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Hubbing for Tourists: Airports, Hotels and Tourism Development in the Indo-Pacific, 1934-2019
HardcoverOriginal price $98.99 - Original price $98.99Original price $98.99$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Dubai International Airport (DXB), Emirates Airlines, and the Burj al-Arab. Changi International Airport (SIN), Singapore Airlines, and Marina Bay ...
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Chinese Revolution in Practice: From Movement to the State
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /This book employs multiple case studies to explore how the Chinese communist revolution began as an ideology-oriented intellectual movement aimed a...
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Transscalar Critique: Climate, Blackness, Crisis
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /The history of the contemporary is a history of crisis - most centrally, the twinned crises of environmental destruction and anti-Black violence. T...
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Geopolitics and Governance in North Africa: Local Challenges, Global Implications
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /North Africa was once on the geopolitical periphery of Middle East dynamics, but it has increasingly come to shape regional trends. In addition to ...
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Postcolonial Print Cultures
HardcoverOriginal price $175.00 - Original price $175.00Original price $175.00$210.99$210.99 - $210.99Current price $210.99| /The texts that make up postcolonial print cultures are often found outside the archival catalogue, and in lesser-examined repositories such as pers...
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Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /By most accounts, immigrant literature deals primarily with how immigrants struggle to adapt to their adopted countries. Its readers have come to e...
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Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy
HardcoverOriginal price $140.00 - Original price $140.00Original price $140.00$170.99$170.99 - $170.99Current price $170.99| /By most accounts, immigrant literature deals primarily with how immigrants struggle to adapt to their adopted countries. Its readers have come to e...
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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerThe Only Plane in the Sky — such an evocative title — is a monumental and moving oral history, documenting the stories ...
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Unconditional: The Japanese Surrender in World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A new look at the drama that lay behind the end of the war in the PacificSigned on September 2, 1945 aboard the American battleship USS Missouri ...
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In the Dragon's Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A timely look at the impact of China’s booming emergence on the countries of Southeast Asia“An expert and lucid synthesis of the historical conte...
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A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“Arguably the greatest living travel writer” (Outside magazine), Pico Iyer has called Japan home for more than three decades. But, as he is the f...
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Tainted Tap: Flint's Journey from Crisis to Recovery
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent year...
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All about Barack Obama
PaperbackOriginal price $5.99 - Original price $5.99Original price $5.99$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /A profile of the 44th President of the United States--his childhood in Hawaii, his college years at Columbia University and Harvard Law School, his...
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Kazuko and the Gardens of Manzanar
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /An historical fiction memoir of a Japanese-American child's experience with her family in the Manzanar internment camp during World War II, as told...
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Kazuko and the Gardens of Manzanar
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /An historical fiction memoir of a Japanese-American child's experience with her family in the Manzanar internment camp during World War II, as told...
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Tío Bernie: The Inside Story of How Bernie Sanders Brought Latinos Into the Political Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /"This book is a true behind the scenes look at the historic Bernie 2020 Latino outreach operation and Chuck's unique story of redemption through hi...
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Step Step Jump: Transforming Trauma to Triumph from the 46th floor
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Quintero's debut memoir combines riveting storytelling, compelling insight, and triumphant lived experience to bring depth and meaning to one of mo...
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Step Step Jump - Transforming Trauma to Triumph from the 46th Floor
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Quintero's debut memoir combines riveting storytelling, compelling insight, and triumphant lived experience to bring depth and meaning to one of mo...
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Flutter, Flutter, Butterfly: Age 15. Abused by thousands of soldiers - Based on a True Story
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /In the world, there are many uncomfortable truths. Truths that are covered up and hidden in hopes that they will fade and be forgotten. As a result...
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I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Late one night in December 2008, police arrived at the home of Liu Xiaobo--China's leading dissident, a key figure in the prodemocracy manifesto Ch...
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New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /For twenty years an acclaimed correspondent on PBS's The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and the winner of two Emmys and two Peabody Awards (for her cove...
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The Weaver's Daughter
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /"Sometimes people disappear into the North and are never heard from again."When her papá doesn't return, twelve-year-old Ixchel, a Maya from the Yu...
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The Weaver's Daughter
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Sometimes people disappear into the North and are never heard from again."When her papá doesn't return, twelve-year-old Ixchel, a Maya from the Yu...
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Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War
HardcoverOriginal price $69.95 - Original price $69.95Original price $69.95$89.99$89.99 - $89.99Current price $89.99| /The player is a womanizer, a trickster, a gambler--but can Asian American men fully participate in this kind of masculinity? In Asian American Play...
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