"Myself, Elsewhere" is both an autobiography and a memoir of old pre-war Ermita. It is not the usual compilation of published essays, but entirely new and original material written in a few months in 2006. It covers the period between 1922, the start of what Nick Joaquin called Manila's "most glittering decade" and 1945, the destruction of Manila. The gentility of pre-war Ermita makes for a dramatic contrast to the brutality of the battle that destroyed it.

In this pioneering volume, Filipino, American, and Australian scholars explore the history of the great families who have led the Philippines during the past century - Osmena, Lopez, and Pardo de Tavera. Moving beyond Manila, the volume offers detailed accounts of how strong men such as Ramon Durano, Ali Dimaporo, and Justiniano Montano used "guns, goons, and gold" to become powerful provincial warlords. Illustrated with many original photographs, maps, and genealogies, this book is a valuable resource for anyone who seeks to understand the modern Philippines.

★本套書一、二冊榮獲台北書展大獎兒童與青少年文學獎首獎，並整套售出日文版權。★ 　　福利社裏面什麼都有　就是口袋裏沒有半毛錢 　　諸葛四郎和魔鬼黨　到底誰搶到那支寶劍 　　隔壁班的那個女孩　怎麼還沒經過我的窗前 　　嘴裏的零食　手裏的漫畫　心裏初戀的童年 　　——羅大佑《童年》 　　在台灣長大的五、六年級生，一定都有過在租書攤翻閱武俠漫畫、半夜聚集在電視前看棒球比賽的童年回憶。 　　1960年代的台灣，民生經濟改善，電影、電視、流行樂、戲劇等流行文化產業百花齊放，在兒童雜誌上連載的「漫畫」，更是孩子們的重要娛樂。也是在這時候，台灣的國際地位逐漸受到威脅，從台東偏鄉的紅葉少棒隊，到隔年赴美比賽的金龍少棒隊，接連的勝利激勵了台灣的民心士氣，也成為國族力量的展現。同時，那也是官方強行干預文化活動、打擊台灣本土文化與方言、實施嚴厲思想控制的年代。 　　《來自清水的孩子》系列套書講述《王子》雜誌創辦人、金漫獎終生成就獎得主蔡焜霖的生命故事。接續著前兩冊〈愛讀冊的少年〉、〈綠島十年〉的內容，本冊〈《王子》時代〉來到了1960年代，服完10年刑期的蔡焜霖，從綠島回到了台灣，在出版社擔任漫畫翻譯和編輯，一路見證台灣本土漫畫走向發展巔峰。 　　遺憾的是，1966年官方實施審查制度，導致大批出版社倒閉、漫畫家失業，漫畫產業跌入谷底。為了援助朋友，也一圓心中的教育夢，焜霖轉而創辦《王子》兒童雜誌，以活潑又極富教育功能的內容，陪伴孩子成長，更在紅葉少棒隊沒沒無聞、缺乏資源的時候伸出援手，促成了之後的「紅葉傳奇」。 　　然而，這些年的打拼，都隨著1969年的兩個秋季颱風，付諸為流水⋯⋯。 　　《來自清水的孩子》由台東大學兒童文學研究所副教授游珮芸，和長期創作繪本的周見信共同創作。對白融合華、台、日語三種語言，畫風則仿效網點、效果線等當時流行的日漫技法，再現出溫暖中帶點苦澀的時代氛圍與人物心境。 　　生動的情節、細膩溫柔的敘事，既展現小人物對大時代的無法控制，又突顯主人翁的恆毅，也從中折射出近代台灣的縮影——有黑暗，但仍舊有光亮；歷經磨難，卻始終充滿力量。 　　本書亦邀請台文作家鄭順聰擔任台語對白顧問、暨南國際大學歷史系助理教授翁稷安擔任歷史顧問。

