A Freewheelin’ Time is Suze Rotolo’s firsthand, eyewitness, participant-observer account of the immensely creative and fertile years of the 1960s, just before the circus was in full swing and Bob Dylan became the anointed ringmaster. It chronicles the back-story of Greenwich Village in the early days of the folk music explosion, when Dylan was honing his skills and she was in ...(展开全部)

A Freewheelin’ Time is Suze Rotolo’s firsthand, eyewitness, participant-observer account of the immensely creative and fertile years of the 1960s, just before the circus was in full swing and Bob Dylan became the anointed ringmaster. It chronicles the back-story of Greenwich Village in the early days of the folk music explosion, when Dylan was honing his skills and she was in ...(展开全部)

约翰•梅里曼，耶鲁大学历史系教授，“耶鲁公开课”主讲人，主要研究法国和现代的欧洲历史，撰写了一系列现代法国历史的书籍。他的《欧洲现代史》一书还被许多大学列为主要教科书。

Balazuc is a small medieval village carved from a limestone cliff thast towers over the Ardeche River in south-central France. It is a lovely place for visitors, but for residents life has been harsh. At time Balazuc has prospered, through the cultivation of silkworms, and now with the tourist trade. This book looks at the historical events that greatly affected this little vil...(展开全部)

Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born the fifth child of his father's third wife, in a family that includes twenty-four children born to four different mothers. He spent his 1930s childhood as the apple of his mother's eye, before attending school to slake what is considered a bizarre thirst for learning. As he grows up, the wider political and social changes occurring in Kenya begin to i...(展开全部)

By the world-renowned novelist, playwright, critic, and author of Wizard of the Crow, an evocative and affecting memoir of childhood. Ngugi wa Thiong’o was born in 1938 in rural Kenya to a father whose four wives bore him more than a score of children. The man who would become one of Africa’s leading writers was the fifth child of the third wife. Even as World War II affecte...(展开全部)

By the world-renowned novelist, playwright, critic, and author of Wizard of the Crow, an evocative and affecting memoir of childhood. Ngugi wa Thiong’o was born in 1938 in rural Kenya to a father whose four wives bore him more than a score of children. The man who would become one of Africa’s leading writers was the fifth child of the third wife. Even as World War II affecte...(展开全部)

恩古吉•瓦•提安哥（1938— ），肯尼亚小说家、剧作家、政论家。恩古吉是非洲乃至世界文坛上知名度最高的作家之一，也是近年来诺贝尔文学奖的最热门候选人之一。1964年毕业于乌干达马赫雷雷大学，后入英国利兹大学续修文学。1967年回国，在内罗毕大学任教。1977年因抗议当局对英语的强制性教育而被政府逮捕，获释后与家人过着流亡的生活，直到肯尼亚独裁者阿拉普•莫伊下台才终于得以安全回国。

恩古吉•瓦•提安哥（1938— ），肯尼亚小说家、剧作家、政论家。恩古吉是非洲乃至世界文坛上知名度最高的作家之一，也是近年来诺贝尔文学奖的最热门候选人之一。1964年毕业于乌干达马赫雷雷大学，后入英国利兹大学续修文学。1967年回国，在内罗毕大学任教。1977年因抗议当局对英语的强制性教育而被政府逮捕，获释后与家人过着流亡的生活，直到肯尼亚独裁者阿拉普•莫伊下台才终于得以安全回国。

The year was 1963 and from Birmingham to Washington, D.C., from Vietnam to the Kremlin to the Berlin Wall, the world was in the throes of political upheaval and historic change. But that same year, in New York's Greenwich Village, another kind of history and a different sort of politics were being made. This was a political history that had nothing to do with states or governme...(展开全部)