Before the jungle reclaimed its towers and explorers called it "e;lost,"e; there was a civilization that transformed water into empire and faith into stone.
Volume One: A Reader's Guide to China's Cultural RevolutionLong DescriptionBefore entering the world of the Cultural Revolution, readers first need a map.
The Visayas: The Heart of the Philippines is a work of narrative nonfiction that moves through seventeen distinct places in the Philippine Visayas — six major islands and a constellation of smaller ones — in search of what this long-overlooked region is and what it has been.
Angkor: The Sacred Empire of the Khmers invites readers on an extraordinary journey through one of the world's greatest civilizations — the Khmer Empire.
A beautifully illustrated, interdisciplinary look at the ceremonies and protocols of the dynastic court of Joseon KoreaRecording State Rites in Words and Images provides an engaging and in-depth exploration of the large corpus of court statutes compiled during the Joseon dynasty of Korea.
If the history of the Eastern Han dynasty were limited to the accomplishments of its scholars, scientists, and inventors, it would be a glorious saga of the innovation and creativity of the human mind.
Was passiert, wenn ein verheerendes Erdbeben genau zu dem Zeitpunkt eine Metropole trifft, an dem Millionen Menschen offene Holzkohlefeuer entzunden, um ihr Mittagessen zu kochen?
Als im Jahr 1833 das erste Schiff mit neuenglischem Natureis im Hafen von Kalkutta einlief, stand eine Menge britischer Kolonialbeamter am Kai - nicht aus Neugier, sondern aus Durst nach dem, was ihnen ein ertraglicheres Leben in der Tropen versprach.
From the indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, deeply moving memoir about growing up dual-heritage, Korean food, losing her Korean mother, and forging her own identity.
For thirty years the war in Vietnam consumed everything it touched: a French empire, an American presidency and then another, three million Vietnamese lives by the highest estimates, and 58,220 American ones — along with America's certainty about itself.
**A Financial Times Best Summer Book of 2025 **'A brave and magnificent book, and a vital intervention: as elegant as it is witty, as erudite as it is wise, and as stylish as it is scholarly.
The New Book of Tang (Xin Tang Shu) is a dynastic history of the Tang dynasty compiled by Song Qi and Ouyang Xiu under imperial commission during the Northern Song dynasty.
Todo aquel que quiera comprender el decidido resurgimiento de China como potencia mundial señera en los últimos años no puede soslayar la contribución que para ello ha supuesto el hecho de que el inmenso país asiático haya vuelto a abrazar el confucianismo una vez dejado atrás el relativamente breve período maoísta.
Pocas figuras del Lejano Oriente tan atractivas para el imaginario occidental (y descontando, por supuesto, el propio de Japón) como la del samurái, temible guerrero imbuido de una mística especial y provisto de una exótica indumentaria y un armamento deslumbrante.
Para un país como Argentina y un continente como América Latina y el Caribe lacerados por la pobreza y la desigualdad, ver cómo un país sacó del hambre a 800 millones de personas y dejó atrás la indigencia en pocos años asombra y esperanza.
FROM GNOSIOLOGY TO WAḤDAT AL-SHUHŪD: The Anthropology of Mystical Knowing in Islam examines how knowledge is understood within the Islamic intellectual tradition.
Fire, Earth, and the Silent Sky: The Untold War for Central Asia When Alexander the Great crossed the Hindu Kush in the depths of winter, he believed he was completing the conquest of an empire.
In a world torn between information overload and spiritual emptiness, Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas and the Future of Metaphysical Thought offers a luminous path toward intellectual clarity and moral renewal.
Step into the Stream of Sacred Feminine PowerOshun: Goddess of Love and Waters offers a powerful exploration of this cherished deity's myth, magic, and meaning across cultures and traditions.
The remarkable story of Swiss aid worker Kathi Zellweger, whose history of engagement with a secretive, isolated North Korea over nearly three decades is unprecedented in its scope, access, and humanitarian impact.