1950年代，白色恐怖籠罩台灣，焜霖因為曾參與高中讀書會而被捕。某日清晨，他與其他一千多名政治犯們被船艦載至綠島，成為被政府教化的「新生」。酷刑、威嚇、勞動、聽訓，白色恐怖禁錮了焜霖十年的青春，也帶走了他摯愛的人......。 特色1. 重要歷史場景與人物登場 《來自清水的孩子2——綠島十年》還原台灣極權時期的審判羈押場景，諸如青島東路上的「警備總司令部軍法處看守所」、延平南路上的 「國防部保密局南所」、「新店戲臺」 改建的新店分所、東本願寺、內湖國小的「新生總隊」，並完整重現當時政治犯訓導重地「綠島」的新生勞改生活。透過主角焜霖，我們在這些不同的場景中遇見一些重要的歷史人物，如鐘浩東、楊逵、蔡瑞月等等。 特色2.版畫風格，刻畫艱困歲月 不同於第一冊鉛筆線條下的優雅童年，主角蔡焜霖在20歲人生遭逢巨變，一個愛讀冊的清水少年，被囚入了綠島這個闊天空卻無法翱翔的牢籠。繪者周見信為同時表現出自然的壯麗和不自由的感覺，選擇以木刻版畫的風格呈現第二冊〈綠島十年〉。 ★《來自清水的孩子》套書介紹★ 「有黑暗，但仍舊有光亮；歷經磨難，卻始終充滿力量。」 • 第一冊. 愛讀冊的少年 • 第二冊. 綠島十年 • 第三冊. 王子時代 • 第四冊. 化作千風 ■ 台灣版《茉莉人生》，從平凡的小人物故事，窺看台灣重要的近代史； ■ 媲美《在世界的一隅找到我》，以簡明優雅的畫風，溫柔填補台灣人的歷史傷痕。 本書主人翁蔡焜霖，出生於1930年代的台中清水，經歷過日本統治、國民政府來台、白色恐怖到解嚴後等時期。 他作過學徒兵，是台中一中品學兼優的好學生；因參加讀書會，他被羅織「參加非法組織」罪名，遭判刑10年、囚於綠島。出獄後，他於出版社和廣告公司任職；在出版審查極為嚴格的時代，他放棄高薪，創辦了保留台灣漫畫香火的《王子》兒童雜誌，並協助偏鄉的紅葉少棒隊至台北出賽，促成紅葉傳奇。退休後，則積極參與白色恐怖平反運動，推廣人權教育，是人人口中最親切、敬愛的「蔡前輩」。蔡焜霖漫漫的人生足跡，鏡射出近代台灣的縮影——有黑暗，但仍舊有光亮；歷經磨難，卻始終充滿力量。 《來自清水的孩子》是蔡焜霖的生命故事首次以「漫畫」呈現，由台東大學兒童文學研究所副教授游珮芸和長期創作繪本的周見信共同創作。精緻獨特的畫風，台、日、華三語對白，靈巧地將歷史再現。生動的情節、細膩溫柔的敘事，既展現小人物對大時代的無法控制，又突顯主人翁的恆毅。本套書亦邀請台文作家鄭順聰擔任台語對白顧問、暨南國際大學歷史系助理教授翁稷安擔任歷史顧問。

