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  • Among the White Moon Faces

    An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands

    by Shirley Geok-lin Lim ...
    This "fascinating autobiography" from an award-winning Asian-American female author "reads like a novel" ( The Washington Post Book World).With insight, candor, and grace, Shirley Geok-lin Lim recalls her path from her poverty-stricken childhood in war-torn Malaysia to her new and exciting yet uncertain womanhood in America. Grappling to secure a place for herself in the United States, she is ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Joss and Gold

    A Novel

    by Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Leong Liew Geok ...
    A piercing tale of a Malaysian woman's quest for independence that combines "the nuance of a poet with the ear of a born storyteller" (Julia Watson, coeditor of Women, Autobiography, Theory: A Reader).Li An, a young Malaysian woman of Chinese descent, seeks to understand herself as the country around her struggles to determine its own identity. And much like the politically charged atmosphere of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Taiwan's China Dilemma

    Contested Identities and Multiple Interests in Taiwan's Cross-Strait Economic Policy

    by Syaru Shirley Lin ...
    "Examines the complicated, dynamic relations between these two regions [and] offers a new perspective to understand the root cause of the dilemma." — China ReviewChina and Taiwan share one of the world's most complex international relationships. Although similar cultures and economic interests promoted an explosion of economic ties between them since the late 1980s, these ties have not led to an ... Read more

    Was $27.99 CAD Now $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Taiwan’s China Dilemma

    Contested Identities and Multiple Interests in Taiwan’s Cross-Strait Economic Policy

    by Syaru Shirley Lin ...
    China and Taiwan share one of the world's most complex international relationships. Although similar cultures and economic interests promoted an explosion of economic ties between them since the late 1980s, these ties have not led to an improved political relationship, let alone progress toward the unification that both governments once claimed to seek. In addition, Taiwan's recent Sunflower ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Two Dreams

    New and Selected Stories

    by Shirley Geok-lin Lim ...
    Two Dreams draws together the best of Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s short fiction from nearly three decades, most of it never before available in the United States, and includes important new work. The setting of these sometimes wryly funny, sometimes heartbreaking stories shifts from the war-torn, tradition-bound Malaysia of Lim’s childhood to the liberating, but confusing and often harsh United States ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Praise of Limes

    by Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Dana Gioia, Boey Kim Cheng ...
    In Praise of Limes is a book of original poems by Shirley Geok-lin Lim. Born in Malacca, Malaysia, Shirley Geok-lin Lim was raised by her Chinese father and attended missionary schools. Although her first languages were Malay and the Hokkin dialect of Chinese, she was able to read English by the time she was six. At 10, her first poem was published in the Malacca Times; by age 11, she knew she ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Gender Justice and the Law

    Theoretical Practices of Intersectional Identity

    by Lisa Beckmann, Arunita Das, Theodore Davenport, Ava Ladner, Laura Lane-Steele, Shirley Lin, Lissa Lincoln, Menaka Raguparan, Rebecca Smyth0, John Felipe Acevedo1, Catherine Cymone Fourshey2, Marla L. Jaksch3, Christin M. Mulligan4 ...
    Series series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
    Gender Justice and the Law presents a collection of essays that examines how gender, as a category of identity, must continually be understood in relation to how structures of inequality define and shape its meaning. It asks how notions of “justice” shape gender identity and whether the legal justice system itself privileges notions of gender or is itself gendered. Shaped by politics and policy, ... Read more

    $49.69 CAD

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  • Dream Work

    by Mary Oliver ...
    Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for the finest book of poetry published in 1983 by an American poet. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness—so steadfast and radiant in *American Primitive—*continue in Dream Work. She has turned her attention in these poems to the ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Time and Materials

    Poems 1997-2005

    by Robert Hass ...
    The poems in Robert Hass's new collection—his first to appear in a decade—are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly immediate, stylistically varied, redemptive, and wise.His familiar landscapes are here—San Francisco, the Northern California coast, the Sierra high country—in addition to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Red Bird

    Poems

    by Mary Oliver ...
    Mary Oliver's twelfth book of poetry, Red Bird comprises sixty-one poems, the most ever in a single volume of her work. Overflowing with her keen observation of the natural world and her gratitude for its gifts, for the many people she has loved in her seventy years, as well as for her disobedient dog Percy, Red Bird is a quintessential collection of Oliver's finest lyrics. ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • The Tennis Court Oath

    A Book of Poems

    by John Ashbery ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Program
    John Ashbery writes like no one else among contemporary American poets. In the construction of his intricate patterns, he uses words much as the contemporary painter uses form and color- words painstakingly chosen as conveyors of precise meaning, not as representations of sound. These linked in unexpected juxtapositions, at first glance unrelated and even anarchic, in the end create by their ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD

  • The Apple Trees at Olema

    New and Selected Poems

    by Robert Hass ...
    “No practicing poet has more talent than Robert Hass.”—Atlantic MonthlyThe National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials, Robert Hass is one of the most revered of all living poets. With The Apple Trees at Olema, the former Poet Laureate and winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize offers twenty new and selected poems grounded in the beauty of the physical world. As with all of the collections ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD