Many popular ideas about terrorists and why they seek to harm us are fueled by falsehoods and misinformation. Leading politicians and scholars have argued that poverty and lack of education breed terrorism, despite the wealth of evidence showing that most terrorists come from middle-class, and often college-educated, backgrounds. In What Makes a Terrorist, Alan Krueger argues t...(展开全部)

Many popular ideas about terrorists and why they seek to harm us are fueled by falsehoods and misinformation. Leading politicians and scholars have argued that poverty and lack of education breed terrorism, despite the wealth of evidence showing that most terrorists come from middle-class, and often college-educated, backgrounds. In What Makes a Terrorist, Alan Krueger argues t...(展开全部)

Many popular ideas about terrorists and why they seek to harm us are fueled by falsehoods and misinformation. Leading politicians and scholars have argued that poverty and lack of education breed terrorism, despite the wealth of evidence showing that most terrorists come from middle-class, and often college-educated, backgrounds. In "What Makes a Terrorist", Alan Krueger argues...(展开全部)

Alan B. Krueger is the Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Princeton University and an adviser to the National Counter-terrorism Center. He is the coauthor of Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies?and Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage (Princeton).

作者简介 凯文·莱曼（Kevin Leman）博士—— 全球知名的家教研究专家、心理学博士、媒体名人、演讲家。 他曾先后担任众多美国知名电视栏目的家教嘉宾，包括FOX广播公司的《奥普拉》、美国有线新闻网的《美国早晨》《关注家庭》等；他所著的家教类图书屡次荣登《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜，并收获各类奖项；他还是美国“夫妻承诺”组织的创始人。 他和他的妻子桑德共同养育了5个子女及2个孙子孙女，如今，他们的孩子都拥有了成功、幸福的人生。他的儿子小凯文?莱曼是好莱坞首席编剧，并6次获得艾美奖。

凯文·莱曼（Kevin Leman）博士—— 全球知名的家教研究专家、心理学博士、媒体名人、演讲家。 他曾先后担任众多美国知名电视栏目的家教嘉宾，包括FOX广播公司的《奥普拉》、美国有线新闻网的《美国早晨》《关注家庭》等；他所著的家教类图书屡次荣登《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜，并收获各类奖项；他还是美国“夫妻承诺”组织的创始人。 他和他的妻子桑德共同养育了5个子女及2个孙子孙女，如今，他们的孩子都拥有了成功、幸福的人生。他的儿子小凯文?莱曼是好莱坞首席编剧，并6次获得艾美奖。

For better or worse, museums are changing from forbidding bastions of rare art into audience-friendly institutions that often specialize in “blockbuster” exhibitions designed to draw crowds. But in the midst of this sea change, one largely unanswered question stands out: “What makes a great exhibition?” Some of the world’s leading curators and art historians try to answer this ...(展开全部)

What Makes a Social Crisis? The Societalization of Social Problems Jeffrey C. Alexander In this book, Jeffrey Alexander develops a new sociological theory of social crisis, which he calls societalization. He argues that crises are triggered not by objective social strains but by the discourse and institutions of the civil sphere. In the steady state, reactions to strains unfold...(展开全部)

What Makes a Social Crisis? The Societalization of Social Problems Jeffrey C. Alexander In this book, Jeffrey Alexander develops a new sociological theory of social crisis, which he calls societalization. He argues that crises are triggered not by objective social strains but by the discourse and institutions of the civil sphere. In the steady state, reactions to strains unfold...(展开全部)

Baudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter - not merely the reality of death, but in a sacrifice that challenges the whole system. Where previously the old revolutionary sought to conduct a struggle between real forces in the context of ideology and politics, the new terrorist mounts a powerful symbolic challenge which, when combined wit...(展开全部)