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  • Intrepid Commanding Presence

    Why it is easier for you than Aladdin's

    by LEON DE ADRIAN ...
    "The unconscious is incredibly powerful and eager to assist you."Learn how easy is to conquer your unconscious mind, harness the power of autosuggestion, and gain the positivity you need to better engage your life with success.We live in the era that sees thought as our main strength, but it is, in fact, the unconscious mind that runs most of our lives and not just our habits. The unconscious ... Read more

    $4.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Balikbayan

    A Revenant History of the Filipino Homeland

    by Adrian De Leon, Robyn Magalit Rodriguez ...
    Series series Critical Filipinx Studies
    How migrants imagined a country through their acts of returnWhat does it mean to go back home, especially when “home” is shaped by conquest, labor, and longing? This question has animated the experiences of global migrants displaced by imperialism, capital, and the nation-states that have sought to manage their movements for their own political and economic benefit. Through vivid storytelling, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Notes from a Wayward Son

    A Memoir

    by Adrian De Leon ...
    Series series Great Circle Books
    In his first memory of his father, Adrian De Leon is four years old. Sitting in front of his family home high above the street in Manila, Philippines, he sees Tatay, a stern man, ascend the stairs before him. Despite Tatay’s pedigree as a college-educated military officer, the best place of employment for a Filipino man trying to support his family is abroad.A year later, Tatay uproots his family ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Bundok

    A Hinterland History of Filipino America

    by Adrian De Leon ...
    From the late eighteenth century, the hinterlands of Northern Luzon and its Indigenous people were in the crosshairs of imperial and capitalist extraction. Combining the breadth of global history with the intimacy of biography, Adrian De Leon follows the people of Northern Luzon across space and time, advancing a new vision of the United States’s Pacific empire that begins with the natives and ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Halo-Halo Ecologies

    The Emergent Environments behind Filipino Food

    by Alyssa Paredes, Marvin Joseph F. Montefrio, Anacorita O. Abasolo, Inigo Acosta, Maria Carinnes Alejandria, Tami Alvarez, Mary Jill Ira Banta, Jose Kervin C.B. Calabias, Dana M. Collins0, Adrian De Leon1, Katrina Beatrice David Jacinto2, Nicolo Paolo P. Ludovice3, Orven Mallari4, Anthony D. Medrano5, Cla Ruzol6, Joshua Ezekiel C. Sales7, Thea Kersti Tandog8, Jessie Varquez9 ...
    Series series Food in Asia and the Pacific
    Halo-Halo Ecologies: The Emergent Environments behind Filipino Food is a recipe for a new storytelling tradition that combines critical studies of Filipino food and of the environment. It takes as its starting point the metaphor of halo-halo, the iconic dessert of crushed ice, jellies, fruit slices, and ube jam. Food writers and social historians alike frequently describe this summertime treat as ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Feel Ways

    A Scarborough Anthology

    by Adrian De Leon, Téa Mutonji, Natasha Ramoutar ...
    Feel Ways is a breakthrough anthology of works by writers of Scarborough, Ontario. It is inspired by the suburb of Scarborough in Greater Toronto, shedding light on its myths and its many stories set in the diverse immigrant communities that arrived in the 1960s and later. It presents us with a "chorus of emotional reality," in a community in its most vibrant state. The collection includes fiction ... Read more

    $10.18 USD

  • Rouge

    by Adrian De Leon ...
    This series of poems is a response to the 2012 mass shooting at a block party on Danzig Street, Scarborough (Toronto). The city’s east end becomes a source of poetic inspiration, and the two intersecting subway lines provide the organizing structure. From west to east, and north to south—Kipling to McCowan, Finch to Downsview—the stations on the way inspiring form, voice, and content, meditation, ... Read more

    $8.73 USD

  • NAFTA’s Impact on Mexico’s Regional Development

    Edited by Adrián de León-Arias, Patricio Aroca ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    In this book, the dynamics of continuity and change in the regional economic development of Mexico and the US border states are analyzed. These studies cover the last 25 years, after the first trade agreement, between a developed and a developing country, tooks place, and where international trade and investment have been combined with a set of relevant local factors such as regional innovation, ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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    by Daphne Palasi Andreades ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A “boisterous and infectious debut novel” (The Guardian) about a group of friends and their immigrant families from Queens, New York—a tenderly observed, fiercely poetic love letter to a modern generation of brown girls.“An acute study of those tender moments of becoming, this is an ode to girlhood, inheritance, and the good trouble the body yields.”—Raven ... Read more

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  • Sabotage

    by Priscila Uppal ...
    Sabotage is a collection of poems exploring private and public acts of destruction, disruption and vandalism in the 21st century. In Sabotage, several vital sites are under attack or at risk: the human body (including the brain and biological systems); structures of community (including family, nation, and institutional supports); and cultural legacies (including language, artistic works, and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Caribbean

    A History of the Region and Its Peoples

    Edited by Stephan Palmié, Francisco A. Scarano ...
    An "illuminating" survey of Caribbean history from pre-Columbian times to the twenty-first century ( Los Angeles Times).Combining fertile soils, vital trade routes, and a coveted strategic location, the islands and surrounding continental lowlands of the Caribbean were one of Europe's earliest and most desirable colonial frontiers. The region was colonized over the course of five centuries by a ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Playground

    A Novel

    by Richard Powers ...
    **New York Times BestsellerFinalist for the 2024 Kirkus PrizeLonglisted for the 2024 Booker PrizeAs Seen on CBS Saturday Morning • A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • One of the Ten Best Books of the Year, according to the Washington Post and AARP • A Time Must-Read Book of the Year • An NPR "Books We Love" Pick • An Economist, New Yorker, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year<... ... Read more

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