There are no underground bunkers of supercomputers at the heart of the Uber miracle. No cloisters of silent technicians guiding Etsy to its marketplace dominance. Google HQ looks more like a Scandinavian parliament than a server farm. The truth is, the tech boom has less to do with a massive explosion of silicon and aluminum, and much more to do with a massive expansion of the ...(展开全部)

本书作者法里德·扎卡里亚是印度裔美国人，拥有耶鲁大学、哈佛大学教育背景，被认为是“这个时代最有影响力的外事政策顾问”，是美国舆论界非常重要的人物。他目前是《时代》周刊特约编辑，《华盛顿邮报》、《纽约时报》专栏作家，著有畅销书《后美国世界》（The Post-American World）和《自由的未来》（The Future of Freedom）。

The liberal arts major is often lampooned: lacking in "skills," unqualified for a professional career, underemployed. But studying for the joy of learning turns out to be surprisingly practical. Unlike career-focused education, liberal education prepares graduates for anything and everything—and nervous "fuzzy major" students, their even more nervous parents, college career cen...(展开全部)

本书是美国著名经济学家 克鲁格曼 的最新力作。他在书中回顾了将近一个世纪的美国历史，从镀金年代的政治经济，直到布什年代的经济停滞。他认为，这是保守主义运动掌控美国政府的必然结果，婴儿潮时代美国中产阶级的成长则是受益于小 罗斯福 的新政。克鲁格曼指出，这两种方向的发展都非自然演进的结果，都是由组织化的政治运动所引导的，尤其是 20 世纪 70 年代以后不断加剧的两极分化和社会不公。他在书中深入地探讨了美国主张自由放任 资本主义 的 “ 保守主义运动 ” 对美国经济、社会和政治的不良影响，呼吁重新展开社会政策的公共辩论，主张政府应发挥好 维护社会稳定和社会公正的作用，同时警醒世人不要冷漠对待社会经济不平等议题，以致错失改革良机。 "The most consistent and courageo...(展开全部)

What has gone wrong with America? With The Conscience of a Liberal, best-selling author Paul Krugman points the way to a new New Deal. America emerged from Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal with strong democratic values and broadly shared prosperity. But for the past thirty years American politics has been dominated by a conservative movement determined to undermine the New Deal's ...(展开全部)

Why Education Is Useless Daniel Cottom "A tour de force, implicitly summarizing and commenting on more than two millennia of arguments about the function of education. Why Education Is Useless is craftily written and thoroughly enjoyable."--Michael Berube, author of The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies Education is useless because it destr...(展开全部)

Acclaim for The Education of a Speculator, a provocative and penetrating look into the mind, the soul, and the strategies of one of the most controversial traders of all time "A compelling and an entertaining read." —The Wall Street Journal "Victor Niederhoffer gives us page after page of distilled investment wisdom. Taken together, this is pure nectar to those who aim for cons...(展开全部)

Acclaim for The Education of a Speculator, a provocative and penetrating look into the mind, the soul, and the strategies of one of the most controversial traders of all time "A compelling and an entertaining read." -The Wall Street Journal "Victor Niederhoffer gives us page after page of distilled investment wisdom. Taken together, this is pure nectar to those who aim fo...(展开全部)

How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for the truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender and nation? In this book the author argues that contemporary curricular reform is already producing such "citizens of the world" in its advocacy of diverse forms of cross-cultural studies. Nussbaum's defence of "the new education" is...(展开全部)

How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for the truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender and nation? In this book the author argues that contemporary curricular reform is already producing such "citizens of the world" in its advocacy of diverse forms of cross-cultural studies. Nussbaum's defence of "the new education" is...(展开全部)