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  • The Lover of Soldiers

    by Tom Gill ...
    Cineas of Athens is a well-educated, hero-worshipping young man. He lives in a world where Alexander the Great's surviving generals battle for kingdoms of their own within Alexander's conquests. Cineas leaves his stodgy family behind and joins the mercenary army of glamorous Demetrius the Besieger at his fortress of Acrocorinth. "Three months later," Cineas recalls, "I was in Asia…." Following the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yokohama Street Life

    The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer

    by Tom Gill ...
    Series series AsiaWorld
    Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer is a one-man ethnography, tracing the career of a single Japanese day laborer called Kimitsu, from his wartime childhood in the southern island of Kyushu through a brief military career to a lifetime spent working on the docks and construction sites of Tokyo, Osaka and Yokohama. Kimitsu emerges as a unique voice from the ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Growing up Rich

    In South Georgia

    by Tom Gill ...
    Growing up as a child of a sharecropper family in South Georgia paints an image of hard times but my memories are just the opposite. We ate three good meals every day and slept in a comfortable bed at night. My parents loved me and taught me a code of conduct that I still strive to live by. I was taught; dont lie, cheat, say ugly words or talk bad about your neighbors. Go to Sunday school on ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Japan Copes with Calamity

    Edited by Tom Gill, Brigitte Steger, David H. Slater ...
    Four years after the 3.11 disaster in Japan, this acclaimed collection of ethnographies in English on the Japanese communities affected by the giant Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters continues to be the only one of its kind. With a new preface offering an update on the affected communities, this volume brings together studies by experienced researchers of Japan from field sites ... Read more

    $37.49 USD

  • Social Work in Wales

    by David Wilkins, Jade Forbes, Diane Seddon, Gill Toms, Ian Thomas, Katherine Algar-Skaife, Naomi Parry, Penny Alexander, Sarah Lord, Tegan Brielrey-Sollis, Dan Burrows, Neil Thompson, Hefin Gwilym, Jaime Ortiz, Ceryl Teleri Davies, Gwenan Prysor, James Deakin, Sarah Vaile, Tim Versey, Rhoda Emlyn-Jones, Sarah Jane Waters, Liz Lefroy, Hope Lawrence, Sarah Buckley, Jenny Burgess, Tim Wynn, Sandra Williams, Anna-Louise Edwards, Eluned Plack, Rhiana Povey, Miriam Ennis, Hayley Douglas, Helena Barlow, Fiona Verity, Beth Pearl, Joanne Pye, Natacha Leao da Silva, Haddy Sallah, Tracey Maegusuku-Hewett, Robin Sen, Christian Kerr, Gillian MacIntyre, Graham Attenborough, Mark Drakeford ...
    With a foreword by First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, this book is the first to offer an in-depth look into what makes the Welsh Social Work context unique. It includes the move towards joint children, families and adult provision and the emphasis on early intervention, future generations and partnership considerations.Covering the subject knowledge required by the Welsh regulator, Social ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    by David VanDyke, Ryan King ...
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    When oppression by the Unionist-dominated federal government becomes intolerable, the Republic of Texas secedes from the United States. As the Unionists respond with immediate violence, Daniel Markis and Spooky Nguyen send Reaper and Skull on missions to help the fledgling nation survive in the face of overwhelming odds. Can they win through to establish a haven for Edens on North American soil? ... Read more

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  • Active Hope (revised)

    How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience and Creative Power

    by Joanna Macy, Chris Johnstone ...
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  • Storm Flight

    WINGS OF WAR, #5

    by Mark Berent ...
    Series Book 5 - WINGS OF WAR
    In Storm Flight, the intense conclusion to Berent's Wings of War saga, the action is touched off by a daring raid on the Son Tay prisoner-of-war camp that reveals some startling information. With American prisoners in terrible jeopardy and crucial national secrets in danger of being discovered, the characters we have met in Berent's earlier books are put to the ultimate test. They must call upon ... Read more

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  • Bending Adversity

    Japan and the Art of Survival

    by David Pilling ...
    “[A]n excellent book...” —The EconomistFinancial Times Asia editor David Pilling presents a fresh vision of Japan, drawing on his own deep experience, as well as observations from a cross section of Japanese citizenry, including novelist Haruki Murakami, former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, industrialists and bankers, activists and artists, teenagers and octogenarians. Through their voices, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • My American Journey

    by Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A great American success story . . . an endearing and well-written book.”—The New York Times Book ReviewColin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knew the rough life of the streets. He overcame a barely average start at school. Then he joined the Army. The rest is history—Vietnam, the Pentagon, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Strong in the Rain

    Surviving Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

    by Lucy Birmingham, David McNeill ...
    "A harrowing story of the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster that turned Japan upside down . . . contemporary journalism and history at its finest." —Douglas Brinkley, New York Times– bestselling authorBlending history, science, and gripping storytelling, Strong in the Rain brings the 9.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Japan in 2011 and its immediate aftermath to life through the eyes of the men ... Read more

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  • The Long Gray Line

    The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966

    by Rick Atkinson, Rick Atkinson ...
    The New York Times bestseller about West Point's Class of 1966, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Rick Atkinson."A story of epic proportions [and] an awesome feat of biographical reconstruction."—The Boston GlobeA classic of its kind, The Long Gray Line is the twenty-five-year saga of the West Point class of 1966. With a novelist's eye for detail, Rick Atkinson (author of the ... Read more

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