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  • Meeting Once More

    The Korean Side of Transnational Adoption

    by Elise M. Prébin ...
    Examines the impact of adoptees on their birth country and birth familiesA great mobilization began in South Korea in the 1990s: adult transnational adoptees began to return to their birth country and meet for the first time with their birth parents—sometimes in televised encounters which garnered high ratings. What makes the case of South Korea remarkable is the sheer scale of the activity that ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Invisible Population

    The Place of the Dead in East-Asian Megacities

    by Katsumi Shimane, Fabienne Duteil-Ogata, Maylis Bellocq, Yukihiro Kawaguchi, Elise Prebin, Ryokei Takamura, Kim Shi Dug ...
    The issue of population ageing in East-Asia has been extensively studied but we remain in the dark as to the fate of the region’s growing dead population, particularly in the largest metropolitan areas where there is bitter competition for space among the various human activities. From private cemetery developers to undertakers, not to mention a vast array of sub-contractors, death is discreetly ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

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  • The Honourable Company

    by John Keay ...
    A history of the English East India company.During 200 years the East India Company grew from a loose association of Elizabethan tradesmen into "the grandest society of merchants in the universe". As a commercial enterprise it came to control half the world's trade and as a political entity it administered an embryonic empire. Without it there would have been no British India and no British Empire ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Quicksand

    What It Means to Be a Human Being

    by Henning Mankell ...
    A stunning and poignant autobiographical look at the myriad experiences that shape a meaningful life, by the bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries.“Surely one of the most moving and intriguing farewell notes ever written.... Intensely beautiful in its spirit.” —Alexander McCall Smith, New StatesmanIn January 2014, Henning Mankell received a diagnosis of lung cancer. Quicksand is a ... Read more

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  • The Forgetting

    Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic

    by David Shenk ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERA powerfully engaging, scrupulously researched, and deeply empathetic narrative of the history of Alzheimer’s disease, how it affects us, and the search for a cure.**Afflicting nearly half of all people over the age of 85, Alzheimer’s disease kills nearly 100,000 Americans a year as it insidiously robs them of their memory and wreaks havoc on the lives of their loved ones. It ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Dictionary of Fashion History

    by C. W. Cunnington, P. E. Cunnington, Ms Valerie Cumming ...
    - What is an earthquake gown?- Who wore eelskin masher trousers?- What did the word "dudes" mean in the 16th century?A Dictionary of English Costume by C. Willett Cunnington, Phillis Cunnington and Charles Beard was originally published in 1960. A monumental achievement and encyclopaedic in scope, it was a comprehensive catalogue of fashion terms from the mid-medieval period up to 1900. It was ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

  • A Concise History of Modern India

    by Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    A Concise History of Modern India by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, has become a classic in the field since it was first published in 2001. As a fresh interpretation of Indian history from the Mughals to the present, it has informed students across the world. In the third edition of the book, a final chapter charts the dramatic developments of the last twenty years, from 1990 through ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Long Road Home

    Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor

    by Yong Kim ...
    Kim Yong shares his harrowing account of life in a labor camp-a singularly despairing form of torture carried out by the secret state. Although it is known that gulags exist in North Korea, little information is available about their organization and conduct, for prisoners rarely escape both incarceration and the country alive. Long Road Home shares the remarkable story of one such survivor, a ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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  • Teachings of the Santería Gods

    The Spirit of the Odu

    by Ócha'ni Lele ...
    The first book to explore the sacred myths of Santería• Includes more than 100 myths, stories, and histories about the odu and the orishas• Reassembles the oral fragments from the African diaspora into coherent stories• Demonstrates that the African peoples, specifically the Yoruba, were deeply spiritualAt the core of the diloggún--the sacred divination system of Santería--are the sacred stories ... Read more

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  • The History of Bhutan

    by Karma Phuntsho ...
    In 2008, Bhutan triumphantly took the stage as the world’s youngest democracy. But despite its growing prominence—and rising scholarly interest in the country—Bhutan remains one of the least studied, and least well-known places on the planet.Karma Phuntsho’s The History of Bhutan is the first book to offer a comprehensive history of Bhutan in English. Along with a detailed social and political ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Eat Thy Neighbour

    A History of Cannibalism

    by Daniel Diehl, Mark P Donnelly ...
    Cannibalism is unquestionably one of the oldest and deepest-seated taboos. Even in an age when almost nothing is sacred, religious, moral and social prohibitions surround the topic. But even as our minds recoil at the mention of actual acts of cannibalism there is some dark fascination with the subject. Appalling crimes of humans eating other humans are blown into major news stories and gory ... Read more

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  • Food

    The Key Concepts

    by Warren Belasco ...
    Series series The Key Concepts
    Food: The Key Concepts presents an exciting, coherent and interdisciplinary introduction to food studies for the beginning reader. Food Studies is an increasingly complex field, drawing on disciplines as diverse as Sociology, Anthropology and Cultural Studies at one end and Economics, Politics and Agricultural Science at the other.In order to clarify the issues, Food: The Key Concepts distills ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD