This book examines contemporary changes in labor market institutions in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, focusing on developments in three arenas - industrial relations, vocational education and training, and labor market policy. While confirming a broad, shared liberalizing trend, it finds that there are in fact distinct varieties of liberalization associated with very different distributive outcomes. Most scholarship equates liberal capitalism with inequality and coordinated capitalism with higher levels of social solidarity. However, this study explains why the institutions of coordinated capitalism and egalitarian capitalism coincided and complemented one another in the "Golden Era" of postwar development in the 1950s and 1960s, and why they no longer do so. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, this study reveals that the successful defense of the institutions traditionally associated with coordinated capitalism has often been a recipe for increased inequality due to declining coverage and dualization. Conversely, it argues that some forms of labor market liberalization are perfectly compatible with continued high levels of social solidarity and indeed may be necessary to sustain it.

How do you judge the quality of a school, a district, a teacher, a student? By the test scores, of course. Yet for all the talk, what educational tests can and can't tell you, and how scores can be misunderstood and misused, remains a mystery to most. The complexities of testing are routinely ignored, either because they are unrecognized, or because they may be - well, complicated. Inspired by a popular Harvard course for students without an extensive mathematics background, "Measuring Up" demystifies educational testing - from MCAS to SAT to WAIS, with all the alphabet soup in between. Bringing statistical terms down to earth, Daniel Koretz takes readers through the most fundamental issues that arise in educational testing and shows how they apply to some of the most controversial issues in education today, from high-stakes testing to special education. He walks readers through everyday examples to show what tests do well, what their limits are, how easily tests and scores can be oversold or misunderstood, and how they can be used sensibly to help discover how much kids have learned.

在遥远的星球上，住着一群绿毛、大眼睛的原住民。 他们喜爱做清明梦，依靠森林，过着与世无争的生活。 一天，一群贪婪的殖民者来到这里，破坏了原有的一切。 绝望的原住民，开始报复。 然而，对入侵者的每一次报复，也是对自己人性的一次摧残。 他们一步一步，离昔日的自我越来越远。 杀戮一旦开始，没有人能再回到原点。 宇宙深处有一面镜子，可以看见真正的自己。

Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. Rakesh Khurana shows that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of doctors and lawyers but have effectively retreated from that goal, leaving a gaping moral hole at the center of business education and perhaps in management itself.</p> Khurana begins in the late nineteenth century, when members of an emerging managerial elite, seeking social status to match the wealth and power they had accrued, began working with major universities to establish graduate business education programs paralleling those for medicine and law. Constituting business as a profession, however, required codifying the knowledge relevant for practitioners and developing enforceable standards of conduct. Khurana, drawing on a rich set of archival material from business schools, foundations, and academic associations, traces how business educators confronted these challenges with varying strategies during the Progressive era and the Depression, the postwar boom years, and recent decades of freewheeling capitalism.</p> Today, Khurana argues, business schools have largely capitulated in the battle for professionalism and have become merely purveyors of a product, the MBA, with students treated as consumers. Professional and moral ideals that once animated and inspired business schools have been conquered by a perspective that managers are merely agents of shareholders, beholden only to the cause of share profits. According to Khurana, we should not thus be surprised at the rise of corporate malfeasance. The time has come, he concludes, to rejuvenate intellectually and morally the training of our future business leaders.</p>

This book compares two challenges made to American public school curricula in the 1980s and 1990s. It identifies striking similarities between proponents of Afrocentrism and creationism, accounts for their differential outcomes, and draws important conclusions for the study of culture, organizations, and social movements. Amy Binder gives a brief history of both movements and then describes how their challenges played out in seven school districts. Despite their very different constituencies - inner-city African American cultural essentialists and predominately white suburban Christian conservatives - Afrocentrists and creationists had much in common. Both made similar arguments about oppression and their children's well-being, both faced skepticism from educators about their factual claims, and both mounted their challenges through bureaucratic channels. In each case, challenged school systems were ultimately able to minimize or reject challengers' demands, but the process varied by case and type of challenge. Binder finds that Afrocentrists were more successful in advancing their cause than were creationists because they appeared to offer a solution to the real problem of urban school failure, met with more administrative sympathy toward their complaints of historic exclusion, sought to alter lower-prestige curricula (history, not science), and faced opponents who lacked a legal remedy comparable to the rule of church-state separation invoked by creationism's opponents. Binder's analysis yields several lessons for social movements research, suggesting that researchers need to pay greater attention to how movements seek to influence bureaucratic decision making, often from within. It also demonstrates the benefits of examining discursive, structural, and institutional factors in concert.

