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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Womens History of the Modern World
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Homo Deus
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Sapiens A Graphic History
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HarperCollins Sapiens A Graphic History Volume 3
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HarperCollins Sapiens Tenth Anniversary Ed
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Penguin Books Ltd Family Secrets
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Penguin Putnam Inc The World Until Yesterday
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Penguin Putnam Inc Sister Outsider Essays and Speeches Penguin Vitae
Book Synopsis“Sister Outsider, a collection of essays and speeches by the pioneering feminist Audre Lorde, is one of my all-time-favorite books. It’s always great to have an intersectional tome on hand.” —Amanda Gorman Sister Outsider's teachings, by one of our most revered elder stateswomen, should be read by everyone. —EssencePresenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature, with a foreword by Mahogany L. Browne. A New York Times New & Noteworthy bookA Penguin Vitae EditionIn this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Print Cultures A Reader in Theory and Practice
Book SynopsisCaroline Davis is senior lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, in the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, where she teaches print culture, book history and publishing studies. She is the author of Creating Postcolonial Literature: African Writers and British Publishers (Palgrave, 2013) and the co-editor of The Book in Africa: Critical Debates (Palgrave, 2015). Her recent articles have appeared in the Journal of Southern African Studies, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, The Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Book History. She previously worked at Oxford University Press and Oxford University Centre for Humanities Computing.Trade ReviewThis reader is the definitive introduction to the growing field of Publishing. Students new to the field or searching for a context for their own research will find everything they need here. * Helen Marshall, Anglia Ruskin University, UK *Print Cultures is a bold and generous gift to the field. Readers will find seminal essays juxtaposed with surprises in each of the nine carefully curated sections, making it ideal for the classroom. I look forward to discussing this magnificent compilation with our graduate students for years to come, and the future of the book is brighter because of it. * Kyle Schlesinger, University of Houston-Victoria, USA *Table of ContentsPART ONE: Publishing Theory and Practice Introduction Stanley Unwin, The Truth About a Publisher Pierre Bourdieu, The Market of Symbolic Goods Gérard Genette, Introduction to Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation Lynne Spender, Intruders on the Rights of Men: Women's Unpublished Heritage John Thompson, Introduction to Merchants of Culture Michael Bhaskar, The Digital Context and Challenge PART TWO: Authorship Introduction Mary Ann Gillies, Agents and the Field of Print Culture Joe Moran, Disembodied Images: Authors, Authorship and Celebrity Juliet Gardiner, 'What is an Author': Contemporary Publishing Discourse and the Author Figure Laura Dietz, Who Are You Calling an Author? Changing Definitions of Career Legitimacy for Novelists in the Digital Era George Landow, Reconfiguring the Author PART THREE: Readers and the Literary Marketplace Introduction Q. D. Leavis, The Book Market Geoffrey Faber, A Publisher Looks at Booksellers Janice Radway, The Scandal of the Middlebrow Clive Bloom, How the British Read PART FOUR: Censorship and Print Culture Introduction Sue Curry Jansen, The Censor's New Clothes Lewis A. Coser, Publishers as Gatekeepers of Ideas Alistair McCleery The Trials and Travels of Lady Chatterley's Lover Archie L. Dick, Combating Censorship and Making Space for Books PART FIVE: Books, Propaganda and War Introduction Peter Buitenhuis, Setting up the Propaganda Machine Jane Potter, For Country, Conscience and Commerce Valerie Holman, Publishing and the State Joe Pearson, Books for the Forces John B. Hench, The American Publisher's Series Goes to War, 1942-1946 PART SIX: Colonial and Postcolonial Print Culture Introduction Pascale Casanova, World Literary Space Robert Fraser, School Readers in the Empire and the Creation of Postcolonial Taste Henry Chakaya, Kenyan Publishing: Independence and Dependence Graham Huggan, African Literature/Postcolonial Exotic James Currey, Africa Writes Back PART SEVEN: Women and Print Culture Introduction Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own Urvashi Butalia and Ritu Menon, Making a Difference: Feminist Publishing in the South Simone Murray, Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar and Rumsha Shahzad, She Needs a Website of Her Own: The 'Indie' Woman Writer and Contemporary Publishing PART EIGHT: Literary Prize Culture Introduction Richard Todd, Literary Prizes and the Media Tom Maschler, How It All Began: The Man Booker Prize Claire Squires, Genre in the Marketplace James English, Scandalous Currency PART NINE: Globalisation and the Book Introduction André Schiffrin, The Future of Publishing Walter Bgoya, The Effects of Globalisation in Africa Angus Phillips, The Global Book Suman Gupta, Globalisation and Literature Sarah Brouillette The Global Literary Field and Market Postcolonialism.
£100.00
MIT Press Ltd History of Shit
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£20.70
Forgotten Books Folk Beliefs of the Southern Negro Classic Reprint
£25.42
University of Washington Press Picture Bride
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[B]eautifully written, lyrical and heart-rending." * Times Literary Supplement *
£15.19
Yale University Press The Chessboard and the Web
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In happier times, The Chessboard and the Web might have been taken as extended application letters for senior posts under either Hillary Clinton or a mainstream Republican. . . . Where Slaughter is fundamentally at odds with the new Washington is in her belief that foreign policy is not a zero-sum game. For her, politics is more than a bilateral tussle over trade or security. . . . She argues her case from both an extensive review of the literature and her own experience in government, citing examples such as the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change."—Mark Malloch-Brown, Financial Times“Successful. . . it is a commonsensical plea for foreign policy experts to take network power more seriously.” —Jeffrey Collins, TLS“Slaughter’s book is both a guide for diplomats and a vision for the future of diplomacy. . . a new grand strategy to guide foreign-policy making.”—Ilan Manor, International Affairs"This paradigm-changing book cogently encourages fresh ways of thinking about the workplace and the world. . . . Readers will likely end up taking this book to work with them when especially challenging problems arise."—Publishers Weekly, (starred review)"The Chessboard and the Web presents a brilliantly imaginative vision of world politics for the age of the Internet and social media, informed by the author’s career in government as well as her scholarship."—Robert O. Keohane, Professor of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University"A profound and insightful view of geopolitics from one of the greatest living foreign policy thinkers. This book should be required reading for any student or practitioner of international relations. It will only become more relevant and prescient over time."—Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Alphabet Inc."Must reading for policymakers and citizens alike. Anne-Marie Slaughter has taken on the enormous task of rethinking grand strategy in an interconnected world where government is but one of the key players. There is little doubt that an Open Order world would be more prosperous and safer. The Chessboard and the Web launches an important conversation on how to get there."—Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice"Slaughter’s book applies well beyond the field of foreign policy. It speaks directly to the needs of global business to rethink the architecture and culture of their business models, organizations and strategies."—Tom Pritzker, Executive Chairman Hyatt Hotels Corp."Networks are becoming more important and deserve more attention in both the theory and practice of foreign policy. Slaughter's exposition is masterful and succinct. This book will command attention, not only because of her scholarship but also because of her reputation and experience."—Joseph S. Nye Jr., author of Soft Power and Is the American Century Over?
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Hachette Books Agents of Chaos Thomas King Forçade High Times
Book SynopsisThe life and times of High Times' enigmatic founder Thomas King Forçade, an underground newspaper editor and marijuana kingpin who-between police raids, smuggling runs, and outrageous stunts-battled both the US government and fellow radicals.
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Macmillan Learning The Silk Roads
Book SynopsisThisthoughtful introduction examines the many ways in whichthe peoples along the Silk Roads interacted, and considers the implications for economies and societies, as well as political and religious institutions. The book contains a range of primary material, some of which has been translated into English for the first time.
£37.99
ABC-CLIO Medieval Games
Book SynopsisA scholarly narrative of sports from the fall of Rome to the end of the Middle Ages, this text looks at the evidence of sports and recreations in late antiquity and focuses on the close relationship between sports and war in feudal society.Table of ContentsPreface The Study of Medieval Sports and Recreations, 1927-1991 The Societies and Their Perceptions of Sports and Recreations Sports in Pre-Feudal Europe Sports, Recreations, and War in Feudal Europe Sports and the Public Person: Establishing a Reputation and Promoting It in the High Middle Ages Sports, Recreations, and the Church in Feudal Society Sports and Recreations Reflected in Art Sports Violence in Medieval Society Two Medieval Sportspeople Bibliographical Essay Select Bibliography Index
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Pan Macmillan Inspector Minahan Makes a Stand
Book SynopsisBridget O'Donnell is a former BBC producer and director. She has written for various newspapers, incuding the Guardian, and recently completed with distinction an MA in Creative Non-Fiction at City University. She lives in London with her family. This is her first book.Trade Review‘A riveting book, deeply shocking one moment, rich in absurdity the next’ Daily Mail‘Captures all the colour of a Victorian melodrama’ Independent‘Plunges us deep into a late-Victorian, fog-bound London’ Mail on Sunday ‘Vividly depicts a system of double standards in which much of the Establishment was implicated’ Sunday Times
£9.49
Bloomsbury USA 3pl Religion and the Working Class in NineteenthCentury Britain Studies in Economic and Social History
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl The Origins of the Liberal Welfare Reforms 19061914 Studies in Economic and Social History
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Middling Sort of People Culture Society and Politics in England 15501800 Themes in Focus
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Social History Problems Strategies and Methods
Book SynopsisMILES FAIRBURN is a practising social historian who also teaches advanced courses on historiography and historical method. He is the author of two major books on the social history of New Zealand and presently occupies the Chair in History at Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand.
£38.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Riot Rebellion and Popular Politics in Early Modern England Social History in Perspective
Book SynopsisANDY WOOD is Senior Lecturer in social history at the University of East Anglia.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Power and Protest in England 15251640 Reconstructions in Early Modern History
Book SynopsisPower and the People describes how England remained governable between 1525 and 1640, despite the wars, famine, epidemics, and dynastic and religious crises of the period. The book surveys the mechanisms of authority at various levels, from the street and alehouse to the manor and the royal court.Trade Review'This is social history with the politics put back, and political history at its best.' John Guy, Professor of Modern History, University of St. Andrews 'This judicious and perceptive survey will be essential reading for teachers and students. A thought-provoking synthesis which draws both on Dr Wall's own research and on extensive secondary reading.' History 'Every point raised is dealt with competently and with well-selected illustrative details.' The English Historical Review
£38.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) England in Conflict 16031660 Kingdom Community Commonwealth Hodder Arnold Publication
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Random House USA Inc My Life on the Road
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Penguin Random House LLC The Atlantic Sound
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Random House USA Inc The Soul of America
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Men and Maternity
Book SynopsisSince the development of modern medicine, men have become increasingly involved in childbearing as obstetricians and, more recently, as fathers. This book argues that the beneficial contribution of men has been taken for granted. Certain changes to childbearing practice have resulted, which, together with men''s involvement, have been encouraged without any reference to evidence and without adequate opportunity for reflection.Considering the findings of recent research and wider literature, and using qualitative research with mothers the text examines: how men became increasingly involved in childbearing the medicalisation of childbirth the difficulties men experience with childbirth as fathers challenging situations, such as fathers'' grief the taken-for-granted assumptions that men's increased contribution to childbearing is beneficialThis text will be of great interest to academics and postgraduate students of midwifery, obstetrics, mediTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Cultures and Times 2. The Midwife and Medical Men 3. Fathers and Fatherhood 4. The Labour and the Birth 5. Becoming a Father After the Birth 6. Childbearing and Domestic Violence 7. Men and Loss in Childbearing 8. How to Help - The Midwife's Role 9. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd New Makers of Modern Culture
Book SynopsisNew Makers of Modern Culture is the successor to the classic reference works Makers of Modern Culture and Makers of Nineteenth-Century Culture, published by Routledge in the early 1980s. The set was extremely successful and continues to be used to this day, due to the high quality of the writing, the distinguished contributors, and the cultural sensitivity shown in the selection of those individuals included. New Makers of Modern Culture takes into full account the rise and fall of reputation and influence over the last twenty-five years and the epochal changes that have occurred: the demise of Marxism and the collapse of the Soviet Union; the rise and fall of postmodernism; the eruption of Islamic fundamentalism; the triumph of the Internet. Containing over eight hundred essay-style entries, and covering the period from 1850 to the present, New Makers of Modern Culture includes artists, writers, dramatists, architects, philosophers, anthropologists, scientists, sociologists, major political figures, composers, film-makers and many other culturally significant individuals and is thoroughly international in its purview. Next to Karl Marx is Bob Marley, next to John Ruskin is Salman Rushdie, alongside Darwin is Luigi Dallapiccola, Deng Xiaoping runs shoulders with Jacques Derrida as do Julia Kristeva and Kropotkin. Once again, Wintle has enlisted the services of many distinguished writers and leading academics, such as Sam Beer, Bernard Crick, Edward Seidensticker and Paul Preston. In a few cases, for example Michael Holroyd and Philip Larkin, contributors are themselves the subject of entries.With its global reach, New Makers of Modern Culture provides a multi-voiced witness of the contemporary thinking world. The entries carry short bibliographies and there is thorough cross-referencing. There is an index of names and key terms.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Romanticism and Politics 17891832
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The New South
Book SynopsisWilliam Harris, the editor of Routledge's The Old South: New Studies of Society and Culture, aims in The New South to introduce students to the historiography of this later volatile period of southern history, which starts from the racial segregation prevalent after the end of the Civil War and continues through the Civil Rights Movements of the 1950s and 1960s. For many years, this historiography centered on the writing of C. Vann Woodward. Woodward remains an important touchstone in the field, but in The New South, Harris gathers the most significant scholarship illustrating the range of challenges to Woodward's interpretation of the South, including the importance of place, the role of women, the significance of memory, and the story of the long Civil Rights Movement. The collection also features an introduction to the historiography of the New South, and a Guide to Further Reading.Trade Review'This collection convincingly shows the diverse effects of Reconstruction on the southern states of America ... One of the key strengths of this collection is the willingness of the authors to use very specific examples to illustrate their points, allowing us to appreciate the nuances that existed across time and space.' – History Teaching ReviewTable of ContentsThe New South: New Histories Table of Contents Series Editor’s Preface Introduction. 1. Negotiating and Transforming the Public Sphere: African American Political Life in the Transition from Slavery to Freedom. Elsa Barkley Brown 2. A Changing World of Work: North Carolina Elite Women, 1865-1895. Jane Turner Censer 3. Farmers, Dudes, White Negroes, and the Sun-Browned Goddess. Stephen Kantrowitz 4. Etiquette, Lynching, and Racial Boundaries in Southern History: A Mississippi Example. J. William Harris 5. New Women Nancy Hewitt 6. Defiance and Domination: White Negroes in the Piney Woods New South. Victoria E. Bynum 7. Pilgrimage to the Past: Public History, Women, and the Racial Order. Jack E. Davis 8. Le Reveil de la Louisiane: Memory and Acadian Identity, 1920-1960 W. Fitzhugh Brundage 9. Southern Seeds of Change, 1931-1938. Patricia Sullivan 10. You Must Remember This: Autobiography as Social Critique. Jacqueline Dowd Hall 11. You Don’t Have to Ride Jim Crow: CORE and the 1947 Journey of Reconciliation Raymond Arsenault 12. Bombingham, Glenn T. Eskew 13. Sex, Segregation, and the Sacred after Brown. Jane Dailey Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ethical Diversions
Book SynopsisThis title suggests that although the treatment and evasion of the Holocaust in certain postmodern texts often seems irresponsible, the texts have a deep affinity with ethical theories anchored in notions of obsession, persecution and trauma.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 “Mauschwitz”; Chapter 2 Familiarity and Forgetfulness in Walter Abish’s Fiction; Chapter 3 Pinpricks on the Ars(e) Narrandi;
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Little, Brown & Company The Naughty Nineties
Book Synopsis A sexual history of the 1990s when the Baby Boomers took over Washington, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue. A definitive look at the captains of the culture wars -- and an indispensable road map for understanding how we got to the Trump Teens.The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido examines the scandal-strafed decade when our public and private lives began to blur due to the rise of the web, reality television, and the wholesale tabloidization of pop culture. In this comprehensive and often hilarious time capsule, David Friend combines detailed reporting with first-person accounts from many of the decade''s singular personalities, from Anita Hill to Monica Lewinsky, Lorena Bobbitt to Heidi Fleiss, Alan Cumming to Joan Rivers, Jesse Jackson to key members of the Clinton, Dole, and Bush teams. The Naughty Nineties also uncovers unsung sexual pioneers, from the enterprising sisters who dreamed up the Brazilian bikini wax to the scientists who, quite by accident, discovered Viagra.
