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  • Shanghai in Transition

    Changing Perspectives and Social Contours of a Chinese Metropolis

    by Jos Gamble ...
    In the decades following the introduction of Communist Party rule in Shanghai in 1949, the city's economy, infrastructure and links with the world all atrophied. However, the past decade has seen far-reaching economic reforms implemented to recreate Shanghai as a cosmopolitan, world financial and trade centre. This book focuses on the lives of local residents and their perceptions of their ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Case Studies in Personalized Nutrition

    by Miguel Toribio-Mateas, Helen Lynam, Romilly Hodges, Jo Gamble, Elspeth Stewart, Claire Sehinson, Lorraine Nicolle ...
    Series series Personalized Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine for Healthcare Practitioners
    A practical reference and teaching book of case studies for nutrition practitioners and other healthcare professionals, demonstrating how to apply the latest evidence-informed principles of personalized nutrition.Covering a range of complex cases such as autoimmunity and inflammation, hormonal disruption, mental health concerns and more, this edited collection explains the most recent developments ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • The Last Days of Old Beijing

    Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed

    by Michael Meyer ...
    Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Community Conversations

    Mobilizing the Ideas, Skills, and Passion of Community Organizations, Governments, Businesses, and People, Second Edition

    by Paul Born ...
    Communities around the world are entering a new era of community building.Whether improving economic conditions and reducing poverty, re-energizing citizens and social programs, reducing crime, or revitalizing a troubled neighborhood, they are engaging people from all sectors as never before to work together as equals to improve their quality of life.At the heart of this engagement are community ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why New Orleans Matters

    by Tom Piazza ...

    $7.99 USD

  • The Voice that Remembers

    One Woman's Historic Fight to Free Tibet

    by Adhe Tapontsang, Joy Blakeslee ...
    When Adhe Tapontsang--or Ama (Mother) Adhe, as she is affectionately known--left Tibet in 1987, she was allowed to do so on the condition that she remain silent about her twenty-seven years in Chinese prisons. Yet she made a promise to herself and to the many that did not survive: she would not let the truth about China's occupation go unheard or unchallenged.The Voice That Remembers is an ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Secret Army

    Chiang Kai-shek and the Drug Warlords of the Golden Triangle

    by Richard Michael Gibson ...
    The incredible story of how Chiang Kai-shek's defeated army came to dominate the Asian drug tradeAfter their defeat in China's civil war, remnants of Chiang Kai-shek's armies took refuge in Burma before being driven into Thailand and Laos. Based on recently declassified government documents, The Secret Army: Chiang Kai-shek and the Drug Warlords of the Golden Triangle reveals the shocking true ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Prayer for My Enemy

    by Craig Lucas ...
    “America the addicted. America the numb. America the war weary. America the lonely. All these countries compose the jagged terrain of this viscerally potent new play.”—The Seattle Times“The very best we can hope for is to show the mess of life in such a way as to perhaps awaken our shared capacity for embracing it, in all its beauty and terror.”—Craig LucasCraig Lucas “can masterfully distill a ... Read more

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  • Philly War Zone

    Growing up in a Racial Battleground

    by Kevin Purcell ...
    In this true story set in the 1970s, youll look through the eyes of then 14-year-old Kevin Purcell, whos now a professional advertising writer, as he watches his perfect childhood neighborhood turn into a racial battleground, where two young kids are stabbed to death, including one of Kevins friends. Read as the author describes what it was like as young kids, black and white, from working-class ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • "No One Helped"

    Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy

    by Marcia M. Gallo ...
    In "No One Helped" Marcia M. Gallo examines one of America's most infamous true-crime stories: the 1964 rape and murder of Catherine "Kitty" Genovese in a middle-class neighborhood of Queens, New York. Front-page reports in the New York Times incorrectly identified thirty-eight indifferent witnesses to the crime, fueling fears of apathy and urban decay. Genovese's life, including her lesbian ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Shanghai Gone

    Domicide and Defiance in a Chinese Megacity

    by Qin Shao ...
    Series series State & Society in East Asia
    "One of the best accounts of the reality of gentrification and urban development in China . . . grounded with solid historical, ethnographic and legal evidence" ( Urban Studies).In recent decades, the centuries-old city of Shanghai has been demolished and rebuilt into a gleaming megacity. With its world famous skyscrapers, it now ranks with New York and London as a hub of global finance. But that ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Man with the Sawed-Off Leg and Other Tales of a New York City Block

    by Daniel J. Wakin ...
    They stand proudly gazing across the Hudson River at the cliffs of New Jersey. Their brows are marked by ornamental pediments. Greek columns stand as sentries by their entrances and stone medallions bedeck their chests. They are seven graceful relics of Beaux Arts New York, townhouses built more than 100 years ago for a new class of industrialists, actors and scientists -- many from abroad -- who ... Read more

    $14.99 USD