电子书

Know yourself — that’s great advice, but how do we get there? In a lively conversation about the meaning of life, three characters explore a wide range of concepts, including friendship and love, …

Hing Hing Ming reviews some of the major episodes of the Han Dynasty, from its founding by Liu Bang to the Lue Clan Disturbance and subsequent diplomatic overtures and military campaigns against the …

Burma is a resource-rich country in transition: from monarchy to British colony, from independence to military dictatorships, and from the Generals to the Lady, Aung San Suu Kyi.This book traces one …

Inequality seems to be the only topic under discussion today. But what do we actually mean by equality, and what did the American Founders have in mind? This work is a history of ideas and at the …

Contrary to its image as a heroic "party of the people, " the Democrats have simply evolved from a racist party sustaining slavery and oppressing African-Americans in the Jim Crow South to …

In a compact book built on quotes from primary sources, Schnehen shows that Khrushchev essentially pulled off a coup, eliminating Stalin and then Beria. This opened the future to a radical rejection …

A 747-400 captain warns about the drive toward fully-automated passenger flights in the light of recent accidents. While he identifies many invaluable ways that instrumentation and automation have …

Major Middle East nations are looking east, seeking to forge closer ties with the quickly rising Asia. This may represent a new sort of geo-magnetic reversal, as this time the poles flip from West to …

Scholars say they know Egypt’s glorious 18th or Theban Dynasty well, the time of Hatshepsut, the female pharaoh; the great conqueror Thutmose III, who brought the whole of Syria and Palestine under …

Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon is one of the most enduring records of all time. The band tapped into deep roots of philosophy, psychology, religion, mythology, literature, and history, and …