Winner of the Vern Williamsen Comedia Book Prize, Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, 2023 Winner of the Nancy Staub Award, UNIMA-USA (Union Internationale de la Marionnette), 2023 In its exploration of puppetry and animation as the performative media of choice for mastering the art of illusion, To Embody th...

This book examines how the Taliban were able to regain power in Afghanistan in 2021, some 20 years after the US intervention. The volume presents an analysis of the factors that contributed to the Taliban’s ability to seize power following the withdrawal of the international coalition in August 2021, marking the end...

Was Aleister Crowley a British spy? A documented investigation into occultism, espionage, and twentieth-century intelligence. Secret Agent 666 by historian Richard B. Spence examines the long-debated claim that occultist Aleister Crowley operated as an intelligence asset during the first half of the twentieth centur...

臺灣不是世界之外， 而是世界發生的地方！ 一部從臺灣出發的全球史，看見世界如何與這座島嶼交織。 世界史不只發生在遠方，臺灣本身就是世界史的現場。 《此地即世界》帶領讀者回到臺灣的街道、港口、山脈與寺廟ーー從這些看似尋常的地方，打開一條條通向世界的隱藏航線。讓你發現，就在你熟悉的地方，發生過世界歷史。 本書選擇二十個地點，...

This book analyses how public toilets were provided by the government and local business in Hong Kong between the 1860s and 1930s through a process that was embedded in class and racial politics. Addressing public toilet provision from a political economy perspective, it focuses on the interplay of the cross-border ...

求孕，求男，求好男；養胎，安胎，祈順產。 古代女性承擔了生育的重任，卻沒有解釋生育的權力。 在男性書寫的歷史中，我們仍能從中挖掘溫柔的力量。 房內是一位富貴之家的孕婦，獨自半蹲地架在衡木上生產。房外則是她的公公，陪同來助產的高僧，隔著窗戶教她調息。西元六世紀一個不可思議的分娩故事，先後經兩位士大夫抄錄和轉載。這些男性醫...

内斗就要亡国，亡国也要内斗！人性的荒唐莫过于此！公元1644年三月，李自成率领的大顺军攻克北京，崇祯帝自缢。消息传到留都南京，立谁为新君的问题就变得迫在眉睫，文武官员纷纷涌动，都想在新君面前占据首功，却不想，这种各怀鬼胎的心思为南明政权留下了巨大的隐患。在武将马士英等人的拥立下，福王朱由松即位，改元弘光，而这些“定策”功...

For more than a century readers have found Herman Melville’s writing rich with philosophical ideas, yet there has been relatively little written about what, exactly, is philosophically significant about his work and why philosophers are so attracted to Melville in particular. This volume addresses this silence throu...

Respectability on the Line offers a social and cultural history of railway labor in Britain and colonial India from the 1840s through World War I. The book treats the railway industry as a microcosm through which to study the history of capitalism in the liberal imperial era. Using company records, Mattie Armstrong-...

An exploration of the Green Belt conservation project between the former East and West Germanies and its relationship to emergent ecosystems, trauma, and memorialization. The first book-length scholarly treatment of Germany’s largest conservation project, the Green Belt, Mnemonic Ecologies by Sonja Pieck presents a ...

"Francesca Albanese’s clear moral voice and expert analysis sheds light on Palestine’s darkest moment in history. This book will help to judge those who were on the right and wrong side of history." - Ilan Pappe, bestselling author Israel’s genocide in Palestine and the complicity of powerful Western states is under...

A highly illustrated history of the Cold War operations of the submarines of the Royal Navy from 1948 to 1990. The Cold War was a period of intense activity for submarines of the Royal Navy, with many hair-raising incidents involving Soviet vessels. They were engaged in frequent hazardous surveillance patrols inves...

「故宮動物園」導冊是專為小朋友們設計的動物畫導覽圖冊，也很適合親子共讀，淺顯易懂的文字和有趣的動物對話，希望能引起小朋友的共鳴與興趣

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is heralded as the ultimate fifth-generation fighter, merging advanced engineering with multinational collaboration. Developed during a time of military reorganization and technological mergers, it integrates the best features of previous generations into a versatile platform fo...

Sutton E. Griggs’s first novel, originally published in 1899, paints a searing picture of the violent enforcement of disfranchisement and Jim Crow racial segregation. Based on events of the time, including US imperial policies, revolutionary movements, and racial protests, Imperium in Imperio introduces the fictiona...

Elleanor Eldridge, born of African and US indigenous descent in 1794, operated a lucrative domestic services business in nineteenth century Providence, Rhode Island. In defiance of her gender and racial background, she purchased land and built rental property from the wealth she gained as a business owner. In the 18...