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  • Mission to Mao

    US Intelligence and the Chinese Communists in World War II

    by Sara B. Castro ...
    Series series Georgetown Studies in Intelligence History
    An innovative history of US intelligence officers on the ground and the first official contacts between the United States and the Chinese Communist PartyFrom 1944 to 1947, the United States planted a liaison mission in the headquarters of Chinese Communist forces behind the lines. Nicknamed the "Dixie Mission," for its location in "rebel" territory, it was an interagency delegation that included ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Narrow Pass of Our Nerves

    Writing, Coloniality and Postcolonial Theory

    by Sara Castro-Klarén ...
    Series Book 12 - Nuevos Hispanismos
    The book analyzes, from the perspective of the coloniality of power, the cultural and political work of colonial subjects such as el Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Guaman Poma de Ayala or Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. "Sara Castro Klarén's The Narrow Pass of Our Nerves is a triumph of postcolonial thought. In this superb selection of essays she brilliantly analyzes the work of a set of Latin American ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture

    Edited by Sara Castro-Klaren ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    A COMPANION TO LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE“The work contains a wealth of information that must surely provide the basic material for a number of study modules. It should find a place on the library shelves of all institutions where Latin American studies form part of the curriculum.”Reference Review“In short, this is a fascinating panoply that goes from a reevaluation of pre-Columbian ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Shots in the Dark

    Experimentation, Success, and Failure in the Second World War

    by Jadwiga Biskupska, Sara B. Castro, Robert Citino, Claire Cookson-Hills, Elena Friot, Brian Hayashi, Derek Mallett, Erina Megowan, Adrian O'Sullivan0, Katrin Paehler1, Kevin Riehle2, Jeff Rutherford3, Victoria Sotvedt4, Cameron Zinsou5 ...
    Series series World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension
    Brings together geographies and methodologies often kept apart by the difficulties of researching such a broad-ranging topic as the warShots in the Dark offers cutting-edge scholarship across different subfields in World War II history, revealing new insights into how this crucial conflict was planned, experienced, and fought. Twelve chapters demonstrate the broad scope of wartime innovation and ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    Mission to Mao

    US Intelligence and the Chinese Communists in World War II

    by Sara B. Castro ...
    Narrated by Eric Jason Martin ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 26 min

    From 1941 to 1947, the United States planted a liaison mission in the headquarters of Chinese Communist forces behind the lines. Nicknamed the "Dixie Mission," for its location in "rebel" territory, it was an interagency delegation that included intelligence officers from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).Mission to Mao is a social history of the OSS officers in the field that reveals the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Covert Action

    National Approaches to Unacknowledged Intervention

    by Magda Long, Rory Cormac, Mark Stout, Jeffrey P. Rogg, Marco Munier, William A. Stoltz, Jens Wegener0, Steven Wagner1, Melinda Haas2, Paul M. McGarr3, Philippe B. Nader4, Joanisval B. Goncalves5, Nihat A. Ozcan6, Egemen Bezci7, Kevin A. O'Brien8, Folahanmi Aina9, Jennifer Mathers0, Kiril Avramov1, Daniela Richterova2, Peter Rendek3, Radek Schovanek4, Stephan Blancke5, Sara B. Castro6, Damien Van Puyvelde8 ...
    Series series Georgetown Studies in Intelligence History
    A comparative international perspective challenges conventional narratives about unacknowledged intervention"Covert action" is generally understood as politically motivated and plausibly deniable interference by one state in the affairs of another state. It includes propaganda, political or economic subversion, paramilitary action, and assassinations. Covert action is the most consequential and ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Inca Garcilaso and Contemporary World-Making

    Edited by Sara Castro-Klarén, Christian Fernández ...
    Series Book 74 - Illuminations
    This edited volume offers new perspectives from leading scholars on the important work of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616), one of the first Latin American writers to present an intellectual analysis of pre-Columbian history and culture and the ensuing colonial period. To the contributors, Inca Garcilaso's Royal Commentaries of the Incas presented an early counter-hegemonic discourse and a ... Read more

    $73.59 CAD

  • Latin American Women's Narrative: Practices and Theoretical Perspectives

    Narrativa Feminina en América Latina: Prácticas Perspectivas Teóricas.

    Edited by Sara Castro-Klarén ...
    Series Book 24 - Teoría y Crítica de la Cultura y Literatura
    This volume deals with the narrative of major women writers in Spanish America and analyses the novel, the short story and testimonio writing of the second half of the twentieth century. It contextualises their work by highlighting the importance of women's voices from the colonial period, the nineteenth century and the most recent poetics of zafarrancho and guerrilla narratives. LATIN AMERICAN ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture

    by Sara Castro-Klaren ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    Cutting-edge and insightful discussions of Latin American literature and cultureIn the newly revised second edition of A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture, Sara Castro-Klaren delivers an eclectic and revealing set of discussions on Latin American culture and literature by scholars at the cutting edge of their respective fields. The included essays—whether they're written from the ... Read more

    $194.99 CAD

  • Where Parents Thrive

    How Culture and Policies Impact Dual Career Parents' Lives Worldwide

    by Sara Bustillo de Castro ...
    Why do the French have children earlier with lower postnatal depression rates? Why are some employers able to retain working parents while others are not?Where Parents Thrive explores what France and other countries (such as the Nordics) are doing well to allow parents to thrive at home and at work, it reviews cultures and policies across the world, and it proposes tools that governments, ... Read more

    $16.05 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where Parents Thrive

    How Culture and Policies Impact Dual Career Parents' Lives Worldwide

    by Sara Bustillo de Castro ...
    Why do the French have children earlier with lower postnatal depression rates? Why are some employers able to retain working parents while others are not?Where Parents Thrive explores what France and other countries (such as the Nordics) are doing well to allow parents to thrive at home and at work, it reviews cultures and policies across the world, and it proposes tools that governments, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Women's Writing In Latin America

    An Anthology

    by Sara Castro-klaren ...
    In the last two decades Latin American literature has received great critical acclaim in the English-speaking world, although attention has been focused primarily on the classic works of male literary figures such as Borges, Paz, and Cortázar. More recently, studies have begun to evaluate the works of established women writers such as Sor Juana Iné ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD