The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don't realize just how threatening it is. It means more than the arrival of trendy shops, much-maligned hipsters, and expensive lattes. The very future of American cities as vibrant, equitable spaces hangs in the balance. Peter Moskowitz's How to Kill a City t...(展开全部)

"I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves."--Slavomir Rawicz In 1941, the author and six other fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk--a camp where enduring hunger, cold, untended wounds, untreated illnesses, and avoiding daily executions were...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 From the Revolution to our own time, freedom has been America's strongest cultural bond and its most perilous fault line, a birthright for some Americans and a cruel mockery for others. Eric Foner takes freedom not as a timeless truth but as a value whose meaning and scope have been contested throughout American history. His sweeping narrative shows freedom to have been...(展开全部)

埃里克·方纳（Eric Foner）是美国哥伦比亚大学德威特·克林顿历史学讲座教授，当代美国最有影响力的历史学家之一。自1970年发表其成名作《自由土地、自由劳力、自由人：内战前共和党的意识形态》起，方纳在美国内战史、重建史、黑人史和政治文化史等领域中著述甚丰，成就显著。重要著述包括《汤姆・潘恩与革命时期的美国》（1976）、《内战时期的政治与意识形态》（1980）、《除了自由一无所有：黑人解放及其遗产》（1983）、《重建：美利坚未完成的革命（1863－1877）》（1988，该书获得象征美国史学界最高荣誉的班克罗夫特奖和其他学术大奖）、《美国自由的故事》（1998）和《谁拥有历史：在变化的世界中重新思考过去》（2002）。方纳是美国艺术与科学院院上和英国皇家科学院通讯院士，并分别在1993年和2000年当选为美国历史学家组织《OAH）和美国历史学...(展开全部)

William Peter Coleman (born 15 December 1928) is an Australian writer and former politician. A widely published journalist for over 60 years, he was editor of The Bulletin (1964-1967) and of Quadrant for 20 years, and has published 16 books on political, biographical and cultural subjects. While still working as an editor and journalist he had a short but distinguished politica...(展开全部)

本书是美国著名经济学家 克鲁格曼 的最新力作。他在书中回顾了将近一个世纪的美国历史，从镀金年代的政治经济，直到布什年代的经济停滞。他认为，这是保守主义运动掌控美国政府的必然结果，婴儿潮时代美国中产阶级的成长则是受益于小 罗斯福 的新政。克鲁格曼指出，这两种方向的发展都非自然演进的结果，都是由组织化的政治运动所引导的，尤其是 20 世纪 70 年代以后不断加剧的两极分化和社会不公。他在书中深入地探讨了美国主张自由放任 资本主义 的 “ 保守主义运动 ” 对美国经济、社会和政治的不良影响，呼吁重新展开社会政策的公共辩论，主张政府应发挥好 维护社会稳定和社会公正的作用，同时警醒世人不要冷漠对待社会经济不平等议题，以致错失改革良机。 "The most consistent and courageo...(展开全部)

What has gone wrong with America? With The Conscience of a Liberal, best-selling author Paul Krugman points the way to a new New Deal. America emerged from Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal with strong democratic values and broadly shared prosperity. But for the past thirty years American politics has been dominated by a conservative movement determined to undermine the New Deal's ...(展开全部)

The only book you need if you're going back in time What would you do if a time machine hurled you thousands of years into the past. . . and then broke? How would you survive? Could you improve on humanity's original timeline? And how hard would it be to domesticate a giant wombat? With this book as your guide, you'll survive--and thrive--in any period in Earth's history. Bests...(展开全部)