Women and China's Revolutions (Hershatter Gail)(Paperback)

Women and China's Revolutions (Hershatter Gail)(Paperback)

If we place women at the center of our account of China's last two centuries, how does this change our understanding of what happened? This deeply knowledgeable book illuminates the places where the Big History of recognizable events intersects with the daily lives of ordinary people, using gender

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

Women of the Silk (Tsukiyama Gail)(Paperback)

In Women of the Silk Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk factory from dawn to dusk. Leading the first strike the village has ever seen, the young women use the

The 1848 Revolutions (Jones Peter)(Paperback)

In 1848 revolutions broke out all over Europe - in France, the Habsburg and German lands and the Italian peninsular. This Seminar Study considers why the revolutions occurred and why they were so widespread. The book offers a broad ranging investigation of the social, economic and political

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions (Mitchell Larry)(Paperback)

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry Mitchell with lush illustrations by Ned Asta, published by Calamus Press in 1977. Part-fable, part-manifesto, the book takes place in Ramrod, an empire in decline, and introduces us to the communities

The Reasons for Seasons (Gibbons Gail)(Paperback)

A newly revised and updated title from nonfiction star GAIL GIBBONS 'Gibbons uses simple words and clear, colorful pictures to explain the seasons, the solstices, and the equinoxes. Besides discussing the earth's tilt and orbit, she also comments on what people and animals do in each season of the

Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things (Steketee Gail)(Paperback)

A New York Times BestsellerAcclaimed psychologists Randy Frost and Gail Sketetee's groundbreaking study on the compulsion of hoarding, 'Stuff invites readers to reevaluate their desire for things' (Boston Globe).What possesses someone to save every scrap of paper that's ever come into his home?

33 Revolutions Per Minute (Lynskey Dorian)(Paperback / softback)

33 Revolutions Per Minute tracks the turbulent relationship between popular music and politics, through 33 pivotal songs that span seven decades and four continents, from Billie Holiday singing 'Strange Fruit' to Green Day raging against the Iraq

Revolutions (Ross Hannah)(Paperback)

Innovation and China's Global Emergence (Baark Erik)(Paperback)

A pressing investigation into the global implications of China's shift to an innovation economy. As China shifts to an economy driven by innovation and productivity growth, the global implications of this transition will be significant. Amid the rise of techno-nationalism and a changing strategic

Manners and Mutiny - Number 4 in series (Carriger Gail)(Paperback / softback)

Set in the world of Gail Carriger's bestselling Parasol Protectorate series, this is the fourth and final book in the steampunk YA Finishing School

A Ceiling Made of Eggshells (Levine Gail Carson)(Paperback)

In A Ceiling Made of Eggshells, Newbery Honor-winning author Gail Carson Levine tells a moving and ambitious story set during the expulsion of Jews from Spain, about a young Jewish girl full of heart who must play her own role in her people's epic history--no matter the sacrifice. Surrounded by

Feminist Review: Issue 106: Revolutions (Na Na)(Paperback)

China's Strategic Arsenal: Worldview, Doctrine, and Systems (Smith James M.)(Paperback)

China's Strategic Arsenal brings together an international group of distinguished scholars to provide a fresh assessment of China's strategic military capabilities, doctrines, and political perceptions in light of rapidly advancing technologies, an expanding and modernizing nuclear arsenal, and an

Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements (DeFronzo James)(Paperback)

With crucial insights and indispensable information concerning modern-day political upheavals, Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements provides a representative cross section of the most significant revolutions of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This Fifth Edition is revised and updated

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

China's Green Religion: Daoism and the Quest for a Sustainable Future (Miller James)(Paperback)

How can Daoism, China's indigenous religion, give us the aesthetic, ethical, political, and spiritual tools to address the root causes of our ecological crisis and construct a sustainable future? In China's Green Religion, James Miller shows how Daoism orients individuals toward a holistic

Everyday Resilience: A Practical Guide to Build Inner Strength and Weather Life's Challenges (Gazelle Gail)(Paperback)

China Horizon, The: Glory and Dream of a Civilizational State (Zhang Weiwei)(Paperback)

This is a book of China's own political narrative written by one of China's leading and best-known thinkers. It is the last part of the author's 'China Trilogy', which is a best-seller in China, with over one million copies sold. The book in itself is a centerpiece of the unfolding debate within

China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) (Kroeber Arthur R.)(Paperback)

China's economic growth has been revolutionary, and is the foundation of its increasingly prominent role in world affairs. It is the world's second biggest economy, the largest manufacturing and trading nation, the consumer of half the world's steel and coal, the biggest source of international

China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty (Lewis Mark Edward)(Paperback)

The Tang dynasty is often called China's 'golden age,' a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent

Active Defense: China's Military Strategy Since 1949 (Fravel M. Taylor)(Paperback)

What changes in China's modern defense policy reveal about military organizations and strategyActive Defense offers the first systematic look at China's military strategy from the mid-twentieth century to today. Exploring the range and intensity of threats that China has faced, M. Taylor Fravel

Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays (Nochlin Linda)(Paperback)

Women, Art, and Power--seven landmark essays on women artists and women in art history--brings together the work of almost twenty years of scholarship and

Bothered and Bewildered (Young Gail)(Paperback)

Bothered and Bewildered is a comic drama that follows Irene and her two daughters Louise and Beth as they begin a long journey in which the girls lose their mum in spirit but not in body. As her family struggle to come to terms with her Alzheimer's, Irene's past passion for romantic fiction blurs