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Traveling to the Xianwu Ming Dynasty, Lin Yuan became the first minister of the dynasty and the most powerful minister under the Hongwu Emperor! Everyone said that he was stealing power and was a huge beetle in the country. Little did he know that Lin Yuan was equipped with the [Destiny System], which allowed him to understand the destiny of all things and reversibly disrupt the destiny! The magical power of the palm can be used to "see fire through a hole" to observe the destiny and luck; to determine the order of life and death by "speaking the law"; to "swallow the sky and swallow luck" to control the power of mountains and rivers thousands of miles away; to control people's hearts invisibly by "seeding demons from the soul"! There is also a supreme skill called "Human Emperor's Qi Refining Technique", which can use the dynasty's destiny as fuel to refine one's body and perform the act of changing one's fate against the will of heaven! ... Lin Yuan secretly fed the fate of the "python bird" with his machinations and the destiny of the dynasty, spying on the supreme "true dragon". Zhu Yuanzhang wants to use the fate of the Ming Dynasty to build the supreme immortal and martial dynasty? Xu Da, Lan Yu and other famous generals have cultivated themselves to reach heaven? ... In this turbulent era of immortal martial arts, Lin Yuan, who was in charge of the system, looked down at the thousands of miles of mountains and rivers with cold eyes. "Your Majesty, it's time to replace your throne." "My lords, with your extraordinary cultivation, you will also provide me with a wedding dress!" ... Let's see how this generation of "treacherous prime minister" who is destined to do so in this magnificent Ming Dynasty can do what a python swallows a dragon and steal the country and become the emperor!

Traveling through the Tang Dynasty, Qin Ming ended his two lives as a single mother and entered into marriage with an ordinary girl. I thought I would live a carefree life in which men farmed and women weaved for the rest of my life. Unexpectedly, less than a year after the child was born, the child's mother ran away. Ever since, Qin Ming has lived the life of a nanny. Fortunately, the system awakens at this time, and as long as you take care of the children, you can get the nanny points. There are only zero and countless draws! "Congratulations on getting the Qilin bloodline--" "Congratulations on winning the Tiger Talisman--" "Congratulations-" ... This day. Lao Li from next door suddenly came to the door: Son-in-law, I show my cards, I am the emperor! Qin Ming: Lao Li, I also have a showdown, I am also the emperor! Li Er:? ? ? ? ?

Contemporary social animals travel through the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Good news: I am the emperor. Bad news: It is Liu Xie, the Han Xian Emperor, who was chosen by heaven for four hundred years to be the king of subjugation and the king of inaction! At this moment, the throne became a burden. In these troubled times when heroes (rebels) divide their power and wars are raging, no matter who is the final winner, they will not let me, the "Xiandi", go. Han Zuo is with me, how can I be controlled by others! So in the first year of Jian'an, Liu Xie was forced to become the biggest gambler in the Three Kingdoms. With only the false position of "Emperor", he left Luoyang, the remaining capital, just for a chance of survival...

When the modern soul fell into the abyss of the late Northern Wei Dynasty, Er Zhuzhao brought not only the instinct of survival, but also the fire of change. Seeing starvation all over the place and the corruption of the government, he knew that just assisting a tycoon was not enough. What he wants to do is to change this era! "Brother Rong, looting alone cannot last long. We need the support of the people and more advanced systems and technologies." From improving iron smelting technology to promoting new crops; from establishing an efficient intelligence network to reforming military organization. Er Zhuzhao implemented reforms as a counselor. He balances his relationship with Er Zhurong, making friends with his confidante and his dead brother. Use Gao Huan Hou Jing to promote his own ideas and fight against the white-robed military god Chen Qingzhi. This is a lonely and dangerous game. Can he use his wisdom beyond the times to illuminate a glimmer of light in this dark and troubled world, and finally take charge of the chess game in this troubled world? [The author has completed millions of works, and the pursuit of more is guaranteed]

