Wild Grass. China's Revolution from Below, Paperback - Ian Johnson

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Ian JohnsonNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 25Cover type: Paperback / softb...

As the climate crisis worsens, we must look to revolutionary strategy for justicePublisher: Pluto PressAuthor(s): Peter GelderloosNumber of pages: ...

In Corbynism from Below, thinkers, writers and activists chart the terrain of a radical Labour politics that has risen as much from below, as been ...

Publisher: Sourcebooks, IncAuthor(s): Darcy CoatesNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 210 x 140 x 32Cover type: Paperback / softb...

Filled with fascinating ideas about the revival of religion now sweeping across China, it explores how these changes offer a profound threat to the...

"Leading political sociologist della Porta rehabilitates the role social movements have long played in fostering democracy. Bridging social movemen...

In 1848, Karl Marx declared that a communist specter was haunting Europe. In 1994, Jacques Derrida considered how the specter of Marx would haunt t...

Reducere. The fabled Great Bear Rainforest stretches up the rugged Pacific coast from northern Vancouver Island to southern Alaska. A longtime resident of th...

Publisher: Girl Friday ProductionsAuthor(s): Jamie Andrea GarzotNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 280 x 231 x 23Cover type: Pap...

A girl's twelfth birthday takes an unexpected turn when she finds herself at the centre of the effort to save the community from the tyrannical rul...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Catherine ZabinskiIllustration(s): 11 halftonesNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2022Dimen...

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New B-format paperback - The first book to show that during the era of Wild West, the most dangerous place to be was in the Wilder East, far from t...

Reducere. DescriptionMao Zedong's land reform campaigns comprise a critical moment in modern Chinese history, and were crucial to the rise of the CCP. In Lan...

China is poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. This bo...

Reducere. Mao and his policies have long been demonised in the West, with the Cultural Revolution considered a fundamental violation of human rights. As Chin...

In this thought-provoking and alarming book, veteran China specialist and foreign correspondent Ian Williams examines how China's aggressive foreig...

The first book to show that during the era of Wild West, the most dangerous place to be was in the Wilder East, far from the American frontier.

A spectacular visual biography of one of the most celebrated architects and cultural icons of the twentieth century

Reducere. This historical fiction novel is inspired by real people and events that were shaped by the land, animals, and plants of the Central Plains and by ...

Reducere. Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. Translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles. Set simultaneously in the California deser...

A brilliant and insightful history of the special relationship between the UK and the USA, which Ian Buruma argues is now under threat with the ele...

Drawing extensively on French and international sources and historians, this is a well-researched and fast-paced account of how and why the French ...

Offers an analysis of the origins of the Chinese communist revolution in the countryside. This book provides a local perspective on the rise of a r...

This award-winning graded readers series is full of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers. Luke and Alex...

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Ian Williams examines the extraordinary rise of the Chinese surveillance state, how information is controlled and how it affects the population. Th...

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In recent decades, a type of historical documentary has emerged that focuses on tightly circumscribed subjects, personal archives, and first-person...

Reducere. The Courtroom exploded with accusations and jeers and the middle-aged man stood to receive his sentence. His face was swollen from the beating the ...

Veronica Gago provides a new theory of neoliberalism by examining how Latin American neoliberalism is propelled not just from above by internationa...

Reducere. The Rising Sons: China's Imperial Succession & The Art of War recollects 2, 000 years of China's history by examining how some of its most represen...

An original and challenging approach to thinking about and finding new ways to tackle the future

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An action-packed, contemporary novel about surviving in the wilderness. Thirteen-year-old Karma is desperate to become a certified falconer. At her...

From 1918 to 1933 revolution and counter-revolution followed hot on each others' heels. The barbarity of the Nazis is well-documented. Less well-kn...

Reducere. Leadership From Below looks at leadership through the experiences of twenty-two leaders from the US Navy and British Royal Navy. They represent all...

Reducere. Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today. In a fascinating account, au...

An exploration of the radical politics and poetics of Linton Kwesi Johnson.

The book shows how English has been newly constituted as a dominant language in post-market reform India. Political economic transitions experience...

Reducere. In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120, 000 children--mostly girls--have left China through international adopti...

Examines how the gospel of John draws on a number of Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions for the conception of the abyss and sea in Revelation, and h...

The first children's book from superstar England striker, Ian Wright.Publisher: ScholasticAuthor(s): Ian WrightNumber of pages: 256Publication date...

Reducere. In this funny and moving animals-in-peril adventure, a twelve-year-old girl and her two best friends determine to rescue two orphaned beaver kits--...

Reducere. It's been said that prayer is the vocabulary of faith. This book offers a wealth of resources from forgotten places to help us create a new vocabul...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 48 bw illus, 4 tablesNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 157 x 234 x 24Cover...

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