Produced by Oxford's American Dictionaries Program, and drawing on the expertise of scores of American scholars and advisors, The New Oxford American Dictionary sets the standard of excellence for lexicography in this country. Here is the most accurate and richly descriptive picture of American English ever offered in any dictionary. Oxford's American editors drew on our 200-m...(展开全部)

The authors describe how 'inequality scripts' shape the hiring and promotion practices of organizations in ways that provide differential opportunities to people based on class, gender, and racial memberships. The authors also illustrate how privileged class members benefit from organizationally-based and perpetuated forms of inequality. The second edition retains its provocati...(展开全部)

The New Class Society provides a fresh, lucid, and compelling exploration of U.S. class structure, social inequities, and the fading American Dream. This third edition extends the author's distributional model of class analysis and class-based power networks model developed in earlier editions. The narrative has been revised and new, recent examples of topics, issues, and event...(展开全部)

新阶级社会向学生介绍阶级结构和不平等的社会学，并询问美国梦是否已经褪色。这本强有力的书的第四版展示了美国的阶级不平等是如何以及为什么被扩大、强化，并变得比以往任何时候都更加根深蒂固。第四版已被广泛修订和重新组织，包括一个新的介绍，提供了一个关键主题的概述和更小的章节，涵盖更广泛的主题。第四版的新材料包括对“大衰退”及其持续影响的讨论，中产阶级的消亡，大学成本的上升和学生债务的增加，电子媒体在塑造人们对阶级的看法中的作用，等等。

From the 2000 Hans Christian Andersen Medalist In an endearing homage to dads everywhere, a boy describes -- and exaggerates -- the many accomplishments and feats of his father. Among the traits praised are his enormous talent for singing, his near-professional wrestling skills, his extreme bravery in the face of danger (he's not even afraid of the Big Bad Wolf ), and his abili...(展开全部)

From the 2000 Hans Christian Andersen Medalist In an endearing homage to dads everywhere, a boy describes -- and exaggerates -- the many accomplishments and feats of his father. Among the traits praised are his enormous talent for singing, his near-professional wrestling skills, his extreme bravery in the face of danger (he's not even afraid of the Big Bad Wolf ), and his abili...(展开全部)

‧2007年美國國家圖書獎：非小說類 ‧2007年美國國家書評人獎入圍：非小說類 ‧《時代》雜誌2007年最佳圖書書單：非小說類十大選擇 ‧《紐約時報》2007年度百大 ‧《經濟學人》2007年最佳圖書 ‧Amazon網站2007年度百大讀者最愛圖書 歷史「不過是記錄人類的罪行、蠢事與不幸」罷了。 ——吉朋，《羅馬帝國衰亡史》 拿吉朋這句話作為中情局(CIA)歷史功過的註腳，竟然再貼切不過。美國堪稱西方文明史上首強之邦，卻始終沒能建立第一流的諜報組織。二戰後成立的中情局，六十年來盛名在外，實則屢戰屢敗；而中情局逾半世紀的連番敗績，不僅形成美國國家安全的缺口，更深深牽動世局變化。 *美國國家書卷獎得獎作品 *《時代》雜誌、《紐約時報》、《經濟學人》精選年度最佳圖書 *Amazon網站年度百大讀者最愛圖書 ～原來，半世紀以來的世界動盪，有不少是中情局闖的...(展开全部)