We call it domestic violence. We call it private violence. Sometimes we call it intimate terrorism. But whatever we call it, we generally do not believe it has anything at all to do with us, despite the World Health Organization deeming it a “global epidemic.” In America, domestic violence accounts for 15 percent of all violent crime, and yet it remains locked in silence, even ...(展开全部)

We call it domestic violence. We call it private violence. Sometimes we call it intimate terrorism. But whatever we call it, we generally do not believe it has anything at all to do with us, despite the World Health Organization deeming it a “global epidemic.” In America, domestic violence accounts for 15 percent of all violent crime, and yet it remains locked in silence, even ...(展开全部)

2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found. 2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. Tom Metcalfe, an academic at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain’s remaining isl...(展开全部)

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and What the Dog Saw, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers---and why they often go wrong. How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why a...(展开全部)

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers -- and why they often go wrong. How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do televi...(展开全部)

· 代表作《异类》《引爆点》中文版累计销量破百万册 · 畅销榜常客，屡屡创造书市神话， 人称“《纽约客》怪才” · 《纽约客》特约撰稿人，会讲故事的非虚构作家 2005 年，被《时代》周刊评为“全球影响力100 人”之一 2011 年，被授予加拿国民殊荣“加拿大勋章” 2011 年，被《快公司》誉为“21 世纪的彼得·德鲁克”

Are we able to do everything we ought to do? According to the important but controversial Ought Implies Can principle, the answer is yes. In this book Alex King sheds some much-needed light on this principle. She argues that it is flawed because we are obligated to perform some actions that we cannot perform, and goes on to present a suggested theory for anyone who would deny t...(展开全部)

Insightful, surprising and with ground-breaking revelations about our society, Everybody Lies exposes the secrets embedded in our internet searches, with a foreword by bestselling author Steven Pinker Everybody lies, to friends, lovers, doctors, pollsters – and to themselves. In Internet searches, however, people confess their secrets – about sexless marriages, mental health pr...(展开全部)

Insightful, surprising and with ground-breaking revelations about our society, Everybody Lies exposes the secrets embedded in our internet searches, with a foreword by bestselling author Steven Pinker Everybody lies, to friends, lovers, doctors, pollsters – and to themselves. In Internet searches, however, people confess their secrets – about sexless marriages, mental health pr...(展开全部)

《高效学习:我们所知道的理解性教学》是美国斯坦福大学教授、奥巴马政府现行教育政策改革团队领导人琳达·达林-哈蒙德(Linda Darling-Hammond)与布里基·巴伦(Brigid Barron)等7位知名学者花了十多年的时间开展学习研究的成果。他们基于人是如何学习的理论观点，聚焦于阅读与素养、数学、科学这三大主要学科领域，从理论和实践层面探索了“理解性教学”的教学形式(基于项目学习、基于设计的学习和基于问题的学习)，阐释了在新技术的强大支持下，革新课堂学习环境，促进高效学习的策略以及影响这些策略有效性的因素与条件。他们还提出了变革学校体系，为理解性教学建立学校的主张。 In Powerful Learning, Linda Darling-Hammond and an impressive list of co-authors offer a...(展开全部)