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作者：  editor, Gianni Guadalupi ; translation, Neil Frazer Davenport ... [et al].

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Trouble with billionaires

作者：  (加)琳达·麦奎格(Linda McQuaig)，(加)尼尔·布鲁克斯(Neil Brooks)著;倪云松译

出版社：东方出版社,2013

简介：　　《亿万富翁的舞会：超级富豪如何绑架了世界》通过对亿万富翁的形象描述——从慈善家比尔 ·盖茨到声名狼藉的科克兄弟，直至无耻的私募基金巨头斯蒂芬·施瓦茨曼，颠覆了这样的理念：亿万富翁“理应获得”他们的巨额财富。

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简介：　　Sport Policy and Governance: Local Perspectives is the first detailed study of the politics of sport policy at the local authority level of governance. In focusing on the local level, the book recognises that the extent to which we benefit from public policy is a result of where we live. Taking the city of Liverpool as its core case study, the author investigates the changing contours of sport policy from the inception of the service area in the 1970s through the economic and political turbulence of the 1980s to the year of European Capital of Culture 2008. As the book gives centre stage to the period since 1997, the changing parameters of local sport policy are located within New Labour priorities around elite sport development and the instrumental uses of sport to deliver social policy goals. 　　 　　Written in a clear and accessible style, this book: 　　. Traces the evolution of the relationship between central government policy priorities and local sport policy and practice. 　　. Provides a political analysis of sport policy that foregrounds competition between differing interests in a context of scarce resources. 　　. Explores relationships between local authority policy for sport and policy relating to education, health, land-use planning and community regeneration. 　　. Investigates the organisational and funding contexts in which sport policy actors formulate and implement policy 　　. Assesses the strategies utilised by sport policy actors in pursuing their interests. 　　. Theorises contemporary sport policy processes and establishes parameters for future research. 　　 　　 Sport Policy and Governance: Local Perspectives is essential reading for anyone who is studying or teaching sport-related degree programmes, researching public policy, or who is a practitioner or policy-maker in the sport sector. 　　 　　 Dr. Neil King is Senior Lecturer in Sport Development at Edge Hill University, UK. His research, teaching and curriculum development largely centres on public policy, governance and development for sport, recreation and physical activity. His other research interests include policy for education, health, land-use planning and the environment, youth justice, culture, and urban regeneration. 　　 　　* The first text to highlight how local policy actors mediate national policy priorities 　　* Offers a fresh approach which directly links strategy with practice and smoothly blends theory with practice 　　* Includes detailed case studies on school sport policy, sport and health policy, sport and youth justice policy and sport and land-use planning policy　　

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简介： The first detailed account of the Ainu, the little-known aboriginal people of Japan, Neil Gordon Munro's classic work was based on decades of research in the first half of this century. Munro, a medical doctor who lived and worked in Japan for almost fifty years, studied the Ainu for years before finally going to live among them for the last twelve years of his life. Munro's object in writing Ainu Creed and Cultwas not only to give an account of his close observation of this mysterious people and their customs, but also to demonstrate to the world at large and to the Japanese in particular that the Ainu had an independent culture worthy of respect and preservation. The author's unique insider's position among the Ainu enabled him to accurately describe their religious beliefs, homes, ceremonies, social organizations, arts, festivities, and funerary practices. Ainu Creed and Cultureestablishes the intricacy of the group's spiritual beliefs and ritual practices, a dominant force in their daily lives. Munro's work stands today as a fine example of the anthropological method, as a historical record of those decades at the beginning of the century when the old Ainu ways were still followed, and as an eloquent and timeless plea for the dignity and survival of a minority cultural group.

