The book is part of an Oxford University series, "What Everyone Needs to Know." Wasserstrom nicely explains the goals of the book on the Huffington post.

这本书是牛津大学的丛书“每个人都需要知道的所在”的部分之一。

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Everyone needs to know what a or binary tree is because they get used all the time.

每个人都需要知道什么是一或者二进指制树，那是因为他们习惯了所有的时间。

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Len Burman is the author (with Joel Slemrod) of Taxes in America: What Everyone Needs to Know.

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Len Burman is coauthor with Joel Slemrod of Taxes in America: What Everyone Needs to Know.

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Excerpted from China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, published by Oxford University Press.

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