Jeffrey Sachs draws on his remarkable 25 years' experience to offer a thrilling and inspiring vision of the keys to economic success in the world today. Marrying vivid storytelling with acute analysis, he sets the stage by drawing a conceptual map of the world economy and explains why, over the past 200 years, wealth and poverty have diverged and evolved across the planet, and why the poorest nations have been so markedly unable to escape the trap of poverty. Sachs tells the remarkable stories of his own work in Bolivia, Poland, Russia, India, China and Africa to bring readers with him to an understanding of the different problems countries face. In the end, readers will be left not with an understanding of how daunting the world's problems are, but how solvable they are and why making the effort is both our moral duty and in our own interests.

《荒原蚁丘》（Anthills of the Savannah）是非洲现代文学之父，布克奖获奖作者钦努阿·阿契贝后四十年创作生涯中唯一的长篇小说，文坛大师的最成熟之作，最重要的非洲小说之一。其永恒价值超越乔治·奥威尔的不朽著作《1984》。
故事发生在虚构的西非国家卡根，卡根政府腐败专横，国家仅存的民主制度，时刻面临着独裁统治的威胁。总统萨姆曾在英国受训，担任政府首脑后，逐渐受到极权统治的蛊惑，试图结束民主政治。克里斯托弗是新闻部长，负责新闻管制，被迫去监控《国家公报》 编辑伊肯的言行。因为伊肯发表了抨击萨姆政府的评论，并参与反独裁的民主活动。三人原本同在英国留学，是志趣相投的好友，但因为政治信仰的差异而走向不同的命运……
不是阿契贝需要诺贝尔奖；正相反，是诺贝尔奖需要阿契贝来证明自己。
——尼日利亚《每日太阳报》
全世界的作家都在为新的现实和新的社会寻求新的语汇和新的形式，阿契贝为他们指明了道路。
——《纽约时报》
阿契贝的这个故事，避开了非洲式体验的意识形态和政治进程，是为了引领人们去见识极富人性意味的普世智慧。
——《华盛顿邮报图书世界》
《荒原蚁丘》具有绝妙的讽刺性瞬间，回荡着非洲人的高亢笑声。
——《纽约书评》
《荒原蚁丘》将为世人铭记。这幅社会变迁的图景挟裹着预言般的力量，击打我们的心灵。
——《今日美国》

《那些非洲的男人们》内容简介：要钱没钱，要力气没力气，这样你也敢去非洲？呃，我有一颗花痴的心，极度敏感的八卦灵魂，这样够不够？于是我带着160美金，一张没法使用的visa卡，一副娇小的身躯，一颗细小的胆子孤身闯入非洲。两个月深度游走，仰望过埃塞俄比亚繁茂的星空，路过美丽的全裸少女部落，被骗45美金，打了一场架，认识了这些令我一生难忘的男人们……

Scarred by decades of conflict and occupation, the craggy African nation of Eritrea has weathered the world's longest-running guerrilla war. The dogged determination that secured victory against Ethiopia, its giant neighbor, is woven into the national psyche, the product of cynical foreign interventions. Fascist Italy wanted Eritrea as the springboard for a new, racially pure Roman empire; Britain sold off its industry for scrap; the United States needed a base for its state-of-the-art spy station; and the Soviet Union used it as a pawn in a proxy war. In I Didn't Do It for You , Michela Wrong reveals the breathtaking abuses this tiny nation has suffered and, with a sharp eye for detail and a taste for the incongruous, tells the story of colonialism itself and how international power politics can play havoc with a country's destiny.

《夜航西飞》以二十世纪二十至三十年代的肯尼亚为背景，真实再现了作者在非洲的生活，其中包括她毕生钟爱的两项有趣又传奇的事业——训练赛马和驾驶飞机。柏瑞尔•马卡姆以非常动人的文字，铺陈出她在非洲度过的童年、她参与狩猎的情景、她与当地土著的情谊、她训练赛马的过程，以及她独自驾驶单翼双座木螺旋桨飞机，在东部非洲从事职业飞行并猎队搜寻大象踪迹的往事；还详细描述了她从非洲驾机回英国沿途所遭遇到的政治与自然险阻；最后更记录了她在一九三六年九月独自驾机从英国飞越大西洋直抵北美的经过。

A direct, stylish, and engrossing story of a marvelous life well lived. Markham describes her childhood in Kenya and her experiences as a bush pilot in the 1930s -- evoking the landscapes, people, and wildlife in rich detail.

Tropical Africa was one of the last regions of the world to experience formal European colonialism, a process that coincided with the advent of a range of new scientific specialties and research methods. "Africa as a Living Laboratory" is an ambitious study of the thorny relationship between imperialism and the role of scientific expertise - environmental, medical, racial, and anthropological - in the colonization of British Africa. A key source for Helen Tilley's analysis is the African Research Survey, a project undertaken in the 1930s to explore how modern science was being applied to African problems. This project both embraced and recommended an interdisciplinary approach to research on Africa that, Tilley argues, underscored the heterogeneity of African environments and the interrelation of the problems being studied. While the aim of British colonialists was unquestionably to transform and modernize Africa, their efforts, Tilley contends, were often unexpectedly subverted by scientific concerns with the local. Meticulously researched and gracefully argued, "Africa as a Living Laboratory" transforms our understanding of imperial history, colonial development, and the role science played in both.

We know him for finding Livingstone, who wasn't lost, in 1871, but the truly adventurous trip was Stanley's next, in 1874, when the British explorer became one of the first Europeans to run the length of the Congo. His account of that journey reads like some wonderful old boys' adventure tale—except that it's true.

In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million--all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian. Heroic efforts to expose these crimes eventually led to the first great human rights movement of the twentieth century, in which everyone from Mark Twain to the Archbishop of Canterbury participated. King Leopold's Ghost is the haunting account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions, a man as cunning, charming, and cruel as any of the great Shakespearean villains. It is also the deeply moving portrait of those who fought Leopold: a brave handful of missionaries, travelers, and young idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure and unexpectedly found themselves witnesses to a holocaust. Adam Hochschild brings this largely untold story alive with the wit and skill of a Barbara Tuchman. Like her, he knows that history often provides a far richer cast of characters than any novelist could invent. Chief among them is Edmund Morel, a young British shipping agent who went on to lead the international crusade against Leopold. Another hero of this tale, the Irish patriot Roger Casement, ended his life on a London gallows. Two courageous black Americans, George Washington Williams and William Sheppard, risked much to bring evidence of the Congo atrocities to the outside world. Sailing into the middle of the story was a young Congo River steamboat officer named Joseph Conrad. And looming above them all, the duplicitous billionaire King Leopold II. With great power and compassion, King Leopold's Ghost will brand the tragedy of the Congo--too long forgotten--onto the conscience of the West.

Karen Blixen (who wrote under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen) knew the African countryside as intimately as her own face in the mirror. "The civilized people," she wrote, "have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it." From her own wild heart she wrote this achingly beautiful book.