｜終戰80周年特別企劃｜ 全島疏開！美軍空襲台灣真實圖錄 精選爆擊寫真全彩上色，還原戰火下的島嶼地景 彩繪台灣大空襲，專家歷史上色，如臨現場 太平洋戰爭尾聲，日本軍駐台部隊「通稱號」完整收錄 睽違十年，軍事文物收藏家甘記豪繼《米機襲來》後，再度推出重磅力作。全新收藏近120幅美軍轟炸台灣的原始寫真，更有多幅是首次公開的珍貴畫...

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 ...

This book is a work of British diplomatic history that illuminates how Britain's China officials grappled with China's changing position in international affairs during the 20th century. Arguing that the idea of a 'rising China' was recognised by these officials as early as the 1920s, and that they actively took ste...

【作者新版序言+新増史證修訂】 《人類大歷史》為什麼能夠在國際暢銷書榜上爆衝？ 原因很簡單，它處理的是歷史的大問題、現代世界的大問題， 而且，它的寫作風格是刻骨銘心的生動。你會愛上它！ ーー戴蒙（Jared Diamond），普立茲獎巨著《槍炮、病菌與鋼鐵》作者 十萬年前，地球上至少有六個人種， 但今日，只剩下一個人種：智人（Homo sapi...

A lively, accessible history of mathematics throughout the ages and across the globe Mathematics is fundamental to our daily lives. Science, computing, economicsーall aspects of modern life rely on some kind of maths. But how did our ancestors think about numbers? How did they use mathematics to explain and understa...

This book covers many topics that are crucial to military planning but often receive only passing mention in histories or briefings. Collins, a former Army officer, stresses land geography, but he does not stint oceans, the atmosphere, or interplanetary space. His discussions of urban areas are too brief, given the ...

L'ouvrage de référence sur les diplomates qui ont changé le monde. À travers une vingtaine de portraits biographiques de diplomates cardinaux, l'équipe réunie autour d'Hubert Védrine plonge dans l'histoire mondiale de la diplomatie des origines à nos jours. Écrits par des esprits d'élite – ambassadeurs, historiens e...

一九四七年二月二十八日，二二八事件 一九八○年二月二十八日，林宅血案 台灣人的春天，並不溫暖和煦── 一九八○年二月二十八日，年僅七歲的雙胞胎林亮均、林亭均，被發現遭人殺害後倒臥於自家地下室；同一時間，她們的爸爸林義雄，正因「美麗島事件」在軍事法庭受審。這不僅是一起滅門悲劇，更是台灣這座島嶼上縈繞不去的歷史陰影。 亮均與亭...

‘A riveting book … In combining the passion of Robert Macfarlane with the incisiveness of Patrick Radden Keefe, Shaw has announced himself as a brilliant new voice in science writing’ RACHEL CLARKE, SPECTATOR **A SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025** Antibiotics are one of humanity’s greatest achievements but ou...

How does emotion shape the landscape of public intellectual debate? In Sentimental Republic, Hang Tu proposes emotion as a new critical framework to approach a post-Mao cultural controversy. As it entered a period of market reform, China did not turn away from revolutionary sentiments. Rather, the post-Mao period ex...

An in-depth study of the ground campaign led by the US and Coalition forces against Iraq in the Gulf War. In 1980, Iraq invaded Iran, precipitating an eight-year war. By the end of the 1980s, Iraq was bankrupt, having amassed enormous debts, and oil-rich neighboring Kuwait, which Iraq had long claimed was rightly pa...

A panoramic history of Japan’s iconic mountain from the Ice Age to the present Mount Fuji is everywhere recognized as a wonder of nature and enduring symbol of Japan. Yet behind the picture-postcard image is a history filled with conflict and upheaval. Violent eruptions across the centuries wrought havoc and instill...

「女人！生命！自由！」 「在每個死去之人背後，有其他千百顆心搏動。」 從徳黒蘭啟程的縱貫伊朗之旅 見證神權國度人民的恐懼與勇氣 ★ 法國屢獲大獎天才作家　最輕盈卻深刻的旅遊紀實文學 ★ ★ 一出版旋即成為暢銷書　横掃三大指標性文學獎 ★ 二〇二二年九月，伊朗一名女子瑪莎．阿米尼(Mahsa Amini)因「穿著不當」遭道徳警察逮捕，並於羈押期...

**"Though the book was first published in German in 1988, this English version includes many revisions and updates and will be the definitive English-language study of the Avar empire for years to come. It will be invaluable for those interested in medieval history or in the impact of nomadic steppe empires on seden...

What does it take to fight against a much greater power? To overthrow the untouchable without destroying everything you live for? It takes deliberate and unfaltering action and a calculated strategy. How to challenge power, what pitfalls to avoid, and how to gain the allies you need are all addressed in this step by...

This book examines how the Taliban were able to regain power in Afghanistan in 2021, some 20 years after the US intervention. The volume presents an analysis of the factors that contributed to the Taliban’s ability to seize power following the withdrawal of the international coalition in August 2021, marking the end...