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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-……続きを見る

突破數據框架 第一本 臺灣資訊地圖 專書 ★附臺灣地圖全彩拉頁★ ▶ 屏東為什麼盛產洋蔥和紅豆？大湖的草莓為何這麼有名？ ▶ 怎樣從核能公投結果的空間分布，重新思考核四議題？ ▶ 全臺竟然這麼多以「中正」、「中山……続きを見る

This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian the……続きを見る

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 peopl……続きを見る

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. Brin……続きを見る

This edited collection challenges and re-imagines what is ‘heritage’ in Britain as a globalised, vernacular, cosmopolitan ‘post-nation’. It takes its inspiration from the foundational work of public……続きを見る

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 h……続きを見る

The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960–2000 combines digital cartography with close readings of representative films from 1960 to 2000. Christian B. Long offers a unique history of twentie……続きを見る

Burmese Days is set in 1920s imperial Burma, in the fictional district of Kyauktada, based on Kathar (formerly spelled Katha), a town where Orwell served. It is a thinly-veiled tale from the waning ……続きを見る

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 ……続きを見る

1841 年1 月25 日，一隊英國海軍官兵在中國南方珠江三角洲一個小島登陸，升起英國國旗；第二天，英國遠征軍司令代表英國政府正式佔領此地。這個名為香港的不起眼小島，注定不平凡的歷史正式展開。 由「不毛之地」……続きを見る

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, th……続きを見る

Understanding Authenticity in Chinese Cultural Heritage explores the construction of "authenticity" and its consequences in relation to Chinese cultural heritageーthose objects, texts, and intangibl……続きを見る

La science peut se réapproprier l'hypothèse atlantide car depuis les années 1880, la théosophie puis le channelling surfent sur le sujet et atteignent des niveaux d'égarement confondants. Dans un pr……続きを見る

Globalizing the Soybean asks how the soybean conquered the West and analyzes why and how the crop gained entry into agriculture and industry in regions beyond Asia in the first half of the twentieth……続きを見る

Philosophy and Leadership is an ambitious exploration of leadership's philosophical underpinnings from antiquity to the AI-driven future. The book journeys through history, gleaning insights from em……続きを見る

Between Brexit, efforts to ‘Make America great again’, and ongoing appeals for patriotic consumption to boost economies, the intersection between national identity, marketing campaigns, and consumer……続きを見る

To this day, Japan's modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and why the modern world looks the way it does. In this e……続きを見る

Erotic Medievalisms is about the liberatory potential of sexualities, particularly as they relate to medieval histories and modern pleasures. Each of the texts analyzed within subvert norms rooted i……続きを見る

This open access book demonstrates that, while occupation has been used to treat the mentally disordered since the early nineteenth century, approaches to its use have varied across different countr……続きを見る

This open access collection of essays explores the emotional agency of images in the construction of ‘humanitarian crises’ from the nineteenth century to the present. Using the prism of the historie……続きを見る

This is an open access book. The education sector during the Covid-19 Pandemic is currently undergoing a total reformation. The education process at schools and colleges which was carried out face-t……続きを見る

This open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book argues for a literary re-examination of the repres……続きを見る

This open access book explores the organization and evolution of Finland’s Cold War cultural diplomacy (1945-1975) as the basis for a reflection on the country’s foreign relations, the link between ……続きを見る

Tax evasion, tax avoidance and tax resistance are widespread phenomena in political, economic, social and fiscal history from antiquity through medieval, early modern and modern times. Histories of ……続きを見る

Эта книга - мемуары невероятного человека, который прожил не менее невероятную жизнь! "Все события, люди, эпоха, победы, боль и радость, о которых я рассказываю вам, дорогие мои, в этой книге - исти……続きを見る

This open access book explores the role of continuity in political processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions. It argues that the changes that took place in the years around 1800 were ena……続きを見る

The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel is the first study to treat the history of claims to an Israelite identity as an ongoing historical phenomenon from biblical times to the present. By treating……続きを見る

This open access book explores a wide-ranging discussion about the sociopolitical, cultural, and scientific ramifications of speciesism and world views that derive from it. In this light, it integra……続きを見る

This open access book includes forty-one chapters about foreign observers’ discourses on Japan. These include a wide range of perspectives from the travelogues of curious visitors to academic theses……続きを見る