The reason why Qin Shihuang is the ancestral dragon is because he fought for six generations and was the only one to destroy the six kingdoms. He vigorously pursued strategies to control the inner world, built the Great Wall and guarded the fence, and laid the foundation of China for all generations. The reason why Emperor Qin Yuan was called Zhulong was because he corrected the bad government of his predecessors, blocked three-thirds of the Qin Dynasty, inspired hundreds of schools to create a prosperous age, organized his troops and horses to destroy the Western Qiang, and fulfilled the dream of the Qin Dynasty for hundreds of generations. This book is also called: Qin Shou Changsheng

"The country was destroyed by its weakness, but the Han Dynasty was destroyed by its strength." Why? Was it the hundreds of years of war between Han and Qiang that exhausted the last vestige of the empire's vitality? Is it because the foreign relatives and eunuchs took turns to fight against each other, resulting in the weakening of the imperial line and the intensification of conflicts between monarch and ministers, which can no longer be reconciled? Is it because after Dong Zhuo's chaos, the imperial power weakened and local ambitions grew, causing the central authority to be completely lost? Or... A soul from later generations travels through the body of Cui Zhouping in his youth. He will use his own way to witness the wave of this era... Han Dynasty, the sixth year of Zhongping (189 AD) At the beginning of He Jin's funeral, Dong Zhuo had not really entered the capital. Cui Zhouping, who was the general of the army, was in charge of more than a thousand tigers and was stationed in the palace. There was still much to be done. He should draw his sword and rise up: "In this life, when there is trouble, a man should act according to the times. How can he live in depression for a long time? He can't eat five pots in life, and he will be cooked in five pots in death!"

1883, the western frontier of blood and fire. The Dutton family embarks on a journey to the west: veteran James protects his family, rebellious daughter Elsa pursues freedom, and precocious boy Tom tames the powerful horse "Loach" and struggles to survive amidst gang robberies and desperation in the wilderness. Using caravans as shields and lever rifles as spears, they practiced the iron-blooded law among the gallows-lined towns and vast grasslands - either tame the wilderness or be swallowed by it.

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Jia Huan traveled through Rongguo Mansion and became the concubine of the Jia family. I thought I had traveled through the world of Red Mansions. But when he heard the commander of the Imperial City Department Gu Qianfan, the second young master of Ningyuan Marquis Gu Tingye, and the emperor's adopted son named Ling Buyi. He knows that this world is not simple! As a concubine of the Jia family and with a low status, Jia Huan could only find a way out by joining the army! Fortunately, the most powerful sign-in system has been awakened, and the starting reward is three thousand tiger and leopard riders, inheriting the courage of the overlord! On his first expedition, he defeated the Khitan army of 200,000 men, killed the Khitan emperor, and was awarded the title of Champion! During the second expedition, he regained the sixteen states of Yanyun, opened up new territories, and became the only king of the opposite sex canonized after the founding of the Wei Dynasty. From then on, he pushed forward all the way, conquering the Tatars in the east, conquering the Moros in the west, pacifying the Yiyue in the south, and destroying the Khitans in the north! He fought countless battles in his life, until he became the king and became powerful! Not only that, but there are also beauties such as Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochai, Qin Keqing, Sheng Minglan, Zhao Paner, etc. (In the world of fusion, the novel combines the plots of Red Mansions, Menghualu, and Do You Know.)

This book is the final result of the National Key Archives Protection and Development Project of the State Archives Administration - "Old Photos of Ningxia" (Project No.: 46400120160013). This project was established by the State Archives Administration, and the Ningxia Archives authorized the Ningxia Academy of Social Sciences to implement it. Members of the research team collected more than 3,000 historical photos of Ningxia from a large number of historical documents, archives and private collections, and carefully selected nearly 500 photos with clear copyrights for editing. It highly condenses the social history of Ningxia in a specific period, contains a large amount of information, and enables people to have a concrete and intuitive understanding of the social history of Ningxia in the past. The photo data collected in "Ningxia Old Photos" date from the late Qing Dynasty to September 1958 before the establishment of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. The collected photos bear witness to the history before the establishment of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, record the vicissitudes of Ningxia's history, and also reflect Ningxia's unique social, cultural, historical connotation and aesthetic significance. It has intuitive image literature research value and also fills the gap in Ningxia local literature research.

Unlike most other biographies of Marie Antoinette, the author of this book, Caroline Weber, takes a unique approach. From the perspective of clothing politics, she traces Marie's life journey from the time she set foot on French soil at the age of 14 until she was executed by revolutionaries at the age of 38. At the same time, she also retells the background and process of the outbreak of the French Revolution from this unique perspective. In the author's opinion, due to the inheritance of royal heirs, France's suspicion of Austria, and France's internal political struggles, Mary was lonely and helpless. In such a context, clothing, headdresses, and jewelry, which represent fashion, became symbols of Mary's display and even her ability to seize power. Therefore, she not only led the fashion of France at that time, but also impacted the conservative backwardness in clothing and even etiquette in France and even Europe at that time. However, her pursuit of fashion was expensive, and coupled with her status as an "Austrian girl", her pursuit of fashion made her the target of public criticism, and ultimately led to her tragic ending.

Mystras is one of the most legendary and beautiful cities located in Greece. In the last two centuries of the Byzantine Empire, it gradually developed and prospered, becoming the center of academic, artistic and even European cultural development. It has the essence of Byzantine architecture and mural art, and is the intersection of the classical world and the medieval world in "Faust". Today, however, Mystras is a lost city, overlooked by historians in the Byzantine rush. In one of the rare historical works centered on Mystras, Sir Steven Runciman recounts the past of this great city and relives the twilight glory of the Byzantine Empire.

In 1965, during the construction of a highway connecting the historical city of Samarkand and Tajikistan, the ruins known as the "Afrasiab Mural" resurfaced. Although it was partially damaged, it is still a very interesting masterpiece of traditional Sogdian painting. With the insight of a historian and the sensitivity of an iconographer, the Italian scholar Dr. Comatei narrated the history of the Sogdian region from multiple levels and angles by focusing on the frescoes of the "Ambassador's Hall" in Room 1 of the Afrasiab site, and sketched a panoramic picture of the cultural diversity of Central Asia.

Open this book and you will embark on a journey of debauchery that you have never imagined. The dark stories behind exquisite Renaissance works of art will definitely make your jaw drop. The book lifts the veil of excessive loftiness and divine glory, and examines the most naked aspect of the artist's daily life, and how the field he lives in mixes elegance and violence, culture and suffering; how the tension and resentment between rulers, bankers and the church became an indispensable part of the Renaissance; how irrational and prejudiced the people of the Renaissance were towards the world outside Italy.

If you're a fan of Game of Thrones or The Tudors, Dan Jones's brilliant, gripping medieval history is right up your alley. "The Empty Crown" is another magnificent epic written by British historian Dan Jones after "The Plantagenets". This book describes how the Plantagenet dynasty, which had the longest reign in England, fell apart and was replaced by the Tudors. Shakespeare's world is truly revealed in this book.

In the 1880s, as European powers carved up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized the vast land around the Congo River. He carried out genocidal plunder and oppression in the Congo. At the same time, he established himself as a great humanitarian. Hochschild used a large number of original sources when writing this book: memoirs of explorers, steamship captains and soldiers, missionary records, government investigation reports, etc. Although few African voices appear in the book, as the author puts it, "their activities and voices can still be seen and heard, although filtered by the records of their conquerors."

This book is the last volume of the "Byzantine Trilogy" and the climax of this grand epic. This volume continues the history of Alexius Comnenos' accession to the throne in 1081. Thereafter, the Fourth Crusade, led by the blind octogenarian and extremely cunning Doge of Venice, Enrique Dandolo, brought great disaster to Constantinople. The later years of the Byzantine era were filled with sorrow and they were embroiled in painful and long battles with the Ottoman Sultan. In 1453, this thousand-year empire that once spanned Europe, Asia, and Africa was wiped out with the fall of Constantinople and the death of the last emperor, Constantine XI.

