New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1993. Second, revised edition. Softcover. This Norton Critical Edition presents the work of one of America's foremost poets. It moves well beyond the scope of its predecessor, Adrienne Rich's Poetry (1975), in giving proper recognition to Rich's extraordinary achievements in both poetry and..... More
Peking, China: Foreign Language Press, 1979. Second Edition (stated). Hardcover. Translated by W.J.F. Jenner Ghost written by Li Wenda Originally published in 1964. More
New York: Penguin Press, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. More
London: Penguin Books, 2008. Reprint. Paperback. Alan Greenspan wielded more power than the presidents he worked for, from Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton to George Bush and his son. He was in the command room of the world economy for longer than any other single figure. One word from him..... More
New York: William Morrow, 1995. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. 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
New York: Hill and Wang, 2002. First Paperback Edition. First Printing. Paperback. A surprising assessment of the failures and successes of modern Japan. In Dogs and Demons, Alex Kerr chronicles the many facets of Japan's recent, and chronic, crises -- from the failure of its banks and pension funds..... More
Beijing, China: China Renmin University Press, 2013. Softcover. 2 volume set. English text with Chinese notes. More
New York: Vintage Books, 1954. Reprint. Mass Market Edition. V-111. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. First Edition (presumed). First Printing. Hardcover. A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. It takes students from the days of the shogunate--the feudal overlordship..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. First Paperback Edition, Second Printing. Softcover. More
New York: New York Review of Books, 2002. First Edition (presumed). First Printing. Hardcover. Books review of this title that appeared in Foreign Affairs magazine: Wednesday, January 1, 2003 - 12:00am China's New Rulers: The Secret Files Lucian W. Pye Nathan has become the mail drop for secret..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Reprint. Paperback. This book offers a new analysis of the works of the three authors who have contributed most to establishing the basic framework of contemporary sociology. Recent scholarship has illuminated important aspects of the ideas of Marx, Durkheim and Weber, but has also given..... More
Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1996. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. Is there a future for sociology? To many, sociology seems to have lost its way. Born of the ideas of Auguste Comte in the nineteenth century, sociology established itself as 'the science of modernity', linked to a progressive view of..... 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
Penguin Group Australia, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. Signed by author on title page. Penguin Specials: The Inaugural Hong Kong Series. From the turbulent 1960s until today, Hong Kong has been a city shaped by civil disobedience. The latest wave of protests in Hong Kong’s long history of public dissent culminated..... 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
London: Zed Books, 2014. With forewords by Angela Davis and Lennox Hinds. Reprint. Paperback. In 2013 Assata Shakur, founding member of the Black Liberation Army, former Black Panther and godmother of Tupac Shakur, became the first ever woman to make the FBI's most wanted terrorist list. Assata Shakur's trial..... 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
London: Canongate Books Ltd, 2009. Reprint. Includes the Inaugural Address and 8 other key speeches. More
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