In Plantation Life Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi examine the structure and governance of contemporary palm oil plantations in Indonesia, which supply fifty percent of the world's palm oil. They attend to the exploitative nature of plantation life, wherein villagers' wellbeing is sacrificed in the name of economic development. While plantations are often plagued by ruined ecol...(展开全部)

In Plantation Life Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi examine the structure and governance of contemporary palm oil plantations in Indonesia, which supply fifty percent of the world's palm oil. They attend to the exploitative nature of plantation life, wherein villagers' wellbeing is sacrificed in the name of economic development. While plantations are often plagued by ruined ecol...(展开全部)

Oil palms are ubiquitous—grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role in scores of packaged products, from lipstick and soap to margarine and cookies. And as Jonathan E. Robins shows, sweeping social transformations carried the plant around the planet. First brought to the global stage in the holds of sl...(展开全部)

简介：是缘分使然，还是利益熏心？亦或是，一个微小的误差

简介：是缘分使然，还是利益熏心？亦或是，一个微小的误差

约翰·托兰（John Toland） 美国著名作家、历史学家。1912年出生于威斯康星州，经历过第二次世界大战。其主要作品有《美国的耻辱 : 珍珠港事件内幕》《漫长的战斗 : 美国人眼中的朝鲜战争》《占领日本》《最后一百天》《日本帝国消亡史》《阿登之战》等。曾凭借《日本帝国消亡史 》获得1971年普利策新闻奖。 托兰认为，好的历史著作就是“活 的历史”。他的写作信条是“不应当以自己的观点来讲述，而是像一出戏那样，让实际上发生过的事情重演，这才是所谓活的历史。”托兰的作品摒弃了传统史学著作的生涩与枯燥，代之以丰富的细节描写和对话，使读者犹如身临其境。

Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities - places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist Joao Biehl leads a detective-like journe...(展开全部)

Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil’s big cities–places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist João Biehl leads a detective-like journey ...(展开全部)

Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities - places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist Joao Biehl leads a detective-like journe...(展开全部)

Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil’s big cities–places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist João Biehl leads a detective-like journey ...(展开全部)