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Hardback. Few countries can claim to have endured such a difficult and tortuous history as that of Iraq. Its varied peoples have had to contend with externally imposed state-building at the end of the First World War, through to the rise of authoritarian military regimes, to the all-encompassing power of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. Series: Hot Spots in Global Politics. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJF1; HBLW3; HBLX; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 566.
Publisher
Polity Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745649290
ISBN
9780745649290
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.10

paperback. For students of politics, history and peace studies, this classic work is important reading for anyone interested in the history - and future - of peace and war. Num Pages: 414 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1FPJ; 1KBB; HBJD; HBJF; HBJK; HBWQ; JPS; JWMN. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 29. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
414
Condition
New
Edition
2nd ed.
SKU
V9780745309477
ISBN
9780745309477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 26.89

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

€ 25.99
€ 22.68

paperback. Editor(s): Gannon, Martin J. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1FMNB; 1FP; 1KBB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780761913375
ISBN
9780761913375
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 105.67

Paperback. Suitable for sinologists, literary critics, anthropologists, cultural studies scholars, and others curious about the semiotics of food, this book examines the twentieth-century Chinese political experience as it is represented literature through hunger, cooking, eating, and cannibalising. It includes chapters on Xiao Hong, Wang Anyi, and Li Ang. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; CFG; DSB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 37. Weight in Grams: 776.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822323419
ISBN
9780822323419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.04

Paperback. One of the first evaluations of China's leadership transition with Jiang Zemin's 2002 retirement as Communist Party chief, this book probes the country's related institutional transitions--both those under way and those still needed if China is to remain stable and prosperous in the 21st century. Editor(s): Lin, Gang; Hu, Xiaobo. Num Pages: 172 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JM; GTB; HBJF; HBLW3; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804749190
ISBN
9780804749190
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.59

Paperback. .
Publisher
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780128054536
ISBN
9780128054536
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 102.92
€ 16.90

Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 1F; HRA; JFC; JFS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226616018
ISBN
9780226616018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.00

Paperback. A celebration of the history of the British-Yemeni community with extraordinary archival photography. Num Pages: 128 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBXY; AJC; HBJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 242 x 8. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
Gilgamesh Publishing
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908531360
ISBN
9781908531360
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.15

Hardback. Editor(s): Mattox, Gale; Grenier, Stephen. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FCA; HBWS4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804794442
ISBN
9780804794442
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.33

Hardcover. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; G; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 173 x 23. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Manohar Publishers and Distributors India
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
SKU
V9788173049279
ISBN
9788173049279
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.77

Paperback. Recreates the past three centuries of Japanese history by following the fortunes of a prominent Japanese family through fourteen generations. Num Pages: 314 pages, 31 b/w photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; WQY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
First Edition (1 in number line)
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520246973
ISBN
9780520246973
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.35

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
325
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804722162
ISBN
9780804722162
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.39

Paperback. Series: Asia Pacific Modern. Num Pages: 480 pages, 8 black & white photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520282490
ISBN
9780520282490
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.35

Paperback. Drawn from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declasse elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies. This title examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century. Num Pages: 603 pages, 26 b/w photographs, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB; JFMX; JFSG; JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 44. Weight in Grams: 917.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
603
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520204393
ISBN
9780520204393
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.72

Hardback. What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group - rural women - at the center of the inquiry? This title explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Series: Asia Pacific Modern. Num Pages: 472 pages, 8 b/w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 163 x 36. Weight in Grams: 780. Rural Women and China's Collective Past. Series: Asia Pacific Modern. 472 pages, Illustrations, maps. What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group - rural women - at the center of the inquiry? This title explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSJ1. Dimension: 225 x 163 x 36. Weight: 780.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
472
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520267701
ISBN
9780520267701
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.99
€ 64.45

Paperback. Weaves a wealth of cultural theory into a rare analysis of Malay cinema and the work of new Malaysian anglophone writers. Num Pages: 544 pages, 9 b&w photos, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1F; APFA; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 4039 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780774811736
ISBN
9780774811736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.22

Hardcover. Editor(s): Gaglione, John S. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; THRB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 186 x 19. Weight in Grams: 614.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781614705635
ISBN
9781614705635
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 293.38
€ 198.87

Paperback. This book explores the impact of migration on the identities, values, worldviews, and social positions of migrant women in contemporary China based on original fieldwork as well as in-depth research in multiple regions of China. Editor(s): Gaetano, Arianne M.; Jacka, Tamara. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231127073
ISBN
9780231127073
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.61

Paperback. Editor(s): Villalobos, Gabriela A.; Segura, Daniel E. Num Pages: 124 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMM; 1KBB; JPS; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 8. Weight in Grams: 206.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
124
Condition
New
SKU
V9781614701729
ISBN
9781614701729
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.60
€ 49.03

Hardcover. Deals with the author's journeys in the Levant, the exotic land that stands at the crossroads of western Asia, the eastern Mediterranean, and northeast Africa. Part travelogue, part field guide, and part literary appreciation, this title assembles six interlinked essays that explore the seaboard of the Levant and its deserts. Num Pages: 176 pages, 5 halftones, 9 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226923673
ISBN
9780226923673
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 22.15

Paperback. China's plans to expand exponentially its exploitation of Tibet's natural resources will have terrifying consequences for land and people. This book is an entirely unique, authoritative guide through the torrent of online posts, official propaganda and exile speculation. Series: Asian Arguments. Num Pages: 208 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; JP; KCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 148 x 12. Weight in Grams: 282.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780324357
ISBN
9781780324357
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.77

Hardcover. Editor(s): Ferguson, Gabriel. Num Pages: 141 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FC; 1HBA; 1HFMS; KCM; RBGB; TVDR; TVK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
141
Condition
New
SKU
V9781634833837
ISBN
9781634833837
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 189.27
€ 142.37

Hardcover. Editor(s): Cavaglion, Gabriel; Shoham, Efrat. Num Pages: 164 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; JFS; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9781619428768
ISBN
9781619428768
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 120.66
€ 83.47

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