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...

Deep Fakes: A Critical Lexicon for Digital Museology is an illustrated monograph articulated through a comprehensive lexicon of key concepts in next-generation museology. Each of the book’s ten chapters explores specific terms in the lexicon, further interpreted through installations from the 2021 exhibition Deep Fa...

《明清社会史论》是何炳棣先生探索明明五百多年间中国社会组成及阶层流动的历史巨著。何炳棣先生大量运用明清两代近百种科举史料，以计量法统计附有三代履历的明清进士登科录及会试、乡试同年齿录等关键性科举史料，分析进士及举贡约四万个案例，并运用社会分层化和社会流动理论，解释明清科举制度与中国社会身份意识的紧密联系。何炳棣先生...

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...

《南薫殿歷代帝后圖像》歷朝皆藏於宮中，所繪歷代帝后朝服像，無論立像、坐像、半身像，在形貌、服飾的配件，或龍椅、地毯等紋飾等，描繪真實，筆法工整精細，設色富麗，具有極高的藝術造詣，更是研究歷史與服飾史珍貴的圖像資料。

The Beatles came onto the scene like a force of nature. Their songs became the anthems of generations of fans, and their emergence marked a high-water mark of popular music. But beyond the Beatles themselves, there is one man who can be credited with engineering this perfect maelstrom of musical majesty, and that ma...

Few figures in Irish history are as well-known as James Joyce. He was born into hardship in a country mired in political conflict, but rather than allow himself to get bogged down, he used his experiences to create some of the finest pieces of modernist literature to date. His work, in his time, was both subversive ...

Les choses aujourd'hui banales ne l'ont pas toujours été. De l'alimentation à l'habitat, la vie de nos ancêtres était conditionnée par les excès ou les insuffisances de la nature, et les objets qu'ils utilisaient chaque jour passaient d'une génération à l'autre, sans que nul ne songe à en acquérir de nouveaux. C'est...

Narrative Theory in Journalistic Practice provides innovative analytical frameworks for examining journalistic narratives in today’s digital, multimodal media landscape. The volume expands beyond traditional models focused on linear texts to address contemporary formats across multiple platforms. Through empirical a...

**#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...

「歐盟必須幫助烏克蘭，卻不能打敗俄羅斯。」 　　 歐洲的未來，將變成什麼模樣？ 最受推崇的歷史評論家約翰．赫斯特給了終極答案（新増新版序）。 　　 出版至今，連續10年，年年再版， 景美女中、西松高中、臺北商業大學……最多國中、高中和大學的指定參考書， 彌補條列式資料陳述的不足，把過往強記死背的歷史來龍去脈，一次補齊！ 　　 時...

"Condensed yet energetic and substantial history of Chicago. Spinney has a firm sense of historical narrative as well as a keen eye for entertaining and illuminating detail."ー Publishers Weekly A city of immigrants and entrepreneurs, Chicago is quintessentially American. Spinney brings it to life and highlights the...

【核心賣點】 （1）本書以主題形式介紹香港歷史，配上300多幅香港舊照片及報刊文獻，加上細緻的描述，以不同角度了解香港的飲食文化。 （2）本書圖說提供英文翻譯。 （3）修訂版中加入新照片以及更新內容，増加份量及閱讀價值。 【一句話推介】 知味滿香江 看香港百年飲食文化 【內容簡介】 由香港開埠至今，隨着時代轉變和市民的飲食習慣，...

This volume traces how the discourse of skill evolved in colonial and postcolonial India, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present neoliberal era. It introduces the concept of skill ecology to capture the broader political, economic, and social environment within which skills emerge, transform, and acquire mea...

This book analyses the origins, experiences, and challenges of total defence in Europe and comprises a broad spectrum of national case studies as well as one international organisation – NATO. The topic of total defence has been brought to the fore by deglobalisation, augmented international tension, the US pivot to...