"Captivating . . . ideal for anyone interested in the true story of Pocahontas [and] historians and students interested in early Colonial American history." ーSimone Bonim, History in Review Camilla Townsend's stunning book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas 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...

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...

我們從未理解的關鍵歷史 一場史無前例、改變百年世界走向的戰爭。 集合多國現代史學者，重新檢視影響深遠的中日戰爭！ 重探一個民族的命運，看近百年世界走向。 *「中國、日本、美國，以及所有參與這場戰爭的政府和人民，在慘重的損傷中得到了什麼經驗與教訓？我們如何避免再犯相同的錯誤？這場戰爭與現在的我們有什麼關聯？80多年過去了，許...

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...

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...

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 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 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 ...

La aventura de la ciencia convertida en literatura. Un libro inclasificable y poderosamente seductor. Las narraciones incluidas en este libro singular y fascinante tienen un hilo conductor que las entrelaza: la ciencia, con sus búsquedas, tentativas, experimentos e hipótesis, y los cambios que –para bien y para mal–...

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...

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...

Dont fight a battle if you dont gain anything by winning.General Erwin RommelA fascinating account of a deadly combination: the supreme German weapon of war in the hands of the finest military tacticians of last century.Illustrated throughout with full coverage of all the German tanks, tank battles and campaigns in ...

二次大戰歐洲戰場的最後一役 希特勒與他的第三帝國正要走向滅亡 盟國這時已經開始上演分贓的戲碼 冷戰的雛型開始形成 雖然戰爭即將結束，受害的永遠都是人民 　　柏林人在市區轟炸後的斷垣殘壁中等待，嚇呆到動彈不得，固守著目前所有的唯一手段──求生存的手段。吃的比愛情更重要，藏起來比戰鬥更有尊嚴，在軍事上，挺下去遠比打勝仗更正確。...

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