"WINNER OF THE 2011 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE" "I""n a time of death and terror, Leymah Gbowee brought Liberia's women together--and together they led a nation to peace." As a young woman, Leymah Gbowee was broken by the Liberian civil war, a brutal conflict that tore apart her life and claimed the lives of countless relatives and friends. Years of fighting destroyed her country--and s...(展开全部)

As a young woman growing up in Africa, Leymah Gbowee was broken by a savage civil war that destroyed life as she knew it, depriving her of the education she yearned for and claiming the lives of relatives and friends. As war continued to ravage Liberia, Gbowee's bitterness turned to rage-fueled action as she realized it is women who are the silent sufferers in prolonged conflic...(展开全部)

This is a social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the US. It tells a human story about people who had a deep and unshakeable desire to transform their bodily sex.

英国DK公司是一家国际性的出版企业，现为企鹅兰登书屋的子公司。英国DK公司出版的科普、百科、生活等图书畅销全球，其图文并茂的出版风格，深受各国读者的青睐与认可。尤其是在儿童百科图书领域，英国DK公司以精美的图片、与时俱进的知识、生动有趣的讲述方式，成为行业内的佼佼者。爱上DK，爱上科学！

Building a Nation at War argues that the Chinese Nationalist government’s retreat inland during the Sino–Japanese War (1937–1945), its consequent need for inland resources, and its participation in new scientific and technical relationships with the United States led to fundamental changes in how the Nationalists engaged with science and technology as tools to promote developme...(展开全部)

Drawing on a large body of empirical evidence, former Harvard President Derek Bok examines how much progress college students actually make toward widely accepted goals of undergraduate education. His conclusions are sobering. Although most students make gains in many important respects, they improve much less than they should in such important areas as writing, critical thinki...(展开全部)

Drawing on a large body of empirical evidence, former Harvard President Derek Bok examines how much progress college students actually make toward widely accepted goals of undergraduate education. His conclusions are sobering. Although most students make gains in many important respects, they improve much less than they should in such important areas as writing, critical thinki...(展开全部)

Book Description A fascinating celebration of one of the most important classical composers, and one of the most enduringly popular. Product Description A century after his death, Gustav Mahler is the most important composer of modern times. Displacing Beethoven as a box-office draw, his music offers more than the usual listening satisfactions. Many believe it has the power to ...(展开全部)

Product Description Norman Lebrecht—noted music critic, novelist, and author of the classic Mahler Remembered—explains why Gustav Mahler, relatively obscure in his own time, has become the most popular symphonist of ours. Although he was well regarded as a conductor, when Gustav Mahler died in 1911 his compositions were considered “incomprehensible” and “unlistenable.” In the 1...(展开全部)

诺曼·莱布雷希特（Norman Lebrecht）， 当今最受欢迎的音乐、文化领域评论家之一，拥有广泛的读者群，其专栏被翻译成包括中文在内的多种语言在全世界传播。莱布雷希特还是BBC 第三古典频道、彭博资讯集团（Bloomberg）及纽约 WNYC 广播电台的常客，贡献了大量有价值的节目。迄今为止，莱布雷希特在音乐方面的著作共有十二部，其中不乏具有持久影响力的作品，如《大师的神话》（MaestroMyth，1991 年）和《大师，杰作与疯狂》（Maestro,Masterpiece and Madness，2007 年） 就曾引发人们长久的思考与讨论。莱布雷希特在小说领域亦有建树， 曾以《名字之歌》（The Song ofNames）一举夺得 2002 年英国“惠特布莱德奖”（Whitbread Prize）。