Postman suggests that the current crisis in our educational system derives from its failure to supply students with a translucent, unifying "narrative" like those that inspired earlier generations. Instead, today's schools promote the false "gods" of economic utility, consumerism, or ethnic separatism and resentment. What alternative strategies can we use to instill our childre...(展开全部)

尼尔·波兹曼（Neil Postman） 美国著名传播学家、教育家，媒介环境学的开创者与媒介环境学派的精神领袖，长期任教于纽约大学，担任文化与传播学系系主任。研究领域包括传播学、教育学、文化与技术批评。1986年获美国英语教师学会乔治·奥威尔奖，1988年获纽约大学杰出教授奖。代表作有“媒介批评三部曲”——《童年的消逝》《娱乐至死》《技术垄断》，以及《教育何用》等。 【译者简介】 章艳 上海外国语大学教授，理论研究方向为文化翻译和翻译美学。译有《娱乐至死》《如何抑止女性写作》《应得的权利》《朋友之间：汉娜·阿伦特、玛丽·麦卡锡书信集（1949—1975）》《重访美丽新世界》等作品。

Postman suggests that the current crisis in our educational system derives from its failure to supply students with a translucent, unifying "narrative" like those that inspired earlier generations. Instead, today's schools promote the false "gods" of economic utility, consumerism, or ethnic separatism and resentment. What alternative strategies can we use to instill our childre...(展开全部)

乔纳森·弗兰岑（Jonathan Franzen） 美国小说家、随笔作家。 1959年生于伊利诺伊州。1996年在《哈泼氏》杂志发表长篇随笔《偶尔做梦》，从此受到广泛关注。迄今为止，出版有小说《纠正》《自由》《纯洁》，回忆录《不舒适地带：个人史》，以及随笔集《如何独处》《地球尽头的尽头》等。凭借《纠正》获得普利策奖提名和美国国家图书奖。

A Pulitzer prize-winning journalist spends a year immersed in the high-pressure world of a competitive public high school—where teens chase 4.0 grades point averages, survive on as little as four hours of sleep, and chug lattes like water—and discovers the human story of what it takes to be a top student in America. Humes introduces a cast of passionate students, and touches on...(展开全部)

The pressure to succeed in our nation's most competitive public high schools is often crushing. Striving to understand this insular world, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edward Humes spent a year at California's Whitney High, a school so renowned that parents move across town-and across the world-hoping to enroll their children. That's because schools like Whitney deliver ev...(展开全部)

艾玛·思盖（Emma Sky），曾代表美国与英国政府在伊拉克、阿富汗及耶路撒冷担任高级官员，其所涉及的领域包括发展、国防、外交等，其间，曾在2007至2010年担任美国驻伊高指挥官雷·奥迪耶诺（Ray Odierno）的政治顾问。凭借在伊拉克的杰出工作，思盖于2008年获得了大英帝国官员勋章（Officer of the Order of the British Empire）。

In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes―both human and literary―that have long preoccupied him. Whether exploring his complex relationship with his uncle, recounting his young adulthood in New York, or offering an illuminating look at the global seabird...(展开全部)

Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth. This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still considered a groundbreaking work in environmental studies. McKibben's argument that th...(展开全部)

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