A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist. Jake Adelstein is the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, where for twelve years he covered the dark side of Japan: extortion, murder, human trafficking, fiscal corruption, and of course, the ya...(展开全部)

From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime . . . crime reporting, that is, at the prestigious Yomiuri Shinbun . For...(展开全部)

A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist. Jake Adelstein is the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, where for twelve years he covered the dark side of Japan: extortion, murder, human trafficking, fiscal corruption, and of course, the ya...(展开全部)

From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime . . . crime reporting, that is, at the prestigious Yomiuri Shinbun . For...(展开全部)

A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss In the 1980s, a wave of Chinese from Fujian province began arriving in America. Like other immigrant groups before them, they showed up with little money but with an intense work ethic and an unshakeable belief in the promise of the United States. Many of them lived in a world outside the...(展开全部)

In this highly entertaining work, Bill Morgan,a leading authority on the movement and a man who personally knew most of the Beats, narrates the history of these writers as primarily a social group of friends, tracing their origins together during the World War II years to the full blossoming of their notoriety in the late 1950s to their profound influence on the social upheaval...(展开全部)

罗伯特·帕特南 1941年生，美国当代最杰出的政治学家，曾担任美国政治学协会主席。哈佛大学马尔金公共政策讲席教授，美国国家科学院院士，2006年荣获政治学界最高奖约翰·斯凯特奖，且为2013年总统颁布的国家人文勋章得主。曾出任肯尼迪政府管理学院院长。目前著书14部，被译为20多种语言，在比较政治、美国政治、国际关系和政治理论领域均做出过卓越的原创贡献。代表作《让民主运转起来》和《独自打保龄》是过去半个世纪引证最多的社会科学著作，在国内学界和思想界也有深远的影响。多年来，他担任过多届美国总统、英国首相、法国总统以及多个国家政府首脑的资深顾问，其学术思想也激发了全球范围内草根社会运动的勃兴。 译者 田 雷 华东师范大学法学院教授，曾任教于重庆大学人文社会科学高等研究院，《雅理译丛》主编。香港中文大学政治学博士（2008年），耶鲁大学法学硕士（2010年...(展开全部)

A groundbreaking examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility. It’s the American dream: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and success. This is the America we believe in—a nation of opportunity, constrained only by ability and effort. B...(展开全部)

The authors describe how 'inequality scripts' shape the hiring and promotion practices of organizations in ways that provide differential opportunities to people based on class, gender, and racial memberships. The authors also illustrate how privileged class members benefit from organizationally-based and perpetuated forms of inequality. The second edition retains its provocati...(展开全部)