Middle- and upper-middle-class students continue to outpace those from less privileged backgrounds. Most attempts to redress this inequality focus on the issue of access to financial resources, but, as "Producing Success" makes clear, the problem goes beyond mere economics. In this eye-opening study, Peter Demerath examines a typical suburban American high school to explain how...(展开全部)

A Pulitzer prize-winning journalist spends a year immersed in the high-pressure world of a competitive public high school—where teens chase 4.0 grades point averages, survive on as little as four hours of sleep, and chug lattes like water—and discovers the human story of what it takes to be a top student in America. Humes introduces a cast of passionate students, and touches on...(展开全部)

The pressure to succeed in our nation's most competitive public high schools is often crushing. Striving to understand this insular world, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edward Humes spent a year at California's Whitney High, a school so renowned that parents move across town-and across the world-hoping to enroll their children. That's because schools like Whitney deliver ev...(展开全部)

When The Culture of Narcissism was first published, it was clear that Christopher Lasch had identified something important: what was happening to American society in the wake of the decline of the family over the last century. The book quickly became a bestseller. This edition includes a new afterword, "The Culture of Narcissism Revisited."

克里斯托弗•拉什 Christopher Lasch 美国著名历史学家与社会心理学家。其主要著作有《自恋主义文化》、《最小的自我》等。曾有人评价说，当代没有任何一位历史学家能像他这样引起公共论坛的震撼。他的文章忠于事实、风格特异，又平易近人，每部作品的出版总会引起极大轰动。

A publication of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, this important resource builds on the work of Carnegie's best-selling books, Scholarship Reconsidered and Scholarship Assessed. The Advancement of Learning explores the premise that the scholarship of teaching and learning holds the key to improving the quality of higher education. The Advancement o...(展开全部)

A publication of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, this important resource builds on the work of Carnegie's best-selling books, Scholarship Reconsidered and Scholarship Assessed. The Advancement of Learning explores the premise that the scholarship of teaching and learning holds the key to improving the quality of higher education. The Advancement o...(展开全部)

During the 1960s, Morris Dickstein claims, America seemed to be at the gates of Eden verging on a new way of experiencing life, art, and culture. In this book, he discusses how America reached the gates and why, in the end, they remained closed. Beginning with Allen Ginsberg and the Beat poets of the late 1950s, Dickstein traces the rise of a new sensibility in American thought...(展开全部)

During the sixties, says Morris Dickstein, America seemed to be at the gates of Eden--verging on a new way of experiencing life, art & culture. In this provocative book, he discusses how we reached the gates & why, in the end, they remained closed. Beginning with Allen Ginsberg & the Beat poets of the late fifties, Dickstein traces the rise of a new sensibility in American thou...(展开全部)