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Автор: Herrnstein, Richard J. Murray, Charles
Название: Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
ISBN: 0684824299 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780684824291
Издательство: Simon&Schuster UK
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Описание: This work offers a perspective on the causes of the social and economic problems that plague contemporary America. It examines the relationship between ethnicity and intelligence and presents the view that America`s population is becoming polarized between an educated elite and uneducated poor.

Автор: Murray Charles
Название: Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
ISBN: 030745343X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307453433
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A fascinating explanation for why white America has become fractured and divided in education and class, from the acclaimed author of Human Diversity.

"I'll be shocked if there's another book that so compellingly describes the most important trends in American society."--David Brooks, New York Times

In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way of driving home the fact that the trends he describes do not break along lines of race or ethnicity.

Drawing on five decades of statistics and research, Coming Apart demonstrates that a new upper class and a new lower class have diverged so far in core behaviors and values that they barely recognize their underlying American kinship--divergence that has nothing to do with income inequality and that has grown during good economic times and bad.

The top and bottom of white America increasingly live in different cultures, Murray argues, with the powerful upper class living in enclaves surrounded by their own kind, ignorant about life in mainstream America, and the lower class suffering from erosions of family and community life that strike at the heart of the pursuit of happiness. That divergence puts the success of the American project at risk.

The evidence in Coming Apart is about white America. Its message is about all of America.

Автор: Murray Charles
Название: The Curmudgeon`s Guide to Getting Ahead: The DOS and Don`ts of Clear Writing, Tough Thinking, Right Behavior, and Living a Good Life
ISBN: 0804141444 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804141444
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 12260.00 T
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Описание: For those starting out in their careers--and those who wish to advance more quickly--this is a delightfully fussy guide to the hidden rules of the road in the workplace and in life.

As bestselling author and social historian Charles Murray explains, at senior levels of an organization there are curmudgeons everywhere, judging your every move. Yet it is their good opinion you need to win if you hope to get ahead.

Among the curmudgeon's day-to-day tips for the workplace:

- Excise the word "like" from your spoken English
- Don't suck up
- Stop "reaching out" and "sharing"
- Rid yourself of piercings, tattoos, and weird hair colors
- Make strong language count

His larger career advice includes:

- What to do if you have a bad boss
- Coming to grips with the difference between being nice and being good
- How to write when you don't know what to say
- Being judgmental (it's good, and you don't have a choice anyway)

And on the great topics of life, the curmudgeon urges us to leave home no matter what, get real jobs (not internships), put ourselves in scary situations, and watch Groundhog Day repeatedly (he'll explain).

Witty, wise, and pulling no punches, The Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead is an indispensable sourcebook for living an adult life.