Embark upon a fascinating journey through ancient Greece – from its rise and fall to its lasting legacy throughout the Western world. Spanning more than 3,000 years, Ancient Greece explores the tumultuous history of this glorious empire in vivid detail – from its Minoan and Mycenaean origins to the apogee of the war...

With the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1894, Japan embarked on a policy of territorial expansion that would claim Taiwan and Korea, among others. Assimilation policies led to a significant body of literature written in Japanese by colonial writers by the 1930s. After its unconditional surrender in 1945, Japan...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE • An epic, authoritative, gripping account of the years when a new wave of revolutionaries seized the skies and the streets to hold the world for ransom In the 1970s, an unprecedented wave of international terrorism broke out around the world. More ambitious, networked and f...

武备文化集精神、智慧、技术、财富、审美于一体，是每一个国家、民族不可磨灭的历史记忆。历史上每个阶段的武备制作水平，都是当时社会生产力发展最为突出的标记，见证了中国各民族之间不断交流融合的传奇，有着极其重要的历史意义与文化价值。而刀剑作为最普及的军事装备，更是武备文化的重要标志。本书中，作者根据不同的历史记载，对各时...

**An award-winning economic journalist on why the US dollar is positioned to maintain global primacyーand what that means for America and the world “Magisterial.”ーEdward Chancellor, Reuters** Prophecies that the dollar will lose its status as the world’s dominant currency have echoed for decadesーand are increasing...

In 1977, Sifu Leung Cheung migrated from Hong Kong to Sydney with his wife and family. He brought with him not only his exceptional martial arts skill but also an unwavering passion for the Shaolin Yau Kung Mun system. From humble beginnings teaching at his home in Kensington, he built a thriving school that would p...

This book is a work of British diplomatic history that illuminates how Britain's China officials grappled with China's changing position in international affairs during the 20th century. Arguing that the idea of a 'rising China' was recognised by these officials as early as the 1920s, and that they actively took ste...

The story of the heroic resilience of the Ukrainians against the military forces of a country with more than three times its population. On 24 February 2022, the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, unleashed an attack on Ukraine that developed into the most significant conflict in Europe since the Second World War....

The eminent China scholar delivers a landmark study of Chinese culture's relationship to the natural environment across thousands of years of history. Spanning the three millennia for which there are written records, The Retreat of the Elephants is the first comprehensive environmental history of China. It is also a...

"The mind of man is capable of anythingーbecause everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future." Charles Marlow, a seafaring wanderer, takes a job as a steamboat captain for a Belgian trading company in the African interior. His mission: to find and retrieve Kurtz, a legendary ivory agent who has repor...

Čo sa stane, keď sa jazyk viery začne používať ako nástroj moci a "ochrana spoločnosti" sa zmení na ospravedlnenie prenasledovania? Táto kniha mapuje znepokojivý posun, pri ktorom sa náboženská sloboda v demokratických štátoch mení na podozrenie a samotná viera na bezpečnostný problém. Text sleduje prepojenie medzi ...

Focusing attention on gravity-fed water-flow systems in medieval cities and monasteries, Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire challenges the view that hydraulic engineering died with the Romans and remained moribund until the Renaissance. Roberta Magnusson e...

Since the discovery of abundant oil resources in the 1920s, Venezuela has had an economically privileged position among the nations of Latin America, which has led to its being treated by economic and political analysts as an exceptional case. In her well-known study of Venezuela’s political economy, The Paradox of ...

The Dark Ages by Charles Oman is a foundational historical work examining the transition from the Roman Empire to medieval Europe. With clarity and academic rigor, Oman explores political upheaval, cultural transformation, and the formation of early European kingdoms. Accessible yet authoritative, this book remains ...

The Fall of France, 1940 tells the dramatic story of how one of the world's most powerful armies collapsed in just six weeks. From the false calm of the Phoney War to the shock of German tanks bursting through the Ardennes, this book traces the speed, confusion, and terror of Blitzkrieg. It follows the breakthrough ...

El libro Una Aproximación Cultural y Filosófica a la Justicia Indígena en el Ecuador ofrece un análisis crítico del pluralismo jurídico desde la perspectiva de las comunidades indígenas ecuatorianas.