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**"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...

**“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...

L'ouvrage de référence sur les diplomates qui ont changé le monde. À travers une vingtaine de portraits biographiques de diplomates cardinaux, l'équipe réunie autour d'Hubert Védrine plonge dans l'histoire mondiale de la diplomatie des origines à nos jours. Écrits par des esprits d'élite – ambassadeurs, historiens e...

A guide to exploring James Bond’s literary and film locations across Britain, revealing Ian Fleming’s inspirations. The fictional superspy James Bond is a cultural phenomenon, becoming since his first appearance in the novel Casino Royale in 1953 a character as recognizable around the world as Sherlock Holmes and Ro...

For more than three thousand years, Egypt seemed eternal ー its temples unshaken, its kings divine, its Nile eternal. But beneath the gold and granite, Egypt rose and fell again and again. Collapse: The Fall of Ancient Egypt reveals the real story behind the myth of eternal stability. From the famine and chaos that ...

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...

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...

「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...

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...

The Roaring Twenties was a golden age of economic prosperity and liberal social change. Innovations in numerous industries revived a sluggish post-World War I economy, and mass production methods allowed for the standardized, rapid production of various goods, the most notable of which was the automobile. The roar o...

For millennia, Heliopolis stood at the heart of Egypt’s cosmic imagination ー a sacred city where priests explained the origins of the universe, kings sought divine legitimacy, and scholars developed ideas that would travel far beyond the Nile Valley. Today, almost nothing of ancient Heliopolis remains visible. Its ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dos de las voces más autorizadas denuncian la situación de Palestina. El asedio que sufren los palestinos de Gaza desde que en el invierno de 2008 un ataque militar israelí causó 1.400 muertos e impuso un duro bloqueo ha situado a la Franja en el centro del debate sobre un conflicto que dura ya más de 60 años. Parti...