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  • Hacking the Linear Timeline: Accelerated Protocols for Chronological Anchoring

    Transforming Generational Anxiety Into Absolute Resilience

    by Albert Wu ...
    The modern world has trapped an entire generation in a perpetual state of chronological panic, relentlessly rushing toward arbitrarily defined milestones that guarantee nothing but crushing existential anxiety. Conventional self-help peddles the illusion of linear progression, completely ignoring a massive invisible bottleneck: human development is inherently cyclical, not sequential. By ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Taiwan Unbound: A New Chapter

    臺灣的未來在海洋

    by Rex How ...
    Series series HERMES
    ● Over the course of eight years, Rex How has observed what he calls the “Ocean Mindset” in Taiwanese society. Drawing from interviews from experts in diverse fields, he describes how this mindset has evolved.● In the post-pandemic era and amid significant global political shifts, this book analyzes what How calls the “mist” enveloping Taiwan.● How focuses on critical issues impacting the younger ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Making of a World Order

    Global Historical Perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles

    Edited by Albert Wu, Stephen W. Sawyer ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    Why does 1919 deserve further study and debate a hundred years later? What lessons for global history may we learn from the world order created at the end of the Great War? Drawing insight from the global turn of the past several decades that has forced us to reconsider the most important world events and processes since the French Revolution and especially the growing interest in World War I as a ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Uncanny Beliefs

    Superstition in Modern Chinese History

    Edited by Emily Baum, Albert Wu ...
    Series Book 22 - Harvard Contemporary China Series
    In the early twentieth century, scholars around the world believed that “superstition” belonged to a bygone era. Yet despite their confident predictions, superstitious beliefs have endured. Perhaps nowhere has the history of superstition been more prolonged and tumultuous than in China. From the late nineteenth century to the present day, intellectuals and politicians have denigrated practices ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

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  • Dark Continent

    Europe's Twentieth Century

    by Mark Mazower ...
    An unflinching and intelligent alternative history of the twentieth century that provides a provocative vision of Europe's past, present, and future."[A] splendid book." —The New York Times Book ReviewDark Continent provides an alternative history of the twentieth century, one in which the triumph of democracy was anything but a forgone conclusion and fascism and communism provided rival political ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Tainted Source

    The Undemocratic Origins of the European Idea

    by John Laughland ...
    An ideology is sweeping Europe and the world which threatens democracy and the rule of law. The post-national ideology, which posits that nation-states are no longer capable of running their own affairs in a modern, interdependent economy, confuses the constitution of a state with the power of its government, and ignores the importance of the sense of community essential to any democratic debate. ... Read more

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  • The Shock of War

    Civilian Experiences, 1937-1945

    by Sean Kennedy ...
    Series Book 2 - International Themes and Issues
    In The Shock of War: Civilian Experiences, 1937-1945, Sean Kennedy shifts the reader's focus from the battlefields of the Second World War to the civilian experience. This short yet comprehensive history complements existing studies of the war that document diplomatic and military operations. While many of these studies acknowledge the significance of the conflict for civilians, The Shock of War ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Russia Against the Rest

    The Post-Cold War Crisis of World Order

    by Richard Sakwa ...
    In this book Richard Sakwa provides a new analysis of the end of the Cold War and the subsequent failure to create a comprehensive and inclusive peace order in Europe. The end of the Cold War did not create a sustainable peace system. Instead, for a quarter of a century a 'cold peace' reflected the tension between cooperative and competitive behaviour. None of the fundamental problems of European ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Political Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe

    Edited by Donald Bloxham, Robert Gerwarth ...
    This is a comprehensive history of political violence during Europe's incredibly violent twentieth century. Leading scholars examine the causes and dynamics of war, revolution, counterrevolution, genocide, ethnic cleansing, terrorism and state repression. They locate these manifestations of political violence within their full transnational and comparative contexts and within broader trends in ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • States and Social Revolutions

    A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China

    by Theda Skocpol ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    State structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. Social revolutions have been rare but undeniably of enormous importance in modern world history. States and Social Revolutions provides a new frame of reference for analyzing the causes, the conflicts, and the ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Russia's Military Revival

    by Bettina Renz ...
    Russian annexation of Crimea and the subsequent air campaign over Syria took the world by surprise. The capabilities and efficiency of Moscow’s armed forces during both operations signalled to the world that Russia was back in business as a significant military actor on the international stage.In this cutting-edge study, Bettina Renz provides an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of Russia’s ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Liberal Quicksand

    by Yves Decock ...
    According to a fairy tale, after World War II, Europe rejected nationalism and subsequently started the European project, which brought uninterrupted peace from 1945 on. In this book, this version of history is unmasked. First, Europe did not desert nor transcend nationalism after 1945. On the contrary, since 1800, the nationalist program, based on linguistic divisions, has been implemented ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD