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...

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...

This book explores the relationship between technology and warfare, by examining how recent technological advancements have revolutionized the conduct of war. The work analyses contemporary conflicts, including the Syrian civil war, the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, and the ongoing war in Ukraine, but also by exp...

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 British people had no sooner finished rescuing their trapped army from Dunkirk than they found themselves preparing for an attack from the Germans once again. This time, the Nazi menace struck from the air, as Hitler's Luftwaffe bombed the British in an attempt to break their spirit and force Great Britain to ac...

The Dravidian Pathwayis a timely contribution to public and scholarly understanding of South Indian politics, examining a pivotal period in the rise to power of the Tamil Nadu party Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (the Dravidian Progressive Federation, or DMK). The scholarly canon on social movements and/or electoral poli...

• Offers an insider view of the rebellions of the last decade from a participant-philosopher. • This book strikes at the nervous system of our experiences of capitalist society, widely indicted by those in Occupy Wall Street, and is destined to be a cult favorite for a generation coming to consciousness in the wake ...

Among the greatest intellectual heroes of modern times, Raphael Lemkin lived an extraordinary life of struggle and hardship, yet altered international law and redefined the world’s understanding of group rights. He invented the concept and word “genocide” and propelled the idea into international legal status. An un...

The Italian Renaissance shaped Western culture - but it was far stranger and darker than many of us realise. 'Brilliant and gripping, here is the full true Renaissance in a history of compelling originality and freshness' Simon Sebag Montefiore We know the Mona Lisa for her smile, but not that she was married to a s...

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...

【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...

Is it better to be loved or feared? The Prince (1532), by Niccolò Machiavelli, is one of the most influential and controversial works in political philosophy. Written as a guide for rulers, the book examines the nature of power, the use of strategy, and the realities of governing. Machiavelli's clear-eyed analysis o...

Imagine a battlefield of millions of square miles, with an enemy that was often invisible when it struck. Imagine a convoy of ships carrying vital supplies from North America to Great Britain, at the mercy of the deadly marauders under the water, waiting to attack them. The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest campai...