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  • Audiobook

    The Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare

    Unabridged

    3 hours 5 min

    The sonnets of William Shakespeare are among the most famous love poems in the English language. For sustained dramatic intrigue and sophistication of plot, these works are at least the equal of Shakespeare's greatest plays. Compelling, subtle, and intellectually rigorous—yet taut with intense emotion—each poem invites study, interpretation, and awe, from one generation to the next.This recording ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Isolationists

    Pro-Japan Anti-interventionists and the FBI on the Eve of the Pacific War, 1939–1941

    With war on the horizon in the late 1930s, many Americans, still angry over the outcome of the Great War, determined not to get involved in another global conflict. Called isolationists or anti-interventionists, many of them, especially the America First Committee, focused their attention on the European war when it broke out in September 1939. Most were less interested in Japan’s aggression in ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The CIA and Third Force Movements in China during the Early Cold War

    The Great American Dream

    When the Chinese Communists defeated the Chinese Nationalists and occupied the mainland in 1949–1950, U.S. policymakers were confronted with a dilemma. Disgusted by the corruption and, more importantly, failure of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist armies and party and repelled by the Communists’ revolutionary actions and violent class warfare, in the early 1950s the U.S. government placed its hopes in ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • One Hundred Years of Game Theory

    A Nobel Symposium

    Series series Econometric Society Monographs
    In the winter of 2021, the Swedish Nobel Foundation organized a Nobel symposium 'One Hundred Years of Game Theory' to commemorate the publication of famous mathematician Emile Borel's 'La théorie du jeu et les équations intégrales à noyau symétrique'. The symposium gathered roughly forty of the world's most prominent scholars ranging from mathematical foundations to applications in economics, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Beautiful Noise

    The Music of John Cage

    Illustrated by Il Sung Na ...
    Open this unique picture book and meet John Cage, the pioneering, inspiring composer who believed all sound—from the crash of a slamming door to the whirr of a blender to the whoosh of the wind—was music.For John Cage, music was everywhere: in the hum of the refrigerator, the screech of a garbage truck, the patter of the rain. But other people disagreed. They felt that, surely, a pianist on stage ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Discover Her Art

    Women Artists and Their Masterpieces

    "An inclusive, easy-to-read guidebook to women artists." — Publishers Weekly."A must for art history curriculum and to diversify biography shelves." — School Library Journal.Discover Her Art invites young art lovers and artists to learn about painting through the lives and masterpieces of 24 women from the 16th to the 20th century.In each chapter, readers arrive at a masterwork, explore it w... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sufism

    Love and Wisdom

    For hundreds of years, the inner spiritual core of Islam has been the focus of Sufi thinkers. These essays allow the reader to understand the wisdom and history of Sufism. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Letters and Diaries of Colonel John Hart Caughey, 1944–1945

    With Wedemeyer in World War II China

    Edited by Roger B. Jeans ...
    Colonel John Hart Caughey, a US Army war plans officer stationed in the Chinese Nationalist capital of Chungking, was an eyewitness to the battle for China in the final months of the war (1944–45) and beyond, when he rose to become head of the Theater Planning Section. In frequent letters to his wife as well as in several diaries, he chronicled the US military’s role in wartime China, especially ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • The Marshall Mission to China, 1945–1947

    The Letters and Diary of Colonel John Hart Caughey

    Edited by Roger B. Jeans ...
    This book breaks new ground in our understanding of a pivotal period in the history of American foreign policy, the early Cold War, and the struggle for dominance in China between the Nationalists and Communists. The famous Marshall Mission to China has been the focus of intense scrutiny ever since General George C. Marshall returned home in January 1947 and full-scale civil war consumed China. ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Roads Not Taken

    The Struggle Of Opposition Parties In Twentieth-century China

    Studies of the political history of twentieth-century China traditionally have been skewed toward a two-dimensional view of the major combatants: the Chinese Communist Party and the Guomindang. Although their struggle undeniably has been the main story, it is neither the only nor the complete story. During the Republican period (1912-1949), many ed ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Tackling Social Exclusion in Europe

    The Contribution of the Social Economy

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This book is the result of an international study by leading economists and sociologists from across Europe and North America. The response of the new social economy (primarily voluntary and co-operative sectors) to social exclusion and employability in the context of crises of unemployment and the welfare state is of wide international concern. This book looks specifically at the growth of ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Eco-Design of Buildings and Infrastructure

    Developments in the Period 2016–2020

    Series series Sustainable Cities Research Series
    The Chair Eco-design of buildings and infrastructure, a partnership between three engineering colleges (MINES ParisTech, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech and AgroParisTech) and the VINCI group, aims to create measurement and simulation tools which integrate all the dimensions of eco-design (greenhouse gas emissions, impact on biodiversity and resource levies, etc.) to become real decision-making tools, ... Read more

    $112.99 USD