More than one million American children are schooled by their parents. As their ranks grow, home schoolers are making headlines by winning national spelling bees and excelling at elite universities. The few studies conducted suggest that homeschooled children are academically successful and remarkably well socialized. Yet we still know little about this alternative to one of society’s most fundamental institutions. Beyond a vague notion of children reading around the kitchen table, we don’t know what home schooling looks like from the inside. Sociologist Mitchell Stevens goes behind the scenes of the homeschool movement and into the homes and meetings of home schoolers. What he finds are two very different kinds of home education—one rooted in the liberal alternative school movement of the 1960s and 1970s and one stemming from the Christian day school movement of the same era. Stevens explains how this dual history shapes the meaning and practice of home schooling today. In the process, he introduces us to an unlikely mix of parents (including fundamentalist Protestants, pagans, naturalists, and educational radicals) and notes the core values on which they agree: the sanctity of childhood and the primacy of family in the face of a highly competitive, bureaucratized society. Kingdom of Children aptly places home schoolers within longer traditions of American social activism. It reveals that home schooling is not a random collection of individuals but an elaborate social movement with its own celebrities, networks, and characteristic lifeways. Stevens shows how home schoolers have built their philosophical and religious convictions into the practical structure of the cause, and documents the political consequences of their success at doing so. Ultimately, the history of home schooling serves as a parable about the organizational strategies of the progressive left and the religious right since the 1960s.Kingdom of Children shows what happens when progressive ideals meet conventional politics, demonstrates the extraordinary political capacity of conservative Protestantism, and explains the subtle ways in which cultural sensibility shapes social movement outcomes more generally.

人类每次正视自己的渺小，都是自身的一次巨大进步。 —————————— 哥白尼提出了“日心说”，我们才知道这个世界并不是宇宙的中心。 哈勃用望远镜揭开了河外星系的神秘面纱，我们才知道宇宙中还有千亿个银河系。 “自由号”发现了黑洞的存在，我们才知道也许宇宙之外还有宇宙，我 们只是永恒中一颗微小的沙粒。 - 一切会思考的机器都被摧毁后，宇宙的焦点重回人类之间的争夺。行星厄拉科斯——人类梦寐以求、竞相抢夺的“香料”的唯一产地，在这里上演着权术与背叛、恐惧与仇恨、希望与梦想的太空歌剧。人们常常用另一个名字称呼这颗干旱的星球——沙丘。 家破人亡、颠沛流离的少年保罗在这里抗争着他的宿命。在命运面前，他是如此的渺小，却又如此的强大…… —————————— ◆《沙丘》是伟大的科幻作家弗兰克•赫伯特的传奇代表作。 - ◆每个“一生必读”的书单上都有《沙丘》 - ◆美国亚马逊“一生必读的100本书” - ◆BBC“英国最受欢迎的100本书” - ◆美国国家公共电台“科幻•奇幻小说TOP100” - ◆摘得《轨迹》杂志“20世纪最佳科幻小说”桂冠 - ◆首部同时获得雨果奖与星云奖的作品，科幻小说史上的必读经典。 - ◆人类每次正视自己的渺小，都是自身的一次巨大进步。 - ◆《沙丘》在科幻文学中的地位就如同《魔戒》在奇幻文学中的地位。 - ◆风靡全球半个多世纪，全球销量已突破1200万册。 - ◆《沙丘》被改编成红遍全球的即时战略游戏的鼻祖《沙丘魔堡》，由此衍生出的《红色警戒》《星际争霸》几乎成为每台电脑上的必装品。 - ◆催生了《星球大战》《阿凡达》等经典科幻电影。 —————————— 媒体及名人推荐 《沙丘》在科幻文学中的地位就如同《魔戒》在奇幻文学中的地位。 ——《图书馆杂志》 - 科幻小说史上的里程碑。 ——《芝加哥论坛报》 - 这部作品所描绘的外星星球比其他科幻作家所描绘的更完整、更细腻，完美地平衡了技术描写和心理描写。 ——《华盛顿邮报》 - 随着气候变化、中东局势、能源危机层出不穷，《沙丘》比50年前更具现实意义。如果你还没看过，的确该找来读读。 ——《纽约时报》 - 赫伯特对于这个星球的创造，包含了复杂的情节发展，以及对生态、宗教、政治和哲学，是科幻史上一个伟大而又影响深远的成就——《路易斯维尔时报》 - 极强的感染力，情节令人信服，绝对天才的创意。——《星船伞兵》作者罗伯特•A•海因莱因 - 《沙丘》在故事的生动复杂方面，《沙丘》同金庸的小说有的一比。《沙丘》又不仅仅是一部科幻小说，这里面有政治，经济，军事，宗教，生态学，未来学等等，更把人性、人的本质、人的目的放在一个宇宙的尺度上进行终极思考，这个规模恐怕又是金庸所不及的了。 ——复旦大学中文系教授严锋 - 独一无二。只有《指环王》可以与之媲美。 ——英国著名科幻作家阿瑟•C•克拉克 - 如果你只读过这部杰作的外延或改编作品，你都不算真的了解《沙丘》是怎么回事。这是一次“必须通过阅读才能完全领略的全沉浸式的体验”。——《合成人》作者帕特•卡蒂根 - 现代科幻史上的标杆之一，想象力创造上的丰碑。 ——美国科幻作家P•斯凯勒•米勒 - 在16岁那年，我第一次被《沙丘》打动，它成了我心目中的神作。八年来，很少有书能撼动它在我心中的地位，包括《权力的游戏》、《基地》、《安德的游戏》和《指环王》。于是，我又重读了一遍《沙丘》，发现16岁那年的感动历久弥新。真的有那么棒吗？当然了！ ——读者评论 - 我经常默念书中的“恐惧是思维杀手”这句话。恐惧——通常是对失败的恐惧——是我们思维清晰、专注的最大障碍。默念这句话并不能消除恐惧，而是让我意识到恐惧并直视它。 ——读者评论

Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal-El Mohtar and Max Gladstone. Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war. That’s how war works. Right? Cowritten by two beloved and award-winning sci-fi writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space.

The colorful charts, graphs, and maps presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition by famed sociologist and black rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois offered a view into the lives of black Americans, conveying a literal and figurative representation of "the color line." From advances in education to the lingering effects of slavery, these prophetic infographics-beautiful in design and powerful in content- make visible a wide spectrum of black experience. W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits collects the complete set of graphics in full color for the first time, making their insights and innovations available to a contemporary imagination. As Maria Popova wrote, these data portraits shaped how "Du Bois himself thought about sociology, informing the ideas with which he set the world ablaze three years later in The Souls of Black Folk."

Every spring thousands of middle-class and lower-income high-school seniors learn that they have been rejected by America’s most exclusive colleges. What they may never learn is how many candidates like themselves have been passed over in favor of wealthy white students with lesser credentials—children of alumni, big donors, or celebrities. In this explosive book, the Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Daniel Golden argues that America, the so-called land of opportunity, is rapidly becoming an aristocracy in which America’s richest families receive special access to elite higher education—enabling them to give their children even more of a head start. Based on two years of investigative reporting and hundreds of interviews with students, parents, school administrators, and admissions personnel—some of whom risked their jobs to speak to the author— The Price of Admission exposes the corrupt admissions practices that favor the wealthy, the powerful, and the famous. In The Price of Admission , Golden names names, along with grades and test scores. He reveals how the sons of former vice president Al Gore, one-time Hollywood power broker Michael Ovitz, and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist leapt ahead of more deserving applicants at Harvard, Brown, and Princeton. He explores favoritism at the Ivy Leagues, Duke, the University of Virginia, and Notre Dame, among other institutions. He reveals that colleges hold Asian American students to a higher standard than whites; comply with Title IX by giving scholarships to rich women in “patrician sports” like horseback riding, squash, and crew; and repay congressmen for favors by admitting their children. He also reveals that Harvard maintains a “Z-list” for well-connected but underqualified students, who are quietly admitted on the condition that they wait a year to enroll. The Price of Admission explodes the myth of an American meritocracy—the belief that no matter what your background, if you are smart and diligent enough, you will have access to the nation’s most elite universities. It is must reading not only for parents and students with a personal stake in college admissions, but also for those disturbed by the growing divide between ordinary and privileged Americans. From the Hardcover edition.

