This current, comprehensive history of American education is designed to stimulate critical analysis and critical thinking by offering alternative interpretations of each historical period. The point of view taken by this text emphasizes: the role of multiculturalism and cultural domination in shaping U.S. schools; the position of the school as one of many institutions that man...(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)

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)

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)

莫奈之后，再写伦勃朗

《伦勃朗1642》以名画《夜巡》为分割点，荷兰美术史上伟大的画家伦勃朗的的一生分为两个截然不同的命运：前期，他住豪宅，娶佳人，名利双收；此后他一步步走向黑暗，妻子去世，债务缠身，家财丧尽，穷苦不堪，但他沉浸在艺术的氛围中，全心全意绘画那个荷兰黄金时代的百态生活，以及荷兰人的心理活动和精神。

《伦勃朗1642》以名画《夜巡》为分割点，荷兰美术史上伟大的画家伦勃朗的的一生分为两个截然不同的命运：前期，他住豪宅，娶佳人，名利双收；此后他一步步走向黑暗，妻子去世，债务缠身，家财丧尽，穷苦不堪，但他沉浸在艺术的氛围中，全心全意绘画那个荷兰黄金时代的百态生活，以及荷兰人的心理活动和精神。

莫奈之后，再写伦勃朗

This widely acclaimed book is a comprehensive and authoritative account of the history and ideas of the Frankfurt School - the most important and influential group of leftist intellectuals, philosophers and social theorists in Germany this century. Wiggershaus traces the history of the School from its establishment in the early years of the Weimar Republic, through the ...(展开全部)