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简介：Craig Ellwood - the Californian Modernist best known for the Los Angeles Case Study Houses - was a product of Hollywood, fashioned and honed by ambition. This text examines both the architecture and the colourful life of this extraordinary man. Ellwood's life and career are discussed chronologically, beginning with his early work in the post-war building industry and ending with his retirement to Italy for a new life as a painter. From his initial interview with Ellwood in 1988, Neil Jackson's many interviews with dozens of Ellwood's family, friends and colleagues contribute to making this volume more than an architectural monograph. The book is illustrated with drawings and images from the Ellwood archives at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, as well as with photographs by Marvin Rand, Julius Shulman and specially commissioned pictures by John Linden.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Clearly pleased by the trends he reports on, Gilbert (social welfare and social policy, U. of California at Berkeley) describes welfare reform in the United States and Europe as part of a systemic transformation that conforms to diverse theoretical expectations of processes of social, fiscal, and political pressures. The transformation marks a move away from publicly delivered benefits designed to protect labor from the vicissitudes of the market to private delivery of provisions designed to promote labor force participation. He does caution that these conditions might move too far in worship of the market and that some ameliorative policies should be put in place. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)   Publisher Summary 2 Since the early 1970s, debate has raged over the "crisis of the welfare state." As the United States successfully exported its bootstrap brand of capitalism and an ever-broadening range of public activity came to be viewed through the prism of profit and loss, social welfare policies were closely scrutinized worldwide. Welfare was no longer seen as a means to remedy the inherent flaws of capitalism, but rather was recast as part of the very problem it was designed to solve. At the same time, the glaring systemic deficiencies of extant welfare systems-and the psychological toll of welfare dependency--became increasingly apparent, even to welfare's supporters. How much has really changed in the world of welfare? A great deal, according to Neil Gilbert, one of our most deeply engaged and thoughtful analysts of social welfare policy. In this panoramic inquiry, Gilbert spans the globe to assess, in provocative yet dispassionate fashion, what welfare looks like in a free market world. From Sweden to the U.S., Gilbert finds a fundamental transformation in the welfare state--a turn away from broad-based entitlements and automatic benefits to a new, "enabling" approach defined by policies designed to promote privatization and labor force participation. He provides tangible evidence of how these new systems promote work and responsibility over protection and how they thicken the glue of civil society by diluting the pervasive role of government.  

Active Skills for Reading.Book 1

作者：  夏谷鸣总改编

出版社：上海外语教育出版社,2010

简介：　　《积极英语阅读教程：最新版.第1级.学生用书》编者Neil J.Anderson是国际上享有盛名的ESL／EFL阅读教学专家，曾在近30个国家从事英语阅读教学与教师培训工作。《积极英语阅读教程》是一套培养英语阅读理解能力、训练词汇技巧的系列教材，共分5个级别，包括预备级和1—4级，适合外国语学校、外语特色学校及重点中学使用。这套最新版教程和第一版相比，内容更精练，阅读能力的层次划分和培养目标更明确，词汇和阅读技巧的运用与学生实际学习需要的联系也更紧密。 　　最新版教程的主要特点有：整合了阅读内容，主题更丰富、体裁更多样，包含报刊时文、各种评论、博客作品和人物访谈录等。增设了预备级，扩大了教程的适用范围，能满足低起点学习者的需要，进一步明晰了教程的难易梯度。增设了Critical Thinking栏目，鼓励学习者多作批判性思考，深入分析课文和作者的创作意图。增设了4个复习单元，每3个单元之后安排了一次复习，帮助学习者提高阅读速度和流利程度。

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简介：　　The second edition of the best-selling Inside Relational Databases is revised and updated to bring you the most reader-friendly explanation of the relational model and its importance to database designers and builders.Clear explanations make use of examples rather than equations to show you how an understanding of the relational model can make your databases faster, more flexible and thoroughly fit for their purpose.Dr Mark Whitehorn has an extensive understanding of relational database theory and his popular and long running database column in the UK's "Personal Computer World" has already made database theory accessible to thousands.Bill Marklyn has an intimate knowledge of relational databases and was the Development Manager who oversaw the entire design of the first two major releases of Microsoft's highly successful database product, Access.Together they make a great team, illuminating a tricky subject with substance and style.Reviews from the first edition of Inside Relational Databases: "Quite simply - superb. By making relational databases understandable, Mark Whitehorn and Bill Marklyn have achieved far more than most. Making the subject interesting and entertaining as well puts these two authors firmly in a class of their own.""- Neil Fawcett, Group Technical Editor, VNU Business " "Publications""PCW and Amazon.co.uk contributor Mark Whitehorn is that rare combination - an expert in his field, databases, and a fine writer too, with a talent for honing a complex subject down to its essentials.""- Tamsin Todd, Computer and Internet Editor, Amazon.co.uk""Inside Relational Databases is excellent. It is clearly and concisely written and full of humorous asides which ease the reader through an otherwise weighty topic. Probably the most engaging technical book I have read.""- Paul McGowan "　　

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简介：. . . Read the book. It is worthwhile and highly recommended to all people working in agricultural development and similar fields. The book belongs to the most important publications printed recently. Frithjof Kuhnen, Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture . . . the book is a gold mine for those interested in the institutional aspects of development. The author has selected the articles carefully, so that the theme of the book is conveyed in a fruitful manner. Jeena T. Srinivasan, Kyklos . . . it is well worth reading. Neil Adger, Environment Sustaining Development brings together, in one accessible volume, a selection of Daniel W. Bromley s path-breaking theoretical and empirical papers on economic development and environmental problems in the developing world. The book emphasizes the institutional dimensions of the environment and development problem, paying particular attention to the role of property regimes in understanding the causes and consequences of environmental degradation. Daniel W. Bromley, one of the world s leading environmental scholars, addresses the conceptual and empirical issues of alternative property rights, institutions and incentives as they relate to environmental resources. Drawing on empirical work, he sheds new light on the pressing problems faced by governments in the developing world as they struggle with the twin challenges of poverty and resource degradation. Throughout the book Professor Bromley pays careful attention to the policy implications and policy formulation of the issues under discussion. Sustaining Development will be welcomed by environmental and development economists as well as policymakers in both the industrialized and developing world.

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简介：What is multiculturalism? The word is used everywhere, often without being clearly defined. The first collection of this scope, Mapping Multiculturalismoffers cogent critiques of the term and its uses by leading scholars in sociology, history, literary criticism, popular culture studies, ethnic studies, and critical legal studies. The contributors look at current uses of the rubric “multicultural” and offer groundbreaking analyses of complex relationships between popular culture, political events, and intellectual trends. Featuring essays by authors, activists, artists, and theoreticians, Mapping Multiculturalismrepresents the entire range of multicultural studies today through essays that demarcate the cutting edge of contemporary cultural politics. ? Contributors: Norma Alarcón, U of California, Berkeley; Richard P. Appelbaum, U of California, Santa Barbara; Edna Bonacich, U of California, Riverside; Wendy Brown, U of California, Santa Cruz; Darryl B. Dickson-Carr, Florida State U; Antonia I. Casta?eda, U of Texas, Austin; Angie Chabram-Dernersesian, U of California, Davis; Jon Cruz, U of California, Santa Barbara; Angela Y. Davis, U of California, Santa Cruz; Steve Fagin, U of California, San Diego; Rosa Linda Fregoso, U of California, Davis; Neil Gotanda, Western State U; M. Annette Jaimes Guerrero, San Francisco State U; Ramón Gutiérrez, U of California, San Diego; Cynthia Hamilton, U of Rhode Island; George Lipsitz, University of California, San Diego; Lisa Lowe, U of California, San Diego; Wahneema Lubiano, Princeton U; Michael Omi, U of California, Berkeley; Lourdes Portillo; Cedric Jo Robinson, U of California, Santa Barbara; Tricia Rose, New York U; Gregg Scott; Paul Smith, George Mason U; Renee Tajima; Patricia Zavella, U of California, Santa Cruz. Avery F. Gordon teaches sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Christopher Newfield teaches English, also at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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简介：In "Using English," writers from a range of academic discipline examine a wide variety of texts and discourses including: everyday conversation, English in the workplace, English and Rhetoric, literary practices, English and popular culture, language and literature. Highly interdisciplinary in approach, this second in a series of four book provides a coherent introduction to the way in which language is shaped and used in practice. Contributors include: Mike Baynham, Guy Cook, Lizbeth Goodman, Janet Maybin, Robin Mercer, Jane Miller and Neil Mercer.

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简介：Practical English Language Teachingoffers a thorough yet practical overview of language teaching methodology for teachers and teachers in preparation. The principles outlined in each chapter are richly illustrated with vignettes and extracts from real classrooms so the reader can see what the principles "look like" when realized in classroom teaching. The book is divided into three sections:Exploring Skills, Exploring Language, and Supporting the Learning Process. FEATURES: Critical areas of language teachingare comprehensively addressed with a specific focus on practical techniques, strategies, and tips. World-class specialistslike Neil Andersen, Kathleen M. Bailey, Mary Ann Christison, and David Nunan offer a variety of perspectives on language teaching and the learning process. Reflectionquestionsinvite readers to think about critical issues in language teaching whileActiontasksoutline strategies for putting new techniques into practice. Thoughtful suggestions for books, articles, and Web sites offer resources for additional, up-to-date information. Expansive glossaryoffers short and straightforward definitions of core language teaching terms.

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简介：Challenges churches to transfuse themselves with the life-giving qualities and energy of the organic church movement In Church TransfusionNeil Cole (the foremost expert on organic church) teams up with his co-founder of Church Multiplication Associates , Phil Helfer, to revisit the themes from Cole’s previous books. They show conventional church leaders how to use organic principles to heal their DNA and transfuse themselves with an entirely new energy, vision, and a more missional approach to what they are and what they do. Since established churches can’t start from scratch the way new ones can, nor can they shift completely the way Cole’s Church 3.0proposed, Church Transfusionnot only applies the organic principles for them but also gives tangible examples of how they do indeed work to bring change from the inside out. Offers a blueprint for applying organic principles to established churches to infuse them with renewed energy and visionNeil Cole? is the author of Church 3.0and Organic ChurchA new? title in the Leadership Network series Church Transfusionis Neil Cole’s most powerful follow up to Organic Church.

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简介：The concepts of time and identity seem at once unproblematic and frustratingly difficult. Time is an intricate part of our experience--it would seem that the passage of time is a prerequisite for having any experience at all--and yet recalcitrant questions about time remain. Is time real? Does time flow? Do past and future moments exist? Philosophers face similarly stubborn questions about identity, particularly about the persistence of identical entities through change. Indeed, questions about the metaphysics of persistence take on many of the complexities inherent in philosophical considerations of time. This volume of original essays brings together these two essentially related concepts in a way not reflected in the available literature, making it required reading for philosophers working in metaphysics and students interested in these topics. The contributors, distinguished authors and rising scholars, first consider the nature of time and then turn to the relation of identity, focusing on the metaphysical connections between the two, with a special emphasis on personal identity. The volume concludes with essays on the metaphysics of death, issues in which time and identity play a significant role. This groundbreaking collection offers both cutting-edge epistemological analysis and historical perspectives on contemporary topics.Contributors Harriet Baber, Lynne Rudder Baker, Ben Bradley, John W. Carroll, Reinaldo Elugardo, Geoffrey Gorham, Mark Hinchliff, Jenann Ismael, Barbara Levenbook, Andrew Light, Lawrence B. Lombard, Ned Markosian, Harold Noonan, John Perry, Harry S. Silverstein, Matthew H. Slater, Robert J. Stainton, Neil A. Tognazzini

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简介：　　Review 　　"Professor Blinder is highly respected and is confirmed by his production of a very good book... Blinder's book has a freshness, a modern approach and is very readable." 　　-Neil R. Kestner, Louisiana State University 　　"I like the book very much. It is clearly written, in a style that should be appealing to students. The figures are especially good, and well chosen to illustrate important concepts that are often discussed without illustration...I found the explanations in the main text to be excellent...I would strongly recommend the book ." 　　Doug Doren, University of Delaware 　　"...This is an excellent book to use to introduce Quantum Mechanics to the desired audience...The organisation and style of the book are such that a student would find it easy to read and follow the physical, chemical and mathematical principles under discussion." 　　-Jim McTavish, Liverpool John Moores University 　　"Introduction to Quantum Mechanics is probably suited as a graduate text for students outside chemistry who need to understand quantum mechanics without undertaking a full year of physical chemistry. In addition to mastering the mechanics, lucky readers of this book will explore the fascinating philosophical and metaphysical implications launched into popular culture the word, quantum. 　　Kevin. M. Dunn, Hampden-Sydney College, VA, USA, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION, Vol. 82, No. 3, 2005 　　Book Description 　　An up-to-date, comprehensive introduction to the principles of quantum mechanics.　　

