'I like listening to people who know things that I don't,' Gareth Southgate told me. 'That's how you learn.' Former Olympian and best-selling author Matthew Syed is one of the advisors Gareth Southgate engaged from outside football in order to find new ways of working as a team. In Rebel Ideas, discover how Southgat...

A modeler’s guide to one of the most powerful tanks operating today: “Highly recommended.” ーAMPS Indianapolis When the Leopard 2, a third-generation main battle tank, first entered service with the Bundeswehr in 1979, at the height of the Cold War, it was indisputably the most advanced and potent tank in the world....

The major European powers drafted war plans before 1914 and executed them in August 1914; none brought the expected victory by Christmas. Why? This tightly focused collection of essays by international experts in military history reassesses the war plans of 1914 in a broad diplomatic, military, and political setting...

It is one thing to draw a line in the sand but another to enforce it. In this innovative new work, Jessica Lauren Taylor follows the Native peoples and the newcomers who built and crossed emerging boundaries surrounding Indigenous towns and developing English plantations in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake Bay. In...

A history of how corporate innovation has shaped society, from ancient Rome to Silicon Valley From legacy manufacturers to emerging tech giants, corporations wield significant power over our lives, our economy, and our politics. Some celebrate them as engines of progress and prosperity. Others argue that they reckle...

Winner of the New South Wales Premier's History Award and one of the New York Times' ten best books of 1999. In this searching and eloquent book, Inga Clendinnen explores the experience of the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' points of view. She discusses the remarkable survivor testimonies of ...

Una città è un grumo di sangue e polvere. Una città è un quaderno di storie. Ma come si può raccontare un luogo come Milano, una metropoli che è stata così tante volte e in così tante forme cantata? Forse l'unico modo è cominciare proprio dal suo cuore di tenebra, dalle vie silenziose lungo le quali si diffuse la pe...

Glitch Art in Theory and Practice: Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics explores the concept of "glitch" alongside contemporary digital political economy to develop a general theory of critical media using glitch as a case study and model, focusing specifically on examples of digital art and aesthetics. Whi...

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This Open Access book uses Mary Kaldor’s concept of “New Wars” to explore how ethnic conflict reshaped the social and environmental landscape of the Southern Caucuses following the collapse of the Soviet Union. It relies on remote sensing data and qualitative historical research to explore how armed conflict between...

Muay Thai, the ancient martial art of Thailand, is more than just a fighting techniqueーit's a rich tapestry woven into the cultural fabric of the nation. In this book, we embark on a journey through the history, evolution, and significance of Muay Thai, from its mysterious origins to its modern-day status as a glob...

Embark on an awe-inspiring journey through the mystical realms of Ancient Egypt with "Pyramids of the Pharaohs".This wonderful book encourages you to go into a realm where time stands still and behold the grandeur of Egypt's breathtaking pyramids, enticing temples, and enigmatic tombs. What sets this book distinct i...

In 2020, a group of European researchers got a European Union (EU) grant to do a project called TRANSFORM. The objective of TRANSFORM was to integrate the principle of responsible research and innovation (RRI) into the research and innovation policies of three European regions: Lombardy, Brussels, and Catalonia. Thi...

If the United States is really the 'Land of the Free' where anyone can become president, you would expect that the American presidents [George Washington to Joe Biden] would express that genetic diversity. This has not been the case. The presidents of the United States are as much a royal dynasty as anything in Euro...

This is the story of the internationally acclaimed American woman Margaret Bourke-White, who for over thirty years made photographic history: as the first photographer to see the artistic and storytelling possibilities in American industry, as the first to write social criticism with a lens, and as the most distingu...

Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan describes the ever-changing manifestations of sexes, genders, and sexualities in Japanese society from the 1860s to the present day. Analysing a wide range of texts, images and data, Sabine Frühstück considers the experiences of females, males and the evolving spectrum of boundar...