Malaysia: Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2009. First Edition. Paperback. Karim Raslan has done it again. In his third collection of published essays, Karim tracks the tumultuous passage of Malaysian politics from 2003 till early October 2008. Ceritalah 3: Malaysia A Dream Deferred charts Dr Mahathir Mohamad's departure from office and the..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013. Frederic L Bender (ed.). Second Edition. Paperback. Karl Marx’s 1848 text is reframed in this revised Norton Critical Edition in the context of twenty-first-century theoretical debates, capitalist globalization, the information technology revolution, and contemporary struggles up to and including the 2011 “Arab Spring.”..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. Paperback. After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, international aid organizations sought to help the victims but were stymied by post-Soviet political roadblocks. Efforts to gain access to the site of catastrophic radiation damage were denied, and the residents of Chernobyl were given..... More
New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007. Daniel Simon (ed.). Reprint. Paperback. In a volume that is penetrating, introspective, incisive, and laugh-out-loud funny, one of the great men of letters of this age–or any age–holds forth on life, art, sex, politics, and the state of America’s soul. From his coming..... More
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2002. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. The book is a study on the administration of the Tung regime including Tung Chee-hwa's leadership and various branches of his government as well as the bureaucracy. It focuses on how Hong Kong has been governed since 1997 in..... More
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies/The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. Trade Paperback. Over 5,500 entries of government documents, books, book chapters, conference papers, scholarly journal articles, research reports theses, and dissertations, and reference works on Hong Kong politics published inside or outside of Hong Kong before..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. First Printing. Trade Paperback. A collection of essays in Chinese and English on the topics of history, economic culture, political economy, economic sociology, economic geography, ideology. More
Singapore: Straits Times Press, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Born in 1923, Singapore’s former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew has spent a lifetime being intimately involved in international affairs. He has met every major Chinese leader from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping and hobnobbed with American presidents from Lyndon Johnson to..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2008. Tenth Printing. Paperback. Whether calling for an end to the capitalist system, addressing the crowds after the Russian Revolution, or attacking Stalin during his years of exile, Trotsky’s speeches give an extraordinary insight into a man whose words and actions determined the fates of millions... More
London: Faber and Faber, 2018. First Printing. Paperback. When in 1999 I began writing for The New York Review of Books ... my stance became that of the ingenuous Martian who had just landed on a gorgeous alien planet ... Montaigne’s que sais-je. A little light, a little wonder, some..... More
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2018. Hardcover. China’s ascent to the rank of the world’s second largest economic power has given its revolution a better image than that of its Russian counterpart. Yet the two have a great deal in common. Indeed, the Chinese revolution was a carbon copy..... More
San Diego, California: IDW Publishing, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Follow the story of China’s infamous June Fourth Incident — otherwise known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre — from the first-hand account of a young sociology teacher who witnessed it all. Over 30 years ago, on April 15th 1989, the..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc., 1971. Hardcover. No c/r page or printing history indicated. Appears to be a Taiwanese pirated edition of original U.S. first edition first published in 1971 by Holt. Sold for its collectible value only since there's no way to guarantee accuracy of contents... More
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1984. Sixth Printing. Trade Paperback. In this new interpretation of the French Revolution, Professor Hunt argues that it gave birth to many essential characteristics of modern politics -- in particular, it marks the discovery of the potential of political action to consciously transform society..... More
New York: Penguin Press, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Heavy item; please note additional handling charge. Energized and inspired by the 2008 elections, celebrated illustrator Maira Kalman traveled to Washington, D.C., launching a year-long investigation of American democracy and its workings. The result is an artist’s idiosyncratic vision of..... More
London: Abacus, 2000. Reprint. Paperback. The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause..... More
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1966. Second Edition. Softcover. As reviewed in Foreign Affairs by Eliot A. Cohen: Just as Western armies perfected the arts of high-technology conventional warfare, they found themselves confronted by what one French paratrooper called "termite warfare" -- prolonged guerrilla or insurrectionary war relying on..... More
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1990. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Roger R. Thompson Long described as lost, this report was the result of Mao Zedong's investigation in 1930 of the people, economy, society and history of the obscure rural county of Xunwu..... More
London: Frances Pinter (Publishers), 1986. First Trade Paperback Edition. Softcover. More
Tempe, Arizona: Center for Asian Studies, Arizona State University, 1989. Trade Paperback. Rare. Monograph Series No. 24 The Qianfulun 潛夫論 "Comments of a Recluse" is a philosophical and political tractate written by the Later Han period 後漢 (25-220 CE) scholar Wang Fu 王符. Wang did not want to climb..... More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003. First Trade Paperback Edition, Third Printing. Trade Paperback. Very rare, signed edition. A collection of the former Prime Minister’s speeches and articles, ‘Statecraft’ brought Margaret Thatcher’s unrivalled political experience to bear on the challenges of the early new millennium. Margaret Thatcher’s influence on modern..... More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. More
Sydney: Wild Peony Pty Ltd, 1996. First Edition. Softcover. Part of the University of Sydney East Asian Series (No. 10). More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Annabel Brett (ed. and tr.). First Edition. Paperback. The Defender of the Peace of Marsilius of Padua is a massively influential text in the history of western political thought. Marsilius offers a detailed analysis and explanation of human political communities, before going on to attack..... More
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