Deep Fakes: A Critical Lexicon for Digital Museology is an illustrated monograph articulated through a comprehensive lexicon of key concepts in next-generation museology. Each of the book’s ten chapters explores specific terms in the lexicon, further interpreted through installations from the 2021 exhibition Deep Fa...

Immigrant Japan? Sounds like a contradiction, but as Gracia Liu-Farrer shows, millions of immigrants make their lives in Japan, dealing with the tensions between belonging and not belonging in this ethno-nationalist country. Why do people want to come to Japan? Where do immigrants with various resources and demograp...

The Beatles came onto the scene like a force of nature. Their songs became the anthems of generations of fans, and their emergence marked a high-water mark of popular music. But beyond the Beatles themselves, there is one man who can be credited with engineering this perfect maelstrom of musical majesty, and that ma...

Few figures in Irish history are as well-known as James Joyce. He was born into hardship in a country mired in political conflict, but rather than allow himself to get bogged down, he used his experiences to create some of the finest pieces of modernist literature to date. His work, in his time, was both subversive ...

日本史真正的主角──藤原氏！ 稱霸1300年，權力與文化交織的千年傳奇 ⟡ 從完成律令國家制度的藤原不比等、 一家立三后的藤原道長、 寫下曠世巨作《源氏物語》的紫式部、 到引發中日戰爭的昭和首相近衛文麿 …… 隱伏在千年日本史中最重要的氏族 藤原氏究竟如何鞏固家族勢力、走向榮華巔峰？ 日本歷史作家解析90位系出藤原氏的人物 細數他們巧妙...

"I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on the banks of the Ganges near Varanasiーit's a river already badly polluted, and now threatened by the melting of the loss of the glaciers at its source to global warming. Four hundred million people depend on it, and there's no backup plan. As Steven Sol...

明信片，是人們一種旅遊回憶或「到此一遊」的憑據，亦是一種具備多功能性質的媒介。它既是呈現出風土民情、湖光山色的藝術品，亦是蘊含文化積澱的收藏品及彌足珍貴的歷史資料。在資訊還未很發達的時代，明信片更加發揮教育的功能，成為人們汲取各類知識的來源。 日本是擅於運用圖像表達不同訊息的國家，明信片的面世正好大派用場。二十世紀初...

The INSTANT New York Times bestseller Instant Los Angeles Times **bestseller Finalist, Dayton Literary Peace Prize One of NPR's Books We Love One of Newsweek Staffers' Favorite Books of the Year Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize** “In Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen gives us a vivid picture of what c...

‘In these hard times for liberty, On Freedom makes the case that freedom, once explored and understood, is the way forward’ PRESIDENT ZELENSKY 'Visionary ... Buy or borrow this book, read it, take it to heart' OBSERVER A brilliant exploration of freedom – what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our onl...

"Captivating . . . ideal for anyone interested in the true story of Pocahontas [and] historians and students interested in early Colonial American history." ーSimone Bonim, History in Review Camilla Townsend's stunning book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in ...

本书以民国时期错综复杂的历史为背景，对相关事件、制度、人物等，穷其源流，梳理来龙去脉。书中共14章，内容包括：变局、亲英、择使、藏途、礼佛、内斗、主权、邻邦、藏策、较量等。

The Labrang Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Amdo and its extended support community are one of the largest and most famous in Tibetan history. This crucially important and little-studied community is on the northeast corner of the Tibetan Plateau in modern Gansu Province, in close proximity to Chinese, Mongol, and Mus...

L'enseignement ménager, rangé aujourd'hui au rayon des disciplines scolaires disparues, reflète les bouleversements culturels, idéologiques, économiques, démographiques, politiques et scolaires de 1880 à 1980. Centrale dans la scolarité et la fabrique de nombreuses générations de femmes, cette éducation ménagère ins...

It is impossible to understand how the medieval church functioned and, in turn, influenced the lay world within its care without understanding "canon law". This book examines its development from its beginnings to the end of the Middle Ages, updating its findings in light of recent scholarly trends. This second edit...

Andrew Fowler is a well known writer of railway history, with a regular feature in Railway Herald Magazine. The Deltic class 55 Locomotives were some of the most successful, first generation diesels introduced to British Railways, being constructed from 1960-1962 and numbering twenty two, in the production class. Th...

Cultivating motivation is crucial to a language learner's success – and therefore crucial for the language teacher and researcher to understand. The third edition of Teaching and Researching Motivation reflects the dramatic changes in the field of motivation research. With an increased emphasis on dynamic perspectiv...