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A new wordless picture book that renders you speechless.The award-winning father& daughter team, Marije and Ronald Tolman, conquered the world with their fairy-tale like pictures of The Tree House. No

★ 橫跨歐亞非的文明之路，一本看懂「絲綢之路」如何改變世界★ 超過80位國際學者聯手，權威解析古代全球交流網絡★ 地圖×影像×考古×文化，重現人類歷史最壯闊的連結當世界重新思考文化與權力的版圖，「絲綢之路」再次成為理解歷史與未來的關鍵。本書由知名學者Susan Whitfield主編，集結全球八十餘位專家，從草原、山脈、河谷到沙漠與海洋，重建這條橫跨歐亞非的古代交流網絡。商品、信仰、科技與思想在此流動，促成文明的碰撞與融合。透過精緻地圖、豐富影像與考古發現，本書不僅呈現歷史，更帶領讀者看見文化如何在差異之中綻放。這不只是過去的故事，更是理解當代世界的重要線索。As world powers realign their cultural, economic and political outlooks, there is no better time to consider how Afro-Eurasia's complex network of ancient trade routes - which spanned the vastness of the steppe, vertiginous mountain ranges, fertile river plains and forbidding deserts across the continents and on to the seas beyond - fostered economic activity and cultural, political and technological communication. From silk to slaves, fashion to music, religion to science the movement of interaction of goods, people and ideas was crucial to the flourishing of peoples and their cultures across this vast region. Edited by Susan Whitfield, an established authority on the subject, with contributions from over 8

Longlisted in UKLA Book Award! An unlikely friendship between Miss Bandari and Mr Magarmach forms when the pair meet under the great plum tree, deep in the heart of India. Mr Magarmach is old and his

All across the Americas, from the sixteenth century onwards, enslaved Africans escaped their captors and struck out on their own. These runaways established their own communities or joined with indige

Meeting Place: Encounters across Cultures in Hong Kong, 1841–1984 presents detailed empirical studies of day-to-day interactions between people of different cultures in a variety of settings. The broa

This groundbreaking volume critically examines how writers in Japanese-occupied northeast China negotiated political and artistic freedom while engaging their craft amidst an increasing atmosphere of

The period since 1945 has been a transformative era for the fashion industry. Over the course of seventy years, the fashion world has moved from celebrating the craftsmanship of haute couture to revel

Observing that the division between theory and empiricism remains inextricably linked to imperial modernity, manifest at the most basic level in the binary between “the West” and “Asia,” the authors o

During the Mao years, laughter in China was serious business. Simultaneously an outlet for frustrations and grievances, a vehicle for socialist education, and an object of official study, laughter bro

This book provides a methodological understanding of the theoretical and technical limitations to the longevity of Moore’s law. The book presents research on factors that have significant impact on th

Stunning photographs of Soviet Metro Stations from across the former states of the USSR and Russia itself, many of which have never previously been documented For us, said Nikita Khrushchev in his memoirs, ‘there was something supernatural about the Metro’. Visiting any of the dozen or so Metro networks built across the Soviet Union between the 1930s and 1980s, it is easy to see why. Rather than the straightforward systems of London, Paris or New York, these networks were used as a propaganda artwork – a fusion of sculpture, architecture and art, combining Byzantine, medieval, baroque and Constructivist ideas and infusing them with the notion that Communism would mean a ‘communal luxury’ for all. Today these astonishing spaces remain the closest realisation of a Soviet utopia.Following his best-selling quest for Soviet Bus Stops, Christopher Herwig has completed a subterranean expedition – photographing the stations of each Metro network of the former USSR. From extreme marble and chan

Mrs Blackhat returns in this hilarious rhyming picture book from the creator of the bestselling Kipper series. Perfect for Halloween!Mrs Blackhat has a new broom. And it's not just any broom: it's a w

Prominent Iraqi-American artist-provocateur Michael Rakowitz invites forty acclaimed chefs and food writers to create mouthwatering savoury and sweet dishes using date syrup Date syrup has been centr

Are you a fan of the Monstera plant? Beautiful photography? Or a man who loves to garden? Then this is the book for you. Based on the phenomenally successful Instagram account of the same name, Boys w

The pricing of goods, services, intangible property and financial instruments within a multi-divisional organization, particularly in regard to cross-border transactions, has emerged as one of the mos

A unique insight into the design of hand-made Soviet prison playing cards and their link to the Russian criminal underworld. This book reveals the importance of playing cards in Russian criminal cultu

A collection of previously unpublished postcards from the former Eastern Bloc – sinister, funny, poignant and surreal, they depict the social and architectural values of the period. Brutal concrete

Manny and Brigitta Davidson are a remarkable couple. Their parents, emigrés from Latvia and from Nazi-occupied Poland, strove to keep their heads above water and give their children a future in which

Mama just can’t get her five playful little monkeys to go to bed! Press the button on every page to sing along with this musical version of the favourite countdown rhyme!

Many people would love to search for truth in the Bible but are intimidated by its size, or the length of time its story spans, or the distance between our day and the cultural settings of the biblica

Wave Propagation Analysis of Smart Nanostructures presents a mathematical framework for the wave propagation problem of small scale nanobeams and nanoplates manufactured from various materials includi

This book discusses 'tribological interface' that consists of two solid surfaces in contact with or without fluids in between. This book is written for engineering researchers and design engineers as

The 2018 exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future, introduced the general public to the abstract mystical masterpieces of Swedish painter Hilma af Kli

This book introduces a unique, new dataset on welfare state reforms in the UK, Denmark, Finland, France and Germany from 1974 to 2014. Using a variety of welfare state types in Europe, the authors hav