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  • Colonial Project, National Game

    A History of Baseball in Taiwan

    by Andrew D. Morris ...
    Series Book 6 - Asia Pacific Modern
    In this engrossing cultural history of baseball in Taiwan, Andrew D. Morris traces the game’s social, ethnic, political, and cultural significance since its introduction on the island more than one hundred years ago. Introduced by the Japanese colonial government at the turn of the century, baseball was expected to "civilize" and modernize Taiwan’s Han Chinese and Austronesian Aborigine ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Defectors from the PRC to Taiwan, 1960-1989

    The Anti-Communist Righteous Warriors

    by Andrew D. Morris ...
    Series series The Cold War in Asia
    Defections from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were an important part of the narrative of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan during the Cold War, but their stories have previously barely been told, less still examined, in English.During the 1960s, 70s and 80s, the ROC government paid much special attention to these anti-communist heroes (fangong yishi). Their choices to leave behind the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Japanese Taiwan

    Colonial Rule and its Contested Legacy

    Edited by Andrew D. Morris ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
    Colonial agents worked for fifty years to make a Japanese Taiwan, using technology, culture, statistics, trade, and modern ideologies to remake their new territory according to evolving ideas of Japanese empire. Since the end of the Pacific War, this project has been remembered, imagined, nostalgized, erased, commodified, manipulated, idealized and condemned by different sectors of Taiwan's ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Visualizing Modern China

    Image, History, and Memory, 1750–Present

    by James A. Cook, Matthew D. Johnson, Sigrid Schmalzer, Michael G. Chang, Madeleine Yue Dong, Susan Fernsebner, Christian Hess0, Lu Liu1, Cecily McCaffrey2, Andrew D. Morris3, Charles D. Musgrove4, Zhiwei Xiao5, Xiaowei Zheng6, E. Elena Songster7, Jeremy Brown8 ...
    Series series AsiaWorld
    Visualizing Modern China: Image, History, and Memory, 1750–Present offers a sophisticated yet accessible interpretation of modern Chinese history through visual imagery. With rich illustrations and a companion website, it is an ideal textbook for college-level courses on modern Chinese history and on modern visual culture. The introduction provides a methodological framework and historical ... Read more

    $51.09 USD

  • Farming across Borders

    A Transnational History of the North American West

    by Timothy P. Bowman, Kristin Hoganson, Laura Hooton, Josh MacFadyen, Todd Meyers, Peter S Morris, Andrew Dunlop, Alicia Marion Dewey, John Weber, Sonia Hernández, Rosa E Cobos, Matt Caire-Pérez, Paige Raibmon, Jason McCollom, Thomas D Isern, Suzzanne Kelley, Anthony Carlson, Stephen Mumme, Tisa Anders ...
    Series series Connecting the Greater West Series
    Farming across Borders uses agricultural history to connect the regional experiences of the American West, northern Mexico, western Canada, and the North American side of the Pacific Rim, now writ large into a broad history of the North American West. Case studies of commodity production and distribution, trans-border agricultural labor, and environmental change unite to reveal new perspectives on ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • η-CRYPTIC

    by Andrew Morris ...
    Encryption is the bedrock of modern technology and the digital world relies on it.But it is only maths, and maths never stops changing.Lucy has a talent, like her ancestors before, and someone wants to use that.What will they do to get her, and as a child of the new millennium how will she reply?Reality, like truth, is something many demand but few actually want. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Campus Chaos: Winter Break

    by Andrew Morris ...
    Campus Chaos: Winter Break is the first installment in a series about a junior college police department, and how they handle the situations that arise on their campus during a time when Marshal law exists on all levels of government in America. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gloop

    by Andrew Morris ...
    What will you do over the summer?Bask on a beach?Gadabout in the garden?Frolic in foreign parts?Save the life of your child?Save another?If the time comes, will you be found wanting?Or will you get stuck in and give the world a good kicking?Dale Engadine is about to discover what he will do.For everyone else: time to put on a hard hat and duck. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Hurricane Camille

    When Natural Disasters Became National Disasters

    by Andrew Morris ...
    Series series Politics and Culture in Modern America
    The story of how Hurricane Camille, which struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 1969 as a Category 5, changed the way the nation responded to disastersHurricane Camille, which struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 1969, was one of only three Category 5 hurricanes to hit the United States in the twentieth century. In this book, Andrew Morris tells the story of how this one storm changed the way the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Bugs, Drugs and Three-pin Plugs

    Everyday Science, Simply Explained

    by Andrew Morris ...
    For the millions who remain curious about the world around them, but gained little from science at school, this book offers a way forward. Based on live discussions with adults from all walks of life, each chapter begins with an everyday experience, like swallowing a pill or watching a bee on a flower. The main scientific ideas underlying each topic are then explored, so that understanding of a ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Sporadic Ravings of a Lunatic

    by Andrew Morris ...
    "Diary" of an unstable mind. Where will the thoughts and memories of a patient in an asylum for the criminally insane lead? ... Read more

    Free

  • Getting To Grips With Science: A Fresh Approach For The Curious

    by Andrew James Morris ...
    Science touches all of our lives, every day, and should be a constant source of wonder and fascination — not something confined to the classroom. This book is for anybody who feels curious about ideas in science but lacks a strong background in the subject. Getting to Grips with Science draws on the author's twelve years of experience in leading experimental discussion groups, where people from ... Read more

    $21.89 USD