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...

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...

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...

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-...

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...

"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...

「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

Le "système français" mis en place au lendemain de la Révolution tend à marginaliser la fille publique et à l’enfermer dans une série de lieux clos (maison de tolérance, hôpital, prison, établissement de relèvement), invisibles de l’extérieur mais totalement transparents au regard policier. Il se révélera vite n’êtr...

宋朝的文人詩詞，你或許早已熟悉 普通百姓的幸福生活，是時候來一探究竟 ・起床刷牙、吸貓、聊星座，午餐時間點外送？ ・午後焚香、插花、點杯茶，再到勾欄看相撲？ ・請導遊、買地圖，來趟說走就走的旅行，晚上還能在旅館發「臉書」？ 別急，挑個茶坊裡的好座位，讓我們一起走進宋朝百姓的每一天⋯⋯ 　　如果讓你穿越回過去，你會選擇哪個朝...

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，...

「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...

A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR Budapest, autumn 1943. Four years into the war, Hungary is allied with Nazi Germany and the Hungarian capital is the Casablanca of central Europe. The city swirls with intrigue and betrayal, home to spies and agents of every kind. But Budapest remains at peace, an oasis in the midst ...

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...

Virtually unknown outside of her adopted hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, Jane Edna Hunter was one of the most influential African American social workers and progressive activists of the early to mid-twentieth century. In her autobiography A Nickel and a Prayer, Hunter presents an enlightening two-part narrative that r...