Dale Maharidge is the author of eleven books, including, most recently, Snowdens Box: Trust in the Age of Surveillance, and Bringing Mulligan Home: The Other Side of the Good War. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for his book And Their Children After Them, has been a Nieman Fellow at Harvard and held residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell colonies. He teaches at Columbia Journalis...(展开全部)

The pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner combines her trademark ethnographic expertise with critical film interpretation to explore the independent film scene in New York and Los Angeles since the late 1980s. Not Hollywood is both a study of the lived experience of that scene and a critical examination of America as seen through the lenses of independent filmmakers. Based...(展开全部)

Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas. In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power Game, he took us inside Washington’s corridors of power. Now Smi...(展开全部)

Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas. In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power Game, he took us inside Washington’s corridors of power. Now Smi...(展开全部)

Regarding issues of urban sprawl Visit Sprawl Net, at Rice University. It's under construction, but it should be an interesting resource. Check out the traffic in the land of commuting. And, finally, enjoy Los Angeles: Revisiting the Four Ecologies.

作者简介： 康纳·多尔蒂（Conor Dougherty），《纽约时报》驻旧金山的经济和住房记者。他曾在《洛杉矶商业杂志》担任调研员，也曾在纽约为《华尔街日报》报道住房和经济问题。2017 年多尔蒂因 “拥挤与昂贵”系列报道获Deadline Club 专题报道奖。在其二十多年的职业生涯中，住房问题一直是他的核心关切。 译者简介： 相欣奕，市政工程博士，国家注册规划师，西南大学地理科学学院讲师，澎湃新闻“市政厅”栏目撰稿人。主要研究方向为生态环境保护、城市规划与城市问题研究。 张美华，管理学博士，西南大学地理科学学院副教授。主要研究方向为生态经济学、资源环境学。长期为“一览众山小”等志愿者组织担任翻译等志愿者工作。

In 1869 Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev was puzzling over a way to bring order to the fledgling science of chemistry. Wearied by the effort, he fell asleep at his desk. What he dreamt would fundamentally change the way we see the world.Framing this history is the life story of the nineteenth-century Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev, who fell asleep at his desk and awoke ...(展开全部)

In this elegant, erudite but entertaining book, Paul Strathern, the award-winning novelist and expositor of complex ideas, unravels the dramatic history of chemistry through the quest for the elements.Framing this history is the life-story of the nineteenth-century Russian Scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev, who fell asleep at his desk and awoke after conceiving the Periodic Table in ...(展开全部)

A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis. The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed to secede from the British Empire, the British were dispatching the largest armada ever to c...(展开全部)