In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game ...(展开全部)

In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game ...(展开全部)

Karen Blixen (who wrote under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen) knew the African countryside as intimately as her own face in the mirror. "The civilized people," she wrote, "have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it." From her own wild heart she wrote this achingly beautiful book.

凯伦旅居非洲，经营咖啡园，历经爱情与失去，与土著相融，饱览草原壮阔，终释然离去，饱含眷恋与生命哲思。

This volume studies elections as a core institution of liberal democracy in the context of newly democratizing countries. Political scientist Staffan I. Lindberg gathers data from every nationally contested election in Africa from 1989 to 2003, covering 232 elections in 44 countries. He argues that democratizing nations learn to become democratic through repeated democratic beh...(展开全部)

斯特凡·I.林德伯格（Staffan I. Lindberg），瑞典哥德堡大学政治学教授，研究领域主要集中在非洲的政治，并于2004年获得美国政治学学会的最佳论文奖，以及2003年非洲研究学会的最佳毕业论文奖。

When the official history of twentieth-century Wall Street is written, it will certainly contain more than a few pages on Michael Steinhardt. One of the most successful money managers in the history of "The Street," Steinhardt far outshone his peers by achieving an average annual return of over thirty percent-significantly greater than that of every market benchmark. During his...(展开全部)

Nationally-specific definitions of citizenship proved decisive for the development of the Tax State in Brazil and South Africa in the twentieth century. Although both countries had been divided along racial and regional lines in the late nineteenth century, watershed constitutions addressed these political problems in very different ways. South Africa's institutionalized white ...(展开全部)

Nationally-specific definitions of citizenship proved decisive for the development of the Tax State in Brazil and South Africa in the twentieth century. Although both countries had been divided along racial and regional lines in the late nineteenth century, watershed constitutions addressed these political problems in very different ways. South Africa's institutionalized white ...(展开全部)

莫妮卡·布莱克曼·维索纳（Monica Blackmun Visonà），非洲艺术史专家，美国肯塔基大学艺术史与视觉研究助理教授，研究方向为当代非洲艺术重大议题。 罗宾·波伊纳（Robin Poynor），非洲艺术史专家，美国佛罗里达大学艺术与艺术史学院教授 ，担任美国 多家博物馆的展览顾问及策展人。 赫伯特·M.科尔（Herbert M. Cole），美国加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校艺术与建筑史荣誉教授。1968-2003 年教授非洲艺术史。曾获非洲研究协会艺术委员会颁发的终身成就奖。 迈克尔·哈里斯（Michael D. Harris，第五章作者），美国埃默里大学副教授，研究方向为美国非洲裔文化。 罗兰德·艾比欧登（Rowland Abiodun，前言作者），美国阿姆赫斯特学院教授，研究方向是艺术史。 苏珊娜·普雷斯顿·布勒（Suzanne Prest...(展开全部)