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  • China in Seven Banquets

    A Flavourful History

    by Thomas David DuBois ...
    China in Seven Banquets ranges through 5,000 years of China’s food history in seven iconic meals, from the ancient Eight Treasures fête to the ‘Tail-Burning Banquet’ of the Tang Dynasty and the Qing court’s extravagant ‘Complete Manchu-Han Feast’. We also experience lavish repasts from literature and film, a New Year’s buffet from 1920s Shanghai and a delivery menu from the hyperglobal twenty ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Competency-Based Human Resource Management

    Discover a New System for Unleashing the Productive Power of Exemplary Performers

    by David D. Dubois, William J. Rothwell ...
    Why a focus on jobs is not enoughForce-fitting employees to job descriptions leads to unhappy people and substandard performance. For years, HR professionals have struggled with this dilemma. But it doesn't have to be that way.Competency-Based Human Resource Management describes a new model of performance management that matches employee talents to the work that must be done. By focusing on the ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Not Everybody Lives the Same Way

    A Novel

    by Jean-Paul Dubois ...
    Translated by David Homel ...
    International bestseller Not Everybody Lives the Same Way is a powerfully original and unusual novel. Masterfully translated by David Homel and brilliantly animated by Jean-Paul Dubois’s keen feeling for humanity and intense revolt against all forms of injustice, it asks the question: What does it takes to live a dignified life?Winner of the Prix Goncourt for FictionPaul Hansen is in prison. He’s ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fieldwork in Modern Chinese History

    A Research Guide

    Edited by Thomas David DuBois, Jan Kiely ...
    Series series The Historical Anthropology of Chinese Society Series
    This book explores how fieldwork has been used to research Chinese history in the past and new ways that others might use in it the future. It introduces the previous generations of scholars who ventured out of the archive to conduct local investigations in Chinese cities, villages, farms and temples. It goes on to present the techniques of historical fieldwork, providing guidance on how to ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • The Arts of Leading

    Perspectives from the Humanities and the Liberal Arts

    by Joy Connolly, Edith Hall, Noah Lopez, Alan Mittleman, Tahera Qutbuddin, Marla Frederick, John Miles, Kristin Bezio, Paul Escott, Thavolia Glymph, David Lubin, Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw, Pegram Harrison, Melissa Jones Briggs, Corey Walker ...
    A deeply insightful approach to cultivating leaders of character centered on the arts and humanitiesWhat does it mean to lead? Whom do we consider to be leaders? And how might viewing leadership through the many lenses of the humanities expand our understanding of how it is imagined, represented, and enacted?Drawing on insights from eminent scholars in the classics, philosophy, religion, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Empire and the Meaning of Religion in Northeast Asia

    Manchuria 1900–1945

    by Thomas David DuBois ...
    Manchuria entered the twentieth century as a neglected backwater of the dying Qing dynasty, and within a few short years became the focus of intense international rivalry to control its resources and shape its people. This book examines the place of religion in the development of Manchuria from the late nineteenth century to the collapse of the Japanese Empire in 1945. Religion was at the ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia

    by Thomas David DuBois ...
    Series Book 8 - New Approaches to Asian History
    Religious ideas and actors have shaped Asian cultural practices for millennia and have played a decisive role in charting the course of its history. In this engaging and informative book, Thomas David DuBois sets out to explain how religion has influenced the political, social, and economic transformation of Asia from the fourteenth century to the present. Crossing a broad terrain from Tokyo to ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Rural Planning in Developing Countries

    Supporting Natural Resource Management and Sustainable Livelihoods

    by David Dent, Olivier Dubois, Barry Dalal-Clayton ...
    This book provides an international perspective on rural planning, focused on developing countries. It examines conventional development planning and innovative local planning approaches, drawing together lessons from recent experience of rural planning and land use. The authors examine past and current practice and ways that land use planning and management of natural resources can underpin ... Read more

    $317.99 CAD

  • After-School Centers and Youth Development

    Case Studies of Success and Failure

    by Barton J. Hirsch, Nancy L. Deutsch, David L. DuBois ...
    This book examines after-school programs in light of their explosive growth in recent years. In the rush to mount programs, there is a danger of promoting weak ones of little value and failing to implement strong ones adequately. But what is quality and how can it be achieved? This book presents findings from an intensive study of three after-school centers that differed dramatically in quality. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Best of Thrill Ride the Magazine: 2023

    by M. L. Buchman, E. Chris Ambrose, C. Dan Castro, Kelly Washington, Dixon Hill, Shells Legoullon, Kim May, B. A. Paul, David H. Hendrickson, Blaze Ward, Brendan DuBois ...
    Series series Thrill Ride - the Magazine
    Tales of honor and betrayal, of amazing women and unexpected partners.Conquer villains, cheer for thieves, battle espionage, and question everything you think you know about keeping alive.Hang onto your seat and take the plunge! ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Scoundrels

    Tales of Greed, Murder and Financial Crimes

    by Gary Phillips, SJ Rozan, Reed Farrel Coleman, Brendan DuBois, David Corbett, Kelli Stanley ...
    In SCOUNDRELS, an all-original anthology featuring bestselling and Edgar and Shamus award-winning writers, you’ll read stories of desperate grifters, brokers hedging big bets for the big take, schemers working the long con for the sure money, used car salesman with golden dreams and rusted hopes, crooked lawyers and bent clients, one percenters hustling for that last half-percent, kind-hearted ... Read more

    $8.44 CAD

  • StoryHack Action & Adventure, Issue 0

    by Bryce Beattie, David Boop, Jay Barnson, Steve DuBois, Julie Frost, Jon Mollison, David J. West, Keith West, Shannon Connor Winward ...
    Series Book 0 - StoryHack Action & Adventure
    StoryHack Action & Adventure is a brand new pulp magazine.This issue contains:“A Tiger in the Garden” by Alexandru Constantin- A disgraced and exiled noble, stripped of his status, spends his days drinking and whoring in the exotic jungle colonies. When pressed to pay his debts he gets entangled in a deadly plot involving deceit, murder, and the dark magic of the deep jungle.“The Monster Without” ... Read more

    $1.40 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus