Awarded "Special Recognition" by the 2018 Robert F. Kennedy Book & Journalism Awards Finalist for the American Bar Association's 2018 Silver Gavel Book Award Named one of the "10 books to read after you've read Evicted" by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Essential reading for anyone trying to understand the demands of social justice in America."―Bryan Stevenson, author of Just ...(展开全部)

Winner of the 2011 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book of the Year Award Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world's poor. But much of their work is based on assumptions that are untested generalizations at best, harmful misperceptions at worst. Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo have pione...(展开全部)

Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In "Poor Economics," Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two practical visionaries working toward ending world poverty, answer these questions from the ground. In a book the "Wall Street Journal" called "marvelous, rewarding," the authors tell how the stress ...(展开全部)

“Most of the people I write about in this book do not have the luxury of rage. They are caught in exhausting struggles. Their wages do not lift them far enough from poverty to improve their lives, and their lives, in turn, hold them back. The term by which they are usually described, ‘working poor,’ should be an oxymoron. Nobody who works hard should be poor in America.” —from ...(展开全部)

“Nobody who works hard should be poor in America,” writes Pulitzer Prize winner David Shipler. Clear-headed, rigorous, and compassionate, he journeys deeply into the lives of individual store clerks and factory workers, farm laborers and sweat-shop seamstresses, illegal immigrants in menial jobs and Americans saddled with immense student loans and paltry wages. They are known a...(展开全部)

もとサッカー少年の凪沙（なぎさ）。幼なじみの一颯（いっさ）は今日も学校をさぼって魚市場で働いている。放課後いつものように一颯のいる魚市場に足を運んだ凪沙は、一颯が女性と話している姿を見て動揺を隠せない……。海辺の街でとつぜん芽生えた、幼なじみ潮風ダイアリー。

From the beloved author of Dominicana, a GMA Book Club Pick and Women’s Prize Finalist, an electrifying and indelible new novel about a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story. Write this down: Cara Romero wants to work. Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses ...(展开全部)

The Freakonomics of math—a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our hands The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us how terribly limiting this view is: Math isn’t confined to abstract incidents that nev...(展开全部)

乔丹·艾伦伯格（Jordan Ellenberg） 美国威斯康星大学数学系教授。他在世界范围内发表他的关于数论研究的演讲，并于2013年在世界最大的数学会议——数学联合会议上做主题演讲。他的文章主要发表在《连线》《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》《华尔街日报》《波士顿环球报》等媒体上，他还为《石板》杂志写作“Do the Math”专栏文章，十分受欢迎。