London: Penguin Books, 2000. Trade Paperback. With an introduction by Peter Baehr A collection of writings by a groundbreaking political thinker, including excerpts from The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem She was a Jew born in Germany in the early twentieth century, and she studied with..... More
London: Egmont, 2011. Reprint. Hardcover. Left unfinished when he died in 1983, Hergé's last episode, Tintin and Alph-Art (published in 1986), was to describe the occult world of sects. It was also going to send Tintin wandering into a milieu that Hergé loved, that is the world of modern art..... More
New York: New Directions Publishing, 2018. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE 2019 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Publishers Weekly Best Poetry Book of 2018 Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of..... More
New York: New Directions Publishing, 2021. Trade Paperback. Translated from the German by Ernst Kaiser Eithne Wilkins In this quiet and devastating novel about the rise of fascism, Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is assigned to write a routine German lesson on the “The Joys of Duty.”..... More
New York: New Directions Publishing, 2018. Paperback. Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affection, mystery, and innumerable metaphors; cats cast a mirror on their beholders; cats endlessly captivate and hypnotize, frustrate and delight. And to poets, in particular, these enigmatic creatures are the most delightful..... More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2018. Cara Wilson (cover design). Fifth Printing. Paperback. Hong Kong pathologist Feng Chi-shun was once part-owner of a dive bar in Kowloon City: a rough part of town which was home to the Sun Yee On triad gang. During that time, he heard a lot of..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1969. Reprint. Paperback. In this volume two celebrated American economics engage in a dialogue with far-reaching implications for government policy in the next decade. More
Hong Kong: The Macmillan Press, 1984. Reprint. Paperback. The most important and influential writings of Louis Althesser, the French communist philosopher, spane the decade of the 1960s. More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1969. Reprint. Paperback. This text provides the mathematics background that is essential to the learning of introductory applied statistics. It is addressed to students who need to study statistical procedures but feeli/ nscure concerning their mathematical preparation. More
San Francisco, California: Modernbook Editions, 2021. Second Edition. Hardcover. An acclaimed photographer and film director, Fan Ho’s “The Living Theatre” elegantly captured life as it was carried out in both Hong Kong and China in between 1945-1966. The people as actors play out the dramas of their everyday in front..... More
San Francisco, California: Modernbook Editions, 2021. Mark Pinsukanjana (intro.), Bryan Yedinak (intro.), Sarah van Ingelgom (afterword). Second Edition. Hardcover. The final publication in the trilogy of photobooks published by Modernbook Editions, Fan Ho’s “A Hong Kong Memoir” follows the previous publications “The Living Theatre” and “Hong Kong Yesterday”. This third..... More
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2007. With contributions by Jill Cottrell and Yan Mei Ning. First Edition. Softcover. Hong Kong Media Law is an authorative guide to the laws most important to reporters, editors, news executives and other professionals working for the print, online and broadcast media - and..... More
New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1991. Michel P. Richard (introduction). Second Printing. Paperback. This classic work is a revised and abridged version, in a single volume, of the work which more than any other catapulted Pitirim Sorokin into being one of the most famed figures of twentieth-century sociology. Its original publication..... More
London: Progress Publishers, 1977. Reprint. Appears to be a Taiwanese pirated edition. Communism as a political movement attained global importance after the Bolsheviks toppled the Russian Czar in 1917. After that time the works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, especially the influential Communist Manifesto (1848), enjoyed an international audience..... More
Hanover: Brandeis University Press, 1993. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Mosse offers a comprehensive analysis of the complex and contradictory interactions of nationalism and Judaism during the last two centuries. “This collection showcases Mosse’s extraordinary talents as a European intellectual and cultural historian.” — Richard Breitman, American University See..... More
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003. First Impression (stated). Hardcover. Leap of Faith is the dramatic and inspiring story of an American woman's remarkable journey into the heart of a man and his nation. Born into a distinguished Arab-American family and raised amid privilege, Lisa Halaby joined the first freshman..... More
New York: Marlowe & Company, 1984. Suzanne Jill Levine (tr.). Reprint. Trade Paperback. Hidden behind a cloak of exotic mystery, Cuba is virtually unknown to American citizens. G. Cabrera Infante--in Infante's Inferno and several of his other novels--allows readers to peek behind the curtain surrounding this island and see the..... More
Hong Kong: Mount Zero Books, 2021. 許迪鏘 (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. 嘉俊，一個十分鄰家男孩的名字，他寫的也是相當日常生活的情事，雖然以旅游為主題的，主角一去就幾個月，未免有點（藝術性的）誇張。貫穿各個故事的是一種慵懶的生活態度，語調也接近隨意，鬆散（但絕不輕率），卻交織呈現出相當貼近當前社會現實的生態和意態，讓人讀來每不禁莞爾，雖然嘴角向上抑向下，或因人而異。作者對故事中人物的感情看似漫不經心，於字裏行間實留下有趣的探索空間。集内作品之前從未公開發表，這也是見山首次出書，同樣將面對讀者的接受考驗。不過，如果讀者在見山附近遇上一個眼屎拉碴，蓬頭趿拖的男孩，請放心，那絕不會是他。. More
London: Flamingo, 1999. Reprint. Hardcover. The same vulnerable but invincible spirit that captured our hearts in the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Angela's Ashes comes of age in 'Tis. Listen as Frank tells in his own inimitable voice his story of how at the age of 19 he traveled from Limerick..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. See second photo of jacket front flap for book synopsis. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. First Edition. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Heavy item, additional handling fees for local delivery. In Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a “compelling…masterfully told” (The Wall Street Journal) account of..... More
New York: Metropolitan Books, 2012. Philip Boehn (tr.). First US Edition. Hardcover. A masterful new novel from the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize, hailed for depicting the landscape of the dispossessed with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose (Nobel Prize Committee) It was an icy..... More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1999. Hardcover with slipcase. From Shel Silverstein, New York Times bestselling author of Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic, comes a poignant picture book about love and acceptance, cherished for over fifty years. This classic is perfect for both young readers and..... More
New York: Marble Arch Press, 2014. Trade Paperback. Translated from the Korean by Sora Kim-Russell Already a wildly popular bestseller in South Korea, this gripping and passionate debut novel is a death row love story of crime, punishment, and forgiveness—vividly told by the exquisitely talented Gong Ji-young. Yu-Jung..... More
New York: Random House, 2010. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. With the same dazzling imagination and love of language that have made Salman Rushdie one of the great storytellers of our time, "Luka and the Fire of Life" revisits the magic-infused, intricate world he first brought to life in the modern..... More
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