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  • The Cargo Rebellion

    Those Who Chose Freedom

    by Jason Chang, Benjamin Barson, Alexi Dudden ...
    The Cargo Rebellion tells a true story of mutiny on the high seas in which four hundred indentured Chinese men overthrew their captor, the Connecticut businessman and slave trader Leslie Bryson, taking a stand against an exploitative global enterprise.The laborers learned that Bryson’s claimed destination of San Francisco was a lie to trick them into deadly servitude in the dreaded guano islands ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The International Handbook on the Sociology of Education

    An International Assessment of New Research and Theory

    by Siikka Aapola, Jason Chang, A B. Dijkstra, Jaap Dronkers, Tuula Gordon, Honario Martin Izquierdo, Ingrid Jonsson, Steve Jordan, Yaacov J. Katz, John P. Keeves, Katja Komonen, David Konstantinovski, Alkistis Kontoyianni, Elina Lahelma, Peter Lang, David MacLennan, Isabel Menezes, Almudena Moreno Minguez, Martin D. Munk, Sean Neill, Jules Peschar, Sally Power, Arja Puurula, Zhang Renjie, Shlomo Romi, Lawrence J. Saha, Antonio Teodoro, Raf Vanderstraeten, Lisa Vasileiou, Lennart Vriens, Geoff Whitty, Gad Yair ...
    The twentieth century has been marked by the expansion of educational opportunities worldwide. It has been the century of education, and the role of the state in the promotion of public education has been decisive. Yet, at the millennium's turn efforts to diminish the role of the state are rapidly changing education, especially in terms of its role in democracy. This comprehensive handbook offers ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Bioengineering Innovative Solutions for Cancer

    Edited by Sylvain Ladame, Jason Chang ...
    Bioengineering Innovative Solutions for Cancer bridges the gap between bioengineering and cancer biology. It focuses on a 'bottom up' understanding of the links between molecules, cells, tissues, organs, organisms, and health and functions—all within a bioengineering context. Chapters cover the main methods, technologies and devices that could help diagnose cancer sooner (e.g., ultrasensitive ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

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  • One Drop

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  • In the Wake

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  • Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans (Updated and Revised)

    by Ronald Takaki ...
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  • The Chinese in America

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    A quintessiantially American story chronicling Chinese American achievement in the face of institutionalized racism by the New York Times bestselling author of The Rape of NankingIn an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, Iris Chang tells of a people’s search for a better life—the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land and, ... Read more

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  • Ghosts Of Gold Mountain

    The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad

    by Gordon H. Chang ...
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  • Black Ghost of Empire

    The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation

    by Kris Manjapra ...
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  • Marie Laveau, the Mysterious Voudou Queen

    A Study of Powerful Female Leadership in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

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    This study investigates the emergence of powerful female leadership in New Orleans' Voodoo tradition. It provides a careful examination of the cultural, historical, economic, demographic and socio-political factors that contributed both to the feminization of this religious culture and its strong female leaders. ... Read more

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    Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth

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