In 1925, in order to cope with the increasingly fierce international competition and protect their commercial interests, six of Germany's most important chemical companies united and jointly established the Dyestuff Industry Common Interest Alliance, also known as IG Farben. Twenty years later, the senior managers of this giant company were brought to the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, because it was with their help that the unrealistic fantasies proposed by Hitler in "Mein Kampf" were finally realized. This military-industrial complex possessed the most advanced science and technology in the world at the time, but why did it turn into a man-eating beast in Hitler's hands, directly participating in the Holocaust and committing various crimes? Through extensive interviews and research, Diarmid Jeffries restored for us the little-known dark history of Farben Industries in Nazi Germany in the book "Hell's Cartel".

For hundreds of years, Venice created a maritime commercial empire in the eastern Mediterranean, while the Turks gradually encroached on the territory of this maritime giant through their powerful land and sea power. "City of Fortune" presents a brief history of the Republic of Venice, focusing on its diplomacy and wars in the Mediterranean world. Especially its unique role in the "Fourth Crusade" and as a shield of Christendom against the Ottoman Empire. Drawing on first-hand accounts of crusaders, captains and merchants, as well as extensive national archives, this work is a saga of commerce and empire, navigation and piracy.

This book is the second volume of the "Byzantine Trilogy". Starting in 800 AD when Pope Leo III gave the crown and the title of Roman Emperor to Charlemagne, in less than 300 years, the Byzantine Empire continued to experience domestic political and religious turmoil, as well as harassment from foreign races such as the Goths, Bulgars, and Saracens. During the reign of Basil II, the "Butcher of Bulgaria", the empire reached its peak, but was defeated by the Turks at the Battle of Manzikert in 1071 and began to decline. However, at the end of this volume, a heroic savior is welcomed - Alexius Komnenos, who will once again save the empire in crisis.

In the summer of 1776, Washington's Continental Army suffered a desperate defeat in the face of the British Empire's unprecedentedly powerful maritime invasion and had to withdraw from New York. At the same time, Washington's talented general Benedict Arnold blocked the British advance with a miraculous victory on the US-Canada border, saving the newborn United States from destruction. But in 1780, this capable general of the Continental Army lost his belief in the cause of the American Revolution and defected to the British army. This made him a major stain in the history of the American Revolutionary War. By combining detailed historical documents with meticulous geographical investigation, Nathaniel Philbrick restored Benedict Arnold's life journey from a famous general to a traitor, and unfolded an epic of the North American Revolutionary War written by ordinary people rather than sages and heroes.

Based on interviews with survivors and their families, as well as numerous memoirs, letters, manuscripts, and archives, this book recreates the heroic and courageous resistance of those brave French women against the German occupation during World War II, as well as their epic efforts to survive the Auschwitz concentration camp. The book is divided into two parts, with a total of fifteen chapters. The first part narrates the experiences of French women who took active actions in the resistance movement, were unfortunately arrested, and were imprisoned in French prisons. The second part begins when the arrested women were escorted from French prisons to the Auschwitz concentration camp on the "31,000 train". It details their struggle to survive in the concentration camp, where they were always threatened by death, and how they returned home and worked hard to live after the war.

The academic symposium "Searching for the Sails: The Maritime Silk Road from the Perspective of Cultural Heritage" was jointly organized by the China Maritime Museum in Shanghai, Shanghai Normal University, the Maritime History and Culture Research Committee of the Chinese Maritime Society, and the Maritime Museum Professional Committee of the Chinese Museum Association. It was held on October 17-18, 2020 at Held in Shanghai, it further explains the history and culture of the "Maritime Silk Road" from the perspective of cultural heritage from many perspectives such as "Maritime Silk Road" artifacts and archeology, "Maritime Silk Road" trade and institutions, "Maritime Silk Road" routes and documents, "Maritime Silk Road" culture and society, etc., And promotes cooperation and exchanges in related research fields. This collection of papers is composed of selected papers from the conference.

The research on the "Maritime Silk Road" includes two main parts. One is the study of the Maritime Silk Road (i. E., The maritime connections between China and various regions outside China), and the other is the study of the social, economic, and cultural conditions of the countries and regions along the route (i. E., Countries and regions other than China but related to the Maritime Silk Road). This book is a collection of essays on the Maritime Silk Road, covering a wide time and geographical area, with topics related to overseas trade, geopolitics, etc. It shows a global historical perspective and provides a model for the new research field of "Maritime Silk Road" research.

"Beijing Historiography" is an academic journal edited by the History Institute of the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences. This collection has 5 columns including historical research, political exploration, social economy, academic field, and appendices, and contains 16 papers on cultural relics, political ecology, disaster relief, public security prevention and control, and agricultural development. The entire collection not only conducts in-depth discussions on historical sites and events, but also sorts out academic achievements, striving to more comprehensively display the historical features of the ancient capital Beijing.

For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated the front pages of newspapers in the United States and around the world, and international volunteers flocked to Spain to help its democratic government fight a right-wing coup initiated by Francisco Franco and assisted by Hitler and Mussolini. This was an extremely brutal war that can be regarded to a large extent as the opening battle of World War II, but it was quickly overshadowed by the latter. The author of this book, Adam Hochschild, presents many important figures in the Spanish Civil War, including Hemingway and Orwell, and weaves their fascinating stories together to fully reveal the tragedy and importance of this war.

"Arab Studies Series" is a collection of Arab studies sponsored by the Arab Studies Center of Beijing International Studies University, the regional and national research base of the Ministry of Education. The content focuses on the politics, economy, society, culture and diplomacy of Arab countries. Based on the Arab Studies Forum, this journal selects academic papers published by scholars at the forum and compiles them into a volume to benefit the accumulation of domestic Arab studies. This book is the 11th issue and is divided into two columns: country and regional focus, and Arabic language and literature.

Lighthouses, which once stood in the foreground of American history as sentinels of the coastline, are now an integral part of the coastal landscape and have left a romantic mark on people's memories. Through the prism of lighthouses, Eric J. Dolin presents us with a fascinating piece of American history, starting with the Boston Lighthouse, America's first lighthouse. With the gradual growth of the United States as the background, he traced the days when the lighthouse system was first created, highlighting the political, economic, military and technological struggles people carried out to illuminate the country's barren coastline, and ultimately showed the game and final reconciliation between man and nature.

"Qing History Series" is sponsored by the Qing History Research Office of the Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. It is a collection of academic papers on Qing history research at home and abroad. It was founded in 1979. This collection has wide influence at home and abroad, and is highly valued by the academic community. Its important features are concentrated research, rigorous academic style, and grasp of academic frontiers. The articles included in the book include both research articles on the critical history of the Qing Dynasty and research articles on the academic history of the Qing Dynasty. It includes both erudite Hongci research on the traditional culture of the Qing Dynasty and articles on the exchange of local Chinese and Western cultures in the Qing Dynasty.

Dennis Senor (1916-2011) was a leading scholar in the study of European, American and Inner Asian languages ​​and history in the second half of the 20th century. His influence continues to this day, and he is still the target of several generations of scholars in the same field to catch up. This book selects 20 papers on the history of Inner Asia written in English recommended by Seno and translates them into Chinese, which can slightly reflect the breadth and depth of his research in the field of Inner Asia history. At the back of the book, there is also a table of contents compiled by Seno himself.

In recent years, oral archives have received more and more attention from academia and archives departments. They have not only become an important source of current archives, but their indispensable importance has gradually become apparent. Through field investigation and personal participation in the collection of oral archives of ethnic minorities in Yunnan, this book analyzes and summarizes the needs and current situation, goals and measures, norms and methods of collecting oral archives of ethnic minorities in Yunnan, and discusses the collection methods of oral archives of ethnic minorities in Yunnan.

"Qing History Series" is sponsored by the Qing History Research Office of the Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. It is a collection of academic papers on Qing history research at home and abroad. It was founded in 1979. This collection has wide influence at home and abroad, and is highly valued by the academic community. Its important features are concentrated research, rigorous academic style, and grasp of academic frontiers. The articles included in the book include both research articles on the critical history of the Qing Dynasty and research articles on the academic history of the Qing Dynasty. It includes both erudite Hongci research on the traditional culture of the Qing Dynasty and articles on the exchange of local Chinese and Western cultures in the Qing Dynasty.

Few things capture the sheer danger and desperation of a man in the deep like whaling. Eric Dolin begins his vivid account of Captain John Smith's failed whaling adventure in the New World in 1614. Subsequently, we will witness the rapid rise of an industry: from the brutal struggles of the American Revolution to the golden age of the mid-19th century, when a fleet of more than 700 whaling ships crisscrossed the oceans, and American whale oil illuminated the world. Eventually, it declined rapidly when the 20th century came. Looking back at the successes and travails of this great industry, and rich with true stories of whales and whalers, Leviathan tells the most original and exciting history of American whaling in decades.

Suleiman the Magnificent, one of the most powerful rulers of the sixteenth century, was determined to conquer Europe. Standing in the way of his journey is an island in the Mediterranean called Malta - where the Knights Hospitallers dominate. Determined to seize the island of Malta and use its port to attack the European continent, Suleiman sent nearly 200 ships and no less than 30,000 land troops. The defenders numbered only 8,000 men and suffered terribly at various forts on the island, but were determined to fight to the last man. The siege, which the Turks expected to last only a few weeks, intensified as the Knights and Maltese held out. Earnley Bradford's richly documented and gripping book chronicles not just an epic battle, but a collision of civilizations unprecedented since the Persian invasion of Greece.

Su Huai traveled through the mythical Three Kingdoms. When he was down and out, he turned on his talent for farming and became a nouveau riche. He originally wanted to keep growing, but the world was ruined and warlords separated him. As a last resort, he had no choice but to seek refuge with Liu Bei, then Prime Minister of Pingyuan, to help him sweep away the troubled times. However, with more and more land at his disposal, what happened next was beyond Su Huai's expectation. Not only was the food and grass enough to enrich the world, but it also expanded into different varieties. From [ordinary corn seeds] to [evolutionary improved corn varieties], from [edible steamed buns that fill the stomach] to [high-quality mutton that builds muscle and strengthens the body], from [fruits and vegetables that keep Qi and blood full] to [rice soup that relieves acute illnesses]... Ever since, when Su Huai decided to lend food to the impoverished When the princes were talking, Liu Bei couldn't bear it anymore and stopped him: "Military advisor, I think it's better to forget it." "Why, my lord, this is a great opportunity to promote your name of benevolence and righteousness." "... Well, Cao Mengde has become extremely ill because he ate the food you grew a while ago."

The discovery of a passage around the Horn of Africa to India was a great breakthrough in the history of navigation, but it also heralded a complete disruption of the world order. Over the next century, no European empire was more ambitious than Portugal, and no monarch was more predatory than the Portuguese kings. In the process, they created the first long-range seafaring empire, unleashing the globalizing forces that now shape our world. Through Crowley's pen, the full story of the Portuguese Empire and the human cost of its ambitions is finally told.

This book is a collection of papers published by some participating scholars at the "Research on World History in the Age of Great Change" academic symposium held by the Institute of World History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Shanghai in 2020, as well as several articles and interviews on related topics. The book is divided into seven parts: environmental history, social and cultural history, diplomatic history, special discussions, interviews, lecture records and research reviews. The content covers the political history, economic history, diplomatic history, social and cultural history of Europe and America and other fields.

