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)

Paul G. Hewitt， 美国概念物理教学的先驱，是美国多所大学、中学的客座教师。其编写的教材深受广大读者欢迎。

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van La...(展开全部)

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van La...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

索尼互动娱乐圣塔莫尼卡工作室（英文：SIE Santa Monica Studio）是一间美国的电子游戏开发商，于1999年成立于加利福尼亚州圣塔莫尼卡，隶属于索尼互动娱乐的全球工作室旗下，曾开发“Kinetica”游戏引擎，代表作《战神》系列。

This book teaches functional programming through creative applications in music and sound synthesis. Readers will learn the Haskell programming language and explore numerous ways to create music and design virtual instruments with concise, elegant code.

近百年来，年鉴学派引起了争议：它的拥趸们革新了历史研究，扩展了经济、社会和文明史学术研究允许的主题数量，推翻了19世纪历史学家的做法，显然支持一种原创的、跨学科的方法。 年鉴学派的反对者坚称这是年鉴历史学家流传的故事的一部分。从反对者的角度审视年鉴，一个完全不同的画面浮现出来，其中一系列跨越边界的学者的攻击和妥协使得年代学派关于研究过去的建议受到了偏转。由于文化、教育、意识形态和宗教承诺以及现代政治文化在年鉴和他们的反对者之间的辩论中的相互联系，该分析采用广角镜头，以提出人类历史研究的新视野。