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Hardback. Tells of the story of Beirut, a city that has stood at the crossroads of Mediterranean civilization for more than four thousand years. This title takes the reader from the ancient to the modern world, offering a panorama of the city's Seleucid, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and French incarnations. Translator(s): DeBevoise, M. B. Num Pages: 656 pages, 115 b/w photographs, 17 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBL; HBJF1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1032.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- Text is Free of Markings
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520256682
- ISBN
- 9780520256682
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.86
€ 84.86
Paperback. A collection of essays on late imperial and modern Chinese history spans the brilliant forty-year career of the late Frederic E Wakeman, Jr. It offers narratives of critical historical events as well as analyses of China's place in world history. Editor(s): Wakeman, Lea H. Num Pages: 480 pages, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1F; 1FPC; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520256064
- ISBN
- 9780520256064
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.36
€ 49.36
Paperback. Presents the history of Israel's occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Looking at a wide range of topics, from control of water and electricity to health care and education and surveillance and torture, this title reveals a fundamental shift from a politics of life to a macabre politics characterized by an increasing number of deaths. Num Pages: 344 pages, 6 maps, 4 graphs, 2 tables, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 3JJP; HBJF1; HBLW3; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520255319
- ISBN
- 9780520255319
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.36
€ 49.36
Paperback. Offers a rereading of the early history of Chan Buddhism (Zen). This work focuses on the narrative logics of the early Chan genealogies - the seventh-and eighth-century lineage texts that claimed that certain high-profile Chinese men were descendents of Bodhidharma and the Buddha. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1556.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520254855
- ISBN
- 9780520254855
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.36
€ 49.36
Hardback. Tells two intertwined stories: how, in early twentieth-century Iran, an emerging middle class used scientific knowledge as its cultural and economic capital, and how, along with the state, it employed biomedical sciences to tackle presumably modern problems like the stress of everyday life, people's defective willpower and demographic stagnation. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1FBN; HBJF1; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520254473
- ISBN
- 9780520254473
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.61
€ 112.61
Paperback. Investigates the military, economic, and intellectual dimensions of China's influence. This book provides a different perspective from which to assess China - how its strengths are changing, where vulnerabilities and uncertainties lie, and how the rest of the world, not least the United States, should view it. Num Pages: 384 pages, 11 b/w photographs, 2 charts, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 534. Might, Money, and Minds. 384 pages, illustrations. Investigates the military, economic, and intellectual dimensions of China's influence. This book provides a different perspective from which to assess China - how its strengths are changing, where vulnerabilities and uncertainties lie, and how the rest of the world, not least the United States, should view it. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JP. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 23. Weight: 534.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520254428
- ISBN
- 9780520254428
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.36
€ 49.36
Paperback. By 1853 Japan had been transformed from a sparsely populated land of nonliterate tribal peoples into an elaborately structured commercial society sustaining massive cities and a array of sophisticated cultural production. This work examines the origins of Japanese civilization and explores in the classical, medieval, and early-modern epochs. Num Pages: 260 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 2Rev Ed
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520254077
- ISBN
- 9780520254077
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.72
€ 49.72
Paperback. An intellectual history of Japanese social science, since the 1890s, this work considers the various forms of modernity that the processes of "development" or "rationalization" have engendered and the role social scientists have played in their emergence. Series: Twentieth-century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power S. Num Pages: 346 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 346
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520253810
- ISBN
- 9780520253810
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.36
€ 49.36
Hardback. Analyzing lecture transcripts, administrative guidelines, didactic tales, and diaries, this title abandons the facile explanation that charity was a response to poverty and social unrest. It examines the social and economic changes that stimulated the fervor for doing good. Num Pages: 424 pages, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1F; 1FPC; HBJF; JKSN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520253636
- ISBN
- 9780520253636
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.61
€ 112.61
Hardback. The massive drought/famine that killed at least ten million people in north China during the late 1870s remains one of China's most severe disasters and provides a window through which to study the social side of a nation's tragedy. This book presents the history of a horrific famine that took place and focuses on cultural responses to trauma. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 360 pages, 9 b/w photographs, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; HBTB; JFFC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520253025
- ISBN
- 9780520253025
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.61
€ 112.61
Hardback. Offers eleven vignettes of Palestine's cultural life in the first half of the twentieth century. This book presents the memoirs, diaries, letters, and other writings of six Jerusalem intellectuals whose lives spanned the period of 1918-1948: a musician, a teacher, a former aristocrat, a doctor, a Bolshevik revolutionary, and a Jewish novelist. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520251298
- ISBN
- 9780520251298
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.51
€ 112.51
Paperback. Opens a critical perspective on the slow death of socialism and the rebirth of capitalism in the world's most dynamic and populous country. Based on fieldwork and extensive interviews in Chinese textile, apparel, machinery, and household appliance factories, this book finds a rising tide of labor unrest mostly hidden from the world's attention. Num Pages: 340 pages, 1 line illustration, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPFC; KCF; KCS; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478. Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt. 340 pages, Illustrations. Opens a critical perspective on the slow death of socialism and the rebirth of capitalism in the world's most dynamic and populous country. Based on fieldwork and extensive interviews in Chinese textile, apparel, machinery, and household appliance factories, this book finds a rising tide of labor unrest mostly hidden from the world's attention. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPFC; KCF; KCS; KNXB. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 21. Weight: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520250970
- ISBN
- 9780520250970
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.36
€ 49.36
Paperback. An as-told-to political autobiography of Phuntso Wangye (Phunwang), one of the most important Tibetan revolutionary figures of the twentieth century. It illuminates one of the world's most tragic and dangerous ethnic conflicts at the same time that it relates the details of a stormy life spent in the quest for a new Tibet. Num Pages: 400 pages, 25 b/w photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; BGH; HBJF; HBLW; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 264 x 27. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520249929
- ISBN
- 9780520249929
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.74
€ 34.74
Paperback. Following World War II, Japan's postwar constitution forbade the country to wage war or create an army. This book draws on interviews, historical research, and analysis to describe the unusual case of a non-war-making military. It offers a look at an army trained for combat that nevertheless serves nontraditional military needs. Num Pages: 275 pages, 20 b/w photographs, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJP; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 172 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520247956
- ISBN
- 9780520247956
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.40
€ 49.40
Hardback. In 1935, a Chinese woman by the name of Shi Jianqiao murdered the notorious warlord Sun Chuanfang as he prayed in a Buddhist temple. This work of history examines this well-publicized crime and the highly sensationalized trial of the killer. It traces the rise of a sentiment - "public sympathy" - in early twentieth-century China. Num Pages: 304 pages, 15 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJG; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 232 x 27. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520247185
- ISBN
- 9780520247185
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.05
€ 115.05
Paperback. Recreates the past three centuries of Japanese history by following the fortunes of a prominent Japanese family through fourteen generations. Num Pages: 314 pages, 31 b/w photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; WQY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition (1 in number line)
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520246973
- ISBN
- 9780520246973
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.36
€ 49.36
Hardback. Accelerating seismic activity in late Meiji Japan climaxed in the legendary Great Nobi Earthquake of 1891, which rocked the main island from Tokyo to Osaka, killing thousands. This book presents the history of modern Japanese earthquakes and earthquake science. Num Pages: 346 pages, 18 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJF; HBLL; HBTB; RBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 346
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520246072
- ISBN
- 9780520246072
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.51
€ 112.51
Paperback. Offers an analysis of China's influence on international relations in Asia. This book explores the various dimensions of China's rise, its influence on the region, the consequences for the United States, and alternative models of the evolving Asian order. Editor(s): Shambaugh, David L. Num Pages: 402 pages, 3 line illustrations, 2 maps, 24 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 402
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520245709
- ISBN
- 9780520245709
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.72
€ 49.72
Hardback. Offers a study of Japanese cultural expression. This title reveals how a particular, often seemingly innocent aesthetic sensibility - present in novels, essays, popular songs, film, and political writings - helped create an 'aesthetic of fascism' in the years leading up to World War II. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; DSBH; HBJF; JPFQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520245051
- ISBN
- 9780520245051
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.61
€ 112.61
Paperback. Looks at the nature of China's nationalism, particularly as it involves Sino-American and Sino-Japanese relations - two bilateral relations that carry extraordinary implications for peace and stability in the twenty-first century. Num Pages: 224 pages, 15 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520244825
- ISBN
- 9780520244825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.70
€ 41.70
Paperback. Explores the effects of the withdrawal of Soviet assistance, the role of international financial agencies in supporting a pure market economy, and the ways that new policies have led to greater political freedom but also to unemployment, poverty, and deterioration in the education, health, and well-being of Mongolian society. Num Pages: 418 pages, 18 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPM; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 654.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 418
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520244191
- ISBN
- 9780520244191
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.81
€ 54.81
Paperback. How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals - revolution, war, and again revolution - that shook their lives? In this carefully researched study, Hanchao Lu weaves rich. Num Pages: 473 pages, 36 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 473
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520243781
- ISBN
- 9780520243781
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.99
€ 53.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 278 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBN; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Paperback Edition
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520243453
- ISBN
- 9780520243453
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.36
€ 49.36
Paperback. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520243149
- ISBN
- 9780520243149
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.36
€ 49.36
Paperback. Offers a comprehensive assessment of the Chinese military. This title addresses important questions about Chinese strategic intentions and military capabilities - questions that are of key concern for government policymakers as well as strategic analysts and a concerned public. Num Pages: 402 pages, 16 b/w photographs, 20 figures, 16 tables, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 402
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520242388
- ISBN
- 9780520242388
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.36
€ 49.36
Paperback. Examining the conflict in Iraq, this work reveals the government's assault on the constitutional freedoms of the American media during Operation Desert Storm. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; HBJF; HBLW; JFMD; JPVN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 207 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition,Revised
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520242319
- ISBN
- 9780520242319
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.12
€ 40.12
Paperback. Israel's military court system, a centerpiece of Israel's apparatus of control in the West Bank and Gaza since 1967, has prosecuted hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. This book offers a look at an institution that lies both figuratively and literally at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Num Pages: 335 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBH; LNDK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 335
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520241947
- ISBN
- 9780520241947
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.36
€ 49.36
Hardback. Num Pages: 283 pages, 10 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520241718
- ISBN
- 9780520241718
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.05
€ 115.05
Hardback. A survey of the Greek settlements founded or refounded in the Hellenistic period. It provides historical narratives, detailed references, citations, and commentaries on all the settlements in Syria, The Red Sea Basin, and North Africa from 331 to 31 BCE. It brings together debates from dozens of scattered archaeological and epigraphic projects. Series: Hellenistic Culture and Society. Num Pages: 501 pages, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBS; 1HB; 1QSL; HBG; HBLA; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 501
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520241480
- ISBN
- 9780520241480
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.66
€ 132.66
Paperback. The tradition of Chan Buddhism - more popularly known as Zen - has been romanticized throughout its history. This book shows how modern critical techniques make possible a more skeptical, accurate, and - ultimately - productive assessment of Chan lineages, teaching, fundraising practices, and social organization. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 b/w illustration, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; HREZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520237988
- ISBN
- 9780520237988
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.36
€ 49.36
Paperback. Though they are almost completely absent from the historical record, Palestinian women were extensively involved in the unfolding national struggle in their country during the British mandate period. This history studies the development of the Palestine women's movement between 1920 and 1948. Num Pages: 350 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st PAPERBACK
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520237902
- ISBN
- 9780520237902
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.27
€ 51.27
Paperback. Considers the structure and dynamics of ethnic violence - the deadly ethnic riot - an intense, sudden, lethal attack by civilian members of one ethnic group against another ethnic group. This title examines approximately 150 such riots in about fifty countries, mainly in Asia, Africa, and the former Soviet Union, as well as fifty control cases. Num Pages: 605 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1F; 1H; JFFE; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 37. Weight in Grams: 868. 605 pages, 2 tables. Considers the structure and dynamics of ethnic violence - the deadly ethnic riot - an intense, sudden, lethal attack by civilian members of one ethnic group against another ethnic group. This title examines approximately 150 such riots in about fifty countries, mainly in Asia, Africa, and the former Soviet Union, as well as fifty control cases. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1F; 1H; JFFE; JFFJ; JFSL. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 37. Weight: 842.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 605
