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Ian Johnson
An inspiring testament to China's dissident historians and activists, from the 1940s to the present
A documentary filmmaker who uncovered a Mao-era death camp; an independent journalist who gave voice…
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The human story of the vast changes now transforming China, with religion sweeping up millions of people in ways which are a profound threat to the Communist Party.
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist comes a unique portrait of a new revolution currently under way in China: the demand for civil liberties by ordinary citizens.
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Describes a China caught between the desire for change percolating up from below and the ossified political structure above. This title narrates the stories of three ordinary people who find…
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Melanie Petrowski
A testimony of a teenager meeting Jesus face to face back in 1990. 14-year-old cries out to God ironically telling Him that she does not know whether He exists, and…
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Ian Ona Johnson
Offers the full story of a fateful alliance between past and future mortal enemies--long preceding the well-known Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact--whose dimensions were kept secret from the outside world and yet which…
The purpose of this book is to publish the detailed analysis of each prospective and established maritime business sector. Sector experts working to a common template explain what these industries…
Gina Johnson, Ian Hill-Smith, Chirag Bakhai, Bhavina Khatani
The 6th edition of the best-selling Minor Illness Manual has been revised and updated to include the latest clinical guidance and prescribing information, with a introductory chapter reflecting the changing…
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Thomas Watson (1555-1592) was a classicist, linguist, poet, playwright, musician, scientist, traveller, cosmologist-and government agent. His associates included the Earl of Oxford, Philip and Mary Sidney, Christopher Marlowe, William Byrd…
Unbelievable Barry Town covers the club’s golden decade where they won the Welsh Premier seven times, through the years of playing as an amateur team under controversial owner Stuart Lovering…
‘Masterfully opens up a little explored realm- how the quest for religion and spirituality drives hundreds of millions of Chinese’ Pankaj Mishra ‘The reappearance and flourishing of religion is perhaps…
This volume supports Chaucer’s modern readers by delivering the essential contexts - literary, historical, cultural, social, aesthetic, spiritual, philosophical, economic, psychological, linguistic and scientific - through which to read, interpret…
Using history to challenge Communist Party rule. Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future describes how some of China's best-known writers, filmmakers, and artists have overcome crackdowns…
One of the Best Books of the Year: The Economist, The Christian Science Monitor
China is in the midst of one of the world’s great spiritual awakenings: some 300 million…
Andre Ian Johnson
The Moorish Trilogy, Part One is the fictitious tale of Othello’s journeys and adventures before he was fatally impaled by the quill of Shakespeare.
Captain Belgae Hawkins, spawn of Vikings…
This collection reviews the wealth of research on ways to promote biodiversity within agricultural landscapes, focussing on the range of conservation, restoration and rewilding practices farmers and landowners can adopt.
This book investigates and re-evaluates the impact of Latin culture in crucial areas of late medieval and early modern Scottish literature and the role it played in the development of…
Literary Nonfiction. Sports Memoir. Edited by Michael Shields. THE BOUNCE AND THE ECHO is a memoir enriched by the enthralling history of the sport of basketball, from its inception unto…
John Boyd
This manageable guide sets out to answer what harvesting and threshing equipment is available, what are the main characteristics of types of equipment and where can you go for more…
This unique volume offers for the first time a comprehensive introduction to the literary theory and criticism produced during the Middle Ages. The essays cover all the main traditions in…
Janette Johnson
Parents who have never had the opportunity to hold the child they lost often find comfort by retreating to a special place in their imagination. In this place, their own…
Ian Johnson (Norwich Research Park Norfolk United Kingdom)
How much did Latin academic theoretical discourse inform mainstream late medieval English literature? Rather than asking this question of secular poetic fiction (Chaucer, Gower), this book investigates a more central…
This volume brings together medievalist and early modernist specialists, whose research fields are traditionally divided by the jubilee year of 1500, in order to concentrate on the role of the…
Ian C. Johnson
This book is a sustained interpretative essay addressed to the Greekless reader. It does not digress into speculations about the many historical questions common to such introductions but directs the…
Ian Volner
A spectacular visual biography of one of the most celebrated architects and cultural icons of the twentieth century
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This is a collection of pioneering studies by a distinguished transatlantic team of scholars on a neglected yet canonical tradition of medieval English literature. From the fourteenth to the sixteenth…
The essays in this book bring to light and analyse the continuities and shifts in daily religious practices across Europe–from Portugal to Hungary and from Italy to the British Isles–in…
Ian Johnson (University of St Andrews Scotland)
This book is an inspiring and historical look at the amazing life of Francis Xavier, missionary and pioneer to India, Sri Lanka, Malacca, Indonesia, the Islands of the Philippines and…
Immanuel Kant
Kant’s landmark essay, On Perpetual Peace, is as timely, relevant, and inspiring today as when it was first written over 200 years ago. In it, we find a forward-looking vision…
This collection makes a new, profound and far-reaching intervention into the rich yet neglected terrain? between Latin scholastic theory and vernacular literatures. Written by a multidisciplinary team of leading international…
Ian Buruma
A brilliant and insightful history of the special relationship between the UK and the USA, which Ian Buruma argues is now under threat with the election of Donald Trump and…
Murray Johnson,Ian McFarlane
The history of Aborigines in Van Diemen’s Land is long. The first Tasmanians lived in isolation for as many as 300 generations after the flooding of Bass Strait. Their struggle…
Wang
In this important body of theology, key writings from the Chinese house church movement have been compiled, translated, and made accessible to English speakers. This unique resource will be valuable…
Moving Sounds explores the unique animating symbiosis that develops whenever previously unrelated technologies become intertwined and form a mutually invigorating relationship.
This book is the first to explore style and spectacle in glam popular music performance from a global perspective. Approaching glam music performance and style broadly, and using the glam/glitter…
Jessica Johnson,Ian Fairweather
In this original and controversial 2005 book, Mahmood argues that Muslim women can show independence even while assuming traditional Islamic roles. Her research suggests that, in choosing to embrace the…
