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  • From The Back Pew

    A Non-scholarly Look at the Christian Faith

    by Greg Robinson ...
    In his book Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis famously wrote:"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important?"This quote implies many crucial questions for anyone thinking about Christianity. In this book, Greg Robinson delves into these questions as a non-scholar who has done extensive reading from multiple points ... Read more

    $5.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley

    by David Lewis, Greg Robinson ...
    From oral history to written word, learn about the history of Oregon through the stories of the Indigenous peoples of the Willamette Valley.The Willamette Valley is rich with history—its riverbanks, forests, and mountains home to the tribes of Kalapuya, Chinook, Molalla, and more for thousands of years. This history has been largely unrecorded, incomplete, poorly researched, or partially told. In ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Leadership Paradox: Influencing Others by Defining Yourself

    Revised Edition

    by Greg Robinson ...
    Times are such that organizations can no longer survive with leaders focused on telling others what to do and the rest of the organization allowing themselves to be taken care of by a leader. Differentiated leadership no longer places its faith in holding together this failed paradigm. Differentiated leaders recognize that they must begin the path of change by addressing their own anxiety and find ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Restless Wave

    My Life in Two Worlds

    by Ayako Tanaka Ishigaki, Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, Greg Robinson ...
    With this critically acclaimed 1940 memoir, pioneering Japanese writer and activist Ayako Ishigaki made history. Restless Wave is the first book written in English by a Japanese woman, introducing Western readers to a largely unknown world; a unique voice; and a writer of great talent, integrity and courage. In exquisite prose, Ishigaki recalls coming of age in a privileged family and rebelling ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Unknown Great

    Stories of Japanese Americans at the Margins of History

    by Greg Robinson ...
    An astounding new set of biographical portraits in Japanese American historyThrough stories of remarkable people in Japanese American history, The Unknown Great illuminates the diversity of the Nikkei experience from the turn of the twentieth century to the present day. Acclaimed historian and journalist Greg Robinson delves into a range of themes from race and interracial relationships to ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Mine Okubo

    Following Her Own Road

    “To me life and art are one and the same, for the key lies in one's knowledge of people and life. In art one is trying to express it in the simplest imaginative way, as in the art of past civilizations, for beauty and truth are the only two things which live timeless and ageless.” - Miné OkuboThis is the first book-length critical examination of the life and work of Miné Okubo (1912-2001), a ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Unsung Great

    Stories of Extraordinary Japanese Americans

    by Greg Robinson ...
    Fascinating portraits illuminate the diversity of Japanese American experiencesFrom a title-winning boxer in Louisiana to a Broadway baritone in New York, Japanese Americans have long belied their popular representation as “quiet Americans.” Showcasing the lives and achievements of relatively unknown but remarkable people in Nikkei history, scholar and journalist Greg Robinson reveals the diverse ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • By Order of the President

    FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans

    by Greg Robinson ...
    On February 19, 1942, following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and Japanese Army successes in the Pacific, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed a fateful order. In the name of security, Executive Order 9066 allowed for the summary removal of Japanese aliens and American citizens of Japanese descent from their West Coast homes and their incarceration under guard in camps. Amid the ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • A Tragedy of Democracy

    Japanese Confinement in North America

    by Greg Robinson ...
    The confinement of some 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, often called the Japanese American internment, has been described as the worst official civil rights violation of modern U. S. history. Greg Robinson not only offers a bold new understanding of these events but also studies them within a larger time frame and from a transnational perspective.Drawing on newly discovered ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • After Camp

    Portraits in Midcentury Japanese American Life and Politics

    by Greg Robinson ...
    This book illuminates various aspects of a central but unexplored area of American history: the midcentury Japanese American experience. A vast and ever-growing literature exists, first on the entry and settlement of Japanese immigrants in the United States at the turn of the 20th century, then on the experience of the immigrants and their American-born children during World War II. Yet the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Far East, Down South

    Asians in the American South

    by Raymond A. Mohl, John E. Van Sant, Chizuru Saeki, Chizuru Saeki, Greg Robinson, Wenxian Zhang, Vincent H. Melomo, John Jung0, Daniel Bronstein1, John Howard2, Karen J. Leong4, Christopher A. Airriess5, Wei Li6, Angela Chia-Chen Chen7, Verna M. Keith8 ...
    Series series The Modern South
    Offers a collection of ten insightful essays that illuminate the little-known history and increasing presence of Asian immigrants in the American southeastIn sharp contrast to the “melting pot” reputation of the United States, the American South—with its history of slavery, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement—has been perceived in stark and simplistic demographic terms. In Far East, Down South ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Great Unknown

    Japanese American Sketches

    by Greg Robinson ...
    In The**Great Unknown, award-winning historian and journalist Greg Robinson offers a fascinating and compulsively readable collection of biographical portraits of extraordinary but unheralded figures in Japanese American history: men and women who made remarkable contributions in the arts, literature, law, sports, and other fields. Recovering and celebrating the stories of noteworthy Issei and ... Read more

    $22.29 USD