''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)

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。

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)

“Insightful and well-written . . . [Suzman chronicles] how much humankind can still learn from the disappearing way of life of the most marginalized communities on earth.” -Yuval Noah Harari, author of SAPIENS and HOMO DEUS An NPR Best Book of the Year A Washington Post Notable Book A vibrant portrait of the “original affluent society”-the Bushmen of southern Africa-by the anth...(展开全部)

Benny Lewis, who speaks ten languages and counting—all self-taught—runs the largest language-learning blog in the world, Fluent In 3 Months. Lewis is a full-time "language hacker," someone who devotes all of his time to finding better, faster, and more efficient ways to learn languages. Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in t...(展开全部)

Psychologist Seligman ( Learned Optimism ) here examines common psychological disorders according to their biological and societal, or learned, components. Most enlightening are his analyses of the effectiveness of relaxation, meditation, psychoanalysis and cognitive therapies in the treatment of anxiety, which, along with depression and anger, he claims, can largely be control...(展开全部)

From Blackstone chairman, CEO, and co-founder Stephen A. Schwarzman, a long-awaited book that uses impactful episodes from Schwarzman's life to show readers how to build, transform, and lead thriving organizations. Whether you are a student, entrepreneur, philanthropist, executive, or simply someone looking for ways to maximize your potential, the same lessons apply.