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World History Teaching in Asia is the first broad survey of the content and approaches used to teach world history in secondary schools and colleges in Asia. The collection has been crafted by scholars...
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View ArticleBerkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Second Edition (2020)
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View ArticleBerkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography Volume 4
The Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography (1979-2015) provides a riveting new way to understand twenty-first-century China and a personal look at the changes that have taken place since the Reform...
View ArticleAfrican American Community in Rural New England: W. E. B. Du Bois and the...
The African American Community in Rural New England: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Clinton AME Zion Church (formerly published in hardcover as Sewing Circles, Dime Suppers, and W. E. B. Du Bois: A History...
View ArticleRecipes from the Garden of Contentment: Yuan Mei’s Manual of Gastronomy
Recipes from the Garden of Contentment: Yuan Mei`s Manual of Gastronomy (Suiyuan Shidan) is, remarkably, the first English edition of one of the world’s most famous books about food. Recipes from the...
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American football is the most popular, and controversial, sport in the United States, and a massive industry. The NFL’s revenues are over $13 billion annually. The Super Bowl is watched by half of US...
View ArticleThis Fleeting World: A Very Small Book of Big History, or the Story of the...
“What a quick, convenient, and persuasive way to begin to understand the confusing world in which we find ourselves!” –William H. McNeill “I hope this book will introduce a wider audience to this...
View ArticleThis Is China: The First 5,000 Years
This Is China is almost certainly the shortest introduction to historic and contemporary China. In the revised and updated second edition, China expert Kerry Brown provides insightful answers to...
View ArticleThe Waste Land: 100th Anniversary International Edition
The Waste Land and Other Poems in this centenary edition presents one of the twentieth century’s most influential poetic works, first published in 1922, in the aftermath of a world war and global...
View ArticleSouls of Black Folk: Great Barrington Edition
The Souls of Black Folk is a founding text of the US civil rights movement, an inspiring work of literature and advocacy by a young man who drew on his own experience as a child in Great Barrington,...
View ArticleInvisible Poets: Afro-Americans of the Nineteenth Century
Invisible Poets: Afro-Americans of the Nineteenth Century brings into view over 130 other Black men and women who published poetry in America during the century between Phillis Wheatley and Paul...
View ArticleAutobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois: Great Barrington Edition
This illustrated edition of The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois is the first to be arranged and dedicated in accordance with Du Bois’s manuscript notes. It begins with these words: “I was born by a...
View ArticleStory of Utopias: 100th Anniversary Edition
“The first study of utopias I read was Mumford’s The Story of Utopias, and while there have been many surveys of Western utopian literature since then, several of which argue with Mumford, it remains...
View ArticleWomen and Leadership (Updated)
This text refers to the first edition: Countries with female leaders in 2016 include Argentina, Brazil, South Korea, Taiwan, Germany, and Poland, and the front-running Democratic Party candidate for...
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