In the world of philosophy and spirituality, few figures stand as distinctively as Alan Watts. With a charismatic and eloquent demeanor, he effortlessly blended insights from Zen Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, and other spiritual traditions with Western thought, challenging conventional perspectives and encouraging a d...

Nero. The very name seems to embody the character of a tyrant. The years of his reign come down to us with tales full of self-serving totalitarianism. Wasn't he the one that fiddled while Rome burned after all? Wasn't this the mad monarch who wished to embark upon a building project, so he set the old buildings that...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a figure that is cemented in the annals of history as one of the greatest composers of all time. A fascinating and enigmatic character, Mozart was hailed in his own lifetime as a child prodigy and a musical genius. His travels throughout Europe exposed him to art, music, and education, off...

Brazil owes a significant portion of its social and cultural heritage of several West and Central African cultures. Due to his intensive knowledge of the African culture renown ethnomusicologist Gerhard Kubik has studied the presence of African culture phenomena in several research trips in Brazil. His insights and ...

Red Cloud's War was one conflict in the long series of Indian Wars fought between the United States and the indigenous nations of North America. As white Americans scrambled for wealth and land further and further west, the people who had inhabited these regions for centuries fought to maintain their autonomy and wa...

In the nineteenth century, France forcibly took Vietnam as a colony and proceeded to strip it of its natural resources. Over the decades that followed, the Vietnamese mounted various attempts to rid themselves of the French, but each attempt proved fruitless until the Second World War came and made changes to the wo...

⚔️ "Era el mejor de los tiempos, era el peor de los tiempos…" Con esta frase inmortal comienza Historia de dos ciudades, una de las novelas más leídas y recordadas de Charles Dickens. Ambientada en Londres y París durante la Revolución Francesa, la obra entrelaza el destino de personajes inolvidables en un mundo mar...

The Norman invasion of England in 1066 and the subsequent rule of William the Conqueror are among the best-remembered and often-documented events in European history. What is much less well known is that less than fifty years before the Norman invasion, England was invaded, conquered, and ruled by Scandinavian kings...

Michael Faraday is regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern physics. His work in the field of electromagnetism revolutionized society, leading to new avenues of study and developments of technology that would leave the world changed forever. Without Faraday's discoveries, there would be no electronics or el...

一個激勵人心的故事，三代女性經歷了無數艱難困苦和政治風暴，始終保持著人性的尊嚴和美。──希拉蕊•柯林頓 走過纏足的時代、封建體制的婚姻、抗日戰爭、國共內亂……直至文化大革命的劫難，她們歷經了人間的悲歡離合，也創造了不平凡的一生。 三代中國女性　一部感人家史　理解二十世紀中國的重量級磅礡史詩 「我享受過特權，也遭受過磨難；有...

Empires stretched around the world, but also made their presence felt in architecture and urban landscapes. The Architecture of Empire in Modern Europe traces the entanglement of the European built environment with overseas imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As part of imperial networks between m...

La sabiduría que dio origen a la filosofía occidental. Platón, discípulo de Sócrates y maestro de Aristóteles, es una de las figuras más influyentes de la historia del pensamiento. Platón: Obras completas reúne todos sus diálogos, cartas y escritos filosóficos en una sola edición ー desde La República hasta El Banqu...

**重現「二戰經典三部曲」的磅礡氣勢 非虛構寫作大師不能錯過的經典傳世之作 「D日」不是軍事史，而是人的故事 是一個普通士兵面對殘酷戰火 蛻變成勇士的故事 這是從此被人記得的「最長的一日」 同時也是決定世界命運的一日** 　　納粹徳國的鐵蹄已經踏遍整個歐洲長達三年之久，「大西洋長城」從荷蘭起至西班牙邊界全長2700公里，把納粹的統...

A riveting account of the dictator’s final years, when he got the war he wanted but led his nation, the world, and himself to catastropheーfrom the author of Hitler: Ascent “Skillfully conceived and utterly engrossing.” ーThe New York Times Book Review In the summer of 1939, Hitler was at the zenith of his power. Ha...

本書乃《香港中區街道故事》的姊妹篇，著重介紹包括灣仔區、跑鵝區、銅鑼灣區、北角區以及筲箕灣區等區域中，共十多條頗具代表性的街道。除了描述各個街道的命名和掌故外，本書也重視各個街道早期開發及後期發展的歷史，從而反映英國鴉片煙商、傳教士東來、早期華人參政、農村變馬場，以及香港電影業、發電廠、游泳場、廟宇等的發展，使讀者...

In 1837, Hong Xiuquan failed the notoriously difficult exam to gain entry to the Chinese Civil Service and suffered a nervous breakdown. In a weakened state, he had visions which he later interpreted to be messages from God, telling him that he is the younger brother of Jesus Christ and, therefore, the second son of...