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  • Brief History of Japan

    Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun

    Series series Brief History of Asia Series
    This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion.First revealed to Westerners in the chronicles of Marco Polo, Japan was a legendary faraway land defended by a fearsome Kamikaze storm and ruled by a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Affluenza

    How Overconsumption Is Killing Us—and How to Fight Back

    A “witty yet hard-hitting” look at the symptoms, causes, and cures for America’s addiction to buying more stuff (Library Journal).NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATEDaffluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.We tried to warn you! The 2008 economic collapse proved how resilient and dangerous ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Adventures of Eddie Fung

    Chinatown Kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of War

    Edited by Judy Yung ...
    Eddie Fung has the distinction of being the only Chinese American soldier to be captured by the Japanese during World War II. He was then put to work on the Burma-Siam railroad, made famous by the film The Bridge on the River Kwai. In this moving and unforgettable memoir, Eddie recalls how he, a second-generation Chinese American born and raised in San Francisco's Chinatown, reinvented himself as ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Living Buddhism

    Mind, Self, and Emotion in a Thai Community

    With a beautiful blend of stories, research, and her own field experience, Julia Cassaniti unlocks the secrets of creating calmness and the power of letting go. Living Buddhism is a must-read for everyone―expert and nonexpert alike―interested in how our cultures shape our emotional lives. — Hazel Markus, Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, coauthor of Social ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

    by Manisha Sinha ...
    A groundbreaking, expansive new account of Reconstruction that fundamentally alters our view of this formative period in American history.We are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant South. That effort failed—and that failure serves as a warning ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Chinese Dance

    In the Vast Land and Beyond

    As China becomes increasingly important in world relations, many components of the country's cultural arts remain unknown outside its borders. Shih-Ming Li Chang and Lynn E. Frederiksen's Chinese Dance: In the Vast Land and Beyond undertakes the challenge of discovering the relationship between Chinese dance in its many forms and the cultural contexts of dance within the region and abroad.As a ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Seven Deadly Sins of White Christian Nationalism

    A Call to Action

    Series series Religion in the Modern World
    Hear the call to overcome today’s culture of hate and bring healing and hope into our life together. While right-wing conservatives dare to call themselves Christians as they tear down equality and justice, commit horrific acts of violence, and fan the flames of fascism in America, Carter Heyward issues a call to action for Christians to truly hear God’s message of peace and love.Heyward shows how ... Read more

    $28.99 USD $21.99 USD

  • Tacit Subjects

    Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men

    Tacit Subjects is a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuality, and power in their daily lives. Drawing on ethnographic research with Dominicans in New York City, Carlos Ulises Decena explains that while the men who shared their life stories with him may self-identify as gay, they are not the liberated figures of traditional gay migration narratives. Decena ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • They Left Great Marks on Me

    African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I

    A study of real accounts of the everyday violence experienced by emancipated African Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Well after slavery was abolished, its legacy of violence left deep wounds on African Americans’ bodies, minds, and lives. For many victims and witnesses of the assaults, rapes, murders, nightrides, lynchings, and other bloody acts that followed, the suffering ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Water for All

    Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia

    Water for All chronicles how Bolivians democratized water access, focusing on the Cochabamba region, which is known for acute water scarcity and explosive water protests. Sarah T. Hines examines conflict and compromises over water from the 1870s to the 2010s, showing how communities of water users increased supply and extended distribution through collective labor and social struggle. Analyzing a ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Violence and Crime in Latin America

    Representations and Politics

    According to media reports, Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world—a distinction it held throughout the twentieth century. The authors of Violence and Crime in Latin America contend that perceptions and representations of violence and crime directly impact such behaviors, creating profound consequences for the political and social fabric of Latin American nations.Written by ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Chinese Civilization

    A Sourcebook

    Edited by Patricia Buckley Ebrey ...
    Chinese Civilization sets the standard for supplementary texts in Chinese history courses. With newly expanded material, personal documents, social records, laws, and documents that historians mistakenly ignore, the sixth edition is even more useful than its classic predecessor. A complete and thorough introduction to Chinese history and culture. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Dear White Friend

