At a time when most Americans assume that their presidents lie to them, no book could be more essential than bestselling author Eric Alterman??s devastating analysis of the costs of executive duplicity. One of the best-known left-of-center journalist-historians in America, Alterman argues that those costs are not merely moral but practical . As examples, he uses four key lies ...(展开全部)

This is a book for those looking for different answers to some of today's most fundamental questions. What is a consumer society? Does being a consumer make us more materialistic? Why do we shop? Miller responds to these questions by proposing feasible and currently available alternatives, mainly drawn from his own ethnographic research.

This is a book for those looking for different answers to some of today's most fundamental questions. What is a consumer society? Does being a consumer make us less authentic or more materialistic? How and why do we shop? How should we understand the economy? Is our seemingly insatiable desire for goods destroying the planet? Can we reconcile curbs on consumption with goal...(展开全部)

National Bestseller On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and ...(展开全部)

《冷血》（英文：In Cold Blood）是美国作家楚门·卡波特于1966出版的小说，详述1959年一起位于堪萨斯州霍尔库姆，优渥农人赫伯特·克拉特一家遭灭门的残暴凶杀案。卡波特获悉此事后，与好友作家哈波·李决定一同前往当地进行调查。他们访问了当地居民与该案的调查人员，摘记了上千页的纪录。凶手狄克与贝利在犯案后不久被逮捕，卡波特随后耗尽六年心血著成此书。《冷血》被公认是非虚构小说鼻祖及新新闻主义先驱，同时也成了卡波特的经典代表作之一。 Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensiv...(展开全部)

《冷血》（英文：In Cold Blood）是美国作家楚门·卡波特于1966出版的小说，详述1959年一起位于堪萨斯州霍尔库姆，优渥农人赫伯特·克拉特一家遭灭门的残暴凶杀案。卡波特获悉此事后，与好友作家哈波·李决定一同前往当地进行调查。他们访问了当地居民与该案的调查人员，摘记了上千页的纪录。凶手狄克与贝利在犯案后不久被逮捕，卡波特随后耗尽六年心血著成此书。《冷血》被公认是非虚构小说鼻祖及新新闻主义先驱，同时也成了卡波特的经典代表作之一。 Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensiv...(展开全部)

National Bestseller On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and ...(展开全部)

Coinage - it is one of the most successful and consistent technologies ever invented. Nothing else we still use in everyday life has a history quite like it. Look around at all the things that would bewilder a Greek, Roman, or Renaissance ancestor; then, dig into your purse or pocket for that one artifact that they would immediately recognize as part of their world. Historian F...(展开全部)

Coinage - it is one of the most successful and consistent technologies ever invented. Nothing else we still use in everyday life has a history quite like it. Look around at all the things that would bewilder a Greek, Roman, or Renaissance ancestor; then, dig into your purse or pocket for that one artifact that they would immediately recognize as part of their world. Historian F...(展开全部)

Why do even well-educated people often understand so little about maths - or take a perverse pride in not being a 'numbers person'? In his now-classic book "Innumeracy", John Allen Paulos answers questions such as: why is following the stock market exactly like flipping a coin; how big is a trillion; how fast does human hair grow in mph; and, can you calculate the chances that ...(展开全部)