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Paperback. Analyzing pre and post-1954 American literature, film, autobiography, government documents, ethnography, photographs, and popular culture, this title investigates the ways in which racially 'in-between' people and communities were brought to heel within the South's prevailing cultural logic. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; 3JJ; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814791332
- ISBN
- 9780814791332
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.27
€ 51.27
Partners and Rivals, the latest book from acclaimed economist Wendy Dobson, examines the central role that China and the United States will play on the global stage in the next half-century. Series: Rotman-UTP Publishing. Num Pages: 208 pages, 6 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JPS; KCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 19. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442647527
- ISBN
- 9781442647527
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.65
€ 52.65
Hardback. In recent decades, China has become a quasi-capitalist economic powerhouse. Yet it continues to be ruled by the same Communist Party-dominated government that has been in power since 1949. Series: China Today. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 149 x 24. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745663845
- ISBN
- 9780745663845
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.81
€ 79.81
Paperback. In recent decades, China has become a quasi-capitalist economic powerhouse. Yet it continues to be ruled by the same Communist Party-dominated government that has been in power since 1949. Series: China Today. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 210 x 19. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Polity
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745663852
- ISBN
- 9780745663852
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.63
€ 21.63
Paperback. Essays by twelve leading scholars give readers insight into the workings of politics in Communist China. Editor(s): Lewis, John Wilson. Series: Contemporary China Institute Publications. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 24. Weight in Grams: 470. "Commissioning organisation: Lewis, J. W. (editor) 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall Paperback. A good clean Copy. First Edition". Keywords: "History - World History - Pre-500,Subjects - History - General,Subjects - History - World History - Pre-500,Subjects - History - Countries & Regions - Asia - China - Ge"
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1970
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- KON0527585
- ISBN
- 9780521096140
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 334 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; JPF; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780691626673
- ISBN
- 9780691626673
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.46
€ 72.46
Hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 334 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBTB; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691652887
- ISBN
- 9780691652887
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 171.42
€ 171.42
paperback. Deals with the Lebanese civil war of the 1970s in a poetic style. This book focuses on the deranged, destabilized, and, confused state of mind created by living on the scene through a lengthy war. It is filled with details that transcend the narcissism of the main character, while giving clues to the culture of the time. Translator(s): Tanoukhi, Nirvana. Series: CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation Series. Num Pages: 108 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 2CS; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 7. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 108
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292705074
- ISBN
- 9780292705074
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.33
€ 23.33
Paperback. Passage to Manhood is a groundbreaking and beautifully written ethnography that addresses the intersection of modernity, heroin use, and AIDS as they intersect in a new "rite-of-passage" among young ethnic-minority males in contemporary China. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 table, 3 figures, 3 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFH2; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804770255
- ISBN
- 9780804770255
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.56
€ 35.56
Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FMN; JFMX; JFSJ1; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 232 x 21. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845195502
- ISBN
- 9781845195502
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.44
€ 156.44
Hardback. Investigates the emerging, new sexual culture of Iranian youth, in which sexuality represents freedom and engaging in sex can be considered political activism. Num Pages: 344 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBN; JFSR2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 712. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804758567
- ISBN
- 9780804758567
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.28
€ 107.28
Paperback. Why would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? This title analyzes the discourses of love, labor, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such passionate attachment, producing in the process one of modern India's most intense movements for linguistic revival and separatism. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 343 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2BRT; 3JH; 3JJ; CFB; CFG; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 343
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520208056
- ISBN
- 9780520208056
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.40
€ 48.40
Hardback. Focusing on the responses of writers in Shanghai to the Japanese occupation, this book corrects the postwar conception of occupied China as a field of conflict between selfless resisters and shameless collaborators by showing a complexity and ambiguity of moral choices that defies such stereotyping. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 half-tones 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJF; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 521.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804721721
- ISBN
- 9780804721721
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.79
