Hong Kong: Rock Lion, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Heavy item, an additional HKD30 handling fee will be charged for local delivery. For the entirety of the protests — from the early vast marches to the violent police arrests to the vandalism and the eventual ballot box victory — some of..... More
Hong Kong: Rock Lion, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Heavy item, an additional HKD30 handling fee will be charged for local delivery. A companion book, VOICES, is a collection of the artwork, slogans and verse spawned by the Hong Kong protest movement. From the very beginning of the protests with..... More
Winchester, UK: Zero Books, 2014. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 24 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Europe is as divided as ever. The passengers of the low-budget airlines go east for stag parties, and they go West for work; but the East stays East, and West stays West..... More
New York: Penguin Press, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. More
New York: William Morrow, 1995. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. More
London: Blackwell Publishers, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. This book aims to solve the problem of how parts of mankind escaped from an apparently inevitable trap of war, famine and disease in the last three hundred years. Through a detailed comparative analysis of English and Japanese history it explores..... More
Cambridge: Icon Books, 2002. First Edition. Paperback. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Princeton Studies in International History and Politics series. Cultural Realism is an in-depth study of premodern Chinese strategic thought that has important implications for contemporary international relations theory. In applying a Western theoretical debate to China, Iain Johnston advances..... More
Beijing, China: China Renmin University Press, 2013. Softcover. 2 volume set. English text with Chinese notes. More
New York: Verso, 2020. Trade Paperback. New Updated 2020 Edition With a preface by Tariq Ali Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest—rallying others around them or, sometimes, inspiring uprisings many years later. Their..... More
UK: Penguin Classics, 2019. First Penguin Classics Edition. Trade Paperback. Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories of..... More
London: Macmillan, 1985. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. A sociological case study of four political activists in China. More
Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. The idea of finding a 'third way' in politics has been widely discussed over recent months – not only in the Uk, but in the Us, Continental Europe and Latin America. But what is the third way? Supporters of the notion haven't been..... More
New York: Hyperion, 2004. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. More
Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. First American Edition. Softcover. From the book: 'Paris was fond of stormy weather and emerging toads; the thirst for knowledge was supreme, and the first to read and reread the news were the first to render it with criticism. Authors and readers, great..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1999. Claudia Meiville (tr). Second Printing. Softcover. In the spring of 1750 a two-day series of riots erupted in Paris when the populace discovered that police were sweeping children off the streets in an overzealous attempt to control vagrancy. Arlette Farge and Jacques Revel use..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1983. Steve Mendelson (illustrations). First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Art Buchwald is one of the leading Ronald Reagan watchers in America. While other Reagan watchers have observed the President while he is awake, Buchwald is the only one who has caught Mr. Reagan while he was..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. "You Can Fool All of the People All the Time" -- but you can only fool Art Buchwald half the time. In this, his twenty-first book, Mr. Buchwald takes another look at the Reagan administration, to see if it..... More
New York: Scribner, 2019. Jim Tierney (cover design). Trade Paperback. With an introduction by Michael Scammell A brilliant new translation of Koestler's long-lost original manuscript. A chilling and unforgettable 20th century classic. From a prison cell in an unnamed country run by a totalitarian government Rubashov reflects. Once..... More
Connecticut: Konecky & Konecky, 1971. Reprint. Hardcover. The young Schlesinger, for all the tradition he embodied, had a refreshing streak of informality. While working in the Kennedy White House, he found time to review movies for Show magazine. He also admitted his mistakes. One, he said, was neglecting to mention..... More
London: Rider, 2008. Reprint. Paperback. Aung San Suu Kyi is known for her courageous stand for democracy and human rights inside Burma (now Myanmar). Forced to endure many years of house arrest by the military junta, she continues to act as a focus for change inside the country now that..... More
New York: Melville House, 2010. First Edition. Second Printing. Hardcover. Understanding North Korea through its propaganda What do the North Koreans really believe? How do they see themselves and the world around them? Here B.R. Myers, a North Korea analyst and a contributing editor of The Atlantic, presents..... More
Brooklyn, New York: Melville House, 2011. Trade Paperback. For years, North Korea watchers who speak no Korean have been confidently telling the world what motivates Kim Jong-Il. But in The Cleanest Race, B.R. Myers, a North Korea analyst and contributing editor of the Atlantic Monthly, presents the first full-length study..... More
London: Vintage Books, 1998. James Jones (book design). Trade Paperback. The daring and controversial novel that took the world by storm–a story of politics, selfhood, survival, and war. Heart-wrenching, fragmented, raw, former North Vietnamese solder Bao Ninh’s The Sorrow of War provides a strikingly honest look at how the..... More
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
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