What were ancient civilizations like? The emergence of cities, the invention of iron, the rise of Greece, the return of kings, the power of the republic, the highlighting of human nature... This book is a brief history of ancient Western civilization. It is another historical narrative about the ancient Western world before the formation of the Roman Empire after Richard Myers' famous book "Carthage Must Be Destroyed." Through archaeological excavation and historical data crawling, Richard Myers attempts to travel to that distant past and lead readers to explore the origins of Western civilization. He begins in Mesopotamia and continues to the fall of the Roman Empire.

"Ice Kingdom" vividly tells the thrilling story of the famous "Janet" polar expedition in the late 19th century. The author was fortunate enough to obtain the personal letters and navigation logs left by the parties involved, and restored the thrilling historical scenes as much as possible, showing the personality and state of mind of each expedition member. In addition, through the media's competition and exaggeration for exclusive news, the imperialist expansion hidden behind the expedition, and the increasingly breakthrough scientific discoveries and technological development described in the book, "The Kingdom of Ice and Snow" paints a fascinating and surprising picture for us at the end of the 19th century. This book won the No. 1 Best History Book on Amazon in the United States in 2014, and won the title of Best Book of the Year by Time Magazine, The Washington Post and many other media.

From 58 BC to 50 BC, Caesar launched a brutal war against Gaul. The main purpose of this war was to achieve great success, but his actions were strongly opposed by the Senate. Under pressure, Caesar, who was good at winning over people's hearts, wrote "Gaul Wars". This literary treasure that has been passed down for two thousand years and that European high school students loved and feared was mainly an elaborate apology to the Roman public. Why can Caesar manipulate readers? Where in the book does it avoid reality and gloss over reality, and where does it make subtle remarks and covertly praise or criticize? Classical literature professor Sauer compared historical facts and deeply analyzed how Caesar's genre selection, perspective transformation, and rhetorical skills cleverly and secretly legitimized his actions, beautified his image, and sublimated his military achievements, thereby winning the support of ancient and modern readers.

Alexander the Great was only 32 years old when he died. At that time, his empire stretched from the Adriatic Sea in the west to today's India in the east. In an unusual compromise, his two heirs, his mentally retarded half-brother Philip III and his posthumous son Alexander IV, shared regency. But Alexander's six Macedonian generals, driven by their own inner lust for power and spurred by the legend that Alexander gave the kingdom "to the strongest," began to compete for supremacy. Perhaps their most visible yet overlooked rival was Eumenes, Alexander's former Greek secretary turned general, who became the deciding factor in the fate of the precarious royal family. James Rohm, professor of classics at Bard College, will use archaeological findings and textual research to reveal the brutal struggle for control of Greece's greatest empire.

In August 1961, hours before the Berlin Wall was to be built, a KGB spy named Stashinsky defected to the West. This triggered a sensational espionage case during the Cold War. Historian Shahili Ploki used Staszynski's trial testimony, the latest declassified documents from the CIA, relevant German and Polish files, interviews and memoirs of KGB officials, and information collected from his own visits to use an academic eye to peel back the details of the espionage case, vividly recreating the secret world of espionage during the Cold War and revealing the complex game between the Eastern and Western camps.

In 2011, the so-called "Arab Spring" swept across the Middle East and North Africa. Initially hailed in the West as a victory for democracy, few expected it would turn into a brutal civil war, the horrific atrocities of the Islamic State and a global refugee crisis. In this work, the complex causes of the great convulsions in the Middle East and North Africa are vividly presented. This investigation examines this broken and turbulent land by showing the life experiences of six ordinary people living here struggling to survive, tracing the current suffering back to the US military's invasion of Iraq in 2003 and even earlier.

Dunhuang has been a metropolis where multi-ethnic economies and cultures blended together since ancient times. Dunhuang culture was jointly created by people of all ethnic groups in ancient times. It is not only the crystallization of their common wisdom, but also the product of cultural exchanges between China and the West. This book is the first general history of the Dunhuang nation at home and abroad, and is also the first academic monograph to comprehensively and systematically discuss the history and culture of the Dunhuang nation. From a certain perspective, it has the significance of filling the gaps. It conducts comprehensive research by combining linguistics, archeology and history to deeply study the nature of the history and culture of the Dunhuang nation, and then deeply explores the historical and cultural relationships between different ethnic groups, focusing on elaborating on the dynamic role of the ancient Dunhuang nation.