Anansi boys

作者：  尼尔·盖曼(Neil Gaiman)著;林嘉伦译

出版社：缪思出版有限公司,2009

简介： 阿南西之子 當神話侵入現實，人生開始失控…… 你的老爸是惡作劇之神， 熱愛開玩笑，讓你的童年囧到不行； 有個從沒聽過的兄弟上門來相認， 他擅長假冒你，還把走了你的未婚妻！ 衰運連連，一切都是爸爸在搞怪？ 切斷父子手足的牽絆，就能順遂一生？ 《美國眾神》暢銷作家尼爾．蓋曼與非洲故事之神阿南西攜手合作，獻給讀者最詼諧、機智、溫暖、歡樂的都會奇幻冒險！ 體面的死法一定有十萬種，舉例來說，從橋上跳到河裡去拯救快溺斃的小孩；單槍匹馬勇闖歹徒巢穴，死在槍林彈雨下。這些都是體面之極的死法。有些死法雖然不怎麼體面，但也不會太令人難堪，例如人體自燃。 但，胖查理的爸爸偏偏不是其中任何一種死法。他是這麼死的：他正在臺上高歌，同時對臺下的金髮美女大獻慇懃，全場氣氛熱到最高點之際，忽然露出古怪的表情，一手壓住胸口，一手向前伸，然後從臺上摔了下來，倒在一名正妹身上，又從她身上跌到地上，沒人能摔得這麼緩慢、這麼優雅。倒地時，手上還抓著一樣東西──剛剛還穿在正妹身上的無肩帶小可愛。 這麼令人難堪的死法，正是胖查理老爸的正字標記。諸如此類的窘境，充斥著胖查理的童年回憶。 其實胖查理一點也不胖，但這綽號一旦從他老爸口裡冒出，就一直緊黏住他不放，不管他怎麼自我介紹，別人自然而然會開始叫他胖查理。和他同病相憐的是鄰居一條冠軍拳師狗，原本趾高氣昂不可一世，在老爸隨口叫了聲「小笨笨」之後，聲名一蹶不振，人人都說牠一臉蠢相。 父親的葬禮上，難堪指數再度攀升。不過這也不算什麼，隨後揭露的家族祕密才是真正的打擊：一、他老爸是神！卻是個專司說故事、唱歌和作弄人的惡作劇之神！二、他竟然有個親兄弟！為什麼他毫無印象？ 無論如何，父母皆已過世，這素未謀面的兄弟是他僅存的親人了。這一相認卻是胖查理人生開始失控的起點！這位兄弟個性跟爸爸如出一轍，享樂至上，缺乏責任感，更冒充他去招搖撞騙！怪的是還處處逢源，不僅唬過他的上司，更把走他的未婚妻！可憐的本尊沒人理會，落魄街頭，連搭計程車也回不了家。 查理只想過平凡安穩的人生，他的兄弟卻繼承了父親的精神，繼續把他的生活搞得一團亂。這麼糟糕的親情關係不要也罷！他實現了願望──卻引來更大的災難。他要如何收拾殘局？老爸與兄弟留給他的，真的只是災難與羞辱嗎？人生究竟是怎麼回事？ 生命的力量來自於說故事與歌唱，尼爾．蓋曼這本饒富幽默感的成長小說便是最佳典範。 名家&國際書評推薦： ?一個能凌駕所有故事的故事。──華盛頓郵報 ?尼爾．蓋曼再創傑作。──多倫多明星報 ?上乘喜劇。－－倫敦每日電訊報 ?道盡了父子、手足之間相處的難題，既充滿黑色趣味，又溫馨感人，令人沈迷，難以忘懷。──學校圖書館期刊 ?溫暖、逗趣、娛樂效果十足……會讓所有人對蜘蛛感激涕零(蜘蛛恐懼症者除外)。──《英倫魔法師》暢銷作家蘇珊娜．克拉克 ?擁有無可比擬的想像力。──柯克斯評論Kirkus Reviews ?尼爾蓋曼是後現代的格林兄弟，能從奇幻與幻覺中編織出當代的童話與神話。──Cinescape ?說尼爾．蓋曼是個作家，猶如說達文西懂一點兒藝術。──Minneapolis明星論壇報 ?尼爾．蓋曼擁有一支活靈活現的筆……是個精巧逗趣的說書人。 ──New York Times《紐約時報》書評 ?尼爾．蓋曼是故事寶窟，我們真慶幸能擁有他。──史蒂芬．金 ?尼爾．蓋曼具備罕見的洞察力與無窮的想像力……是美國之寶。──科幻大師William Gibson 得獎紀錄： ★紐約時報暢銷榜No. 1 ★2006年美國圖書館協會最佳青少年小說 ★英國奇幻協會年度最佳小說 ★創神獎年度最佳小說 ★軌跡獎最佳奇幻小說 ★出版人週刊、書目雜誌加星推薦 《美國眾神》得獎紀錄： ．2001年美國亞馬遜網路書店年度最佳小說 ．2002年美國雨果獎(科幻小說獎) ．2002年史托克獎(恐怖小說獎) ．2002年美國軌跡獎最佳奇幻小說 ．2003年美國星雲獎(科幻小說獎) ．2003年Geffen獎(以色列奇科幻協會文學獎) ?美國國家圖書館雜誌(Library Journal)高度推薦 《星塵》得獎紀錄： ．1999年軌跡獎最佳奇幻小說 ．1999年創神獎最佳成人文學 ．2000年Geffen獎 《煙與鏡》得獎紀錄： ．1999年軌跡獎最佳選集 ．2004年Geffen獎 《魔是魔法的魔》得獎紀錄： ．〈十月當主席〉2003年軌跡獎最佳短篇小說 《牆壁裡的狼》得獎紀錄： ．2004年軌跡獎最佳非小說／藝術類 ．2004年英國科幻獎最佳短篇小說 本書特色： 生命的力量來自於說故事與歌唱，尼爾．蓋曼這本饒富幽默感的成長小說便是最佳典範。 ．尼爾．蓋曼似乎很喜歡阿南西這個神！不過看完本書後一切謎題都解開了！說故事的神與說故事的作家，都在編織人生啊！ ．《阿南西之子》幕後花絮：事實上，早在1996年《美國眾神》誕生之前，尼爾．蓋曼就已經有了《阿南西之子》的故事雛型，也動筆寫下幾頁劇本草稿(當初他想的是戲劇或影片的形式)，但一直沒有進展。後來在寫《美國眾神》時，他靈機一動，便讓尚未在《阿南西之子》中具體成形的南西先生(胖查理的父親、非洲蜘蛛神阿南西)客串演出。隨後《阿南西之子》的寫作方向便從劇本轉為中篇小說，然而他的編輯聽他說完書之後卻斬釘截鐵說：「這是本長篇小說！我是編輯，我說了算！」於是，就有了現在的《阿南西之子》。 ．《阿南西之子》小道消息：據說《阿南西之子》、《無有鄉》皆有改編電影的計畫。只是，由於電影公司在選角的看法上與作者有出入，因此《阿南西之子》的拍片計畫可能暫時中止。 ．其實蓋曼的故事都很適合影像化呢！人物生動、情節曲折、故事幽默，很有大眾緣。想像一下《阿南西之子》的夢幻卡司！胖查理－威爾史密斯飾演；蜘蛛－克里斯塔克，或由威爾史密斯一人飾二角；阿南西爸爸－摩根費里曼！一定超過癮的！ < TOP>

