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Buddha Is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America
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Aihwa Ong
Fleeing the murderous Pol Pot regime, Cambodian refugees arrive in America as at once the victims and the heroes of America's misadventures in Southeast Asia; and their encounters with American citizenship are contradictory as well. Service providers, bureaucrats, and employers exhort them to be self-reliant, individualistic, and free, even as the ...
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Orality and Literacy
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Walter J Ong, J Ong Walter
This classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures and offers a brilliantly lucid account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, print and electronic technology. In the course of his study, Walter J. Ong offers fascinating insights into oral genres across the globe and through time and ...
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Flexible Citizenship - PB
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Aihwa Ong, Aihwa Ong
Few recent phenomena have proved as emblematic of our era, and as little understood, as globalisation. Are nation-states being transformed by globalisation into a single globalised economy? Do global cultural forces herald a postnational millennium? Tying ethnography to structural analysis, "Flexible Citizenship" explores such questions with a ...
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Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word
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Walter J Ong
Professor Walter Ong's new book explores some of the profound changes in our thought processes, personality and social structures which are the result ...of the development of speech, writing and print. The cumulative impact of the book is dazzling. Read this book. Literature will never be the same again. And neither will you.' Robert Giddings, ...
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I Knew You Could!: Celebrate All the Stops in Your Life
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Craig Dorfman, Cristina Ong (Illustrator)
In celebration of the fifth anniversary of this inspiring story, we present a special hardcover edition featuring The Little Engine, proudly chugging away to achievement! With simple, rhyming text that is truthful and encouraging and applicable to all ages, it is no wonder that" I Knew You Could!" has been such a bestseller over the years. This ...
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Spirits of Resistance an: Factory Women in Malaysia
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Aihwa Ong
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Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty
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Aihwa Ong
Neoliberalism is commonly viewed as an economic doctrine that seeks to limit the scope of government. Some consider it a form of predatory capitalism with adverse effects on the South. In this groundbreaking work, Aihwa Ong offers an alternative view of neoliberalism as an extraordinarily malleable technology of governing that is taken up in ...
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The Sweet Spot: Asian-Inspired Desserts
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Pichet Ong, Genevieve Ko, Pate Eng (Photographer)
When it comes to Asian desserts, most Americans think of fortune cookies. But, in fact, the Far East is home to a dazzling array of sweets rich with tropical fruits, crunchy nuts, aromatic spices, and, yes, even chocolate. In "The Sweet Spot," renowned pastry chef Pichet Ong presents a collection of one hundred recipes for cakes, cookies, pies, ...
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Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender & Body Politics Se Asia
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Aihwa Ong (Editor), Michael G Peletz (Editor)
These essays consider the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia. By analyzing femininity and masculinity as fluid processes rather than social or biological givens, the book provides ways of understanding how gender interacts with local, national and transnational forms of knowledge and power. The ...
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Chinese Houses: The Architectural Heritage of a Nation
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Ronald G Knapp, A Chester Ong (Photographer), Jonathan Spence (Foreword by)
Features 20 well-preserved tradtional homes, presenting examples from a range of rural and metropolitan areas throughout China.
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The Disinherited
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Han Ong
In this incisive and illuminating exploration of the impulse to do good and the paradoxical harm brought on by generosity, Roger Caracera is stunned to discover that his late Filipino father has left him $500,000. Unwilling to accept the inheritance, he sets out to find a worthy recipient.
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The Presence of the Word: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History
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Walter J Ong
Terry Lectures. A religious philosopher's exploration of the nature and history of the word argues that the word is initially and always sound, that it cannot be reduced to any other category, and that sound is essentially an event manifesting power and personal presence. His analysis of the development of verbal expression, from oral sources ...
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The Little Engine That Could Numbers
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Cristina Ong (Illustrator), Watty Piper, pse
Learning numbers is as easy as 1,2,3, as children follow the little blue engine on a train ride, passing by five noisy drums, seven shiny airplanes, and more! Full color.
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Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology
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Walter J Ong
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The Little Engine That Could Saves the Day
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Watty Piper, pse, Cristina Ong (Illustrator)
Based on Piper's original story, this board book tells the story of how the Little Engine That Could helps all the friends and neighbors she meets as she chugs through town. Shaped like the engine herself, this large board book is ideal for little hands. Full color.
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Chinese Furniture: A Guide to Collecting Antiques
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Karen Mazurkewich, A Chester Ong (Photographer)
The international market for antique Chinese furniture is booming, and masterpieces from the Ming and Qing dynasties are now worth hundreds of thousands. "Chinese Furniture" is a survey of these collectibles - from the very best hardwood pieces featured to standard softwood specimens still available on the Asian market. The book presents an ...
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The Little Engine That Could and the Snowy, Blowy Christmas
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Watty Piper, pse, Cristina Ong (Illustrator)
It's Christmas Eve and Santa's reindeer have all come down with terrible colds. How will Santa deliver presents? Can The Little Engine That Could come to the rescue? This board book features shiny holographic foil on the cover. Full color.
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Making and Remaking Asian America
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Bill Ong Hing
This is the first comprehensive study of how U.S. immigration policies have shaped - demographically, economically, and socially - the six largest Asian American communities: Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Asian Indian. For each group, the book offers detailed information, on gender, age, birth-place, geographic settlement, ...
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Tropical Interiors
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Elizabeth V Reyes, A Chester Ong, Chester Ong (Photographer)
With over 250 colour photographs taken in more than 30 private homes, this book shows that Filipino design has become a global phenomenon. The Philippines is home to a new generation of craftsmen who work in all areas of design. Their specialty is taking the indigenous materials of the country - pina, abaca, capiz shell, bamboo and rattan - to ...
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Fixer Chao
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Han Ong
A novel about love, revenge, art, and Feng Shui, as a Filipino street hustler assumes the persona of Master Chao, a revered Feng Shui practitioner from Hong Kong. Distorting the Eastern concept of Feng Shui to accommodate Western demands, he peddles his peculiar brand of holistic philosophy among New York City's elite. "Fixer Chao" raises ...
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Privatizing China: Socialism from Afar
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Li Zhang (Editor), Aihwa Ong (Editor)
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Fighting for Life: Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness
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Walter J Ong
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Oral Poetry: An Introduction
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Paul Zumthor, Kathy Murphy-Judy (Translator), Walter J Ong (Designer)
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Tropical Living Tropical Living: Contemporary Dream Houses in the Philippines Contemporary Dream Houses in the Philippines
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Elizabeth Reyes, Andrew Chester Ong (Photographer)
TROPICAL LIVING provides a fascinating and vivid view of the beautiful homes in the Philippines. It examines diverse residential design styles in both the city and in the countryside, in mountains and at sea. From a classic old-world penthouse in the Malate area to an Asian-fusion villa on Batangas Bay, over thirty private homes are showcased and ...
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Hold Hope, Wage Peace: Inspiring Individuals to Take Action for a Better World
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David Krieger (Editor), Carah Ong (Editor), Walter Cronkite (Foreword by)
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