A critical and evidence-based account of the COVID-19 pandemic as a political–economic rupture, exposing underlying power struggles and social injustices.
The dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic represent……続きを見る
Personal, provocative and powerfully persuasive - an essential guide to what white feminism is, why it matters, and how we can put an end to it
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*Winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize*
'Malala is an inspiration to girls and women all over the world' J K Rowling
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'For sheer inspiration read I Am Malala' SUNDA……続きを見る
著者:E. J. Hobsbawm
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Nations and Nationalism since 1780 is Eric Hobsbawm's widely acclaimed and highly readable enquiry into the question of nationalism. Events in the late twentieth century in Eastern Europe and the So……続きを見る
What do you do if your aircraft ditches at sea? Or your building is on fire? Or you are the victim of a terrorist attack? Would you make the right decision to save yourself and the lives of others? ……続きを見る
著者:Helen Yaffe
出版社: Yale University Press
発売日: 2020年02月01日
The extraordinary account of the Cuban people’s struggle for survival in a post-Soviet world
In the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba faced the start of a crisis that decimated its eco……続きを見る
著者:Mel Farrell
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2017年11月16日
This book offers a timely, and fresh historical perspective on the politics of independent Ireland. Interwar Ireland’s politics have been caricatured as an anomaly, with the distinction between Fian……続きを見る
Forging a Special Operations Force: The U.S. Army Rangers details the origins and development, combat philosophy, and key engagements of America's elite fighting force. Structured topically, the boo……続きを見る
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the early modern military history of Portugal and its possessions in Africa, the Americas, and Asia from the perspective of the military revolution histo……続きを見る
著者:Tom Cooper
出版社: Helion and Company
発売日: 2015年04月19日
With Ethiopia in disarray following a period of severe internal unrest and the spread of insurgencies in Eritrea and Tigray, Ethiopia and its armed forces should have offered little opposition to we……続きを見る
著者:Monika Czernin
出版社: Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH
発売日: 2021年03月12日
Ohne Pomp und großes Gefolge durch Europa: Die faszinierende Geschichte des Habsburger Kaisers Joseph II. – Ausgezeichnet mit dem Friedrich-Schiedel-Literaturpreis 2023
Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts ger……続きを見る
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“Everyone worried about the state of contemporary politics should read this book.”
ーAnne-Marie Slaughter
“A trenchant survey from 1989, with its democra……続きを見る
Dynastic Change: Legitimacy and Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Monarchy examines the strategies for change and legitimacy in monarchies in the medieval and early modern eras.
Taking a broadly c……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2017年12月14日
This book is a collection of essays on neglected aspects of the Great War. It begins by asking what exactly was so "Great" about it, before turning to individual studies of various aspects of the wa……続きを見る
The heartwarming and unforgettable true story of a family and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. Now with photos and new material.
Is it possible for humans to ……続きを見る
著者:Adeeb Khalid
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2021年06月01日
A major history of Central Asia and how it has been shaped by modern world events
Central Asia is often seen as a remote and inaccessible land on the peripheries of modern history. Encompassing Uzbe……続きを見る
What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War? What if Germany had won the Second? How would England look if there had been no Cromwell? What would the world be like if Communism had never c……続きを見る
Spanning the 130-year period between the end of the Tokugawa Era and the end of the Cold War, this book introduces students to the formation, collapse, and rebirth of the modern Japanese state. It d……続きを見る
More than almost anything else, globalization and the great world religions are shaping our lives, affecting everything from the public policies of political leaders and the economic decisions of in……続きを見る
著者:Bettina Greiner
出版社: Hamburger Edition HIS
発売日: 2013年01月30日
Am 17. Januar 1950 wurde im Neuen Deutschland die Auflösung von Lagern bekannt gegeben, die es offiziell gar nicht gab: die Speziallager des sowjetischen Geheimdienstes. Schätzungsweise 154 000 Deut……続きを見る
The invention of mass marketing led to cigarettes being emblazoned in advertising and film, deeply tied to modern notions of glamour and sex appeal. It is hard to find a photo of Humphrey Bogart or ……続きを見る
‘Fascinating … so enlightening that suddenly maths doesn’t seem so fearsome as it once did’ SIMON WINCHESTER
From Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forev……続きを見る
The #1 New York Times Bestseller * Named one of Variety's Best Music Books of 2021 * Included in Audible's Best of The Year list * A Business Insider Best Memoirs of 2021 * One of NME's Best Music B……続きを見る
'I am inclined to think that we want new forms . . . as well as thoughts', confessed Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning in 1845. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry provides a closely-read app……続きを見る
Men, money, duelling and murder: welcome to the infamous Derby race of 1844 and the gambling mania that gripped early 19th century Britain.
This is a tale of money, gambling and sporting obsession; ……続きを見る
著者:Barry Crosbie
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
This is an innovative study of the role of Ireland and the Irish in the British Empire which examines the intellectual, cultural and political interconnections between nineteenth-century British imp……続きを見る
Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth century came not from intentional poisoning, but from……続きを見る
Making peace in Northern Ireland was the greatest success of the Blair government, and one of the greatest achievements in British politics since the Second World War. In Jonathan Powell's masterly ……続きを見る
1949 entstanden aus dem Deutschen Reich zwei Republiken. Der tiefste Einschnitt in unserer Geschichte führte uns hart an eine Stunde Null. Für vier Jahrzehnte war die Teilung Deutschlands und Europa……続きを見る