奥普拉·温弗瑞： 通过当代传媒的力量，奥普拉·温弗瑞与世界各地的人们建立了无以伦比的联结。在25年间，作为超高收视率并屡屡获奖的同名脱口秀节目主持人和制片人，奥普拉·温弗瑞启发并鼓励了全球数百万观众。如今的她，由于全球媒体领导者和慈善家的身份，成为了最受人尊重和仰慕的公众人物之一。

2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found. 2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. Tom Metcalfe, an academic at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain’s remaining isl...(展开全部)

《高效学习:我们所知道的理解性教学》是美国斯坦福大学教授、奥巴马政府现行教育政策改革团队领导人琳达·达林-哈蒙德(Linda Darling-Hammond)与布里基·巴伦(Brigid Barron)等7位知名学者花了十多年的时间开展学习研究的成果。他们基于人是如何学习的理论观点，聚焦于阅读与素养、数学、科学这三大主要学科领域，从理论和实践层面探索了“理解性教学”的教学形式(基于项目学习、基于设计的学习和基于问题的学习)，阐释了在新技术的强大支持下，革新课堂学习环境，促进高效学习的策略以及影响这些策略有效性的因素与条件。他们还提出了变革学校体系，为理解性教学建立学校的主张。 In Powerful Learning, Linda Darling-Hammond and an impressive list of co-authors offer a...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Nothing is sacred. Sex, morality, politics, society - all are fair game for Bertrand Russell's acerbic wit and keen eye. With What I Believe first published in 1925, Russell took on organized religion. Along with Why I Am Not a Christian, this essay must rank as the most articulate example of Russell's famed atheism. It is also one of the most notorious. Used as evidenc...(展开全部)

I do what I Do is a non fiction book authored by economist and former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Raghuram Rajan published by Harper Collins India in 2017. The book is a collection of speeches delivered by Rajan during his stint as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India along with his commentary on the economic and political context prevalent at that time.

Award-winning journalist Dolly Alderton survived her twenties (just about) and in Everything I Know About Love, she gives an unflinching account of the bad dates and squalid flat-shares, the heartaches and humiliations, and most importantly, the unbreakable female friendships that helped her to hold it all together. Glittering with wit, heart and humour, this is a book to press...(展开全部)

- Clear, engaging, and scientifically-based guide to understanding the major issues surrounding overfishing - Considers all sides of overfishing issue and provides a balanced view - Includes case studies of major fisheries as a frame for understanding major issues Over the past twenty years considerable public attention has been focused on the decline of marine fisheries, the s...(展开全部)

Psychoanalysis is less merciful than Christianity. Where God the Father forgives our ignorance, psychoanalysis holds out no such hope. Ignorance is not a sufficient ground for forgiveness since it masks enjoyment; an enjoyment which erupts in those black holes in our symbolic universe that escape the Father's prohibition. Today, with the disintegration of state socialism, we a...(展开全部)

Does charitable giving still matter but need to change? Philanthropy, the use of private assets for public good, has been much criticised in recent years. Do elite philanthropists wield too much power? Is big-money philanthropy unaccountable and therefore anti-democratic? And what about so-called “tainted donations” and “dark money” funding pseudo-philanthropic political projec...(展开全部)