A provocative exploration about the architecture of power, the forces that stifle us from getting things done, and how we can restore confidence in democratically elected government—“the best book to date on the biggest political issue that nobody is talking about” (Matthew Yglesias) America was once a country that did big things—we built the world’s greatest rail network, a va...(展开全部)

Presents the political and economic case for a global market economy and analyses the history of globalization. Puts into perspective the threats to globalization, including terrorism, and suggests a way towards a better global market economy. DLC: Globalization--Economic aspects.

Presents the political and economic case for a global market economy and analyses the history of globalization. Puts into perspective the threats to globalization, including terrorism, and suggests a way towards a better global market economy. DLC: Globalization--Economic aspects.

“WHERE DID THE UNIVERSE COME FROM? WHAT WAS THERE BEFORE IT? WHAT WILL THE FUTURE BRING? AND FINALLY, WHY IS THERE SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING?” Lawrence Krauss’s provocative answers to these and other timeless questions in a wildly popular lecture now on YouTube have attracted almost a million viewers. The last of these questions in particular has been at the center of relig...(展开全部)

“WHERE DID THE UNIVERSE COME FROM? WHAT WAS THERE BEFORE IT? WHAT WILL THE FUTURE BRING? AND FINALLY, WHY IS THERE SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING?” Lawrence Krauss’s provocative answers to these and other timeless questions in a wildly popular lecture now on YouTube have attracted almost a million viewers. The last of these questions in particular has been at the center of relig...(展开全部)

Long awaited after No Future, and making queer theory controversial again, Lee Edelman’s Bad Education proposes a queerness without positive identity—a queerness understood as a figural name for the void, itself unnamable, around which the social order takes shape. Like Blackness, woman, incest, and sex, queerness, as Edelman explains it, designates the antagonism, the structur...(展开全部)

Long awaited after No Future, and making queer theory controversial again, Lee Edelman’s Bad Education proposes a queerness without positive identity—a queerness understood as a figural name for the void, itself unnamable, around which the social order takes shape. Like Blackness, woman, incest, and sex, queerness, as Edelman explains it, designates the antagonism, the structur...(展开全部)

Long awaited after No Future, and making queer theory controversial again, Lee Edelman’s Bad Education proposes a queerness without positive identity—a queerness understood as a figural name for the void, itself unnamable, around which the social order takes shape. Like Blackness, woman, incest, and sex, queerness, as Edelman explains it, designates the antagonism, the structur...(展开全部)

【保罗·图赫（Paul Tough）】 《纽约时报杂志》（The New York Times Magazine）特约撰稿人以及公共广播节目《美国人的生活》（This American Life）定期撰稿人。他的作品经常刊登在《纽约客》（The New Yorker）、《大西洋月刊》（The Atlantic）、《绅士季刊》（GQ）和 《君子杂志》 （Esquire）等刊物上。他曾担任过《纽约时报杂志》和《哈泼斯杂志》（Harper's Magazine）的编辑以及《美国人的生活》节目监制。他与妻子及两个孩子一起住在纽约蒙托克小镇。登录paultough.com网站或访问Twitter@paultough了解更多关于他的信息。

【保罗·图赫（Paul Tough）】 《纽约时报杂志》（The New York Times Magazine）特约撰稿人以及公共广播节目《美国人的生活》（This American Life）定期撰稿人。他的作品经常刊登在《纽约客》（The New Yorker）、《大西洋月刊》（The Atlantic）、《绅士季刊》（GQ）和 《君子杂志》 （Esquire）等刊物上。他曾担任过《纽约时报杂志》和《哈泼斯杂志》（Harper's Magazine）的编辑以及《美国人的生活》节目监制。他与妻子及两个孩子一起住在纽约蒙托克小镇。登录paultough.com网站或访问Twitter@paultough了解更多关于他的信息。