A riveting, original book about the creation of the modern American mind. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, and t...(展开全部)

A riveting, original book about the creation of the modern American mind. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, and t...(展开全部)

A riveting, original book about the creation of the modern American mind. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, and t...(展开全部)

A riveting, original book about the creation of the modern American mind. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, and t...(展开全部)

The new edition of a popular collection that traces the history of American invention from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley. This volume traces the history of American technology-its inventions and inventors-from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley. The focus on inventors acknowledges that technology is a fundamental form of human behavior and...(展开全部)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a relentless detective, and the great plague of homicide in America On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man is shot and killed on a sidewalk minutes away from his home, one of the thousands of black Americans murdered that year. His assailant runs down the street, jump...(展开全部)

克里斯汀•米勒 曾为《洛杉矶时报》记者，报道政治、战争等相关题材的新闻，现为ProPublica资深记者，在加州大学伯克利分校教授数据新闻学。著有非虚构作品《血腥钱：在伊拉克浪费的数十亿美元、失去的生命和贪婪的公司》。 肯•阿姆斯特朗 曾就职于《芝加哥论坛报》，2017年入职ProPublica。与尼克•佩里合著的《记分牌，宝贝：大学橄榄球、犯罪和共谋的故事》获爱伦•坡奖最佳真实罪案奖。 两人凭借对《谎报》一书中事件的一系列报道获2016年普利策新闻奖。

克里斯汀•米勒 曾为《洛杉矶时报》记者，报道政治、战争等相关题材的新闻，现为ProPublica资深记者，在加州大学伯克利分校教授数据新闻学。著有非虚构作品《血腥钱：在伊拉克浪费的数十亿美元、失去的生命和贪婪的公司》。 肯•阿姆斯特朗 曾就职于《芝加哥论坛报》，2017年入职ProPublica。与尼克•佩里合著的《记分牌，宝贝：大学橄榄球、犯罪和共谋的故事》获爱伦•坡奖最佳真实罪案奖。 两人凭借对《谎报》一书中事件的一系列报道获2016年普利策新闻奖。

One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and social justice that is rapidly transforming America—and explains why it will fail to accomplish its noble goals For much of history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities. It is no surprise that many who passionately believe in social justice came...(展开全部)

The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long a...(展开全部)