"We fight for our religion, for our women, for our land, and lastly to save our skin. As for them, they're only fighting to save their skin." In 2012, Jonathan Littell traveled to the heart of the Syrian uprising, smuggled in by the Free Syrian Army to the historic city of Homs. For three weeks, he watched as neighb...

This volume brings together some of the latest research on the cultural, intellectual, and commercial interactions during the Renaissance between Western Europe and the Middle East, with particular reference to the Ottoman Empire. Recent scholarship has brought to the fore the economic, political, cultural, and pers...

A look at Adolf Hitler’s residences and their role in constructing and promoting the dictator’s private persona both within Germany and abroad. Adolf Hitler’s makeover from rabble-rouser to statesman coincided with a series of dramatic home renovations he undertook during the mid-1930s. This provocative book exposes...

A History of Rhetoric, Sound, and Health and Healing argues for medico-sonic knowledge ー systematically interpreted bodily sounds with medical knowledge mediated by rhetoric ー as an evolving corporeal practice with an incomparable, sprawling history. Taking a materialist-feminist perspective, the book rhetorically...

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...

★最身歷其境的古埃及文明巨作★ 埃及考古權威、BBC歷史紀錄片**《不朽的埃及》**首席主講人ーー喬安．佛列契 她曾發表找到「娜芙蒂蒂木乃伊」而引發轟動。 神秘的古埃及擁有眾多神話傳說，而在神話概念中確實包含有歷史真相嗎？在關於埃及的一片迷霧當中，這個疑問的答案正變得越來越明確！ 跟隨埃及考古權威喬安．佛列契的腳步踏入考古現場，...

THE COMPLETE CADFAEL CHRONICLES: 21 ebooks in one Discover Brother Cadfael: Former soldier. Benedictine monk. Amateur sleuth. Cadfael ap Meilyr ap Dafydd (known simply as Brother Cadfael) is a Welsh monk, herbalist and apothecary of Shrewsbury Abbey. He entered the Benedictine order in 1120 after sixteen years in th...

Doing Feminist Urban Research introduces the reader to the newly emerging 21st-century global landscape of feminist urban research. It showcases decolonising practices, partnerships and teamwork, new standards such as EDI, geo-ethnographic methodologies, software-enhanced qualitative data analysis, and knowledge mob...

This book will mealy try to synthesize the findings of other writers more expert in this culture. Further this book looks at the pre-industrial Islamic cities with a focus on the eastern end of the Mediterranean. That being said we will look initially at the models of Islamic cities, look at the component parts in t...

A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from converts, whos...

Histories of Sensibilities: Visions of Gender, Race, and Emotions in the Global Enlightenment explores the historical and plural character of sensibility in the Global Enlightenment. From Tahiti to New Orleans to the Mariana Islands; to Lima, Geneva, London, Oviedo, or Venice, the book investigates how sensibility w...

An illustrated account of the combats in the closing months of World War II between one of America's premier fighter aeroplanes and the product of Japan's effort to introduce fighters that could match American qualitative superiority. The Vought Corsair was the first American single-engined fighter to exceed 400 mph...

This book investigates the relationship between the process of Europeanization – the expected rise of a common culture – and the role played by the media in the different regions. Drawing on a comparative model, the analysis is structured around frameworks related to the action of the media in shaping national ident...

This book focuses on the role of popular music in the rise of populism in Europe, centring on the music-related processes of sociocultural normalisation and the increasing prevalence of populist discourses in contemporary society. In its innovative combination of approaches drawing from (ethno)musicology, sociology,...

This study offers a radically new perspective on Dutch Neorealism, one that emphasizes the role of film as an apparatus, the effects of which, when emulated in painting, can reproduce the affective experience of film-watching. More of a tendency than a tightly defined style or "ism," Neorealism is the Dutch variant ...

From Appomattox to World War I, Black Americans continued their quest for a secure position in the American system. The problem was how to be both black and Americanーhow to find acceptance, or even toleration, in a society in which the boundaries of normative behavior, the values, and the very definition of what it...