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  • Blood Dawn

    World War II and the Making of Modern Asia

    by Hans van de Ven ...
    A momentous new history of Asia’s Second World War."Essential reading for understanding Asia's present.” —Richard Overy, author of Blood and RuinsDrawing on deep archival research across continents, historian Hans van de Ven tells the dramatic story of how Asia’s people mobilized to defeat both Japanese aggression and European imperialism, forging modern Asia in the process.By the early twentieth ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Giftedness in practice

    by Rianne van de Ven ...
    Many gifted adults were not recognized as being gifted as children simply because knowledge of giftedness did not exist or was unavailable. Many gifted people experience challenges in dealing with others and with themselves. How can they learn to acknowledge and develop their potential in a world that rarely understands them?Giftedness is not always recognized or considered relevant in situations ... Read more

    $9.50 USD

  • Digital Culture and the Hermeneutic Tradition

    Suspicion, Trust, and Dialogue

    by Inge van de Ven, Lucie Chateau ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Literature
    In our information age, deciding what sources and voices to trust is a pressing matter. There seems to be a surplus of both trust and distrust in and on platforms, both of which often amount to having your mindset remain the same. Can we move beyond this dichotomy toward new forms of intersubjective dialogue? This book revaluates the hermeneutic tradition for the digital context. Today, ... Read more

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  • 101 Mystery & Detective Classics You Should Read Before You Die

    Exploring the Multifaceted World of Mystery and Detective Fiction

    by Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, John Buchan, Anna Katharine Green, Bram Stoker, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë, Arthur Conan Doyle, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Joseph Conrad, Algernon Blackwood, Guy de Maupassant, Ernest Bramah, Walter Scott, Thomas Hardy, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Daniel Defoe, Arthur Morrison, Agatha Christie, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Sax Rohmer, Alexandre Dumas, Washington Irving, Maurice Leblanc, Erskine Childers, Gaston Leroux, Wilkie Collins, Earl Derr Biggers, Marcel Allain, Richard Marsh, H. G. Wells, E. Phillips Oppenheim, J. S. Fletcher, R. Austin Freeman, E. W. Hornung, G. K. Chesterton, A. A. Milne, D. H. Lawrence, E. C. Bentley, H. P. Lovecraft, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anton Chekhov, Robert William Chambers, Sheridan Le Fanu, Nikolai Gogol, Émile Gaboriau, Annie Haynes, Sapper, S. S. Van Dine ...
    Dive into the captivating world of '101 Mystery & Detective Classics You Should Read Before You Die,' an anthology that expertly curates a wide spectrum of engaging tales from the annals of mystery and detective fiction. This remarkable collection showcases an impressive range of styles, from the cerebral puzzles of classic Victorian mysteries to the atmospheric noir tales that dominate American ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Chinese Communist Party

    Edited by Timothy Cheek, Klaus Mühlhahn, Hans van de Ven ...
    Ten engaging personal histories introduce readers to what it was like to live in and with the most powerful political machine ever created: the Chinese Communist Party. Detailing the life of ten people who led or engaged with the Chinese Communist Party, one each for one of its ten decades of its existence, these essays reflect on the Party's relentless pursuit of power and extraordinary ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Human Enhancement Drugs

    Volume Two

    Edited by Katinka van de Ven, Kyle J. D. Mulrooney, Jim McVeigh ...
    Series series Drugs, Crime and Society
    Offering an in-depth, multidisciplinary exploration of drugs used to enhance the structure and function of muscle, weight loss, the appearance of the skin and hair, sexual function and behaviour, cognitive function, and mood and social behaviour, this book builds on the first volume by investigating the categorising of these drugs, new populations, emerging issues and harm reduction strategies, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)

