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  • The Man Awakened from Dreams

    One Man’s Life in a North China Village, 1857-1942

    In this beautifully crafted study of one emblematic life, Harrison addresses large themes in Chinese history while conveying with great immediacy the textures and rhythms of everyday life in the countryside in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.Liu Dapeng was a provincial degree-holder who never held government office. Through the story of his family, the author illustrates the ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • The Perils of Interpreting

    The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire

    A fascinating history of China’s relations with the West—told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney’s fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been viewed as a clash of cultures fueled by the East’s lack of interest in the West. In The Perils of Interpreting, Henrietta Harrison presents a more ... Read more

    Was $32.39 USD Now $16.59 USD

  • The Man Awakened from Dreams

    One Man's Life in a North China Village, 1857–1942

    A vivid study of China's modernization through the lens of one schoolteacher's life: "A tour de force of originality, clarity, and skillful organization." — Chinese Historical ReviewIn this beautifully crafted study of one emblematic life, Henrietta Harrison addresses large themes in Chinese history while conveying with great immediacy the textures and rhythms of everyday existence in the ... Read more

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  • The Missionary's Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village

    Series Book 26 - Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
    The Missionary’s Curse tells the story of a Chinese village that has been Catholic since the seventeenth century, drawing direct connections between its history, the globalizing church, and the nation. Harrison recounts the popular folk tales of merchants and peasants who once adopted Catholic rituals and teachings for their own purposes, only to find themselves in conflict with the orthodoxy of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Essentials of Environmental Science for Public Health

    A Handbook for Field Professionals

    Environmental public health is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the direct and indirect impact of exposure to environmental hazards on the public's health and wellbeing. Assessing and addressing the risks of chemical, ionising and non-ionising radiation, and noise hazards requires a sound knowledge of toxicology, environmental epidemiology, environmental science, health risk ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

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  • A Wilder Shore

    The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson

    by Camille Peri ...
    **ONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW  EDITORS' CHOICE PICK AND 2024 NOTABLE BOOKAN NPR FAVORITE READ OF 2024“Peri’s joint biography is a thrilling, haunting yarn of the sort that the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson himself became famous for—and couldn’t have written without his wife.” —The AtlanticThe extraordinary story of the creative and romantic ... Read more

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    How Wealth Hacks the World

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  • The Fifteen

    Murder, Retribution, and the Forgotten Story of Nazi POWs in America

    The revelatory true story of the long-forgotten POW camps for German soldiers erected in hundreds of small U.S. towns during World War II, and the secret Nazi killings that ensnared fifteen brave American POWs in a high-stakes showdown.“In the pantheon of American history, it’s very hard to find compelling, original stories, and even harder to find authors worthy of them. In The Fifteen, William ... Read more

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  • Storm’s Edge

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  • The Prosecutor

    One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice

    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • The “gripping” (The New York Times) true story of a Jewish lawyer who returned to Germany after World War II to prosecute war crimes, only to find himself pitted against a nation determined to bury the past—from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Volunteer.“Compulsively readable . . . with liberal democracies once more imperiled and ... Read more

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  • Love Triangle

    How Trigonometry Shapes the World

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