From sleepy fishing village to samurai capital to vibrant global metropolis, Eiko Maruko Siniawer takes readers through Tokyo's rich history, revealing four centuries of transformation deeply woven into its fabric. This accessible guide introduces a world of shoguns and Kabuki theater, riots and earthquakes, wartime...

*此書為固定版面格式，建議使用平板或電腦閱讀* 過去你不知道，但現在可以更了解她！ 茉莉花、沙漠、海洋、羅馬與伊斯蘭 這些看似毫不相關的元素，卻是組成突尼西亞的重要因子 一起踏上這個未知的國度吧！ ․「超」資深導遊的實況導覽 作者前往突尼西亞超過四十次，更曾經創下在一年當中前往突尼西亞九次的紀錄，讓作者掏出他的口袋名單，帶你...

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...

For more than three thousand years, Egypt seemed eternal ー its temples unshaken, its kings divine, its Nile eternal. But beneath the gold and granite, Egypt rose and fell again and again. Collapse: The Fall of Ancient Egypt reveals the real story behind the myth of eternal stability. From the famine and chaos that ...

Claude Helffer, né le 28 juin 1922 à Paris, fait partie de ces interprètes d'exception qui accompagnent et suscitent la création, témoins actifs d'une époque et médiateurs privilégiés entre les compositeurs et le public. Élève de Robert Casadesus (pour le piano) et de René Leibowitz (pour l'écriture), diplômé de l'É...

"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...

Attestés dès le XVe siècle, les Juloded étaient des paysans-tanneurs et, surtout, des paysans-marchands de toile qui formèrent, dans le Léon, un groupe social original jusqu'aux approches de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Ils étaient généralement alphabétisés, riches au point de se dispenser de travailler de leurs main...

“One of the purest tellings of a combat Marine’s experience in warfighting I have ever read. This story strikes every emotion.” ー PAUL LONGGREAR, Colonel ret. Army Special Forces, With the Marines at the Battle for Sangin is a battle-intensive and deeply personal war memoir following a small Marine quick infantry d...

C’est au sortir de Versailles, où le roi lui adresse la parole, et des salons où elle rencontre les plus grandes dames du temps, que Madame de Sévigné écrivit ses lettres entre 1635 et 1696. Les détails précis qu’elle rapporte sur le procès de Fouquet, le passage du Rhin, le mariage de la Grande Mademoiselle, la mor...

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...

Čo sa stane, keď sa jazyk viery začne používať ako nástroj moci a "ochrana spoločnosti" sa zmení na ospravedlnenie prenasledovania? Táto kniha mapuje znepokojivý posun, pri ktorom sa náboženská sloboda v demokratických štátoch mení na podozrenie a samotná viera na bezpečnostný problém. Text sleduje prepojenie medzi ...

The Dark Ages by Charles Oman is a foundational historical work examining the transition from the Roman Empire to medieval Europe. With clarity and academic rigor, Oman explores political upheaval, cultural transformation, and the formation of early European kingdoms. Accessible yet authoritative, this book remains ...

●詳載約600個注釋●收錄近千張第一手史料　　時代的記憶．庶民的圖記　　畫報，是以採用手繪圖畫或攝影圖片記載人類社會的一種圖象文獻。　　清末民初，正是中國社會處於改朝換代的大變革時期。歷經內憂外患、列強侵略，畫報客觀地記錄了適逢此動亂時代之中國社會政治、經濟、文化、外交、科學、藝術、教育等領域所發生的各種情況，若干題材也...

The Fall of France, 1940 tells the dramatic story of how one of the world's most powerful armies collapsed in just six weeks. From the false calm of the Phoney War to the shock of German tanks bursting through the Ardennes, this book traces the speed, confusion, and terror of Blitzkrieg. It follows the breakthrough ...

In this major revision of his classic history of Japanーfrom the tribally divided state under the leadership of Yamato in the fifth century through centuries of dynastic rule to the death of Emperor Hirohito in 1989ーthe eminent Harvard historian and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer incorporates n...