Spain, 1937. Posted to the Aragonese front, Lieutenant Lluís Ruscalleda eschews the drunken antics of his comrades and goes in search of intrigue. But the lady of Castel de Olivo—a beautiful widow with a shadowy past—puts a high price on her affections. In Barcelona, Trini Milmany struggles to raise Lluís’s son on her own, letters from the front her only solace. With bombs fall...(展开全部)

When India became independent in 1947 after two centuries of colonial rule, it immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system, with multiple parties, freedom of speech, and extensive political rights. The famines of the British era disappeared, and steady economic growth replaced the economic stagnation of the Raj. The growth of the Indian economy quickened further ov...(展开全部)

阿马蒂亚•森（Amartya Sen），1998年诺贝尔经济学奖获得者。森1933年生于印度。1953年森在印度完成大学学业后赴剑桥大学就读，1959年取得博士学位。森曾执教于伦敦经济学院、牛津大学、哈佛大学等著名学府，现任剑桥大学三一学院院长。 森的突出贡献表现在五个领域，分别是：社会选择理论、个人自由与帕累托最优的关系、福利与贫困指数衡量、饥荒问题与权利分配不均的关系以及道德哲学。 森的学术思想继承了从亚里士多德到亚当•斯密等古典思想家的遗产。他深切关注全世界各地遭受苦难的人们，被誉为“经济学良心的肩负者”、“穷人的经济学家”。森的思想已经产生了重大影响，联合国发布的《人类发展报告》就是按照他的理论框架设计的。1972年的诺贝尔经济学奖得主肯尼思•阿罗认为，“在社会选择、福利经济学基础理论、更广泛的分配伦理学以及与这些领域相关的测量问题上，森是一...(展开全部)

Is the world warming due to the Greenhouse Effect? Can nuclear weapon arsenals be relied upon without periodic testing? Is the world running out of oil? What action should be taken against an outbreak of foot-and-mouth or BSE? Why can't scientists provide certain answers to these and many other questions? The uncertainty of science is puzzling. It arises when scientists have mo...(展开全部)

Is the world warming due to the Greenhouse Effect? Can nuclear weapon arsenals be relied upon without periodic testing? Is the world running out of oil? What action should be taken against an outbreak of foot-and-mouth or BSE? Why can't scientists provide certain answers to these and many other questions? The uncertainty of science is puzzling. It arises when scientists have mo...(展开全部)

不要被封面骗了呀，小说是写舰长的，整个故事都围绕舰长展开，会适当修改主线剧情，不然不容易插入角色

简介：哪怕一个多么渺小的人都可以在世界上建立自己的传说，向自己的目标，加油吧！

Glory is the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a twnety-two-year-old Russian émigré of no account, who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry him.  Convinced that his life is about to be wasted and hoping to impress his love, he embarks on a "perilous, daredevil project"--an illegal attempt to re-enter the Soviet Union, from which he and his mother had fled in 1919. ...(展开全部)

"In general "Glory" is my happiest thing." "The fun of "Glory" is...to be sought in the echoing and linking of minor events, in back-and-forth switches, which produce an illusion of impetus; in an old daydream directly becoming the blessing of the ball hugged to one's chest, or in the casual vision of Martin's mother grieving beyond the time-frame of the novel in an abstraction...(展开全部)

不要被封面骗了呀，小说是写舰长的，整个故事都围绕舰长展开，会适当修改主线剧情，不然不容易插入角色