James Clerk Maxwell was a brilliant mathematician and scientist, but his impact on this world goes even deeper than that. Maxwell singlehandedly overturned what was believed to be fact with a whole new outlook on fundamental aspects of the universe. Maxwell is often credited as one of the first pioneers of quantum p...

This new edition of the multi-award-winning fantasy skirmish wargame offers improved rules based on years of player feedback, a revised spell list, and a host of brand-new scenarios. It remains fully compatible with all previously published Frostgrave supplements, allowing players to revisit past adventures as well ...

Catherine the Great is one of the most influential rulers in Russian history. Though born in Prussia, she endeavored to gain the throne of Russia and went on to be the longest-ruling empress in Russian history. She ruled as an enlightened despot, promoting the principles of the European Enlightenment as she sought t...

內容簡介：1644年，南京一位名叫曹君義的出版商，印製了一幅獨特的世界地圖，他稱之為「天下全圖」。其雖沿襲了某些可上溯宋元時期的中國慣例，卻也借鑒了一幅由奧特柳斯（Ortelius）設計、耶穌會傳教士利瑪竇在南京印製的歐洲版世界地圖。現今在兩個國家圖書館中仍保存了曹君義版地圖：其一在北京，另一在倫敦。本書的兩個章節，原是發表在...

'A masterpiece of history' DAILY TELEGRAPH Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchis...

**“In the modern tradition of Big Books of human history like Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens and David Graeber and David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything, Goliath’s Curse provides a novel theory of civilizational development. . . . [It] feels something like reading the French economist Thomas Piketty filtered through M...

一翻開就停不下來！最有創意的圖解攻略 ▋宇宙首創 ▋ 地表超狂視覺版《三十六計》 （附．36幅超傳神 來源典故示意圖） ★一圖勝千言！複雜的文言文兵書→最易懂的計謀圖解攻略！ ★與《孫子兵法》並稱世界軍事史上「雙璧」奇書 【適用】✔商業談判 ✔國際關係分析 ✔個人職涯規劃 ✔領導管理 ✔創業啟發 ✔《三十六計》書迷 作者運用獨創的視覺思維，把...

媲美《槍炮、病菌與鋼鐵》《人類大歷史》，探討人類文明的開創性巨作 不自由、不平等、國家體制是文明必然終點？ 時代百大風雲人物、《債的歷史》作者 大衛﹐格雷伯（David Graeber） ╳ 人文學科最高榮譽Albertus Magnus得主 大衛．溫格羅（David Wengrow） 攜手領航── 一場顛覆文明演進的所有假設、揭示人類全新自由的旅程 「一本顛覆傳統歷...

在《大交流：伍秉鑑的怡和行與十九世紀的全球貿易》中，王迪安通過清代十三行行商伍秉鑑的視角，探討了廣州體制下的貿易網絡如何塑造現代商業世界。當時，伍秉鑑的貿易網絡和金融聯繫從中國延伸至印度、美國和英國。這一時期的中國商人往往被視為西方重商主義崛起與中國抑商傳統觀念的受害者，但伍秉鑑並非如此。他早在西方世界秩序確立前的...

千島之國菲律賓，就像是由一片片拼圖組合起來的國家。 菲律賓島鏈位處大國戰略要道，其國運往往反映出全球權力的轉移。 今天以海外移工大軍聞名的菲律賓，政經實力曾一度在亞洲名列前茅，之後為何逐漸落後於鄰國？ 《風之帝國》作者菲利浦．鮑靈最新力作， 從歷史回顧到議題解析，全方位診斷菲律賓的過去、今日與未來！ 地形破碎、認同複雜的...

Embedded in Southern voices and epistemologies, this book explores how local communities in Central America understand development and the good life in the context of large-scale infrastructure projects. The analysis focuses on six case studies: the Reventazón hydropower plant and the Guanacaste tourism projects in ...

What if your entire lifeーyour freedom, identity, and dignityーwere stolen in an instant? 〓 In Twelve Years a Slave, Solomon Northup delivers one of the most heartbreaking and powerful true stories ever written. Born a free Black man in New York, Northup was kidnapped, betrayed, and sold into slavery, forced to end...

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...

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...

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...

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...