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 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...

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...

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 ...

THIS book is concerned with the story of man on the southeastern projection of Europe, known as the Balkan peninsula. For practical purposes the story begins with the Greeks, because the Greeks, though not the original inhabitants of the peninsula, were the first to leave a clear record of themselves and their neigh...

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...

This open access book explores the history of pellagra, a vitamin deficiency disease brought about by a shift in agriculture to maize, and which was first identified in Italy in the 1760s. With a focus on the insanity that was caused by the disease, the authors examine how thousands of patients were treated in Itali...

This handbook explores the significance of the Indo-Pacific in world politics. It shows how the re-emergence of the Indo-Pacific in international relations has fundamentally changed the approach to politics, economics and security. The volume: explores the themes related to trade, politics and security for better u...

成吉思汗的宗教寛容政策， 何以成為開創蒙古帝國盛世的關鍵？ 暢銷書《成吉思汗：近代世界的創造者》作者、 「最會說故事的人類學家」魏澤福最新力作 蒙古帝國建立後，成吉思汗頒布的第一條法令， 是給予帝國子民選擇信仰的自由， 不僅將眾神請下國家的神壇，讓帝國內的宗教衝突趨於穩定， 更對現代國家政教分離的概念產生了革命性的影響。 ...

1.《中国国家地理百科全书》是一套色彩艳丽、内容丰富、特色鲜明的大众地理读物。 2.全书内容是经过社科院专家和中国地理协会的老师专门审核后完成的，地理知识具有较高的权威性。3.全书共分10卷，分别从多方面介绍了世界七大洲的200多个国家与地区，资料翔实、数据全面、图片丰富。4.这套书也是目前国内图书市场上为数不多的以彩图版的形式...

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...

This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian theory, Matthias Klestil examines forms of environmental knowledge in African American writing ranging from antebellum sla...

Please note that this is a Chinese language edition. A favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliché to market tobacco products. The proliferation of panda-branded cigarettes coincides with profou...

One Nation Under Blackmail is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly century old relationship between both US and Israeli intelligence and the organized criminal network known as the National Crime Syndicate. This book specifically explores how that nexus between intelligence and organize...

In a book Herbert Hoover called his "magnum opus"ーfinally published nearly fifty years after its completionーthe former president offers a revisionist reexamination of World War II, including his frank evaluation of Franklin D. Roosevelt's foreign policies before Pearl Harbor and during the war, and the war's conse...

This book examines the practices of contesting evidence in democratically constituted knowledge societies. It provides a multifaceted view of the processes and conditions of evidence criticism and how they determine the dynamics of de- and re-stabilization of evidence. Evidence is an essential resource for establish...