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  • Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future

    Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb

    by Robert Jacobs, Mick Broderick, John Canaday, Tom Engelhardt, Carole Gallagher, Judy Hiramoto, Kenji Ito, Minoru Maeda, Naoko Maeda, Yuki Tanaka, Spencer Weart ...
    Series series AsiaWorld
    From the dawn of the atomic age, art and popular culture have played an essential role interpreting nuclear issues to the public and investigating the implications of nuclear weapons to the future of human civilization. Political and social forces often seemed paralyzed in thinking beyond the advent of nuclear weapons and articulating a creative response to the dilemma posed by this apocalyptic ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • The Impossible State

    North Korea, Past and Future

    by Victor Cha ...
    From a seasoned advisor, "a meaty, fast-paced portrait of North Korean society, economy, politics and foreign policy" ( Foreign Affairs).In The Impossible State, international-policy expert and former Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council Victor Cha pulls back the curtain on this controversial and isolated country, providing the best look yet at North Korea's history, the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Narrow Road to the Interior

    And Other Writings

    by Matsuo Basho ...
    Translated by Sam Hamill ...
    Series series Shambhala Classics
    A masterful translation of one of the most-loved classics of Japanese literature—part travelogue, part haiku collection, part account of spiritual awakeningBashō (1644–1694)—a great luminary of Asian literature who elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beauty—is renowned in the West as the author of Narrow Road to the Interior, a travel diary of linked prose ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Gate

    Translated by William F. Sibley ...
    by Natsume Soseki ...
    An NYRB Calssics OriginalA humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of Tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfortune, to the bitter consequences of having married without their families’ consent, and unable to have children of their own, Sōsuke and Oyone find the delicate equilibrium of their household upset by a new obligation to meet the educational ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • When Angels Wept: A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

    by Eric G. Swedin ...
    In 1961 at the Bay of Pigs, CIA-trained and -organized Cuban exiles aiming to overthrow Fidel Castro were soundly defeated. Most were taken prisoner by Cuban armed forces. Fearing another U.S. invasion of its new ally, the Soviet Union sneaked into Cuba strategic missiles tipped with nuclear warheads and Soviet troops armed with tactical nuclear weapons. However, a U-2 spy plane flight would soon ... Read more

    $16.95 USD

  • Global Discontents

    Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy

    by Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian ...
    Series series The American Empire Project
    In this compelling set of interviews, the intellectual discusses contemporary threats to democracy, from economic inequality to the Trump presidency.In wide-ranging discussions with David Barsamian, his longtime interlocutor, Noam Chomsky asks us to consider "the world we are leaving to our grandchildren": one imperiled by climate change and the growing potential for nuclear war. If the current ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction

    by Joseph M. Siracusa ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Despite not having been used in anger since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bomb is still the biggest threat that faces us in the 21st century. As Bill Clinton's first secretary of defence, Les Aspin, aptly put it: 'The Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is no more. But the post-Cold War world is decidedly not post-nuclear'. For all the effort to reduce nuclear stockpiles to zero, it seems that the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Manga's Cultural Crossroads

    Edited by Jaqueline Berndt, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    Focusing on the art and literary form of manga, this volume examines the intercultural exchanges that have shaped manga during the twentieth century and how manga’s culturalization is related to its globalization. Through contributions from leading scholars in the fields of comics and Japanese culture, it describes "manga culture" in two ways: as a fundamentally hybrid culture comprised of both ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Atomic Obsession

    Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda

    by John Mueller ...
    Following 9/11, Americans were swept up in a near hysteria-level fear of terrorists, especially of Islamic extremists working domestically. The government and media reports stoked fears that people living in the US have the desire and means to wreak extreme havoc and destruction. Early reports estimated slightly more than 300 al Qaeda operatives living in the United States. It wasn't long before ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • 2000 AD: The Creator Interviews Volume One

    by Michael Molcher, Pat Mills, Carlos Ezquerra, Ron Smith, Mick McMahon ...
    Series Book 1 - 2000 AD: The Creator Interviews
    Exclusive interviews and career overviews of key comics creators taken from the pages of the Judge Dredd Megazine. In this first collection Pat Mills, Carlos Ezquerra, Ron Smith and Mick McMahon discuss their work in comics, 2000 AD and many other titles in great detail. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Disaster Drawn

    Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form

    by Hillary L. Chute ...
    In hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshima’s Ground Zero, comics display a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Investigating how hand-drawn comics has come of age as a serious medium for engaging history, Disaster Drawn explores the ways graphic narratives by diverse artists, including Jacques Callot, Francisco Goya, Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman, and Joe ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Peace Quest: The Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    by Joe Copeland ...
    Hiroshima and Nagasaki's survivors of atomic bombings have made it their mission to work for peace and nuclear disarmament, a quest they have pursued for 70 years even as they coped with health effects, grief and the rebuilding of their cities. Prize-winning Seattle journalist and Fulbright scholar Joe Copeland, who has interviewed survivors over nearly three decades, provides a compelling look at ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus