THE STORY OF FATHERHOOD AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A FATHER TODAY, BASED ON A DECADE-LONG STUDY OF NEW AND EXPECTANT FATHERS. Becoming a father is one of most common but also one of the most profoundly life-altering experiences a man can have. It is up there with puberty, falling in love and experiencing your first loss. Fifty years ago a father’s role was assumed to be clear: he...(展开全部)

In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the ...(展开全部)

Review By choosing to consider the rich interface between liberalism and philosophy (rather than, say, sociology or party organisation), Ryan has opened up a vast and exciting field for exploration and debate. The reader will find not only discussion of the manifold contributions of the great philosophers (biographical details where appropriate and available) but also insights ...(展开全部)

Burma has often been portrayed as a timeless place, a country of egalitarian Buddhist villages, ruled successively by autocratic kings, British colonialists and, most recently, a military dictatorship. The Making of Modern Burma argues instead that many aspects of Burmese society today, from the borders of the state to the social structure of the countryside to the very notion ...(展开全部)

Burma has often been portrayed as a timeless place, a country of egalitarian Buddhist villages, ruled successively by autocratic kings, British colonialists and, most recently, a military dictatorship. The Making of Modern Burma argues instead that many aspects of Burmese society today, from the borders of the state to the social structure of the countryside to the very notion ...(展开全部)

Philip Bowring is an Asia-based journalist and is an expert on maritime history and the history of Southeast Asia.

From Library Journal This book is primarily a historical account of the modernist protest against the disengaged and instrumental modes of thought and action that arose when theistically grounded morality crumbled, but that themselves focused too little upon our inner life, i.e., our powers of creative imagination and the substantive goods of ordinary life, which Taylor alleges...(展开全部)

维克多•塞巴斯蒂安 记者。 著有： 《十二天：1956年革命》（TWELVE DAYS: REVOLUTION 1956 ），Weidenfeld, 2006 《1989年革命》（REVOLUTION 1989: FALL OF THE SOVIET EMPIRE），W&N, 2009

维克多•塞巴斯蒂安 记者。 著有： 《十二天：1956年革命》（TWELVE DAYS: REVOLUTION 1956 ），Weidenfeld, 2006 《1989年革命》（REVOLUTION 1989: FALL OF THE SOVIET EMPIRE），W&N, 2009

【作者简介】 乔舒亚•B.弗里曼是一位杰出的历史教授，在纽约城市大学皇后学院和研究生中心。他的早期著作包括《美利坚帝国》（American Empire）和《纽约工人阶级》（Working-Class New York）等。他住在纽约市。 . . 【译者简介】 李珂，1997年生，本科毕业于河南大学，现为白俄罗斯国立大学历史系在读研究生，民族学人类学方向。 研究问题：俄苏的车臣问题、晚期莫卧儿帝国。豆瓣主页kekede1997