"Qinghai Provincial Chronicle·Social Science Chronicle" (1993-2010) is the continuation of "Qinghai Provincial Chronicle·Social Science Chronicle" (from ancient times to 1992). It is also one of the 61 professional chronicles planned to be compiled in the "Qinghai Province Local Chronicle Work Master Plan (2006-2015)". It is compiled by the Qinghai Academy of Social Sciences. This book adheres to the guidance of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, and strives to comprehensively and objectively record the process and achievements of the reform and development of philosophy and social sciences in Qinghai Province from 1993 to 2010. It retains historical materials and documentary information to provide objective and detailed reference materials for promoting the prosperity and development of philosophy and social sciences and building a prosperous, civilized, harmonious and beautiful new Qinghai.

This is a collection of essays that examines the history of ancient Rome from natural science disciplines such as climatology, zoology, botany, and osteology. Walter Scheider, professor of history at Stanford University, brings together seven essays by historians, anthropologists, and geneticists who are at the forefront of the field. Their research results help reconstruct life in the ancient Roman world. They discuss climate change and its impact on the history of ancient Rome; build a biological archive with a rich record of human skeletal material, which preserves important information about health, nutrition, disease, work, and more; and show how ancient DNA can be used to track the spread of infectious diseases and the spread of livestock and crops with people.

Were the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion an authorization for Nazi genocide? Was the German army defeated in World War I because they were "stabbed in the back"? Were the Nazis behind the 1933 Reichstag fire? Did Nazi Deputy Head of State Rudolf Hess fly to Scotland in 1941 to make a "peace proposal" to Britain on behalf of Hitler? Did Hitler die in Berlin in 1945, or did he escape from the bunker and go into exile in South America? In "Hitler in Conspiracy Theories," renowned Third Reich scholar Richard J. Evans explores the above five conspiracy theories involving Hitler and the Nazi Party, dissecting the paranoid imagination associated with the Third Reich. This is a book about imagination, fiction, lies and fallacies. It is also a historical work about "post-truth" and "selective facts".

This is a rare masterpiece that anyone who wants to understand the history of science must read. Through the author's popular yet vivid narrative, we can understand that era when geniuses gathered in droves, understand the connection between science and the modern world, and understand the scientific history of the human world. This is the first time in history that the collective power of the scientific community has been used to find simple mathematical forms that describe the universe. The author believes that the results of their efforts have forever changed the way people view themselves and their status. Combining history and science, this book paints a fascinating portrait of a group of scientists whose answers remain key to our understanding of the world today.

After traveling through time and becoming Zhu Di's fourth son, Zhu Gaojiu felt that the sky was falling because he was born late and was neither as accomplished in the military as Zhu Gaojiu nor as full of party members as Zhu Gaochi. Originally thinking of a stable life, unexpectedly, he awakened to the system of rejuvenating the country through science and education. As long as he develops science and education, he can unlock technology and obtain materials. Seeing this, he decisively wrote to Zhu Di, asking him to control Qiongzhou, develop science and education, and prepare to land in Australia, immigrate to America, and save the country. It took him ten years to finally push the island's technology to the steam age, and he was ready to flex his muscles. Unexpectedly, on this day, Zhu Di suddenly brought everyone to Qiongzhou Island for inspection. Looking at the steam trains, Jenny textile looms, breech-loading rifles, and steam battleships on the island... Zhu Di's sky also fell: "Old Fourth, I asked you to guard Qiongzhou, and you will carry out the industrial revolution?"... At this point, a brand-new Ming Dynasty is rising. The West is still in the Renaissance. The Ming Dynasty has landed in the Americas, and the West has just begun to explore the ocean. Be an emperor? Zhu Gaojie said that internal fighting is too low-level. If you want to be the leader of the global village, let's be the head of the global village!