Wat zijn de meest kardinale gebeurtenissen van de eerste twee decennia van de 21e eeuw? Ongetwijfeld de opkomst van China en de dominantie van het neoliberale discours, dat de kredietcrisis ten gevo……続きを見る
**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“It is one of the best narrative histories I’ve read.”
ーThe Wall Street Journal
A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 • One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025 •……続きを見る
A New Yorker Book of the Year 2024
A Ryan Holiday '(Very) Best Book I Read in 2024'
'Excellent' Ian Samson, TLS
'From plans for flying machines to philosophy - the remarkable joy of jotting things d……続きを見る
著者:Allen Pietrobon
出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press
発売日: 2022年10月04日
As the editor of the Saturday Review for more than thirty years, Norman Cousins had a powerful platform from which to help shape American public debate during the height of the Cold War. Under Cousi……続きを見る
著者:Nikolas Broy
出版社: Harvard University Press
発売日: 2025年12月09日
Flourishing Fasts is the first book in any language to explore the history of the Zhaijiao, commonly translated as “vegetarian sects,” that originated in southeastern China during the Ming and Qing ……続きを見る
**“For anyone wanting to find out more about the world we live in . . . there is one simple answer: read Noam Chomsky.” ーThe New Statesman
A sharp indictment of both American foreign policy and the……続きを見る
Este segundo volumen, analiza los dos meses transcurridos entre el triunfo de Salvador Allende en las elecciones presidenciales y su asunción, el 4 de noviembre de 1970, unos de los períodos más álg……続きを見る
Magna Carta is often presented as dusty history, a scroll locked behind glass and spoken of only in classrooms. Politicians call it a symbol, judges dismiss it as repealed, and schools mention it in……続きを見る
Explore the History of England From Start to End...
Are you fascinated by English history?
Are you studying for an exam or just have a passing interest in the subject?
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No es un país más, es el país del siglo XXI. Historia, poder y futuro de China, la nación que redefine el mundo.
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Con una historia milenaria, una cultura deslumbrant……続きを見る
Le Classcompilé n° 80 contient l'intégrale des mémoires du duc de Saint-Simon en 20 volumes.
Le texte source a été contrôlé et corrigé le cas échéant pour cette édition numérique. Les illustrations ……続きを見る
"An important work for anyone interested in warship design, the naval side of World War II in the Mediterranean, or modern Italian history."ーNew York Military Affairs Symposium
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A critical addition to Dante studies that illuminates the poet’s disruptive impact within Italian culture and foregrounds Barolini’s marked contribution to the field.
In Dante’s Multitudes, the newe……続きを見る
著者:John Roberts
出版社: Seaforth Publishing
発売日: 2009年04月16日
This new history of the Royal Navy, published to coincide with the Golden Jubilee of the White Ensign Association, is a full and exciting account of all the many campaigns, operations and deployment……続きを見る
"Condensed yet energetic and substantial history of Chicago. Spinney has a firm sense of historical narrative as well as a keen eye for entertaining and illuminating detail."ー Publishers Weekly
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Ranger - the very word conjures up visions of small, highly trained units executing lightning-fast raids on an unexpecting enemy. It is also synonymous with high esprit de corps and excellence at ar……続きを見る
When American Occupation troops withdrew from Japan did they leave behind a truly independent country? Or did they leave in place a behind the scenes network that determined much of the course of Ja……続きを見る
In both World Wars there arose a pressing need for merchant tonnage both to supplement existing ships but, more importantly, to replace ships that had been sunk by enemy action, and the key to the A……続きを見る
著者:Peter R. Onedera
出版社: University of Guam Press
発売日: 2024年10月05日
A Borrowed Land tells the untold stories of Guam’s Nikkeiーpeople of Japanese descentーbefore, during, and after World War II. As the descendant of an issei, or firstgeneration immigrant, Peter R. O……続きを見る
A SUNDAY TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF 2021
* Shortlisted for the 2021 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year prize
* A critically-acclaimed Sunday Times, Spectator and Independent Book of 2020
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**'To read this book is to understand Afghanistan as it exists today. This haunting memoir traces the unimaginable odyssey of one family whose world has collapsed . . . Poetic, powerful, and unforge……続きを見る
First published in 1968 and 1976, the two volumes of this work still constitute the only authoritative study of the broad geo-political, economic and strategic factors behind the inter-war developme……続きを見る
著者:Sheldon Garon
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2021年05月11日
How has the Japanese government persuaded its citizens to save substantial portions of their incomes? And to care for the elderly within the family? How did the public come to support legalized pros……続きを見る
The story of the 29 fighter pilot aces of the Legion Condor who became aces flying Messerschmitt Bf 109 C-Es, Heinkel He 51s, Henschel Hs 123s, Arado Ar 68 E-1s and Heinkel He 112s during the Spanis……続きを見る
Nicht weniger als ein ganzes Leben erzählt Annett Gröschner mit der Geschichte der Blumenbinderin und Kranfahrerin Hanna Krause - mit einer Wucht und Poesie, wie sie nur dort entstehen können, wo di……続きを見る
著者:James Romm
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2025年05月13日
**A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year
“[E]xcellent . . . a deft and engaging work of history, philosophy and biography . . . a kind of intellectual thriller.” ーBecca Rothfeld, Washington Post
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著者:Robert F Dorr
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2012年12月20日
This book is the story of a majestic bomber of the propeller era flying perilous combat missions against a sleek, nimble warplane of the jet age, the Soviet MiG-15.
A very heavy bomber and a sky gia……続きを見る