Beyond the Lines explores the social underpinnings of rebel adaptation and resilience. How do rebel groups cope with crises such as repression, displacement, and fragmentation? What explains changes in militant organizations' structures and behaviors over time? Drawing on nearly two years of ethnographic research, S...

【熱銷40萬冊歷史經典重現】 揭露毛澤東的性、政治、死亡和權謀內幕 近距觀察毛澤東第一手珍貴史料 毛澤東的生理與心理，和他的絕對權力交互影響，進而波及中國和世界。 本書以絕對第一手資料，披露毛澤東的政治與權謀，性與死亡。 這是有關毛（或許也是有關歷史上任何一位專制者）的著作中，最深刻入微的一本。ーー黎安友（美國漢學家／哥倫...

Un peuple en voie de disparition. Un héros légendaire. Un combat pour l'honneur au milieu du chaos de la guerre. Dans Le Dernier des Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper plonge le lecteur dans l'Amérique du XVIIIe siècle, pendant la guerre franco-indienne. Suivez le parcours de Hawkeye, éclaireur blanc élevé par les Mohi...

Depuis son apparition à la fin du XIXe siècle sous la forme industrielle, la nouvelle énergie électrique s’est immiscée dans les paysages métropolitains, industriels ou ruraux. Mais cette immixtion, sous le signe de l’étrangeté de l’appareillage, du bâtiment, des configurations spatiales et des postures professionne...

Kein Land Asiens erscheint faszinierender als Japan. Das Inselreich hat nicht nur eine einzigartige Kultur und Ästhetik hervorgebracht, es blickt auch auf eine lange Geschichte zurück. Wolfgang Schwentker erzählt auf dem neuesten Forschungsstand die Geschichte Japans von der Ur- und Frühzeit bis in die Gegenwart. Se...

Andy Warhol and his pop art helped define the 1960s and 1970s in America. Born the son of poor Austro-Hungarian immigrants in Pittsburgh, he was fortunate enough to attend the Carnegie Institute and study art. After graduation, he moved to New York, where he became a successful commercial artist sketching women's ac...

Essential reading for the Iran Crisis - what happens when the seas close, and oil stops flowing? 'Urgent and polemical' Financial Times 'A brilliant explainer of how the world works' Simon Kuper, author of Chums 'The real stuff of the economy - blood, dirt, oil and violence' Dan Davies, author of The Unaccountabilit...

Dean Martin was a natural entertainer, known not only for his singing ability but also for his great showmanship on the stage. With Martin, it wasn't just about the songーit was about the whole package. With songs such as "That's Amore" and movies like Rio Bravo, he took the world by storm. Later, Dean Martin, along...

Explore Evidence of a Lost Civilization on the Antarctic Continent. For decades the archaeological community labored under the theory that human civilization began only following the last Ice Age. Contemporary discoveries have dramatically undermined that conjecture. Archaeology now reconstructs an unsuspected antiq...

The Cristero War took place in Mexico between 1926 and 1929. It was a war of rebellion by Mexican Catholics against the government, which had enforced restrictions on their faith. It was mainly a guerilla war, in which the Cristeros launched sudden, quick attacks against strategic locations. It began in central Mexi...

A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and through the ideas of great thinkers in the field “A whistle-stop introduction to the great works and thinkers of each age, this is a clear and accessible primer.”ーLaura Garmeson, Financial Times What causes ...

不是戰場，卻是每個人心裡的戰爭！ 冷戰不是兩強之間的對抗，而是千萬人共同建構的戰後圖像。 從美國、中國、臺灣到日本與歐洲， 本書帶你走進一段「被相信」的歷史現實。 ▍我們以為冷戰是美蘇的棋局，其實是無數人共同建構的世界秩序 這不是一部描寫領袖決策或軍事衝突的國際關係史，而是一場跨越國界、深入日常的「集體建構」。 書中詳細分...

History describes the 872-day Siege of Leningrad as the most devastating siege in history. The German army had made its way to Leningrad before the city had the opportunity to prepare for an assault and the consequences were lethal. Accompanied by one of the worst famines in history, as well as a brutally cold winte...

This book studies the social consequences of bureaucratic and scientific change during the transition to modern states and societies in the Age of Enlightenment, as it explores how the Habsburg Empire deployed new ways and means to integrate existing structures into supra-regional systems of order. Exemplarily focus...

Piano Makers in Russia in the Nineteenth Century is a richly detailed thematic study of the history of the piano in Russian society from its beginnings with the European artisans who settled in St. Petersburg in the early decades of the century through the transition to Russian-owned family firms. The piano played a...

I sitt förord skriver Ragnar Östberg helt ödmjukt: "Det är icke omöjligt; att dessa anteckningar kunna väcka ett visst intresse, ackompanjerade som de äro av bilder, vilka ofta tillåta läsaren att bortse från texten. Denna börjar och slutar med en arkitektsspurt. Mellan dessa båda moment försiggå de händelser inom a...