What if you could win every battleーon the battlefield, in business, and in lifeーthrough strategy, not force? 〓 For over two millennia, The Art of War has shaped leaders, warriors, thinkers, and innovators. Sun Tzu's teachings reveal how victory depends not on strength alone, but on clarity of mind, preparation, t...

What if the key to understanding freedom, power, and the very shape of a nation was hidden in a series of brilliant essays? 〓〓 In The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay outline one of the most important political arguments in world historyーexplaining, defending, and defining the pr...

The Routledge Handbook of Economic Expectations in Historical Perspective offers a one-stop reference that distills and summarizes the recent scholarship on economic expectations. Investigating the dynamics, effects, and determinants of economic expectations from a global perspective since the seventeenth century, t...

【核心賣點】 （1）本書以主題形式介紹香港歷史，配上300多幅香港舊照片及報刊文獻，加上細緻的描述，以不同角度了解香港的飲食文化。 （2）本書圖說提供英文翻譯。 （3）修訂版中加入新照片以及更新內容，増加份量及閱讀價值。 【一句話推介】 知味滿香江 看香港百年飲食文化 【內容簡介】 由香港開埠至今，隨着時代轉變和市民的飲食習慣，...

"Condensed yet energetic and substantial history of Chicago. Spinney has a firm sense of historical narrative as well as a keen eye for entertaining and illuminating detail."ー Publishers Weekly A city of immigrants and entrepreneurs, Chicago is quintessentially American. Spinney brings it to life and highlights the...

This book analyses the origins, experiences, and challenges of total defence in Europe and comprises a broad spectrum of national case studies as well as one international organisation – NATO. The topic of total defence has been brought to the fore by deglobalisation, augmented international tension, the US pivot to...

A hard-hitting investigation into how the Pentagon’s runaway spending embroils America in foreign wars, squanders its wealth, and enriches a privileged elite “A damning indictment of the conflicts of interest running rampant in the defense establishment.”ーPublishers Weekly America spends nearly a trillion dollars a...

During the 1960s and 1970s, the images of two men came to dominate the iconography of left-wing movements: Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. The story of the revolution these two men led in Cuba became a fable that drove and encouraged other revolutionary movements around the world. The Cuban Revolution is certainly ast...

炎熱夏天，古代女人可以穿著清涼嗎？ 明朝人竟有「男穿女裝」的叛逆潮流？ 明代衣飾和配件如何彰顯日常儀式感？ 古人婚喪嫁娶的衣著有什麼特殊規矩？ 一窺古人著裝奧祕，重溫明代衣飾風雅！ 以十二章三十個場景代入式寫法，五百多幅精美手繪圖及古畫介紹明代女性夏季著裝、男性著裝禮儀、不同身分的人正式拜訪時應穿的禮衣、出席宴會時的裝束...

日本在進入江戶時代之後，庶民教育逐步興起。町人階層開始接觸到漢籍，並從中獲得豐富的知識及精神層面上的滿足，漢語學習成為熱潮。本書以《唐話纂要》《重訂冠解助語辭》等江戶時代十九部漢語研究類著述為文獻基礎，揭示江戶學者對漢語所進行的研究。同時，對中日同期的漢語研究進行比較分析，並從學術史的角度梳理江戶時代漢語研究的學術...

⚔️ A legendary swordsman. A lifetime of battles. A timeless guide to victory. In The Book of Five Rings, Miyamoto Musashi, the greatest samurai of Japan's feudal era, distills the wisdom gained from more than sixty undefeated duels into a powerful manual on strategy, discipline, and the mastery of one's mind. Divide...

Winner, French Voices Award This book, a crossover hit in France, offers a fresh genealogy of our neoliberal moment. “We must adapt!” These words can be heard almost everywhere and in every aspect of our lives. Where does this widespread sense that we have fallen behind come from? How can we explain this progressive...

Deep Fakes: A Critical Lexicon for Digital Museology is an illustrated monograph articulated through a comprehensive lexicon of key concepts in next-generation museology. Each of the book’s ten chapters explores specific terms in the lexicon, further interpreted through installations from the 2021 exhibition Deep Fa...

觸動人心的真實故事 溫特斯幾乎成了每一個觀賞過《諾曼第大空降》影集觀眾心目中的英雄 由他現身說法，填補影集沒有述說的遺珠 溫特斯究竟如何成為了一名人人欽慕的卓越領袖人物 溫特斯在戰火中教我們的領導課。這不只是一部戰爭回憶錄，更是一本關於如何在逆境中領導團隊、克服挑戰的實戰指南。戰爭是殘酷的，但也是人性的試煉場。作者溫特...

Few figures in Irish history are as well-known as James Joyce. He was born into hardship in a country mired in political conflict, but rather than allow himself to get bogged down, he used his experiences to create some of the finest pieces of modernist literature to date. His work, in his time, was both subversive ...

The Beatles came onto the scene like a force of nature. Their songs became the anthems of generations of fans, and their emergence marked a high-water mark of popular music. But beyond the Beatles themselves, there is one man who can be credited with engineering this perfect maelstrom of musical majesty, and that ma...