This collection of folktales from a Zulu tribal historian attempts to preserve the history, heritage, and oral tradition of his people.

When I was a boy, my father often pulled me aside to convey lessons intended to build what we generally refer to as 'character'. Often his advice was very simple - work hard, think for yourself, do right by others - but I believe those lessons provided the foundation for everything that has followed in my life. Now that I'm a dad myself, I wanted to put them down in one place, ...(展开全部)

"Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist". Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In a study that avoids the official routes, palaces and big politics, he sets out to create an account of post-colonial Africa seen at ...(展开全部)

"Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist". Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In a study that avoids the official routes, palaces and big politics, he sets out to create an account of post-colonial Africa seen at ...(展开全部)

埃文斯·普里查德(Evans-Pritchard)，英国社会人类学家，曾任牛津大学教授。其依循着英国功能主义大师拉德克里夫·布朗的结构功能论而发展出了社会人类学中动态平衡论的功能主义人类学。他通过对苏丹努尔人的人类学田野研究所撰写的《努尔人》(1940)一书，已经成为人类学专业的经典著作。其最重要的贡献是在于，他指出了亲属制度中的裂变分支体系，另外对于原始认知的研究，也成为许多人类学后续研究的出发点。他的主要著作包括：《亚赞地人的妖术神谕与巫术》（1937）、《努尔人的亲属制度与婚姻》（1951）、《努尔人的宗教》（1956）、《社会人类学论集》（1962）、《原始宗教理论》（1965）等。 迈耶·福蒂斯（Meyer Fortes，1906–1983）。

The first comprehensive study of Africa's economic history, beginning with the origins of domesticated food production and concluding with the attainment of political independence. The author draws insights from both liberal and Marxist approaches without adopting either one. The book's particular strengths lie in Austen's balance of cultural and geographical areas, his analysi...(展开全部)

"Children do not need to be made to learn," Holt maintains, because each is born with what Einstein called "the holy curiosity of inquiry." For them, learning is as natural as breathing. First published in 1967, How Children Learn has become a classic for parents and teachers, providing an "effective, gentle voice of reason" (Life).

Edith Nesbit wrote with supreme confidence about the lives of children and Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis, the trio in The Railway Children , reflect her faith in the resourcefulness, capacity for adventure, and instinctive heroism of the young. This edition of her most popular book restores the splendid original illustrations of C. E. Brock.