On 24 February 2022, the Russian Federation launched an all-out invasion of Ukraine. Coming after years of tensions following Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and thinly veiled direct armed support for separatists fighting in Donbass and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, observers gave Ukraine’s military little chance o...

雅集是古代文人的派對形式之一，在雅集的活動裡，主人與賓客除了享用精緻美味的佳餚，也會有吟詩、鼓琴、對弈、觀畫、品茗等助興活動，更不用說宴會上即席揮毫、題詠等具紀念性質的副產品產出。宴集上文人之間相互激盪與較勁，因此雅集亦可說是文化力的孕育搖籃。天下第一行書〈蘭亭序〉﹀即蘊生自東晉癸酉年（三五三）暮春三月的一場盛會，...

屬州希斯帕尼亞．收復失地運動．天主教雙王．大航海時代．異端審問制度 無敵艦隊．美西戰爭．西班牙內戰．佛朗哥政體．17個自治區．兩黨制 【本書特色】 ◎一冊認識西班牙，穿越歷史變遷，探索這片土地上各民族交融與衝突的波瀾壯闊歷程。 ◎全書依時間脈絡分成8個章節，各章均附小專欄，介紹各領域的西班牙偉人。 ◎隨主題搭配簡易的地圖、好懂...

This book presents a cultural history of modern Iran from the point of view of Shiraz, a city famous for its poetry and its traditions of scholarship. Exploring the relationship among history, poetry and politics, the book analyses how Shiraz came to be defined as the country’s cultural capital, and explains how Ira...

The two largest heirs to the massive Soviet tank force that faced NATO during the Cold War – Russia and Ukraine – have been fighting one another since 2014 in what has now become the largest war in Europe since 1945. Volume 5 of the War in Ukraine series examines the development of Soviet legacy MBTs by Ukraine in t...

Provides the English-speaking reader with the tools needed to appreciate Thomas Mann's most ambitious novel, one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century, now timely once again. In 1938, the great German author and Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann emigrated to the United States. There, he became a figur...

在共產黨史觀、國民黨史觀與台獨史觀外， 重新解讀歷史符號──「1949」 1949年10月1日中共建國，新中國建立。 1949年12月7日，國民政府遷移台灣，新台灣從此誕生。 台灣海峽兩岸人民各有他們的1949，1949年之於新中國，主要是政治的意義； 1949年之於新台彎，則是文化的意義。 1949年是台灣的年分，它賦予台灣一種歷史定位的架構。 就漢人的觀...

Legend has it that Damascus once had 365 hammams or 'Turkish baths': one for each day of the year. Originally part of an ancient Roman tradition, hammams were absorbed by Islam to such an extent that many became almost annexes to nearby mosques. For centuries, hammams were an integral part of community life, with so...

A single day. A boundless literary universe. Ulysses is not just a novelーit's a literary revolution. James Joyce's magnum opus reimagines Homer's Odyssey in the streets of Dublin, June 16, 1904, following Leopold Bloom and a host of unforgettable characters. Through inner monologues, stream-of-consciousness narrati...

四十人，横跨七千年，拼湊古代香港複雜而多元的圖像。 路過香港的末代宋帝趙昰；殖民屯門的葡萄牙探險家區華利；打鼓嶺「護圍英雄」劉阿牛；陳抗官兵勒索、引發坑口大罷市的凌老師；帶領信徒保衛西貢的和神父；傳說預言香港陸沉的頼布衣…… 四十位香港古代人物，有扭轉歷史的帝王將相，有反抗體制的俠客，更有平平無奇的「普通人」，雖然未有...

'If you read just one book about economics, make it Andrew Leigh's clear, insightful, remarkable - and short - work' Claudia Goldin, Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics The Shortest History of Economics unearths the hidden economic forces behind war, innovation and social transformation, tracing how capitali...

For a champion of the poor, Mao Zedong was born to a wealthy aristocratic family in Shaoshan, Hunan China. As an adolescent, he once had to defend his father's farm from starving peasants during a famine, who wished to seize his father's land and steal his grain. This same Mao would later promote a policy of land re...

Benedict Arnold: a name that has become synonymous with betrayal. However, this wasn't always the case. At one time he was General (and future first President) George Washington's trusted advisor in the struggle against the British. What caused this turncoat to turn his revolutionary ambitions inside out to match th...

The man that history came to know by the name of Trotsky has the well-established legacy of being one of the most mysterious of all the cast and characters involved with the Russian Revolution. If the Russian Revolution was a Shakespearean tragedy, Trotsky would undoubtedly be cast into the role of an Othello or Kin...

The thirtieth volume of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies adds significantly to the corpus of scholarship on geography's multiple histories and biographies with nine essays on figures from Britain, France, the USA and Spain. Each was distinguished in his or her own scholarship and made distinctive contribution...

What kind of a man could create the dreaming melodies of the Moonlight Sonata? Give birth to the dramatic voice of the Fifth Symphony? Compose the Ode to Joy? Meet Ludwig van Beethoven, the musical genius, the passionate artist, the incorrigible man, the composer from whose soul music breathed. Inside you will read ...