New York: Three Rivers Press, 2007. Paperback. ABOUT DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS 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... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 2003. Softcover. In late l991 and early 1992, at the time of the first Intifada, Joe Sacco spent two months with the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, travelling and taking notes. Upon returning to the United States he started writing and drawing Palestine, which..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 2020. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. The Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by their account. To the Dene, the land owns them, not the other way around, and it is central to their livelihood and very way of being. But..... More
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1970. Richard Kapolka (cover design). First Printing. Softcover. Rare edition. A Harper Torchbook. # TB 1518. Translated by James S. Holmes and Hans van Marie. About the author: Johan Huizinga was born in 1872 in Groningen. He studied Dutch and..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2020. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. As President Trump's National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it happened, and the facts speak for themselves. The result is a White House memoir that is the most comprehensive and..... More
New York: Perennial Classics, 2000. Reprint. Paperback. More
Canberra: Autralian National University Press, 1981. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. A book about the events leading up to the May Fourth Movement in China. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. First Edition, First Printing (stated). Hardcover. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973. First Edition (presumed), First Printing (stated). Hardcover. The third and final of Galbraith's books on economics, the other two being The Affluent Society and The New Industrial State. More
Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1971. First Edition (presumed). Trade Paperback. With contributions by Lucian W. Pye, Chalmers Johnson, Michel C. Oksenberg, Frederick C. Teiwes, Peter Schran, Victor H. Li, Donald J. Munro, Donald W. Klein, Ellis Joffe, Gabriel A. Almond. More
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. A report to the Ford Foundation, part of the Praeger Library of Chinese Affairs. General editor: Donald W. Klein (Columbia University). More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979. Reprint. Paperback. This account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968 begins with the ball rising into the air for the initial serve and ends with the final point. McPhee provides a brilliant, stroke-by-stroke..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. Third Edition. Reprint. Paperback. When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were at the beginning of their careers. A Sense of Where You Are, McPhee's first book, is about Bradley when he was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen. McPhee delineates..... More
London: Bantam Press, 2006. First Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover (cloth). More
London: Penguin Books, 1977. Reprint. Paperback. With an introduction by A.J.P. Taylor An impassioned firsthand account of the Russian Revolution, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in March 2017 An American journalist and revolutionary writer, John Reed became a close friend of Lenin and was an eyewitness to the..... More
London: Continuum, 2006. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. A collection of biographical portraits of British political figures: Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Winston Churchill, Randolph Churchill, Lord Longford, Harold Wilson, Aspinall and Goldsmith, Margaret Thatcher, Frank Williams, Michael Portillo, Nicky Gumbel. More
New York: Crown, 2017. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the riveting story of a sure thing gone..... More
Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017. Second Edition. Paperback. China's spectacular growth and expanding global role have led to visions of the 21st century being dominated by the last major state on earth ruled by a Communist Party. In this new edition of his widely acclaimed book, renowned China expert Jonathan Fenby..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976. First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Conventionally, historians view the 1911 Revolution in China through the activities of professional revolutionaries led by Sun Yat-sen, and they see these revolutoinaries’ propaganda and organizing activities as eventually leading to the Wuchang Uprising on October 10, 1911... More
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. More
Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong/Contemporary China Research Prjoe, 2015. Softcover. Despite China’s consistent emphasis in its “peaceful” rise, the outside world remains skeptical. The “China threat” perception seems only to have grown with China’s comprehensive national power. Is China a threat or a helping hand in creating peace..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2020. Jason Y. Ng (co-author). Trade Paperback. The must read book for anyone who cares about Hong Kong and democracy. - Introduction by Ai Weiwei - 'Joshua Wong is a brave and inspiring young leader. Together we are one loud voice that cannot be silenced.' –..... More
Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. Trade Paperback. Judith Farquhar’s innovative study of medicine and popular culture in modern China reveals the thoroughly political and historical character of pleasure. Ranging over a variety of cultural terrains--fiction, medical texts, film and television, journalism, and observations of clinics and urban daily life in..... More
North Carolina: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 20190. Reprint. Trade Paperback. 25th Anniversary Edition. "A magnificent treasure for all cultures and all time.” --St. Petersburg Times It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot..... More
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