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  • Flash Fiction Stories of the Young

    by Theodore Jerome Cohen, Alyssa Devine ...
    Series Book 8 - Flash Fiction Anthology
    George Bernard Shaw once said: “Youth is wasted on the young.” Hopefully, you didn’t waste yours! Growing up as six-year-old child working in the coal mines of England in the 19th century, for example, precluded anything even close to what today would be considered a “normal childhood,” much less giving you a good chance of living past 30. Your chances of surviving to old age were somewhat better ... Read more

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  • Monster Theory

    Reading Culture

    Edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen ...
    We live in a time of monsters. Monsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them. So argue the essays in this wide-ranging and fascinating collection that asks the question, What happens when critical theorists take the study of monsters seriously as a means of examining our culture?In viewing the monstrous body as a metaphor for the cultural body, the contributors to Monster ... Read more

    $25.89 CAD

  • Eastward, Westward

    A Life in Law

    by Jerome A. Cohen ...
    Few Americans have done more than Jerome A. Cohen to advance the rule of law in East Asia. The founder of the study of Chinese law in the United States and a tireless advocate for human rights, Cohen has been a scholar, teacher, lawyer, and activist for more than sixty years. Moving among the United States, China, and Taiwan, he has encouraged legal reforms, promoted economic cooperation, mentored ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Flash Fiction for Animal Lovers

    by Theodore Jerome Cohen, Alyssa Devine ...
    Series Book 7 - Flash Fiction Anthology
    Who doesn’t like a good animal story?! That’s why we created this special edition for our series on Flash Fiction. The contents of this seventh Flash Fiction anthology are drawn from the 438 stories found in Books 1 through 6, incl., of the Creative Ink, Flashy Fiction anthologies and are devoted entirely to our friends from the Animal Kingdom. Here you’ll find stories about loyal canines, ... Read more

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  • Prismatic Ecology

    Ecotheory beyond Green

    Edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen ...
    Emphasizing sustainability, balance, and the natural, green dominates our thinking about ecology like no other color. What about the catastrophic, the disruptive, the inaccessible, and the excessive? What of the ocean’s turbulence, the fecundity of excrement, the solitude of an iceberg, multihued contaminations? Prismatic Ecology moves beyond the accustomed green readings of ecotheory and maps a ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Earth

    by Professor Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Profsesor Linda T. Elkins-Tanton ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.In Earth, a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we think of the Earth as an object viewable from space. As a “blue marble,” “a blue pale dot,” or, as Chaucer described it, “this litel spot of erthe,” the solitary orb is a challenge to scale and to human self ... Read more

    $15.79 CAD

  • Veer Ecology

    A Companion for Environmental Thinking

    Edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Lowell Duckert ...
    The words most commonly associated with the environmental movement—save, recycle, reuse, protect, regulate, restore—describe what we can do to help the environment, but few suggest how we might transform ourselves to better navigate the sudden turns of the late Anthropocene. Which words can help us to veer conceptually along with drastic environmental flux? Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • Elemental Ecocriticism

    Thinking with Earth, Air, Water, and Fire

    Edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Lowell Duckert ...
    For centuries it was believed that all matter was composed of four elements: earth, air, water, and fire in promiscuous combination, bound by love and pulled apart by strife. Elemental theory offered a mode of understanding materiality that did not center the cosmos around the human. Outgrown as a science, the elements are now what we build our houses against. Their renunciation has fostered only ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • In the Shadow of the Rising Dragon

    Stories of Repression in the New China

    Edited by Xu Youyu, Hua Ze ...
    Over the last decade China has undergone a transformation. After the dark days of the Cultural Revolution, it has emerged as one of the twenty-first century's most powerful economies, with millions of citizens now entering the middle class. Yet, despite these rapid changes, China's human rights record remains abysmal, and a heavy shroud of secrecy protects the one-party system from accountability. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Earth

    Object Lessons

    by Professor Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Profsesor Linda T. Elkins-Tanton ...
    Narrated by Mack Gordon, Rachel Handshaw ...
    Series series Object Lessons

    Unabridged

    3 hours 15 min

    Bloomsbury presents Earth by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, read by Rachel Handshaw and Mack Gordon.Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.In Earth, a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we think of the Earth as an object viewable from space. As a “blue marble,” “a blue pale dot,” ... Read more

    $20.00 CAD

  • Taiwan and International Human Rights

    A Story of Transformation

    Edited by Jerome A. Cohen, William P. Alford, Chang-fa Lo ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book tells a story of Taiwan’s transformation from an authoritarian regime to a democratic system where human rights are protected as required by international human rights treaties. There were difficult times for human rights protection during the martial law era; however, there has also been remarkable transformation progress in human rights protection thereafter. The book reflects the ... Read more

    $217.79 CAD

  • Challenge to China

    How Taiwan Abolished Its Version of Re-Education Through Labor

    by Jerome A. Cohen, Margaret K. Lewis ...
    Challenge to China: How Taiwan Abolished Its Version of Re-Education Through Labor draws attention to an underappreciated aspect of legal reforms in Taiwan, and asks how Taiwan's experience might be relevant to its giant neighbor across the Taiwan Strait. This timely book by Jerome A. Cohen, whose groundbreaking work in the 1960s laid a foundation for the expanding field of Chinese law, and ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD