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Paperback. These stories introduce an emerging generation of women writers, including Chen Ran, Bikwan Wong and Chen Xue. By presenting fiction from the PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the collection deliberately maps the literary contours of same-sex intimacy in cultural rather than purely political terms. Series: Asian Voices. Num Pages: 224 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1F; DSBH; GTB; JFSJ1; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 149 x 12. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742511385
- ISBN
- 9780742511385
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.56
€ 61.56
Paperback. Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPM; 3JM; BM; KNTJ; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Beaufort Books United States
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780825307973
- ISBN
- 9780825307973
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.31
€ 16.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 251 color photos, 80 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FPK; WFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 215 x 15. Weight in Grams: 852.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Edition
- Ill
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764316975
- ISBN
- 9780764316975
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 24.65
€ 36.99
€ 24.65
Hardback. State-making in China is a profoundly normative and normalizing process. This study maps the complex processes of state-making, moral regulation, and social control during 3 critical reform periods: the Yongzheng reign (1723-1735), the Guomindang's Nanjing decade (1927-1937), and the Communist Party's Socialist Education Campaign (1962-1966). Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 275 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674025042
- ISBN
- 9780674025042
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.00€ 41.05
€ 44.00
€ 41.05
Paperback. Explores the relation between the pre-colonial and colonial past to the postcolonial present in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMV; HBAH; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822329664
- ISBN
- 9780822329664
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.10
€ 34.99
€ 31.10
Paperback. This book examines Japan's postwar consumer protection movement, which, organized largely by housewives, led to the passage of basic consumer protection legislation in 1968. Macmillan points to the importance of activity at the local level, the role of minority parties, the limited utility of the courts, and the place of lawyers and academics in providing access to power. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJP; GTB; JFFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231123471
- ISBN
- 9780231123471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.76
€ 36.99
€ 26.76
Hardback. Maclachlan analyzes the institutions, interest groups, and leaders involved in the evolution of Japan's postal system from the early Meiji period until 2010. At the crux of her analysis is Prime Minister Koizumi Jun'ichiro's crusade to privatize Japan's postal services, one of the most astonishing political achievements in postwar Japanese history. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 378 pages, 13 halftones, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBTB; JPQB; KNTT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 678.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 378
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674062450
- ISBN
- 9780674062450
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.06
€ 44.99
€ 37.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, maps, colour plates. BIC Classification: 1FP; HBJF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 255 x 206 x 14. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Publisher
- Cengage Learning, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781133606512
- ISBN
- 9781133606512
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 104.66
€ 104.66
Paperback. This final volume to Patricia E. Roy's pivotal trilogy exploring racial discrimination against Chinese- and Japanese-Canadians examines the removal of all Japanese-Canadians from the BC coast during WWII, while Chinese-Canadians gained the right to vote in 1947. Num Pages: 400 pages, 21 b/w photos, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBC; GTB; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774813815
- ISBN
- 9780774813815
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 39.72
€ 44.99
€ 39.72
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 286 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691606644
- ISBN
- 9780691606644
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 36.98
€ 51.99
€ 36.98
Hardback. Features the cultural side of Chinese imperial rule and of the court as a patron of scholars and the arts. This book offers glimpses of the magnificence of the collections Emperor Huizong (1082-1135) formed and the disparate fates of the objects after they were seized as booty by the Jurchen invaders in 1127. Series: China Program Books. Num Pages: 576 pages, 137 illus., 37 in color. BIC Classification: 1F; ACBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 263 x 215 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1876.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295987781
- ISBN
- 9780295987781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.57
€ 80.57
Hardback. A comprehensive English-language biography of Emperor Huizong that corrects the prevailing view of this ruler as a decadent political failure who lost the throne to invaders. It recasts the artistically gifted emperor as passionate and paradoxical, yet genuinely ambitious - if too much so - in pursuing glory for his flourishing realm. Num Pages: 656 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3H; BGH; HBJF; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 235 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1244.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 656
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674725256
- ISBN
- 9780674725256
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.07€ 54.08
€ 59.07
€ 54.08
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 286 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691635354
- ISBN
- 9780691635354
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.62
€ 136.62
Hardcover. Editor(s): Ebrey, Patricia Buckley; Smith, Paul Jakov. Num Pages: 28 black & white tables, 19 black & white illustrations, 5 maps, 19 b&w illus., 5 maps, 28 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3H; HBJF; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295998107
- ISBN
- 9780295998107
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.51
€ 69.51
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, Over 630 Colour Photographs and Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; ACBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 215 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1356.
- Publisher
- Periplus Editions United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Paperback with Flaps
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804843164
- ISBN
- 9780804843164
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 25.80
€ 38.99
€ 25.80
hardcover. Num Pages: 276 pages, 21 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPK; AN; AS; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137444905
- ISBN
- 9781137444905
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 175.87
€ 175.87
Hardcover. Zenobia was acknowledged in her lifetime as beautiful and clever, gathering writers and poets, artists and philosophers around her at the Palmyrene court. This narrative explores the legendary queen and charts the progression of her unequivocal declaration, not only of independence of Rome, but of supremacy. Num Pages: 216 pages, 10 bw illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBS; BGH; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 164 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847250346
- ISBN
- 9781847250346
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.77
€ 87.77
Hardcover. With Asia as its backdrop, this book investigates the role played by the World Bank Group (WBG) in conceptualising and promoting new mining regimes tailored for resource-rich country clients. It details a particular politics of mining in the Global South characterised by the transplanting, hijacking and contesting of the WBG's mining agenda. Series: Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; KCM; KCP; KFFK; KNAT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137031310
- ISBN
- 9781137031310
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.03
€ 64.03
Paperback. Offering a detailed view of events and policies surrounding the Iranian space effort, this book shows that not all the country's claims of plans and progress are what they seem. Covers technical, historical, legal, social and cultural facets of Iran's program. Series: Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration. Num Pages: 314 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, 102 colour illustrations, 12 black & white tables, 2 colo. BIC Classification: 1FBN; KNGV; TRP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 170 x 14. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319053462
- ISBN
- 9783319053462
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.32
€ 42.32
Hardback. Parviz Tanavoli, the prominent Iranian artist and sculptor, here brings together a definitive collection of print media from 19th century Persia featuring unique images of European women on paper and postcards. Num Pages: 248 pages, Colour throughout. BIC Classification: 1FBN; ACB; AGH; HBJF1; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 265 x 228. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784535070
- ISBN
- 9781784535070
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.13€ 123.87
€ 139.13
€ 123.87
Paperback. In 2002, after an altercation between Muslim vendors and Hindu travelers at a railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat, fifty-nine Hindu pilgrims were burned to death. This title provides a riveting ethnographic account of this collective violence. Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRG; HRH; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691151779
- ISBN
- 9780691151779
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.81
€ 36.99
€ 26.81
Hardback. Enjoyment, hospitality, tradition, creativity, sustainability and joy of life these starting points were the inspiration for this book. Parvin Razavi has taken the fresh and varied cuisines of Iran, Armenia, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco and Turkey to create a beautiful vegan cookbook. Num Pages: 192 pages, Colour illustrations and photography throughout. BIC Classification: 1FB; WBHS; WBJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 170. .
- Publisher
- Grub Street
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910690376
- ISBN
- 9781910690376
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.93
€ 25.99
€ 18.93
Paperback. In a challenging and authoritative analysis, Parvin Paidar considers how Iranian women have been affected, and their position redefined, by the political transformations of twentieth-century Iran. Editor(s): Tripp, Charles. Series Editor(s): Clancy-Smith, Julia A.; Gershoni, Israel; Owen, Roger; Sayigh, Yezid; Tucker, Judith E. Series: Cambridge Middle East Studies. Num Pages: 424 pages, 7 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1FBN; HBJF1; HBLW; JFFK; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521595728
- ISBN
- 9780521595728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.01
€ 40.01
Paperback. Decline and Fall of the Sasanians has already been praised as one of the most intellectually exciting books about ancient Persia to have been published for years. Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3D; 3F; HBJF; HBLA; HBLC; JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. .
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784537470
- ISBN
- 9781784537470
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.49
€ 30.99
€ 26.49