''It is now time to break down the ideology of exceptionalism in the United States and other Anglo-American nations, if we are to develop reforms that will truly inspire our teachers to improve learning for all our students -- especially those who struggle the most. In that essential quest, Pasi Sahlberg is undoubtedly one of the very best teachers of all.'' --From the Foreword...(展开全部)

Pasi Sahlberg has thoroughly updated his groundbreaking account of how Finland built a world-class education system during the past four decades. In this international bestseller, Sahlberg traces the evolution of Finnish education policies and highlights how they differ from the United States and much of the rest of the world. Featuring substantial additions throughout the text...(展开全部)

Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely tradi...(展开全部)

Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely tradi...(展开全部)

Economists often act as if their methods explain all human behavior. But in Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a leading economist make the case that the humanities, especially the study of literature, offer economists ways to make their models more realistic, their predictions more accurate, and their policies more effective and just. Gary Saul Morson and Mo...(展开全部)

加里·索尔·莫森（Gary Saul Morson） 美国西北大学Lawrence B. Dumas艺术与人文教授，斯拉夫语言文学教授。他的主要著作包括《叙述与自由》《我们时代的安娜·卡列尼娜》《他人之见：从引述到文化》。 莫顿·夏皮罗（Morton Schapiro） 美国西北大学校长，经济学教授。他的主要著作有《学生助学博弈》。 莫森和夏皮罗还是《美好的未来？：2030年的美国与世界》的主编。 译者简介 郑磊，南开大学经济学博士，行为经济学、金融市场和创新理论研究者，曾出版多部中文专著和英、法、日、德文金融与经济译著。 龚荻涵，法学硕士，战地翻译、工程师，译有《现代证券分析》等作品。 徐慧琳，东北财经大学博士研究生，研究方向为公司金融，已出版多部译作。

Economists often act as if their methods explain all human behavior. But in Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a leading economist make the case that the humanities, especially the study of literature, offer economists ways to make their models more realistic, their predictions more accurate, and their policies more effective and just. Gary Saul Morson and Mo...(展开全部)

Why do so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charles Darwin was a geologist when he proposed the theory of evolution. And it was an astronomer who finally explained what happened to the dinosaurs. Frans Johanssons The Medici Effect shows how breakthrough ideas most often occur when we bring concepts from one field into a new, u...(展开全部)

Why do so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charles Darwin was a geologist when he proposed the theory of evolution. And it was an astronomer who finally explained what happened to the dinosaurs. Frans Johanssons The Medici Effect shows how breakthrough ideas most often occur when we bring concepts from one field into a new, u...(展开全部)

In the 1960s, IBM CEO Tom Watson called an executive into his office after his venture lost $10 million. Watson asked the man if he knew why he'd been called in. The man said he assumed he was being fired. Watson told him, 'Fired? Hell, I spent $10 million educating you. I just want to be sure you learned the right lessons'. In "Billion-Dollar Lessons", Paul Carroll and Chunka ...(展开全部)