A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss In the 1980s, a wave of Chinese from Fujian province began arriving in America. Like other immigrant groups before them, they showed up with little money but with an intense work ethic and an unshakeable belief in the promise of the United States. Many of them lived in a world outside the...(展开全部)

Gatto analyzes why mass compulsory schooling is unreformable. Having taught in a Manhattan school district for 30 years, Gatto speaks from experience when offering this speculative history cum personal investigation. Arguing that public school allow psychic violence, teach numbness, and force the deterioration of parental responsibilities, Gatto advocates that children spend le...(展开全部)

托马斯·沃尔夫（Thomas Clayton Wolfe, 1900—1938） 20世纪美国文学最重要的小说家之一。1900年生于北卡罗莱纳州阿什维尔，毕业于北卡罗莱纳州大学，在哈佛大学获得剧本写作硕士学位，后在纽约大学任教。他创作于大萧条时期的作品描述了美国文化的变化和多样。1938年沃尔夫去世后，威廉·福克纳将他列为他们那一代最好的作家，而将自己列在了沃尔夫的后面。“垮掉派”作家杰克·凯鲁亚克也将沃尔夫视为自己的文学偶像。 其代表作有四部自传体长篇小说：《天使，望故乡》（Look Homeward，Angel，1929）、《时间和河流》（Of Time and the River，1935）、《蛛网和岩石》（The Web and the Rock，1939）和《你再也不能回家乡了》（You can’t Go Home Again，1940）。...(展开全部)

Philosophy of Education: An Anthology brings together the essential historical and contemporary readings in the philosophy of education. The readings have been selected for their philosophical merit, their focus on important aspects of educational practice and their readability. Includes classic pieces by Plato, Aristotle, Isocrates, Locke, Rousseau, Mill, and Dewey. Addresse...(展开全部)

Colleges and universities are among the most cherished—and controversial—institutions in the United States. In this updated edition of A History of American Higher Education, John R. Thelin offers welcome perspective on the triumphs and crises of this highly influential sector in American life. Exploring American higher education from its founding in the seventeenth century to ...(展开全部)

Colleges and universities are among the most cherished institutions in American society—and also among the most controversial. Yet affirmative action and skyrocketing tuition are only the most recent dissonant issues to emerge. Recounting the many crises and triumphs in the long history of American higher education, historian John Thelin provides welcome perspective on this inf...(展开全部)

An important environmental history of the Gulf of Mexico that brings crucial attention to Earth’s 10th-largest body of water, one of the planet’s most diverse and productive marine ecosystems.

The tragic collision between civilization and nature in the Gulf of Mexico becomes a uniquely American story in this environmental epic. When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind of providence." Indeed, the Gulf presented itself as America’s sea―bound by geography, culture, and tradition to the national experience―and ye...(展开全部)