In 1972 Nixon amazed the world by going to China. The first trip ever by a US President was an immense gamble but a brilliant stroke of policy. It marked the end of deep freeze in Sino-American relations and changed the international balance of power for ever. This turning point in history was enacted by extraordinary players: Nixon himself, red-baiter, shrewd statesman and dis...(展开全部)

In 1972 Nixon amazed the world by going to China. The first trip ever by a US President marked the end of deep freeze in Sino-American relations that started with the Communist takeover in 1949. It was an immense gamble but a brilliant stroke of policy, which changed the international balance of power for ever. With China onside Nixon might get out of Vietnam; US knowhow could ...(展开全部)

Having spent a ground-breaking career studying the racialization, policing, and criminalization of HIV, Dr. Thrasher has come to understand a deeper truth at the heart of our society: that there are vast inequalities in who is able to survive viruses and that the ways in which viruses spread, kill, and take their toll are much more dependent on social structures than they are o...(展开全部)

Having spent a ground-breaking career studying the racialization, policing, and criminalization of HIV, Dr. Thrasher has come to understand a deeper truth at the heart of our society: that there are vast inequalities in who is able to survive viruses and that the ways in which viruses spread, kill, and take their toll are much more dependent on social structures than they are o...(展开全部)

American economic policy ranks as something between bad and disgraceful. As leading economist Alan S. Blinder argues, a crucial cultural divide separates economic and political civilizations. Economists and politicians often talk -- and act -- at cross purposes: politicians typically seek economists' "advice" only to support preconceived notions, not to learn what economists ac...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 SELECTED AS A 2008 BEST BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST . "ONE OF THE SMARTEST INVESTORS ON THE PLANET."-- MONEY MAGAZINE . . �This book is an essential read for those who. wish to understand the modern world of investing.�. �Alan Greenspan . . . Winner of the 2008 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award When...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 SELECTED AS A 2008 BEST BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST . "ONE OF THE SMARTEST INVESTORS ON THE PLANET."-- MONEY MAGAZINE . . �This book is an essential read for those who. wish to understand the modern world of investing.�. �Alan Greenspan . . . Winner of the 2008 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award When...(展开全部)