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  • Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes

    Glimpses of China's Hidden Past

    by Robert J. Antony ...
    History has many untold stories. In Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes the author provides glimpses into China’s hidden past through the native’s point of view. Rather than simply writing about ordinary people, this book is written from the perspective of ordinary people, how they told their own stories about themselves, their communities, and their pasts. The author examines historical consciousness ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

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    Drawn up from Deep Places

    by Gemma Files ...
    Narrated by Emily Lawrence, Antony Ferguson, Robert Fass, Neil Hellegers, Marisa Calin, Tim Campbell, Hannah Curtis, Matthew Davies, Andrew Fallaize, Paul Woodson, Cindy Kay, Krystal Hammond, Robin Miles, various narrators ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 42 min

    If you go down deep enough, you find all sorts of things …In her second collection from Trepidatio Publishing, award-winning author Gemma Files takes her listeners on journeys out beyond safe borders—from the trackless depths of the sea, to the empty desert frontiers of the Weird West, even to the edges of cracks between worlds. Here, in these narrow spaces between the known and the unknown, ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Divina Trace

    by Robert Antoni ...
    A groundbreaking novel in Caribbean literature and winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel from the acclaimed Trinidadian writer.A mysterious child, half-human, half-frog, is born on the island of Corpus Christi in the West Indies. Its mother becomes Magdalena Divina, patron saint of the island, worshipped by Hindu and Muslim Caste Indians, Africans, Catholics, and ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520–1810

    A Short History with Documents

    by Robert J. Antony ...
    The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520–1810 exposes readers to the little-known history of Chinese piracy in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries through a short narrative and selection of documentary evidence. In this three-hundred-year period, Chinese piracy was unsurpassed in size and scope anywhere else in the world. The book includes a carefully selected and wide range of Chinese, ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai

    Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700

    by Tonio Andrade, Xing Hang, Anand A. Yang, Kieko Matteson, Professor Robert J. Antony, Dr. Robert K. Batchelor, Dr. Leonard Blusse, Professor Anna Busquets, Dr. Patrizia Carioti0, Dr. Weichung Cheng1, Dr. Adam Clulow2, Dr. Dahpon D. Ho3, Dr. Peter Kang4, Michael Laver5, Cheng-Heng Lu6, Dr. Mark Ravina7, Dr. Peter D. Shapinsky8, Birgit Tremml-Werner9, John E. Wills, , Jr.0 ...
    Series series Perspectives on the Global Past
    Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for millennia, but during the long seventeenth century (1550 to 1700), the velocity and scale of commerce increased dramatically. Chinese, ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Trinidad Noir

    The Classics

    by Earl Lovelace, Robert Antoni ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    "To travel through the 19 works of poetry and prose in this remarkable anthology is to experience Trinidad and Tobago through a kaleidoscopic lens." — Publishers Weekly, starred reviewTwo of Trinidad's top writers masterfully curate this literary retrospective of the nation's best writing over the past century from authors who were largely part of the literary wave that swept in with Trinidadian ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge World History of Violence: Volume 3, AD 1500–AD 1800

    Edited by Robert Antony, Stuart Carroll, Caroline Dodds Pennock ...
    Series series The Cambridge World History of Violence
    In the period from 1500 to 1800 the problem of violence necessitated asking fundamental questions and formulating answers about the most basic forms of human organisation and interactions. Violence spoke to critical issues such as the problem of civility in society, the nature of political sovereignty and the power of the state, the legitimacy of conquest and subjugation, the possibilities of ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Outlaws of the Sea

    Maritime Piracy in Modern China

    by Robert J. Antony ...
    Series Book 28 - Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series
    In Outlaws of the Sea, Robert J. Antony provides a comprehensive account of the history of maritime piracy in coastal south China from the 1630s to the 1940s. He neither romanticizes nor maligns pirates, but rather analyzes them in the context of their times and the broader world in which they lived. The author demonstrates that Chinese piracy was a pervasive force shaping maritime society as it ... Read more

    $37.49 USD

  • Meditate on My Teaching

    It Will Be Health to Your Body and Nourishment to Your Bones

    by Robert Antony ...
    Meditate on My Teaching. It Will Be Health to Your Body and Nourishment to Your BonesBeloved, I’m so glad you’re here. Sickness has come against you—whether it’s been a long battle or a fresh diagnosis. But hear this truth: disease has no rightful claim over your body, your mind, or your life.What this illness is really trying to do is attack your identity. It wants to distract you from who you ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • As Flies to Whatless Boys

    A Novel

    by Robert Antoni ...
    Spanning from Victorian England to the West Indies, this is a prize-winning novel of adventure, love, comedy, and tragedy.In 1845 London, engineer, philosopher, philanthropist, and bold-faced charlatan John Adolphus Etzler, has invented machines that he thinks will transform the division of labor and free all men. He forms a collective called the Tropical Emigration Society, and recruits a variety ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Carnival

    A Novel

    by Robert Antoni ...
    The Commonwealth Prize-winning author of Divina Trace "has boldly recast Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises as a harrowing tale" set in the West Indies ( Booklist, starred review).Robert Antoni has established himself as one of the most innovative voices to emerge from the Caribbean and the Americas. His novel Carnival—"easily his most engrossing, direct work to date"—takes readers on a journey from ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Core Concepts in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice: Volume 1

    Volume I

    Edited by Kai Ambos, Antony Duff, Julian Roberts, Thomas Weigend, Alexander Heinze ...
    Attempts at trans-jurisdictional debate and agreement are often beset by mutual misunderstanding. Professionals and academics engaged in comparative criminal law sometimes use the same terms with different meanings or different terms which mean the same thing. Although English is the new lingua franca in international and comparative criminal law, there are many ambiguities and uncertainties with ... Read more

    $148.49 USD