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This is Martha Beckwith's monumental study of Hawaiian mythology. She gives all available variants of each myth or legend, including versions from other Pacific islands including Tahiti, Tonga, Samo……続きを見る

'A Latin American James Dean or Jack Kerouac' Washington Post 'It's true; Marxists just wanna have fun... a revolutionary bestseller' Guardian At the age of twenty-three, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and h……続きを見る

“Who hasn’t stayed up late reading South Sea tales? Christina Thompson’s Sea People is a South Sea tale to top them all.”ーRichard Rhodes, author of Energy: A Human History and the Pulitzer Prize wi……続きを見る

In this monumental multiple biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin studies Abraham Lincoln's mastery of men. She shows how he saved Civil War-torn America by appointing his……続きを見る

#1 New York Times Bestseller Peter Schweizer says that, in a quarter-century as an investigative journalist, this is the scariest investigation he has ever conducted. That the Chinese government see……続きを見る

The term neighborhood has been reduced to a word for a convenient geographical locator. In fact, most cities claim to be compiled of neighborhoods, but this strays far from the term's original meani……続きを見る

Operation Desert Storm reveals how two 101st Airborne intelligence soldiers averted disaster during the Gulf War. “During Desert Storm the Air Force and the Armor forces were the thunder but the 101……続きを見る

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER PICK A rollicking, revelatory look at the tumult of the early 1990s and the rise of a new, more berserk America that birthed the Donald Trump Er……続きを見る

The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Oscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NAS……続きを見る

Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tense international events in modern historyーthe Cuban Missile Crisisーproviding a people-focused narr……続きを見る

“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 ……続きを見る

El libro de historia más vendido de Daniel Samper Pizano vuelve a Aguilar para conmemorar el Bicentenario. Sería impensable que Daniel Samper Pizano no asistiera a la fiesta de celebración del Bicen……続きを見る

A dramatic new interpretation of the encounter between Europe and the Americas that reveals the crucial role of animals in the shaping of the modern world. When the men and women of the island of Gu……続きを見る

National Bestseller • One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfiction A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post, Fast Company ……続きを見る

There are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell, or where those stories end. John Arnold's Very Short I……続きを見る

New York Times Bestseller Featured in the critically acclaimed documentary RBG "It was beyond my wildest imagination that I would one day become the 'Notorious RBG." ー Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2019 She……続きを見る

Yvonne Pitts explores inheritance practices by focusing on nineteenth-century testamentary capacity trials in Kentucky in which disinherited family members challenged relatives' wills. These disappo……続きを見る

**A New York Times bestseller • A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, 2025 Kirkus Prize, 2025 Cundill History Prize, and 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • Na……続きを見る

In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the mos……続きを見る

Missouri lies at a regional crossroads where the Midwest meets the South and the West begins. The contemporary dialect picture of the state reflects this blend of influences. Depending on their back……続きを見る

Throughout the 1930s the Zippo Company in Pennsylvania prospered on the growing success of its stylish, charismatic little cigarette lighter. The lighter was made mostly of brass, but with the Secon……続きを見る

The Power of Ritual in Prehistory is the first book in nearly a century to deal with traditional secret societies from a comparative perspective and the first from an archaeological viewpoint. Provi……続きを見る

When Jackie Robinson made his debut at Ebbets Field on opening day in 1947, the Brooklyn Dodgers became the first major league team with a black player anywhere in its organization. By the end of th……続きを見る

Revolutions are a commonly studied but only vaguely understood historical phenomenon. Now updated to include the perspectives of grassroots revolutionary movements and biographies of often marginali……続きを見る

The rock and roll music that dominated airwaves across the country during the 1950s and early 1960s is often described as a triumph for integration. Black and white musicians alike, including Chuck ……続きを見る

Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. These plantation regimes were, to adopt a metaphor of the era……続きを見る

Medical Licensing and Discipline in America traces the evolution of the U.S. medical licensing system from its historical antecedents in the 18th and 19th century to its modern structure. David A. J……続きを見る

The reporter who broke the Houston Astros’ cheating scandal reveals how a baseball team could so dramatically descend into corruption, with the never-before-told inside account of a broken managemen……続きを見る

歷史為何不斷重演？保守民粹為何又再度抬頭？ 「反智」，是美國深層文化、歷史傳統的一部分 川普代表的「反智」暗潮，始終刻在美國人的骨子裡 ★2025年全新校訂版★ ★兩屆普立茲獎得主霍夫士達特最經典著作★ 余英時……続きを見る

The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yet Stephanie Grisham rose from being a junior press wrangler on the Trump campaign in 2016 to assuming top positions in the administrat……続きを見る