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...

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 ...

"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...

An "impressively comprehensive" study of the Nazi military and its culpability in war crimes by "one of the foremost historians of World War II" (Stephen G. Fritz, author of Ostkrieg). Since the end of World War II, Germans have struggled with the legacy of the Wehrmachtーthe unified armed forces mobilized by Adolf ...

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 Politicians call it a symbol, judges dismiss it as repealed, and schools mention it in passing before moving on.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...

Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan is a groundbreaking sociological study that challenges the traditional notion of America as a cultural "melting pot." Focusing on the rich and diverse ethnic communities of New York City, the authors explore how these groups maintain distinct cultural identities while adapti...

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...

台灣於1895年改由日本統治，過去「去衙門打官司」的台灣人，也開始改口稱「去法院相告」。面臨傳統中國式與近代西方式兩種國家法制的更替，人們的「司法正義觀」是否已被引導至新的方向，或仍延續著舊有觀念？這項法律觀的轉型，會因不同的社經階層、地域、性別等而有差別嗎？ 本書先從制度面及其整體運作，指出「現代」的司法裁判相較於「傳...

**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...

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...

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 Hong Kong Cemetery in Happy Valley is home to over 470 graves connected to the city’s Japanese population. Most of these graves belong to individuals who died during the Meiji era (18681912), a remarkable period of modernisation and opening up of Japan that saw thousands of its inhabitants travel to other parts ...

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....