The Wisdom of Crowds
Anchor Books, 2005. Paperback. More
Anchor Books, 2005. Paperback. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995. Tenth Anniversary Edition. Trade Paperback. One of America's most important writers takes on the arrest of Wayne Bertram Williams for the murder of twenty-eight black children in Atlanta to offer this searing indictment of the nation's racial stagnation. This edition of James..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. Hong Kong the Super Paradox cuts into the cold reality of post-colonial Hong Kong, which demonstrates a paradoxical normalcy in its internal politics belying all pre-1997 prophecies of doom, and offers plausible reasons for the wide discrepancy between..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976. Fifth Printing. Trade Paperback. “This work is a profound and fundamental contribution to the issues addressed.”—Sociology “Vital to an understanding of peasant politics.”—Library Journal James C. Scott places the critical problem of the peasant household—subsistence—at the center of this study. The fear..... More
New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2017. Fifth Printing. Paperback. James Scott taught us what’s wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the..... More
Englewood Cliff, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1985. Second Edition, Second Printing. Trade Paperback. An overview of the development of contemporary Chinese politics from 1949 to 1984. More
Boston: Mariner Books, 1996. Steven Cooley (cover design). First Edition. Third Printing. Paparback. An American Requiem is the story of one man's coming of age. But more than that, it is a coming to terms with the conflicts that disrupted many families, inflicting personal wounds that were also social, political..... More
New York: Everyman's Library, 2019. First Everyman's Library Edition. Hardcover. “America was never innocent.” Thus begins the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy. It’s James Ellroy’s pop history of the 1960s, his window-peeper’s view of government misconduct, his dirty trickster’s take on the great events of an incendiary era. It’s a tour..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. Paperback. The bitter and protracted struggle between President Thomas Jefferson and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall defined the basic constitutional relationship between the executive and judicial branches of government. More than one hundred fifty years later, their clashes still reverberate in constitutional debates..... More
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006. Steve Turner (design). Reprint. Hardcover. Authoritative and fully up-to-date account by leading China expert on China's economic rise and how it will affect the world The new China, the nation that in 25 years has changed beyond all recognition is becoming an industrial powerhouse..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 2013. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. The Death of Mao opens in the summer of 1976, as Mao Zedong lay dying and China was struck by a great natural disaster. The earthquake that struck Tangshan, a shoddily built mining city, was one of the worst in recorded..... More
Taipei: Kwang Hwa Publishing Company, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. A collection of essays and news articles on the politics and history of modern Taiwan with contributions by Lee Teng-hui among others. More
New York: Other Press, 2006. Jeremy Diamond (cover design). First English Edition. First Printing. Paperback. "To make the effort to understand what happened in Rwanda is a painful task that we have no right to shirk–it is part of being a moral adult." –Susan Sontag In the late 1990s..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2004. Maurice Cranston (tr.). Reprint. Paperback. Rousseau's explosive cry for human liberty helped to spark the French Revolution and has haunted our discussions of how we should rule one another ever since - seen as both a blueprint for political terror and as a fundamental statement of..... More
Hong Kong: Bacdrop Studio Limited, 2020. First Edition. Softcover. Art has long been regarded as a cultural form within social movements to confront injustice and reshape society. The 2019 Hong Kong social movement has witnessed a proliferation of creative energies during the protests for people to express their social and..... More
New York: APress, 2011. Trade Paperback. Today, nearly every charitable nonprofit, advocacy group, professional group, and politician relies on the philanthropy of others. Whether it's a private college, a hospital or museum, a lobbying group, or a local, low-budget food shelf, operational and marketing costs and capital investments are often..... More
Cambridge: Polity Press, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. If you look carefully at how things are actually made in China - from shirts to toys, apple juice to oil rigs - you see a reality that contradicts every widely-held notion about the world's so-called economic powerhouse. From the inside looking out..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. First Edition. Paperback. What role do nationalism and popular protest play in China's foreign relations? Chinese authorities permitted anti-American demonstrations in 1999 but repressed them in 2001 during two crises in U.S.-China relations. Anti-Japanese protests were tolerated in 1985, 2005, and 2012 but banned in..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2017. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 'Art is not a luxury. Art is a basic social need to which everyone has a right'. This extraordinary collection of 100 artists' manifestos from across the globe over the last 100 years brings together activists, post-colonialists, surrealists, socialists, nihilists and..... More
Beijing: Beijing Review Press, 1989. First Edition. Paperback. Covers history, population, human rights, the Dalai Lama, religion, culture, autonomy, economy, people's livelihood, the Lhasa riots. More
New York: Vintage International, 2018. Third Printing. Paperback. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks—of overheard dialogue, interviews, drafts of essays, copies of articles. South and West gives us two extended excerpts from notebooks she kept in the 1970s; read together, they form a piercing view of the American political and..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009. Robert Anthony (cover design). Reprint. Paperback. In this landmark essay collection, Joan Didion brilliantly interweaves her own “bad dreams” with those of a nation confronting the dark underside of 1960s counterculture. From a jailhouse visit to Black Panther Party cofounder Huey Newton..... More
New York: Seven Stories Press, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. In 1987, the death of Ben Linder, the first American killed by President Reagan’s “freedom fighters” — the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan Contras — ignited a firestorm of protest and debate. In this landmark first biography of Linder, investigative journalist Joan..... More
Corgi Books, 2016. Paperback. More
New York: Three Rivers Press, 2007. Paperback. Years before Hillbilly Elegy and White Trash, a raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor — and why they have learned to hate liberalism. What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowledged class war. By turns tender, incendiary, and..... More