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  • We Need To Talk About Xi

    What we need to know about the world’s most powerful leader

    by Michael Dillon ...
    Meet the most powerful leader in the world.Chinese premier Xi Jinping graces our television screens and news headlines on a regular basis. But even after a decade in power, he remains shrouded in mystery.From growing up with a father purged in Mao's Cultural Revolution and his mission to eradicate poverty, to his persecution of Uyghur Muslims and paranoia about being likened to Winnie-the-Pooh, Xi ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Out of the Ordinary

    by Michael/Lobzang Dillon/Jivaka ...
    Now available for the first time in Ireland and the UK – more than half a century after it was written – is the memoir of Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (1915–62), the Anglo-Irish doctor and Buddhist monastic novice chiefly known to scholars of sex, gender, and sexuality for his pioneering transition from female to male between 1939 and 1949, and for his groundbreaking 1946 book Self: A Study in ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Archaic and Classical Greece

    by Matthew Dillon, Christopher Matthew, Michael Schmitz ...
    Series series Religion & Classical Warfare
    Essays examining the influence of gods, oracles, and omens in the wars of the Archaic and Classical Greek world.Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Greeks were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle risked, without first making sacrifice to propitiate the appropriate gods (such as Ares, god of War) or consulting oracles and omens to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mongolia

    A Political History of the Land and its People

    by Professor Michael Dillon ...
    Mongolia remains a beautiful barren land of spectacularly clothed horse-riders, nomadic romance and windswept landscape. But modern Mongolia is now caught between two giants: China and Russia; and known to be home to enormous mineral resources they are keen to exploit. China is expanding economically into the region, buying up mining interests and strengthening its control over Inner Mongolia. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Biopolitics of Security

    A Political Analytic of Finitude

    by Michael Dillon ...
    Series series PRIO New Security Studies
    Taking its inspiration from Michel Foucault, this volume of essays integrates the analysis of security into the study of modern political and cultural theory.Explaining how both politics and security are differently problematised by changing accounts of time, the work shows how, during the course of the 17th century, the problematisation of government and rule became newly enframed by a novel ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Deconstructing International Politics

    by Michael Dillon ...
    Series series Interventions
    Michael Dillon is internationally regarded for his contributions by political philosophers, international relations scholars and security studies experts, as well as by philosophers more broadly. It is difficult to overrate his importance to the development of critical deconstructive approaches not only in challenging traditional scholarship and addressing contemporary politics, but in ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Dictionary of Chinese History

    by Michael Dillon ...
    First Published in 1979. This title is intended as a guide to personalities, events, ideas and institutions in China from earliest times right up to the present day. The dictionary should be particularly useful to anyone interested in Chinese history for its own sake, or in contemporary China, where today's events are so often seen in terms of the past. It should also help anyone interested in ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Contemporary China - An Introduction

    by Michael Dillon ...
    This book presents a concise introduction to contemporary China. It is intended as a first book for those coming new to the subject, providing the essential information that most people need to know, without going into excessive detail. Its coverage includes the economy, society, politics and international relations; China's history, especially the twentieth century; and Taiwan and Hong Kong as ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Xinjiang and the Expansion of Chinese Communist Power

    Kashgar in the Early Twentieth Century

    by Michael Dillon ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    Xinjiang, China's far northwestern province where the majority of the population are Muslim Uyghurs, was for most of its history contested territory. On the Silk Road, a region of overlapping cultures, the province was virtually independent until the late nineteenth century, nominally part of the Qing Empire, with considerable interest taken in it by the British and the Russians as part of their ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Lesser Dragons

    Minority Peoples of China

    by Michael Dillon ...
    Lesser Dragons is a timely introduction to the fascinating and complex world of China’s ‘national minorities’. Based on detailed research, including the author’s first-hand fieldwork in several minority areas, it introduces the major non-Han peoples of China, including the Mongols, the Tibetans, the Uyghurs of Xinjiang and the Manchus, and traces the evolution of their relationship with the Han ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Politics of Security

    Towards a Political Phiosophy of Continental Thought

    by Michael Dillon ...
    In this critique of security studies, with insights into the thinking of Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, Levinas and Arendt, Michael Dillon contributes to the rethinking of some of the fundamentals of international politics developing what might be called a political philosophy of continental thought. Drawing on the work of Martin Heidegger, Politics of Security establishes the relationship between ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • A Fourteen-Year Journey:

    Facing Leukemia with Macrobiotics

    by Michael Dillon ...
    A Fourteen-Year Journey: Facing Leukemia with Macrobiotics is a story of the courage and dedication while facing cancer to live each day to the fullest, and a valuable contribution to the growing literature exploring the importance of complementary and alternative medicine. With the growing acceptance of Eastern modalities, such as acupuncture in Western medicine, A Fourteen-Year Journey offers ... Read more

    $3.99 USD