黃仁宇重磅著作《中國大歷史》，全新直排校訂，暢銷10萬本新版！ 黃仁宇：我寫的歷史是從技術的角度看歷史，不是從道徳的角度檢討歷史。 這並不是說道徳不重要，而是新社會的道徳要靠社會的結構而決定其內涵。 中國過去一百五十年內經過人類歷史上規模最大的一次革命，從一個閉關自守中世紀的國家蛻變而為一個現代國家，影響到十億人口的思想...

Black feminist mothering can birth new worlds. As today’s world becomes increasingly hostileーwith the rising cost of food coupled with global warming’s devastating impactーwe are in need of a feminism bold enough to imagine new pathways for survival. Black feminist mothering may well be the remedy. This volume posi...

Les choses aujourd'hui banales ne l'ont pas toujours été. De l'alimentation à l'habitat, la vie de nos ancêtres était conditionnée par les excès ou les insuffisances de la nature, et les objets qu'ils utilisaient chaque jour passaient d'une génération à l'autre, sans que nul ne songe à en acquérir de nouveaux. C'est...

A fascinating analysis of the evolution of religion from the internationally renowned evolutionary psychologist When did humans develop spiritual thought? What is religion's evolutionary purpose? And in our increasingly secular world, why has it endured? Every society in the history of humanity has lived with religi...

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...

This book aims to expand the limits of the social-scientific study of religion and define a coherent model of recent global transformations of religion, challenging the paradigm of secularisation and post-secularisation. Using a wide-ranging selection of case studies, including global Islam, post-Soviet Eastern Euro...

This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Au...

Theatre in Dublin,1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin’s many professional theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan’s becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre i...

A modern classic: Don Watson’s history of Australia for children of the twenty-first century History told so well it gives us a better idea of who we are – and what we might become. The Story of Australia weaves together the many strands of our nation’s past – ancient and indigenous, colonial and contemporary – to c...

Istanbul, through the mind of its most celebrated writer Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 'A declaration of love.' Sunday Times 'A fascinating read for anyone who has even the slightest acquaintance with this fabled bridge between east and west.' The Economist 'An irresistibly seductive book' Jan Morris, Gua...

“As good a second-by-second reconstruction of the assassination and its aftermath as I’ve read.”ーBryan Burrough, New York Times Four Days in November is an extraordinarily exciting, precise, and definitive narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald. It is ...

Seeking truth and due responsibility for the 228 Massacre has been the long-time goal for the 228 Massacre victims and their families. It is also the pursuit of the 228 Memorial Foundation since my assumption as the foundation chairman. After the 87th board meeting on September 2003, which approved the establishment...

Merriam Press World War 2 In Review Series 2023 eBook Edition Covers the Consolidated PB4Y-1 Liberator and the PB4Y-2 Privateer, World War II patrol bombers of the U.S. Navy derived from the Consolidated B-24 Liberator. The Navy had been using unmodified B-24s as the PB4Y-1 Liberator, and the type was considered ver...

Discover the remarkable history of the War of the Spanish Succession... Free BONUS Inside! The War of the Spanish Succession, which occurred between 1701 and 1714, was fought over who would succeed the childless King Charles II to the throne of Spain. During the early modern era, European countries were almost const...

This volume examines how a new hybrid mediascape represents and contributes to the construction of facts and knowledge in relation to science, environment, and climate controversies, providing a new, critical perspective to the bourgeoning field of science and environment communication. Arguing that science must be ...

With rich detail, compelling honesty, and a storyteller’s gift, RFK Jr. describes his life growing up Kennedy in a tumultuous time in history that eerily echoes the issues of nuclear confrontation, religion, race, and inequality that we confront today. “With emotion and striking detail, RFK Jr. recalls both the priv...