有黑暗，但仍舊有光亮； 歷經磨難，卻始終充滿力量。 台灣版《茉莉人生》，從平凡的小人物故事，窺看台灣重要的近代史； 媲美《在世界的一隅找到我》，以簡明優雅的畫風，溫柔填補台灣人的歷史傷痕。 本書主人翁蔡焜霖，出生於1930年代的台中清水，經歷過日本統治、國民政府來台、白色恐怖到解嚴後等時期。 他作過學徒兵，是台中一中品學兼優的好學生；因參加讀書會，他被羅織「參加非法組織」罪名，遭判刑10年、囚於綠島。出獄後，他於出版社和廣告公司任職；在出版審查極為嚴格的時代，他放棄高薪，創辦了保留台灣漫畫香火的《王子》兒童雜誌，並協助偏鄉的紅葉少棒隊至台北出賽，促成紅葉傳奇。退休後，則積極參與白色恐怖平反運動，推廣人權教育，是人人口中最親切、敬愛的「蔡前輩」。蔡焜霖漫漫的人生足跡，鏡射出近代台灣的縮影——有黑暗，但仍舊有光亮；歷經磨難，卻始終充滿力量。 《來自清水的孩子》是蔡焜霖的生命故事首次以「漫畫」呈現，由台東大學兒童文學研究所副教授游珮芸和長期創作繪本的周見信共同創作。 簡明優雅的筆觸和華、台、日語三種語言的運用，揉合悲歡離合，並靈巧地將時代再現。生動的情節、細膩溫柔的敘事，既展現小人物對大時代的無法控制，又突顯主人翁的恆毅。本書亦邀請台文作家鄭順聰擔任台語對白顧問、暨南國際大學歷史系助理教授翁稷安擔任歷史顧問。 《來自清水的孩子》共有四冊： 第一冊. 愛讀冊的少年 1930年代，日本統治下的台中州清水街，小男孩焜霖在童謠和圖畫書的陪伴下無憂地成長。然而，戰爭焰火逐漸沸騰，遊行、空襲、徵召......誰也無法置身於外。終戰後，這個認真學習ㄅㄆㄇ、熱愛讀冊的少年，以為總算迎來安穩生活，怎麼知道，更巨大的黑暗正在前方等著他......。 第二冊. 綠島十年 第三冊. 王子時代 第四冊. 化作千風

Sociologist Sharon M. Quinsaat sheds new light on the formation of diasporic connections through transnational protests. When people migrate and settle in other countries, do they automatically form a diaspora? In Insurgent Communities, Sharon M. Quinsaat explains the dynamic process through which a diaspora is strategically constructed. Quinsaat looks to Filipinos in the United States and the Netherlands—examining their resistance against the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, their mobilization for migrants’ rights, and the construction of a collective memory of the Marcos regime—to argue that diasporas emerge through political activism. Social movements provide an essential space for addressing migrants’ diverse experiences and relationships with their homeland and its history. A significant contribution to the interdisciplinary field of migration and social movements studies, Insurgent Communities illuminates how people develop collective identities in times of social upheaval. 

Long-haul trucks have been described as sweatshops on wheels. The typical long-haul trucker works the equivalent of two full-time jobs, often for little more than minimum wage. But it wasn’t always this way. Trucking used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States.  The Big Rig explains how this massive degradation in the quality of work has occurred, and how companies achieve a compliant and dedicated workforce despite it. Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews and years of extensive observation, including six months training and working as a long-haul trucker, Viscelli explains in detail how labor is recruited, trained, and used in the industry. He then shows how inexperienced workers are convinced to lease a truck and to work as independent contractors. He explains how deregulation and collective action by employers transformed trucking’s labor markets--once dominated by the largest and most powerful union in US history--into an important example of the costs of contemporary labor markets for workers and the general public.

Stegner and NEA Fellow Hieu Minh Nguyen’s visionary poetry collection about generational loneliness, desire, and longingThe highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning poetry collection Not Here, Hieu Minh Nguyen’s Staying Still centers on the question of how: How do our anxieties around the idea of belonging estrange us from the very world we seek to belong in? How impossible does it feel to stay still and face ourselves? From the intimate longing of queer boyhood to the collective expectations imposed upon children of refugees, these poems face head-on the rejections, grief, and violence we fear in fractured family dynamics, love, and desire as we search for our place in this world.

Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls—the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains, and the woman who wrote the famous autobiographical books. But the true saga of her life has never been fully told. Now, drawing on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, and land and financial records, Caroline Fraser—the editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House series—masterfully fills in the gaps in Wilder’s biography. Revealing the grown-up story behind the most influential childhood epic of pioneer life, she also chronicles Wilder's tumultuous relationship with her journalist daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, setting the record straight regarding charges of ghostwriting that have swirled around the books. The Little House books, for all the hardships they describe, are paeans to the pioneer spirit, portraying it as triumphant against all odds. But Wilder’s real life was harder and grittier than that, a story of relentless struggle, rootlessness, and poverty. It was only in her sixties, after losing nearly everything in the Great Depression, that she turned to children’s books, recasting her hardscrabble childhood as a celebratory vision of homesteading—and achieving fame and fortune in the process, in one of the most astonishing rags-to-riches episodes in American letters. Spanning nearly a century of epochal change, from the Indian Wars to the Dust Bowl, Wilder’s dramatic life provides a unique perspective on American history and our national mythology of self-reliance. With fresh insights and new discoveries, Prairie Fires reveals the complex woman whose classic stories grip us to this day. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDWINNER OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE HEARTLAND PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearThe first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie books

Set in the post-martial-law era of late 1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-age of a group of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan's most prestigious university. Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, Qiu Miaojin's cult classic novel is a postmodern pastiche of diaries, vignettes, mash notes, aphorisms, exegesis, and satire by an incisive prose stylist and countercultural icon. Afflicted by her fatalistic attraction to Shui Ling, an older woman, Lazi turns for support to a circle of friends that includes a rich kid turned criminal and his troubled, self-destructive gay lover, as well as a bored, mischievous overachiever and her alluring slacker artist girlfriend. Illustrating a process of liberation from the strictures of gender through radical self-inquiry, Notes of a Crocodile is a poignant masterpiece of social defiance by a singular voice in contemporary Chinese literature.

Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls—the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains, and the woman who wrote the famous autobiographical books. But the true saga of her life has never been fully told. Now, drawing on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, and land and financial records, Caroline Fraser—the editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House series—masterfully fills in the gaps in Wilder’s biography. Revealing the grown-up story behind the most influential childhood epic of pioneer life, she also chronicles Wilder's tumultuous relationship with her journalist daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, setting the record straight regarding charges of ghostwriting that have swirled around the books. The Little House books, for all the hardships they describe, are paeans to the pioneer spirit, portraying it as triumphant against all odds. But Wilder’s real life was harder and grittier than that, a story of relentless struggle, rootlessness, and poverty. It was only in her sixties, after losing nearly everything in the Great Depression, that she turned to children’s books, recasting her hardscrabble childhood as a celebratory vision of homesteading—and achieving fame and fortune in the process, in one of the most astonishing rags-to-riches episodes in American letters. Spanning nearly a century of epochal change, from the Indian Wars to the Dust Bowl, Wilder’s dramatic life provides a unique perspective on American history and our national mythology of self-reliance. With fresh insights and new discoveries, Prairie Fires reveals the complex woman whose classic stories grip us to this day. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDWINNER OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE HEARTLAND PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearThe first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie books

National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen’s second poetry collection, a haunting of a family’s past upon its present, and a frank reckoning with how loss and displacement transform mothers and daughters across generations. In Root Fractures , Diana Khoi Nguyen excavates the moments of rupture in a a mother who was forced underground after the Fall of Saigon, a father who engineered a new life in California as an immigrant, a brother who cut himself out of every family picture before cutting himself out of their lives entirely. And as new generations of the family come of age, opportunities to begin anew blend with visitations from the past. Through poems of disarming honesty and personal risk, Nguyen examines what takes root after a disaster and how we can make a story out of the broken pieces of our lives. As Terrance Hayes writes, “‘There is nothing that is not music’ for this poet. Poetry is found in the gaps, silences, and ruptures of history.” This astonishing second collection renders poetry into an act of kintsugi , embellishing what is broken in a family’s legacy so that it can be seen in a new light.

A sparkling, funny, and often wrenching portrait-in-essays on the dairy industry, queer intimacy, family, fluidity, whiteness, and cows. For decades, Megan Milks has wondered what it means to share a last name with the classic white American beverage. Now, Milks takes on their namesake subject in all its dimensions, venturing into the worlds of small dairies, bovine genetics, and manure while also turning their eye on their family and themself. The resulting essays connect the dots between human lactation, Big Dairy, being queer and lonely, climate change, transmasculinity, the bull semen industry, the milky roots of white supremacy, and the best practices for giving and receiving a hug. With Mega Milk, Megan Milks confirms their place as one of our most exciting queer thinkers and writers.

A sparkling, funny, and often wrenching portrait-in-essays on the dairy industry, queer intimacy, family, fluidity, whiteness, and cows. For decades, Megan Milks has wondered what it means to share a last name with the classic white American beverage. Now, Milks takes on their namesake subject in all its dimensions, venturing into the worlds of small dairies, bovine genetics, and manure while also turning their eye on their family and themself. The resulting essays connect the dots between human lactation, Big Dairy, being queer and lonely, climate change, transmasculinity, the bull semen industry, the milky roots of white supremacy, and the best practices for giving and receiving a hug. With Mega Milk, Megan Milks confirms their place as one of our most exciting queer thinkers and writers.

The author of the critically acclaimed The Viral Underclass (one of Kirkus Reviews best books of 2022) is back with The Overseer Class, which explores what happens when members of historically minoritized groups are selected for high-visibility positions of power within existing institutions—but under the conditions of a kind of Faustian bargain. Our society places so much weight and attention on those who become the first or only of their identifying group that we miss one of the inherent issues in that model. This book is about the kinds of compromises made by a small but influential group of people from minoritized groups in the United States as they have entered segregated institutions in highly visible positions. People in the overseer class wield enormous institutional power, even necropolitical power over who lives and who dies; it’s just that their power is predicated upon repressing other people who look (or speak/have sex/come from places) like them. The most obvious contemporary overseer is the Black police officer. The Overseer Class begins with this quote from James Baldwin from 1967: “The poor, of whatever color, do not trust the law and certainly have no reason to, and God knows we didn't. ‘If you must call a cop,’ we said in those days, ‘for God's sake, make sure it's a white one.’ We did not feel that the cops were protecting us, for we knew too much about the reasons for the kinds of crimes committed in the ghetto; but we feared black cops even more than white cops, because the black cop had to work so much harder--on your head--to prove to himself and his colleagues that he was not like all the other n******.” But this dynamic does not only exist within law enforcement, it exists in many different spheres and The Overseer Class explores what it looks like in mass media, universities, corporate America, the military, and government. The Overseer Class aims not only to educate us and start this discussion but to provide a framework for challenging that dynamic. It is a weighty topic but one that Dr. Thrasher is well-equipped to handle.

With a foreword by Chelsea ClintonFrom a rising star in economics, the first comprehensive look at the costs women face and why the bill runs especially high for women of color.The “pink tax” has gained widespread recognition in recent years, but what happens when you look at the costs that define a woman’s entire life, especially across racial lines? In The Double Tax, Harvard researcher Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman summarizes the disparities that women face as they navigate life’s biggest moments. Not only do the numbers reveal that women incur higher costs than men, but also that Black and white women lead vastly different lives, marked by dramatic gaps in job opportunities, salaries, housing costs, childcare access, and generational wealth. She coins this gap as the “double tax,” the compounded cost of racism and sexism.Through rigorous research and interviews with women across the country, Opoku-Agyeman calculates the extra money, time, and effort that women are expected and forced to pay at every stage of their life.While the evidence may be discouraging, The Double Tax offers actionable solutions for how everyday people, local communities, and global leaders alike can help relieve women of these costs for good. Only by understanding where the gaps are and where the double tax arises can we begin to even the playing field for all.