A Nobel prize winner challenges us to throw off the free market fundamentalists and reclaim our economy. We all have the sense that the American economy―and its government―tilts toward big business, but as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in his new book, People, Power, and Profits, the situation is dire. A few corporations have come to dominate entire sectors of the economy, contri...(展开全部)

约瑟夫·E. 斯蒂格利茨，全球最尖端的经济学家之一，哥伦比亚大学教授，同时担任哥伦比亚大学全球思想委员会的联合主席。 2001年，因其对信息经济学的开创性工作而荣获诺贝尔经济学奖。在此之前，他还获得了约翰·贝茨·克拉克奖。 斯蒂格利茨教授先后执教于耶鲁大学、普林斯顿大学、斯坦福大学、麻省理工学院和牛津大学，是著名的经济学教育家之一。 他还曾担任克林顿政府经济顾问委员会主席、世界银行副行长兼首席经济学家等一系列重要职务。 斯蒂格利茨教授提出了经济全球化观点，是公共部门经济学领域著名的专家。他的经济学教材是世界上畅销的教材之一，他的著作常能引起学术界和大众的共鸣。 近期代表作：《重构美国经济》《不平等的代价》《自由市场的坠落》《全球化及其不满》《欧元危机》《巨大的鸿沟》。

“Anyone whose life needs a course correction would be fortunate to be guided by The Wisdom of Insecurity . My life still is, some thirty years later." —Deepak Chopra, from the Introduction Alan W. Watts’s “message for an age of anxiety” is as powerful today as it waswhen this modern classic was first published. We spend too much time trying to anticipate and plan for the fut...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The End of Faith. The God Delusion. God Is Not Great. Letter to a Christian Nation . Bestseller lists are filled with doubters. But what happens when you actually doubt your doubts? Although a vocal minority continues to attack the Christian faith, for most Americans, faith is a large part of their lives: 86 percent of Americans refer to themselves as religious,...(展开全部)

史蒂文·J.迪纳（Steven J.Diner），美国罗格斯大学纽瓦克分校（Rutgers University，Newark）教务和历史学教授。著有《一座城市和它的大学：芝加哥的公共政策》（A City and Its Universities：Public Policy in Chicago）等5本著作。

While covering no especially new ground, Diner (History/George Mason Univ.) compiles a cohesive look at one of the most change-filled eras in American history. Diner's view of the Progressive era, stressing the effects of the Industrial Revolution on American society, concentrates on the lives and experiences of workers, women, African-Americans, immigrants, and politicians in ...(展开全部)

Examines the concepts of information, meaning, and purpose, describes the function of information at various levels of organization, and discusses the theories of Edward Fredkin, Edward O. Wilson, and Kenneth Blouding.

Half a century ago Horkheimer and Adorno argued, with great prescience, that our increasingly rationalized and Westernized world was witnessing the emergence of a new kind of barbarism, thanks in part to the stultifying effects of the culture industries. What they could not foresee was that, with the digital revolution and the pervasive automation associated with it, the develo...(展开全部)

Half a century ago Horkheimer and Adorno argued, with great prescience, that our increasingly rationalized and Westernized world was witnessing the emergence of a new kind of barbarism, thanks in part to the stultifying effects of the culture industries. What they could not foresee was that, with the digital revolution and the pervasive automation associated with it, the develo...(展开全部)

A new, ecological approach to images by a renowned philosopher When Susan Sontag first proposed the idea of an “ecology of images,” she meant it as an exhortation to be vigilant against the vast surplus of pictures threatening our ability to truly see. Today, beyond the deep anxieties over a diminishing attention economy, concern focuses on the environmental cost of storing and...(展开全部)