Always outnumbered by their Soviet counterparts, the small band of Finnish fighter pilots who defended their Scandinavian homeland from the 'communist hordes' in three separate wars between 1939 and 1945 amassed scores only bettered by the Luftwaffe's Jagdflieger. Initially equipped with a motley collection of bipla...

At the time of publication, no single volume in English had ever appeared in the West dealing with this intriguing subject area. Once restrictions relaxed in the former Soviet Union, the records of their elite pilots' deeds - detailed in this book - came to light. Although initially equipped with very poor aircraft,...

「臺灣史是什麼？」是質疑，也是期許。 習以為常的臺灣史敘述，其實潛藏著哪些濾鏡？ 本書是吳密察的提問，也是吳密察的回答 臺灣史過去不受重視，如今已成顯學，並且堂而皇之的占據課本大量篇幅。但，臺灣史是什麼？只要講述臺灣的過去，就建立了臺灣主體性嗎？荷蘭人的紀錄、清代的方志、日治時期的檔案，分別有哪些預設框架，導致我們看見...

A bold reassessment of what caused the Late Bronze Age collapse In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centu...

〓 Explore the Foundations of Western Philosophy! 〓 Delve into the profound insights of Plato's "The Republic", a timeless philosophical masterpiece that has shaped intellectual thought for centuries. This eBook presents an in-depth exploration of justice, governance, and the ideal society, making it an essential r...

Despite the progress made by psychoanalysis since Freud’s discovery of the sexual nature of the unconscious, analysts have tended to explore psychical causality independently of the role of the biological factors at play in sexuality. What Can We Know About Sex? explains how Lacan’s work allows us to make new links ...

'If you read just one book about economics, make it Andrew Leigh's clear, insightful, remarkable - and short - work' Claudia Goldin, Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics The Shortest History of Economics unearths the hidden economic forces behind war, innovation and social transformation, tracing how capitali...

這本書探討了中國古代至近代的朝貢制度，從其起源、發展到衰亡，以及與其他國家的交往關係。第一章闡述了朝貢制度的起源與演變，從古代的五服制到漢唐宋元的朝貢關係，勾勒出其歷史脈絡。第二章深入探討了明代朝貢制度，包括朝貢國的分類、流程規定以及貢物和回賜等細節。第三章則聚焦於清代前期的朝貢制度，包括清初朝貢關係的建立、貢道貢...

The capitalist system has often been described by its critics as a heartless economic structure corroding social bonds and symbolic values. Its defenders and analysts likewise use narratives that position emotions as central to the economy. This book enquires into the history of these framings. To explore the role o...

台灣歷史書寫名家、知識的傳承者陳柔縉做為 政治記者與政治評論專欄作家的代表之作 ※經典紀念版※ 了解戰後五十年來，蔣氏父子統治與黨國體制一個重要的切角。 「時代相」令人著迷。我們總是身在其中，又被置在外。──陳柔縉 　　陳柔縉自二○○三年開始轉向，不再寫政治評論的專欄，她滿懷興致與好奇，投入了解日本時代，並持續發表《台灣西方文...

This volume brings together specialists from a broad demographic and professional range – academics, museum curators, students, and content creators – to discuss case studies, challenges, and potential future avenues for public scholarship on the history, archaeology, and cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, North...

A critical and timely collection that argues for the centrality of propaganda in discussions about the contemporary media landscape and its informational ecosystems. This book explores how “propaganda,” a foundational concept within media and communication studies, has recently been replaced by alternative terms (di...

This work offers a groundbreaking exploration of the urgent need for creativity and innovation in contemporary military thought. In an era characterised by the ceaseless flux of global dynamics, traditional paradigms of warfare have become increasingly obsolete. The pursuit of victory no longer lies in the fixation ...

The Hurricane saw widespread action with Allied forces, as the RAF's first monoplane fighter. This book describes its many feats throughout 1945. It served as a fighter-bomber on the Channel Front, where the American Eagles and Polish units were amongst the Fighter Command squadrons flying the Hurricane, and where s...

Le Classcompilé n° 80 contient l'intégrale des mémoires du duc de Saint-Simon en 20 volumes. Le texte source a été contrôlé et corrigé le cas échéant pour cette édition numérique. Les illustrations et tableaux présents dans les volumes physiques ont été insérés dans cet ebook. Les renvois de pages ont été liés dynam...

Seventy years ago, more than six thousand Allied ships carried more than a million soldiers across the English Channel to a fifty-mile-wide strip of the Normandy coast in German-occupied France. It was the greatest sea-borne assault in human history. The code names given to the beaches where the ships landed the sol...