The widely acclaimed study of what's gone wrong in American higher education. What do we know about the history, origin, design, and purpose of the SAT? Who invented it, and why? How did it acquire such a prominent and lasting position in American education? The Big Test reveals the ideas, people, and politics behind a fifty-year-old utopian social experiment that changed this ...(展开全部)

尼古拉斯·莱曼 | Nicholas Lemann 美国资深媒体人、学者。1976年毕业于哈佛大学，随即投身新闻事业，先后供职于《华盛顿月刊》《得克萨斯月刊》《华盛顿邮报》《大西洋月刊》，自1999年开始担任《纽约客》特约撰稿人。2003年9月，出任哥伦比亚大学新闻学院院长；2010年入选美国人文与科学院（American Academy of Arts and Sciences）院士；现任哥伦比亚大学“约瑟夫•普利策二世与伊迪丝•普利策•摩尔新闻学讲席教授”，以及哥伦比亚大学新闻学院名誉院长。

经济杀手，是指那些拿着高薪的顶尖专业人士，他们从世界各国攫取了数以千亿计的金钱。这些钱，通过世界银行，美国国际开发署以及其他国外的援助机构，装入到美国各大集团公司的金库和少数控制全球自然资源的显赫家族的口袋中。经济杀手用尽各种高明手段：伪造财政报告、操纵选举、贿赂、敲诈，色诱乃至谋杀。他们玩的是美国“帝国霸权”时代一开始就有的“老把戏”，在经济全球化的时代，其规模空前庞大，令人恐怖。 我清楚这一切！因为我曾经就是一名经济杀手！ ——约翰•珀金斯

Michael Young has christened the oligarchy of the future “Meritocracy.” Indeed, the word is now part of the English language. It would appear that the formula: IQ+Effort=Merit may well constitute the basic belief of the ruling class in the twenty-first century. Projecting himself into the year 2034, the author of this sociological satire shows how present decisions and practice...(展开全部)

▼作者简介 尼基尔‧萨瓦尔 Nikil Saval 印度裔美国人，作家、编辑、新闻工作者，现居费城。 2004年毕业于哥伦比亚大学，自2004年起，他开始研究办公室的起源，曾在美国《n+1》杂志上发表了《办公室的诞生》一文。萨瓦尔目前是《n+1》杂志的编辑，他的文章也常刊于《纽约时报》《伦敦书评》《牛津美国》《洛杉矶时报》《赫芬顿邮报》《新政治家》等媒体。 他从事过劳工相关研究，并在UNITE HERE劳工组织当过志愿工作者。 ▼译者简介 吕宇珺 译者，从事翻译工作多年，非洲联盟委员会前主席祖马女士访华时，担任随同中英交传；自由撰稿人，曾为《环球》《看历史》等媒体撰写文章。

Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humd...(展开全部)

Truly deserving of the accolade a modern classic, Donna Tartt’s novel is a remarkable achievement—both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their conte...(展开全部)

Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humd...(展开全部)

Truly deserving of the accolade a modern classic, Donna Tartt’s novel is a remarkable achievement—both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their conte...(展开全部)

Taking English culture as its representative sample, The Secret History of Domesticity asks how the modern notion of the public-private relation emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Treating that relation as a crucial instance of the modern division of knowledge, Michael McKeon narrates its pre-history along with that of its essential component, domesticity. T...(展开全部)