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Basic Books Discovering The News
Book SynopsisThis instructive and entertaining social history of American newspapers shows that the very idea of impartial, objective news was the social product of the democratization of political, economic, and social life in the nineteenth century. Professor Schudson analyzes the shifts in reportorial style over the years and explains why the belief among journalists and readers alike that newspapers must be objective still lives on.Table of Contents* The Ideal of Objectivity * The Revolution in American Journalism in the Age of Egalitarianism: The Penny Press * Telling Stories: Journalism as a Vocation After 1880 * Stories and Information: Two Journalisms in the 1890s * Objectivity Becomes Ideology: Journalism After World War I * Objectivity, News Management, and the Critical Culture
£19.99
Basic Books Ever Is a Long Time
Book SynopsisA gripping memoir of coming of age in Mississippi in the Civil Rights era, and a startling look at the once secret files of the State Sovereignty CommissionTrade Review"A poignant look at a small southern town during a tumultuous period" Birmingham Post"
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University of California Press Jews in the Los Angeles Mosaic
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Random House USA Inc Figuring
Book SynopsisNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE AND BOOKPAGEFiguring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries—beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist and author Rachel Carson, who catalyzed the environmental movement. Stretching between these figures is a cast of artists, writers, and scientists—mostly women, mostly queer—whose public contribution have risen out of their unclassifiable and often heartbreaking private relationships to change the way we understand, experience, and appreciate the universe. Among them are the astronomer Maria Mitchell, who paved the way for women in science; the sculptor Harriet Hosmer, who did the same in art; the journalist and literary critic Margaret Fuller, who sparked the feminist move
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Faber & Faber Iconicon
Book SynopsisA captivating exploration of Britain's most iconic contemporary buildings, from the Barratt home to the Millennium Dome.''A love letter to contemporary buildings and a fantastic account of recent British history, rich in humour.'' NINA STIBBE''Brilliant, encyclopaedic, funny and often cutting.'' DANNY DORLINGAn eloquent, witty, passionate tour of Britain since the 1980s.' JOHN BOUGHTON''Recounts the stories of our lived landscapes with wit, passion and a shot of anger.' TOM DYCKHOFF ''Grindrod has spoken to everyone and his observations are humane and acute.'' OWEN HATHERLEYWimpey homes. Millennium monuments. Riverside flats. Wind farms. Spectacular skyscrapers. City centre apartments. Out of town malls.The buildings designed in our lifetimes encapsulate the dreams and aspirations of our culture, while also revealing the sobering realities. Whether modest or monumental, th
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Faber & Faber The Passengers
Book SynopsisAn original and profound portrait of contemporary Britain told through the testimonies of its inhabitants.SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2023''A spectacularly enjoyable and compelling reading experience . . . funny, moving, surprising and thought-provoking. It humanises literature in this toxic moment.''MAX PORTER, author of Lanny''Seemingly simple yet so deeply profound, The Passengers is an absorbing insight into the lives and minds of so-called ordinary people: their hopes and fears and idiosyncrasies at a specific moment in time.''CLIO BARNARD, director of Ali & Ava and The Essex Serpent''A nation's psyche comes to the surface. The Passengers is not just an oral history of the contemporary moment but, drenched in mood and texture, renders the country itself as a sonic collage.''SUKHDEV SANDHU, GUARDIANBetween October 201
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Faber & Faber Black Teacher
Book SynopsisThe rediscovered classic: an unforgettable memoir by a trailblazing black woman in post-war London, introduced by Bernardine Evaristo (''I dare anyone to read it and not come away shocked, moved and entertained'')Benjamin Zephaniah: ''A must-read. Her life makes you laugh. Her life makes you cry. Get to know her.''Jacqueline Wilson: ''A superb but shocking memoir ... Imaginative, resilient and inspiring.''Christie Watson: ''A beautiful memoir of one woman''s strength and dignity against the odds.''Steve McQueen: ''Gilroy blazed a path that empowered generations of Black British educators.''David Lammy: ''This empowering tale of courage, resistance, and triumph is a breath of fresh air.''Diana Evans: ''Important, enlightening and very entertaining, full of real-life drama ... Inspirational.''Paul Mendez: ''Written with a novelist's ear and sense of atmo
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Faber & Faber Everything We Do is Music
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Penguin Putnam Inc Doom
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Waterbearers
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Random House USA Inc Schoolteacher In Old Alaska Story of Hannah
