The book explores India’s role as a normative power, with solid credentials based on a long history of thalassic experience of states of South India. It examines how India has been interpreting international law and rules for the exploitation of living and non-living resources in her way. The book presents an analys...

This edited collection considers how scholars conduct research on (everyday) politics in Southeast Asia via networks of internet popular culture. This includes artefacts, networks, groups, and cultures that are specific to Southeast Asian online practices, and that seek to represent, advocate for, provoke, or questi...

Discover the People Who Made France What It Is Today From prehistoric cave artists and medieval mystics to revolutionary thinkers, fearless warriors, and daring inventors, 101 People Who Made France tells the story of a nation through the lives of the people who shaped it. Across more than two thousand years of Fren...

〓 Power is never given. It is takenーand kept by those who understand the game. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli is one of the most influential works in political historyーa bold, unflinching manual on how rulers rise, maintain control, and consolidate power. First published in 1532, this timeless classic remains ...

〓 Love is the greatest gift of allーeven when you have nothing left to give. In The Gift of the Magi, O. Henry tells one of the most beloved and enduring Christmas stories ever written. Set on a snowy Christmas Eve, this short tale follows a young, impoverished coupleーJim and Dellaーas they each make a secret sacr...

Media Engagement, Literacy, and Dialogue among European Youth explores young people’s participation in digital media spaces, drawing on participatory research methods to reflect with youth on how digital media is interwoven into their daily lives. Focusing on young people’s understandings of political and cultural e...

The bestselling author of All the Shah’s Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA’s secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and ’60s. The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s master magician and gentlehearted torturerーthe agency’s “poisoner in chief.” ...

Publicado pela primeira vez no Brasil e com tradução direta do francês, Escritos políticos abrange uma seleção de artigos jornalísticos de Frantz Fanon. Redigidos originalmente para o El Moudjahid, jornal da Frente de Libertação Nacional da Argélia, do qual Fanon foi colaborador de 1957 a 1960, os textos acompanham ...

How did ancient Egyptians define “art”ーand how did the myriad of artistic works they produced mirror their worldview? A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art presents a comprehensive collection of original essays exploring key concepts, critical discourses, and theories that shape the discipline of ancient Egyptian art...

This book offers a new framework and set of standards for intelligence analysis, drawing from a variety of academic disciplines, such as philosophy, historiography, literary theory and semiotics. The US Intelligence Community is guided by a conviction that its practitioners are engaged in the scientific pursuit of f...

本書以平埔族岸裡社群作為主要案例，探討清代臺灣的治理部署與抗爭政治。除說明三層式族群空間體制如何在國家權力策略性的治理部署與底層──「熟番」與「奸民」──的對應行動和反抗下，生成與轉化之外，同時試圖闡明國家權力在十九世紀時於前述常態治理體制之外兼行運用權變部署，「兼用經權」，利用漳泉客社群分類矛盾分化漢人社會，終至以權...

This collection brings together leading scholars across disciplines to reflect on the relationship between intermediality and multimodality and future directions for the contemporary mediascape, building on a 2022 Linnaeus University lecture series honouring the legacy of Lars Elleström, following his untimely death...

The trap is baited: enemies at every corner, evidence of treason and a dark secret going back forty years Teardrop is ready for Aubrey. A Russian defector is picked up by the Americans, and the information he yields is explosive: a secret file, codenamed 'Teardrop', contains overwhelming evidence that British Intell...

Rosalind Franklin was what can only be called an overlooked genius. Although she was not fully credited for the feat at the time, her work led to major breakthroughs in our understanding of DNA. In fact, she took the first X-ray photo of DNA in all of its double helix glory. By the time her former colleagues were be...

Dieser Band enthält jene Daten zur Ereignis- und Kulturgeschichte der letzten 5000 Jahre, die man gerne stets präsent hätte - ein Vademecum der Geschichte. Es bietet anhand einer verantwortungsvoll getroffenen Auswahl wichtigster, knapp kommentierter Fakten einen raschen Überblick über die Menschheitsgeschichte seit...

Rosa Parks was a quiet, dignified African-American woman who, in the face of injustice, chose to politely defy a racist law. Her simple act of refusalーto give up her bus seat to a white passengerーignited a powerful movement and galvanized a community whose "cup of endurance" had long since overflowed. Her arrest s...