This Open Access book carefully examines the legal and historical bases of the territory of Japan as a modern State from the Meiji period to 2002. A new preface summarizes key developments in the situation up through 2022. Japan’s current territory is stipulated by the Potsdam Declaration (1945) and the Treaty of Pe...

This book presents an innovative African philosophical response to coloniality and the attendant epistemicide of Africa’s knowledge systems, drawing on Igbo thinking. This book argues that theorizing modernity requires a critical conversation between African and Western scholarship, in order to unpack its links with...

This Open Access book uses Mary Kaldor’s concept of “New Wars” to explore how ethnic conflict reshaped the social and environmental landscape of the Southern Caucuses following the collapse of the Soviet Union. It relies on remote sensing data and qualitative historical research to explore how armed conflict between...

This open access book aims to provide an overview of state-of-the-art approaches to 3D documentation from a practical perspective and formulate the most important areas for future developments. Bringing together a wide range of case studies, examples of best practice approaches, workflows, and first attempts to esta...

Embark on an awe-inspiring journey through the mystical realms of Ancient Egypt with "Pyramids of the Pharaohs".This wonderful book encourages you to go into a realm where time stands still and behold the grandeur of Egypt's breathtaking pyramids, enticing temples, and enigmatic tombs. What sets this book distinct i...

In Revelation the Fair God, Pierre-Louis Ours provides a layman's fresh look at Jesus' epistles as revealed to John on Patmos Island. The first part of the book is a candid assessment of the twenty-first century Church. In the second part, using his extensive international experience, the author leads the reader thr...

Merriam Press World War 2 In Review. The following articles on the German Heinkel He 111 bomber of World War II are in this issue: (1) German Heinkel He 111 Medium Bomber (2) Flying the Heinkel He 111. Perhaps the best-recognized German bomber due to the distinctive, extensively glazed “greenhouse” nose of later ver...

This open access book takes the biographical case of German feminist Käthe Schirmacher (1865–1930), a multilingual translator, widely travelled writer of fiction and non-fiction, and a disputatious activist to examine the travel and translation of ideas between the women’s movements that emerged in many countries in...

Merriam Press World War 2 In Review series 2023 eBook Edition This issue presents four articles on these French tanks that saw service prior to and during World War II: (1) Char B1 heavy tank manufactured before World War II (2) Char D1 was a pre-World War II French infantry tank (3) Char D2 was an upgraded version ...

This open access book offers an entangled history of hygiene by showing how knowledge of purity, health and cleanliness was shaped by evangelical medical missionaries and their encounters with people in West Africa. By tracing the interactions and negotiations of six Basel Mission doctors, who practised on the Gold ...

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中澳建交五十週年，雙方關係降至最冰點 當習近平統治下的新中國將澳洲記者全面清零，下一個要清除的是什麼？ 　　二〇二〇年九月三日，中國公安深夜突襲史密斯在上海的住處，官僚化地朗誦完公文後請他在中文紙本上畫押簽名，恐懼爬上史密斯的背脊，因為幾天前才接到澳洲大使館建議他回國的訊息。公安稱他是國安調查的利益關係人，禁止他出境...

Roy and Zhores Medvedev, two identical twins with a unique fate, not only lived through a whole century of history, from Stalin to Putin, they wrote and made history. Their research on Stalinism, the first to come out of the Soviet Union in the 1960s-1970s, turned them into famous dissidents overnight, but their cri...

Dancing Motherhood explores how unique factors about the dance profession impact pregnant women and mothers working in it. Ali Duffy introduces the book by laying a foundation of social and cultural histories and systemic structures and power that shape the issues mothers in dance negotiate today. This book then rev...

Merriam Press World War 2 In Review Series. This issue contains the following articles on these military vehicles of World War II: (1) Polish TK/TKS Tankette (2) Soviet BA-20 Armored Car (3) American Ford GPA Amphibious Jeep (4) American M1 Heavy Tractor (5) American M4 Medium High-Speed Tractor (6) Hungarian Armore...

Merriam Press World War 2 In Review Series. The following articles are in this issue of World War 2 In Review: (1) M2 Medium Tank (2) M3 Medium Tank (3) M5 3-inch Gun Motor Carriage (GMC) (4) M5 High Speed Tractor (HST) (5) M6 Heavy Tank (6) M6 Gun Motor Carriage "Fargo" (7) T7 Light Tank/M7 Medium Tank (8) M7 Howit...