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  • Audiobook

    Please Open in the Event of My Death

    A Father's Advice to His Daughters in Case Something Horrible Happens (Which Hopefully It Won't But Just in Case ...)

    by Mark Hsu ...
    Narrated by Mark Hsu ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 44 min

    AS FEATURED IN TV, PODCASTS AND MAGAZINES:Imagine your plane is going down. Prayer is useless. Fiery death awaits.Now imagine your children. The hours spent feeding, giggling, changing diapers, soothing tantrums, gazing into eyes ... all will fade from their memories until you're just a name.What are the stories – from "unabashedly sentimental" to "exceedingly age inappropriate" – would you want ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transformed into the Same Image

    Constructive Investigations into the Doctrine of Deification

    The doctrine of deification or theosis has been gaining interest among scholars for some time. Yet most publications on the topic have focused on Orthodox and Roman Catholic traditions and have subsumed the discussion under the category of soteriology. If "being transformed into the same image" (2 Corinthians 3:18) is truly essential to the Christian life, a fuller understanding of this biblical ... Read more

    $43.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unsafe Words

    Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era

    Series series Q+ Public
    Queer people may not have invented sex, but queers have long been pioneers in imagining new ways to have it. Yet their voices have been largely absent from the #MeToo conversation. What can queer people learn from the #MeToo conversation? And what can queer communities teach the rest of the world about ethical sex? This provocative book brings together academics, activists, artists, and sex ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Chinese American Transnational Politics

    by Him Mark Lai ...
    Series series Asian American Experience
    Born and raised in San Francisco, Lai was trained as an engineer but blazed a trail in the field of Asian American studies. Long before the field had any academic standing, he amassed an unparalleled body of source material on Chinese America and drew on his own transnational heritage and Chinese patriotism to explore the global Chinese experience.In Chinese American Transnational Politics, Lai ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins

    by Mark Twain ...
    The two narratives published together in The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins are overflowing with spectacular events. Twain shows us conjoined twins, babies exchanged in the cradle, acts of cross-dressing and racial masquerade, duels, a lynching, and a murder mystery. Pudd’head Wilson tells the story of babies, one of mixed race and the other white, exchanged ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Becoming Chinese American

    A History of Communities and Institutions

    by Him Mark Lai ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans
    Becoming Chinese American discusses the historical and cultural development of Chinese American life in the past century. Representing a singular breadth of knowledge about the Chinese American past, the volume begins with an historical overview of Chinese migration to the United States, followed by critical discussion of the development of key community institutions, Chinese-language schools, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family

    Historical novels can be windows into other cultures and eras, but it's not always clear what's fact and what's fiction. Thousands have read Ba Jin's influential novel Family, but few realize how much he shaped his depiction of 1920s China to suit his story and his politics. In Fact in Fiction, Kristin Stapleton puts Ba Jin's bestseller into full historical context, both to illustrate how it ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Like Cattle and Horses

    Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1895-1927

    Series series Comparative and International Working-Class History
    In Like Cattle and Horses Steve Smith connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class. Moving from the late nineteenth century, when foreign companies first set up factories on Chinese soil, to 1927, when the labor movement created by the Chinese Communist Party was crushed by Chiang Kai-shek, Smith uses a host of documents—journalistic accounts of strikes, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Quest for Statehood

    Korean Immigrant Nationalism and U.S. Sovereignty, 1905-1945

    Honorable Mention, Book Award in History of the Association for Asian American Studies. In this book, Richard S. Kim examines the central role played by immigrants in the independence movement that sought to liberate Korea from Japanese colonization. Regarding Japanese rule as illegitimate, Koreans in and out of the Korean peninsula viewed themselves as a stateless people. Their independence ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Models of the Church

    by Avery Dulles ...
    Series Book 13 - Image Classics
    There is today a dramatic reexamination of structure, authority, dogma -- indeed, every aspect of the life of the Church is held up to scrutiny. Welcoming this as a sign of vitality, Avery Dulles has carefully studied the writings of contemporary Protestant and Catholic ecclesiologists and sifted out six major approaches, or "models," through which the Church's character can be understood: as ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Purity Myth

    How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women

    From the bestselling author of Sex Object, a searing investigation into American culture's obsession with virginity, and the argument for creating a future where women and girls are valued for more than sexualityThe United States is obsessed with virginity--from the media to schools to government agencies. In The Purity Myth, Jessica Valenti argues that the country's intense focus on chastity is ... Read more

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  • Mao

    The Unknown Story

    The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao’s close circle in China who have never talked before — and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown ... Read more

    $11.99 USD