A New York Times bestseller Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize One of Barack Obama's Summer Reading List Picks Named a Book of the Year in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune and Newsweek 'Urgent, extraordinary . . . a tribute to the astonishing indomitability of the human spirit.' - Patrick Ra...

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...

"[The] definitive history of the U.S. Navy SEALs and their forefathers" (Master Chief Bill Bruhmuller (USN, Ret.), founding member of SEAL Team two). Written with the unprecedented cooperation of the Naval Special Warfare community, this vivid and definitive history of the U.S. Navy SEALs reveals the inside story be...

Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture addresses what may be the single most important question facing all kinds of performance today. What is the status of live performance in a culture dominated by mass media and digital technologies? Since its first appearance, Philip Auslander’s groundbreaking book has he...

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...

Mit Blick auf das heutige Russland zeichnet dieses Buch einen spezifisch russischen Weg im Rahmen der Geschichte Europas nach. Es schildert die Grundlinien und Grundprobleme der russischen Geschichte seit ihren Anfängen, gibt einen Überblick über die wichtigsten politischen Ereignisse und erörtert langfristige Konti...

Ketchup seems iconically American, but the word comes from a Southeast Asian anchovy sauce, and today it is made largely from Chinese tomato paste. Japan’s beloved ramen arose from the meeting of Chinese noodles and American wheat flour before attaining worldwide popularity in both gourmet and convenience-food forms...

這場戰役，改寫了台灣百年的命運 開創中西軍事史的新領域， 史景遷高徒歐陽泰，以嚴謹的考據、活潑的論述， 揭開近代史上第一場中國戰勝西方的故事。 「它充滿了海盜、血腥的斬首、同志之間的背叛，以及陸海之間的戰役， 只不過這部小說恰好是真人真事！」 ──賈徳．戴蒙，《槍炮、病菌與鋼鐵》、《大崩壞》作者 一六六一年，鄭成功復明事業受...

This book offers a solution to the ancient philosophical problem regarding the nature and the justification of morality. The importance of this subject matter is obvious, not merely as an abstract philosophical problem, but perhaps even more as a practical challenge, regarding the way we ought to live our lives: the...

作為中英官方的第一次正式接觸，1793 年馬戛爾尼使團訪華對兩國的歷史發展均有深遠影響。在過往研究中，翻譯在使團活動所扮演的角色屢被忽略，導致不少研究上的偏差和誤解。本書搜集並運用大量檔案和文獻材料，釐清譯員背景以及國書、敕諭等各類文書的翻譯和改寫問題，力圖還原中英首次對話的內容和翻譯過程，全面準確地解讀英國使團訪華事件...

絕版多年，2024重新上市 暢銷名作《不沉空母》完全増訂版 　　 ★新増第九章離島篇， 將澎湖．金馬．蘭嶼．緑島．東沙與南沙太平島飛行場一網打盡 　　 航空的發展歷史，較諸於其他的交通工具可說晚了許多，先不論氣球類的航空器，光人類可以用飛機開始翱翔天際，就已是二十世紀後的事。然而，如今航空已是人類相當重要交通工具之一。 　　 台...

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Discover the global phenomenon that tells an unforgettable story of love, loss, courage, and healing. “Compellingly artful . . . [a] blockbuster memoir.”ーThe New Yorker (Best Books of the Year)** It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two pri...

Embedded in Southern voices and epistemologies, this book explores how local communities in Central America understand development and the good life in the context of large-scale infrastructure projects. The analysis focuses on six case studies: the Reventazón hydropower plant and the Guanacaste tourism projects in ...

What if you could win every battleーon the battlefield, in business, and in lifeーthrough strategy, not force? 〓 For over two millennia, The Art of War has shaped leaders, warriors, thinkers, and innovators. Sun Tzu's teachings reveal how victory depends not on strength alone, but on clarity of mind, preparation, t...

What if your entire lifeーyour freedom, identity, and dignityーwere stolen in an instant? 〓 In Twelve Years a Slave, Solomon Northup delivers one of the most heartbreaking and powerful true stories ever written. Born a free Black man in New York, Northup was kidnapped, betrayed, and sold into slavery, forced to end...

What if the key to understanding freedom, power, and the very shape of a nation was hidden in a series of brilliant essays? 〓〓 In The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay outline one of the most important political arguments in world historyーexplaining, defending, and defining the pr...