face seemingly unmitigated hardships and cruelties of life. Alexander, orphaned as a child by a horrific tr...(展开全部)

First published in 1968 to universal critical acclaim, this definitive account of Stalin’s Terror is reissued with a new introduction which revisits the book in light of glasnost. When first published in 1968, The Great Terror was universally acclaimed as one of the most important books ever written about the Soviet Union. Now, in this revised and updated edition, Robert Conque...(展开全部)

Upon its publication in 1968, Conquest's The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties ( LJ 12/1/68) received wide acclaim for its broad, well-documented portrayal of the death of millions in Stalin's peacetime consolidation of power. A generation later, the collection of samizdat literature and the openness of glasnost have permitted access to better information, thereby al...(展开全部)