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  • Among Women across Worlds

    North Korea in the Global Cold War

    by Suzy Kim ...
    Winner of the Hong Yung Lee Book Award of the Center for Korean Studies, University of California, BerkeleyIn Among Women across Worlds**, Suzy Kim explores the transnational connections between North Korean women and the global women's movement.** Asian women, especially communists, are often depicted as victims of a patriarchal state. Kim challenges this view through extensive archival research, ... Read more

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  • Universal Human Rights

    Moral Order in a Divided World

    by Kenneth Henley, Alistair Macleod, Rex Martin, David Duquette, Lucinda Peach, William Nelson, Jonathan Schonsheck, Larry May, Helen Stacy, Suzy Kim, Stephen Nathanson ...
    Series series Philosophy and the Global Context
    Universal Human Rights brings new clarity to the important and highly contested concept universal human rights. The Charter of the United Nations commits nearly all nations of the world to promote, to realize and take action to achieve human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, yet this formal consensus masks an underlying confusion about the philosophical basis and practical implications of ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • The Met Hokusai

    He Saw the World in a Wave

    by Susie Hodge ...
    Illustrated by Kim Ekdahl ...
    Series series What the Artist Saw
    See the world through Hokusai's eyes and be inspired to produce your own masterpieces.Have you ever wondered exactly what your favorite artists were looking at to make them draw, sculpt, or paint the way they did? In this charming illustrated series of ebooks to keep and collect, created in full collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, you can see what they saw, and be inspired to create ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Mao Zedong

    A Life

    by Jonathan D. Spence ...
    “Spence draws upon his extensive knowledge of Chinese politics and culture to create an illuminating picture of Mao. . . . Superb.” (Chicago Tribune)From humble origins in the provinces, Mao Zedong rose to absolute power, unifying with an iron fist a vast country torn apart by years of weak leadership, colonialism, and war. This sharply drawn and insightful account brings to life this modern-day ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice

    by Jack Donnelly ...
    In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly interdisciplinary account of human rights as universal rights. He shows that any conception of human rights-and the idea of human rights itself-is historically specific and contingent. Since publication of the first edition ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • Breathe Like a Bear

    30 Mindful Moments for Kids to Feel Calm and Focused Anytime, Anywhere

    by Kira Willey ...
    Illustrated by Anni Betts ...
    Series series Mindfulness Moments for Kids
    Breathe Like a Bear is a beautifully illustrated collection of mindfulness exercises designed to teach kids techniques for managing their bodies, breath, and emotions. Best of all, these 30 simple, short breathing practices and movements can be performed anytime, anywhere: in the car to the grocery store, during heavy homework nights at home, or even at a child’s desk at school.Based on Kira ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Modern China

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Rana Mitter ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presence, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems to be a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristic cities, heir to an ancient civilization that is still trying to find a modern identity. This Very Short ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Cultural Revolution

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Richard Curt Kraus ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    China's decade-long Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution shook the politics of China and the world. Even as we approach its fiftieth anniversary, the movement remains so contentious that the Chinese Communist Party still forbids fully open investigation of its origins, development, and conclusion. Drawing upon a vital trove of scholarship, memoirs, and popular culture, this Very Short ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly

    by Judith Butler ...
    A Times Higher Education Book of the Week Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions, analyzing what they signify and how. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, Butler extends her theory of performativity to argue that precarity—the destruction of the conditions of livability—has been a galvanizing force ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Restless Empire

    China and the World Since 1750

    by Odd Arne Westad ...
    As the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads. The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the world's second biggest economy, China has recently reclaimed its historic place at the center of global affairs after decades of internal chaos and disastrous foreign relations. But even as China tentatively reengages with the outside world, the contradictions of its ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Idea of Human Rights

    by Charles R. Beitz ...
    The international doctrine of human rights is one of the most ambitious parts of the settlement of World War II. Since then, the language of human rights has become the common language of social criticism in global political life. This book is a theoretical examination of the central idea of that language, the idea of a human right. In contrast to more conventional philosophical studies, the ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • A Bitter Revolution : China's struggle with the modern world

    China's Struggle with the Modern World

    by Rana Mitter ...
    Series series Making of the Modern World
    China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world. Mitter takes us through the resulting social turmoil and political promise, the devastating war ... Read more

    $21.89 USD