China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated the country’s rise without leading to its wholesale assimilation to global neoliberalism. This book uncovers the fierce contest about economic reforms that shaped China’s path. In the first post-Mao decade, China’s ...

As one of America’s most important missionaries, Junípero Serra is widely recognized as the founding father of California’s missions. It was for that work that he was canonized in 2015 by Pope Francis. Less well known, however, is the degree to which Junípero Serra embodied the social, religious and artistic current...

This innovative and user-friendly workbook, now combined into a single volume organized chronologically, guides students and instructors through the ideas and methods of world history. Designed to be used either as a stand-alone text or as a companion to a more traditional text, this hands-on book provides all the e...

Warship 2017 is devoted to the design, development and service history of the world's combat ships. Featuring a broad range of articles from a select panel of distinguished international contributors, this latest volume combines original research, new book reviews, warship notes, an image gallery and much more to ma...

Viktor Frankl, bestselling author of Man's Search for Meaning, explains the psychological tools that enabled him to survive the Holocaust Viktor Frankl is known to millions as the author of Man's Search for Meaning, his harrowing Holocaust memoir. In this book, he goes more deeply into the ways of thinking that enab...

◎ 破解多年來流傳的各種軍事謠言，建立基於事實根據的軍事常識。 ◎ 處在緊張的美中對峙，美日歐澳印圍中勢態，台灣處在第一線，必須更清楚理解我們所在的實際處境。 ◎ 培養基礎常識，判斷局勢變化，不被各種假訊息、資訊戰謠言牽著走，就順了對手的意。 你所知道的軍事情報大都是謠言 重新建立對台海軍事現況的認知 破除常見的攻台軍事謠言 1...

In the 1790s, for the first time, reformers proposed bringing poverty to an end. Inspired by scientific progress, the promise of an international economy, and the revolutions in France and the United States, political thinkers such as Thomas Paine and Antoine-Nicolas Condorcet argued that all citizens could be prote...

This book explores the literary culture of Britain's radical press from 1880 to 1910, a time that saw a flourishing of radical political activity as well as the emergence of a mass print industry. While Enlightenment radicals and their heirs had seen free print as an agent of revolutionary transformation, socialist,...

遺書無語，卻是我們僅有的少數材料。 讓我們重新尋回丟失在時間裡的細節，一同延續這場記憶與遺忘的鬥爭。 ★増訂版收錄政治受難者王文培與父親王大銘故事 遺書綜合分析〈白色畫廊〉 丘延亮 季季 陳列 唐香燕 張則周 推薦 現在已是十二點多，再六時後，我就會變成鮮血淋漓之死物。 就是二十餘年，真如一場之夢消逝地乾淨了。但是你的兒興生這...

Famines and the Making of Heritage is the first book to bring together groundbreaking research on the role of European famines in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in relation to heritage making, museology, commemoration, education, and monument creation. Featuring contributions from famine experts across Europ...

Social protection serves as an important development tool, helping to alleviate deprivation, reduce social risks, raise household income and develop human capital. This book brings together an interdisciplinary team of international experts to analyse social protection systems and welfare regimes across contemporary...

The Daily Telegraph called this book “a masterly piece of historical detective work”. Its meticulous research revealed that Nightingale’s great achievement only came after the Crimean War ended. She used her secret evidence of the Government’s cruelty towards working class soldiers to force through reforms that crea...

Código Grey - Ingeniería Militar (Militarismo). Primera Edición - 01/05/2024.

This short book is part of a series a series that charts and examines how Ancient people built cities. In this short edition we look at the Holy land during bible times and see that the cultural and religious requirements of ancient Judaism in a hot climate directed the shape of family house, and the way these house...

Here, adequately presented for the first time in English, is the fascinating story of a splendid culture that flourished thirty-five hundred years ago in the empire on the Nile: kings and conquests, gods and heroes, beautiful art, sculpture, poetry, architecture. Significant archeological discoveries are constantly ...

This book charts the transoceanic history of South Asian women in California through their speech and songs across the twentieth century. Nicole Ranganath reimagines the history of the South Asian diaspora through an examination of gender and the dynamic interplay of water and land in the cultural history of Sikhs, ...