**“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...

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...

What does it take to fight against a much greater power? To overthrow the untouchable without destroying everything you live for? It takes deliberate and unfaltering action and a calculated strategy. How to challenge power, what pitfalls to avoid, and how to gain the allies you need are all addressed in this step by...

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...

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...

「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...

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 ...

「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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Long before Alexandria rose to power and before Thebes reached its glory, there was Memphis ー the first capital of a unified Egypt and the beating heart of a civilization that shaped the ancient world. For more than three thousand years, Memphis stood at the crossroads of political authority, religious innovation, ...

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...

As the editor of the Saturday Review for more than thirty years, Norman Cousins had a powerful platform from which to help shape American public debate during the height of the Cold War. Under Cousins's leadership, the magazine was considered one of the most influential in the literary world. Cousins's progressive, ...