Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Objects/Histories eBook Series

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results
Skip side bar filters
  • Refracted Visions

    Popular Photography and National Modernity in Java

    Series series Objects/Histories
    A young couple poses before a painted backdrop depicting a modern building set in a volcanic landscape; a college student grabs his camera as he heads to a political demonstration; a man poses stiffly for his identity photograph; amateur photographers look for picturesque images in a rural village; an old woman leafs through a family album. In Refracted Visions, Karen Strassler argues that popular ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Elephant Complex

    Travels in Sri Lanka

    by John Gimlette ...
    No one sees the world quite like John Gimlette. As The New York Times once noted, “he writes with enormous wit, indignation, and a heightened sense of the absurd.” Writing for both the adventurer and the armchair traveler, he has an eye for unusually telling detail, a sense of wonder, and compelling curiosity for the inside story. This time, he travels to Sri Lanka, a country only now emerging ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Fire in the Lake

    The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

    A "compassionate and penetrating" landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War ( New York Times Book Review)."Fitzgerald's Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning study of the Vietnam War remains essential reading thirty years after its initial publication." — Library JournalThis magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years of research and travels, takes us inside the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • In Pharaoh's Army

    Memories of the Lost War

    by Tobias Wolff ...
    Whether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the same uncanny eye for detail, pitiless candor and mordant wit that made This Boy's Life a modern classic. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Pubs of Ireland

    by M. D. Healy ...
    A virtual Irish pub crawl, and no hangover! The Pubs of Ireland eBook is a "coffee table" style photo book containing color photos of beautiful authentic traditional Irish pubs in Ireland. Great for viewing on any eBook reader or tablet device. A variety sample of stunning Irish pub photos and top Irish family name pubs inside, including Byrnes, Cassidy, Flanagan, Flynn, Murphy, O'Brien, O'Connor, ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Take Your Photos Super Sharp

    by John Rocha ...
    Take Your Photos Super Sharp is a guide to taking super sharp photos. It is illustrated with appropriate photographs and provides examples and tips on how to keep your camera steady by hand holding your camera correctly and steadying your camera using everyday supports such as lamp posts and walls as well as commercial items such as bean bags, monopods and tripods. There are sections on choosing ... Read more

    Free

  • Art Photographs by Richard Alighieri: Volume IV - Nature Photography

    Until recently, photographer Richard Alighieri's prints were only offered to private collectors and charitable foundations. Now, much of his extensive portfolio of nature and fine art photography is available in digital format. The 25 images for this fourth volume were chosen by Mr. Alighieri from his favorite nature photographs. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Marine Corps Tank Battles in Vietnam

    The author of Tanks in Hell tracks ten years of tank warfare in Vietnam, combining firsthand accounts from veterans with analysis of tactics and strategy.In 1965 the large, loud, and highly visible tanks of 3rd Platoon, B Company, 3rd Tank Battalion landed across a beach near Da Nang, drawing unwelcome attention to America's first, almost covert, commitment of ground troops in South Vietnam. As ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • War Crimes in Japan-Occupied Indonesia

    A Case of Murder by Medicine

    Shortly after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Imperial Army invaded the Dutch East Indies, now known as Indonesia. A deceitful campaign promoting Asian brotherhood recruited and coerced young Indonesian men to support the Japanese occupation with the sinister outcome that several million of them were worked to death or summarily killed as expendable slave laborers, or romusha, as they were called.While ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Volcanoes - Why Do They Happen?

    Volcanoes for Kids

    Series series Children's Earthquake & Volcano Books
    Why do volcanoes go "ka-boom!"? This unique approach to vulcanology is highly inspiring to young children. The use of carefully selected images only help in driving home certain points of discussion. This is a picture book that your child will definitely love and learn the most from. Don't forget to grab a copy today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hard Interests, Soft Illusions

    Southeast Asia and American Power

    In Hard Interests, Soft Illusions, Natasha Hamilton-Hart explores the belief held by foreign policy elites in much of Southeast Asia—Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnam—that the United States is a relatively benign power. She argues that this belief is an important factor underpinning U.S. preeminence in the region, because beliefs inform specific foreign policy ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Violence and Vengeance

    Religious Conflict and Its Aftermath in Eastern Indonesia

    Between 1999 and 2000, sectarian fighting fanned across the eastern Indonesian province of North Maluku, leaving thousands dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. What began as local conflicts between migrants and indigenous people over administrative boundaries spiraled into a religious war pitting Muslims against Christians and continues to influence communal relationships more than a decade ... Read more

    $24.69 USD