In the global economy, linguistic diversity influences economic and political development as well as public policies in positive and negative ways. It leads to financial costs, communication barriers, divisions in national unity, and, in some extreme cases, conflicts and war--but it also produces benefits related to group and individual identity. What are the specific advantag...(展开全部)

"We live in a museum age," writes Steven Conn in Do Museums Still Need Objects? And indeed, at the turn of the twenty-first century, more people are visiting museums than ever before. There are now over 17,500 accredited museums in the United States, averaging approximately 865 million visits a year, more than two million visits a day. New museums have proliferated across the c...(展开全部)

“WE NEED TO TALK.” In this urgent and insightful book, public radio journalist Celeste Headlee shows us how to bridge what divides us--by having real conversations BASED ON THE TED TALK WITH OVER 10 MILLION VIEWS NPR's Best Books of 2017 Winner of the 2017 Silver Nautilus Award in Relationships & Communication “We Need to Talk is an important read for a conversationally-challen...(展开全部)

In a book that challenges authoritarian thinking about motivation, a distinguished social psychologist offers an alternative to current reward/punishment theory, which, far from anarchy, espouses our ordered, internalized sense of freedom, responsibility, and commitment.

[美]罗伯特·D.帕特南(Robert D.Putnam) 1941年生，美国当代杰出的政治社会学家，曾担任美国政治学会主席。哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院前院长、马尔金公共政策讲席教授，美国国家科学院院士。2006年荣获美国政治学界最高奖约翰·斯凯特奖，2013年获美国国家人文勋章。他担任过多届美国总统、英国首相、法国总统以及多个国家政府首脑的资深顾问。已著书15部，被译为20多种语言，在比较政治、美国政治、国际关系和政治理论领域均有卓越原创贡献。代表作《使民主运转起来》和《独自打保龄》是过去半个世纪英文学界引证最多的社会科学著作，在我国学界和思想界也有广泛影响。 [美]谢琳·罗姆尼·加勒特(Shaylyn Romney Garrett) 毕业于哈佛大学政府系，作家、演说家和社会改革家。是阿斯彭研究所倡议的“织网：社会结构项目”的创始人。2011年，荣获德...(展开全部)

[英]布鲁斯·胡德（Bruce Hood） 英国布里斯托大学认知发展中心主任。曾任教牛津大学、剑桥大学和哈佛大学。有200年历史的“英国皇家科学院圣诞演讲”的明星专家。著有《超感觉》（Supersense）和《自我的本质》（The Self Illusion）。

Have you ever wondered why we eat wheat, rice, potatoes and cassava? Why we routinely domesticate foodstuffs with the power to kill us, or why we chose almonds over acorns? Answering all these questions and more in a readable and friendly style, The Nature of Crops takes you on a journey through our history with crop plants. Arranged into recurrent themes in plant domestication...(展开全部)

Have you ever wondered why we eat wheat, rice, potatoes and cassava? Why we routinely domesticate foodstuffs with the power to kill us, or why we chose almonds over acorns? Answering all these questions and more in a readable and friendly style, The Nature of Crops takes you on a journey through our history with crop plants. Arranged into recurrent themes in plant domestication...(展开全部)

An anatomy of human life, vividly illustrated. . . . Awe-inspiring [and] sublimely uplifting. --Time Having won the National Book Award for How We Die, his best-selling inquiry into the causes and modes of death, Sherwin Nuland now turns his attention to the miraculous resiliency of human life. For this lucid, wonderful, and wonder-filled new book explores the body's mysteri...(展开全部)