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  • Momma's Christmas Gift

    by Kao Kalia Yang ...
    Illustrated by Jacqueline Tam ...
    A modern Gift of the Magi tale of a poor Hmong family celebrating Christmas and the love, sacrifice, and generosity that holds them close.Six days a week, Momma wakes up before dawn to head to the factory. She leaves three simple bowls of rice and egg on the table for her children and always returns home before their bellies start to rumble. Sister knows their family does not have much. She loves ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Spirit of Fearless Living

    by Kao Choua Vue ...
    An unfiltered, deeply personal account of war and survival as told by the author’s mother—a Hmong woman who endured bombings, famine, and forced displacement during the US Secret War in Laos.The Spirit of Fearless Living is a memoir shaped by over fifty hours of oral storytelling between Kao Choua Vue and her mother, Mee Thao—a Hmong refugee who lived through war, exile, and the precarious search ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • THE PORTUGAL QUESTION

    Can a Small European Economy Turn Openness into Lasting Prosperity?

    by Johnny Kao ...
    Portugal has become more open to capital, talent, technology, and the world. The harder question is what the country can build from that openness.Over the past several decades, Portugal has moved from dictatorship and relative economic isolation into the European Union, the euro, global capital markets, international tourism, large-scale migration, renewable energy, and an increasingly digital ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Latehomecomer

    A Hmong Family Memoir

    by Kao Kalia Yang ...
    One Hmong family’s harrowing escape from war in Laos to the uncertainty of a new home as refugees in Minnesota.Yang’s award-winning memoir of her family’s harrowing escape from war in Laos is a love letter to her grandmother, a troubling portrait of the consequences of US intervention in Southeast Asia, and a glimpse into the little-seen exodus of the Hmong people, first to refugee camps in ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • How Switzerland Holds Together

    Institutions, Trust, Capital and the Choices Behind a Stable Society

    by Johnny Kao ...
    Switzerland is often described through its wealth, neutrality, mountains and political stability. But those familiar images leave a more interesting question unanswered: how does a small country with twenty-six cantons, four national languages, strong local autonomy and frequent popular votes continue to function as a coherent whole?How Switzerland Holds Together begins with ordinary life-housing, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Diamond Explorer

    by Kao Kalia Yang ...
    From APALA-winning author and Guggenheim Fellow Kao Kalia Yang, a middle-grade debut about a Hmong American boy's struggle to find a place for himself in America and in the world of his ancestors.Malcolm is the youngest child of Hmong refugees, and he was born over a decade after his youngest sibling, giving him a unique perspective on his complicated immigrant family.In the first part of the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • How Small Can a State Be Before It Stops Working

    What Liechtenstein Reveals About Sovereignty, Scale, and Institutional Resilience

    by Johnny Kao ...
    What does a state actually need in order to remain a state?Liechtenstein offers an unusually clear place to ask the question. With a population comparable to a small city, no standing army, the Swiss franc as its currency, deep customs integration with Switzerland, and a workforce that extends far beyond its borders, the principality does not fit the conventional picture of a self-contained ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • When Software Represents Us

    AI Agents, Authority, and the New Architecture of Agency

    by Johnny Kao ...
    AI is beginning to do more than answer our questions. It can book the trip, send the message, move the money, write the code, negotiate with another system-and increasingly act in our name.That changes the problem.Once software can create real consequences on our behalf, it is no longer enough to ask whether an AI system is capable or safe. We also have to ask: Who gave it authority? What exactly ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Clearing the Mind for Creativity

    by John Kao ...
    In the beginners mind, the Zen master Shunryu Suzuki once wrote, there are many possibilities. In the experts mind, there are only a few. The implication for Suzuki was that all that is new originates from a mind free of preconceptions. Here, in this brief eBook, former Harvard Business School professor and movie producer John Kao tells you how to achieve your own beginner's mind and unleash your ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sinews of History: Feminine Power Through the Ages

    by Jayne Greye, Hiker Angel, Kevin Sparrow, Roy Ellison, Kaos, J Baer, Uncle Froco, James Page ...
    One story that isn't often told in the social studies curriculum is that history is replete with powerful women. Other than a passing reference to Joan of Arc and the intellectual wisdom of Elizabeth I during wartime, history tends to ignore its powerful women. Recent archeological digs have revealed that the mythological Amazons may have been calvaries of pant-wearing, spear-throwing Scythian ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Magical Boy Volume 2: A Graphic Novel

    by The Kao ...
    A breathtakingly imaginative fantasy series starring Max—a high schooler chosen to become the next "Magical Girl." There's just one catch . . . he's a trans boy!Although he was assigned female at birth, Max is your average trans man trying to get through high school as himself. But on top of classes, crushes, and coming out, Max's life is turned upside down when his mom reveals an eons old family ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Magical Boy Volume 1: A Graphic Novel

    by The Kao ...
    A breathtakingly imaginative fantasy series starring Max -- a trans high school student who has to save the world as a "Magical Girl" . . . as a boy!Although he was assigned female at birth, Max is your average trans man trying to get through high school as himself. But on top of classes, crushes, and coming out, Max's life is turned upside down when his mom reveals an eons old family secret: he's ... Read more

    $9.99 USD