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  • Long Road to Jerusalem

    by Roger Bowen ...
    Miriam a survivor of the holocaust escapes to Palestine, where she meets Cobi an officer in the Palmach. In the bitter fighting for Jerusalem, during Israels war of Independence, they fall in love. In the battle for the Bethlehem road, Cobi confronts his childhood friend Yusuf a Palestinian Arab, with unexpected results. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Enemies and Friends

    by Roger Bowen ...
    This is the story of two men that grew up with bitter enmity between them.Tom Randall was falsely accused by Richard Fitzsimonds and was sentenced to seven years transportation to Australia. Richard joins the army and is posted to various parts of the world. While he was on a posting in Australia he meets up with Tom and goads him into striking him. Tom is again sentenced and serves time in the ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Abraham’s Bloodline!

    A Story of a Jewish Family at War

    by Roger Bowen ...
    Miriam is a survivor of the Holocaust. She flees Warsaw and joins the Jewish Partisans. At war’s end, Miriam escapes to Palestine, where she meets Cobi. Cobi is a native-born Palestinian who served in the British Army. Returning home, he was made an officer with the Palmach in the War of Independence against the Arabs. In the bitter fighting for Jerusalem, Cobi confronts his childhood friend Yusuf ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Japan's Dysfunctional Democracy: The Liberal Democratic Party and Structural Corruption

    The Liberal Democratic Party and Structural Corruption

    by Roger W. Bowen ...
    This is a short, readable, and incisive study of the corrosive effects of corruption in one of the world's major liberal democracies. It explores the disconnect between democratic rule and undemocratic practices in Japan since the Second World War, with special attention to the corrupt practices of various prime ministers and the resulting sense of political cynicism and powerlessness among the ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • E.H. Norman

    His Life and Scholarship

    Edited by Roger Bowen ...
    Series series Heritage
    The ashes of Herbert Norman now lie in the British cemetery at Rome, near those of Shelley and Keats. His distinguished life and tragic death, in April 1957, are recalled and examined in this book by scholars and diplomats from four countries—the United States, Japan, Canada, and Britain.Born in rural Japan the son of a Canadian missionary, Herbert Norman studied at the University of Toronto and ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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    Neoliberalism and Global Order

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance? Why did traders at prominent banks take high-risk gambles with the money entrusted to them by hundreds of thousands of clients around the world, expanding and leveraging their investments to the point that failure led to a global financial crisis that left millions of people jobless and ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • The Age of Consent

    by George Monbiot ...
    A manifesto for a new world order.Having made a hugely significant contribution to the increasingly irrefutable, if alarming, diagnosis of the ills of early 21st century consumerist culture and its free-market myths, George Monbiot sets out now with this book to offer something more constructive, a set of proposals – political, democratic, economic, environmental – that might affect the cultural ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    This book moves the discussion of affirmative action beyond the United States to other countries that have had similar policies, often for a longer time than Americans have. It also moves the discussion beyond the theories, principles, and laws that have been so often debated to the actual empirical consequences of affirmative action in the United States and in India, Nigeria, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Introduction to Japanese Politics

    by Louis D. Hayes ...
    Introduction to Japanese Politics, now in its fully updated sixth edition, is a comprehensive and current review of political and public policy developments in Japan. Since the previous edition, Japan’s economic policy has undergone significant change with a prolonged period of deflation having altered the dynamics of the Japanese economy. At the same time, the Abe administration has expanded ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • 3.11

    Disaster and Change in Japan

    by Richard J. Samuels ...
    On March 11, 2011, Japan was struck by the shockwaves of a 9.0 magnitude undersea earthquake originating less than 50 miles off its eastern coastline. The most powerful earthquake to have hit Japan in recorded history, it produced a devastating tsunami with waves reaching heights of over 130 feet that in turn caused an unprecedented multireactor meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Making of Urban Japan

    Cities and Planning from Edo to the Twenty First Century

    by André Sorensen ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    During the twentieth century, Japan was transformed from a poor, primarily rural country into one of the world's largest industrial powers and most highly urbanised countries. Interestingly, while Japanese governments and planners borrowed carefully from the planning ideas and methods of many other countries, Japanese urban planning, urban governance and cities developed very differently from ... Read more

    $131.99 CAD

  • Cities, Autonomy, and Decentralization in Japan

    Edited by Carola Hein, Philippe Pelletier ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    Adding a new perspective to the current literature on decentralization in Japan, Cities, Autonomy and Decentralization in Japan, approaches the subject from an urban studies and planning approach. The essays in the collection present a cogent compilation of case studies focusing on the past, present and future of decentralization in Japan. These include small scale development in the fields such ... Read more

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