The TAZARA (Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority), or Freedom Railway, from Dar es Salaam on the Tanzanian coast to the Copperbelt region of Zambia, was instrumental in fostering one of the most sweeping development transitions in postcolonial Africa. Built during the height of the Cold War, the railway was intended to redirect the mineral wealth of the interior away from routes t...(展开全部)

The TAZARA (Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority) or Freedom Railway stretches from Dar es Salaam on the Tanzanian coast to the Copperbelt region of Zambia. The railway, built during the height of the Cold War, was intended to redirect the mineral wealth of the interior away from routes through South Africa and Rhodesia. After being rebuffed by Western donors, newly independent Ta...(展开全部)

By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics,  an essential and  paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea...(展开全部)

By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics,  an essential and  paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea...(展开全部)

In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree. Even if they are not technically slaves, they are denied elementary freedoms and remain imprisoned in one way or another by economic poverty, social deprivation, political tyranny or cultural authoritarianism....(展开全部)

杨步伟（1889—1981），出身南京望族，祖父是著名佛学家杨仁山居士。她自幼性格果敢，勇于任事，是中国最早的现代新女性之一。 她先后在南京旅宁学堂、上海中西女塾读书。二十岁时应安徽督军柏文蔚之邀，任崇实女子学校校长。“二次革命”失败后，到日本东京帝国大学攻读医学，获博士学位。回国后开办“森仁医院”。1920年与赵元任相识，次年结婚，1938年全家移居美国。 著有《中国食谱》《一个女人的自传》《杂记赵家》等。

Chinese academic traditions take zuo ren—self-fulfillment in terms of moral cultivation—as the ultimate goal of education. To many in contemporary China, however, the nation seems gripped by moral decay, the result of rapid and profound social change over the course of the twentieth century. Placing Chinese children, alternately seen as China's greatest hope and derided as self...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 基思·罗威（Keith Lowe），全职作家和历史学家，被公认为二战史权威。其作品《火焰地狱：1943年汉堡灭顶之灾》《野蛮大陆》被翻译成20种语言，后者曾荣获赫塞尔-蒂尔特曼历史奖（Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History，2013）和意大利凯拉斯科历史奖（Cherasco History Prize，2015）。他是全世界许多杂志和报纸的撰稿人，经常在英国和美国的电视广播上发表意见。他与家人目前生活在北伦敦。 【译者简介】 朱邦芊，毕业于中国农业大学和多伦多大学，曾主持国家级翻译数据库建设与数据管理。已出版多部中英文译著，中文译著有《性、谋杀及生命的意义》《移动风暴》《最后的十字军东征》等，英文译著《宋辽西夏金社会生活史》（A Social History of Medieval China）已由英国剑桥大...(展开全部)

Bestselling historian Keith Lowe's The Fear and the Freedom looks at the astonishing innovations that sprang from WWII and how they changed the world. The Fear and the Freedom is Keith Lowe's follow-up to Savage Continent. While that book painted a picture of Europe in all its horror as WWII was ending, The Fear and the Freedom looks at all that has happened since, focusing on ...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 基思·罗威（Keith Lowe），全职作家和历史学家，被公认为二战史权威。其作品《火焰地狱：1943年汉堡灭顶之灾》《野蛮大陆》被翻译成20种语言，后者曾荣获赫塞尔-蒂尔特曼历史奖（Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History，2013）和意大利凯拉斯科历史奖（Cherasco History Prize，2015）。他是全世界许多杂志和报纸的撰稿人，经常在英国和美国的电视广播上发表意见。他与家人目前生活在北伦敦。 【译者简介】 朱邦芊，毕业于中国农业大学和多伦多大学，曾主持国家级翻译数据库建设与数据管理。已出版多部中英文译著，中文译著有《性、谋杀及生命的意义》《移动风暴》《最后的十字军东征》等，英文译著《宋辽西夏金社会生活史》（A Social History of Medieval China）已由英国剑桥大...(展开全部)