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Emergent Lingua Francas and World Orders
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 140.00This book presents an alternative paradigm in understanding and appreciating World Englishes (WEs) in the wake of globalization and its accompanying shifting priorities in many dimensions of modern life, including the emergence of the English language as the dominant lingua franca (ELF). Chew argues that history is a theatre for the realization of... more...
Strategic Positioning in Voluntary and Charitable Organizations
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 170.00Rekindling the critical analysis of the adoption of generic commercial (for-profit) management approaches in the non-profit context, Strategic Positioning in Voluntary and Charitable Organizations reveals that charities are positioning themselves in their evolving external environment in distinctive ways that are not adequately explained by existing... more...
Arming the Periphery
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00A major historical study of the global arms trade, revolving around the transfer of small arms from metropolitan Europe to the turbulent frontiers of Indian Ocean societies during the 'long' nineteenth century (c.1780-1914). more...
The Essential Guide to First-time Asian Mums and Dads
Marshall Cavendish 2011; US$ 28.00Written by a select panel of specialists, this book covers a wide range of topics close to every Asian parents heart, including planning for a family, antenatal and postnatal healthcare, breastfeeding, bonding with baby, the fathers role, managing grandparents and domestic help, food and nutrition, and helping baby maximise his potential.... more...
Three Witch Tales: A Matter-of-Fact Magic Collection by Ruth Chew
Random House Children's Books 2013; US$ 17.97"Ruth Chew's classic books perfectly capture the joy of everyday magic."?Mary Pope Osborne, bestselling author of the Magic Tree House series Ruth Chew's chapter books are full of simple, matter-of-fact magic that's sure to enchant budding fantasy readers. Did that cat just talk to me? Did that button just move? Is that flower petal flying? In... more...
No Such Thing as a Witch
Random House Children's Books 2013; US$ 5.99"Ruth Chew's classic books perfectly capture the joy of everyday magic."?Mary Pope Osborne, bestselling author of the Magic Tree House series Ruth Chew's chapter books are full of simple, matter-of-fact magic that's sure to enchant budding fantasy readers. Nora Cooper and her brother Tad don't know what to make of their new neighbor Maggie Brown.... more...
What the Witch Left
Random House Children's Books 2013; US$ 5.99"Ruth Chew's classic books perfectly capture the joy of everyday magic."?Mary Pope Osborne, bestselling author of the Magic Tree House series Ruth Chew's chapter books are full of simple, matter-of-fact magic that's sure to enchant budding fantasy readers. When Katy and Louise find the key to the locked drawer in Katy's bureau, they aren't impressed... more...
Kazuo Ishiguro
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 26.95Having earned an international reputation with his booker-prize-winning novel, The Remains of the Day , Kazuo Ishiguro is fast emerging as an important cultural figure of our times. In this guide to Ishiguro?s varied and often experimental work, Wai-chew Sim presents: a biographical survey of Ishiguro?s literary career, and an introduction... more...
Ecological Futures
AltaMira Press 2008; US$ 28.99Ecological Futures argues that history can be used as a guide to possible socioeconomic, political, and ecological scenarios that will transform our globalized world. more...
Georgics
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2009; US$ 11.95Rendered in an idiom drawn from present-day nature guides, gardening handbooks, how-to manuals, and scientific treatises--and in a style influenced by twentieth-century poetrythis bold new translation seeks to renew our appreciation of a work often relegated to the pigeonhole of didactic poetry about farming. In doing so, it reveals the Georgics... more...









