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The Corpse Walker
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 16.95The Corpse Walker introduces us to regular men and women at the bottom of Chinese society, most of whom have been battered by life but have managed to retain their dignity: a professional mourner, a human trafficker, a public toilet manager, a leper, a grave robber, and a Falung Gong practitioner, among others. By asking challenging questions with... more...
Our East End
Headline 2012; US$ 22.64The first title in our Disappearing Britain series, which records the lives of those in areas which have changed massively. more...
Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War
St. Martin's Press 2003; US$ 7.99The Korean War POW remains the most maligned victim of all American wars. For nearly half a century, the media, general public, and even scholars have described hundreds of these prisoners as "brainwashed" victims who uncharacteristically caved in to their Communist captors or, even worse, as turncoats who betrayed their fellow soldiers. In either... more...
The Real Band of Brothers: First-hand accounts from the last British survivors of the Spanish Civil War
HarperCollins Publishers 2009; Not AvailablePersonal stories from the men and women who volunteered to fight for a cause they passionately believed in. more...
Habits of Change
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 20.99A collection of extraordinary oral histories of American nuns, Habits of Change captures the experiences of women whose lives over the past fifty years have been marked by dramatic transformation. Bringing together women from more than forty different religious communities, most of whom entered religious life before Vatican II, the book shows how their... more...
Bodies of Evidence
Oxford University Press, USA 2012; US$ 26.99Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History is the first book to provide serious scholarly insight into the methodological practices that shape lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer oral histories. Each chapter pairs an oral history excerpt with an essay in which the oral historian addresses his or her methods and practices. With... more...
Saddling Up Anyway
Taylor Trade Publishing 2006; US$ 21.99Whether destined to be remembered or forgotten, a cowhand clung to life with all the zeal with which he approached his trade. He was the most loyal of employees, repeatedly putting his neck on the line for a mere dollar a day. Patrick Dearen has brought these reckless and risky adventures to life with colorful stories from interviews with 76 men who... more...
Our Liverpool
Headline 2012; US$ 20.83A compelling oral history of life in Liverpool and the third title in our Disappearing Britain series. more...
Our Liverpool
Headline 2012; Not AvailableA compelling oral history of life in Liverpool and the third title in our Disappearing Britain series. more...
The Frogmen of World War II
Pocket Books 2007; US$ 7.99As countless battlefronts in the Pacific, African, and European theaters called for direct amphibious assaults against islands and beachheads, a small corps of exceptionally skilled fighting men was formed -- the U.S. Navy underwater warriors. Beginning in 1943, these men undertook never-before-attempted missions ranging from eye-to-eye recon of enemy-held... more...