    A Diverse Celebration of Christmas Literature

    by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Selma Lagerlöf, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Martin Luther, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Max Brand, William Wordsworth, Carolyn Wells, Charles Mackay, John Addington Symonds, Sophie May, Louisa May Alcott, Henry Van Dyke, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Andrew Lang, Frances Ridley Havergal, Alphonse Daudet, William John Locke, Walter Scott, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Booth Tarkington, Benito Pérez Galdós, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Armando Palacio Valdés, William Morris, Anthony Trollope, Marcel Prévost, Rudyard Kipling, Beatrix Potter, Robert Herrick, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Emily Dickinson, Bret Harte, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Meredith Nicholson, Lucas Malet, Isaac Watts, James Russell Lowell, James Whitcomb Riley, Thomas Nelson Page, O. Henry, Phillips Brooks, Saki, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sarah Orne Jewett, François Coppée, Oliver Bell Bunce, Susan Coolidge, Samuel McChord Crothers, Maud Lindsay, Alice Hale Burnett, Walter Crane, André Theuriet, Amy Ella Blanchard, Isabel Cecilia Williams, Evaleen Stein, Amanda M. Douglas, Edgar Wallace, George Wither, Booker T. Washington, Olive Thorne Miller, Vernon Lee, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Henry Vaughan, Eliza Cook, Kate Upson Clark, Ben Jonson, Ernest Ingersoll, Frank Samuel Child, Willis Boyd Allen, Georgianna M. Bishop, Edward Thring, F. L. Stealey, James Selwin Tait, Tudor Jenks, L. Frank Baum, C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson, J. M. Barrie, Eleanor H. Porter, Annie F. Johnston, Jacob A. Riis, Elbridge S. Brooks, Edward A. Rand, Florence L. Barclay, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Harrison S. Morris, Robert E. Howard, Marjorie L. C. Pickthall, Sarah P. Doughty, Hans Christian Andersen, William Butler Yeats, Richard Watson Gilder, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anton Chekhov, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Cecil Frances Alexander, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Margaret Deland, William Drummond, Robert Southwell, Reginald Heber, Alfred Lord Tennyson, George Macdonald, A. S. Boyd, Maxime Du Camp, Mary Austin, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Guy De Maupassant, Brothers Grimm, Clement Moore, Susan Anne Livingston, Ridley Sedgwick, Selma Lagerlof, Nora A. Smith, Phebe A. Curtiss, Nellie C. King, Lucy Wheelock, Aunt Hede, Frederick E. Dewhurst, Jay T. Stocking, Anna Robinson, Florence M. Kingsley, M. A. L. Lane, Elizabeth Harkison, Raymond Mcalden, F. E. Mann, Winifred M. Kirkland, Katherine Pyle, Grace Margaret Gallaher, Elia W. Peattie, F. Arnstein, James Weber Linn, Antonio Maré, Pedro A. De Alarcón, Jules Simon, Marion Clifford, E. E. Hale, Georg Schuster, Matilda Betham Edwards, Angelo J. Lewis, William Francis Dawson, Christopher North, Alfred Domett, Dinah Maria Mulock, James S. Park, Edmund Hamilton Sears, Edmund Bolton, C.s. Stone, Harriet F. Blodgett, John G. Whittier, Christian Burke, Emily Huntington Miller, Cyril Winterbotham, Enoch Arnold Bennett, John Punnett Peters ...
    Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition) presents an enchanting tapestry of yuletide literature that spans centuries and literary styles, gathering works that have shaped holiday storytelling. From tales of benevolence and redemption to merry rhymes and poignant legends, this anthology encapsulates the warmth and magic associated with ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Politics, Culture, and the Irish American Press

    1784–1963

    by David W. Bulla, Howard J. Keeley, Steven T. Engel, Ian Kenneally, Nancy McKenzie Dupont, Jordan Stenger, Mary Cronin, Úna Ní Bhroiméil, Gillian O'Brien, Colum Kenny, Kevin Rafter, Michael Doorley, Pamela E. Walck, Daniel Mulhall ...
    Series series Irish Studies
    From the Revolutionary War forward, Irish immigrants have contributed significantly to the construction of the American Republic. Scholars have documented their experiences and explored their social, political, and cultural lives in countless books. Offering a fresh perspective, this volume traces the rich history of the Irish American diaspora press, uncovering the ways in which a lively print ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • War and Nationalism in China: 1925-1945

    by Hans van de Ven ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    In 1937, the Nationalists under Chiang Kaishek were leading the Chinese war effort against Japan and were lauded in the West for their efforts to transform China into an independent and modern nation; yet this image was quickly tarnished. The Nationalists were soon denounced as militarily incompetent, corrupt, and antidemocratic and Chiang Kaishek, the same.In this book, van de Ven investigates ... Read more

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  • The Bloomsbury Companion to Spinoza

    Edited by Professor Wiep van Bunge, Piet Steenbakkers, Dr Henri Krop, Dr Jeroen M.M. van de Ven ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Companions
    Benedictus Spinoza (1632-77) was among the most important of the post-Cartesian philosophers of the second half of the seventeenth century and is still widely studied today. He made original contributions in every major area of philosophy and is best known for his Ethics, which is often held up as a supreme example of a self-contained metaphysical system intended to explain the universe.The ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • The Rise of the Shame Society

    America’s Change from a Guilt Culture into a Shame Culture

    by Marcel H. Van Herpen ...
    American society is often characterized as a “guilt culture,” as opposed to non-Western “shame cultures.” But is this distinction still valid today? Through examples like shaming penalties in criminal law, “fat shaming,” and cyberbullying on the social media, The Rise of the Shame Society: America’s Change from a Guilt Culture into a Shame Culture shows how shame is increasingly invading our lives ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Challenges of Globalization in the Measurement of National Accounts

    Edited by Nadim Ahmad, Brent R. Moulton, J. David Richardson, Peter van de Ven ...
    Series series National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth
    An essential collection at the intersection of globalization, production supply chains, corporate finance regulation, and economic measurement.The substantial increase in the complexity of global supply chains and other production arrangements over the past three decades has challenged some traditional measures of national income account aggregates and raised the potential for distortions in ... Read more

    $97.19 USD