Regional Studies
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The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
$23.99 Add to cartAndrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career, us… [more below]
- Author: Lankov, Andrei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 22 2014
- ISBN10: 0199390037
- Language: English
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The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives
$15.95 Read moreA collective memoir in poetry of an Ojibwe family and tribal community, from creation myth to this day, updated with new poems
Reaching from the moment of creation to the cry of a newborn, The Sky Wa
- Author: Grover, Linda Legarde
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1517914515
- Language: English
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Queen of the Hillbillies: The Writings of May Kennedy McCord
$24.95 Read moreMay Kennedy McCord, lovingly nicknamed “First Lady of the Ozarks” and “Queen of the Hillbillies,” spent half a century sharing the history, songs, and stories of her native Ozarks through newspaper co
- Series: Chronicles of the Ozarks
- Author: McCord, Patti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: April 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1682261999
- Language: English
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Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to XI Jinping
$27.00 Add to cart“Thoughtful, probing…a worthy successor to the famous histories of Fairbank and Spence [that] will be read by all students and scholars of modern China.”
–William C. Kirby, coauthor of Can China Lea- Author: M?hlhahn, Klaus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0674248317
- Language: English
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Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China’s New Social Order
$30.00 Add to cartNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by the BBC
A sweeping yet intimate portrait of modern China told through the lives of four ordinary women striving for a better future in a highly unequal society- Author: Yang, Yuan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0593493907
- Language: English
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Belonging: A Culture of Place
$40.99 Add to cartWhat does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can we say that we truly belong?
These are some of the questions of place and belonging that renowned cu
- Author: Hooks, Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 20 2008
- ISBN10: 041596816X
- Language: English
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I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist’s Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India
$18.00 Add to cartA gripping investigation into the mysterious assassination of a journalist in India, revealing the courage and vulnerability of those who are fighting the decline of democracy around the world
When Ga- Author: Romig, Rollo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0143135287
- Language: English
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Faeries, Elves and Goblins: The Old Stories and Fairy Tales
$19.95 Add to cartA unique collection of traditional stories about faeries, elves and goblins.
Faeries, elves, goblins, leprechauns, brownies, spriggans and many other supernatural beings leap vividly off the page in t
- Author: Kerven, Rosalind
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 06 2019
- ISBN10: 184994542X
- Language: English
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Small Town Living: A Coast-To-Coast Guide to People, Places, and Communities
$30.00 Add to cartCelebrate the joys of small town life in this stunning, coast-to-coast photographic ode to country stores, main streets, and the inspiring creatives who have embraced life outside the city center.
B- Author: Abbott, Erin Austen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0762484292
- Language: English
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The Italians
$19.00 Read moreWashington Post bestseller
A vivid and surprising portrait of the Italian people from an admired foreign correspondent How did a nation that spawned the Renaissance also p
Los Angeles Times bestseller- Author: Hooper, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 19 2016
- ISBN10: 014312840X
- Language: English
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Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now–As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long for It
$19.99 Add to cart“A rich and exuberant kaleidoscopic portrait of a great, messy, noisy, daunting, inspiring, maddening, enthralling, constantly shifting Rorschach test of a place. . . . Delightful. . . . In Taylor’s p
- Author: Taylor, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0062005863
- Language: English
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North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
$21.95 Read more**Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist**
Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors. North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The countr- Author: Tudor, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0804844585
- Language: English
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Mardi Gras Beads
$22.95 Add to cartBeads are one of the great New Orleans symbols, as much a signifier of the city as a pot of scarlet crawfish or a jazzman’s trumpet. They are Louisiana’s version of the Hawaiian lei, strung around tou
- Series: Louisiana True
- Author: Maccash, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: February 09 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177091
- Language: English
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The Cemeteries of New Orleans: A Cultural History
$34.95 Add to cartIn The Cemeteries of New Orleans, Peter B. Dedek reveals the origins and evolution of the Crescent City’s world-famous necropolises, exploring both their distinctive architecture and their cultural i
- Author: Dedek, Peter B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: July 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180386
- Language: English
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The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
$21.00 Add to cartAn investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom in Afghanistan that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl.
“An astonishingly clear picture of this resourceful, i- Author: Nordberg, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0307952509
- Language: English
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Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
$46.58 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Award
The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less tha
An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America’s heartland- Author: Bessire, Lucas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0691212643
- Language: English
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A Stranger at My Door: Finding My Humanity on the U.S./Mexico Border
$16.95 Add to cartA Stranger At My Door is a personal odyssey of challenge, failure, and redemption. A man in desperate crisis appears at the doorstep of a family home in the Sonoran desert. Attempts to do the right th
- Author: Bowden, Peg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 18 2019
- ISBN10: 0989200930
- Language: English
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Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations
$15.95 Add to cartJapanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations takes readers on a thoroughly researched and remarkably readable journey through Japan’s cultural history.
This much-anticipated sequel to- Author: Davies, Roger J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 09 2016
- ISBN10: 4805311630
- Language: English
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The Bronx
$30.00 Add to cartHome to the New York Yankees, the Bronx Zoo, and the Grand Concourse, the Bronx was at one time a haven for upwardly mobile second-generation immigrants eager to leave the crowded tenements of Manhatt
- Series: Columbia History of Urban Life
- Author: Gonzalez, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0231121156
- Language: English
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Stories from Home
$25.00 Add to cartBrimming with his rich humor, Jerry Clower’s book manifests the unsurpassed southern art of yarn spinning. It also shows the nature of the man for whom good storytelling is more than just show busines… [more below]
- Author: Clower, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: April 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1617030708
- Language: English
