East Asia, Far East
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East Asia, Far East
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBTB; JFC; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804778671
- ISBN
- 9780804778671
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.13
€ 33.99
€ 31.13
Hardcover. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FPCT; HRE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 165 x 37. Weight in Grams: 752.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Shambhala Publications Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781559394130
- ISBN
- 9781559394130
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 26.85
€ 41.99
€ 26.85
Paperback. This title examines the 76-hour battle to take Tarawa by the Americans in 1943. It recounts how a garrison of 3700 Japanese soldiers withstood the onslaught of some 3000 US marines in a pioneering amphibious invasion. Illustrator(s): Gerrard, Howard. Editor(s): Chandler, David. Series: Osprey Military Campaign S. Num Pages: 96 pages, 75 b&w and 13 colour illustrations, chronology, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJD; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 185 x 8. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841761022
- ISBN
- 9781841761022
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.87
€ 21.99
€ 19.87
China: Five Thousand Years of History & Civilization
The Editorial Committee Of Chinese Cilvilizat...
Paperback. Offers a chronicle of Chinese civilization that furnishes general readers and scholars alike with an authoritative overview of Chinese history, art and culture, from the pre-historic era to the early twentieth century, touching upon recurring themes and developments and synthesizing more than five thousand years of evolution and transition. Num Pages: 832 pages, 3 illustrations, 178 photos, 19 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 169 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1198.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- City University of Hong Kong Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789629371401
- ISBN
- 9789629371401
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.52
€ 39.52
Paperback. A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer's escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War. Translator(s): Graves, Richard. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; WSZG; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Flamingo
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780586087077
- ISBN
- 9780586087077
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.54
€ 13.99
€ 10.54
Paperback. An ethnographic study of Japanese hip-hop. Num Pages: 264 pages, 11 illustrations, 4 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AVGR; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780822338925
- ISBN
- 9780822338925
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.46
€ 31.99
€ 28.46
Paperback. A Marxist interpretation of Korean migrant workers struggles in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 312 pages, 31 tables, 1 map, 6 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPK; GTB; HBJF; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822344179
- ISBN
- 9780822344179
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.69
€ 32.99
€ 29.69
Paperback. This is the astonishing story of the wartime adventures of Dr Aidan MacCarthy, who survived the evacuation at Dunkirk, burning planes, sinking ships, jungle warfare, appalling privation as a Japanese prisoner of war and the Nagasaki atomic bomb. It is a story of survival, forgiveness and humanity at its most admirable. Num Pages: 304 pages, 20 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; 1FPJ; 3JJH; 3JJP; 3JM; BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- The Collins Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781848893207
- ISBN
- 9781848893207
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.08
€ 16.99
€ 12.08
Paperback. Originally written in Japanese, this book offers an insight into Japanese landscape, culture, history and future. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 253 x 16. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141979748
- ISBN
- 9780141979748
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.40
€ 14.99
€ 11.40
Hardback. This book presents a case study of the ascendancy of Gonpo Namgyel, a minor Tibetan chieftain in Kham who had a great impact on Sino-Tibetan relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Series: Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture. Num Pages: 402 pages, 2 maps, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 750.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Lexington Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739177921
- ISBN
- 9780739177921
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.00
€ 138.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFMX; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816659036
- ISBN
- 9780816659036
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.83
€ 29.99
€ 26.83
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The New Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781565849402
- ISBN
- 9781565849402
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.10
€ 18.99
€ 18.10
Paperback. "Weapons for Victory" originally appeared in 1995, the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II. Now, in this paperback edition, Robert James Maddox provides a new introduction about the ongoing controversy related to the decision to bomb Hiroshima. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJH; HBJD; HBJF; HBWQ; JWLF; JWMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 133. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Missouri
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826215628
- ISBN
- 9780826215628
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.72
€ 35.72
Paperback. Num Pages: 276 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 10 black & white tables, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; JFSL; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138204744
- ISBN
- 9781138204744
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.31
€ 55.31
Paperback. This story of a South Korean social movement offers a window to a decade of tumultuous social protest. It describes the period in which farmers, student activists and organizers joined to protest the corporate ownership of tenant plots never distributed in the 1949 Land Reform. Num Pages: 467 pages, 19 photographs, 2 maps, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; HBJF; HBLW3; JHM; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 467
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520204188
- ISBN
- 9780520204188
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.12
€ 38.99
€ 28.12
Paperback. Works about Zhou Enlai are heavily censored in China. This work offers a portrait of the real Zhou, a man who lived his life at the heart of Chinese politics for fifty years, who survived both the Long March and the Cultural Revolution - no thanks to ideological or personal purity - but because he was artful, crafty and politically supple. Num Pages: 368 pages, 8 pp. b/w photo insert. BIC Classification: 1FPC; BGH; HBJF; HBLW3; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781586486457
- ISBN
- 9781586486457
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.61
€ 24.99
€ 18.61
Hardback. Editor(s): Duus, Peter; Myers, Ramon H.; Peattie, Mark R. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 494 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 857.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 494
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691632629
- ISBN
- 9780691632629
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 192.17€ 141.52
€ 192.17
€ 141.52
Hardback. Traces the roots of the Chinese empire's exceptional longevity and unparalleled political durability, and shows how lessons from the imperial past are relevant for China today. This book demonstrates that the empire survived and adjusted to a variety of domestic and external challenges through a peculiar combination of rigid ideological premises. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1QDA; HBJF; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691134956
- ISBN
- 9780691134956
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.78€ 40.61
€ 51.78
€ 40.61
Paperback. The first scholarly volume to investigate the impact of social media and other communication technologies on the global dissemination of the Korean Wave Editor(s): Lee, Sangjoon; Nornes, AbU Mark. Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea. Num Pages: 296 pages, 6 tables, 13 halftones, 4 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; JFCA; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472052523
- ISBN
- 9780472052523
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.32
€ 49.32
Paperback. A biography of the celebrated Chinese writer of the 20th century, Lu Xun. It seeks to set aside all the propaganda that has accrued over the decades since his death, and present him as a credible human being, neither aggrandized nor belittled. Brief sketches of Lu Xun's work are appended. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JJ; BG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The Chinese University Press Hong Kong
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789629960605
- ISBN
- 9789629960605
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.02
€ 29.02