This book presents 27 years of Deanna Dikeman photographing her parents waving goodbye as she left their home after a visit. Just as she was driving away, Dikeman invariably pointed her camera at her parents. What started with a candid snapshot in 1991 turned into a ritual over the years. The book chronicles their farewells as seasons change and years go by, separating black an...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of Istanbul Passage—called a “fast-moving thinking man’s thriller” by The Wall Street Journal—comes a sweeping, atmospheric novel of postwar East Berlin, a city caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation. Berlin 1948. Almost four years after the war’s end, the city is still in ruins, a physical wasteland and a poli...(展开全部)

For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe she was abandoned, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice’s old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the...(展开全部)

For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe she was abandoned, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice’s old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the...(展开全部)

An estimated ninety-three percent of graduate students in the humanities and social sciences won’t get a tenure-track job, yet many still assume that a tenured professorship is the only successful outcome for a PhD. With the academic job market in such crisis, Leaving Academia helps grad students and academics in any scholarly field find satisfying careers beyond higher educati...(展开全部)

约翰·伍德在享有盛誉的凯洛格商学院攻取MBA后，曾在金融业工作数年，并于1991年进入微软工作。由于工作努力、行动果敢，他迅速成长起来，先后得到了在澳大利亚及中国地区令人艳羡的海外任职机会。在任职微软中国市场开发总监时期，伍德决意改变自己的生活航向，转而为贫困的孩子送去能使其受益终生的教育大礼，以帮助他们打破宿命的循环。 在2000年，他创建了“阅读空间”，一个非营利性慈善组织，旨在提高尼泊尔、印度、斯里兰卡、柬埔寨、老挝、越南和非洲等一些地区的文教水平。伍德与“阅读空间”基金会的目标是：到2020年，开办20000间图书馆，使该组织遍及非洲、南美洲，甚至是全世界。 除环游世界筹集资金和访问“阅读空间”资助的社区之外，他都居住在旧金山。

约翰·伍德在享有盛誉的凯洛格商学院攻取MBA后，曾在金融业工作数年，并于1991年进入微软工作。由于工作努力、行动果敢，他迅速成长起来，先后得到了在澳大利亚及中国地区令人艳羡的海外任职机会。在任职微软中国市场开发总监时期，伍德决意改变自己的生活航向，转而为贫困的孩子送去能使其受益终生的教育大礼，以帮助他们打破宿命的循环。 在2000年，他创建了“阅读空间”，一个非营利性慈善组织，旨在提高尼泊尔、印度、斯里兰卡、柬埔寨、老挝、越南和非洲等一些地区的文教水平。伍德与“阅读空间”基金会的目标是：到2020年，开办20000间图书馆，使该组织遍及非洲、南美洲，甚至是全世界。 除环游世界筹集资金和访问“阅读空间”资助的社区之外，他都居住在旧金山。

The most influential theory of distributive equality to have emerged since John Rawls' justice as fairness is luck egalitarianism, which aims to neutralize the distributive effects of luck. The standard form, brute-luck egalitarianism, advanced by Richard Arneson, G. A. Cohen, and Ronald Dworkin, allows the unequal consequences of option luck (the results of deliberate gambles)...(展开全部)