Allegories of Format examines the significance of format to the literary oeuvre of the nineteenth-century Swiss author, Gottfried Keller (1819–1890), best known for his 1855 novel, Green Henry (Der grüne Heinrich). Malika Maskarinec understands format as the organization of a media object's relationship to a world o...

**　　專精中國上古史的杜正勝院士繼【周代城邦】、【編戶齊民】後，多年思考的總結！** **　　解構「炎黃子孫」的神話，釐清「中國的範圍」、「原中國的所在」、「中國本部的奠定」。** **　　剖析「中國的擴張」、「中國的勢力範圍」以及擴張三部曲：「征服→統治→改造成為中國人」。** **　** **　　★ 以「大歷史」的宏觀視角，鳥瞰中國歷...

Victory is not strength aloneーit is clarity, timing, and an unshakable mind. Written by legendary samurai Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings distills the principles of strategy, discipline, and mastery into powerful, precise teachings. Drawing from real combat and lifelong experience, Musashi reveals how to t...

Long before Alexandria rose to power and before Thebes reached its glory, there was Memphis ー the first capital of a unified Egypt and the beating heart of a civilization that shaped the ancient world. For more than three thousand years, Memphis stood at the crossroads of political authority, religious innovation, ...

Une guerre féroce. Une forêt hostile. Une mission où chaque pas peut être fatal. Au cœur de la guerre franco-indienne, le chasseur Hawkeye et ses alliés mohawks, Chingachgook et Uncas, s'efforcent de protéger deux jeunes femmes britanniques poursuivies par le redoutable Magua. Entre embuscades, trahisons et sacrific...

**A sophisticated look at Pakistanーone of the most overlooked, yet vastly consequential, countries of modern times “Lieven’s eye for detail, command of subcontinental history and old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting make this in many ways an excellent primer on Pakistan.” ーWall Street Journal Named a Best Book of ...

An empire collapses. Kingdoms rise and fall. Out of chaos, the foundations of modern Europe begin to form. In The Dark Ages, renowned historian Charles Oman unravels the dramatic centuries between Rome's decline and the dawn of the Middle Ages. Through vivid storytelling and meticulous scholarship, he brings to life...

“I found this book amazing. I read it through quickly because it was so interesting, then turned around and read much of it again.”ーDaniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & Slow “I've been recommending A Brief History of Intelligence to everyone I know. A tru...

Drawing on never before used archival materials, Replacing the Dead exposes the history of Soviet and Russian abortion policy. It is not unusual for nations recovering from wars to incentivize their populations to raise their birthrates. The post-World War II Soviet pronatalism campaign attempted this on an unpreced...

What happens when a journey into the geographic unknown becomes a voyage into the darkest depths of the human soul? Join Marlow, a riverboat captain, as he navigates the dense, oppressive heart of the African Congo on a mission to find the enigmatic and powerful Mr. Kurtzーa brilliant ivory agent who has devolved in...

#1 New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century • The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama and Bill Gates Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout. From renowned historian Yuval Noah Harari comes a landmark work of big history, a groundbr...

Gandhi. The name conjures the image of a manーunimpressive in appearance and simple in his lifestyleーwho spent his life pursuing independence for India. Months after the country achieved that independence from Great Britain, Gandhi's life ended when an assassin killed him. But Gandhi's legacy lives on. His rise to ...

L’eugénisme prend son essor dans les années 1880 et connaît son apogée après son premier congrès international de 1912. Pensé comme une biomédecine préventive, il se présente comme un remède à l’angoisse vécue par une partie des élites politiques et sociales face à ce qu’elles identifient comme le déclin et la « dég...

She vigorously played the dumb-blonde stereotype in her movie roles, but there is nothing at all dumb about Marilyn Monroe. Born to a single mother who suffered from severe mental illness, the odds were stacked against the girl originally named Norma Jeane from the very beginning. She became a ward of the state and ...

Uncovers a spiritual dimension in the transition to the Anthropocene What is the role of religion in shaping interactions and relations between the human and nonhuman in nature? Why are Muslim and Christian organizations generally not a potent force in Southeast Asian environmental movements? The Camphor Tree and th...

The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia serves as a guide to the complex and often contradictory concept of nostalgia, as well as the field of “nostalgia studies” more broadly. Nostalgia is an area of intense interest across several disciplines as well as within society and culture more generally. This handbook brings t...