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Forever Struggle
Activism, Identity, and Survival in Boston's Chinatown, 1880–2018
2020
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Chinatown has a long history in Boston. Though little documented, it represents the city's most sustained neighborhood effort to survive during eras of hostility and urban transformation. It has been wounded and transformed, slowly ceding ground; at the same time, its residents and organizations have gained a more prominent voice over their community's fate.In writing about Boston Chinatown's long history, Michael Liu, a lifelong activist and scholar of the community, charts its jo...
$23.89 CAD
Urban Spaces
Planning and Struggles for Land and Community
2009
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The control and utilization of urban spaces remains a highly contested issue. Much of the debate centers on issues of economic development versus the maintenance and support of already existing communities. As a number of urban areas are in the throes of gentrification and economic development projects, there is a dearth of information on not only the use of private power in this process, but also the response of the community members. This anthology responds to a growing concern about urb...
$120.99 CAD
Uncanny Magazine Issue 69
March/April 2026
2026
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The March/April 2026 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring all-new short fiction by Angela Liu, Anjali Sachdeva, Stephen Graham Jones, Theodora Goss, Sunwoo Jeong, and John Wiswell; essays by Samantha Mills, Jim C. Hines, Jane Espenson, and Ai Jiang; poetry by Izzy Wasserstein, Eva Papasoulioti, Marissa Lingen, and Thomas Mixon; interviews with Anjali Sachdeva and Sunwoo Jeong by Caroline M. Yoachim; Broci’s Kuolonuni as the cover; and an editorial by Michael Damian Thoma...
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50 Studies Every Obstetrician-Gynecologist Should Know presents key studies that have shaped the practice of obstetrics and gynecology. Selected using a rigorous methodology, the studies cover topics including hypertension in pregnancy, infectious diseases of pregnancy, family planning, urogynecology, and more. For each study, a concise summary is presented with an emphasis on the results and limitations of the study, and its implications for practice. An illustrative clinical cas...
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Deadly Voyages
Migrant Journeys across the Globe
2019
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Deadly Voyages: Migrant Journeys across the Globe explores the burdens and impact of perilous migration, while considering which laws, policies, practices, and venues might establish empathy and protection for migrants. This interdisciplinary volume envisions and calls for a transformation in migration policy, motivated by the common goal of drastically reducing the peril migrants face when compelled to make their treacherous journeys. All contributors to this volume agree on the inadequac...
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A Voluntary Exile
Chinese Christianity and Cultural Confluence since 1552
2013
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Western missionaries in China were challenged by something they could not have encountered in their native culture; most Westerners were Christian, and competitions in their own countries were principally denominational. Once they entered China they unwittingly became spiritual merchants who marketed Christianity as only one religion among the long-established purveyors of other religions, such as the masters of Buddhist and Daoist rites. A Voluntary Exile explores the convergence of cultu...
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Preparing White Teachers for Anti-Racist Education
Critical Reflection and Generativity for Transformative Praxis
2024
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Using a framework combining Critical Race Theory and Critical Reflection and Generativity for Transformative Praxis, this book examines both how white preservice teachers conceive of race and racism (habits of mind) and how they react when dealing with race and racism in the classroom (patterns of acting). With firm grounding in real-world data, the authors detail ways in which teacher educators can recognize and deal with preservice teachers who cannot—or will not—translate their reflecti...
$58.09 CAD
- by
- Ken Liu
- Narrated by
- Michael Kramer
- Audiobook 1 -
- The Dandelion Dynasty
Unabridged
21 hours 37 min
2015
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One of the Time 100 Best Fantasy Books Of All TimeTwo men rebel together against tyranny—and then become rivals—in this first sweeping book of an epic fantasy series from Ken Liu, recipient of Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. Hailed as one of the best books of 2015 by NPR.Wily, charming Kuni Garu, a bandit, and stern, fearless Mata Zyndu, the son of a deposed duke, seem like polar opposites. Yet, in the uprising against the ...
The Sustainability of Oil Ports
An Holistic Framework for China
2020
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This book provides an original analysis of the problems of ensuring that oil ports are sustainable in the broadest sense of the concept including environmental, social, technical and resource aspects.Taking China as its frame for analysis, chosen because of the authors’ expertise and because it is the largest oil import country in the world, much of it by ship, it presents a detailed investigation of the issues that make up a sustainable port profile, using a variety of established...
$116.09 CAD
Declarative Logic Programming
Theory, Systems, and Applications
2018
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The idea of this book grew out of a symposium that was held at Stony Brook in September 2012 in celebration of David S.Warren's fundamental contributions to Computer Science and the area of Logic Programming in particular.Logic Programming (LP) is at the nexus of Knowledge Representation, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematical Logic, Databases, and Programming Languages. It is fascinating and intellectually stimulating due to the fundamental interplay among theory, systems, and appl...
$69.49 CAD
- by
- Ken Liu
- Narrated by
- Michael Kramer
- Audiobook 2 -
- The Dandelion Dynasty
Unabridged
28 hours 58 min
2016
EN
One of the Time 100 Best Fantasy Books Of All TimeIn the much-anticipated sequel to the “magnificent fantasy epic” (NPR) Grace of Kings, Emperor Kuni Garu is faced with the invasion of an invincible army in his kingdom and must quickly find a way to defeat the intruders.Kuni Garu, now known as Emperor Ragin, runs the archipelago kingdom of Dara, but struggles to maintain progress while serving the demands of the people and...
Faith in the Wilderness
Words of Exhortation from the Chinese Church
- Narrated by
- Michael Beck
Unabridged
5 hours 48 min
2022
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For many Western Christians, the experience of suffering and persecution is remote. For Chinese Christians, on the other hand, persecution is a regular aspect of the Christian life. If a Christian from the West was transported to a Chinese house church, the topic of suffering would be ever-present in preaching and conversation. With decades of persecution under government oppression and a rich theology of suffering, the Chinese house church movement has much to contribute theologically to ...











