编辑推荐 Daniel J. Boorstin, one of America's great historians, focuses on American ingenuity and emergent nationalism in this middle book of the Americans trilogy, dealing with a period extending roughly from the Revolution to the Civil War. Like its two companion volumes, The National Experience is a sometimes quirky look at how certain patterns of living helped shape the charact...(展开全部)

'You may have capital and a talented management team, but if you are fundamentally in a lousy business, you won't get the kind of results you would in a good business. All businesses aren't created equal.' William P.Egan II, veteran US venture capitalist No matter how talented you are, no matter how much capital you have, no matter how good your business plan is, if you're pur...(展开全部)

Automated testing is a cornerstone of agile development. An effective testing strategy will deliver new functionality more aggressively, accelerate user feedback, and improve quality. However, for many developers, creating effective automated tests is a unique and unfamiliar challenge. xUnit Test Patterns is the definitive guide to writing automated tests using xUnit, the most...(展开全部)

Automated testing is a cornerstone of agile development. An effective testing strategy will deliver new functionality more aggressively, accelerate user feedback, and improve quality. However, for many developers, creating effective automated tests is a unique and unfamiliar challenge. xUnit Test Patterns is the definitive guide to writing automated tests using xUnit, the most...(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。

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)