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简介：. . . the book has much that is of interest, especially in the country studies with the detailed information they provide about educational reform in the transition countries. It is of value to a number of readerships, especially teachers of economics, academics and others interested in the process of transition from state socialism and in emerging markets. W.J. Morgan, International Journal of Educational Development The book provides a fascinating overview of many of the issues, achievements and continuing difficulties involved in one of the central educational issues of recent years. The accumulation of country studies helps to provide a broadly consistent picture of problems and difficulties leavened by genuine successes and achievements. . . the book provides an excellent coverage of the issues and problems facing educators in those contexts and is to be commended to anyone interested in these issues, whether at academic or policy-making levels. Neil Kay, The Economics of Transition The volume is of greatest interest to those pursuing issues of the implementation of economics education and its impact at an elementary level on economic understanding and attitudes. Through generally careful statistical analysis it shows what can be done even in a most difficult environment, as well as the constraints on change imposed by Soviet legacies. It is a valuable addition to the literature on economics pedagogy. Richard E. Ericson, Slavic Review This comprehensive and impressive volume presents the first book-length, multi-country investigation of reform of economic education in transition economies. Authors from the West and from transition economies describe the major changes in economics content and instruction that occurred in schools and universities throughout nations in Eastern and Central Europe and the former Soviet Union from 1989 to 2000. Nine of the chapters discuss specific countries Belarus, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine. Other chapters describe reforms in the undergraduate economics curriculum at Moscow State University, Kiev State University, and Belarus State University. One chapter reports the findings from a five-nation study of the effect of economics programs to retrain teachers on the economic understanding of secondary students. Another chapter explains the important role of economic education in creating support for public policy reforms in a nation. The results from multi-national surveys of public attitudes toward economic reforms and the market economy are analyzed in one chapter. The book concludes with an insightful explanation of the major change agents responsible for the reform of academic economics and the teaching of economics in the transition economies. Anyone interested in economic education, transition economies, or educational reform in schools and universities will find this book a unique and fascinating reading.

