Crisis in American Institutions provides students with an array of engaging articles that reflect America's social problems and encourage critical thought. This edition contains seventeen new articles, many addressing the escalating crises of American society in recent years,including the worst economic crisis in decades, the rapid rise in health care costs, the polar...(展开全部)

KEY BENEFIT "Crisis in American Institutions" provides readers with an array of engaging articles that reflect America's social problems and encourage critical thought. The text contains a breadth of articles that encompasses a review of the best of contemporary writing on American social problems. New topics include: the erosion of retirement security, the rise in debt among y...(展开全部)

杰罗米•H.什科尔尼克（Jerome H. Skolnick），社会学家，纽约大学法学院教授，犯罪和司法研究中心联合主任，纽约大学法学院教授，犯罪和司法研究中心联合主任，也是加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校的荣誉退休教授，曾在该校担任法律和社会研究中心主席。获得的荣誉包括美国犯罪学会的奥古斯特•沃尔默奖、犯罪司法科学院和西部犯罪学会颁发的米尔斯奖等。同时，他还被选入声誉卓著的社会学研究协会、古根海姆基金会，曾担任美国犯罪学会的会长、国家科学院/国家研究委员会法律与司法委员会主席等职。1996年，约翰•杰伊刑事司法大学授予他“年度刑事司法教育家”称号。 埃利奥特•柯里（Elliot Currie），加利福尼亚大学尔湾分校刑事、法律、社会学专业教授，曾在加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校法律研究教学组和圣克鲁兹分校教育委员会任职。柯里教授撰写了大量关于犯罪、吸毒、社会政策...(展开全部)

杰罗米•H.什科尔尼克（Jerome H. Skolnick），社会学家，纽约大学法学院教授，犯罪和司法研究中心联合主任，纽约大学法学院教授，犯罪和司法研究中心联合主任，也是加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校的荣誉退休教授，曾在该校担任法律和社会研究中心主席。获得的荣誉包括美国犯罪学会的奥古斯特•沃尔默奖、犯罪司法科学院和西部犯罪学会颁发的米尔斯奖等。同时，他还被选入声誉卓著的社会学研究协会、古根海姆基金会，曾担任美国犯罪学会的会长、国家科学院/国家研究委员会法律与司法委员会主席等职。1996年，约翰•杰伊刑事司法大学授予他“年度刑事司法教育家”称号。 埃利奥特•柯里（Elliot Currie），加利福尼亚大学尔湾分校刑事、法律、社会学专业教授，曾在加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校法律研究教学组和圣克鲁兹分校教育委员会任职。柯里教授撰写了大量关于犯罪、吸毒、社会政策...(展开全部)

There were two Norman Conquests. John Julius Norwich is writing about the 'other' one, the conquest of Sicily. When on Christmas Day 1130, Roger de Hauteville had himself crowned first King of Sicily, the island entered a golden age. Norman and Italian, Greek and Arab, Lombard, Englishman and Jew all contributed to a culture that was as brilliant as it was cosmopolitan; to an i...(展开全部)

This groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands in the Broadway production which opened in 1959. Set on Chicago's South Side, the plot revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis and matriarch Lena, called Mama. Whe...(展开全部)

This groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands in the Broadway production which opened in 1959. Set on Chicago's South Side, the plot revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis and matriarch Lena, called Mama. Whe...(展开全部)

"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago conn...(展开全部)

"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connect...(展开全部)

Lorraine Hansberry, (born May 19, 1930, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died January 12, 1965, New York, New York), American playwright whose A Raisin in the Sun (1959) was the first drama by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway.