"THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY," hails Scientific American: A thrilling new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. "A masterpiece of science writing." ーWashington Post A New York Times Bestseller • Goodreads Choice Awards Winner • **A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Smithsonian, *Science...

一九四七年二月二十八日，二二八事件 一九八○年二月二十八日，林宅血案 台灣人的春天，並不溫暖和煦── 一九八○年二月二十八日，年僅七歲的雙胞胎林亮均、林亭均，被發現遭人殺害後倒臥於自家地下室；同一時間，她們的爸爸林義雄，正因「美麗島事件」在軍事法庭受審。這不僅是一起滅門悲劇，更是台灣這座島嶼上縈繞不去的歷史陰影。 亮均與亭...

Was Aleister Crowley a British spy? A documented investigation into occultism, espionage, and twentieth-century intelligence. Secret Agent 666 by historian Richard B. Spence examines the long-debated claim that occultist Aleister Crowley operated as an intelligence asset during the first half of the twentieth centur...

Magna Carta is often presented as dusty history, a scroll locked behind glass and spoken of only in classrooms. Politicians call it a symbol, judges dismiss it as repealed, and schools mention it in passing before moving on. But the truth is different. Magna Carta is not a relic. It is a living covenant, a written w...

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...

As a young Black orphan indentured to a Quaker family in Bristol, Pennsylvania, Zilpha Elaw (c. 1793–1873) decided to join the upstart Methodists in 1808. She preached her first sermon a decade later, ignoring her husband and the many church leaders, clergy, and laity who tried to silence her. Elaw’s memoir chronicl...

「故宮動物園」導冊是專為小朋友們設計的動物畫導覽圖冊，也很適合親子共讀，淺顯易懂的文字和有趣的動物對話，希望能引起小朋友的共鳴與興趣

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is heralded as the ultimate fifth-generation fighter, merging advanced engineering with multinational collaboration. Developed during a time of military reorganization and technological mergers, it integrates the best features of previous generations into a versatile platform fo...

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...

After the shock and devastation of the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the Americans were determined to take their revenge on the Empire of Japan. The Japanese were just as determined to become the dominant power in the Pacific, a goal they were well on their way to achieving as they occupied China, Hong Ko...

The October Revolution of 1917, which saw the fall of the Tsar and the installation of a provisional government in Russia, was a momentous event in modern history. The establishment of a Bolshevik regime under charismatic leader Vladimir Lenin shook a world already destabilized by years of world war. However, the Ru...

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...

A lively, accessible history of mathematics throughout the ages and across the globe Mathematics is fundamental to our daily lives. Science, computing, economicsーall aspects of modern life rely on some kind of maths. But how did our ancestors think about numbers? How did they use mathematics to explain and understa...

**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...

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 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....