Book SynopsisWhen Hannah Breece came to Alaska in 1904, it was a remote lawless wilderness of prospectors, murderous bootleggers, tribal chiefs, and Russian priests. She spent fourteen years educating Athabascans, Aleuts, Inuits, and Russians with the stubborn generosity of a born teacher and the clarity of an original and independent mind. Jane Jacobs, Hannah's great-niece, here offers an historical context to Breece's remarkable eyewitness account, filling in the narrative gaps, but always allowing the original words to ring clearly. It is more than an adventure story: it is a powerful work of women's history that provides important--and, at times, unsettling--insights into the unexamined assumptions and attitudes that governed white settler's behavior toward native communities at the turn of the century. 'An unforgettable...story of a remarkable woman who lived a heroic life.'--The New York Times
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Princeton University Press The Good Immigrants
Book SynopsisConventionally, US immigration history has been understood through the lens of restriction and those who have been barred from getting in. In contrast, The Good Immigrants considers immigration from the perspective of Chinese elites--intellectuals, businessmen, and students--who gained entrance because of immigration exemptions. Exploring a centuryTrade ReviewWinner of the 2017 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in History Winner of the 2016 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Winner of the 2015 Douglass C. North Research Award, Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE) Runner-up for the 2016 Hamilton Book Awards, University Co-operative Society, University of Texas at Austin Winner of the 2015 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society Honor Book, 2015 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature, Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association "Hsu's well-researched study focuses on the ways in which certain categories of the same ethnic group were designated as exempt and thus permitted admission... A worthy read, as it fills a gap in our understanding of the history of U.S. immigration policy and the implications of this policy in educational history."--Eileen H. Tamura, History of Education Quarterly "This book will ... provide relevant historical context for anybody formulating ideas about Europe's current debate on migration and asylum-seeking."--Charlotte De Blois, Asian Affairs "The Good Immigrants provides much insight on a variety of topics. Those who want to learn more about US immigration policies, cultural relations between the US and China during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Chinese refugees during the 1940s to 1960s, and Chinese transpacific migration will not want to miss it."--Chi-ting Peng, Pacific AffairsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix List of Tables xi Abbreviations xiii Note on Transliterations xv Chapter 1 Gateways and Gates in American Immigration History 1 Chapter 2 "The Anglo-Saxons of the Orient" Student Exceptions to the Racial Bar against Chinese, 1872-1925 23 Chapter 3 The China Institute in America: Advocating for China through Educational Exchange, 1926-1937 55 Chapter 4 "A Pressing Problem of Interracial Justice" Repealing Chinese Exclusion, 1937-1943 81 Chapter 5 The Wartime Transformation of Student Visitors into Refugee Citizens, 1943-1955 104 Chapter 6 "The Best Type of Chinese" Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals and Symbolic Refugee Relief, 1952-1960 130 Chapter 7 "Economic and Humanitarian" Propaganda and the Redemption of Chinese Immigrants through Refugee Relief 166 Chapter 8 Symbiotic Brain Drains: Immigration Reform and the Knowledge Worker Recruitment Act of 1965 198 Chapter 9 Conclusion: The American Marketplace of Brains 236 Acknowledgments 251 Appendix 257 Notes 259 Bibliography 313 Index 325
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Siamese State Ceremonies Their History and
Book SynopsisTo students of Indian Culture interested in tracing the influence of India in the institutions of her Cultural Colonies, as also to Anthropologists, the Religious Festivals and Court Ceremonies, which still remain the most characteristic features of Siamese social life, offer an important field for research. Yet the subject has been little touched by scholars. Therefore a pioneer work of this nature can only be regarded as an attempt to lay a foundation for further studies, and the author hopes that other studentsâparticularly those Siamese possessed of an extensive knowledge of their own literature and customsâmay be encouraged to endeavour to fill those gaps which remain in our knowledge of most of the Siamese State Ceremonies. First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Table of ContentsPART I. INTRODUCTORY, PART II. THE CHIEF FACTORS IN SIAMESE STATE CEREMONIAL, PART I I I . CEREMONIES OF INSTALLATION, PART IV. CEREMONIES CLOSELY CONNECTED WITH KINGSHIP, PART V. CEREMONIES RELATING TO AGRICULTURE, PART VI. MISCELLANEOUS STATE CEREMONIES, General Conclusions.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Industries of Japan
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1889, this facsimile edition makes available an important historical work on Japanese industry. It is a comprehensive survey of the state of Japanese industry at the end of the nineteenth century, covering agriculture and forestry, mining, the arts, textiles, paper, trade and commerce, including the foreign trade of Japan since the opening of the country by Commodore Perry in 1854.Table of ContentsFirst Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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