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Early Buddhist Metaphysics provides a philosophical account of the major doctrinal shift in the history of early Theravada tradition in India: the transition from the earliest stratum of Buddhist th……続きを見る

An Israeli woman writes about growing up amid war and ancestral trauma and later building a friendship with a Palestinian woman in America. Israeli storyteller Noa Baum grew up in Jerusalem in the s……続きを見る

WINNER OF THE THURBER PRIZE The compelling, inspiring, (often comic) coming-of-age story of Trevor Noah, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. One of……続きを見る

【作者新版序言+新増史證修訂】 《人類大歷史》為什麼能夠在國際暢銷書榜上爆衝？ 原因很簡單，它處理的是歷史的大問題、現代世界的大問題， 而且，它的寫作風格是刻骨銘心的生動。你會愛上它！ ーー戴蒙（Jared D……続きを見る

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accu……続きを見る

The Allied Translator and Interpreter Section was established at Indooroopilly in Brisbane in 1942 with the objectives of gathering military information through:- - interrogation of enemy prisoners ……続きを見る

An account of the infamous 12th SS Panzer Division Hiterjugend, from Operation Goodwood through to the end of the war. Packed with over 150 photographs, maps and diagrams. Formed in 1943 with the ex……続きを見る

Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon……続きを見る

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the world’s most innovative thinkers explores what it means to be human in an age ……続きを見る

The fifth installment of the bestselling Intellectual Devotional series features 365 captivating entries about the most celebrated personalities in history. Like its compulsively readable predecesso……続きを見る

THE ABORIGINES OF NEWFOUNDLAND LECTURE DELIVERED BEFORE THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE AT ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND. BY THE HON. JOSEPH NOAD, Surveyor-General Excerpt Of the various theories advanced on th……続きを見る

An insightful new account, Robert E. Lee delivers a fresh perspective that leads to a greater understanding of one of the most studied and yet enigmatic military figures in American history. General……続きを見る

In this first collection of interviews since the bestselling 9-11, our foremost intellectual activist examines crucial new questions of U.S. foreign policy Timely, urgent, and powerfully elucidating……続きを見る

Providing an extensive introduction to cultural studies in general, regardless of chronological or geographic focus, and presenting provocative, essential readings from Latin American writers of the……続きを見る

For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly unequal. This steady growing apart is often mentioned as a troubling indicator b……続きを見る

O eminente bibliographo e meu prezado amigo Innocencio Francisco da Silva, historiando em breves linhas a vida quasi obscura de Braz Luiz d'Abreu, conclue com estas palavras: Se algum dos nossos rom……続きを見る

British Civilization: A Student's Dictionary is an invaluable reference guide to the British way of life.It explains the often puzzling and confusing terms and phrases used routinely in Britain and ……続きを見る

Perhaps no other Western writer has more deeply probed the bitter struggle in the Muslim world between the forces of religion and law and those of violence and lawlessness as Noah Feldman. His schol……続きを見る

In 9-11, published in November 2001 and arguably the single most influential post 9-11 book, internationally renowned thinker Noam Chomsky bridged the information gap around the World Trade Center a……続きを見る

A brilliant and urgent appraisal of one of the most profound conflicts of our time Even before George W. Bush gained reelection by wooing religiously devout "values voters," it was clear that church……続きを見る

"She took from me the belief that absolute evil exists in this world, and the belief that I was avenging it and fighting against it. For that girl, I embodied absolute evil ... Since then I have bee……続きを見る

A Great Transaction in Land The people of the young Republic of the United States were greatly astonished, in the summer of 1803, to learn that Napoleon Bonaparte, then First Consul of France, had s……続きを見る

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical f……続きを見る

Much of the history of the great American Northwest begins with the story of the 1800s Lewis and Clark expedition. This concise narrative, based on authentic records, follows the group through India……続きを見る

“There are two problems for our species’ survivalーnuclear war and environmental catastrophe, ” says Noam Chomsky in this new book on the two existential threats of our time and their points of inte……続きを見る

The historiography of church-state relations in America and Europe remains a live cultural, religious, and political issue on both sides of the Atlantic. Even more, current political invocations of ……続きを見る

Sakaguchi Ango (1906-1955) was a writer who thrived on iconoclasm and agitation. He remains one of the most creative and stimulating thinkers of twentieth-century Japan. Ango was catapulted into the……続きを見る

Bánó Attila e kötetében - az Árpád-házi királyok uralkodásától az 1848-49-es szabadságharcig tartó időszakból - azokat a nemeseket és főnemeseket mutatja be, akiknek vitézi cselekedeteiről, háborúkb……続きを見る

From World War II until the 1980s, the United States reigned supreme as both the economic and the military leader of the world. The major shifts in global politics that came about with the dismantli……続きを見る

A specific shamanic initiation allowed governing elite or medicine men to communicate with nature deities. Banned by evangelic oppression as a satanic witchcraft, the shamanic ritual became a secret……続きを見る