Brooklyn: Melville House, 2016. Reprint. Trade Paperback. "The Queue ... has drawn comparisons to Western classics like George Orwell’s 1984 and The Trial by Franz Kafka. It represents a new wave of dystopian and surrealist fiction from Middle Eastern writers who are grappling with the chaotic aftermath and stinging disappointments..... More
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2019. Milan Bozic (cover design). First Harper Paperbacks Edition. Paperback. Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Suns, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the..... More
New York: Pocket Books, Inc, 1940. First Pocket Book Edition. Paperback. More
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Collection of essays. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Gun Larson (jacket design). First Edition (stated), Second Printing. Hardcover. From Kirkus (7 Sept 1990): A collection of 12 essays on ""the background, origins, character, and legacy"" of the American Revolution, filled with the grace and insight that has made Bailyn (Adams University..... More
New Haven: Yale University Pres, 2001. First US Edition. Second Printing. Hardcover. In this timely book, Bernard Wasserstein offers the first authoritative history of the fraught diplomatic relations surrounding the Holy City of Jerusalem. Jews, Muslims, and Christians have all claimed the city as their own over the centuries--as have..... More
London: White Lotus UK, 1990. Second Edition. Paperback. Rare edition. More
London: Routledge, 2013. Third Edition. Paperback. This hugely popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize post-colonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity. For this third edition over..... More
London: Arrow Books, 2008. Paperback. Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations—and by individuals—to solve problems and save lives..... More
London: John Murray, 1963. Oscar Lancaster (illustrations). Reprint. Paperback. More
London: William Collins, 2020. Trade Paperback. A Sunday Times bestseller | A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Named a best book of the year by The Economist | Financial Times | New Statesman | The Telegraph "[Putin's People] will surely now become the definitive account of the..... More
SIngapore: Self-Published/ Academia SG, 2020. First Edition. Paperback. Singapore appears to be transitioning gradually to a more competitive and contentious democracy. For now, though, the People’s Action Party still controls all the levers of power. The PAP’s internal dynamics will be the primary determinant of its continued viability. This anthology..... More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. First Edition. First Printing. Softcover. In a comprehensive and theoretically novel analysis, Take Back Our Future unveils the causes, processes, and implications of the 2014 seventy-nine-day occupation movement in Hong Kong known as the Umbrella Movement. The essays presented here by a team of experts..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2010. David Pearson (cover artwork). Tenth Printing. Paperback. Beautifully written yet highly controversial, An Image of Africa asserts Achebe's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness only serves to perpetuate damaging stereotypes of black people. Also included..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Rare. This book brings together ninety extracts of Western non-fiction about China, many of which have been out of print for centuries. Authors include Marco Polo, Adam Smith, Somerset Maugham, Pearl Buck, and Sheryl WuDunn. Topics covered include female infanticide, secular..... More
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1976. First Edition (stated). Softcover. The Hundred Days' Reform was a failed 103-day national, cultural, political, and educational reform movement from 11 June to 22 September 1898 in late Qing dynasty China. It was undertaken by the young Guangxu Emperor and his reform-minded supporters. Following the..... More
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. "We want neither gods nor emperors", went the words from the Chinese version of The Internationale. Students sang the old socialist song as they gathered in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in the Spring of 1989. Craig Calhoun, a sociologist..... More
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2020. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. All complex and large-scale societies are organized along certain hierarchies, but the concept of hierarchy has become almost taboo in the modern world. Just Hierarchy contends that this stigma is a mistake. In fact, as Daniel Bell and..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1998. First Edition (stated), First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author. David Baltimore won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1975. Known as a wunderkind in the field of immunology, he rose quickly through the ranks of the scientific community to become the..... More
London: Verso, 2018. Trade Paperback. Radical glossary of the vocabulary of policing that redefines the very way we understand law enforcement It doesn’t take firsthand experience to learn the meaning of pain compliance or rough ride. Police: A Field Guide is an illustrated handbook to the methods, mythologies..... More
Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1976. Paul Bacon (jacket design). First Edition (stated), First Printing. Hardcover. Doris Kearns Goodwin's classic life of Lyndon Johnson, who presided over the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and other defining moments the tumultuous 1960s, is a monument in political biography. From the moment..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. The Good Terrorist follows Alice Mellings, a woman who transforms her home into a headquarters for a group of radicals who plan to join the IRA. As Alice struggles to bridge her ideology and her bourgeois upbringing, her..... More
New York: Vintage Books, 1971. Reprint. Paperback. Combines firsthand narratives, interviews and personal insights in this sweeping contemporary portrait of Communist China. More
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