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Hardcover. Seeks to provide a general framework, giving due weight to the origins, early development and each of the various periods of Singapore's history. Num Pages: 520 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMS; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 264 x 191 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1118.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- NUS Press
- Edition
- Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789971694302
- ISBN
- 9789971694302
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.62
€ 72.62
Paperback. The kings of ancient Champa, a civilisation located in the central region of today's Vietnam, started building sacred temples in a circular valley more than 1500 years ago. An Italian team has worked at the site, doing archaeological research and restoration work in cooperation with Vietnamese specialists. This book is based on their efforts. Editor(s): Hardy, Andrew; Cucarzi, Mauro; Zolese, Patrizia. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMV; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- NUS Press
- Edition
- 1 New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789971694517
- ISBN
- 9789971694517
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.97
€ 46.97
Paperback. Offers a look at calendars and time, royal myths, colonial expeditions, printing, propaganda, theatre, art, Islamic manuscripts, erotic literature, and many other topics from unexpected angles. This book demonstrates the diversity of scholarship on the Malay World, and shows that offbeat texts can produce fascinating new insights into the past. Editor(s): Putten, Jan Van Der; Cody, Mary Kilcline. Num Pages: 428 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1FMM; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- NUS Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789971694548
- ISBN
- 9789971694548
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.73
€ 47.73
Paperback. By analyzing economic policy and performance across the economic spectrum, this book presents a picture of economic development in Myanmar between 1988 and the early 2000s. It synthesizes both macro and micro level data to overcome some of the limitations of national statistics, and shows how the government attempted to deal with two key issues. Num Pages: 340 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FMB; 3JJPR; 3JMC; KCM; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- NUS Press
- Edition
- 1 New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789971694616
- ISBN
- 9789971694616
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.13
€ 40.13
Paperback. After the fall of Suharto in 1998 and the introduction of a policy of decentralization in 2001, local stakeholders secured and consolidated decision-making power, and set about negotiating new relations with Jakarta. This book deals with power struggles and local-national tensions, looking among other things at resource control. Editor(s): Sakai, Minako; Banks, Glenn; Walker, John H. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- NUS Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789971694791
- ISBN
- 9789971694791
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.32
€ 40.32
Paperback. Looks at labor in Malaysian services, and uses the labor market segmentation approach to study Malaysian labor. This study of workers in services also covers those in private enterprises, both modern (for example, financial services) and traditional (for example, transportation services). Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMM; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- NUS Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789971694876
- ISBN
- 9789971694876
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.49
€ 25.49
Paperback. This book examines the role of Chinese family and business networks in the process of state formation in Malaya. Through an examination of the opium and rice trades, pawnbroking, labor, and the law, the author considers the crucial role played by wealth and power in state formation, and challenges accepted views of Chinese ethnicity and migration. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1FM; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- NUS Press
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789971694968
- ISBN
- 9789971694968
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.12
€ 43.12
Paperback. Tracks the erratic path taken by Cambodia's political elite and earlier colonial rulers to develop a national economy. The book closes around 2005, by which time Cambodia had been reintegrated into both the regional and the global economy as a fully-fledged member of the World Trade Organization. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMC; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- NUS Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789971694999
- ISBN
- 9789971694999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.49
€ 40.49
Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1FMV; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTB; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- NUS Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789971695545
- ISBN
- 9789971695545
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.62
€ 39.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1FMM; 3JJH; BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- NUS Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789971695736
- ISBN
- 9789971695736
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.12
€ 43.12
Paperback. Includes ten contributions, some from long-established scholars of Singapore's history, others from a new generation of researchers. Their work offers an evaluation of established understandings of Singapore's history, and gives an indication of new directions that researchers are exploring. Editor(s): Tarling, Nicholas. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMS; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- NUS Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789971696467
- ISBN
- 9789971696467
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.12
€ 43.12
Hardback. Num Pages: 1456 pages, 1300 colour and black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMS; HBJF; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 297 x 210. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- NUS Press Singapore
- Number of pages
- 1456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789971698713
- ISBN
- 9789971698713
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 261.46
€ 261.46
Paperback. Editor(s): Stiglitz, Joseph E.; Yusuf, Shahid; Shahid Yusuf. Num Pages: 536 pages, numerous tables. BIC Classification: 1FP; KCA; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 891.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 536
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195216004
- ISBN
- 9780195216004
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.23
€ 68.23
Paperback. Offers international perspectives on Education Reform. Editor(s): Gordon, June A.; Fujita, Hidenori; Kariya, Takehiko; LeTendre, Gerald K. Series: International Perspectives in Educational Reform. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Teachers' College Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807750537
- ISBN
- 9780807750537
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.25
€ 65.25
Hardcover. Investigates class mobility in a group of 40 -50-year-old second-generation Moroccan immigrant women, members of a subordinate ethnic group in Israel. Series: Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1HBM; JFFN; JFSC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814338810
- ISBN
- 9780814338810
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.35
€ 68.35
Paperback. This is a study of Arab writers such as Ghada al-Samman, Hanan al-Shaikh, Emily Nasrallah and Etel Adnan. It presents a constructive literary approach to the ravages of the civil war in the Lebanon. The ways in which women's consciousness is awakened in terms of female liberation is a theme. Num Pages: 228 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1FBL; DSBH; HBJF1; HBW; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815603771
- ISBN
- 9780815603771
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.72
€ 19.99
€ 19.72
Paperback. This volume grew out of a series of lectures by the author in 1944. He analyzes the centrality of Zion to biblical and Talmudic thought, how it inspired medieval thinkers and mystics, and how it moved modern Jews from Moses Hess to Ray Kook and A.D. Gordon. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; JFCX; JFSR1; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815604822
- ISBN
- 9780815604822
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.21
€ 26.21
A collection of photographs which depict the vanished Arabia of the 1970s, a world of artisans, fishermen, soldiers, and tribesmen, of ordinary lives against the backdrop of a majestic land. They hint at the enormous changes that oil money will bring to these traditional societies. Num Pages: 196 pages, 107 duotone photographs. BIC Classification: 1FBX; AJB; AJCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 299 x 260 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1415.
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815607007
- ISBN
- 9780815607007
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.51
€ 15.51
New York City's main Arab communities exemplify the continuity and change that has taken place throughout the city's rich history. This is a collection of writings and photographs that document and tell the stories of these communities. Num Pages: 304 pages, 36 photographs, 4 maps, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1KBBEY; HBTB; JFSG; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815607397
- ISBN
- 9780815607397
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.82
€ 41.82
Hardcover. Set during the Lebanese civil war, this novel chronicles the splintering of the Al-Mukhtars, a Lebanese family whose love and trust for one another is strained by the increasing economic, social, and psychological tensions that surround them. Translator(s): Sinno, Nadine. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBL; FJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815609377
- ISBN
- 9780815609377
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.48
€ 23.99
€ 21.48