In "Ancient History from the Monuments: Greek Cities & Islands of Asia Minor," W. S. W. Vaux meticulously explores the rich tapestry of ancient Greek civilization through the lens of archaeological remains and historical monuments. Vaux's literary style is both erudite and accessible, combining rigorous research wit...

What became of the Gandhian tradition in India following the death of Mahatma Gandhi? Did it quietly die away? Or were there still Indians who believed in his philosophy and methods, committed to continuing his work? These were the questions that sent independent journalist Mark Shepard to India in 1978–79. There he...

This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes to East Germany in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They went to work and to be trained as a vanguard labor force for the intended African industrial revolutions. While they were there, they contributed their labo...

"Weil auch in diesen Zeiten irgendwer das Richtige tun muss, einfach, weil es richtig ist." April, 1945. Alle spüren, dass der Krieg und die fürchterliche Ideologie der Nationalsozialisten kurz vor dem Ende stehen. Doch in der Nacht vom 28. auf den 29. April 1945, drei Tage vor Hitlers Selbstmord, ereignet sich das ...

"Seven Pillars of Wisdom" is a seminal work that intricately chronicles T.E. Lawrence's experiences during the Arab Revolt in World War I. Written in a vivid, lyrical style that intertwines personal narrative with historical analysis, the book transcends mere memoir, offering profound insights into the complexities ...

For four years in the 1970s, the people of Cambodia endured a nightmarish era of brutality that left millions dead, and its survivors still wounded from the trauma they endured. Based on a series of lengthy interviews with two survivors of the infamous Khmer Rouge era, In the Next Life is a riveting work of oral his...

★繁體中文限定．作者題字扉頁印簽版★ 要理解暴政，先見證歷史 《暴政》作者提摩希．史奈徳，衝擊歷史認知的經典之作 認識今日東歐衝突的歷史根源，最受熱議的迫切之書 20世紀最黒暗的歷史現場，不在徳國或俄國，而在納粹與蘇聯之間的血色東歐。 見證普利摩．李維未能記錄的屠殺真相，漢娜．鄂蘭理論之外的極權全貌。 　　★全球翻譯32種語言．...

This open access book maps a crucial but neglected chapter in the history of psychiatry: how was melancholia transformed in the nineteenth century from traditional melancholy madness into a modern biomedical mood disorder, paving the way for the emergence of clinical depression as a psychiatric illness in the twenti...

This open access book presents a new translation, interpretation and analysis of selected passages from the so-called Mohist Canon, a Chinese text from ca. 300 BCE, and discusses the role of the text in the world history of science, arguing that it represents an early emergence of theoretical, systematized knowledge...

This open access book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, and politics she inhabited. In 1964, Ruth Harrison’s bestseller Animal Machines triggered a gear change in modern animal protection by popularising the term ‘factory farming’ alongsid...

A highly entertaining read for anyone with even a passing interest in London's history. This myth-busting book takes you on a great ride through history and the city's character. Think that the tower that holds Big Ben is called St Stephen's Tower? Think again – it was called the Clock Tower until 2012 when it was r...

This open-access book is the first to investigate the roots of Logical Empiricism in the context of the Life Reform and the German Youth Movements. Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach are the key protagonists; they both belonged to the German Youth Movement and developed their early philosophical views in this settin...

In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree. Even if they are not technically slaves, they are denied elementary freedoms and remain imprisoned in one way or another by economic poverty, soci...

This open access book explores creative and collaborative forms of research praxis within the social sustainability sciences. The term co-creativity is used in reference to both individual methods and overarching research approaches. Supported by a series of in-depth examples, the edited collection critically review...

Journalist Greg Melville’s Over My Dead Body is an “astonishing . . . fascinating . . . powerful” (New York Times Book Review) tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our dead. “You hold in your hands a treasure map, a gentle, sly, and poignant presence leading us to place...

This astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life. Ranging across a variety of spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions what is meant by perception, representation and practice, with the aim of valuing the fugitive practices that exist on the margins of the...