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  • Chang'an Avenue and the Modernization of Chinese Architecture

    par Shuishan Yu ...
    Collections series China Program Books
    In this interdisciplinary narrative, the never-ending "completion" of China's most important street offers a broad view of the relationship between art and ideology in modern China. Chang'an Avenue, named after China's ancient capital (whose name means "Eternal Peace"), is supremely symbolic. Running east-west through the centuries-old heart of Beijing, it intersects the powerful north-south axis ... En savoir plus

    $62.99 CAD

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  • The Inheritance of Loss

    par Kiran Desai ...
    In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge's cook watches over her distractedly, for his thoughts are often on his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another. Kiran Desai's brilliant novel, ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD

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  • We Were Eight Years in Power

    An American Tragedy

    par Ta-Nehisi Coates ...
    **In this “urgently relevant”* collection featuring the landmark essay “The Case for Reparations,” the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me “reflects on race, Barack Obama’s presidency and its jarring aftermath”*—including the election of Donald Trump.New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Dayton ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $11.99 CAD Maintenant $7.99 CAD

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

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  • Uses of Disorder

    par Richard Sennett ...
    The excitement of the brilliantly innovative book is that it challenges the reader to revise his concept of order—and to consider the seemingly disparate problems of the individual personality and the urban society in the light of a fresh, unified framework that has the shock of new truth.Drawing on recent ideas in psychology, sociology, and urban history, Sennett shows how the excessively ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

  • Lijiang Stories

    Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China

    par Emily Chao ...
    Collections series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Lijiang, a once-sleepy market town in southwest China, has become a magnet for tourism since the mid-1990s. Drawing on stories about taxi drivers, reluctant brides, dogmeat, and shamanism, Emily Chao illustrates how biopolitics and the essentialization of difference shape the ways in which Naxi residents represent and interpret their social world.The vignettes presented here are lively examples of ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • The "Other" Karen in Myanmar

    Ethnic Minorities and the Struggle without Arms

    par Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung ...
    Collections series AsiaWorld
    The “Other” Karen in Myanmar looks at the “other” or “quiet” minorities, who are members of ethnic groups associated with well-known armed resistance organizations, but who pursued non-violent approaches to promote their individual and collective interests. This is the first in-depth study to uncover the existence and activities of the “other” Karen and analyze the nature of relationships with ... En savoir plus

    $61.99 CAD

  • Mobility Patterns and Urban Structure

    par Paulo Pinho, Cecília Silva ...
    Despite extensive efforts to understand the overall effect of urban structure on the current patterns of urban mobility, we are still far from a consensual perspective on this complex matter. To help build agreement on the factors influencing travel behaviour, this book discusses the influence of alternative urban structures on sustainable mobility. Bringing together two existing and complementary ... En savoir plus

    $100.99 CAD

  • My Fight for a New Taiwan

    One Woman's Journey from Prison to Power

    par Hsiu-lien Lu, Ashley Esarey ...
    Lu Hsiu-lien’s journey is the story of Taiwan. Through her successive drives for gender equality, human rights, political reform, Taiwan independence, and, currently, environmental protection, Lu has played a key role in Taiwan’s evolution from dictatorship to democracy. The election in 2000 of Democratic Progressive Party leader Chen Shui-bian to the presidency, with Lu as his vice president, ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Habitable City in China

    Urban History in the Twentieth Century

    Modifié par Toby Lincoln, Xu Tao ...
    Collections series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers a new perspective on Chinese urban history by exploring cities as habitable spaces. China, the world’s most populous nation, is now its newest urban society, and the pace of this unprecedented historical transformation has increased in recent decades. The contributors to this book conceptualise cities as first providing the necessities of life, and then becoming places in which ... En savoir plus

    $167.99 CAD

  • Remaking Cities

    An Introduction to Urban Metrofitting

    par Tony Fry ...
    Unprecedented challenges await the future of the world's cities. Accelerating population pressure, climate change, food insecurity, poverty and geopolitical instability – in the face of such problems our current attempts at producing a sustainable agenda for the world's cities appear fragmented and inadequate. Fresh thinking is needed.In Remaking Cities, renowned design theorist Tony Fry brings a ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

  • Guest People

    Hakka Identity in China and Abroad

    Modifié par Nicole Constable ...
    Collections series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805450The essays in this volume analyze and compare what it means to be Hakka in a variety of sociocultural, political, geographical, and historical contexts including Malaysia, Hong Kong, Calcutta, Taiwan, and contemporary China. ... En savoir plus

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  • Faces of Béxar

    Early San Antonio and Texas

    par Jesús F. De la Teja ...
    Winner, 2019 Summerfield G. Robert Award, sponsored by The Sons of the Republic of TexasFaces of Béxar showcases the finest work of Jesús F. de la Teja, a foremost authority on Spanish colonial Mexico and Texas through the Republic. These essays trace the arc of the author’s career over a quarter of a century. A new bibliographic essay on early San Antonio and Texas history rounds out the ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD