The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
New York: Penguin Press, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. More
Politics
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The Savage Wars of Peace: England, Japan and the Malthusian Trap
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
Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History
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
While Reagan Slept
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
"You Can Fool All of the People All the Time"
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
The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1998. First Edition (stated), First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author. David Baltimore won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1975. Known as a wunderkind in the field of immunology, he rose quickly through the ranks of the scientific community to become the..... More
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1976. Paul Bacon (jacket design). First Edition (stated), First Printing. Hardcover. Doris Kearns Goodwin's classic life of Lyndon Johnson, who presided over the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and other defining moments the tumultuous 1960s, is a monument in political biography. From the moment..... More
In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India
New York: Little, Brown, 2006. First UK Edition. Hardcover. As the world's largest democracy and a rising international economic power, India has long been heralded for its great strides in technology and trade. Yet it is also plagued by poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, and a vast array of other social and..... More
Fast Food Nation
Penguin Books, 2002. Paperback. More
Civilization and Capitalism: The Structures of Everyday Life (Volume I)
London: Collins/Fontana Press, 1981. First U.K. Paperback Edition. Softcover. From Kirkus (Jan. 1, 1981): The Braudel craze set off in 1972 by the English translation of his great work The Mediterranean has abated a bit, but it is likely to flourish again with the appearance in English of his..... More
After the Neocons: America at the Crossroads
London: Profile Books, 2006. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author. More
China Perspectives No. 2020/2
Hong Kong: French Centre for Research of Contemporary China, 2020. Softcover. SPECIAL FEATURE: Contesting and Appropriating Chineseness in Sinophone Music Relocating the Functions of Chineseness in Chinese Popular Music after the China Wind Homoeroticising Archaic Wind Music: A Rhizomatic Return to Ancient China Navigating and Circumventing..... More
China Perspectives No. 2020/3
Hong Kong: French Centre for Research of Contemporary China, 2020. Softcover. SPECIAL FEATURE: Re-Envisioning Gender in China: (De)Legitimizing Gazes Foreword Edito – Legible and Thus Legitimate? Reading and Blurring Gender in China, Today and Yesterday What is Obscenity? Morality and Modernity in 1920s China Knowing Male..... More
China Perspectives No. 2020/4
Hong Kong: French Centre for Research of Contemporary China, 2020. Issue 123. Softcover. SPECIAL FEATURE Facets of Global China - Editorial – Global China Beyond the Belt and Road Initiative - Establishing the National Immigration Administration: Change and Continuity in China’s Immigration Reforms - The Aid-Contracting Nexus..... More
China Perspectives No. 2021/1
Hong Kong: French Centre for Research of Contemporary China, 2021. Softcover. SPECIAL FEATURE: Edito – Precarity, Platforms, and Agency: The Multiplication of Chinese Labour Bordering Work and Personal Life: Using “the Multiplication of Labour” to Understand Ethnic Performers’ Work in Southwest China Platform Labour and Contingent Agency..... More
China Perspectives No. 2021/2
Hong Kong: French Centre for Research of Contemporary China, 2021. Issue 125. Softcover. SPECIAL FEATURE: Editorial – Negotiating Agrarian Futures in China: Capital, Collectives, and Communities From Peasant to Elite: Reshaping Agriculture in Gansu Province Back to the Land “Peasant-entrepreneurs”: The New Actors of Chinese Peasant Agroecology..... More
Thomas Jefferson
New York: Pyramid Books, 1959. Paperback. A Ladder Edition adopted by Adolph Myers Pyramid Books no. E 15. More
Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home 1986-1990
New York: The Free Press, 1992. First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback. Will compares the success America has had in spreading the democratic/free market message abroad with the difficulties it is experiencing at home. He examines the merits and demerits of contemporary American culture, and the place that the..... More
Straight Talk
Taipei: Government Information Office, 1993. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. A collection of interviews, addresses and administrative reports by the former premier of Taiwan, Hau Pei-Tsun (1919-2020). More
History of the United States of America during the Administrations of James Madison, 1809-1813 (Volume 2)
New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 1986. The Library of America Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. One of the greatest histories ever written in English, Henry Adams’s History of the United States is remarkable for its fullness of detail, its penetrating insight, and above all its strong, lively, and..... More
Polemics and Prophecies, 1967-1970 (A Non-Conformist History of Our Times)
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. Softcover. More
The American Challenge
See annotation, 1968. Hardcover. Appears to be a Taiwanese pirated edition. Sold for its collectible value only since cannot guarantee accuracy of contents. From the front cover: A startling report on the impact of American Industry, Technology and Culture on Europe and the World. Translated from the..... More
Deer Hunting Wth Jesus : Dispatches from America's Class War
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
Understanding China: An Assessment of American Scholarly Resources
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
