Regional studies
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Regional studies
Globalization and Educational Restructuring in the Asia Pacific Region
. Ed(S): Mok, K.; Welch, Anthony
Hardback. Examining the growing impact of globalization on education policy and development in the Asia Pacific region, this volume analyses the reactions and strategies of selected countries and their governments in response to marketization, corporization, commercialization and privatization. Editor(s): Mok, K.; Welch, Anthony. Num Pages: 388 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; JFFS; JNK; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 388
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333770733
- ISBN
- 9780333770733
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.83
€ 123.83
Paperback. Since independence, Latin America has maintained close links with Britain. This book examines past, present and putative future cultural and social implications of the relationship through case studies focusing on English-speaking immigrants and their descendants throughout Latin America. Editor(s): Marshall, Oliver. Series: Institute of Latin American Studies. Num Pages: 415 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; GTB; JFC; JFFN; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 415
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333770160
- ISBN
- 9780333770160
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 123.02
€ 123.02
Hardback. This title summarizes the UNU/WIDER international research project on the formation of world regions, especially as far as the important issues of peace and development are concerned. This last volume in a series of five focuses on comparative research, covering all important regions of the world. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; JFFS; KCM; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333765418
- ISBN
- 9780333765418
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.22
€ 123.22
Hardback. Mairi Maclean argues that the new French capitalism of the 21st century is the product of an ideological struggle in which the forces of modernization triumphed over the old guard of French nationalism. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; GTB; JPF; JPH; KCS; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333761489
- ISBN
- 9780333761489
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.90
€ 64.90
Hardback. Since the beginning of the 1990s, Japan's economy has been in decline. This change is investigated through a variety of standpoints, using an in-depth knowledge of the Japanese ethos, national history, educational background, as well as the sociology of the Japanese economy and business world. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPR; GTB; KCL; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 533.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333748947
- ISBN
- 9780333748947
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.73
€ 122.73
Hardback. Japan has consistently been pursuing the goal of a permanent UN Security Council seat for 30 years. This book investigates the motives for this ambition, and how it has been pursued domestically and internationally. Series: St Antony's Series. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; GTB; JPSN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333699386
- ISBN
- 9780333699386
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 186.55
€ 186.55
Hardback. Explains the emergence of modern Southeast Asia and its increasing integration into the world economy by showing how technological change, economic development and politics have transformed the flows of goods, people and information. Series: A Modern Economic History of Southeast Asia. Num Pages: 419 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FM; 3JH; 3JJ; GTB; KCM; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 419
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333553015
- ISBN
- 9780333553015
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.06
€ 124.06
Hardcover. Through analysis of an array of "low" and "high" Hindu literatures, such as pamphlets, tracts, and archival data, Gupta explores the emerging discourse of gender and sexuality, which was essential to the development of notions of Hindu communitality and nationalism in the colonial period. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 404 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JD; GTB; HBJF; HBLL; HRG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312295455
- ISBN
- 9780312295455
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 187.25
€ 187.25
Paperback. Fascinated by the idea of Western civilization as being a sequence of numerous misinterpretations and misrepresentations, these 19 essays, of Ilan Stavans, cover a broad range of topics with the unifying theme being the crossroads where politics and the imagination meet. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADSL; DSB; GTB; JFCX; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312240318
- ISBN
- 9780312240318
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 27.04
€ 31.99
€ 27.04
Hardcover. This study of Hollywood's golden era examines the period from the viewpoint of the fans. Using fan club journals, fan letters, studio production records, and other sources, the author reveals how the activism of film fans transformed early cinema, the modern mass media and American popular culture. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APF; GTB; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 403.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312239626
- ISBN
- 9780312239626
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.21
€ 64.21
Hardback. This is a collection of creative works by photographers, writers, poets and artists from Vietnam and its diasporas, and critical pieces by scholars in the fields of anthropology, art history, history, Vietnamese, Vietnamese American and Vietnamese Francophone literary and cultural studies. Editor(s): Winston, Jane Bradley; Chau-Pech, Leakthina. Num Pages: 280 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMV; DQ; DSBH; GTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 543.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312238728
- ISBN
- 9780312238728
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.73
€ 64.73
Region and Nation: Politics, Economy, and Society in Twentieth-Century...
Brennan, James, Pianetto, Ofelia
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312231446
- ISBN
- 9780312231446
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.67€ 45.29
€ 50.67
€ 45.29
Hardcover. Dennis Hupchick demonstrates that the roots of the turmoil in Bosnia and Kosovo lie in the historically recent disruptive impact of Western nationalist concepts on two traditionally national civilized societies. Num Pages: 501 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVW; GTB; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 34. Weight in Grams: 767.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312217365
- ISBN
- 9780312217365
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.93€ 73.26
€ 82.93
€ 73.26
hardcover. Series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; GTB; HDD; JFSG; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1220.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media United States
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1994th Edition
- SKU
- V9780306445514
- ISBN
- 9780306445514
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.48
€ 127.48
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295992556
- ISBN
- 9780295992556
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.98
€ 130.98
Hardcover. Deconstructs stereotypes and cultural assumptions made by non- South Asians and South Asians alike Num Pages: 26 illus. BIC Classification: 1F; 1K; GTB; HBJK; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295992440
- ISBN
- 9780295992440
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.74
€ 131.74
Paperback. 350 pages. One of the earliest ethnic theatres in America was the Norwegian Theater of Marcus Thrane, established in Chicago in September 1866. This book includes seven translated plays written by Thrane between 1866 and 1884, and covers the entire period of his active professional life in America. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1D; DD; GTB. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 11. Weight: 400. Translator(s): Leiren, Terje I.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Univ of Washington Pr
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295987989
- ISBN
- 9780295987989
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.39
€ 43.39
A collection of English-language readings on Japan. Containing materials on history, society, politics, education, philosophy, and religion, this book features an introduction to Japanese civilization. It also covers the Tokugawa period to 1868 and addresses the spread of neo-Confucianism and Buddhism and the encounters of Japan and the West. Editor(s): De Bary, William Theodore; Gluck, Carol; Tiedemann, Arthur E. Series: Introduction to Asian Civilizations. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; GTB; HBJF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 167 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1046.
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 2 Abridged ed
- Number of pages
- 672
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231139182
- ISBN
- 9780231139182
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 170.67
€ 170.67
A collection of English-language readings on Japan. Containing materials on history, society, politics, education, philosophy, and religion, this book features an introduction to Japanese civilization. It also covers the Tokugawa period to 1868 and addresses the spread of neo-Confucianism and Buddhism and the encounters of Japan and the West. Editor(s): De Bary, Wm. Theodore; Gluck, Carol; Tiedemann, Arthur. Series: Introduction to Asian Civilizations. Num Pages: 648 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; GTB; HBJF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1135.
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 2 Abridged ed
- Number of pages
- 648
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231139168
- ISBN
- 9780231139168
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 170.67
€ 170.67
Paperback. While the political implications of the mapping of American expansion have been examined, this book explores the close and complex relationship between mapping and missionizing on the American frontier. Amy DeRogatis explores the struggles of those involved, from settlers to geographers. Series: Religion & American Culture S. Num Pages: 256 pages, maps, engravings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; HBJK; HBLH; HRCX7; RGV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231127899
- ISBN
- 9780231127899
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.59
€ 48.59