In the twentieth century, Americans have increasingly looked to the schools--and, in particular, to the nation's colleges and universities--as guardians of the cherished national ideal of equality of opportunity. With the best jobs increasingly monopolized by those with higher education, the opportunity to attend college has become an integral part of the American dream of upward mobility. The two-year college--which now enrolls more than four million students in over 900 institutions--is a central expression of this dream, and its invention at the turn of the century constituted one of the great innovations in the history of American education. By offering students of limited means the opportunity to start higher education at home and to later transfer to a four-year institution, the two-year school provided a major new pathway to a college diploma--and to the nation's growing professional and managerial classes. But in the past two decades, the community college has undergone a profound change, shifting its emphasis from liberal-arts transfer courses to terminal vocational programs. Drawing on developments nationwide as well as in the specific case of Massachusetts, Steven Brint and Jerome Karabel offer a history of community colleges in America, explaining why this shift has occurred after years of student resistance and examining its implications for upward mobility. As the authors argue in this exhaustively researched and pioneering study, the junior college has always faced the contradictory task of extending a college education to the hitherto excluded, while diverting the majority of them from the nation's four-year colleges and universities. Very early on, two-year college administrators perceived vocational training for "semi-professional" work as their and their students' most secure long-term niche in the educational hierarchy. With two thirds of all community college students enrolled in vocational programs, the authors contend that the dream of education as a route to upward mobility, as well as the ideal of equal educational opportunity for all, are seriously threatened. With the growing public debate about the state of American higher education and with more than half of all first-time degree-credit students now enrolled in community colleges, a full-scale, historically grounded examination of their place in American life is long overdue. This landmark study provides such an examination, and in so doing, casts critical light on what is distinctive not only about American education, but American society itself.

★ 科幻大片《降临》原著小说。 ★ 美国华裔科幻奇才特德·姜代表作，得遍世界大奖的开脑洞之作。 ★ 始于科学内核，收于人文关怀：如果注定失去，你会害怕拥有吗？ ★ 每一个“科幻必读”书单上都有特德·姜。 特德·姜，当代最优秀的科幻小说家之一。 出道30年，仅17个短篇， 却四获星云奖/四获雨果奖/三获轨迹奖/三获日本科幻大奖，此外还获得过英国科幻协会奖/斯特金奖/坎贝尔奖。 刘慈欣：科幻的想象力有时具有上帝的力量，能够创造出一个想象世界并使其生动地运转，《巴比伦塔》就是这方面最为震撼的作品。 《你一生的故事》结集特德·姜早期的八篇作品：电影《降临》原著小说《你一生的故事》、处女作《巴比伦塔》以及《领悟》、《除以零》、《七十二个字母 》、《人类科学之演变》、《地狱是上帝不在的地方》、《赏心悦目》—— 一个语言学家学会了一门外星语言，彻底改变了她的世界观。 为了离上帝更近，人类伐木烧砖，拉车砌塔，经过无数个世代的辛劳，终于建成一座巍峨耸立于天地之间的通天塔。 只要一小瓶药水，就能拥有超人智慧，这个诱惑无人能挡。可惜超人不止一个，荡气回肠的超人对决之后，领悟终极的智慧。 任何数字除以零，都不会得出一个有意义的结果。两个人的感情除以零，结果是什么？ 在一个“名字驱动一切”的世界，命名师们玩转七十二个字母，寻找人类种族繁衍的密码。 当人类的所有科学研究仅仅局限在解读后人类的科研成果时，这种研究是否还有存在的必要？ 妻子在天使下凡时去世，丈夫却必须学习如何热爱上帝，以便死后与妻子团聚。

Through the modern history of the sport of swimming, readers come to understand the mysteries of technique, training, and coaching while meeting the athletes and the coaches. Contains portraits of Rowdy Gaines, Mary T. Meagher, Mike O'Brien, and Dara Torres. Published to coincide with the 1988 Summer Olympics. 8 pages of photos.

If Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics charmingly investigated the history, development, and formal features of visual narrative, Unflattening is its equally brilliant epistemological counterpart. With profound depth and insight, Sousanis looks at how the ‘unflattening’ possibilities of this form of storytelling allow us to see the world from entirely new perspectives… Written with remarkable clarity and insight, its sometimes-haunting, sometimes-breathtaking illustrations prove the book’s arguments about how visual information can shape our understanding… Weaving together language, perception, and the theory of knowledge in an investigation of how the multidimensional possibilities of graphic storytelling can awaken us to ways of knowing from multiple perspectives, Sousanis has made a profound contribution to the field of comics studies and to semiotics, epistemology, and the burgeoning study of visible thinking. Essential reading for anyone seeking to create, critique, or consider the visual narrative form. (Publishers Weekly (starred review) 2015-03-16)