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520236424
- ISBN
- 9780520236424
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.36
€ 49.36
Paperback. Num Pages: 397 pages, 19 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; HBJF1; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 397
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520235465
- ISBN
- 9780520235465
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.90
€ 50.90
Paperback. Filipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, are one of our largest immigrant groups. This title investigates how Filipino women and men are transformed through the experience of migration, and how they in turn remake the social world around them. Num Pages: 282 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; GTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400. Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries. 282 pages, 3 tables. Filipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, are one of our largest immigrant groups. This title investigates how Filipino women and men are transformed through the experience of migration, and how they in turn remake the social world around them. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; GTB; JFSL. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520235274
- ISBN
- 9780520235274
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.72
€ 49.72
Paperback. Michael Meeker combines anthropological and historical methods to examine the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic in a major region of the country, the eastern Black Sea coast. Num Pages: 438 pages, 13 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1FB; 1QDT; HBJF1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 438
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520234826
- ISBN
- 9780520234826
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.77
€ 64.77
Paperback. This volume presents an exploration of the origins of nationalism and cultural identity in China, tracing the ways in which a large, early modern empire of Eurasia, the Qing, incorporated neighbouring, but disparate, political traditions into a new style of emperorship. Num Pages: 417 pages, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLL; JFC; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 417
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520234246
- ISBN
- 9780520234246
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.40
€ 49.40
Paperback. Explains how an Arab landscape, physical and human, was transformed into an Israeli, Jewish state. This book discusses the process by which Hebrew nomenclature replaced the Arabic names of more than 9,000 natural features, villages, and ruins in Eretz Israel/Palestine (his name for the Holy Land, thereby defining it as a land of Jews and Arabs). Translator(s): Kaufman-Lacusta, Maxine. Num Pages: 376 pages, 23 b/w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; 3JJP; HBJF1; HBLW3; JFSR1; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 226 x 24. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520234222
- ISBN
- 9780520234222
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.36
€ 49.36
Hardback. The most feared man in China, Dai Li, was chief of Chiang Kai-shek's secret service during WWII. This work traces Dai's rise from obscurity as a rural hooligan and Green Gang blood-brother to commander of the paramilitary units of the Blue Shirts and of the Military Statistics Bureau: the world's largest spy and counterespionage organization. Num Pages: 672 pages, 25 b/w photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJH; GTB; HBJF; HBLW; JPSH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1092.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 672
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520234079
- ISBN
- 9780520234079
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.51
€ 112.51
Paperback. Shows that, around the time of Jesus' birth, there came into being a conception of 'catastrophic' messianism in which the suffering, humiliation, and death of the messiah were regarded as an integral part of the redemptive process. Translator(s): Maisel, David. Num Pages: 159 pages, 12 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1QDAR; 3D; HRCG; HRJ; HRLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 159
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520234000
- ISBN
- 9780520234000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.36
€ 49.36
Hardback. Analyzes how and why museums emerged in the late-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. This work argues that, rather than directly emulating post-Enlightenment museums of Western Europe, Ottoman elites produced categories of collection and modes of display appropriate to framing a new identity for the empire in the modern era. Num Pages: 280 pages, 43 b/w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1F; 1QDT; 3JH; GM; GTB; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 602. Museums, Archaeology and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire. Series: Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book S. 280 pages, 43 b&w photographs, 2 maps. Analyzes how and why museums emerged in the late-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. This work argues that, rather than directly emulating post-Enlightenment museums of Western Europe, Ottoman elites produced categories of collection and modes of display appropriate to framing a new identity for the empire in the modern era. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1F; 1QDT; 3JH; GM; GTB; HBJF; HBLL. Dimension: 231 x 161 x 24. Weight: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520233355
- ISBN
- 9780520233355
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.51
€ 112.51