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Regional studies
hardcover. Ming and Quing China were well populated with foxes, shape-changing creatures who transgressed the boundaries of species, gender and the metaphysical realm. Each section of this book traces a particular boundary violated by the fox and examines how maneuvers across that boundary change over time. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 350 pages, 5 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JFHF; VXQG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 165 x 32. Weight in Grams: 688.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674010949
- ISBN
- 9780674010949
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.46
€ 62.46
Hardback. A powerful element in Chinese politics has been the myth of Chinese resistance to Japan's seizure of Manchuria in 1931. This text examines the shifting alliance of key players, traces the narrative of resistance to the occupation and shows how it became part of China's political conciousness. Num Pages: 306 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJG; GTB; HBJF; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 237 x 31. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520221116
- ISBN
- 9780520221116
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.57
€ 92.57
Paperback. The medieval Rajput queen Padmini - believed to have been pursued by Alauddin Khalji, the Sultan of Delhi - has been the focus of numerous South Asian narratives. This book investigates these legends and traces their subsequent appropriation by colonial administrators and nationalist intellectuals, for varying different political ends. Num Pages: 280 pages, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTB; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295987606
- ISBN
- 9780295987606
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.28
€ 35.28
hardcover. This book is an account of the circumstances that led to a Muslim religious movement on the Guinea coast and its legacies in today's Republic of Guinea. This book focuses on the political and religious changes that West Africa experienced and their impact on the continent's disrupted political and religious landscape. Series: International African Library. Num Pages: 264 pages, 4 black & white line drawings, 13 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFD; GTB; HR; JHMP; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748635153
- ISBN
- 9780748635153
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.37€ 108.52
€ 123.37
€ 108.52
paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295986500
- ISBN
- 9780295986500
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.50
€ 42.50
Paperback. Series: Modern Library Classics. Num Pages: 896 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; DN; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 33. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 896
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812968262
- ISBN
- 9780812968262
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.92
€ 26.99
€ 20.92
Paperback. Investigates the politics of ethnic identity in post-socialist China. By combining innovative research with fieldwork conducted during the late 1980s and early 1990s in south-central and southwestern China, the author provides a detailed ethnography of the region's Yao population in order to question how minority groups are represented in China. Num Pages: 360 pages, 21 b&w photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJP; GTB; HBJF; HBLW3; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 151 x 25. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822325499
- ISBN
- 9780822325499
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.82
€ 52.82
Hardcover. Editor(s): Walker, Raleigh E. Num Pages: 154 pages, tables & charts. BIC Classification: 1K; GTB; JP; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 154
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781607413325
- ISBN
- 9781607413325
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.71€ 86.93
€ 125.71
€ 86.93
Paperback. Offers an understanding about motivations of New Zealand and Singapore to enter into other bilateral FTAs and some of the visible impacts observed since their implementation. Editor(s): Sen, Rahul. Num Pages: 61 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMS; 1MBN; GTB; KCLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Publisher
- Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789812307453
- ISBN
- 9789812307453
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.46
€ 28.46
Paperback. Goes behind the scenes in two urban luxury hotels to give a picture of the workers who care for and cater to wealthy guests. This work offers an analysis of what the luxury service consists of, how managers organize its production, and how workers and guests negotiate the inequality between them. Num Pages: 373 pages, 2 line illustrations, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; JFFT; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 510. Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels. 373 pages, 2 line illustrations, 5 tables. Goes behind the scenes in two urban luxury hotels to give a picture of the workers who care for and cater to wealthy guests. This work offers an analysis of what the luxury service consists of, how managers organize its production, and how workers and guests negotiate the inequality between them. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; JFFT; JHM. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 22. Weight: 510.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 373
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520247826
- ISBN
- 9780520247826
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.36
€ 49.36
Paperback. This book examines how labor migration is changing the countryside in post-Mao China. Series: Cambridge Modern China Series. Num Pages: 306 pages, 28 b/w illus. 2 maps 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1FPC; GTB; JFFN; JP; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 306
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521005302
- ISBN
- 9780521005302
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.31
€ 51.31
Paperback. Anthropologist Rachael Joo explores the gendered and mediated role of sports in producing a Korean sense of self on a global stage. Num Pages: 352 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; GTB; JFSJ; JHBS; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822348566
- ISBN
- 9780822348566
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.69
€ 50.69
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190619589
- ISBN
- 9780190619589
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 20.75
€ 27.99
€ 20.75
Hardback. Features an analysis of the Asian financial crisis and its impacts on the economies of the region by thirty-five scholars and professionals working in the area. This volume contains a detailed analysis of the root causes of the crisis. It presents the analysis with a quantitative approach and also a more qualitative approach. Editor(s): Hooley, R.; Yoo, J.H.; Dutta, Manoranjan. Series: Research in Asian Economic Studies. Num Pages: 834 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; GTN; KCH; KFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 160 x 67. Weight in Grams: 1300. Series: Research in Asian Economic Studies. 834 pages. Editor(s): Hooley, R.; Yoo, J.H.; Dutta, Manoranjan. Features an analysis of the Asian financial crisis and its impacts on the economies of the region by thirty-five scholars and professionals working in the area. This volume contains a detailed analysis of the root causes of the crisis. It presents the analysis with a quantitative approach and also a more qualitative approach. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; GTN; KCH; KFF. Dimension: 231 x 160 x 67. Weight: 1300.
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited
- Number of pages
- 834
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762308132
- ISBN
- 9780762308132
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.75
€ 131.75
Paperback. Diverse perspectives on midwestern Native American communities Editor(s): Edmunds, R. David. Num Pages: 296 pages, 3 photographs; 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KB; GTB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252075377
- ISBN
- 9780252075377
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.47
€ 37.47
Histories and Stories from Chiapas: Border Identities in Southern Mexi...
R. Aída Hernández Castillo
Paperback. Analyses how Chiapas' indigenous peoples have rejected, accepted, or negotiated the official discourse on 'being Mexican' and participating in the construction of a Mexican national identity. This book traces the relations between the Mam and the national government from 1934 to the Zapatista rebellion. Num Pages: 320 pages, 17 b&w photographs, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; GTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292731493
- ISBN
- 9780292731493
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.73
€ 40.73
Hardback. An anthology of empirical studies of Asian Americans' ethnic or pan-ethnic identities, examining ethnic attachments among second-generation Filipino, Vietnamese, Indian, Korean Americans, Chinese and Japanese Americans. Series: Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans. Num Pages: 280 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759101753
- ISBN
- 9780759101753
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.26
€ 148.26
Hardcover. The evolution of Hong Kong, as a British colony and as a Special Administrative Region, has been inextricably intertwined with the situation in China. This relationship is examined through various perspectives in this volume. There are insights on such topics as Hong Kong's society and religion, the development of the New Territories, etc.. Num Pages: 308 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCH; GTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Hong Kong University Press Hong Kong
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789622097209
- ISBN
- 9789622097209
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.83
€ 57.83
Paperback. Contains 2 centuries of historical documents on US government Indian policy. This book covers the developments in American Indian affairs since 1988. Among the topics dealt with are tribal self-governance, government-to-government relations, religious rights, repatriation of human remains, trust management, health and education, and more. Editor(s): Prucha, Francis Paul. Num Pages: 396 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; GTB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- Third
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803287624
- ISBN
- 9780803287624
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.64
€ 40.64
Hardback. Num Pages: 299 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FBXM; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 231 x 25. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 299
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845190804
- ISBN
- 9781845190804
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.54
€ 157.54