⚖️ What makes a government strong, fair, and free? Written over two centuries ago, The Federalist Papers remain one of the most influential collections of political writings in history. Penned by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, these 85 essays were originally published to persuade Americans to ratif...

【作者新版序言+新増史證修訂】 《人類大命運》會震撼你！會振奮你！ 更重要的是，它會讓你以未曾思慮過的觀點，深思細想。 ーー 康納曼（Daniel Kahneman），《快思慢想》作者 在《人類大歷史》，作者哈拉瑞展現了他「後見之明」的洞見， 深刻闡述了「A Brief History of Humankind」。 而在這本《人類大命運》，哈拉瑞則改以「先見之明」的...

⛓️ What would you do if your life of freedom was stolen overnight? Twelve Years a Slave is the extraordinary true account of Solomon Northup, a free African American man living in New York, who was kidnapped in 1841 and sold into slavery. For twelve harrowing years, he endured unimaginable cruelty on Southern planta...

"Practical wisdom from a Stoic masterーletters that still speak to the modern soul." In Moral Letters to Lucilius, the Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger distills the essence of Stoic philosophy into powerful, heartfelt letters to his friend Lucilius. These writings are more than abstract reflectionsーthey are a p...

Churchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each with their own individualistic and idiosyncratic approach to warfare. But if we want to understand their military strategy, we must first understand the strategist. In The Strategists, Professor Phillips Payson O'Brien s...

The Mongol Empire, founded by Genghis Khan and continued by his heirs, was one of the largest and most powerful the world has ever seen. Modern China was created from the remnants of the Mongol Empire, and at its peak, this empire controlled one-sixth of the total landmass of the world. Even today, it is estimated t...

This book considers the changing fortunes of psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia from 1930 to 1980. Approaching social history in a psychoanalytic key, Lizaveta van Munsteren argues that the growing split between official and informal languages of the time produced multiple strategies to keep alive the conversation arou...

The brief history of the Weimar Republic is generally seen as an abbreviated intermission between the First and Second World Wars. It was the government, led by the Social Democratic Party, which took power, albeit with some trepidation, after Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated the German throne. Socialists saw this as the...

"Victory is in the mind before it is in the sword." Written in 1645 by Japan's greatest samurai, Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings is a legendary text on strategy, martial arts, and the philosophy of mastery. More than a manual of combat, it is a guide to discipline, clarity of thought, and success in any fie...

As the sole legitimate child of Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace was the progeny of literary royalty. Many might have naturally expected her to go into the field of her father, but instead of delving into poetry, she delved into the hard sciences of mathematics and analytic thinking. Even so, Ada still had the imagination o...

Victory comes not from strength alone, but from strategy. The Art of War, written by Sun Tzu over 2,000 years ago, is one of the most influential works on military strategy and leadership ever created. Far more than a battlefield manual, this classic explores the principles of planning, discipline, deception, adapta...

葛兆光先生是一位具有宏阔学术视野和透辟学术眼光的通人。在孜孜不倦地进行本土学术问题考察研究的同时，他将视野时时投向海外，通过广泛的跨域对话，深度参与最前沿的学术争鸣，别求新声，绍介新知，从而丰富观察中国问题的视角。《侧看成峰：葛兆光海外学术论著评论集》就是他这一长期努力和成果的体现。在本书中，葛兆光先生秉承其一贯坚...

Neighbor-Homes: Julia Alvarez and Edwidge Danticat Write Hispaniola and the Diaspora analyzes the work of two of the most acclaimed contemporary American and Caribbean authors for the first time in a single book. Extending beyond scholarly approaches to home as a theoretical construct, Neighbor-Homes considers how A...

The Caspian World is a wide-ranging exploration of the strategic, political, and commercial significance of the Caspian Sea, a site where empiresーRussian, Persian, Ottoman, and Britishーcompeted, warred, and collaborated. As with the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, or the Black Sea, the geography of the Caspian Se...

Flowing Progress: Transforming the Danube Through Infrastructure focuses on how different political regimes and forms of governance have imagined and technologically transformed the most international river in the world. Multidisciplinary and drawing on methodologies of history, anthropology of infrastructure, and s...

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...