Asian history

This book offers a sweeping yet incisive account of how China has navigated world politics from the late Qing dynasty to the Xi Jinping era.

This book offers a sweeping yet incisive account of how China has navigated world politics from the late Qing dynasty to the Xi Jinping era.

This three-volume work chronicles three decades of the reign of the Mughal Emperor Shahjahan (1628–1658).

This book unpacks the multifaceted ways of living with heritage in contemporary Vietnam.

This book explores multicultural religious interactions in Ancient Central and South Asia.

The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-reform China and Postcolonial Literature, brings post-reform Chinese cultural texts into conversation with postcolonial novels from Africa and Asia to examine the shared experiences of kinship loss as a response to historical trauma, state violence, and socioeconomic dispossession.

The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-reform China and Postcolonial Literature, brings post-reform Chinese cultural texts into conversation with postcolonial novels from Africa and Asia to examine the shared experiences of kinship loss as a response to historical trauma, state violence, and socioeconomic dispossession.

The pyramids stand as Egypt's most iconic monuments, but their story begins long before the first stone was laid.

Wahrend Europa seine Geschichte schrieb, entwickelten sich in Asien Imperien von beispielloser Groe und kultureller Tiefe.

For over fifteen centuries, the Silk Road network connected East and West through overland routes traversing deserts, mountain passes, and steppe grasslands.

Die Seidenstrae war mehr als eine Handelsroute - sie war ein Netzwerk von Wegen, das uber Jahrtausende hinweg Zivilisationen verband, Kulturen pragte und Reiche aufsteigen und fallen lie.

This second edition of Palestinian Activism in Israel deepens the exploration of Bedouin women’s leadership in the Naqab through the intergenerational activist biographies of three women from the Al-Sana lineage.

La diplomacia tiene la palabra condensa mas de cuatro decadas de oficio diplomatico para pensar, sin nostalgia ni complacencia, que significa representar a Chile en un mundo que ya no es el de la Guerra Fria ni el de la globalizacion optimista.

Das Mogul-Reich wird oft auf prunkvolle Palaste und das Taj Mahal reduziert - doch hinter der Fassade stand ein komplexes System aus militarischer Kontrolle, religioser Toleranz und burokratischer Raffinesse.

Die Seidenstrae wird oft auf Karawanen und Luxusguter reduziert - doch archaologische Funde, Reiseberichte und Archive zeigen ein vielschichtiges Netzwerk kulturellen Austauschs.

Uber dreitausend Jahre, Dutzende Dynastien, ein wiederkehrendes Muster: Aufstieg, Blute, Niedergang, Erneuerung.

Chinese dynastic history was not a series of isolated reigns but a continuous evolution of institutional frameworks that shaped governance for three millennia.

In 1984, the president of Glico, a major Japanese candy company, was kidnapped from his home by masked men.

This book explores the rich and ancient tradition of Chinese astronomy, which developed as early as the third millennium BCE and was first documented on oracle bones over 4,000 years ago.

This book unpacks the multifaceted ways of living with heritage in contemporary Vietnam.

The Mughal Empire is remembered for Taj Mahal splendor and Akbar's tolerance, but its real story lies in how provincial governors, revenue collectors, textile merchants, and regional nobles negotiated power across a subcontinent for over three centuries.

This second edition of Palestinian Activism in Israel deepens the exploration of Bedouin women’s leadership in the Naqab through the intergenerational activist biographies of three women from the Al-Sana lineage.

This book examines the contents of libraries of Western individuals and trading companies in the Mediterranean and India between approximately 1600 and 1750.

This book examines the contents of libraries of Western individuals and trading companies in the Mediterranean and India between approximately 1600 and 1750.

This book explores multicultural religious interactions in Ancient Central and South Asia.

This book explores the rich and ancient tradition of Chinese astronomy, which developed as early as the third millennium BCE and was first documented on oracle bones over 4,000 years ago.

Unit 669, Israel's elite Air Force rescue unit, is a top-tier commando force of the IDF and one of the most formidable rescue units in the world. Deployed daily into chaos and danger, its teams rush into combat zones, disaster sites, and special ops deep behind enemy lines.

Whether evacuating wounded soldiers under fire from Gaza or Lebanon, retrieving a downed pilot, or saving a Syrian infant on a humanitarian mission, 669 operates where everything has gone wrong—and when failure is not an option.

Full Throttle is the gripping true story of life inside this legendary unit, told from the front lines by combat paramedic Guy M. Through daring extractions and heart-stopping moments under fire, Guy thrusts the reader, with raw and unflinching honesty, into the relentless world of combat rescue.

Originally published in Hebrew, the book became an instant bestseller and is now a modern classic for young Israelis. Full Throttle offers an intimate, action-packed, look inside one of the world's most distinguished special forces units.

Within these pages are never-before-published accounts of real missions, revealing the sacrifices, moral stakes, and unbreakable brotherhood of those who answer the call when no one else can.