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  • The New Real

    Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji

    by Jonathan E. Abel ...
    Unlocking a vital understanding of how literary studies and media studies overlap and are bound togetherA synthetic history of new media reception in modern and contemporary Japan, The New Real positions mimesis at the heart of the media concept. Considering both mimicry and representation as the core functions of mediation and remediation, Jonathan E. Abel offers a new model for media studies ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The End of Modern Literature

    by Kojin Karatani ...
    A groundbreaking essay on literature’s demise from the award-winning philosopherWhat comes after the death of literature? Kojin Karatani, winner of the 2022 Berggruen Prize, examines the corpse, investigates the cause of death, and offers glimpses of an afterlife from various theoretical perspectives. The End of Modern Literature reimagines the significance and concept of literature.Alongside ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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  • Revolutions

    A New History

    by Donald Sassoon ...
    A rich and long history of revolutions--the English Civil War, the American War of Independence, the French, Russian, and Chinese revolutions--and their lasting transformations.Revolutions is a sparkling account of political upheaval and the power of history. We think of revolutions in terms of fleeting events, such as the Fall of the Bastille or the Storming of the Winter Palace. In reality they ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • MacArthur and the UFOs

    by Jonathan Abel ...
    Author's work has won Emmy's, CLIOs, TELLYs, and will have two Grammy entries in 2014. This action-packed WWII tale is "Patton" meets the "X-Files" and now has its own online trailer and is available as an AudioBook.The author's uncle, a battle-promoted hero, was General Douglas MacArthur's personal bodyguard during desperate days…during the Occupation of Japan…a smashed civilization.Flying ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seeking Social Democracy

    Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality

    by Edward Broadbent, Frances Abele, Jonathan Sas, Luke Savage ...
    The first full-length treatment of Ed Broadbent’s ideas and remarkable seven-decade engagement in public lifePart memoir, part history, part political manifesto, Seeking Social Democracy offers the first full-length treatment of Ed Broadbent’s ideas and remarkable seven-decade engagement in public life. In dialogue with three collaborators from different generations, Broadbent leads readers ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Guibert

    Father of Napoleon's Grande Armée

    by Dr. Jonathan Abel ...
    Series series Campaigns and Commanders Series
    If there was one man, other than Napoleon himself, who determined the course of the Napoleonic Wars, it was Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de Guibert, the foremost military theorist in France from 1770 to his death in 1790. Taking in the full scope of the times, from the ideas of the Enlightenment to the passions of the French Revolution, Jonathan Abel’s Guibert is the first book in English to ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Information

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    Edited by Michele Kennerly, Samuel Frederick, Jonathan E. Abel ...
    For decades, we have been told we live in the “information age”—a time when disruptive technological advancement has reshaped the categories and social uses of knowledge and when quantitative assessment is increasingly privileged. Such methodologies and concepts of information are usually considered the provenance of the natural and social sciences, which present them as politically and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Information

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    Edited by Michele Kennerly, Samuel Frederick, Jonathan E. Abel ...
    For decades, we have been told we live in the “information age”—a time when disruptive technological advancement has reshaped the categories and social uses of knowledge and when quantitative assessment is increasingly privileged. Such methodologies and concepts of information are usually considered the provenance of the natural and social sciences, which present them as politically and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Otaku

    Japan's Database Animals

    by Hiroki Azuma ...
    Translated by Jonathan E. Abel, Shion Kono ...
    In Japan, obsessive adult fans and collectors of manga and anime are known as otaku. When the underground otaku subculture first emerged in the 1970s, participants were looked down on within mainstream Japanese society as strange, antisocial loners. Today otaku have had a huge impact on popular culture not only in Japan but also throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States.Hiroki Azuma’s Otaku ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Diasporas, Development and Governance

    Edited by Jonathan Crush, Margaret Walton-Roberts, Abel Chikanda ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Drawing on examples from the global North and South, this book examines the relationship between migration, development and diaspora engagement from a governance perspective. It explores the ways that governments interact with their own extra-national diasporic populations in order to boost economic development, build global trading and investment networks, and increase their political leverage ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • New Directions in South-South Migration

    Edited by Jonathan Crush, Abel Chikanda, Sujata Ramachandran ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book offers a comprehensive understanding of South-South migration. It explores crucial migration themes such as migrant integration in urban areas, migration and rural transformation, urban migration policy environment, migration corridors, and migrant precarity and survival, especially food security. It features contributions from eminent scholars in the Global South, namely, ... Read more

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  • Water and Cities in Latin America

    Challenges for Sustainable Development

    Edited by Ismael Aguilar-Barajas, Jürgen Mahlknecht, Jonathan Kaledin, Marianne Kjellén, Abel Mejía-Betancourt ...
    Series series Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
    Approximately 80 per cent of the population of Latin America is concentrated in urban centres. Pressure on water resources and water management in cities therefore provide major challenges. Despite the importance of the issues, there has been little systematic coverage of the topic in book form.This work fills a gap in the literature by providing both thematic overviews and case study chapters. It ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD