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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

为什么说20世纪初的上海是“中国之门”？本书的回答是：上海是一个小小的世界，在这里可以近距离地研究整个中国的缩影，新旧事物以及古今习俗都奇特地融合在一起，比远东任何一座城市都更能凸显变革之中的东方特色。本书以一种发展、进步、肯定的眼光看待上海，强调上海新旧元素融合并存的特征。除了详细描绘上海自开埠之后的市政建设、街道交...