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  • Economic Development in China's Northwest

    Entrepreneurship and identity along China’s multi-ethnic borderlands

    by Joshua Bird ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    Under the ethnic affairs management regime established by the People’s Republic of China, every Chinese citizen is classified within one of 56 state-recognised ‘nationalities’. Government policy assumes that these nationalities differ from one another primarily in their levels of economic development, and asserts that ethnic divisions and identities fade with the gradual achievement of economic ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Policy Learning and Policy Failure

    by Michael Howlett, Sreeja Nair, Adrian Kay, Malcolm Bird, Joshua Newman, Diane Stone, Sarah Giest ...
    Series series New Perspectives in Policy and Politics
    First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, this updated volume explores policy failures and the valuable opportunities for learning that they offer.Policy successes and failures offer important lessons for public officials, but often they do not learn from these experiences. The studies in this volume investigate this broken link. The book defines policy learning and failure and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • 20 American Adventure Classics

    Sea Voyages, Frontier Survival, Wilderness Expeditions, and Tales of American Discovery

    by Jack London, Herman Melville, Zane Grey, John Wesley Powell, James Fenimore Cooper, Joshua Slocum, Robert Montgomery Bird, Oliver Optic, Mark Twain, Mary Mapes Dodge, Ambrose Bierce, Bret Harte, Clarence King, Richard Henry Dana, Henry David Thoreau, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Sarah H. Bradford, Theodore Winthrop, T. C. Harbaugh, Dillon Wallace ...
    20 American Adventure Classics surveys the many forms adventure assumed in American writing, from maritime ordeal, frontier romance, exploration narrative, and wilderness travel to boyhood escapade, historical fiction, and satirical adventure. Its selections place survival, mobility, encounter, and risk at the center of a national literary imagination shaped by oceans, rivers, prairies, mountains, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Agitation with a Smile

    Howard Zinn's Legacies and the Future of Activism

    by Stephen Bird, Adam Silver, Joshua Yesnowitz ...
    Agitation with a Smile offers a reappraisal of Howard Zinn's political thought and situates his efforts in a contemporary context, looking toward the nature of activism and dissent in the future. This is the first book to provide a substantive account and assessment of Zinn's philosophy and approach to collective action and, to a larger extent, democracy. The contributors to this book explore the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Great American Adventure: 20 Classic Novels

    Twenty Classic Tales of Frontier Quests, Sea Voyages, Wilderness Survival, and American Exploration

    by Mark Twain, James Fenimore Cooper, Jack London, Herman Melville, Zane Grey, John Wesley Powell, Joshua Slocum, Robert Montgomery Bird, Oliver Optic, Mary Mapes Dodge, Ambrose Bierce, Bret Harte, Clarence King, Richard Henry Dana, Henry David Thoreau, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Sarah H. Bradford, Theodore Winthrop, T. C. Harbaugh, Dillon Wallace ...
    The Great American Adventure: 20 Classic Novels gathers a capacious tradition of U.S. adventure writing, where frontier romance, sea narrative, wilderness memoir, travel chronicle, juvenile fiction, satire, and tales of survival meet. Its selections trace contested landscapes—from forests, rivers, and prairies to oceans, mining camps, and polar routes—while testing the moral costs of expansion, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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    Unbeaten Tracks In Japan (Unabridged)

    by ISABELLA L. BIRD ...
    Narrated by Joshua Wells ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 51 min

    Isabella Lucy Bird was a 19th century English traveller, writer, and natural historian. She was a sickly child, however, while she was travelling she was almost always healthy. Her first trip, in 1854, took her to America, visiting relatives. Her first book, The Englishwoman in America was published anonymously two years later. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan is compiled of the letters she sent to her ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Life In The Backwoods

    A sequel to Roughing it in the Bush

    by Susanna Moodie ...
    Written as a continuation of her sensational 1852 text, Roughing it in the Bush, Susanna Moodie’s Life in the Backwoods continues the narrative of her experience as a settler in mid-nineteenth century Upper Canada. By relating her own experiences and those of the community of pioneers also living in the harsh environment of the Canadian backwoods, Moodie creates a faithful portrait of the harsh ... Read more

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  • Liberalism and Its Discontents

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    A short book about the challenges to liberalism from the right and the left by the bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order.Classical liberalism is in a state of crisis. Developed in the wake of Europe’s wars over religion and nationalism, liberalism is a system for governing diverse societies, which is grounded in fundamental principles of equality and the rule of law. It emphasizes ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Pacific: An Unforgettable Tale of Adventure and Cultural Encounters

    by Herman Melville, Briar Glenwick ...
    In "Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas," Herman Melville weaves a compelling narrative reflecting both adventure and the intricate cultural tapestry of Polynesia. This semi-autobiographical novel, deeply rooted in the travel literature genre of the 19th century, reveals Melville's keen observations of island life amidst the backdrop of his own maritime experiences. The prose is marked by rich ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Complete Works of R. M. Ballantyne (Delphi Classics)

    by R. M. Ballantyne, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 19 - Delphi Series Four
    R. M. Ballantyne was a prolific author, whose most famous novel ‘The Coral Island’ helped change the course of children’s literature. This comprehensive eBook presents Ballantyne’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Red Skin, White Masks

    Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

    by Glen Sean Coulthard ...
    Series series Indigenous Americas
    WINNER OF:Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book from the Caribbean Philosophical AssociationCanadian Political Science Association’s C.B. MacPherson PrizeStudies in Political Economy Book PrizeOver the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonization between the nation-state and Indigenous nations in North America. The term “recognition” shapes debates over ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Collected Works of R.M. Ballantyne Volume I

    by R.M. Ballantyne ...
    Series series Halcyon Classics
    This Halcyon Classics eBook collection contains thirty novels by 19th century juvenile action/adventure fiction writer Robert M. Ballantyne. Volume I of III. Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.The Hudson's Bay Company (1848)The Young Fur Traders (1856)The Coral Island (1857)Ungava (1858)Martin Rattler (1858)Handbook to the new Goldfields (1858)The Dog Crusoe and his Master ... Read more

    $1.99 USD