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The Taiwan Voter examines the critical role ethnic and national identities play in politics, utilizing the case of Taiwan. Although elections there often raise international tensions, and have led to military demonstrations by China, no scholarly books have examined how Taiwan’s voters make electoral...

Originally a small town called Washington Courthouse, Fayetteville bloomed into one of Arkansas's largest cities. The town prospered during its first two decades, until it suffered decimation during the Civil War as troops moved throughout the region. In 1871, Fayetteville successfully bid to be home...

In the past twenty years, many traditionally white campus religious groups have become Asian American. Today there are more than fifty evangelical Christian groups at UC Berkeley and UCLA alone, and 80% of their members are Asian American. At Harvard, Asian Americans constitute 70% of the Harvard...

While the Spanish conquistadors have been stereotyped as rapacious treasure seekers, many firstcomers to the New World realized that its greatest wealth lay in the native populations whose labor could be harnessed to build a new Spain. Hence, the early arrivals in Mexico sought encomiendas—"a grant...

A bittersweet coming-of-age debut novel set in the Korean community in Toronto in the 1980s. This haunting coming-of-age story, told through the eyes of a rebellious young girl, vividly captures the struggles of families caught between two cultures in the 1980s. Family secrets, a lost sister,...

The loyalty investigations triggered by the Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s marginalized many talented women and men who had entered government service during the Great Depression seeking to promote social democracy as a means to economic reform. Their influence over New Deal policymaking and their...

Ésta antología de Poemas de Manuel de Zequeira comprende lo mejor de su obra.

En este libro Saco analiza la historia de los movimientos políticos que pretendían la anexión de Cuba a los Estados Unidos durante el siglo XIX.

Bringing together an international group of scholars, this collection offers a fresh assessment of Kazuo Ishiguro’s evolving significance as a contemporary world author. The contributors take on a range of the aesthetic and philosophical themes that characterize Ishiguro’s work, including his...

İlerde, “Yayın hayatına başladığı 1986 Mart’ından bu yana, Altınoluk dergisinin yaptığı en hayırlı işlerden birisi nedir?” diye sorulursa, herhalde, muhterem alim, fazıl, salih zevatla yapılan derin soluklu sohbetlerdir, denecektir. Bugün o muhterem zevatın bir çoğu beka...

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Best Russian Plays and Short Stories by Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gorky, Gogol and many more" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. It is said that if you haven't read the great Russian playwrights and authors...

A collection of short stories this is one of the best works ever written by Lermontov. The writer recounts the occurrence of certain incidents in the life of protagonist Pechorin. The character of the protagonist is an amalgamation of different people from real life and seems capable of the vilest acts. Truly depicting the degenerating morality of current times this is a thrilling work.