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  • Afro Asia

    Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans

    by Lisa Li Shen Yun ...
    With contributions from activists, artists, and scholars, Afro Asia is a groundbreaking collection of writing on the historical alliances, cultural connections, and shared political strategies linking African Americans and Asian Americans. Bringing together autobiography, poetry, scholarly criticism, and other genres, this volume represents an activist vanguard in the cultural struggle against ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Dialectics of the Body

    Corporeality in the Philosophy of Theodor Adorno

    by Lisa Yun Lee ...
    Series series Studies in Philosophy
    The study of Theodor Adorno has largely ignored or dismissed the enigmatic and provocative moments in his writing on the body. Dialectics of the Body corrects this gap by arguing that Adorno's analysis of reified society emanates and returns to the body and that hope and desire are present throughout Adorno's philosophy. ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean

    by Luisa Marcela Ossa, Debbie Lee-DiStefano, Dania Abreu-Torres, Linda Aïnouche, Malathi Michelle Iyengar, Anne-Marie Lee-Loy, Kathleen López, Mey-Yen Moriuchi, Zelideth María Rivas0, Martin A. Tsang1, Lisa Yun2 ...
    Series series Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New World Slaving
    Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean explores the connections between people of Asian and African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean. Although their journeys started from different points of origin, spanning two separate oceans, their point of contact in this hemisphere brought them together under a hegemonic system that would treat these seemingly disparate ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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  • Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

    by Amy Chua ...
    At once provocative and laugh-out-loud funny, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother ignited a global parenting debate with its story of one mother’s journey in strict parenting.Amy Chua argues that Western parenting tries to respect and nurture children’s individuality, while Chinese parents typically believe that arming children with skills, strong work habits, and inner confidence prepares them best ... Read more

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  • Japanese Mind

    Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture

    by Roger J. Davies, Osamu Ikeno ...
    In The Japanese Mind, Roger Davies offers Westerners an insightful guide to understanding the unique aspects of Japanese culture.Readers of this book will develop a comprehensive grasp of Japanese society and the core values that remain at its foundation.Among the topics explored are:aimai (ambiguity), amae (dependence upon others' benevolence), and amakudari (the nation's descent from heave... ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Driven Out

    The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans

    by Jean Pfaelzer ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKThe brutal and systematic “ethnic cleansing” of Chinese Americans in California and the Pacific Northwest in the second half of the nineteenth century is a shocking–and virtually unexplored–chapter of American history. Driven Out unearths this forgotten episode in our nation’s past. Drawing on years of groundbreaking research, Jean Pfaelzer reveals how, beginning in ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Kaiju Film

    A Critical Study of Cinema's Biggest Monsters

    by Jason Barr ...
    The Kaiju (strange monster or strange beast) film genre has a number of themes that go well beyond the "big monsters stomping on cities" motif. Since the seminal King Kong 1933) and the archetypal Godzilla (1954), kaiju has mined the subject matter of science run amok, militarism, capitalism, colonialism, consumerism and pollution.This critical examination of kaiju considers the entirety of the ... Read more

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  • The Katas

    The Meaning behind the Movements

    by Kenji Tokitsu ...
    The embodiment of the ancient knowledge that underlies the dedication-to-perfection philosophy of Japan• How mastering these specific movement sequences known as katas provides a way to deepen one’s martial arts practice spiritually• Explores the psychological and social importance of the katas in martial arts and Japanese society, including their role in seppuku (ritual suicide)• Includes many ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Tong Wars

    The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown

    by Scott D. Seligman ...
    A mesmerizing true story of money, murder, gambling, prostitution, and opium in a "wild ramble around Chinatown in its darkest days." (The New Yorker)Nothing had worked. Not threats or negotiations, not shutting down the betting parlors or opium dens, not house-to-house searches or throwing Chinese offenders into prison. Not even executing them. The New York DA was running out of ideas and more ... Read more

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  • The Law of Mentalism

    by A. Victor Segno ...
    Originally published in 1902, this book is 'A practical scientific explanation of thought or mind force - the law which governs all mental and physical action and phenomena - the cause of life and death'. A fascinating early look at the powers of the mind and the exertion of positive energy and willpower. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now ... Read more

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  • The Dream of Christian Nagasaki

    World Trade and the Clash of Cultures, 1560-1640

    by Reinier H. Hesselink ...
    Nagasaki, on the west coast of the Japanese island of Kyushu, is known in the West for having been the target of an atomic bomb attack on August 9, 1945. Less well known is that the city was founded by Europeans, Jesuit missionaries who arrived in the area in the second half of the 16th century. The Jesuits had come to convert the Japanese. After baptizing a Japanese lord or daimyo of the area, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Dance of the Spirit

    The Seven Stages of Women's Spirituality

    by Maria Harris ...
    Each woman has a special spiritual destiny, as unique and inalienable as the rhythms that govern her life. Maria Harris teaches women how to dance to the music of their own souls and discover the spiritual steps that can transform their lives. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD