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  • The Two Koreas

    A Contemporary History

    par Don Oberdorfer, Robert Carlin ...
    An acclaimed history of the Korean Peninsula from World War II to the present dayNorth Korea is an impoverished, famine-ridden nation, but it is also a nuclear power whose dictator Kim Jong-un regularly threatens his neighbors and adversaries, the United States in particular, with destruction. Even though Kim and President Donald Trump's responses to him dominate the daily headlines, the idea that ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Senator Mansfield

    The Extraordinary Life of a Great American Statesman and Diplomat

    par Don Oberdorfer ...
    A spellbinding biography of one of the most powerful and dignified men ever to come to DC—Senator Mike Mansfield.Mike Mansfield's career as the longest serving majority leader is finally given its due in this extraordinary biography. In many respects, Mansfield's dignity and decorum represent the high-water mark of the US Senate: he was respected as a leader who helped build consensus on tough ... En savoir plus

    $35.19 CAD

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  • The Secret History of the Mongol Queens

    How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire

    par Jack Weatherford ...
    “A fascinating romp through the feminine side of the infamous Khan clan” (Booklist) by the author featured in Echoes of the Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan“Enticing . . . hard to put down.”—Associated PressThe Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever known. The daughters of the Silk Route turned their father’s conquests into the first truly international ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $11.99 CAD Maintenant $1.99 CAD

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  • Across Many Mountains

    A Tibetan Family's Epic Journey from Oppression to Freedom

    par Yangzom Brauen ...
    "A moving reminder that the consequences of the Chinese invasion of Tibet continue down to this day. A lovely memoir of three generations of Tibetan women." —Oliver StoneKunsang thought she would never leave Tibet. One of the country's youngest Buddhist nuns, she grew up in a remote mountain village where, as a teenager, she entered the local nunnery. Though simple, Kunsang's life gave her all she ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

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  • Six Records of a Floating Life

    par Shen Fu ...
    Traduit par Leonard Pratt, Chiang Su-hui ...
    Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil servant and art dealer. In this intimate memoir, Shen Fu recounts the domestic and romantic joys of his marriage to Yün, the beautiful and artistic girl he fell in love with as a child. He also describes ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Mad About the Mekong

    Exploration and Empire in South East Asia (Text Only)

    par John Keay ...
    The story of both a dramatic journey retracing the historic voyage of France’s greatest 19th-century explorer up the mysterious Mekong river, and a portrait of the river and its peoples today.Any notion of sailing up the Mekong in homage to Francis Garnier has been unthinkable until now. From its delta in Vietnam up through Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma and on into China, the Mekong has been a ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Recollections of Uganda Under Milton Obote and Idi Amin

    par Noel O'Cleirigh ...
    In this book the writer describes life in Uganda as seen through the eyes of an expatriate civil servant employed by the Ministry of Education. He gives the reader an insight into a newly independent country transforming its colonial style education system through its Africanization policies, some of which he inaugurated and helped to implement. A former member of Professor George Eogan's ... En savoir plus

    $5.99 CAD

  • Science and the Indian Tradition

    When Einstein Met Tagore

    par David L. Gosling ...
    Collections series India in the Modern World
    This new text is a detailed study of an important process in modern Indian history. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, India experienced an intellectual renaissance, which owed as much to the influx of new ideas from the West as to traditional religious and cultural insights.Gosling examines the effects of the introduction of Western science into India, and the relationship ... En savoir plus

    $94.99 CAD

  • Book of My Nights

    par Li-Young Lee ...
    Book of My Nights is the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed young poets. In Book of My Nights, Li-Young Lee once again gives us lyrical poetry that fuses memory, family, culture and history. In language as simple and powerful as the human muscle, these poems work individually and as a full-sequence meditation on the vulnerability of humanity.Marketing Plans:o ... En savoir plus

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  • The Partition of Bengal and Assam, 1932-1947

    Contour of Freedom

    par Bidyut Chakrabarty ...
    The fragmentation of Bengal and Assam in 1947 was a crucial moment in India's socio-political history as a nation state. Both the British Indian provinces were divided as much through the actions of the Muslim League as by those of Congress and the British colonial power. Attributing partition largely to Hindu communalists is, therefore, historically inaccurate and factually misleading. The ... En savoir plus

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  • Chinese Lives

    The People Who Made a Civilization

    par Victor H. Mair, Sanping Chen, Frances Wood ...
    3000 years of Chinese history presented through the lives of ninety-six illustrious participants from all periods and all parts of the countryChina is the most populous country on earth, with the longest history of any modern nation. Here, the full range of Chinese cultural and scientific achievements, as well as its military conquests, wars, rebellions, and political and philosophical movements, ... En savoir plus

    $28.39 CAD

  • The Identity of Zhiqing

    The Lost Generation

    par Weiyi Wu, Fan Hong ...
    Collections series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Outside China, little is known about the process and implications of the Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside (UMDC) Movement, a Chinese state policy from 1967 to 1979 in which more than 16 million secondary school-leavers in different cities were relocated to rural areas. The Movement shaped the lives of these young people and assigned them a shared group identity: Zhiqing, or the ... En savoir plus

    $67.32 CAD