The corporation has become the core institution of the modern world. Designed to seek profit and power, it has pursued both with endless tenacity, steadily bending the framework of law and even challenging the sovereign status of the state.

The corporation has become the core institution of the modern world. Designed to seek profit and power, it has pursued both with endless tenacity, steadily bending the framework of law and even challenging the sovereign status of the state.

小阿瑟•M. 施莱辛格（1917—2007） Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. 小阿瑟•M.施莱辛格是美国最具声望和争议的重量级历史学家、政治评论家，同时也是专栏作家、影评人、《财富》和《生活》杂志的自由撰稿人，曾任哈佛大学历史系教授和肯尼迪总统的特别助理。一生中获得过两次普利策奖、两次美国国家图书奖和一次美国历史学最高奖项班克罗夫特奖。他于1965年被选为《时代》周刊封面人物，1998年被授予美国国家人文奖章。

A New York Times Book of the Year A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Winner of the Salon Book Award A Village Voice Book of the Year Birds of America is the celebrated collection of twelve stories from Lorrie Moore, one of the finest authors at work today. “Fluid, cracked, mordant, colloquial…. Stand[s] by itself as one of our funniest, most telling an...(展开全部)

A National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Editors' ChoiceA Pulishers Weekly Best Book of the YearBirds of America is a stunning collection of twelve stories by Lorrie Moore, one of our finest authors at work today. With her characteristic wit and piercing intelligence she unfolds a series of portraits of the lost and unsettled of America, and with a trademar...(展开全部)

内容 615枚掲載！ 世界最高峰の黒いジャズ・カタログ メインストリーム・ジャズの凋落、フリー・ジャズの飽和、そしてコルトレーンの他界によりもたらされた“ジャズの死”──60年代末から70年代にかけての混沌とした時代を生きぬくため、黒人ジャズマンたちは自主レーベルを立ち上げ、アフリカ回帰や同胞への社会的メッセージなど、自らのアイデンティティを全面に打ち出した新しい時代のジャズを開拓していきました。“スピリチュアル・ジャズ”や“ドロドロ・ジャズ”とも呼ばれる、これらインディペンデントな精神を持った黒人ジャズ作品を、より深く探索して網羅的に紹介するのが本書。主要レーベルの全作品紹介、マニア垂涎のレア盤を多数含むディスク・カタログ（LP裏ジャケットも全作品掲載）、そして関係者のインタビューや貴重な当時の資料など、圧倒的なボリュームでお届けします。 【CON...(展开全部)

Healing That Reaches Beyond the Self In this landmark work, Marianne Williamson reminds us that there is a point in everyone's spiritual journey where the search for self-awareness can turn into self-preoccupation. All of us are better off when contemplation of holy principles is at the center of our lives. But it is in applying those principles in our lives that we forge ...(展开全部)

Climate change, the energy crisis, nuclear proliferation—many of the most urgent problems of the twenty-first century require scientific solutions, yet America is paying less and less attention to scientists. For every five hours of cable news, less than one minute is devoted to science, and the number of newspapers with science sections has shrunk from ninety-five to thirty-th...(展开全部)

At the turn of the twentieth century, soybeans grew on so little of America’s land that nobody bothered to track the total. By the year 2000, they covered upward of 70 million acres, second only to corn, and had become the nation’s largest cash crop. How this little-known Chinese transplant, initially grown chiefly for forage, turned into a ubiquitous component of American farm...(展开全部)

In this amusing and trenchant book, Paul Fussell zeroes in on the death of American sensibility and taste. "We are living in a moment teeming with raucously overvalued emptiness and trash," he writes in this reference work that exposes bad, from bad advertising and bad ideas to bad restaurants and bad TV.