€ 150.79
Paperback. Focusing on the responses of writers in Shanghai to the Japanese occupation, this book corrects the postwar conception of occupied China as a field of conflict between selfless resisters and shameless collaborators by showing a complexity and ambiguity of moral choices that defies such stereotyping. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 half-tones 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJF; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 17. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reissue
- SKU
- V9780804727969
- ISBN
- 9780804727969
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.74
€ 41.74
Paperback. For decades, Israel and Palestine have been locked in ongoing conflict over land that each claims as its own. In 2011, the author lived in Ramallah in Palestine's occupied West Bank and taught in nearby Jerusalem. In this book, he offers a personal take on the conflict. Num Pages: 122 pages, 78 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; HBJF1; JPSD; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 116 x 178 x 11. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC United States
- Number of pages
- 122
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780984201037
- ISBN
- 9780984201037
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.49
€ 18.49
Hardback. Combines an analysis of documented archaeological sites in the Koksu River valley of eastern Kazakhstan with paleoecological and ethnohistorical data to illustrate patterns in land use, settlement, burial, and rock art. This work illuminates the effect of nomadic strategies on the geography of social interaction. Num Pages: 232 pages, 28 b/w photographs, 6 line illustrations, 19 maps, 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1D; 1F; HDDA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 261 x 188 x 21. Weight in Grams: 684. 232 pages, Illustrations, maps. Combines an analysis of documented archaeological sites in the Koksu River valley of eastern Kazakhstan with paleoecological and ethnohistorical data to illustrate patterns in land use, settlement, burial, and rock art. This work illuminates the effect of nomadic strategies on the geography of social interaction. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1D; 1F; HDDA. Dimension: 261 x 188 x 21. Weight: 684.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520256897
- ISBN
- 9780520256897
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.37
€ 113.37
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1FMP; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of the Philippines Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789715502320
- ISBN
- 9789715502320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.94
€ 55.94
Paperback. Nine men. 2,000 enemies. No back-up. No air support. No rescue. No chance..The SUNDAY TIMES bestseller. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 3JMC; BGHA; HBJF1; HBWS5; JWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 135 x 27. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781409129028
- ISBN
- 9781409129028
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.62
€ 14.99
€ 11.62
Paperback. Post WWII Singapore history generally follows a central theme of progress to establish the PAP political, economic and social model. Alternatives receive cursory treatment as problems, false starts, or difficulties to be overcome. This book reveals a complex situation that involved a much larger cast of significant players. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMS; HBJF; HBLW3; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- NUS Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789971693787
- ISBN
- 9789971693787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.36
€ 32.36
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. .
- Publisher
- Zed Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783605071
- ISBN
- 9781783605071
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.88
€ 30.99
€ 25.88
Hardback. Introducing the major works and currents of Joseon painting, Pathways to Korean Culture explores the various social, cultural and political perspectives of this dynamic, dynastic era (1392-1910), uncovering the fascinating history of more than 500 years of Korean art and visual culture. Num Pages: 304 pages, 150 colour, 30 black & white. BIC Classification: 1FPK; ACBP; AFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 257 x 198 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1462.
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780233673
- ISBN
- 9781780233673
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.62
€ 72.62
Hardback. Sylhet, the area of Bangladesh most closely associated with overseas migration, has seen an increase in remittances sent home from abroad, introducing new inequalities. Social change has also been mediated by the global forces of Western biomedicine and orthodox Islam. This book examines the effects of these modernizing trends on mental health.. Num Pages: 238 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKB; JHBK; MBPK; PSXM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 233 x 16. Weight in Grams: 444. Mental Illness, Modernity and Islam in Sylhet, Bangladesh. 252 pages, 25 ills. Sylhet, the area of Bangladesh most closely associated with overseas migration, has seen an increase in remittances sent home from abroad, introducing new inequalities. Social change has also been mediated by the global forces of Western biomedicine and orthodox Islam. This book examines the effects of these modernizing trends on mental health. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1FKB; JHBK; MBPK; PSXM. Dimension: 162 x 233 x 16. Weight: 444.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 238
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857454881
- ISBN
- 9780857454881
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.01
€ 149.01
Paperback. The truth of Chan Buddhism - better known as "Zen" - is regularly said to be beyond language, and yet Chan authors - medieval and modern - produced an enormous quantity of literature over the centuries. To make sense of this paradox, this book explores several genres of Chan literature that appeared during the Tang and Song dynasties (c 600-1300). Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3F; 3H; HRAX; HREZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 182 x 291 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520284074
- ISBN
- 9780520284074
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.67
€ 41.67