AZU - History 1

During the years of the Pacific War and occupied Japan, more than ten thousand second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) served in the US armed forces and their campaigns in combat theaters and s……続きを見る

¿SABÍAS QUE...? Los alquimistas chinos descubrieron por accidente la primera receta de la pólvora en sus intentos fallidos por crear el elixir de la inmortalidad. Gengis Kan hizo caer todo un imperi……続きを見る

Venise au XVe siècle est à l’apogée de sa puissance. Grâce à ses nombreux comptoirs, sa marine moderne et performante et ses traités commerciaux négociés par une diplomatie redoutablement efficace, ……続きを見る

En Angleterre, dans les années trente, Christopher Banks, qui a consacré sa vie à combattre le mal, est devenu un détective prestigieux. Cependant, un crime n'a jamais cessé de le hanter : l'énigmat……続きを見る

In February 1877, a man led twenty thousand warriors out of Kagoshima and into a war he knew he could not win. He was the most celebrated soldier in Japan. He had helped overthrow one government and……続きを見る

As wartime hysteria mounted following the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, and the U.S. government began forcibly relocating all Wes……続きを見る

'I'll be raiding this Wonder Pantry of a book for years to come … Diverting, delightful and deliciously weird enough to satisfy the most demanding appetite.' - Christopher Hadley, author of The Road……続きを見る

À la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale, de nombreux prisonniers de guerre restent loin de chez eux, éprouvés par une captivité dure et prolongée. L’armistice ne signifie ni libération immédiate ni ……続きを見る

My Honor Is My Loyalty is a powerful Balkans World War II novel that plunges readers into the raw, unflinching realities of the German anti-partisan campaigns on the Eastern Front and in the Balkans……続きを見る

What kind of country is Japan?　 A short introduction to Japan's little-known history. Japan is a country surrounded by the sea in the northeastern part of Asia. This island nation is known for its ……続きを見る

THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S TOP BOOKS OF THE YEAR Shortlisted for The Orwell Prize 2020 Shortlisted for the FT Business Book of……続きを見る

Et si les grands tournants de l'Histoire n'étaient pas seulement le fruit du génie ou du hasard mais... d'échecs retentissants ? Savez-vous, par exemple, à quoi nous devons réellement l’invention de……続きを見る

Why were Hollywood producers eager to film on the other side of the Iron Curtain? How did Western computer games become popular in socialist Czechoslovakia's youth paramilitary clubs? What did Finni……続きを見る

This compelling study of a previously overlooked vice industry explores the larger structural forces that led to the growth of prostitution in Japan, the Pacific region, and the North American West ……続きを見る

Desde los antiguos griegos a los modernos físicos cuánticos, esta historia nos muestra cómo E=mc² no es solo una ecuación, sino la llave maestra para comprender los secretos más profundos del cosmos……続きを見る

An examination of the transformation of the Japanese diet from subsistence to abundance and an assessment of the consequences for health, longevity, and the environment. In a little more than a cent……続きを見る

Este livro é um relato simples, direto e sincero das experiências de Kazuo Yokomizo (1901-1983), contando a sua trajetória de imigrante japonês no período em que o Brasil precisava de mão de obra pa……続きを見る

Death comes for us all in the end. But it does not always come in a way you might expect. Throughout history there have been people who have suffered extraordinary, unusual, and downright weird demi……続きを見る

This book was the culmination of over 10 years of dedicated effort. Especially, it presents a comprehensive translation of Matsuo Basho's linked verse (renku), encompassing 576 poems across 16 volum……続きを見る

The true story of Japan's surrender in World War II and how it nearly didn't happen! In the final days of World War II, Japan lay in ruins and the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been obliterat……続きを見る

« Il y a des héros que l’Histoire a laissés dans l’ombre. Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville est de ceux-là. » Né à Montréal en 1661, fils d’une famille de pionniers, Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville fut tour à……続きを見る

Zapopan, una historia entre siglos reúne las reflexiones de veinte especialistas con un enfoque multidisciplinario. Los autores, de una manera sencilla pero con el rigor académico que los distingue,……続きを見る

Toshikazu Kase was a Japanese civil servant and spent his adult life as a career diplomat, having trained at Amherst and Harvard university Kase was part of Japanese delegation sent onboard the USS ……続きを見る

SPECIAL SECTION: MULTILINGUALISM IN UKRAINE Introduction: Ukraine’s Multilingualism RORY FINNIN and IVAN KOZACHENKO The Languages and Tongues of Mykola Markevych TARAS KOZNARSKY Channel Switching: L……続きを見る

This fascinating book analyzes the socialist past as represented in the national history museums of the majority of the former Yugoslav states. While traveling to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mo……続きを見る

¿De qué hablamos cuando mencionamos a las brujas de Zugarramurdi? ¿Quién era considerado brujo o bruja por sus vecinos en tiempo de nuestros ancestros? ¿Por qué el Estado y la Iglesia creyeron al fi……続きを見る

In People's Diplomacy**, Kazushi Minami shows how the American and Chinese people rebuilt US-China relations in the 1970s, a pivotal decade bookended by Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China and 1979 ……続きを見る

The study is the first monograph devoted to the musical culture of a female order in Poland. It is a result of in-depth research into musical, narrative, economic, and prosopographic sources survivi……続きを見る

Das Buch verfolgt anhand von vier Schweizer Romanen die aus diversen Perspektiven gespiegelte, zwischen 1871 und 1945 situierte Schweizer Geschichte. Die Werke «Ein Rufer in der Wüste» (1921) von Ja……続きを見る

The book is the second volume of an extensive four-volume monograph devoted to the work of Cyprian Norwid (1821–1883), one of the most outstanding Polish authors. The impact of Norwid’s oeuvre does ……続きを見る