This much revised and reorganized edition of Intellectuals and Society is more than half again larger than the first edition. Four new chapters have been added on intellectuals and race, including a chapter on race and intelligence. These new chapters show the radically different views of race prevailing among the intelligentsia at the beginning of the twentieth century and at ...(展开全部)

This much revised and reorganized edition of Intellectuals and Society is more than half again larger than the first edition. Four new chapters have been added on intellectuals and race, including a chapter on race and intelligence. These new chapters show the radically different views of race prevailing among the intelligentsia at the beginning of the twentieth century and at ...(展开全部)

Revised and Expanded Edition Every night, a pageant of Greek mythology circles overhead. Perseus flies to the rescue of Andromeda, Orion faces the charge of the snorting Bull, and the ship of the Argonauts sails in search of the Golden Fleece. Constellations are the invention of the human imagination, not of nature. They are an expression of the human desire to impress its own ...(展开全部)

托马斯·索维尔（Thomas Sowell），美国当代杰出的经济学家、最具影响力的社会评论家。先后在康奈尔大学、加州大学洛杉矶分校、哥伦比亚大学以及斯坦福大学讲授经济学课程，现为斯坦福大学胡佛研究所公共政策高级研究员。 托马斯·索维尔在经济学和广泛的人文社科领域均有重要建树。他撰写了包括《基础经济学》、《被掩盖的经济真相》、《美国种族简史》在内的30余部著作，多本被翻译成法文、德文、西班牙文和日文出版，其中多本是亚马逊网上书店的超级畅销书。他还在《福布斯》、《财富》、《新闻周刊》、《时代》周刊、《华尔街日报》、《华盛顿邮报》等主流媒体上发表了大量文章，并担任多家著名媒体的专栏作家，广泛讨论各种社会问题。 他获得的荣誉包括由美国企业研究所颁发的、备受尊敬的“博伊尔奖”（Francis Boyer Award）、美国“国家人文科学奖章”、布莱德雷基金奖等...(展开全部)

The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly influence rulers. It has not been by shaping the opinions or directing the actions of the holders of power that modern intellectuals have most influenced the course of events, but by s...(展开全部)

The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly influence rulers. It has not been by shaping the opinions or directing the actions of the holders of power that modern intellectuals have most influenced the course of events, but by s...(展开全部)

托马斯·索维尔（Thomas Sowell），美国当代杰出的经济学家、最具影响力的社会评论家。先后在康奈尔大学、加州大学洛杉矶分校、哥伦比亚大学以及斯坦福大学讲授经济学课程，现为斯坦福大学胡佛研究所公共政策高级研究员。 托马斯·索维尔在经济学和广泛的人文社科领域均有重要建树。他撰写了包括《基础经济学》、《被掩盖的经济真相》、《美国种族简史》在内的30余部著作，多本被翻译成法文、德文、西班牙文和日文出版，其中多本是亚马逊网上书店的超级畅销书。他还在《福布斯》、《财富》、《新闻周刊》、《时代》周刊、《华尔街日报》、《华盛顿邮报》等主流媒体上发表了大量文章，并担任多家著名媒体的专栏作家，广泛讨论各种社会问题。 他获得的荣誉包括由美国企业研究所颁发的、备受尊敬的“博伊尔奖”（Francis Boyer Award）、美国“国家人文科学奖章”、布莱德雷基金奖等...(展开全部)

This is the most comprehensive and authoritative biography to date of Mao Zedong, enriched by much new information only recently made available in China. Show More Show Less

In this revised, updated, and expanded edition of his New York Times bestseller, Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller, who warned of both the tech and housing bubbles, now cautions that signs of irrational exuberance among investors have only increased since the 2008-9 financial crisis. With high stock and bond prices in the United States, and rising housing prices in m...(展开全部)

Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color is a masterwork in twentieth-century art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this timeless book presents Albers’s unique ideas of color experimentation in a way that is valuable to specialists as well as to a larger audience. Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a lim...(展开全部)