J. R. R. Tolkien, an orphan in love with words, spent most of his life as an unassuming Professor of Literature at Oxford studying and teaching old languages. During his time there, he created his very own languages and a mythological world, Middle-earth. Middle-earth was inhabited by Hobbits, Dwarves, Elves, and ot...

蘇東坡是歷史長河中的一顆明星，熠熠生輝，逾千年而不暗淡。其偉大人格和赤子般的精神，隨著時間的洗禮，越發令人矚目。

Across four centuries, the Parthian Empire expanded its dominion over vast territories, boasting some of the most effective military units of the ancient world. Still, this is one of the forgotten empires of the ancient world. The reason is principally that, for the last two hundred years of its history, the Parthia...

為了應對和適應環境發生的週期性變換，古人總結對氣候、物候的觀察和日常生活的經驗，發展出在特定時間進行特定活動，也歸結用一歲、四時、八節、十二月令、二十四節氣、七十二候紀時的時間觀，從而以曆法、季節為依據，展開各種相對應行事和節日文化。 清朝是草原民族建立的政權，在入關前就接觸明朝典章制度，入關後對漢族傳統時令和節慶，...

The Boxer Rebellion saw impoverished Chinese peasants strike a blow against the Western powers, particularly the British, who had come to challenge China's sovereignty. The uprising was both a harbinger of things to come for China and a by-product of simmering decades of friction between the Chinese and the British....

Bad Lieutenants is a riveting account of how the Khmer Rouge remained a force to be reckoned with even after the fall of Democratic Kampucheaーand of the men behind the movement's strange durability. In 1979, the Vietnamese army seized Phnom Penh, toppling Pol Pot's notoriously brutal regime. Yet the Khmer Rouge did...

本書榮獲第6屆韓國坡州亞洲出版獎著作獎！ 一切歷史都是當代史，現今東亞正經歷快速全球化及高速發展，成為世界矚目的焦點，回顧歷史以及從中吸取教訓至關重要。 李伯重將東亞視為整體進行分析，並把晚明時期的中國與東亞格局變遷，放在早期經濟全球化的大時代背景之下，加以解析考量。 本書横掃整個東亞的變革潮流，總結東亞獨有的歷史經驗...

"Chinese Civil War: A History from Beginning to End" offers a detailed historical timeline and an in-depth discussion of the Chinese Civil War in its entirety. The book covers the first stages of the war, from 1927-1937, the interlude from 1938-1945 during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, and the final...

⚔️ Master the battlefield of warーand lifeーwith ancient wisdom that never ages. Written over 2,500 years ago, The Art of War by Sun Tzu remains the definitive guide on strategy, competition, and leadership. Whether in war, business, sports, or self-development, Sun Tzu's principles on discipline, timing, deception,...

This "elegant and engaging" biography dramatically reinterprets the life and reign of the sixteenth-century Holy Roman Emperor: "a masterpiece" (Susannah Lipscomb, Financial Times). The life of Emperor Charles V (1500–1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, h...

Faces masked, dressed in black, and forcefully attacking the symbols of capitalism, Black Blocs have been transformed into an anti-globalization media spectacle. But the popular image of the window-smashing thug hides a complex reality. Francis Dupuis-Déri outlines the origin of this international phenomenon, its dy...

"The soul that is within me no man can degrade." In My Bondage and My Freedom, Frederick Douglass deepens his already powerful life story, moving beyond his escape from slavery to examine the moral, political, and spiritual dimensions of oppression. This second autobiography is not only a record of unimaginable hard...

Drawing on over thirty years of research, this book investigates the intermingling of land and water in the Sahel, analysing landscapes defined by the ebb and flow of rainfall, flooding and population movements, as well as environmental, political and social crises. Exploring both the seasonal flooding of rivers aro...

El libro del caudillo oriental Luis Alberto de Herrera es un documento invalorable para entender el origen del Uruguay como país independiente en el marco del proceso de balcanización de América Latina y de la ingeniería británica que lo hizo posible. Este libro fue el primero que demostró, muy documentadamente, el ...

This book offers an analysis of the wide range of attitudes that communist movements and regimes adopted towards atheism during the 20th century. Despite the well-known violent fight of the Bolsheviks against believers, for example, and religious persecution in communist regimes at different times, being a communist...

This book offers a critical contribution to feminist peace and disaster research by challenging the successful disaster recovery narrative of the Kachchh 2001 earthquake in Gujarat, India. Engaging in a feminist intersectional analysis of complex cascades of violence, the book uses a theoretical and methodological a...