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...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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...

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...

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-...

「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...

「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，...

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 ...