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THE CHINESE ARTIST GROWS OLD: Aging and Creativity
Jason C. Kuo
This volume contains 400+ tables by Huang Pin-hung, one of the most important painters in modern China. The author argues that Huang Pin-hung was a key figure in the modern revival of traditional Chinese painting in response to the challenge of Western art.
GERMAN MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, 1785-1908: A concise introduction
Sabrina P. Ramet and Torbjørn L. Knutsen
Under the impact of the French Revolution, the German philosophers examined in this book confronted the issue of citizenship and the duties it entailed.
AT THE CENTER OF THE CIRCLE: Harriet de Boinville (1773–1847) and the Writers She Influenced During Europe’s Revolutionary Era
Barbara de Boinville
This first-ever biography of Harriet de Boinville explores her close relationships with Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and other leading writers of the Romantic era.
NOT IRISH ENOUGH: An Anglo-Irish Family’s Three Centuries in Ireland
Sara Day
An engaging, richly annotated account of three hundred turbulent years of Irish history, highlighting the experiences of an Anglo-Irish Protestant family.
AFRICA, YOU HAVE A FRIEND IN WASHINGTON: An American Diplomat’s Adventures in Sub-Saharan Africa
Herman J. Cohen
A career diplomat specialized in African and European affairs, the author of this memoir highlights his experiences south of the Sahara, and looks back at the Foreign Service as an elite corps devoted to national security and national interests.
UNITED STATES-VIETNAM RECONCILIATION: Through Wars to a Strategic Partnership
Desaix Anderson
Based on over forty years' consideration of Vietnam’s history, this book aims to put the Vietnam War within the context of Vietnam’s overall history.
SURVIVING THE UNITED NATIONS: The Unexpected Challenge
Robert Bruce Adolph
This is the gripping true story of 4 intense years in the life of a US Army Special Forces soldier, who joins the UN and then goes on to an assignment in Iraq at the time of the deadly jihadist bombing attack of the UN headquarters.
MURDER IN MONTENEGRO: A Novel
G.K. George
Murder in Montenegro is the fourth volume in a tetralogy that follows the investigations of Inspector Vasiliev of the Moscow police into the plots to assassinate Alexander II, the pogroms in Kiev, and the Siberian exile system. This last volume takes him through breathless adventures in the Balkans, Western Europe, and Russia.
THE GENTLEMAN BANKER: Amadeo Peter Giannini. A Biographical Novel
Giorgio A. Chiarva
A novel based on the life and work of Amadeo P. Giannini, the founder of the Bank of America. This son of Italian immigrants changed the history and the economy of the United States and much more.
THE MAGIC LILY PAD AND OTHER STORIES FOR CHILDREN
Sabrina P. Ramet
This is a collection of 21 short-shorts which evoke a sense of magic.
BILLY AND LORD BYRON, or, A MATTER OF TIME
William R. Stott, Jr.
Billy and Lord Byron is a coming-of-age story, focusing on the development of Billy’s life from youth to adulthood through the care and healing of an injured crow he discovers while at his summer job digging ditches.
POESY SPECTRUM: Flow…
Cymn Lai-Fong Wong
A collection of poetry and art by Cymn Lai-Fong Wong, which in her words, “are imbued with a subtle fuse of intrinsic motion and poetic fluidity, allowing the inner-echoes flow to lead the brushstrokes on its own accord.”
FIRE ON THE ZEN: BE WATER FOR HONG KONG’S 2019
Lai-Fong Wong
This collection of poems unites shattering loss and grief and a deep and hopeful resilience in the face of tragedy both natural and man-made. The collection includes photographic art that helps the reader to more carefully reflect upon the poetry.
SEARCHING FOR HOME
Panna Naik
These haikus relate to the immigrant experience of first generation Indian immigrants, particularly their dislocation, homesickness and assimilation in a society that is vastly different from the one they left behind.
A PATHÉTIQUE SONATA FOR THE CAGED CHILDREN: Appassionata Fugue Melodies Ink-Brushed Under Calligraphic Art
Wing-chi Chan
Wing-Chi Chan’s poetry embodies all the intricacies of form and genre across linguistic boundaries. His poems are written in English but conceived in both English and Chinese.