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简介：Neil Armstrong walks on the moon. The stock market crashes in 1929. Roger Bannister runs the first four-minute mile. John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. The twentieth century has been filled with remarkable events--some awe-inspiring, some tragic. Now, the most important happenings of the last century have been collected in one attractive and authoritative volume. Events: A Chronicle of the Twentieth Centuryis a unique year-by-year survey of events from 1900 through 1991. Profusely illustrated with vivid photographs of key news stories, this comprehensive reference covers each year with a two-page spread containing the essential chronology of political, social, cultural, and scientific history from around the globe. A brief introduction treats the major stories of the year, and the remainder of the spread contains approximately 100 news items, handsomely presented and listed in chronological order by topic. Two indices--one of important figures, the other of events and places--ensure easy access for those seeking out specific details. But editor Philip L. Cottrell has also designed the book for browsing, allowing the reader to discover previously unknown events, or to glean a sense of the character of a specific year. Whether it is the outbreak of a war, the death of a statesman, a great moment in the world of sports, or the newest teenage fad or craze, this volume is an indispensable resource for answering all those questions of "who," "when," "where," and "how many" of twentieth-century history.

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简介：Includes essays by Dylan Thomas, Margaret Laurence, Wallace Stegner, Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou, Richard Hugo, Bruno Bettelheim, Paul Fussell, Alice Walker, Scott Sanders, Joan Didion, Loren Eiseley, E.B. White, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, May Sarton, Woody Allen, Thomas Jefferson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, N. Scott Momaday, Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing, William Golding, Carl Sagan, Neil Postman, Jacob Bronowski, Isaac Asimov, Eudora Welty, James Thurber, William Zinsser, Lewis Thomas, H.L. Mencken, Gloria Naylor, Richard Rodriguez, Erich Fromm, George Orwell, Francis Bacon, John Donne, Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne, John Henry Newman, Abraham Lincoln, Matthew Arnold, Walter Pater, Ernest Hemingway, Joyce Cary, William Faulkner, John Updike, Tom Wolfe, Robert Pirsig, John McPhee, Anthony Burgess, Wendell Berry, S.J. Perelman, Adrienne Rich, Gloria Steinem, Betty Rollin, Jessica Mitford, Jonathan Schell, Garrison Keillor, Carol Gilligan, Judith Viorst, Desmond Morris, Oliver Sacks, James Baldwin, Norman Podhoretz, Malcolm Cowley, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Samuel L. Clemens, Tom Regan, Stephen Jay Gould, W.H. Auden, William Blake, Ambrose Bierce, Benjamin Franklin, George Bernard Shaw, Chief Seattle, John Houseman, Hannah Arendt, Michael Arlen, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ralph W. Conant, Martin Luther King Jr., Jonathan Swift, Niccolo Machiavelli, Walter Lippmann, Edward O. Wilson, Konrad Z. Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, Nigel Calder, Arthur Koestler, Thomas S. Kuhn, John Gardner, Vladimir Nabokov, Northrop Frye, Annie Dillard, Susanne K. Langer, Carl G. Jung, Robert Frost, Robertson Davies, Margaret Atwood, S.I. Hayakawa, Christopher Fry, Aaron Copland, Aesop, Plato, Jesus, Franz Kafka, Robert Graves, E.F. Schumacher, Langston Hughes, Paul Tillich, C.S. Lewis, E.M. Forster, Gilbert Highet, Jean-Paul Sartre, Tom Bethell, Alexander Petrunkevitch, Carl Becker, Kildare Dobbs, Herbert Butterfield, Michael Stone, Thomas Murray, Gilbert Ryle, Willard Gayli n, Edward Hallett Carr, Michael Herr, Frances FitzGerald, Carl Cohen, Judith Martin, Paul West, Robert Finch, Barbara Carson, John McMurtry, Brent Staples, Dan Lacy, Stanley Milgram, Phyllis Rose, Ian Frazier, Robert Burchfield, Wayne C. Booth, Nancy Sommers, John Leo, June Callwood, Daniel Mark Epstein, and others.

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简介：Noam Chomsky is one of the leading intellectual figures of modern times. He has had a major influence on linguistics, psychology and philosophy, and a significant effect on a range of other disciplines from anthropology to mathematics, education to literary criticism." "In this rigorous yet accessible account of Chomsky's work and influence, Neil Smith analyses Chomsky's key contributions to the study of language and the study of mind. He gives a detailed and partly historical exposition of Chomsky's linguistic theorizing, and examines the ideas (such as deep and surface structure) for which he is best known.