In the spirit of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Bringing up Bébé, and The Smartest Kids in the World, a hard-hitting exploration of China’s widely acclaimed yet insular education system—held up as a model of academic and behavioral excellence—that raises important questions for the future of American parenting and education. When students in Shanghai rose to the top of intern...(展开全部)

In 1971 Mao's campaign against the intellectuals is at its height. Our narrator and his best friend, Luo, distinctly unintellectual but guilty of being the sons of doctors, have been sent to a remote mountain village to be 're-educated'. The kind of education that takes place among the peasants of Phoenix Mountain involves carting buckets of excrement up and down preciptous, fo...(展开全部)

矿矿，学名黄矿岩，没有也没取英文名；五岁随 父母留学美国，在私立高中读十年级；四年级开始进入各种天赋班学习；从来不是老师的“宠物”，调皮但不捣蛋，勤思绝不当“书虫”，成绩不错；自学了多种电脑语言，目前正在参与一个网上MUD的设计；痴迷中国功夫，喜欢看成龙的电影……

Just in time for the holiday season, Ezra Jack Keats’s The Little Drummer Boy is now available in a durable board-book edition. Rich, expressive illustrations bring the words and music of the beloved Christmas song to life in a format perfect for the youngest readers.

Book Description In 1971, Mao's campaign against the intellectuals is at its height. Our narrator and his best friend, Luo, distinctly unintellectual but guilty of being the sons of doctors, have been sent to a remote mountain village to be 're-educated'. The kind of education that takes place among the peasants of Phoenix Mountain involves carting buckets of excrement up and ...(展开全部)

In this far-ranging and penetrating work, Denise Ferreira da Silva asks why, after more than five hundred years of violence perpetrated by Europeans against people of color, is there no ethical outrage? Rejecting the prevailing view that social categories of difference such as race and culture operate solely as principles of exclusion, Silva presents a critique of modern thoug...(展开全部)

The world looks far different today than it did before the global financial crisis struck. Reeling from the most brutal impacts of the recession, governments, economies, and societies everywhere are retrenching and pushing hard for increased protectionism. That's understandable-but it's also dangerous, maintains global economy expert Pankaj Ghemawat in World 3.0 . Left uncheck...(展开全部)

A revisionist history of the idea of progress reveals an unknown story about European engagement with Chinese science. The Enlightenment gave rise not only to new ideas of progress but consequential debates about them. Did distant times and places have anything to teach the here and now? Voltaire could believe that they did; Hegel was convinced that they did not. Early philoso...(展开全部)

A revisionist history of the idea of progress reveals an unknown story about European engagement with Chinese science. The Enlightenment gave rise not only to new ideas of progress but consequential debates about them. Did distant times and places have anything to teach the here and now? Voltaire could believe that they did; Hegel was convinced that they did not. Early philoso...(展开全部)

A. G. 霍普金斯（A. G. Hopkins）是剑桥大学英联邦史荣休教授、剑桥彭布罗克学院荣休研究员、得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校前沃尔特•普雷斯科特•韦伯历史学教授。著有《全球史》《世界史中的全球化》《英帝国主义，1688—2015》等。