Nine years before the Senate campaign that made him one of the most influential and compelling voices in American politics, Barack Obama published this lyrical, unsentimental, and powerfully affecting memoir, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller when it was reissued in 2004. Dreams from My Father tells the story of Obama’s struggle to understand the forces that shaped ...(展开全部)

Before Barack Obama became a politician he was, among other things, a writer. Dreams from My Father is his masterpiece: a refreshing, revealing portrait of a young man asking the big questions about identity and belonging. The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama recounts an emotional odyssey. He retraces the migration of his mother's family from Kan...(展开全部)

The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead. This sudden news inspires an emotional odyssey for Obama, determined to learn the truth of his father's life and reconcile his divided inheritance. Written at the age...(展开全部)

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—fir...(展开全部)

Nine years before the Senate campaign that made him one of the most influential and compelling voices in American politics, Barack Obama published this lyrical, unsentimental, and powerfully affecting memoir, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller when it was reissued in 2004. Dreams from My Father tells the story of Obama’s struggle to understand the forces that shaped ...(展开全部)

After well over a decade’s absence, Yoichi Yamashita journeys back to his hometown to attend his father’s funeral. As the relatives gather and the stories flow alongside the drinks, Yoichi’s childhood starts to resurface. The spring afternoon playing on the floor of his father’s barber shop, the fire that ravaged the city and his family home, his parents’ divorce and a new ‘mot...(展开全部)

After well over a decade’s absence, Yoichi Yamashita journeys back to his hometown to attend his father’s funeral. As the relatives gather and the stories flow alongside the drinks, Yoichi’s childhood starts to resurface. The spring afternoon playing on the floor of his father’s barber shop, the fire that ravaged the city and his family home, his parents’ divorce and a new ‘mot...(展开全部)

Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races are biologically different from one another. For this understandable reason, the i...(展开全部)

尼古拉斯·韦德（Nicholas Wade） 英国剑桥大学国王学院自然科学学士。曾担任《自然》（Nature）杂志副主编、驻华盛顿记者，华盛顿《科学》（Science）杂志记者，《纽约时报》（New York Times）编辑记者（科学、环境及防务方向）。韦德现在是自由撰稿人、记者，写了三部关于人类进化的著作：《黎明之前》（Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors）——用基因技术颠覆史前五万年人类进化史；《信仰本能》（The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures）——分析宗教行为进化历史；《麻烦的继承者》（A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Hum...(展开全部)

尼古拉斯·韦德（Nicholas Wade） 英国剑桥大学国王学院自然科学学士。曾担任《自然》（Nature）杂志副主编、驻华盛顿记者，华盛顿《科学》（Science）杂志记者，《纽约时报》（New York Times）编辑记者（科学、环境及防务方向）。韦德现在是自由撰稿人、记者，写了三部关于人类进化的著作：《黎明之前》（Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors）——用基因技术颠覆史前五万年人类进化史；《信仰本能》（The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures）——分析宗教行为进化历史；《麻烦的继承者》（A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Hum...(展开全部)