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...

「女人！生命！自由！」 「在每個死去之人背後，有其他千百顆心搏動。」 從徳黒蘭啟程的縱貫伊朗之旅 見證神權國度人民的恐懼與勇氣 ★ 法國屢獲大獎天才作家　最輕盈卻深刻的旅遊紀實文學 ★ ★ 一出版旋即成為暢銷書　横掃三大指標性文學獎 ★ 二〇二二年九月，伊朗一名女子瑪莎．阿米尼(Mahsa Amini)因「穿著不當」遭道徳警察逮捕，並於羈押期...

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...

An untold story of idealism, betrayal, and behind-the-scenes American–Japanese contacts in World War II. In the fall of 1943, during some of the Pacific theater’s bloodiest battles, the United States and Japan pulled off a diplomatic coupー the exchange of civilians caught on the wrong side of the battlefield after ...

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 ...

This new volume from the Blue and Gold Professional Library describes and analyzes the tactical employment of naval combat arms, including surface forces, submarine forces, naval aviation, and naval special forces in a high-intensity conventional war at sea. Tactics of Naval Combat Arms is framed by combat missions ...

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...

The US-led war in Iraq from 2003 to 2011 was one of the most controversial wars in recent history. The invasion of Iraq was justified by claims that the regime of Saddam Hussein had links with terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda and possessed weapons of mass destruction that might be used in an attack on another count...

This is a complete, two-volume set of one of the greatest books of 19th century Japanese history and culture. Though Lafcadio Hearn went on to write a dozen more books on Japan, this collection of first impressions remains his most popular. Among the reasons is that here, more than anywhere else, the author most viv...

從古波斯到現代伊朗，一個「心智的帝國」如何誕生？ 本書內容綱舉目張，文字流暢易讀， 是一部難以替代的伊朗通史 也是在西方主調之外，認識今日複雜世界情勢的快速入門 　　伊朗是熱門的新聞名詞，卻又是我們極為陌生的國度。它在媒體上經常呈現為一個充滿敵意且難以親近的國家。但在這些頭條新聞的背後，其實隱藏著一個引人入勝的故事，這...

The Hong Kong Cemetery in Happy Valley is home to over 470 graves connected to the city’s Japanese population. Most of these graves belong to individuals who died during the Meiji era (18681912), a remarkable period of modernisation and opening up of Japan that saw thousands of its inhabitants travel to other parts ...

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...

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...

This pioneering volume explores the long-neglected history of social rights, from the Middle Ages to the present. It debunks the myth that social rights are 'second-generation rights' – rights that appeared after World War II as additions to a rights corpus stretching back to the Enlightenment. Not only do social ri...

「1960 年代香港文學與文化」研究計劃源於也斯，他生前帶領大家走進香港1950 年代的快樂與哀愁，現在我們沿着前人的路線，繼續開拓1960 年代的研究。1963 年，年僅十四歲的也斯開始創作，他的作品本身就是研究1960 年代香港文學的重要材料。 本書收錄也斯1960 年代初進文壇的近二百篇文藝短評，以發表於《中國學生周報》、《香港時報》「文藝...

臺灣醫療文化史研究的開啟！ 今日的中醫理論及生命觀念其實來自千年前的傳承！ 什麼是生命？如何解釋生死？這些問題從古至今一直是人類的大哉問，不同文化對這些問題也都有各自獨特的觀點。中國傳統文化如何看待身體？又如何認識操控身體的生命？古人如何面對生命的議題？他們的觀念又如何影響今日的我們？作者杜正勝透過考古資料及文獻的分...