菲利普·博尔曼是著名的音乐理论研究者，他不仅理论知识深厚，还经常深入到世界各地的偏远地区进行采风，对非主流音乐和民族音乐有着自己独特的看法。

World Music draws readers into a remarkable range of historical encounters, in which music had the power to evoke the exotic and to give voice to the voiceless. In the course of the volume's eight chapters the reader witnesses music's involvement in the modern world, but also the individual moments and particular histories that are crucial to an understanding of music's diversi...(展开全部)

菲利普·博尔曼是著名的音乐理论研究者，他不仅理论知识深厚，还经常深入到世界各地的偏远地区进行采风，对非主流音乐和民族音乐有着自己独特的看法。

World Music draws readers into a remarkable range of historical encounters, in which music had the power to evoke the exotic and to give voice to the voiceless. In the course of the volume's eight chapters the reader witnesses music's involvement in the modern world, but also the individual moments and particular histories that are crucial to an understanding of music's diversi...(展开全部)

What moral values do human beings hold in common? As globalization draws us together economically, are our values converging or diverging? In particular, are human rights becoming a global ethic? These were the questions that led Michael Ignatieff to embark on a three-year, eight-nation journey in search of answers. The Ordinary Virtues presents Ignatieff’s discoveries and his ...(展开全部)

When she was very young, Baby Halder was abandoned by her mother and left with a cruel, abusive father. She was married off at twelve to a man twice her age who beat her. At fourteen, she was a mother herself. Her early life was marked by overwhelming challenges and heartbreak until, exhausted and desperate, she fled with her three children to Delhi, to work as a maid in some o...(展开全部)

贝碧·哈尔德，1974年出生于查谟，悲惨凄凉的命运笼罩了整个童年。四岁时，母亲离家出走，父亲和继母给予的只是冷漠与打骂。十二岁时，在父亲的包办下，天真懵懂的贝碧嫁给了比她大十四岁的暴虐成性的男子。婚后的生活充满暴力与虐待，苦不堪言的贝碧终于带着三个孩子逃离夫家，远赴德里，去寻找她绝望茫然的未来……

- Introduces in a clear and concise way the most important basic findings and procedures of evolutionary biology - Looks at the evidence for evolution, eg the fossil record, the distribution of species, the similarities and differences between organisms - A section at the end looks at the seemingly difficult problems for the theory of evolution - Explains adaptation and natural...(展开全部)