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  • Japan Rearmed

    The Politics of Military Power

    Japan’s U.S.–imposed postwar constitution renounced the use of offensive military force, but, as Sheila Smith shows, a nuclear North Korea and an increasingly assertive China have the Japanese rethinking that commitment, and their reliance on United States security.Japan has one of Asia’s most technologically advanced militaries and yet struggles to use its hard power as an instrument of national ... Read more

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  • if, after snow

    In Montreal, Carl plots his escape from a secure unit where he’s been confined by his adopted son Corby. In Japan, Miriam, Carl’s adopted daughter and celebrated musician, approaches the end of her tour and prepares a rescue mission. In Nova Scotia, Kip, a writer, attempts to come to terms with his block and the loss of his father, while winter storms rage around him. Together and separately, ... Read more

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  • Japan's New Politics and the U.S.-Japan Alliance

    Japan's new politics challenge some basic assumptions about U.S.-Japan alliance management. CFR Senior Fellow Sheila A. Smith explores this new era of alternating parties in power and reveals the growing importance of Japan's domestic politics in shaping alliance cooperation. ... Read more

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  • Mrs. Gailey

    Enriched edition. Exploring love, family, and village life in the English countryside of the early 20th century

    In "Mrs. Gailey," Sheila Kaye-Smith intricately weaves a narrative that captures the essence of rural English life during the early 20th century. Through the lens of its titular character, Mrs. Gailey, the novel explores themes of domesticity, social class, and the unyielding customs of village society. Kaye-Smith's literary style, rich with vivid descriptions and nuanced characterizations, ... Read more

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  • Joanna Godden

    The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

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  • Intimate Rivals

    Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China

    by Sheila Smith ...
    Series series A Council on Foreign Relations Book
    No country feels China's rise more deeply than Japan. Through intricate case studies of visits by Japanese politicians to the Yasukuni Shrine, conflicts over the boundaries of economic zones in the East China Sea, concerns about food safety, and strategies of island defense, Sheila A. Smith explores the policy issues testing the Japanese government as it tries to navigate its relationship with an ... Read more

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  • Birds of the Cottage Country

    Birds of the Cottage Country is a virtual storybook account of the author’s personalized observations throughout Ontario’s cottage playground. It clearly illustrates the downright fun, vast beauty, and consuming involvement of bird watching – even for the most skeptical of laymen.Bill Mansell’s daily experiences at birding, spread over a period of sixty-five years, result in such a familiarity ... Read more

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  • The George and the Crown

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Sheila Kaye-Smith's The George and the Crown opens with a marriage that joins two stubbornly different worlds: Tom Sheather, a Sussex seaman turned laborer, and Kitty le Couteur, a shy girl from Sark whose family distrusts outsiders. Their life together moves from the Channel Islands to the Sussex coast, where Tom rejects farming for the rough, social energy of innkeeping and takes over the George ... Read more

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  • Joanna Godden (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Sussex Countryside Novel of an Independent Woman Farmer, Rural Resilience, and Tradition in Early Twentieth-Century England

    Sheila Kaye-Smith's *Joanna Godden* (1921) is a richly textured regional novel set amid the farms, marshes, churches, and shifting social worlds of the Romney Marsh. Its protagonist, Joanna, is an unusually independent woman who attempts to manage a prosperous sheep farm according to her own vision, confronting both economic difficulty and the restrictive expectations imposed upon her sex. Kaye ... Read more

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  • The Secret Son

    Enriched edition. Secrets of an English Countryside: A Tale of Tradition and Modernity

    Sheila Kaye-Smith's "The Secret Son" is a poignant exploration of familial bonds and the complexities of identity, set against the backdrop of early 20th-century rural England. The narrative unfolds with lyrical prose, merging vivid descriptions of the English countryside with an introspective examination of personal and societal expectations. Kaye-Smith adeptly navigates themes of love, loss, and ... Read more

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  • Superstition Corner

    Enriched edition. A Rural Tale of Superstition, Tradition, and Change

    In "Superstition Corner," Sheila Kaye-Smith masterfully weaves together the threads of rural folklore and the complexities of human emotion within the backdrop of early 20th-century England. This novel takes place in the Sussex countryside, where superstitions and traditions shape the lives of its characters, reflecting the tension between modernization and the archaic beliefs that still haunt ... Read more

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  • Saints in Sussex

    Andrew, what of the North? In November shadows drear We have heard thee marching forth With songs of a glad new year. Thou goest to mountains high, To Picts in a Northern fen— But, Andrew, tarry and hear the cry Of the little Southern Men. Down by the seas of Gaul, Where the Roman eagles stand, Anderida they call Our shaggy forest land. We have no saving health, To us no Word comes forth, On us ... Read more

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