Volunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime. We've all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs. But what do these programs really accomplish? In Making Volunteers, Nina Eliasoph offers an in-depth, humorous, wrenching, and at times uplifting look inside youth and adult civic progra...(展开全部)

Volunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime. We've all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs. But what do these programs really accomplish? In Making Volunteers, Nina Eliasoph offers an in-depth, humorous, wrenching, and at times uplifting look inside youth and adult civic progra...(展开全部)

The third title in the Jameson Books-Students for Liberty Series, this is a collection of essays by eminent political economists from around the world. Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights. Of their freedom. Of their dignity. Of their futures. The culprits? The previous generation and its predecessors, who either created or failed to stop the world-straddling en...(展开全部)

The third title in the Jameson Books-Students for Liberty Series, this is a collection of essays by eminent political economists from around the world. Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights. Of their freedom. Of their dignity. Of their futures. The culprits? The previous generation and its predecessors, who either created or failed to stop the world-straddling en...(展开全部)

编自小雷蒙牧迪博士的畅销书《生命不息》（Life After Life），探讨濒临死亡经验之人所经历的过程。

编自小雷蒙牧迪博士的畅销书《生命不息》（Life After Life），探讨濒临死亡经验之人所经历的过程。

凯特•阿特金森（Kate Atkinson）：英国著名畅销小说作家，先后荣获南岸艺术文学奖，科斯塔奖，Waterstone年度作者，2013年凭借超级畅销书《生命不息》红遍全球。该书2013年4月在英美同步上市，空降各大畅销书榜NO.1，被《纽约时报》《时代周刊》《华盛顿邮报》等20多家媒体评选为“2013年度最佳图书”，被美国亚马逊编辑评选为“100本人生必读书”之一，也是英国2013年最畅销的长篇小说。 《生命不息》带领读者跟随女主角厄苏拉的脚步，看她如何在上世纪动荡的年代里，一遍又一遍活过自己的人生。作者阿特金森借由这个故事让我们见证，即使在最黑暗荒芜的时刻依旧有温暖的存在，并且透过她绝妙的叙事与描绘能力，带我们重返过去。这部小说颂赞了并存于人类中最光明美善与最丑陋不堪的面向，是阿特金森笔下最深刻且最具想象力的一部作品。

What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to l...(展开全部)

Life is one of our most basic concepts, yet when examined directly it proves remarkably contradictory and elusive, encompassing both the broadest and the most specific phenomena. We can see this uncertainty about life in our habit of approaching it as something at once scientific and mystical, in the return of vitalisms of all types, and in the pervasive politicization of life....(展开全部)

Life is one of our most basic concepts, yet when examined directly it proves remarkably contradictory and elusive, encompassing both the broadest and the most specific phenomena. We can see this uncertainty about life in our habit of approaching it as something at once scientific and mystical, in the return of vitalisms of all types, and in the pervasive politicization of life....(展开全部)