Mountains Beyond Mountains

Mountains Beyond Mountains pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025

Tracy Kidder is an American author and Vietnam War veteran. Kidder may be best known, especially within the computing community, for his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Soul of a New Machine, an account of the development of Data General's Eclipse/MV minicomputer. The book typifies his distinctive style of research. He began following the project at its inception and, in addition to interviews, spent considerable time observing the engineers at work and outside of it. Using this perspective he was able to produce a more textured portrait of the development process than a purely retrospective study might.

Kidder followed up with House, in which he chronicles the design and construction of the award-winning Souweine House in Amherst, Massachusetts. House reads like a novel, but it is based on many hours of research with the architect, builders, clients, in-laws, and other interested parties.

In 2003, Kidder also published Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure The World after a chance encounter with Paul Farmer. The book was held to wide critical acclaim and became a New York Times bestseller. The actor Edward Norton has claimed it was one of the books which has had a profound influence on him.

出版者:Random House Trade Paperbacks
作者:Tracy Kidder
出品人:
页数:322
译者:
出版时间:2004-8-31
价格:USD 16.00
装帧:Paperback
isbn号码:9780812973013
丛书系列:
图书标签:
  • 纪实 
  • PaulFarmer 
  • 医学 
  • Health&HumanRights 
  • 英文原版 
  • 人类学 
  • Kidder 
  • 美国 
  •  
想要找书就要到 图书目录大全
立刻按 ctrl+D收藏本页
你会得到大惊喜!!

Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine , House , Among Schoolchildren , and Home Town . He has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” This powerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it.

At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist, anthropologist, the recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant, world-class Robin Hood, Farmer was brought up in a bus and on a boat, and in medical school found his life’s calling: to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. This magnificent book shows how radical change can be fostered in situations that seem insurmountable, and it also shows how a meaningful life can be created, as Farmer—brilliant, charismatic, charming, both a leader in international health and a doctor who finds time to make house calls in Boston and the mountains of Haiti—blasts through convention to get results.

Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes minds and practices through his dedication to the philosophy that "the only real nation is humanity" - a philosophy that is embodied in the small public charity he founded, Partners In Health. He enlists the help of the Gates Foundation, George Soros, the U.N.’s World Health Organization, and others in his quest to cure the world. At the heart of this book is the example of a life based on hope, and on an understanding of the truth of the Haitian proverb “Beyond mountains there are mountains”: as you solve one problem, another problem presents itself, and so you go on and try to solve that one too.

“ Mountains Beyond Mountains unfolds with the force of a gathering revelation,” says Annie Dillard, and Jonathan Harr says, “[Farmer] wants to change the world. Certainly this luminous and powerful book will change the way you see it.”

From the Hardcover edition.

具体描述

读后感

评分

评分

作者在本书描述了法默在海地行医,为之付出的故事,我们看到了一个圣人法默医生,更多的却是贫穷,战乱疾病。 有人评价法默“真他妈的是个圣人”。可在我看来他不过是个心怀善意的普通人道主义者,一个不忘医德的医生。法默医生不乏对高雅生活的享受。他无疑喜欢高级餐厅、美味...  

评分

《越过一山,又是一山》是记者基尔德在“尽量不打扰他们的情况下,融入他们的生活,并通过目睹他们做的事情,努力去了解和读懂他们。”这里的“他们”是谁呢?法默医生和他的公共医疗卫生系统下的团队成员。 他们游走在注入海地等法律、医疗照顾不到的地区,活着无人照看病人的...  

评分

作者在本书描述了法默在海地行医,为之付出的故事,我们看到了一个圣人法默医生,更多的却是贫穷,战乱疾病。 有人评价法默“真他妈的是个圣人”。可在我看来他不过是个心怀善意的普通人道主义者,一个不忘医德的医生。法默医生不乏对高雅生活的享受。他无疑喜欢高级餐厅、美味...  

评分

“他真他妈是个圣人” (“That guy’s a fuckin’ saint.”) 读完,没找到一个对于Farmer更简短,准确的评价。这个“他妈的”圣人每年在波士顿和海地之间穿梭,同时治愈了成千上万的患者。这世上或有医生无数,但有几个能为人如Farmer一般,或许,成为圣人的标准更为严格,...  

用户评价

评分

这个世界还不够好,但有人努力把它变的更好。

评分

男神啊没有之一。

评分

well, the touching and well-written cliche: how a gifted young man changed the world.

评分

Brother In Health, and Doctor Paul Farmer's effort in Haiti to cure TBs there.

评分

叙述farmer对于这个世界,对于他人的贡献。演绎着一场贫与富之间的真实戏剧。

本站所有内容均为互联网搜索引擎提供的公开搜索信息,本站不存储任何数据与内容,任何内容与数据均与本站无关,如有需要请联系相关搜索引擎包括但不限于百度google,bing,sogou

© 2025 book.wenda123.org All Rights Reserved. 图书目录大全 版权所有