In "Dreams in a Time of War", Ngugi wa Thiong'o paints a mesmerizing portrait of a young boy's experiences in an African nation in flux. Beginning in the late 1930s, this moving and entertaining memoir describes Ngugi's day-to-day life as the fifth child of his father's third wife in a family that included twenty-four children born to four different mothers. Against the backdro...(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)

阿莱霍·卡彭铁尔（1904-1980），古巴著名小说家、新闻记者、音乐理论家、文学批评家、外交官，拉丁美洲文坛巨匠。他将超现实主义和本地化融为一体，全面地反映了拉美大陆的现状，对拉美文学的发展起过巨大的推动作用，被尊为拉丁美洲小说的先行者。 卡彭铁尔1904年生于瑞士洛桑，在哈瓦那度过童年后，去巴黎读中学，再回到古巴，在哈瓦那大学攻读音乐和建筑学，在文学、历史、哲学、音乐、建筑、绘画方面皆有颇高造诣，是拉丁美洲文学界少有的百科全书式作家。1927年，卡彭铁尔因反对马查多独裁统治而被捕，在短暂的坐牢期间，他开始写作第一部长篇小说《埃古-扬巴-奥》。出狱后，他被迫流亡法国十载。 1939年，卡彭铁尔回到古巴，执教于哈瓦那大学，后曾旅居于委内瑞拉、海地等国，1959年古巴革命胜利后再次回国，成为古巴文学艺术界的领军人物。他创作的长篇小说《消逝的足迹》、《人...(展开全部)

阿莱霍·卡彭铁尔（1904-1980），古巴著名小说家、新闻记者、音乐理论家、文学批评家、外交官，拉丁美洲文坛巨匠。他将超现实主义和本地化融为一体，全面地反映了拉美大陆的现状，对拉美文学的发展起过巨大的推动作用，被尊为拉丁美洲小说的先行者。 卡彭铁尔1904年生于瑞士洛桑，在哈瓦那度过童年后，去巴黎读中学，再回到古巴，在哈瓦那大学攻读音乐和建筑学，在文学、历史、哲学、音乐、建筑、绘画方面皆有颇高造诣，是拉丁美洲文学界少有的百科全书式作家。1927年，卡彭铁尔因反对马查多独裁统治而被捕，在短暂的坐牢期间，他开始写作第一部长篇小说《埃古-扬巴-奥》。出狱后，他被迫流亡法国十载。 1939年，卡彭铁尔回到古巴，执教于哈瓦那大学，后曾旅居于委内瑞拉、海地等国，1959年古巴革命胜利后再次回国，成为古巴文学艺术界的领军人物。他创作的长篇小说《消逝的足迹》、《人...(展开全部)

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam chronicles Washington politics and foreign policy in post-Cold War America. Evoking the internal conflicts, unchecked egos, and power struggles within the White House, the State Department, and the military, Halberstam shows how the decisions of men who served in the Vietnam War, and those who did not, have shaped America's rol...(展开全部)

The idea for "Philosophy in a Time of Terror" was born hours after the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and came to realization just weeks later when Giovanna Borradori sat down with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, in separate interviews, in New York City. Guided by Borradori, Habermas and Derrida evaluated the significance of the most destructive terrorist attack ever perpetrate...(展开全部)

The idea for "Philosophy in a Time of Terror" was born hours after the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and came to realization just weeks later when Giovanna Borradori sat down with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, in separate interviews, in New York City. Guided by Borradori, Habermas and Derrida evaluated the significance of the most destructive terrorist attack ever perpetrate...(展开全部)

Father is missing! His top secret job as a physicist for the government has taken him away--but where?--and how? Meg and her younger brother, Charles Wallace, set out with their friend Calvin on an exciting adventure through time and space to search for him. With the help of the mysterious Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which, the youngsters learn to expect the unexpected as t...(展开全部)