"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...

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...

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...

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...

作者陳寒波為中共尚未建政時所重用的特務，他曾在中共華東區特務頭子楊帆手下工作，參與過多項任務，如報考成都軍校十六期步科，滲入國民黨軍事幹部學府，或是擔任國民黨梅菉市黨部書記長，創辦《梅菉民報》，以國民黨的招牌為共產黨做宣傳工作，甚至是以國民黨特務的身份，參加由張君勱領導的民社黨的革新派，當選為中央委員，不勝枚舉。不...

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 ...

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...

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...

◎ 破解多年來流傳的各種軍事謠言，建立基於事實根據的軍事常識。 ◎ 處在緊張的美中對峙，美日歐澳印圍中勢態，台灣處在第一線，必須更清楚理解我們所在的實際處境。 ◎ 培養基礎常識，判斷局勢變化，不被各種假訊息、資訊戰謠言牽著走，就順了對手的意。 你所知道的軍事情報大都是謠言 重新建立對台海軍事現況的認知 破除常見的攻台軍事謠言 1...

當代旅行文學大師柯林．施伯龍最新鉅作 「一條河有兩個名字，兩個命運。」 這條河流經蒙古、俄羅斯、中國，在中國被稱為黒龍江，其他地區他被稱呼為阿穆爾河。 「一部具有迷人政治洞察力且高潮迭起的讀物。」 ──《星期日泰晤士報》（Sunday Times） ー政治大學民族學系教授藍美華專文推薦ー 廖珮岑（轉角國際中亞專欄作者） 阿潑（《憂鬱的邊...

Subhas Chandra Bose was a revolutionary who sought Indian independence, but as many would contend, he ended up on the wrong side of history. In order to shake off the British yoke, Bose enlisted aid from Germany and Japan during World War II. This has led some to roundly condemn Bose as nothing more than a fascist c...

The political theories of Lenin have long outlived him, and have even gone on to outlive the Marxist state he help to found; the Soviet Union. The name Lenin still reverberates around the world, and yet "Lenin" is not even his real name. He was born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, the name Lenin was just the word he used t...

Hedy Lamarr was a rare kind of woman. She was not only a strikingly beautiful actress who took Hollywood by storm in the 1940s, but she was also an inventorーand not just any inventor. Hedy Lamarr's work with radio frequencies is credited with paving the way for Wi-Fi. It seems that the greatest bomb that this bombs...

▍四川鹽商巨富王朗雲，錢多到連知州和知縣都敬畏三分！▍晚清第一貪慶親王奕劻，買賣官帽明碼實價，過程公開透明！只有出不起的錢，沒有買不到的官！有錢能使鬼推磨，身邊無錢向人難！本書從官員與商人的私人生活圈入手，剖析晚清政與商、官場與金錢的種種關係，通過一個個生動有趣的故事，描述了晚清政商兩界的若干生活場景。權錢交易、官商...

〓 Explore the fascinating and turbulent period of European history in The Dark Ages by Charles Oman. This comprehensive work delves into the formative years of the Middle Ages, spanning from the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 AD to the early medieval period in 918 AD. ✨ Oman masterfully chronicles the key events,...