一艘艘木筏顺流而下，将长江中上游的木材运送到下游城镇。林农、地主、伐木工、船工、牙行、钱庄、榷关，以及商帮与行会，组成了一个跨区域的庞大市场……通过木材的贸易与再生，森林仿佛“流动”起来，满足了整个清代中国的房屋、桥梁、舟车建造等需求。 本书讲述了这个庞大的市场如何运作，揭示了清代森林可持续发展的奥秘。国家与市场如何协调...

Fought from February to December 1916, the Battle of Verdun was intended to "bleed the French white" and bring their army to the point of collapse. Instigated by the Germans under the command of General Erich von Falkenhayn, it became a war of attrition that would benefit neither side. With its devastating death tol...

The Islamic Republic of Iran came into being in 1979, the result of a radical revolution that overhauled not only the foundations of Iranian society, religion and politics, but also our understanding of the role of religion in modern government. Here Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi takes us on an enlightening journey, showi...

On a battlefield so littered with dead bodies that General Ulysses S. Grant said it would have been possible to walk across it in any direction without a foot touching the ground, the Union Army notched a brutal but significant victory against the Confederate Army. The two-day battle, with the highest number of casu...

Simón Bolívar truly earned his nickname "The Liberator" for a large portion of South American people. He was a forward-thinking political figure at a time when Spain was ruling over the region that is now comprised of Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, and Colombia. Bolívar's revolutionary thoughts and belief system ...

Durante los últimos años, los estudios de alteridad se han aproximado a la creación de la imagen literaria de los moriscos. ¿Cómo eran los conversos del islam? ¿Qué características físicas tenían? Gran parte de estas publicaciones utilizaron las obras de arte como una mera ilustración de sus teorías sin atender a la...

"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...

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...

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「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

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...

**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...

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...

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...

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...