The world food crisis (1972–1975) gave rise to new development concepts. To eradicate world hunger, small peasants were supposed to use ‘modern’ inputs like high-yielding seeds, fertilizer, pesticides and irrigation. This would turn subsistence producers into business owners, transform rural areas, invigorate nation...

公視年度時代生活劇《茶金》的靈感原型！ 一本充滿恩怨情仇的茶商家族回憶錄， 一部記錄真人實事的臺灣地方發展史！ 從日治時期到1980年代，一個跌宕起伏的客家望族故事， 主人翁姜阿新縱横商場，經營茶業、林業、糖廠、運輸、食品事業， 反映了臺灣經濟起飛前後的政經、文化、人性現象……， 家族親友間的聚散離合更印證世間的悲歡紛擾皆平常...

在近代中國，當新的思想典範逐漸登臨歷史舞台時，有不少帶有傳統色彩的學術論述被推擠到歷史邊緣，這些思想、論述、視野及方法，值得重新加以檢視。「執拗的低音」不是復古，而是回到各種論述的分流點去重加審視，去了解是不是有獲得一些新的學術資源的可能。

Why shoot a revolver when a modern semi-automatic carries more rounds, reloads faster, is flatter and slimmer, and is no more costly? Revolvers are no-problem guns. Because it has a relatively straightforward design, a revolver is very reliable. A semiautomatic is sensitive to cartridges, and stories about jammed ac...

The book is about some students from a University who go to uncover a tomb and what they discover would change the worlds history forever.

L'ouvrage de référence sur l'histoire des juifs, enfin en poche. Voici un peuple dont le passé et le présent se confondent avec ceux de l'humanité tout entière, enjambant les siècles, les continents et les civilisations, depuis l'Egypte des pharaons jusqu'à la Russie soviétique, en passant par le monde gréco-romain,...

Religion as a form of cultural expression constitutes a critical element in the relationship between Germany and India. The discovery of Indian traditions in Germany and re-interpretations of those traditions in India fueled not only new theological and philosophical explorations, but also extensive innovations in t...

The second edition of a comprehensive account of all the major aspects of the Japanese economy, substantially updated and expanded. This textbook offers a comprehensive, rigorous but accessible account of all the major aspects of the Japanese economy, grounding its approach in mainstream economics. The second editio...

This book sheds new light on the fascinating – at times dark and at times hopeful – reception of classical Yoga philosophies in Germany during the nineteenth century. When debates over God, religion, and morality were at a boiling point in Europe, Sanskrit translations of classical Indian thought became available fo...

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Featuring over 450 archival photographs and line drawings, Chinese Dress traces the evolution of Chinese clothing from court and formal costumes to the fashions of modern China. A comprehensive and sumptuously illustrated book, Chinese Dress is the essential reference for costume historians, fashion designers and co...

Mind Museums offers a fresh perspective on the heritage of mental health, bringing museums into sharp focus. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches from architecture, museum and exhibition design, and heritage and museum studies, it examines former psychiatric asylums that have been converted into museums. The book...

This book is a collection of essays in Indonesian history and archaeology dealing with different and multiple trajectories, along four broad themes. The first part of the book covers competing or evolving representations of events, customs or traditions, and historical personae in Indonesian official and popular exp...

Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has become a world classicーa powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with the Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled thei...

Studies in the Historical Jesus: Anarchy, Miracles, and Madness is a selection of key essays on the historical figure of Jesus published over the last fifteen years by Justin J. Meggitt. Each addresses a central question in the study of Jesus and his context, from the role of myth in the creation of traditions about...

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...