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Imagining World Politics

Sihar & Shenya, A Fable for Our Times

by L.H.M. Ling ...

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This book offers a non-Western feminist perspective on world politics and international relations. Creative, innovative, and challenging, it seeks completely to transform contemporary Eurocentric and masculinist IR by re-presenting it in non-Western, non-masculinist, and non-academic terms. Drawing on Daoist dialectics, the stories of Sihar and Shenya aim to redress such hegemonic imbalance by ... Read more

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This book offers a non-Western feminist perspective on world politics and international relations. Creative, innovative, and challenging, it seeks completely to transform contemporary Eurocentric and masculinist IR by re-presenting it in non-Western, non-masculinist, and non-academic terms. Drawing on Daoist dialectics, the stories of Sihar and Shenya aim to redress such hegemonic imbalance by
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My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree

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One of China’s most significant contemporary poets, co-translated by former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith*Shortlisted for the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize*Yi Lei published her poem “A Single Woman’s Bedroom” in 1987, when cohabitation before marriage was a punishable crime in China. She was met with major critical acclaim—and with outrage—for her frank embrace of women’s erotic desire and her ... Read more

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One of China’s most significant contemporary poets, co-translated by former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith*Shortlisted for the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize*Yi Lei published her poem “A Single Woman’s Bedroom” in 1987, when cohabitation before marriage was a punishable crime in China. She was met with major critical acclaim—and with outrage—for her frank embrace of women’s erotic desire and her
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Prowling Cat

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'The poems of Malathi Maithri, Salma, Kutti Revathi and Sukirtharani so enraged the Establishment in Tamil Nadu, it was even suggested that the poets be burned alive... [Their] poems raise the banner of bold rebellion as they explore the marginalized world of women.'- Paul ZachariaIn 2003, a group of men and women, setting themselves up as guardians of Tamil culture, objected publicly to the ... Read more

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'The poems of Malathi Maithri, Salma, Kutti Revathi and Sukirtharani so enraged the Establishment in Tamil Nadu, it was even suggested that the poets be burned alive... [Their] poems raise the banner of bold rebellion as they explore the marginalized world of women.'- Paul ZachariaIn 2003, a group of men and women, setting themselves up as guardians of Tamil culture, objected publicly to the
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Korean Myths and Folk Legends

by Hwang Pae-gang, Han Young-hie, Kim Se-joong, Chwae Seung-Pyong ...

This book is a collection of myths and legends describing the beliefs and customs of the ancient people in the formative stage of Korean civilization, and will help the reader understand the Korean people, their traditions and their culture. The twenty eight myths and legends in this volume are selected from several books of historic importance. Though they have been enjoyed throughout the ages in ... Read more

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This book is a collection of myths and legends describing the beliefs and customs of the ancient people in the formative stage of Korean civilization, and will help the reader understand the Korean people, their traditions and their culture. The twenty eight myths and legends in this volume are selected from several books of historic importance. Though they have been enjoyed throughout the ages in
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Our Lives

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A series of stories that provide a picture of struggle and strength in many different societies.What makes history live? Stories about individuals who take us to places we have not been.Learning about the lives of girls and women over a lengthy period of time will stimulate discussion about those lives as well as their counterparts today.Each life lived has a story we can learn from. In Our Lives: ... Read more

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A series of stories that provide a picture of struggle and strength in many different societies.What makes history live? Stories about individuals who take us to places we have not been.Learning about the lives of girls and women over a lengthy period of time will stimulate discussion about those lives as well as their counterparts today.Each life lived has a story we can learn from. In Our Lives:
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The Fallen Empire

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A group of people in the great Tambi Empire travel through the war torn path to freedom.It all began with the cry on the hilltop of one Dimo. It was Dimo who opened the eyes of the people of Bali, so they could see everything that was wrong with their captive existence under a selfish and corrupt King. Self determination came at a steep price and robbed them of what little comfort they had. Their ... Read more

