There is a strange disconnect between the scientific consensus and the public mind on intelligence testing. Just mention IQ testing in polite company, and you'll sternly be informed that IQ tests don't measure anything "real" and only reflect how good you are at doing IQ tests; that they ignore important traits like "emotional intelligence" and "multiple intelligences"; and tha...(展开全部)

Love your work, work for what you love, and change the world—all at the same time. What matters most to you? Should you focus on earning a living, pursuing your passions, or devoting yourself to the causes that inspire you? The surprising truth is that you don’t have to choose—and that you’ll find more success if you don’t. That’s the breakthrough message of TOMS’ One for One...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·索特 (James Salter，1925—2015)，美国小说家、短篇小说作家。成长于纽约曼哈顿，毕业于西点军校，做过战斗机飞行员。1957年出版长篇小说《猎手》，后全职从事写作。 主要作品有长篇小说《一场游戏一次消遣》（1967）、《光年》（1975 ）、《 独面》（1979）、《这一切》（2013），短篇小说集《暮色》（1988）、《昨夜》（2005），回忆录《燃烧的日子》（1997）等。曾获得福克纳奖（1989）、迈克尔•雷短篇小说奖（2010）、《巴黎评论》哈达达奖（2011）、马拉默德小说奖（2012）等。 . 译者简介： 刘伟，毕业于北京大学中文系，自由译者、撰稿人。

A literary event--a major new novel, his first work of fiction in seven years, from the universally acclaimed master and PEN/Faulkner winner: a sweeping, seductive love story set in post-World War II America that tells of one man's great passions and regrets over the course of his lifetime. From his experiences as a naval officer in battles off Okinawa during World War II, Ph...(展开全部)

In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life. It also contains memorable...(展开全部)

In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life. It also contains memorable...(展开全部)

There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run inconsequently in and out of the big thirty-foot high stacks of bricks; it is most confusing. The parapet of a trench which we don't occupy is built up with ammunition boxes and corpses'. In one of the most honest and candid self-portraits ever committed to paper, Rober...(展开全部)

Good-bye to All That is the autobiography of Robert Graves.[1] First published in 1929, the work is a landmark anti-war memoir of life in the trenches during World War I. The title expresses Graves' disillusionment in the existence of traditional, stable values in European and English society. Graves first wrote the work in his thirties, when he had a long and eventful life ahe...(展开全部)

"News That Matters does matter, because it demonstrates conclusively that television newscasts powerfully affect opinion. . . . All that follows, whether it supports, modifies, or challenges their conclusions, will have to begin here."--Aaron Wildavsky, The Public Interest "Because of its methodological integrity and richness, News That Matters is likely to be regarded as an i...(展开全部)