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  • Passing, Posing, Persuasion

    Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan’s East Asian Empire

    by Andre Haag, Robert Tierney, Dr. Kimberly Kono, Professor Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Joan E. Ericson, Faye Yuan Kleeman, Dr. Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya Yamasaki, Yuni Kang0, Dr. Cindi Textor1 ...
    Passing, Posing, Persuasion interrogates the intersections between cultural production, identity, and persuasive messaging that idealized inclusion and unity across Japan’s East Asian empire (1895–1945). Japanese propagandists drew on a pan-Asian rhetoric that sought to persuade colonial subjects to identify with the empire while simultaneously maintaining the distinctions that subjugated them and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • A History of Literacy Education

    Waves of Research and Practice

    by Robert J. Tierney, P. David Pearson ...
    In this volume, two notable scholars trace the monumental shifts in theory, research, and practice related to reading education and literacy, with particular attention to what they consider the central goal of literacy—making meaning. Each section describes a specific epoch, including a brief snapshot of how the reader of that period is envisioned and characterized by researchers and teachers, as ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Sorcery Against Caesar

    The Complete Simon of Gitta Short Stories

    by Richard L. Tierney, Robert M. Price, Glenn Rahman ...
    Series Book 1 - Simon of Gitta Chronicles
    A REBEL AGAINST ROME!Simon of Gitta, an escaped slave turned magician, roves the Roman Empire battling dark magic and demons, all the while pursued by Caesar’s soldiers. Join Simon as he flees across the ancient world evading cultists and Legionaries, outwitting sorcerers and Centurions, and fighting gladiators and gods, even the deities of the Cthulhu Mythos. Yet all these foes cannot prepare him ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Global Cult Cinemas

    Decolonizing Cult Film Studies

    Edited by Iain Robert Smith, Dolores Tierney, Shruti Narayanswamy ...
    Series series Global Exploitation Cinemas
    Global Cult Cinemas calls for a decolonisation of cult film studies.To date, discourses of cult cinema have predominantly focused upon Anglo-American cinema and its reception in the West. Even when cult scholarship has expanded to include non-English language cinema from regions such as East and Southeast Asia, what nevertheless tends to define these cinemas as cult has been the subcultural fandom ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Monster of the Twentieth Century

    Kotoku Shusui and Japan's First Anti-Imperialist Movement

    by Robert Thomas Tierney ...
    This extended monograph examines the work of the radical journalist Kotoku Shusui and Japan’s anti-imperialist movement of the early twentieth century. It includes the first English translation of Imperialism (Teikokushugi), Kotoku’s classic 1901 work.Kotoku Shusui was a Japanese socialist, anarchist, and critic of Japan’s imperial expansionism who was executed in 1911 for his alleged ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Tropics of Savagery

    The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame

    by Robert Thomas Tierney ...
    Series Book 5 - Asia Pacific Modern
    Tropics of Savagery is an incisive and provocative study of the figures and tropes of "savagery" in Japanese colonial culture. Through a rigorous analysis of literary works, ethnographic studies, and a variety of other discourses, Robert Thomas Tierney demonstrates how imperial Japan constructed its own identity in relation both to the West and to the people it colonized. By examining the ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Understanding Readers' Understanding

    Theory To Practice

    Edited by Robert J. Tierney, Patricia L. Anders, Judy Nichols Mitchell ...
    This collection features papers addressing current issues in reading comprehension from cognitive and linguistic perspectives. Organized into three sections, the volume investigates text considerations and reader-text interactions. Each paper presents a substantial and comprehensive review of theory and research related to cognition and reading comprehension. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The United Kingdom and The Federal Idea

    Edited by Professor Robert Schütze, Stephen Tierney ...
    How should political power be divided within and among national peoples? Is the nineteenth-century theory of the sovereign and unitary State still fit for purpose in the twenty-first century? If not, can federalism provide a viable alternative model? This collection looks at federalism from the perspective of constitutional law. Taking the United Kingdom as a case study, Part One tracks the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Greening Aid?

    Understanding the Environmental Impact of Development Assistance

    by Robert L. Hicks, Bradley C. Parks, J. Timmons Roberts, Michael J. Tierney ...
    Every year, billions of dollars of environmental aid flow from the rich governments of the North to the poor governments of the South. Why do donors provide this aid? What do they seek to achieve? How effective is the aid given? And does it always go to the places of greatest environmental need? From the first Earth Summit in Stockholm in 1972 to the G8 Gleneagles meeting in 2005, the issue of the ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Islands of Protest

    Japanese Literature from Okinawa

    by Steve Rabson, Professor Carolyn Anne Morley, Professor Amy C. Franks, Lin Loh Shi, Aimee Mizuno, Takuma Sminkey, Kyoko Selden, Dr. Alisa Freedman, Dr. Victoria Young0, Dr. Masaki Kinjo1, Professor Jon Holt2, Robert Tierney3 ...
    Literature is an important vehicle to further knowledge of other cultures, and English translations of Okinawan literary works have had a major impact on the field of Okinawan studies. Yet the riches of Okinawa's literature have yet to be adequately mined. Islands of Protest attempts to address this lacuna with this new selection of critically acclaimed modern and contemporary works in English.The ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Drums of Chaos

    by Richard L. Tierney ...
    Series Book 2 - Simon of Gitta Chronicles
    CAN A HANDFUL OF HEROES STOP AN APOCALYPSE CENTURIES IN THE MAKING?Escaped gladiator-slave Simon of Gitta returns to Judea — during the ministry of Jesus of Nazareth — on a mission to avenge the deaths of his parents, seeking revenge in blood against the Roman officials who committed the murders and sold Simon into slavery.But as Simon travels the Holy Lands with his mentor Dositheus and their ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Teaching Gap

    Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom

    by James W. Stigler, James Hiebert ...
    Comparing math teaching practices in Japan and Germany with those in the United States, two leading researchers offer a surprising new view of teaching and a bold action plan for improving education inside the American classroom.For years our schools and children have lagged behind international standards in reading, arithmetic, and most other areas of academic achievement. It is no secret that ... Read more

    $13.99 USD