The Mau Mau Rebellion took place in Kenya, beginning in 1952. A group of native Kenyan peoples, mostly from the Kikuyu tribe, rose up against their British colonizers, who had held the region since 1895. With a complicated story, it can be difficult to place the Mau Mau Uprising within the larger history of Kenyan n...

Un puma deambulando por las calles desiertas de Santiago de Chile. El gorila de montaña que se hizo botánico. Las historias sobre la jirafa de Lamarck, el mamut de Cuvier o los pinzones mutantes de Darwin. Correrías entre dinosaurios y homínidos fósiles... Arqueólogo, naturalista y explorador, Jordi Serrallonga n...

At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Tianjin was the diplomatic capital of the Middle Kingdom, where foreign consuls met Chinese dignitaries, and a hub of commerce and culture. Yet in the eyes of foreigners, the city remained provincial. After the tumult of the Boxer Rebellion, however, Tianjin transfor...

蘇東坡是歷史長河中的一顆明星，熠熠生輝，逾千年而不暗淡。其偉大人格和赤子般的精神，隨著時間的洗禮，越發令人矚目。

What makes a just government? How can liberty be protected from tyranny? The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 powerful essays written in the late 18th century by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, advocating for the ratification of the United States Constitution. These writings remain essential to ...

This "elegant and engaging" biography dramatically reinterprets the life and reign of the sixteenth-century Holy Roman Emperor: "a masterpiece" (Susannah Lipscomb, Financial Times). The life of Emperor Charles V (1500–1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, h...

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." The Art of War by Sun Tzu is one of the most influential works of military strategy and philosophical wisdom ever written. Over 2,500 years old, this Chinese classic has guided generals, CEOs, athletes, and thinkers through...

What is justice? What is the best way to live? Can an ideal society exist? In The Republic, the philosopher Plato presents a powerful conversation between Socrates and his disciples as they explore the meaning of justice, the role of education, the nature of reality, and the qualities of an ideal ruler. Written arou...

A richly absorbing book... Overy is unquestionably one of our finest living historians - The Daily Telegraph Why has warfare always been part of the human story? From biology to belief, what explains the persistence of violent conflict? What light can this shed on humanity’s past – and its future? There can be few m...

A Sociology of Awkwardness shows how awkward feelings are the outcome of social interactions going wrong. Combing insights from cultural sociology and the sociologies of interactions and emotions, this book develops the first comprehensive sociology of awkwardness. It provides an understanding of how people define, ...

本書榮獲第6屆韓國坡州亞洲出版獎著作獎！ 一切歷史都是當代史，現今東亞正經歷快速全球化及高速發展，成為世界矚目的焦點，回顧歷史以及從中吸取教訓至關重要。 李伯重將東亞視為整體進行分析，並把晚明時期的中國與東亞格局變遷，放在早期經濟全球化的大時代背景之下，加以解析考量。 本書横掃整個東亞的變革潮流，總結東亞獨有的歷史經驗...

This book aims to expand the limits of the social-scientific study of religion and define a coherent model of recent global transformations of religion, challenging the paradigm of secularisation and post-secularisation. Using a wide-ranging selection of case studies, including global Islam, post-Soviet Eastern Euro...

What does it mean to be cast outーnot just from society, but from your own conscience? In An Outcast of the Islands, Joseph Conrad explores the moral descent of Peter Willems, a corrupt European trader who flees to a remote Southeast Asian village after being disgraced. There, he finds a fragile peaceーuntil lust, a...

This richly-illustrated title covers the technical characteristics of the F-104 Starfighter, one of the most widely-used and popular aircraft in history. Although built in small numbers for the USAF, the F-104C fought and survived for almost three years in Vietnam. There, it was engaged in some of the war's most fam...

Comment raconter l’histoire des peuples originaires du nord, du centre et du sud de cet immense continent américain appelés « Indiens » par les conquistadores et missionnaires ? En ne se limitant pas à la seule période circonscrite aux sources écrites rédigées généralement par des chroniqueurs, des prêtres, des lett...

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