Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific, Paperback - Howard Chiang

Howard Chiang proposes a new paradigm for doing transgender history in which geopolitics assumes central importance. Defined as the antidote to tra...

Reducere. As the first state to legalize same-sex marriage in Asia and host the first annual gay pride in the Sinophone Pacific, Taiwan is a historic center ...

Howard Chiang traces the genealogy of sexual knowledge in China from the demise of eunuchism to the emergence of transsexuality, showing its role i...

Language Diversity in the Sinophone World offers interdisciplinary insights into social, cultural, and linguistic aspects of multilingualism in the...

Reducere. The Silent Traveller Returns Distinguished author, artist, calligrapher, and poet Chiang Yee wrote and illustrated a dozen "Silent Traveller" books...

Reducere. The Silent Traveller Returns Distinguished author, artist, calligrapher, and poet Chiang Yee wrote and illustrated a dozen "Silent Traveller" books...

Focusing on transformation and continuity over time in Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa, among others, contributors assert that kinship is a lived and living...

This edited collection is the first to comprehensively consider the role that litigation can play in galvanizing climate action in countries includ...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): See Kam TanIllustration(s): 21 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 368Collection: Edinbu...

Reducere. "This book celebrates without apology the fact that indigenous spirituality lives and breathes in our Pacific person and personhood. In so doing, i...

How do political actors in the Pacific islands region make sense of the success (or failure) of parliamentary gender quota campaigns? To answer the...

Exploring a selection of current issues in international law as they pertain to South Pacific countries and Antarctica, this volume covers diverse ...

Demographic transition, along with the economic and geopolitical re-emergence of Asia, are two of the largest forces shaping the twenty-first centu...

Although most people associate the term D-Day with the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, it is military code for the beginning of any offensive op...

Reducere. At the age of twenty-six, Maarten Troost--who had been pushing the snooze button on the alarm clock of life by racking up useless graduate degrees ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This book examines how states in eight countries across Asia and the Pacific address internal displacement in the context of disasters and climate ...

Reducere. Travels in the Old Empires of the South-West Pacific East of Java, west of Tahiti and north of the Cape York peninsula of Australia lie the unknown...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Lauren HirshbergIllustration(s): 17 figures, 3 mapsNumber of pages: 386Collection: American Cro...

Reducere. ``Rhythm in the Rain`` is a nonfiction narrative about the jazz community in the Pacific Northwest that examines the people, places, and events tha...

Reducere. In The Fragile Edge, the documentary filmmaker and deep-sea diver Julia Whitty paints a mesmerizing, scientifically rich portrait of teeming coral ...

„O colectie de povestiri care te pun pe ganduri, te fac sa-ti pui intrebarile cele mai grele si sa te simti mai uman. Un varf al genului science fi...

Reducere. "Mr. Mansfield gets beneath the patina of the tangible and intangible relics of our history to locate the emotional core of our past. Through the i...

One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that...

Reviews the state of play in implementation of trade facilitation and paperless trade in the Asia and the Pacific region. This report also provides...

Reducere. A girl with cerebral palsy feels trapped in her body and unable to communicate. When her art teacher straps a paintbrush to her head, she begins to...

Christian theologians in the Pacific Islands see culture as the grounds on which one understands God. In this groundbreaking book, Matt Tomlinson e...

The battle for Guadalcanal that lasted from August 1942 to February 1943 was the first major American counteroffensive against the Japanese in the ...

Hawaiʻi Is My Haven maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian Islands. This ethnography emerges from a decade of fieldwork with b...

Reducere. THE US NAVY'S ON-THE-ROOF GANG: VOLUME 2 - WAR IN THE PACIFIC is an historical novel based on the unknown true-life story of the "On-The-Roof Gang....

Explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of C...

Provides an overview of climate change mitigation and adaptation priorities in the agriculture and land use sectors of countries in the Pacific, as...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Michael R. JinNumber of pages: 248Collection: Asian AmericaPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 2...

About the AuthorTed Chiang's fiction has won four Hugo, four Nebula, and four Locus Awards, and has been featured in The Best American Short Storie...

The Role of the Individual in History was first published in 1898, and occupies a very prominent place among those of Plekhanov's works in which he...

Reducere. A must-have growing guide for gardeners in the Pacific Northwest A gardener's plant choices and garden style are inextricably linked to the place t...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...