Spain, China and Japan in Manila, 1571ー1644 offers a new perspective on the connected histories of Spain, China, and Japan as they emerged and developed following Manila's foundation as the capital of the Spanish Philippines in 1571. Examining a wealth of multilingual primary sources, Birgit Tremml-Werner shows tha...

Contesting Austerity compares the contentious responses to austerity in Portugal and Spain between 2008 and 2015. While in Spain a sustained wave of mobilisation lasted for three years and led to a transformation of the party system, in Portugal social movements mobilised only in specific instances, trade unions dom...

Is time gendered? This international, interdisciplinary anthology studies the early modern era to analyse how material objects express, shape, complicate, and extend human concepts of time and how people commemorate time differently. It examines conceptual aspects of time, such as the categories women and men use to...

This book examines how community remembers one of the most gruesome acts of violence in the 20th century: the anti-communist violence in 1965 in Indonesia. Through a case study in a rural district in East Java, this research presents complexities of memory culture of violence. These memories are not exclusively dete...

God’s diplomat, the pope of the ecumenical movement, but also an acerbic theologian and a difficult person: this is how journalists characterised Willem Adolf Visser ’t Hooft (1900-1985). He was one of the best-known Dutch theologians outside the Netherlands and he left his mark on the world church. Even at an early...

AN EPIC BATTLE THAT LASTED TEN YEARS. A LEGENDARY STORY THAT HAS SURVIVED THOUSANDS. 'An inimitable retelling of the siege of Troy . . . Fry's narrative, artfully humorous and rich in detail, breathes life and contemporary relevance into these ancient tales' OBSERVER 'Stephen Fry has done it again. Well written and ...

This book explores how the demise of the traditional language of melancholy lies at the root of contemporary difficulties in engaging with darker aspects of human affective experience. Melancholy – or melancholia – was a concept transmitted for millennia through a living tradition involving philosophers, physicians,...

A New York Times Book of the Year, 2018 A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK A dazzling love letter to a beloved institution - our libraries. After moving to Los Angeles, Susan Orlean became fascinated by a mysterious local crime that has gone unsolved since it was carried out on the morning of 29 Ap...

The Liberal Democratic Party, which dominated postwar Japan, lost power in the early 1990s. During that same period, Japan's once stellar economy suffered stagnation and collapse. Now a well-known commentator on contemporary Japan traces the political dynamics of the country to determine the reasons for these change...

*此書為固定版面格式，建議使用平板或電腦閱讀* 過去你不知道，但現在可以更了解她！ 茉莉花、沙漠、海洋、羅馬與伊斯蘭 這些看似毫不相關的元素，卻是組成突尼西亞的重要因子 一起踏上這個未知的國度吧！ ․「超」資深導遊的實況導覽 作者前往突尼西亞超過四十次，更曾經創下在一年當中前往突尼西亞九次的紀錄，讓作者掏出他的口袋名單，帶你...

二次大戰歐洲戰場的最後一役 希特勒與他的第三帝國正要走向滅亡 盟國這時已經開始上演分贓的戲碼 冷戰的雛型開始形成 雖然戰爭即將結束，受害的永遠都是人民 　　柏林人在市區轟炸後的斷垣殘壁中等待，嚇呆到動彈不得，固守著目前所有的唯一手段──求生存的手段。吃的比愛情更重要，藏起來比戰鬥更有尊嚴，在軍事上，挺下去遠比打勝仗更正確。...

The Luftwaffe excelled at ground attack and in doing so helped revolutionised modern warfare. Whether flying in support of panzer columns during the invasion of Poland and the destruction of France, deployed against British airfields and cities, sent against Soviet tanks, or thrown into the defence of the Reich, Ger...

《左舜生回憶錄》共三部分，第一部分是他的《近三十年見聞錄》，是他在一九四九年以前的大事記，可說是前期的回憶錄亦無不可，故彌足珍貴。 第二部分，編者名為《散憶零簡》，收錄他的〈我的少年時期〉、〈香港三年〉、〈從我的流亡生活說起〉、〈述最近留台觀感〉、〈最近十年的香港〉、〈台北與大陸之間〉、〈記新春的雜感與瑣事〉等七篇文...

The first book published in English to focus exclusively on the exploits of the fighter aces of the Aviación Militar in their fight against the elite pilots of the better armed Nationalist force. At the start of the Spanish Civil War, most young fighter pilot officers joined the rebels, while the high ranking office...

The Royal Aircraft Factory SE 5/5a was, along with the Sopwith Camel, the major British fighting scout of the last 18 months of the war in France. It equipped several major squadrons, the first being No 56 Sqn in April 1917. This unit became famous for the number of aces it had among its pilots, including Albert Bal...

The INSTANT New York Times bestseller Instant Los Angeles Times **bestseller Finalist, Dayton Literary Peace Prize One of NPR's Books We Love One of Newsweek Staffers' Favorite Books of the Year Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize** “In Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen gives us a vivid picture of what c...