In 1977, Sifu Leung Cheung migrated from Hong Kong to Sydney with his wife and family. He brought with him not only his exceptional martial arts skill but also an unwavering passion for the Shaolin Yau Kung Mun system. From humble beginnings teaching at his home in Kensington, he built a thriving school that would p...

**“For anyone wanting to find out more about the world we live in . . . there is one simple answer: read Noam Chomsky.” ーThe New Statesman A sharp indictment of both American foreign policy and the national myths that support it, and an urgent warning of the threat that U.S. power poses to humanity’s future** The M...

What if your entire lifeーyour freedom, identity, and dignityーwere stolen in an instant? 〓 In Twelve Years a Slave, Solomon Northup delivers one of the most heartbreaking and powerful true stories ever written. Born a free Black man in New York, Northup was kidnapped, betrayed, and sold into slavery, forced to end...

What if the key to understanding freedom, power, and the very shape of a nation was hidden in a series of brilliant essays? 〓〓 In The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay outline one of the most important political arguments in world historyーexplaining, defending, and defining the pr...

What if you could win every battleーon the battlefield, in business, and in lifeーthrough strategy, not force? 〓 For over two millennia, The Art of War has shaped leaders, warriors, thinkers, and innovators. Sun Tzu's teachings reveal how victory depends not on strength alone, but on clarity of mind, preparation, t...

The Hong Kong Cemetery in Happy Valley is home to over 470 graves connected to the city’s Japanese population. Most of these graves belong to individuals who died during the Meiji era (18681912), a remarkable period of modernisation and opening up of Japan that saw thousands of its inhabitants travel to other parts ...

Embedded in Southern voices and epistemologies, this book explores how local communities in Central America understand development and the good life in the context of large-scale infrastructure projects. The analysis focuses on six case studies: the Reventazón hydropower plant and the Guanacaste tourism projects in ...

The Routledge Handbook of Economic Expectations in Historical Perspective offers a one-stop reference that distills and summarizes the recent scholarship on economic expectations. Investigating the dynamics, effects, and determinants of economic expectations from a global perspective since the seventeenth century, t...

During the 1960s and 1970s, the images of two men came to dominate the iconography of left-wing movements: Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. The story of the revolution these two men led in Cuba became a fable that drove and encouraged other revolutionary movements around the world. The Cuban Revolution is certainly ast...

⚔️ A legendary swordsman. A lifetime of battles. A timeless guide to victory. In The Book of Five Rings, Miyamoto Musashi, the greatest samurai of Japan's feudal era, distills the wisdom gained from more than sixty undefeated duels into a powerful manual on strategy, discipline, and the mastery of one's mind. Divide...

With mountains of documentation, mostly from government and corporate sources, Sutton shows that Soviet military technology is heavily dependent on U.S. and allied gifts, "peaceful trade" and exchange programs. We've built for, sold or traded, or given outright to the Communists everything from copper wiring and mil...

Deep Fakes: A Critical Lexicon for Digital Museology is an illustrated monograph articulated through a comprehensive lexicon of key concepts in next-generation museology. Each of the book’s ten chapters explores specific terms in the lexicon, further interpreted through installations from the 2021 exhibition Deep Fa...

媲美《槍炮、病菌與鋼鐵》《人類大歷史》，探討人類文明的開創性巨作 不自由、不平等、國家體制是文明必然終點？ 時代百大風雲人物、《債的歷史》作者 大衛﹐格雷伯（David Graeber） ╳ 人文學科最高榮譽Albertus Magnus得主 大衛．溫格羅（David Wengrow） 攜手領航── 一場顛覆文明演進的所有假設、揭示人類全新自由的旅程 「一本顛覆傳統歷...

Few figures in Irish history are as well-known as James Joyce. He was born into hardship in a country mired in political conflict, but rather than allow himself to get bogged down, he used his experiences to create some of the finest pieces of modernist literature to date. His work, in his time, was both subversive ...

Since the colonization of the Philippines by Spain in the sixteenth century, the island archipelago has been at the center of global trade flows. And from its status as the main base of Spain's Pacific galleon trade to its conquest centuries later by late-arriving imperial powers like the United States and Japan, it...

The Beatles came onto the scene like a force of nature. Their songs became the anthems of generations of fans, and their emergence marked a high-water mark of popular music. But beyond the Beatles themselves, there is one man who can be credited with engineering this perfect maelstrom of musical majesty, and that ma...