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  • Sinicizing International Relations

    Self, Civilization, and Intellectual Politics in Subaltern East Asia

    by C. Shih ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The book brings civilizational politics back to the studies of international relations and foreign policy through a study of the multiple meanings of international relations and related terms in East Asia and the intrinsic relation of international relations to individual choices of scholarly identity. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Coalitions of the Weak

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    For the first time since Mao, a Chinese leader may serve a life-time tenure. Xi Jinping may well replicate Mao's successful strategy to maintain power. If so, what are the institutional and policy implications for China? Victor C. Shih investigates how leaders of one-party autocracies seek to dominate the elite and achieve true dictatorship, governing without fear of internal challenge or ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Economic Shocks and Authoritarian Stability

    Duration, Financial Control, and Institutions

    by Victor C Shih ...
    Series series Emerging Democracies
    Over two billion people still live under authoritarian rule. Moreover, authoritarian regimes around the world command enormous financial and economic resources, rivaling those controlled by advanced democracies. Yet authoritarian regimes as a whole are facing their greatest challenges in the recent two decades due to rebellions and economic stress. Extended periods of hardship have the potential ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Producing Prosperity

    Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

    Manufacturing’s central role in global innovationCompanies compete on the decisions they make. For years-even decades-in response to intensifying global competition, companies decided to outsource their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those choices: in many cases, once manufacturing capabilities go away, so does much of the ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Portraits of a Mother

    A Novella and Stories

    by Shusaku Endo ...
    Narrated by David Shih ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 22 min

    Shusaku Endo (1923-1996), widely considered one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, is known for his historical novels, which masterfully probe the encounters between the cultures and religions of East and West from a Japanese Catholic perspective. A salient and curious theme in his work is the unique image of a maternal God, and a concomitant sense of loss and longing for maternal ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Innovation Killers

    How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things

    Series series Harvard Business Review Classics
    In this seminal article, innovation experts Clayton Christensen, Stephen P. Kaufman, and Willy C. Shih explore the key reasons why companies struggle to innovate. The authors uncover common mistakes companies make—from focusing on the wrong customers to choosing the wrong products to develop—that can derail innovation efforts, and offer a better way forward for management teams who want to avoid ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Assessment in Mathematics Education Contexts

    Theoretical Frameworks and New Directions

    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    This book aims to provide theoretical discussions of assessment development and implementation in mathematics education contexts, as well as to offer readers discussions of assessment related to instruction and affective areas, such as attitudes and beliefs. By providing readers with theoretical implications of assessment creation and implementation, this volume demonstrates how validation studies ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Supply Chain: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

    Series series HBR Insights Series
    Disruptions in the global supply chain bring companies to a standstill.Supply and demand shocks. Labor shortages. International trade wars. As businesses and customers struggle to get the products they need from across the globe, manufacturers must reassess how they operate, from rethinking offshore options to exploring new technologies.Supply Chain: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business ... Read more

    $15.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Heartlines Spec, Issue 1 (Winter 2023)

    The first issue of Heartlines Spec contains the challenges, and joys, and frustrations that come from long-lasting connections. It’s a mother you never understood, a friendship that’s fierce but changing, the quiet gratitude of sipping champagne with someone you love. All the stories and poems within feature partners, families, lovers, and friends. The relationships between them are varied but ... Read more

    $4.36 USD

  • ParSec Issue #4

    ParSec, #4

    Series Book 4 - ParSec
    A digital magazine featuring the very best in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and HorrorThe latest fiction from established writers alongside the best new stories from emerging talents and debut authors.On-point articles and regular columns, exploring genre fiction in all its forms. Interviews with leading authors and artists.Insightful and informative book reviews by a carefully selected cadre of ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, 1929–1964

    The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time Chosen by the Members of the Science Fiction Writers of America

    Unabridged

    28 hours 10 min

    The definitive collection of the best in science fiction stories between 1929 and 1964This book contains twenty-six of the greatest science fiction stories ever written. They represent the considered verdict of the Science Fiction Writers of America, those who have shaped the genre and who know, more intimately than anyone else, what the criteria for excellence in the field should be. The authors ... Read more

    $29.95 USD

  • Border Crossings

    Toward a Comparative Political Theory

    Series series Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
    Comparative political theory is at best an embryonic and marginalized endeavor. As practiced in most Western universities, the study of political theory generally involves a rehearsal of the canon of Western political thought from Plato to Marx. Only rarely are practitioners of political thought willing (and professionally encouraged) to transgress the canon and thereby the cultural boundaries of ... Read more

    $42.19 USD