Explore the turning points that shaped the modern worldーthrough the most respected historical chronicle of its kind. The Cambridge Modern History Collection is the ultimate reference work in historical scholarship, originally conceived by Lord Acton and written by leading historians of the time. This definitive edi...

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own ...

What makes a just government? How can liberty be protected from tyranny? The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 powerful essays written in the late 18th century by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, advocating for the ratification of the United States Constitution. These writings remain essential to ...

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." The Art of War by Sun Tzu is one of the most influential works of military strategy and philosophical wisdom ever written. Over 2,500 years old, this Chinese classic has guided generals, CEOs, athletes, and thinkers through...

The Mau Mau Rebellion took place in Kenya, beginning in 1952. A group of native Kenyan peoples, mostly from the Kikuyu tribe, rose up against their British colonizers, who had held the region since 1895. With a complicated story, it can be difficult to place the Mau Mau Uprising within the larger history of Kenyan n...

The Renaissance is one of the most studied and celebrated eras of history. Spanning the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of modernity, it has come to symbolise the transformative rebirth of knowledge, art, culture and political thought in Europe. And for the last two hundred years, historians have struggled t...

What is justice? What is the best way to live? Can an ideal society exist? In The Republic, the philosopher Plato presents a powerful conversation between Socrates and his disciples as they explore the meaning of justice, the role of education, the nature of reality, and the qualities of an ideal ruler. Written arou...

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...

A Sociology of Awkwardness shows how awkward feelings are the outcome of social interactions going wrong. Combing insights from cultural sociology and the sociologies of interactions and emotions, this book develops the first comprehensive sociology of awkwardness. It provides an understanding of how people define, ...

What does it mean to be cast outーnot just from society, but from your own conscience? In An Outcast of the Islands, Joseph Conrad explores the moral descent of Peter Willems, a corrupt European trader who flees to a remote Southeast Asian village after being disgraced. There, he finds a fragile peaceーuntil lust, a...

Virginia Woolf ranks among the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Embracing the Post-Impressionist times in which she lived, her novels reflect the artistic shift from romanticism to abstract. Plot mattered very little to Woolf. Her writing was a stream of consciousness outside of time and place. Her...

The original international woman of mystery, Mata Hari is maligned as a spy and a traitor. Having seduced a number of the most powerful men in Europe, she was accused of spying for both Allied and Central Powers during the First World War. Mata Hari's biography tells a different story. From her remarkable transforma...

This volume examines the higher-level discussions convened at Wilton Park, the UK’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office’s policy forum, since its inception in 1946. Originally a ‘re-education’ camp after World War II in the principles and practice of democracy, Wilton Park has evolved into a first-class inte...

When historians discuss the great European empires of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Sweden is sometimes not included in their conversations. Despite this omission, Sweden amassed a wealthy, prosperous empire during these years. Their territory spanned several regions of Europe and even included colonies ...

**'Compelling and important' - Rana Mitter, The Observer 'Few books qualify as essential reading but Ghost Nation is one of them' - Clive Hamilton, bestselling co-author of The Hidden Hand The gripping story of Taiwan's rich past and precarious present from one of the country's top foreign correspondents.** With all...

In 1932, the Central Committee of the Communist Party issued the resolution "On the Restructuring of Literary and Arts Organizations." This resolution put an end to the coexistence of aesthetically different groups and associations of writers and artists that had been common during the 1920s, and instead, led to the...