    The Realities of Race, the Power of Relationships and Our Path to Equity

    My friend, I do not believe you are a racist.Melvin Gravely eloquently accomplishes what many have undoubtedly wished to do: talk openly to someone we know about race in the United States today. Gravely uses significant experience as a business and civic leader to express a rare balance in this timely message. Dear White Friend is a forthright, collegial conversation via chapters in the form of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Critical Race Theory and Bamboozled

    Series series Film Theory in Practice
    The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of film theory with interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis. The third book in the series, Critical Race Theory and Bamboozled, offers a concise introduction to Critical Race Theory in jargon-free ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Race among Friends

    Exploring Race at a Suburban School

    Series series Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
    Many saw the 2008 election of Barack Obama as a sign that America had moved past the issue of race, that a colorblind society was finally within reach. But as Marianne Modica reveals in Race Among Friends, attempts to be colorblind do not end racism—in fact, ignoring race increases the likelihood that racism will occur in our schools and in society.This intriguing volume focuses on a “racially ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Asian-Cajun Fusion

    Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou

    Series series America's Third Coast Series
    Shrimp is easily America’s favorite seafood, but its very popularity is the wellspring of problems that threaten the shrimp industry’s existence. Asian-Cajun Fusion: Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou provides insightful analysis of this paradox and a detailed, thorough history of the industry in Louisiana.Dried shrimp technology was part of the cultural heritage Pearl River Chinese immigrants ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe

    Complicity and Conscience in America's World War II Concentration Camps

    It is 1942, and World War II is raging. In the months since Pearl Harbor, the US has plunged into the war overseas—and on the home front, it has locked up tens of thousands of innocent Japanese Americans in concentration camps, tearing them from their homes on the West Coast with the ostensible goal of neutralizing a supposed internal threat.At each of these camps the government places a white ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Espanol medico y sociedad

    Un libro para estudiantes de espanol en el tercer ano de estudios (Revised Edition)

    by Alicia Giralt ...
    Espanol medico y sociedad/ Medical Spanish and Society is an innovative textbook that fulfills the needs of upper-division Spanish students who are pursuing degrees in the health professions, plan to become medical interpreters or just want to improve their proficiency in the language. It provides multiple opportunities to learn vocabulary related to the medical field, reviews hard-to-understand ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Widow, The Priest and The Octopus Hunter

    Discovering a Lost Way of Life on a Secluded Japanese Island

    by Amy Chavez ...
    Get to know the inhabitants of a tiny Japanese island--and their unusual stories and secrets--through this fascinating, intimate collection of portraits."This book beautifully describes the residents of tiny Shiraishi Island as well as telling how Amy herself came to be in such a fascinating little corner of Japan…Amy herself, with this book, has shown herself an integral part of this preservation ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Alien Nation

    Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through World War II

    by Elliott Young ...
    Series series The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
    In this sweeping work, Elliott Young traces the pivotal century of Chinese migration to the Americas, beginning with the 1840s at the start of the "coolie" trade and ending during World War II. The Chinese came as laborers, streaming across borders legally and illegally and working jobs few others wanted, from constructing railroads in California to harvesting sugar cane in Cuba. Though nations ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Cane Fires

    The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945

    by Gary Okihiro ...
    Series series Asian American History & Cultu
    Outstanding Book in History and Social Science Award, Association for Asian American Studies, 1992 "Okihiro's account is an important corrective to our understanding of the Japanese American Experience in World War II." --The Hawaiian Journal of History Challenging the prevailing view of Hawaii as a mythical "racial paradise," Gary Okihiro presents this history of a systematic anti-Japanese ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • A Chosen Exile

    A History of Racial Passing in American Life

    by Allyson Hobbs ...
    Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. This revelatory history of passing explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Healing Grounds

    Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming

    by Liz Carlisle ...
    A powerful movement is happening in farming today—farmers are reconnecting with their roots to fight climate change. For one woman, that’s meant learning her tribe’s history to help bring back the buffalo. For another, it’s meant preserving forest purchased by her great-great-uncle, among the first wave of African Americans to buy land. Others are rejecting monoculture to grow corn, beans, and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning

    Building Expressways to Success

    Andratesha Fritzgerald presents Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in a new light: As an effective framework to teach Black and Brown students. Drawing vivid portraits of her classroom instruction in urban over the past two decades, Fritzgerald shows teachers how to open new roads of communication, engagement, and skill-building for their students. The result? Helping students become expert, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus