In "The Book of Buried Treasure," Ralph D. Paine embarks on an adventurous exploration of folklore and treasure hunting, weaving together captivating tales of lost riches and hidden fortunes. The text is structured within a rich narrative style that combines historical analysis with anecdotal storytelling, effective...

What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation? This notion of nationhood had its origins in the founding of the Americas, but was then adopted and transformed by populist movements in nineteenth-century Europe. It became the rallying cry for anti-Imperialism as well as t...

This comprehensive volume details the variety of constitutions and types of governing bodies in the ancient Greek world. A collection of original scholarship on ancient Greek governing structures and institutions Explores the multiple manifestations of state action throughout the Greek world Discusses the evolution...

Código Grey - Ingeniería Militar (Militarismo). Primera Edición - 01/05/2024.

中国服饰的历史源远流长，其发展历程可以看作是一部生动的文化史。中国服饰文化从夏朝至清代的漫长发展历程，展现各朝代服饰的独特风貌与变迁轨迹。服饰作为社会文化的重要载体，不仅映射了不同历史时期的审美观念、工艺水平，还深刻反映了社会结构、文化交融及政治变迁。可以说，从原始社会的简单衣着到现代的新中式服饰风格，中国服饰经历...

This short book is part of a series a series that charts and examines how Ancient people built cities. In this short edition we look at the Holy land during bible times and see that the cultural and religious requirements of ancient Judaism in a hot climate directed the shape of family house, and the way these house...

A comprehensive. illustrated account of the wartime Italian battle fleet, from its ships and technology to command structure, logistics, codebreaking and more. In the 1920s, the Italian Navy faced great challenges. Mussolini's ambitious Italy turned away from its alliance with Britain and France, and the Regia Marin...

This book explores the role of social media in the daily practice of Polish criminal justice and how social media is, in turn, reshaping this practice. Based on empirical research, it confronts common beliefs about how police officers, prosecutors, and judges use social media in their work. Readers will find answers...

This book concentrates on the political economies of Germany and France in the period spanning between the end of the Second World War and the 1970s, with a subsequent consideration of Italy and Britain as ‘shadow cases’. European postwar accounts have never reconciled the thwarting of widespread aspirations to soci...

Two of Antiquities oldest and greatest cities, Jerusalem and Jerash, attracted the personal attention and the detailed and creative intervention of the Ancient World's most powerful man of the early second century. He was the Roman Emperor, Hadrian. But why?

Everyday Silence and the Holocaust examines Irene Levin’s experiences of her family’s unspoken history of the Holocaust and the silence that surrounded their war experiences as non-topics. A central example of what C. Wright Mills considered the core of sociology – the intersection of biography and history – the boo...

明太祖的思想和行事方式，深深地影響到他身後的朝政和社會發展。本書分別從明太祖的政治思想、用人風格、對道徳諫諍的態度、對子孫的教育、宗教政策、民生政策等方面，闡述明太祖的治國理念及其實踐情況，並通過清朝帝王及士人對明太祖的評價，探討其影響力如何延續到清代。

For decades, scholars and politicians have vigorously debated whether Confucianism is compatible with democracy, yet little is known about how it affects the process of democratization in East Asia. In this book, Doh Chull Shin examines the prevalence of core Confucian legacies and their impacts on civic and politic...

This book explores the intersections of education and technology in audiovisual translation, unpacking the evolution of AVT ecosystems and looking ahead to future directions for the role of technology in the translation industry and higher education. The volume begins by outlining a holistic account of audiovisual t...

In response to widespread demand for more knowledge and insight about contemporary photographies beyond Western centers of production and dissemination, this volume provides a transnational discussion, grounded in dialogue between authors and editors from diverse locations and contexts. Ecological and decolonial dis...

吳彬以畫藝聞名，能詩文並崇奉佛法，是一位具有多重身份的晚明居士畫家，以奇譎幻怪畫風著稱。其風格蘊生於福建，山水畫多見奇詭山勢，超出合理的形體結構；佛教人物畫則以異於常態的容貌，追求出世間之像。花鳥畫講究形象之外的奇妙姿態。後人以「狀奇怪」, 「非人間」讚賞他畫中的新奇趣味。在畫派分呈的晚明畫壇中，吳彬充滿視覺張力的奇...