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."

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.

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

Since its beginnings at the start of the 20th century, educational scholarship has been a marginal field, criticized by public policy makers and relegated to the fringes of academe. An Elusive Science explains why, providing a critical history of the traditions, conflicts, and institutions that have shaped the study of education over the past century.

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.

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.

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>

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。

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.

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.

In this first general history of legal education, Stevens traces the development of law schools, the legal profession, and legal thought, relating their evolution to intellectual, political, and social trends. He describes how the establishment gained power over education after 1920 and how, in the past two decades, both students and the practicing profession have questioned this authority. He also examines the implications of the "legal revolution" and new opportunities for women and minorities.

On the surface, law schools today are thriving. Enrollments are on the rise, and their resources are often the envy of every other university department. Yet behind the flourishing facade, law schools are failing abjectly. Recent front-page stories have detailed widespread dubious practices, misleading placement reports, and the fundamental failure to prepare graduates to enter the profession. Addressing all these problems and more in a ringing critique is renowned legal scholar Brian Z. Tamanaha. Piece by piece, Tamanaha lays out the how and why of the crisis and the likely consequences if the current trend continues. At the heart of the problem, he argues, are the economic demands and competitive pressures on law schools - driven by competition over U.S. News and World Report ranking. When paired with a lack of regulatory oversight, the work environment of professors, the limited information available to prospective students, and loan-based tuition financing, the result is a system that is fundamentally unsustainable. With "Failing Law Schools", Tamanaha has provided the perfect resource for assessing what's wrong with law schools and figuring out how to fix them.

Is our nation's educational system faltering in part because it strives to teach students predetermined "right" answers to questions? In "Turning the Soul," Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon offers and alternative to methods advocated by conventional educational practice. By guiding the reader back and forth between two high school classes discussing Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," she gracefully introduces the alternative approach to education: interpretive discussion. One class, located in a private, racially integrated urban school, has had many conversations about the meaning of books. The second group, less advantaged students in a largely black urban school, has not. The reader watches as students in each group begin to draw upon experiences in their personal lives to speculate about events in the play. The students assist one another with the interpretation of complex passages, pose queries that help sustain the conversation, and struggle to "get Shakespeare right." Though the teachers suffer moments of intense frustration, they are rewarded by seeing their students learn to engage in meaningful exchange. Because "Turning the Soul" draws on actual classroom conversations, it presents the range of difficulties that one encounters in interpretive discussion. The book describes the assumptions about learning that the use of such discussion in the classroom presupposes, and it offers a theoretical perspective from which to view the changes in both students and teachers.

Vomiting. Diarrhea. Dehydration. Death. Confusion. In 1832, the arrival of cholera in the United States created widespread panic throughout the country. For the rest of the century, epidemics swept through American cities and towns, killing thousands. Physicians of all stripes offered conflicting answers to the cholera puzzle, ineffectively responding with opiates, bleeding, quarantines, and all manner of remedies, before the identity of the dreaded infection was consolidated under the germ theory of disease some sixty years later. These cholera outbreaks raised fundamental questions about medical knowledge and its legitimacy, giving fuel to alternative medical sects that used the confusion of the epidemic to challenge both medical orthodoxy and the authority of the still-new American Medical Association. In "Knowledge in the Time of Cholera", Owen Whooley tells us the story of those dark days, centering his narrative on rivalries between medical and homeopathic practitioners and bringing to life the battle to control public understanding of disease, professional power, and democratic governance in nineteenth-century America.