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From Yale professor and bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a searing confrontation with the authoritarian right's attacks to undo a century of work to advance social justice action on race, ge……続きを見る

A fascinating analysis of the evolution of religion from the internationally renowned evolutionary psychologist When did humans develop spiritual thought? What is religion's evolutionary purpose? An……続きを見る

Writing Material Culture History 2e examines the methodologies used in the historical study of material culture. Looking at archaeology, anthropology, art history and literary studies, the book prov……続きを見る

Born free. Sold into slavery. Twelve years in chains. Twelve Years a Slave (1853), by Solomon Northup, is one of the most powerful slave narratives ever writtenーa true story of resilience, injustic……続きを見る

《鴻》《毛澤東》《慈禧》暢銷傳記作家／張戎 暌違六年最新重磅巨作 現代中國從慈禧到今天， 宋氏三姊妹與她們的丈夫，正是完整串連中國百年史的關鍵人物！ 跨越三個世紀 走過三大陸 多場革命 三位家喻戶曉的女子 ……続きを見る

Forming a critical introduction to the history of women's autobiography from the mid 18th-century to the present, this book analyses the most important changes in women's autobiography, exploring th……続きを見る

The Birth and Unfolding of Phases in History: From Neolithic to World, Pueblo, and U.S. History brings together four major works into a single arc of human time. Michael A. Susko argues that the rhy……続きを見る

This book explores the potential of heritage to enact sustainable human–environment relationships across geographical differences. It does so by travelling to four archipelagoes: the Wadden Islands ……続きを見る

Taking an original, in-depth approach, this book investigates the forms and functions of metareference in videogames. Drawing on a rich body of research in game studies, transmedial narratology, and……続きを見る

In his Gettysburg Address in 1863, President Lincoln wrote of the birth of the United States that had taken place "fourscore and seven years ago." Although a broad overview of American history leaps……続きを見る

⛓️ What would you do if your life of freedom was stolen overnight? Twelve Years a Slave is the extraordinary true account of Solomon Northup, a free African American man living in New York, who was ……続きを見る

The Caspian World is a wide-ranging exploration of the strategic, political, and commercial significance of the Caspian Sea, a site where empiresーRussian, Persian, Ottoman, and Britishーcompeted, w……続きを見る

Flowing Progress: Transforming the Danube Through Infrastructure focuses on how different political regimes and forms of governance have imagined and technologically transformed the most internation……続きを見る

"Victory is in the mind before it is in the sword." Written in 1645 by Japan's greatest samurai, Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings is a legendary text on strategy, martial arts, and the philo……続きを見る

The path to harmony lies between extremes. Attributed to Zisi (Confucius's grandson), The Doctrine of the Mean is one of the Four Books of Confucian philosophy, a cornerstone of Chinese thought for ……続きを見る

Explore Ancient Tibet and its Profound Secret Knowledge. The civilization of very ancient Tibetーthe lost kingdom of Zhang Zhung and its legendary tradition of sorcery and true magicーis among the l……続きを見る

Hij werd geboren in een latrine in Gent. Twintig jaar later heerste hij over een rijk waarin de zon nooit onderging: van Spanje over grote delen van Latijns-Amerika tot het huidige België en Nederla……続きを見る

〓 One man's day becomes every man's story. In Ulysses, James Joyce transforms a single day in Dublin into one of the greatest adventures in all of literature ー a masterpiece of language, identity,……続きを見る

One small pamphlet. One massive revolution. Common Sense is the electrifying political manifesto that sparked a nation's fight for freedom. Published in 1776, Common Sense by Thomas Paine ignited th……続きを見る

This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biogeography, ……続きを見る

Why did social democrats in the 1940s and 1950s idealise Zionism and Israel? And why did ‘the New Left’ of the 1960s denounce Israel as an apartheid state and a ‘bridgehead of imperialism’? The Mean……続きを見る

This book is the first comprehensive study of the twelve New Music Bureau poems by the influential poet-official Yuan Zhen 元稹 (779–831) in comparison with the response poems of Bai Juyi 白居易 (77……続きを見る

Le "système français" mis en place au lendemain de la Révolution tend à marginaliser la fille publique et à l’enfermer dans une série de lieux clos (maison de tolérance, hôpital, prison, établisseme……続きを見る

Media Engagement, Literacy, and Dialogue among European Youth explores young people’s participation in digital media spaces, drawing on participatory research methods to reflect with youth on how di……続きを見る

Software has become a key component of contemporary life and algorithms that rank, classify, or recommend are everywhere. Building on the philosophy of Gilbert Simondon and the cultural techniques t……続きを見る

This collection brings together leading scholars across disciplines to reflect on the relationship between intermediality and multimodality and future directions for the contemporary mediascape, bui……続きを見る

In recent years, Korean culture has been incredibly successful internationally, from the films of auteur directors like Bong Joon-ho (Parasite) to shows like Squid Game and K-pop music. At the same ……続きを見る

This open access book examines the life and work of Koki Hirota, who served as Japan's foreign minister and prime minister from 1933 to 1938 - the period that saw the final Japanese diplomatic attem……続きを見る

On ne peut comprendre les raisons et les effets du " moment 68 " sans examiner la longue séquence historique dans laquelle il s'inscrit, de la fin de la guerre d'Algérie en 1962 à l'élection de Fran……続きを見る

Star Wars has reached more than three generations of casual and hardcore fans alike, and as a result many of the producers of franchised Star Wars texts (films, television, comics, novels, games, an……続きを見る