We all worry about what others think of us. We all long to succeed and fear failure. We all suffer --- to a greater or lesser degree, usually privately and with embarassment --- from status anxiety. For the first time, Alain de Botton gives a name to this universal condition and sets out to investigate both its origins and possible solutions. He looks at history, philosophy, ec...(展开全部)

We all worry about what others think of us. We all long to succeed and fear failure. We all suffer --- to a greater or lesser degree, usually privately and with embarassment --- from status anxiety. For the first time, Alain de Botton gives a name to this universal condition and sets out to investigate both its origins and possible solutions. He looks at history, philosophy, ec...(展开全部)

Jean Wynck，是美国科罗拉多州立大学(Colorado State University)的荣誉退休教授(Professor Emerita)，曾任该校写作教研部主任11年之久。她有丰富的教学经验，在近30年的教学生涯中，主讲过本科英语写作课、培训过英语写作教师并担任多项写作研究项目的负责人。此外，她还著有“The Rinehart Reader”和“Discovering Ideas”等著作。她曾发表了二十多篇关于写作和美国文学方面的论文。目前她研究的主要内容包括19世纪晚期和20世纪初的美国小说、美国研究以及妇女研究。她出版的三本大学写作教材都曾多次再版。

In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global 'overshoot, ' or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental scientists Donnella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows have teamed up ...(展开全部)

Thoroughly updated to cover world affairs up to 2009, Comparative Politics Today continues to set the standard for comparing the world’s political systems and for examining the purpose of government. This text includes thematic chapters and country studies that define fundamental political science concepts, lay out a theoretical framework, and analyze differences and similariti...(展开全部)

The United States was founded on the principle of equal opportunity for all, and this ethos continues to inform the nation’s collective identity. In reality, however, absolute equality is elusive. The gap between rich and poor has widened in recent decades, and the United States has the highest level of economic inequality of any developed country. Social class and other differ...(展开全部)

In Class Paul Fussell explodes the sacred American myth of social equality with eagle-eyed irreverence and iconoclastic wit. This bestselling, superbly researched, exquisitely observed guide to the signs, symbols, and customs of the American class system is always outrageously on the mark as Fussell shows us how our status is revealed by everything we do, say, and own. He descr...(展开全部)

In Class Paul Fussell explodes the sacred American myth of social equality with eagle-eyed irreverence and iconoclastic wit. This bestselling, superbly researched, exquisitely observed guide to the signs, symbols, and customs of the American class system is always outrageously on the mark as Fussell shows us how our status is revealed by everything we do, say, and own. He descr...(展开全部)

查尔斯•W•凯格利，美利坚大学学士，雪城大学博士，哈佛大学皮优学者。现为南卡罗莱纳大学国际关系学教授，雪城大学麦克斯韦尔学院莫伊尼汉全球事务研究所助理研究员。曾获得国际研究协会外交政策杰出学者奖。著作四十多本。近期出版的有《新全球恐怖主义》（2003)）、《国际关系理论之争》（1995）等。