In 2008, the world’s financial system stood on the brink of disaster. The United States faced an unprecedented crisis when the investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, setting off a global panic. Faced with the prospect of a new Great Depression, the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and other agencies took extraordinary meas...(展开全部)

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)

Written by Dan Jurgens; Art by Jurgens, Jerry Ordway, Frank Fosco, Ken Branch; Cover by Jurgens and Ordway A new printing of the trade paperback collecting 1994's classic ZERO HOUR saga! This volume collects stories from SHOWCASE '94 #8-9 and ZERO HOUR: CRISIS IN TIME #4, 3, 2, 1, and 0, chronicling a discovery by DC's greatest heroes of a tidal wave of temporal disruption. The...(展开全部)

In the summer of 1869, John Muir made his first long trip to Yosemite. When a friend offered him the chance to accompany his flock of sheep and a shepherd to the high pastures of the Sierra, it was an opportunity Muir could not resist. My First Summer in the Sierra is the journal he kept of those summer days, of the wildlife and plant life, and of his explorations into the magi...(展开全部)

In the summer of 1869, John Muir made his first long trip to Yosemite. When a friend offered him the chance to accompany his flock of sheep and a shepherd to the high pastures of the Sierra, it was an opportunity Muir could not resist. My First Summer in the Sierra is the journal he kept of those summer days, of the wildlife and plant life, and of his explorations into the magi...(展开全部)

The history of art from the early nineteenth century onward is commonly viewed as a succession of conflicts between innovatory and established styles that culminated in the formalism and aesthetic autonomy of high modernism. In "Art and Crisis", first published in 1948, Hans Sedlmayr argues that the aesthetic disjunctures of modern art signify more than matters of style and poi...(展开全部)

This market-leading introduction to probability features exceptionally clear explanations of the mathematics of probability theory and explores its many diverse applications through numerous interesting and motivational examples. The outstanding problem sets are a hallmark feature of this book. Provides clear, complete explanations to fully explain mathematical concepts. Fe...(展开全部)