A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World (Mitter Rana)(Paperback)

A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World (Mitter Rana)(Paperback)

In this powerful new look at modern China, Rana Mitter goes back to a pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from pre-modern to modern. Mitter identifies May 4, 1919, as the defining moment of China's twentieth-century history. On that day, outrage over

The Cultural Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Kraus Richard Curt)(Paperback)

China's decade-long Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution shook the politics of China and the world. Even as we approach its fiftieth anniversary, the movement remains so contentious that the Chinese Communist Party still forbids fully open investigation of its origins, development, and conclusion

Modern China: A Very Short Introduction (Mitter Rana)(Paperback)

China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presence, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems to be a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristic cities,

Last Raider (Reeman Douglas)(Paperback / softback)

Germany opens the final, bitter round of the war with a new and deadly weapon in the struggle for the seas - the Vulcan sails from Kiel Harbour. guns, mines and torpedoes that can be brought into play instantly. The Vulcan is a commerce raider. And under crack commander Felix von Steiger her

China's Revolutions in the Modern World: A Brief Interpretive History (Karl Rebecca E.)(Pevná vazba)

A concise account of how revolutions made modern China and helped shape the modern world China's emergence as a twenty-first-century global economic, cultural, and political power is often presented as a story of what Chinese leader Xi Jinping calls the nation's 'great rejuvenation,' a story

Sara: My Whole Life Was a Struggle (Cansiz Sakine)(Paperback)

The bitter struggle of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) against the Turkish state has endured for decades in the face of major setbacks and violence. This memoir tells that story through the experience of one person, Sakine Cansiz--codenamed 'Sara'--a cofounder of the PKK who dedicated her life

Wild Grass - China's Revolution from Below (Johnson Ian)(Paperback / softback)

Cashless: China's Digital Currency Revolution (Turrin Richard)(Paperback)

Cashless is the first and only book that dives deep into the design and use of China's new central bank digital currency. This represents a roadmap for our shared digital currency future and a long-term threat to US dollar dominance. China is changing the very nature of money and borrowing heavily

When in the Arab World: An insider's guide to living and working with Arab culture (Nejem Rana)(Paperback)

On Revolution - Faber Modern Classics (Arendt Dr. Hannah)(Paperback / softback)

Hannah Arendt's penetrating observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of the political

Chinese Culture: Its Humanity and Modernity (Qian Suoqiao)(Paperback)

Understanding China and the Chinese is of paramount importance in today's world. With China's rapid economic growth and increasing political influence, there has been significant interest in learning the Chinese language around the world. While we constantly hear about China in political and

Lafayette and the American Revolution (Freedman Russell)(Paperback)

When the Marquis de Lafayette ran off to join the American Revolution against the explicit orders of the king of France, he was a strong-willed nineteen-year-old who had never set foot on a battlefield. Although the U.S. Congress granted him an honorary commission only out of respect for his title

Unholy Union: When Rugby Collided with the Modern World (Aylwin Mike)(Paperback)

Storming the Gates: How the Russian Revolution Changed the World (Becker Richard)(Paperback)

Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution (Hawken Paul)(Paperback)

On its first publication 10 years ago, Natural Capitalism rocked the world of business with its innovative new approach - an approach that fused ecological integrity with business acumen using the radical concept of natural capitalism. This 10th-anniversary edition features a new Introduction by

Joy of Half A Cookie - Using Mindfulness to Lose Weight and End the Struggle With Food (Kristeller Jean)(Paperback / softback)

Using mindfulness to lose weight and end the struggle with

Interoception: How I Feel: Sensing My World from the Inside Out (Koscinski Cara N.)(Paperback)

Many people struggle with sensory processing difficulties. Regulating emotions, knowing when to eat, drink, go to the toilet, and feeling your breathing and heart rate all depend on our internal awareness. Interoception is critical to feel and understand what is going on inside of your body

Solanin (Asano Inio)(Paperback)

College graduates struggle to cope with the real world. Music offers refuge in this modern manga with an American attitude.Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Shigeo is permanently crashing at her apartment because his job as a freelance

Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World (Holland Tom)(Paperback)

A 'marvelous' (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination Crucifixion, the Romans believed, was the worst fate imaginable, a punishment reserved for slaves. How astonishing it was, then, that people should have come to believe that one particular victim of

The Happy Hooker: My Own Story (Hollander Xaviera)(Paperback)

The 30th anniversary edition of one of the modern classics of the sexual revolution--with a new Afterword by the author.An international phenomenon upon its initial publication in 1972, The Happy Hooker established Xaviera Hollander--previously the most powerful madam in New York City--as the

Life Under Nazi Occupation - The Struggle to Survive During World War II (Roland Paul)(Paperback / softback)

The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet (Foster John Bellamy)(Paperback)

The Gods Will Have Blood (France Anatole)(Paperback)

It is April 1793 and the final power struggle of the French Revolution is taking hold: the aristocrats are dead and the poor are fighting for bread in the streets. In a Paris swept by fear and hunger lives Gamelin, a revolutionary young artist appointed magistrate, and given the power of life and

Cold War in the Islamic World - Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Struggle for Supremacy (Hiro Dilip)(Paperback / softback)