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  • Chile in Their Hearts

    The Untold Story of Two Americans Who Went Missing after the Coup

    by John Dinges ...
    Set against the romance of revolution and the terror of a military coup, this arresting mystery is also a reckoning with the callousness of U.S. foreign policy.In 1972 two idealistic young Americans, Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, arrived in Chile to participate in President Salvador Allende's socialist and democratic revolution. A year later they were secretly executed as Chile's military, ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Condor Years

    How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents

    by John Dinges ...
    A "compelling and shocking account" of a brutal campaign of repression in Latin America, based on interviews and previously secret documents ( The Miami Herald).Throughout the 1970s, six Latin American governments, led by Chile, formed a military alliance called Operation Condor to carry out kidnappings, torture, and political assassinations across three continents. It was an early "war on terror" ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Our Man in Panama

    The Shrewd Rise and Brutal Fall of Manuel Noriega

    by John Dinges ...
    A "carefully researched" account of the rise and fall of notorious dictator Manuel Noriega—and America's role in both ( The Washington Post).Written by a prize-winning NPR veteran who spent years covering Latin America, this blend of biography, history, and political reporting details the events that lead to the American invasion of Panama."Describes in considerable detail the fascinating and ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Assassination on Embassy Row

    by John Dinges, Saul Landau ...
    Series Book 7 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    Edgar Award Finalist: The gripping account of an assassination on US soil and the violent foreign conspiracy that stretched from Pinochet's Chile to the streets of Washington, DC, with a new introduction by Ariel Dorfman.On September 10, 1976, exiled Chilean leader Orlando Letelier delivered a blistering rebuke of Augusto Pinochet's brutal right-wing regime in a speech at Madison Square Garden. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Our Man in Panama

    The Shrewd Rise and Brutal Fall of Manuel Noriega

    by John Dinges ...
    Narrated by Gary Tiedemann ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 8 min

    A "carefully researched" account of the rise and fall of notorious dictator Manuel Noriega—and America's role in both (The Washington Post).Written by a prize-winning NPR veteran who spent years covering Latin America, this blend of biography, history, and political reporting details the events that lead to the American invasion of Panama.A New York Times Notable Book of the Year ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Monte-Carlo Simulation-Based Statistical Modeling

    Edited by John Dean Chen, Ding-Geng (Din) Chen ...
    Series series ICSA Book Series in Statistics
    This book brings together expert researchers engaged in Monte-Carlo simulation-based statistical modeling, offering them a forum to present and discuss recent issues in methodological development as well as public health applications. It is divided into three parts, with the first providing an overview of Monte-Carlo techniques, the second focusing on missing data Monte-Carlo methods, and the ... Read more

    $153.99 CAD

  • Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing

    29th International Workshop, LCPC 2016, Rochester, NY, USA, September 28-30, 2016, Revised Papers

    Edited by Chen Ding, John Criswell, Peng Wu ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 29th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, LCPC 2016, held in Rochester, NY, USA, in September 2016.The 20 revised full papers presented together with 4 short papers were carefully reviewed. The papers are organized in topical sections on large scale parallelism, resilience and ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Chinese Tourism in Australia

    Koalas, Selfies and Red Dresses

    by John Connell, Phil McManus, Xuesong Ding ...
    This book investigates all facets of Chinese tourism in a single destination, and its fascinating rise and evolution. It provides an overview of the first two decades of twenty-first century Chinese tourism in Australia, covering the early days, when Chinese tourism was mainly guided package tours with tourists visiting standard iconic sites, and its evolution into more individualistic tourism, ... Read more

    $153.99 CAD

  • State–Society Relations and Governance in China

    by John Creed, Sheng Ding, Joseph Fewsmith, Wenshan Jia, Josef Gregory Mahoney, Edwin E. Moise, Nele Noesselt, G. Venkat Raman, Lynn T. White III, Teresa Wright, David S. G. Goodman, Guoli Liu, Dorothy J. Solinger ...
    Series series Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
    State–society relations and governance are closely related areas of study and have become important topics in the social sciences in the past decades, not only in developed countries but also in the developing world. In China, state-society relations have been changing in the new era of reform and opening, and governance has become a central concern in policy practice and in academia. In this wide ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

  • Real Being and Cultural-Humanistic Phenomena

    Multidimensional Dialogues between East and West Thoughts

    by John Zijiang Ding ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book explores perspectives from new comparativism and new dialogism to expand research horizons and develop a comprehensive, multidimensional, and multilevel research method and model. By compiling recent research examples and case studies, the author reconstructs and reevaluates various explanations, integrating different ideas logically while presenting critical and forward-looking concepts ... Read more

    $166.99 CAD

  • Living Existence and Socio-Political Phenomena

    Comparative Studies of Interdisciplinary Issues between East and West

    by John Zijiang Ding ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    In this book, John Zijiang Ding reimagines comparative philosophy through the dual lenses of new comparativism and dialogism, offering a multidimensional, cross-cultural framework for philosophical inquiry. Drawing on over a decade of research, Ding develops a rigorous model that integrates diverse methodologies, disciplines, and cultural perspectives. Through case studies and analytical dialogues ... Read more

    $166.99 CAD

  • China's Remarkable Economic Growth

    by John Knight, Sai Ding ...
    How has the Chinese economy managed to grow at such a remarkable rate - no less than ten per cent per annum - for over three decades? This well-integrated book combines economic theory, empirical estimation, and institutional analysis to address one of the most important questions facing contemporary economists. A common thread that runs throughout the book is the underlying political economy: why ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD