Media Engagement, Literacy, and Dialogue among European Youth explores young people’s participation in digital media spaces, drawing on participatory research methods to reflect with youth on how digital media is interwoven into their daily lives. Focusing on young people’s understandings of political and cultural e...

〓 Love is the greatest gift of allーeven when you have nothing left to give. In The Gift of the Magi, O. Henry tells one of the most beloved and enduring Christmas stories ever written. Set on a snowy Christmas Eve, this short tale follows a young, impoverished coupleーJim and Dellaーas they each make a secret sacr...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER / OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD THE AMERICAN VICE PRESIDENT'S ORIGIN STORY ‘Essential reading for this moment in history’ New York Times 'You will not read a more important book about America this year' Economist ‘Brilliant … offers an acute insight into the reasons voters have put their tr...

Charlie Chaplin is most famously known for his "tramp" characterーthe homeless hobo that can be seen hopping from trains and lining up in the soup kitchens of the Great Depression. At a time when the whole world was struggling from economic meltdown, Charlie Chaplin made "destitute" a term of endearment. Inside you ...

Discover the People Who Made France What It Is Today From prehistoric cave artists and medieval mystics to revolutionary thinkers, fearless warriors, and daring inventors, 101 People Who Made France tells the story of a nation through the lives of the people who shaped it. Across more than two thousand years of Fren...

FROM BEGINNER TO BLACK BELT Current, 2017 edition: REPLACES the obsolete "Close Combat" manual. All-new photograph illustrations - not the old version with line drawings. Important: this is a reflowable ebook, not a low-quality fixed-layout edition. Reflowable books adapt to your device and your settings for a super...

Vom Frühmittelalter bis zur Berliner Republik – in diesem kompakten Überblick erzählt eine Gruppe von ausgewiesenen Experten, wie das entstand, was wir heute Deutschland nennen. Wer verstehen will, warum aus den deutschen Fürstentümern vergleichsweise spät ein Nationalstaat wurde, wie es zur Katastrophe des Holocaus...

Described as one of the most powerful leaders in Cambodian politics, he ousted French colonialism then overthrew the Khmer Rouge regime. He shaped the political and economic landscape in Cambodia using his strategies and persevered with liberating the nation despite encountering multiple assassination attempts. Sir ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “entertaining [and] often-moving account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the remarkable POWs whose relentlessly creative attempts to escape a notorious Nazi prison embodied the spirit of resistance against fascism, from the author of The Spy and the Traitor “Macintyre has a knack for fi...

A distinguished Chinese economist offers a timely, essential exploration of China’s perspective on economy, government, society, and its position in the world. Dr. David Daokui Li has served as an advisor to senior Chinese Communist Party leaders as well as major multinational corporations and international economic...

The Routledge Handbook of the History and Sociology of Ideas establishes a new and comprehensive way of working in the history and sociology of ideas, in order to obviate several longstanding gaps that have prevented a fruitful interdisciplinary and international dialogues. Pushing global intellectual history forwar...

Bestselling guide to all UNESCO World Heritage sites. Fully updated to include the latest sites added to the World Heritage List. The List is managed by the World Heritage Committee and each site is judged under strict criteria – only the world’s most spectacular and extraordinary sites make it on to the List. UNESC...

This book offers a new framework and set of standards for intelligence analysis, drawing from a variety of academic disciplines, such as philosophy, historiography, literary theory and semiotics. The US Intelligence Community is guided by a conviction that its practitioners are engaged in the scientific pursuit of f...

This collection brings together leading scholars across disciplines to reflect on the relationship between intermediality and multimodality and future directions for the contemporary mediascape, building on a 2022 Linnaeus University lecture series honouring the legacy of Lars Elleström, following his untimely death...

來自全球26家頂級博物館的珍貴館藏，為讀者呈現當年八國聯軍在北京城的巷戰、義和團進京、北洋新軍的興起、清末新政、日俄戰爭、各行各業百姓生活圖景……。中國人的悲喜命運，都在這部書的影像以及文字中。它們在哪裡，我們的歷史就在哪裡。尤其在當下，此書猶如一本中國版的《光榮與夢想》，正在述說著我們尚未發現的中國的秘密。

USA Today's 5 BOOKS NOT TO MISS **"Alexander nimbly and grippingly translates the byzantine world of American health care into a real-life narrative with people you come to care about." ーNew York Times "Takes readers into the world of the American medical industry in a way no book has done before."** ーFortune **"W...