Crisis in American Institutions provides students with an array of engaging articles that reflect America's social problems and encourage critical thought. This edition contains seventeen new articles, many addressing the escalating crises of American society in recent years,including the worst economic crisis in decades, the rapid rise in health care costs, the polar...(展开全部)

KEY BENEFIT "Crisis in American Institutions" provides readers with an array of engaging articles that reflect America's social problems and encourage critical thought. The text contains a breadth of articles that encompasses a review of the best of contemporary writing on American social problems. New topics include: the erosion of retirement security, the rise in debt among y...(展开全部)

杰罗米•H.什科尔尼克（Jerome H. Skolnick），社会学家，纽约大学法学院教授，犯罪和司法研究中心联合主任，纽约大学法学院教授，犯罪和司法研究中心联合主任，也是加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校的荣誉退休教授，曾在该校担任法律和社会研究中心主席。获得的荣誉包括美国犯罪学会的奥古斯特•沃尔默奖、犯罪司法科学院和西部犯罪学会颁发的米尔斯奖等。同时，他还被选入声誉卓著的社会学研究协会、古根海姆基金会，曾担任美国犯罪学会的会长、国家科学院/国家研究委员会法律与司法委员会主席等职。1996年，约翰•杰伊刑事司法大学授予他“年度刑事司法教育家”称号。 埃利奥特•柯里（Elliot Currie），加利福尼亚大学尔湾分校刑事、法律、社会学专业教授，曾在加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校法律研究教学组和圣克鲁兹分校教育委员会任职。柯里教授撰写了大量关于犯罪、吸毒、社会政策...(展开全部)

杰罗米•H.什科尔尼克（Jerome H. Skolnick），社会学家，纽约大学法学院教授，犯罪和司法研究中心联合主任，纽约大学法学院教授，犯罪和司法研究中心联合主任，也是加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校的荣誉退休教授，曾在该校担任法律和社会研究中心主席。获得的荣誉包括美国犯罪学会的奥古斯特•沃尔默奖、犯罪司法科学院和西部犯罪学会颁发的米尔斯奖等。同时，他还被选入声誉卓著的社会学研究协会、古根海姆基金会，曾担任美国犯罪学会的会长、国家科学院/国家研究委员会法律与司法委员会主席等职。1996年，约翰•杰伊刑事司法大学授予他“年度刑事司法教育家”称号。 埃利奥特•柯里（Elliot Currie），加利福尼亚大学尔湾分校刑事、法律、社会学专业教授，曾在加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校法律研究教学组和圣克鲁兹分校教育委员会任职。柯里教授撰写了大量关于犯罪、吸毒、社会政策...(展开全部)

Written by Dan Jurgens; Art by Jurgens, Jerry Ordway, Frank Fosco, Ken Branch; Cover by Jurgens and Ordway A new printing of the trade paperback collecting 1994's classic ZERO HOUR saga! This volume collects stories from SHOWCASE '94 #8-9 and ZERO HOUR: CRISIS IN TIME #4, 3, 2, 1, and 0, chronicling a discovery by DC's greatest heroes of a tidal wave of temporal disruption. The...(展开全部)

阿拉文德•阿迪加1974年出生于印度海港城市马德拉斯，后移居澳大利亚，求学于哥伦比亚大学与牛津大学。他在长篇小说处女作《白老虎》中，以一位印度班加罗尔的企业家给中国总理温家宝写信讲述自己人生故事的形式，反映了当今印度经济“奇迹”表相下的真实面貌，凭借独一无二的原创性获二○○八年曼布克奖。另外他还出版有短篇小说集《两次暗杀之间》。阿迪加曾任《时代周刊》驻印度通讯记者，并为《纽约客》、《格兰塔》、《金融时报》、《独立报》、《星期日泰晤士报》等媒体撰稿。现居印度。

Searing. Explosive. Lyrical. Compassionate. Here is the astonishing new novel by the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The White Tiger, a book that took rage and anger at injustice and turned it into a thrilling murder story. Now, with the same fearlessness and insight, Aravind Adiga broadens his canvas to give us a riveting story of money and power, luxury and deprivation, ...(展开全部)

Aravind Adiga’s first novel since his Man Booker Prize–winning best seller The White Tiger (“Amazing . . . One of the most powerful books I’ve read in decades” —Deirdre Donahue, USA Today): a stunning, darkly comic story of greed and murder that lays bare the teeming metropolis of Mumbai. Real estate developer Dharmen Shah’s offer to buy out the residents of Vishram Society—a f...(展开全部)

Every building tells a story, but in the jungles of Mumbai, one building - and one man- stand on the borderline between India's past and its future. Ask any Bombaywallah about Vishram Society - Tower A of the Vishram Co-operative Housing Society - and you will be told that it has been pucca for some fifty years despite its location under the flight path and border of slums. But...(展开全部)

'No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene' Time WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him, so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. In ...(展开全部)