A wide-ranging history tracing the birth of biopolitics in Enlightenment thought and its aftermath. In Enlightenment Biopolitics, historian William Max Nelson pursues the ambitious task of tracing the context in which biopolitical thought emerged and circulated. He locates that context in the Enlightenment when eman...

2017話題暢銷，2025増補再版 我家的祖先你家的鬼 不管鬼門開不開，台灣鬼一直都在你身邊 送別亡者，安慰生者的文化潛意識。 從民俗與儀式，看見台灣人最細膩的情感！ ◇第1本從台灣民俗談「鬼」之專書 ◇第1本結合人類學田野調查X人類學者的民俗觀察 ◇總計200則以上的台灣撞鬼田野調查第一手紀錄 「寧可信其有，不可信其無」 每一則故事，都是...

‘A riveting book … In combining the passion of Robert Macfarlane with the incisiveness of Patrick Radden Keefe, Shaw has announced himself as a brilliant new voice in science writing’ RACHEL CLARKE, SPECTATOR **A SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025** Antibiotics are one of humanity’s greatest achievements but ou...

★日本「終戰」80年修訂版 ★和式敗戰文學的經典之作 ★昭和史權威 半藤一利 非虛構代表作 雷伊泰島此役之所以名留世界戰爭史，是因其涉及範圍之廣，參戰人數之多，戰場、戰況之複雜，在整個第二次世界大戰中絕無僅有，也是一場關鍵性戰役，成為人類史上最後一場艦隊決戰的代名詞。半藤一利親訪參與這場戰役的人士，採集其證言、日記、回憶錄等...

New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21**st** Century The tenth anniversary edition of the internationally bestselling phenomenon that cemented Yuval Noah Harari as one of the most prominent historians of our timeーfeaturing a new afterword from the author. One hundred thousand years ago, at least six ...

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. “Strikingly original . . . A historian whose arguments operate on the scale of millennia has managed to capture the zeitgeist perfectly.”ーThe Economist “This deepl...

**"Though the book was first published in German in 1988, this English version includes many revisions and updates and will be the definitive English-language study of the Avar empire for years to come. It will be invaluable for those interested in medieval history or in the impact of nomadic steppe empires on seden...

In a living body, a variety of molecules are working in a concerted manner to maintain its life, and to carry forward the genetic information from generation to generation. A key word to understand such processes is "water," which plays an essential role in life phenomena. This book sheds light on life phenomena, wh...

**“A landmark book…Team of Rivals on steroids…It is hard to imagine that the year will bring forth a Lincoln book of more originality or consequence.” ーHarold Holzer, Wall Street Journal An eye-opening portrait of Lincoln behind the scenes: Here is the career-long party politician whose brilliant coalition-building...

【作者新版序言+新増史證修訂】 《人類大歷史》為什麼能夠在國際暢銷書榜上爆衝？ 原因很簡單，它處理的是歷史的大問題、現代世界的大問題， 而且，它的寫作風格是刻骨銘心的生動。你會愛上它！ ーー戴蒙（Jared Diamond），普立茲獎巨著《槍炮、病菌與鋼鐵》作者 十萬年前，地球上至少有六個人種， 但今日，只剩下一個人種：智人（Homo sapi...

「職貢」是王朝時代的中國對外交往的體制，意指朝貢國向宗主國修職納貢，並接受朝覲、冊封與賞賜，以示臣服。東亞職貢體系的建立，起源於先秦時期。西周訂立甸服、侯服、賓服、要服及荒服等朝貢服制，規範周天子跟諸侯、邊疆民族的關係。深植於西周朝貢體系的「非平等關係」與「華夏中心思想」，持續影響歷代涉外事務的運作，並且反映到圖像...

Nearly 400 years have passed since the naval ship Vasa sank in Stockholm in 1628, and more than sixty years since its salvage in 1961. Today, Vasa stands as an iconic symbol – a ship, a shipwreck, a museum, and a unique manifestation of the material culture of Sweden’s early modern navy. But Vasa is not the only Swe...

Explore more than 5,000 years of mechanised conflict around the globe – from the earliest chariots and warships to the supersonic fighters and bombers of the modern era. Take an exhilarating ride through the ever-changing world of mobile warfare, across hundreds of pages of dramatic photography and evocative text wi...

In Waiting for the Cool Moon Wendy Matsumura interrogates the erasure of colonial violence at the heart of Japanese nation-state formation. She critiques Japan studies’ role in this effacement and contends that the field must engage with anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity as the grounds on which to understand imper...

L’eugénisme prend son essor dans les années 1880 et connaît son apogée après son premier congrès international de 1912. Pensé comme une biomédecine préventive, il se présente comme un remède à l’angoisse vécue par une partie des élites politiques et sociales face à ce qu’elles identifient comme le déclin et la « dég...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shia Revival A gripping account that overturns simplistic portrayals of Iran as a theocratic pariah state, revealing how its strategic moves on the world stage are driven by two pervasive threatsーexternal aggression and internal dissolution Iran presents one of the ...