Globalization promises to bring people around the world together, to unite them as members of the human community. To such sanguine expectations, Pheng Cheah responds deftly with a sobering account of how the “inhuman” imperatives of capitalism and technology are transforming our understanding of humanity and its prerogatives. Through an examination of debates about cosmopolita...(展开全部)

THE MEDICALIZATION OF SOCIETY: ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF HUMAN CONDITIONS INTO TREATABLE DISORDERS provides an overview of a field which recounts our love/hate relationship with the health professionals and the business side of health care systems, making for a complex analysis perfect for college-level health libraries and social science collections alike. Chapters build on ov...(展开全部)

埃斯特•博塞拉普（Ester Boserup，1910—1999），丹麦20世纪著名女性经济学家，出生于哥本哈根，于1935年从哥本哈根大学获得涵盖理论经济学和社会学、农业政策的学位。她的研究领域是经济学和农业发展，曾在丹麦政府工作，后在联合国欧洲经济委员会从事农业贸易政策方面的工作，后又在印度致力于将自己的理论运用到农业发展实践中。回到丹麦之后，博塞拉普在很多机构从事顾问工作，并创作了她一生中最重要的几部著作，其中成就深远的作品就是《农业增长的条件：人口压力下农业演变的经济学》，在该书中，她挑战了马尔萨斯学说，提出了影响深远的农业演变理论。

著者： 齐西·丹加伦芭（Tsitsi Dangarembga），出生于津巴布韦，布克奖提名作家，电影制片人，在成为职业作家之前，曾在剑桥大学学医，于津巴布韦大学学习心理学。她创作的第一部小说《不安的处境》是津巴布韦黑人女性第一本用英文出版的小说，荣获英联邦作家奖，被BBC评为影响世界的100本书之一，《纽约时报》称其为“20世纪以来当代非洲文学不容忽视的杰作之一”。 译者： 戴从容，南京大学全球人文研究院长聘教授、上海市外国文学学会常务理事、上海市翻译家协会理事，曾任复旦大学中文系副系主任、复旦大学翻译研究中心主任。出版译著6部，包括乔伊斯的《芬尼根的守灵夜》（第一卷）、班维尔的《蓝色吉他》等。

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THIS MOURNABLE BODY, ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 WOMEN FOR 2020 'UNFORGETTABLE' Alice Walker 'THIS IS THE BOOK WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR' Doris Lessing 'A UNIQUE AND VALUABLE BOOK.' Booklist 'AN ABSORBING PAGE-TURNER' Bloomsbury Review 'A MASTERPIECE' Madeleine Thien 'ARRESTING' Kwame Anthony Appiah Two decades before Zimbabwe would win indepen...(展开全部)

This stunning first novel, set in colonial Rhodesia during the 1960s, centers on the coming of age of a teenage girl, Tambu, and her relationship with her British-educated cousin Nyasha. Tambu, who yearns to be free of the constraints of her rural village, especially the circumscribed lives of the women, thinks her dreams have come true when her wealthy uncle offers to sponsor ...(展开全部)

著者： 齐西·丹加伦芭（Tsitsi Dangarembga），出生于津巴布韦，布克奖提名作家，电影制片人，在成为职业作家之前，曾在剑桥大学学医，于津巴布韦大学学习心理学。她创作的第一部小说《不安的处境》是津巴布韦黑人女性第一本用英文出版的小说，荣获英联邦作家奖，被BBC评为影响世界的100本书之一，《纽约时报》称其为“20世纪以来当代非洲文学不容忽视的杰作之一”。 译者： 戴从容，南京大学全球人文研究院长聘教授、上海市外国文学学会常务理事、上海市翻译家协会理事，曾任复旦大学中文系副系主任、复旦大学翻译研究中心主任。出版译著6部，包括乔伊斯的《芬尼根的守灵夜》（第一卷）、班维尔的《蓝色吉他》等。

Each year, the AI community convenes to administer the famous (and famously controversial) Turing test, pitting sophisticated software programs against humans to determine if a computer can “think.” The machine that most often fools the judges wins the Most Human Computer Award. But there is also a prize, strange and intriguing, for the “Most Human Human.” Brian Christian—a yo...(展开全部)

We often assume that works of visual art are meant to be seen. Yet that assumption may be a modern prejudice. The ancient world - from China to Greece, Rome to Mexico - provides many examples of statues, paintings, and other images that were not intended to be visible. Instead of being displayed, they were hidden, buried, or otherwise obscured. In this third volume in the Visua...(展开全部)

This title raises one of the deepest and most puzzling questions we can put to ourselves 'What is Love?'. Drawing on writers and thinkers as diverse as Plato, Tolstoy, Freud and Stendhal, John Armstrong explores how our perception of love is formed by culture and history. This title is suitable for anyone who believes or disbelieves in love.