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 ...

作者透過一位五、六十年代香港寫實攝影師的鏡頭，帶出三個離鄉別井、在香港落地生根、可歌可泣的奮鬥故事。無論在何處，生活中我們都應有堅持不懈的信念。希望這本書能成為你繼續向前邁進的動力。 〈維多利亞理髮廳的故事〉：理髮店學徒阿健經常被大師兄刁難，每天有各種「考驗」等_他，他會怎樣應對？ 〈馬姐的故事〉：何夫人受邀參加婚禮，...

"This English translation of the original Russian work is thought provoking, challenging the 'official' version of what happened" during World War II ( Firetrench). The memory of the Second World War on the Eastern Frontーstill referred to in modern Russia as the Great Patriotic Warーis an essential element of Russi...

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...

An untold story of idealism, betrayal, and behind-the-scenes American–Japanese contacts in World War II. In the fall of 1943, during some of the Pacific theater’s bloodiest battles, the United States and Japan pulled off a diplomatic coupー the exchange of civilians caught on the wrong side of the battlefield after ...

Este segundo volumen, analiza los dos meses transcurridos entre el triunfo de Salvador Allende en las elecciones presidenciales y su asunción, el 4 de noviembre de 1970, unos de los períodos más álgidos de la historia de la República.

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...

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...

求孕，求男，求好男；養胎，安胎，祈順產。 古代女性承擔了生育的重任，卻沒有解釋生育的權力。 在男性書寫的歷史中，我們仍能從中挖掘溫柔的力量。 房內是一位富貴之家的孕婦，獨自半蹲地架在衡木上生產。房外則是她的公公，陪同來助產的高僧，隔著窗戶教她調息。西元六世紀一個不可思議的分娩故事，先後經兩位士大夫抄錄和轉載。這些男性醫...

A highly illustrated history of the Cold War operations of the submarines of the Royal Navy from 1948 to 1990. The Cold War was a period of intense activity for submarines of the Royal Navy, with many hair-raising incidents involving Soviet vessels. They were engaged in frequent hazardous surveillance patrols inves...

As a young Black orphan indentured to a Quaker family in Bristol, Pennsylvania, Zilpha Elaw (c. 1793–1873) decided to join the upstart Methodists in 1808. She preached her first sermon a decade later, ignoring her husband and the many church leaders, clergy, and laity who tried to silence her. Elaw’s memoir chronicl...

"This profusely illustrated and thoroughly researched book conveys a wealth of information" about the USAF's B-1 bomber ( Aviation History Magazine). When the B-52 Stratofortress entered operational service with the US Air Force in 1955, work was already underway on defining its successor. The B-70 Valkyrie, a Mach ...

"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...

Depuis leur réinvention à Paris et à Athènes à la fin du xixe siècle, les Jeux olympiques semblent refléter la marche du monde. En fait, ils progressent à leur propre rythme, quadriennal, et ils ne sont jamais qu’un interlude posé dans les interstices des États, des sociétés et des économies. Faire l’histoire de leu...

From the acclaimed author of The Box, a new history of globalization that shows us how to navigate its future Globalization has profoundly shaped the world we live in, yet its rise was neither inevitable nor planned. It is also one of the most contentious issues of our time. While it may have made goods less expensi...