Political instability, poverty, climate change, and the insatiable appetite for cheap labor all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those borders harden, the demand for smugglers who aid migrants across them increases every year. Yet the real lives and work of smugglers—or coyotes, or guides, as they are often known by the migrants who hire their services—are only ever...(展开全部)

"One of the most delightful natural history studies in decades." --"The Boston Globe""Eye of the Albatross" takes us soaring to locales where whales, sea turtles, penguins, and shearwaters flourish in their own quotidian rhythms. Carl Safina's guide and inspiration is an albatross he calls Amelia, whose life and far-flung flights he describes in fascinating detail. Interwoven w...(展开全部)

Saïd Amir Arjomand's Kings and Dervishes is a pioneering study of the emergence and development of Sufism during the formation of the Persianate world. Whereas Sufi doctrine was expressed in the New Persian language, its social organization was detached from the civic movement among the urban craftsmen and artisans known as the fotovva(t) and was politically shaped by multiple ...(展开全部)

迈克尔·金奇（Michael Kinch） 免疫学家，美国圣路易斯华盛顿大学副校长、医学院教授。他在美国杜克大学获得免疫学博士学位后，曾任普渡大学终身教职；之后，他领导了多家生物制剂研发公司的科研项目，并在耶鲁大学领导药物研发项目。他一直见证并且积极投身于科学、公众健康和反疫苗活动的政策影响研究。

迈克尔·金奇（Michael Kinch） 免疫学家，美国圣路易斯华盛顿大学副校长、医学院教授。他在美国杜克大学获得免疫学博士学位后，曾任普渡大学终身教职；之后，他领导了多家生物制剂研发公司的科研项目，并在耶鲁大学领导药物研发项目。他一直见证并且积极投身于科学、公众健康和反疫苗活动的政策影响研究。

Technological advancements, expanding education, and unfettered capitalism have encouraged many around the world to aspire to better lives, even as declines in employment and widening inequality are pushing more and more people into insecurity and hardship. In Egypt, a generation of young men desire fulfilling employment, meaningful relationships, and secure family life, yet fi...(展开全部)

In The Great Divide, acclaimed author and historian Peter Watson explores the development of humankind between the Old World and the New, and offers a groundbreaking new understanding of human history. By 15,000 BC, humans had migrated from northeastern Asia across the frozen Bering land bridge to the Americas. When the last Ice Agecame to an end, the Bering Strait refilled wit...(展开全部)

David Kherdian re-creates his mother's voice in telling the true story of a childhood interrupted by one of the most devastating holocausts of our century. Vernon Dumehjian Kherdian was born into a loving and prosperous family. Then, in the year 1915, the Turkish government began the systematic destruction of its Armenian population.

Internationally celebrated for her novels, Nadine Gordimer has devoted much of her life and fiction to the political struggles of the Third World, the New World, and her native South Africa. "Living in Hope and History" is an on-the-spot record of her years as a public figure--an observer of apartheid and its aftermath, a member of the ANC, and the champion of dissident writers...(展开全部)