How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how developme...(展开全部)

What does liberty entail? How have concepts of liberty changed over time? And what are the global consequences? This book surveys the history of rival views of liberty from antiquity to modern times. Quentin Skinner traces the understanding of liberty as independence from the classical ideal to early modern Britain, culminating in the claims of the Whig oligarchy to have transf...(展开全部)

The Alchemy Of The Heavens offers an exciting and accessible survey of what we know about our galaxy. The home of the earth, the sun, and countless other stars, the Milky Way has long been an object of human fascintation, but it's been in the last forty years that astromoners and astrophysicists have made the most startling discoveries about our galaxy. Author Ken Croswell rev...(展开全部)

Penelope Fitzgerald wanted to call her 1990 novel Mistakes Made by Scientists. On the other hand, she laughingly likened it to a Harlequin doctor-nurse romance. The truth about The Gate of Angels is somewhere in between. The doctor, Fred Fairly, is indeed a young Cambridge scientist, and the nurse, Daisy Saunders, has been ejected from a London hospital. If Fred is to win her l...(展开全部)

佩内洛普·非兹杰拉德（1916-2000）是当今英国文坛最杰出，最受读者欢迎的小说家之一。她的三本书获得英国文学最高奖——布克奖提名，分别是：《书店》（1978），《早春》（1988）和《天使之门》（1990）。1979年，作者凭借《离岸》一书荣获该奖项。1995年，她的作品《蓝花》胜过同期其他文学作品，被选为“年度之书”。佩内洛普长期定居伦敦，曾就业于新闻业，政府食品部，BBC广播公司以及各类学校，包括一所戏剧学校，她在晚年开始从事写作，并成为了一名杰出的作家。佩内洛普2000年于伦敦去世，享年83岁。

Beautiful reissue of this wonderful Fitzgerald backlist title, shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize In 1912 Fred Fairly is a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus in Cambridge, where for centuries no female, not even a pussy cat, has been allowed to set foot ("though the starlings couldn't altogether be regulated"). Fred lectures in physics and the questionable nature ...(展开全部)

佩内洛普·非兹杰拉德（1916-2000）是当今英国文坛最杰出，最受读者欢迎的小说家之一。她的三本书获得英国文学最高奖——布克奖提名，分别是：《书店》（1978），《早春》（1988）和《天使之门》（1990）。1979年，作者凭借《离岸》一书荣获该奖项。1995年，她的作品《蓝花》胜过同期其他文学作品，被选为“年度之书”。佩内洛普长期定居伦敦，曾就业于新闻业，政府食品部，BBC广播公司以及各类学校，包括一所戏剧学校，她在晚年开始从事写作，并成为了一名杰出的作家。佩内洛普2000年于伦敦去世，享年83岁。

Penelope Fitzgerald wanted to call her 1990 novel Mistakes Made by Scientists. On the other hand, she laughingly likened it to a Harlequin doctor-nurse romance. The truth about The Gate of Angels is somewhere in between. The doctor, Fred Fairly, is indeed a young Cambridge scientist, and the nurse, Daisy Saunders, has been ejected from a London hospital. If Fred is to win her l...(展开全部)