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  • The Forbidden Daughter

    The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor

    by Zipora Klein Jakob ...
    The unforgettable true story of a girl born in the Kovno Ghetto, and the dangerous risk her parents faced in defying the barbarous Nazi law prohibiting childbirth.Elida Friedman was not supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade Jewish women from giving birth. Yet despite the fear of death, Dr. Jonah Friedman and his wife Tzila, choose to bring a daughter into ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Modern Chinese Foodways

    Edited by Jia-Chen Fu, Michelle T. King, Jakob A. Klein ...
    Series series Food, Health, and the Environment
    An edited collection that explores the multifaceted experiences of Chinese culinary modernity both within and outside of mainland China from the mid-19th century to present.Modern Chinese Foodways defines some of the major processes by which Chinese food and foodways have become modern, with a focus on the period from the mid-nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The editors, Jia-Chen Fu, ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Crafting Everyday Food

    Technology, Tradition, and Transformation in Modern East Asia

    by Angela Ki Che Leung, Hallam Stevens, Dr. Victoria Lee, Tatsuya Mitsuda, Dr Shuenn-Der Yu, Jakob Klein, John P. DiMoia ...
    Series series Food in Asia and the Pacific
    Focusing on East Asia from the nineteenth century to the present, Crafting Everyday Food highlights the role of technology in transforming traditional foods into modern ones and in reinventing industrialized foods as heritage foods. The seven expert researchers adopt a unique technological perspective to trace the transformation of traditional fermented foodstuffs typical of the region—kimchi, soy ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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    The Forbidden Daughter

    The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor

    by Zipora Klein Jakob ...
    Narrated by Robin Siegerman ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 51 min

    The unforgettable true story of a girl born in the Kovno Ghetto, and the dangerous risk her parents faced in defying the barbarous Nazi law prohibiting childbirth.Elida Friedman was not supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade Jewish women from giving birth. Yet despite the fear of death, Dr. Jonah Friedman and his wife Tzila, choose to bring a daughter into ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Handbook of Food and Anthropology

    Edited by Dr Jakob A. Klein, Professor James L. Watson ...
    Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Award 2017.Interest in the anthropology of food has grown significantly in recent years. This is the first handbook to provide a detailed overview of all major areas of the field.20 original essays by leading figures in the discipline examine traditional areas of research as well as cutting-edge areas of inquiry. Divided into three parts ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World

    Edited by Yuson Jung, Jakob A. Klein, Melissa L. Caldwell ...
    Current discussions of the ethics around alternative food movements--concepts such as "local," "organic," and "fair trade"--tend to focus on their growth and significance in advanced capitalist societies. In this groundbreaking contribution to critical food studies, editors Yuson Jung, Jakob A. Klein, and Melissa L. Caldwell explore what constitutes "ethical food" and "ethical eating" in socialist ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Molecular Allergy Diagnostics

    Innovation for a Better Patient Management

    Edited by Jörg Kleine-Tebbe, Thilo Jakob ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book, based on a recent German publication, offers an overview of basic data and recent developments in the groundbreaking field of molecular allergology. It comprehensively explores the origin and structure of single allergen molecules ("components") and their utility in improving the management of type I, IgE-mediated allergic reactions and disorders like allergic respiratory diseases, food ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Consuming China

    Approaches to Cultural Change in Contemporary China

    Edited by Kevin Latham, Stuart Thompson, Jakob Klein ...
    Series series ConsumAsian Series
    Post-Mao China has been characterized in literature and the media as a burgeoning consumer society. Consuming China investigates this characterization by examining the cultural significance of consumption and consumerism in the People’s Republic of China today. In questioning the notion of consumption, this impressive work suggests that it is not simply a symptom of economic reform within China ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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    The Boy with the Star Tattoo

    A Novel

    by Talia Carner ...
    Narrated by Carlotta Brentan ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 41 min

    From acclaimed author of The Third Daughter comes an epic historical novel of ingenuity and courage, of love and loss, spanning postwar France when Israeli agents roamed the countryside to rescue hidden Jewish orphans—to the 1969 daring escape of the Israeli boats of Cherbourg.1942: As the Vichy government hunts for Jews across France, Claudette Pelletier, a young and talented seamstress and lover ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • 100 Questions and Answers About East Asian Cultures

    An introductory cultural competence guide for Americans about the customs, history, politics and languages background of people from China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong

    by Michigan State University School of Journalism, Helen Zia, Jane Hyun, Sook Wilkinson ...
    This basic, introductory guide answers 100 of the questions people ask in everyday conversation. It informs Americans about workers, students and guests from East Asia including China, Taiwan, Macau, Hong Kong, South and North Korea, Japan and Mongolia. Find answers about culture, customs, holidays, identity, language, religion, social norms, politics, education, work, families and food. This ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Modern China: All That Matters

    by Jonathan Clements ...
    Series series All That Matters
    In Modern China: All That Matters, Jonathan Clements presents China as the Chinese themselves see it. He explains the key issues of national reconstruction; the Cold War, the Cultural Revolution, and the dizzying spectacle of China's economic reform. Clements offers a Chinese perspective on such events as the Handover of Hong Kong, and chronicles the historical events that continue to resonate ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Chile Pepper in China

    A Cultural Biography

    by Brian R. Dott ...
    Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
    Chinese cuisine without chile peppers seems unimaginable. Entranced by the fiery taste, diners worldwide have fallen for Chinese cooking. In China, chiles are everywhere, from dried peppers hanging from eaves to Mao’s boast that revolution would be impossible without chiles, from the eighteenth-century novel Dream of the Red Chamber to contemporary music videos. Indeed, they are so common that ... Read more

    $23.09 USD