Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “hsuan hsu”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Smell of Risk

    Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics

    by Hsuan L Hsu ...
    A timely exploration of how odor seeps into structural inequalityOur sense of smell is a uniquely visceral—and personal—form of experience. As Hsuan L. Hsu points out, smell has long been spurned by Western aesthetics as a lesser sense for its qualities of subjectivity, volatility, and materiality. But it is these very qualities that make olfaction a vital tool for sensing and staging ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Olfactory Worldmaking

    by Hsuan L. Hsu ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    Exploring the power of smell to build connections and transform our worldSmell is a vital, if underappreciated, medium through which we inhabit and imagine the world. In Olfactory Worldmaking, Hsuan L. Hsu traces how olfactory experience communicates across visceral, material, and affective registers to offer new ways of relating, which challenge the extractive logics of racial and colonial ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • Air Conditioning

    by Hsuan L. Hsu ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Air conditioning aspires to be unnoticed. Yet, by manipulating the air around us, it quietly conditions the baseline conditions of our physical, mental, and emotional experience. From offices and libraries to contemporary art museums and shopping malls, climate control systems shore up the ... Read more

    $15.79 CAD

  • Sitting in Darkness

    Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization

    by Hsuan L. Hsu ...
    Series Book 7 - America and the Long 19th Century
    Perhaps the most popular of all canonicalAmerican authors, Mark Twain is famous for creating works that satirizeAmerican formations of race and empire. While many scholars have exploredTwain’s work in African Americanist contexts, his writing on Asia and AsianAmericans remains largely in the shadows. In Sitting in Darkness, Hsuan Hsuexamines Twain’s career-long archive of writings about United ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta

    The Celebrated California Bandit

    by John Rollin Ridge, Hsuan L. Hsu ...
    **The first novel to feature a Mexican American hero: an adventure tale about Mexicans rising up against U.S. rule in California, based on the real-life bandit who inspired the creation of Zorro, the Lone Ranger, and BatmanWith a new foreword by Diana Gabaldon, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone and the rest of the Outlander seriesA Penguin Classic**An ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • A Research Agenda for Smart Hospitality

    Edited by Rosanna Leung, Hsuan Hsu, Peter O’Connor ...
    Series series Elgar Research Agendas
    Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This innovative book examines the concept of ‘smartness’ in hospitality, an area that remains underexplored, particularly among small and medium-sized ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • The Broadview Anthology of American Literature Concise Volume 1: Beginnings to Reconstruction

    by Christine Bold et al. ...
    About the AnthologyGuided by the latest scholarship in American literary studies, and deeply committed to inclusiveness, social responsibility, and rigorous contextualization, The Broadview Anthology of American Literature balances representation of widely agreed-upon major works with a thoroughgoing reassessment of the canon that emphasizes American literature’s diversity, variety, breadth, and ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics

    Edited by Chu-Ren Huang, Yen-Hwei Lin, I-Hsuan Chen, Yu-Yin Hsu ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    The linguistic study of Chinese, with its rich morphological, syntactic and prosodic/tonal structures, its complex writing system, and its diverse socio-historical background, is already a long-established and vast research area. With contributions from internationally renowned experts in the field, this Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of the central issues in Chinese linguistics. ... Read more

    $50.39 CAD

  • Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins

    by Mark Twain ...
    The two narratives published together in The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins are overflowing with spectacular events. Twain shows us conjoined twins, babies exchanged in the cradle, acts of cross-dressing and racial masquerade, duels, a lynching, and a murder mystery. Pudd’head Wilson tells the story of babies, one of mixed race and the other white, exchanged ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers

    Edited by Hollis Robbins, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. Named one of NPR's Best Books of 2017.The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: an extraordinary range of voices offering the expressions of African American women in print before, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Arrogant Ape

    The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters

    by Christine Webb ...
    **A New York Times’s Notable Book of 2025An impassioned celebration of humility before the living world that leads us to a new understanding of other species—and ourselves**Darwin considered humans one part of the web of life, not the apex of a natural hierarchy. Yet today many maintain that we are the most intelligent, virtuous, successful species that ever lived. This flawed thinking enables us ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Subtract

    The Untapped Science of Less

    by Leidy Klotz ...
    "You need to read this book." —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author“A great book changes the world you live in, revealing mysteries you didn't even know were there. This is a great book." —Sendhil Mullainathan, MacArthur fellow and author of Scarcity“Klotz shows us how deleting things from our lives can lead us to exciting new places.”—Carol Dweck, author of MindsetWe pile on “... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook