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  • Reading Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea

    Glossary and Commentary

    by Sylvester, Larry Grimes, Peter Hays ...
    Series series Reading Hemingway
    The Old Man and the Sea is a deceptively simple work. An old man goes fishing. He catches a giant marlin after much struggle. Sharks attack and destroy the fish. The old man is left with the bare bones of the fish—a Monday morning “fish story.” But much lies beneath the surface. The action is condensed and presented in carefully crafted images, in words and details selected because of their ... Read more

    $28.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of American Foreign Policy

    How Ideology Divides Liberals and Conservatives over Foreign Affairs

    by Peter Hays Gries ...
    This "eye-opening analysis" explains how and why America's culture wars and partisan divide have led to dysfunctional US policy abroad ( The Atlantic).In this provocative book, Peter Gries challenges the view that partisan elites on Capitol Hill are out of touch with a moderate American public. Dissecting a new national survey, Gries shows how ideology powerfully divides Main Street over both ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • China Rising

    Power and Motivation in Chinese Foreign Policy

    by Yong Deng, Yun-han Chu, John W. Garver, Peter Hays Gries, Thomas G. Moore, Andrew Scobell, Ming Wan, Hongying Wang, Jianwei Wang0 ...
    Series series Asia in World Politics
    Despite its increasingly secure place in the world, the People's Republic of China remains dissatisfied with its global status. Its growing material power has simultaneously led to both greater influence and unsettling questions about its international intentions. China also has found itself in a constant struggle to balance its aspirations abroad with a daunting domestic agenda. This ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism

    by Parley Ann Boswell, Dustin Faulstick, Anna Green, Peter Hays, Jennifer Haytock, Caroline Hellman, Ellen Andrews Knodt, Cecilia Macheski, Milena Radeva, Sirpa Salenius, Linda Wagner-Martin ...
    Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism is the first book to examine the connections linking two major American writers of the twentieth century, Edith Wharton and Ernest Hemingway. In twelve critical essays, accompanied by a foreword from Wharton scholar Laura Rattray and a critical introduction by volume editor Lisa Tyler, contributors reveal the writers’ overlapping contexts, interests, ... Read more

    Was $44.99 USD Now $18.99 USD

  • State and Society in 21st Century China

    Crisis, Contention and Legitimation

    Edited by Peter Hays Gries, Stanley Rosen ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    Written by a team of leading China scholars, this book explores the dynamics of state power and legitimation in twenty-first century China, and the implications of changing state-society relations for the future viability of the People's Republic. Key subjects covered include:the legitimacy of the Communist Partystate-society relationsethnic and religious resistancerural and urban ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Assessment in Physical Education

    A Sociocultural Perspective

    by Peter Hay, Dawn Penney ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport
    Assessment has widely been acknowledged as a central element of institutional education, shaping curriculum and pedagogy in powerful ways and representing a critical reference point in political, professional and public debates about educational achievement and policy directions. Within physical education there remains significant debate regarding the subject knowledge, skills and understandings ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

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  • American Exceptionalism and American Innocence

    A People's History of Fake News—From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror

    by Roberto Sirvent, Danny Haiphong, Glen Ford ...
    “Fake news existed long before Donald Trump…. What is ironic is that fake news has indeed been the only news disseminated by the rulers of U.S. empire.”—From American Exceptionalism and American InnocenceAccording to Robert Sirvent and Danny Haiphong, Americans have been exposed to fake news throughout our history—news that slavery is a thing of the past, that we don’t live on stolen land, that ... Read more

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  • Whiteshift

    Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities

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  • The Politics of Human Rights

    The Quest for Dignity

    by Sabine C. Carey, Mark Gibney, Steven C. Poe ...
    Human rights is an important issue in contemporary politics, and the last few decades have also seen a remarkable increase in research and teaching on the subject. This book introduces students to the study of human rights and aims to build on their interest while simultaneously offering an alternative vision of the subject. Many texts focus on the theoretical and legal issues surrounding human ... Read more

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  • Hemingway's Havana

    A Reflection of the Writer's Life in Cuba

    by Robert Wheeler ...
    Ernest Hemingway lived in Cuba for more than two decades, longer than anywhere else. He bought a home—naming it the Finca Vigia—with his third wife, Martha Gellhorn and wrote his masterpiece The Old Man and the Sea there. In Cuba, Papa Hemingway found a sense of serenity and enrichment that he couldn’t find anywhere else. Now, through more than a hundred color photographs and accompanying text, ... Read more

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    International Law in Domestic Politics

    by Beth A. Simmons ...
    This volume argues that international human rights law has made a positive contribution to the realization of human rights in much of the world. Although governments sometimes ratify human rights treaties, gambling that they will experience little pressure to comply with them, this is not typically the case. Focusing on rights stakeholders rather than the United Nations or state pressure, Beth ... Read more

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