A riveting, deeply personal memoir of more than twenty years of death-scene investigations by New York City death investigator Barbara Butcher. Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected lifeline: a job at the Medical Examiner’s Office in New York City. The second woman ever hired for the role of Death Investigator in Manhattan, she w...(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)

《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)

This classic work chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and parallel changes. What distinguishes Sassen's theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of cross-border dynamics through which these cities and the growing number of other global cities begin to form strateg...(展开全部)

The city is often depicted as a sort of self-organizing chaos. This collection of essays, edited by Pier Vittorio Aureli, makes the case for the opposite hypothesis: The city is always the result of political intention, often in the form of specific architectural projects. Cities are shaped not only by material forces, but also by cultural and didactic visions. This thesis is s...(展开全部)

The city is often depicted as a sort of self-organizing chaos. This collection of essays, edited by Pier Vittorio Aureli, makes the case for the opposite hypothesis: The city is always the result of political intention, often in the form of specific architectural projects. Cities are shaped not only by material forces, but also by cultural and didactic visions. This thesis is s...(展开全部)

This classic work chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and parallel changes. What distinguishes Sassen's theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of cross-border dynamics through which these cities and the growing number of other global cities begin to form strateg...(展开全部)

Through a series of case studies, the authors aim to debunk the idea that science is the result of competent theorization, observation and experimentation. They argue that scientific certainty comes from interpreting ambiguous results within an order which the scientists themselves impose.

Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch liken science to the Golem, a creature from Jewish mythology, powerful yet potentially dangerous, a gentle, helpful creature that may yet run amok at any moment. Through a series of intriguing case studies the authors debunk the traditional view that science is the straightforward result of competent theorisation, observation and experimentation. ...(展开全部)

Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in a little bar in a small town deep in Louisiana. She's funny and pretty and well-mannered, but she doesn't have that many close friends - mind you, that's not so surprising when you consider how few people can appreciate her abilities as a mind-reader. It's not a quality that has the guys beating down her door - well, unless they're va...(展开全部)