In a series of columns published in the African American newspaper the Christian Recorder, the young, charismatic preacher Henry McNeal Turner described his experience of the Civil War, first from the perspective of a civilian observer in Washington, DC, and later, as one of the Union army’s first Black chaplains. I...

J. McHenry Jones’s Hearts of Gold is a gripping tale of post–Civil War battles against racism and systemic injustice. Originally published in 1896, this novel reveals an African American community of individuals dedicated to education, journalism, fraternal organizations, and tireless work serving the needs of those...

Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858–1932) was an African American writer, essayist, Civil Rights activist, legal-stenography businessman, and lawyer whose novels and short stories explore race, racism, and the problematic contours of African Americans’ social and cultural identities in post–Civil War South. He was the fi...

This book is the first anthology of the autobiographical writings of Peter Randolph, a prominent nineteenth-century former slave who became a Black abolitionist, pastor, and community leader. Randolph’s story is unique because he was freed and relocated from Virginia to Boston, along with his entire plantation cohor...

Este primer volumen, recorre los años previos al triunfo de Salvador Allende. "Nos proponemos intentar restituir este proceso histórico comenzando por describir los hechos y relacionarlos entre sí, para comprender por qué las cosas sucedieron así.

Originally published in 1978, From Ritual to Record was one of the first books to recognize the importance of sports as a lens on the fundamental structure of societies. In this reissue, Guttmann emphasizes the many ways that modern sports, dramatically different from the sports of previous eras, have profoundly sha...

A panoramic history of Japan’s iconic mountain from the Ice Age to the present Mount Fuji is everywhere recognized as a wonder of nature and enduring symbol of Japan. Yet behind the picture-postcard image is a history filled with conflict and upheaval. Violent eruptions across the centuries wrought havoc and instill...

本書由1979年李約瑟博士主講「錢賓四先生學術文化講座」的講稿輯錄而成。本書共分五章，除探索古代科學技術發展的概況和特點外，亦介紹了道家煉丹術的發展及其與火藥、火器、醫藥等發展的聯繫。此外，作者也試圖依據生物化學來解釋針灸療法，並對比了古代中國與歐洲文明中關於時間與變化概念的看法，從而透視其對彼此科學發展的影響。 李約瑟...

｜終戰80周年特別企劃｜ 全島疏開！美軍空襲台灣真實圖錄 精選爆擊寫真全彩上色，還原戰火下的島嶼地景 彩繪台灣大空襲，專家歷史上色，如臨現場 太平洋戰爭尾聲，日本軍駐台部隊「通稱號」完整收錄 睽違十年，軍事文物收藏家甘記豪繼《米機襲來》後，再度推出重磅力作。全新收藏近120幅美軍轟炸台灣的原始寫真，更有多幅是首次公開的珍貴畫...

The domestic and international rules governing the qualifications for personnel serving on tank vessels have changed in recent years. To address those new requirements, the fourth edition of Tanker Operations incorporates new material by Mark Huber and other contributors, providing an updated textbook for maritime s...

Fought from February to December 1916, the Battle of Verdun was intended to "bleed the French white" and bring their army to the point of collapse. Instigated by the Germans under the command of General Erich von Falkenhayn, it became a war of attrition that would benefit neither side. With its devastating death tol...

This expanded and revised sixth edition of The Geography of Transport Systems provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field with a broad overview of its concepts, methods, and areas of application. It explores the spatial aspects of transportation and focuses on how the mobility of passengers and...

On a battlefield so littered with dead bodies that General Ulysses S. Grant said it would have been possible to walk across it in any direction without a foot touching the ground, the Union Army notched a brutal but significant victory against the Confederate Army. The two-day battle, with the highest number of casu...

Simón Bolívar truly earned his nickname "The Liberator" for a large portion of South American people. He was a forward-thinking political figure at a time when Spain was ruling over the region that is now comprised of Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, and Colombia. Bolívar's revolutionary thoughts and belief system ...

In The Sovereign Trickster Vicente L. Rafael offers a prismatic view of the age of Rodrigo Duterte in the contemporary Philippines. Framing Duterte as a trickster figure who boasts, jokes, terrorizes, plays the victim, and instills terror, Rafael weaves together topics ranging from the drug war, policing, and extraj...

一艘艘木筏顺流而下，将长江中上游的木材运送到下游城镇。林农、地主、伐木工、船工、牙行、钱庄、榷关，以及商帮与行会，组成了一个跨区域的庞大市场……通过木材的贸易与再生，森林仿佛“流动”起来，满足了整个清代中国的房屋、桥梁、舟车建造等需求。 本书讲述了这个庞大的市场如何运作，揭示了清代森林可持续发展的奥秘。国家与市场如何协调...