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A group of people in the great Tambi Empire travel through the war torn path to freedom.It all began with the cry on the hilltop of one Dimo. It was Dimo who opened the eyes of the people of Bali, so they could see everything that was wrong with their captive existence under a selfish and corrupt King. Self determination came at a steep price and robbed them of what little comfort they had. Their
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Spirals & Shards: Pagan Poetry from the Back of the Heart

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To be a Pagan is to live in a world that is alive, all around you. Trees and stones and rivers have lives and spirits of their own. Gods send omens in the rustle of leaves, the advertisement in the mailbox, the song on the radio. I called this book Pagan Poetry from the Back of the Heart because so many of us write these poems in solitude, not for any other eyes, just scribbled down because we saw ... Read more

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To be a Pagan is to live in a world that is alive, all around you. Trees and stones and rivers have lives and spirits of their own. Gods send omens in the rustle of leaves, the advertisement in the mailbox, the song on the radio. I called this book Pagan Poetry from the Back of the Heart because so many of us write these poems in solitude, not for any other eyes, just scribbled down because we saw
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The Collected Poems of Li He

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The definitive collection of works by one of the Tang Dynasty's most eccentric (and badly-behaved) poets, now back in print for the first time in decades.Li He is the bad-boy poet of the late Tang dynasty. He began writing at the age of seven and died at twenty-six from alcoholism or, according to a later commentator, “sexual dissipation,” or both. An obscure and unsuccessful relative of the ... Read more

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The definitive collection of works by one of the Tang Dynasty's most eccentric (and badly-behaved) poets, now back in print for the first time in decades.Li He is the bad-boy poet of the late Tang dynasty. He began writing at the age of seven and died at twenty-six from alcoholism or, according to a later commentator, “sexual dissipation,” or both. An obscure and unsuccessful relative of the
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Falcon of the Night

by Trevor A. A. Evans ...

It is nighttime in Lyndwald, a serene lakeside city tucked into the hills of the Northern Kingdom, but there is no peace for Liam, a captured spy imprisoned in one of the city's towers. With torture and execution already awaiting him in the morning, he learns that Karsa, his mentor, has killed himself in his cell. Hopelessness sets in, that is until Karsa's journal finds its way into Liam's hands. ... Read more

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It is nighttime in Lyndwald, a serene lakeside city tucked into the hills of the Northern Kingdom, but there is no peace for Liam, a captured spy imprisoned in one of the city's towers. With torture and execution already awaiting him in the morning, he learns that Karsa, his mentor, has killed himself in his cell. Hopelessness sets in, that is until Karsa's journal finds its way into Liam's hands.
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A Lesson

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Poems that enlighten the mind and opens the heart. A collection of poetry about various subjects. ... Read more

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Swaying Branches, Rustling Leaves

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Haiku, and those poems inspired by them, attempt to realize the essence of a moment simply, directly, and creatively. Haiku represent a beautiful combination of presence and transcendence, of wonder and realization, through the crystallization of an instant in time.With two hundred sixty haiku and haiku-inspired poems, Swaying Branches, Rustling Leaves offers insightful observations of everyday ... Read more

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Haiku, and those poems inspired by them, attempt to realize the essence of a moment simply, directly, and creatively. Haiku represent a beautiful combination of presence and transcendence, of wonder and realization, through the crystallization of an instant in time.With two hundred sixty haiku and haiku-inspired poems, Swaying Branches, Rustling Leaves offers insightful observations of everyday
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Black Marigolds by E. Powys Mathers "This is a versified translation of the Caurapancasika. This love poem of fifty stanzas was written by the Kasmiri poet Bilhana Kavi in the 11th century. The story runs that the Brahman Bilhana had a clandestine love affair with Princess Yaminipurnatilaka, the daughter of King Madanabhirama. He was discovered and Bilhana wrote this poem in prison before he ... Read more

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