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Paperback. WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012. The inside story of one of the most notorious tours of duty of the current Afghan War. Num Pages: 400 pages, col. Illustrations, ports., map. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; 1FCA; 3JMC; BTM; HBWS4; JWD; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 198 x 52. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9781849164238
ISBN
9781849164238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.99

Hardback. Provides an alternative history of environmental power and the making of the modern Saudi state. This title demonstrates how vital the exploitation of nature and the roles of science and global experts were to the consolidation of political authority in the desert. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1FBX; HBJF1; JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 518.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674049857
ISBN
9780674049857
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.13

Paperback. Discusses the phenomenon of Pokemon in a transnational and multidisciplinary perspective Editor(s): Tobin, Joseph J. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC; JFFS; WHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 428.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822332879
ISBN
9780822332879
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.62

Hardback. This work covers cultural change in a Chinese city following the Manchu conquest of 1644. Yangzhou, at the intersection of the Grand Canal and the Yangzi river, is known as the site of human and physical devastation during the conquest and as a vibrant commercial centre during the 18th century. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; JFC; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804744850
ISBN
9780804744850
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.26

Hardback. This illustrated history is a comprehensive introduction to Chinese healing practices across time and cultures. Global contributions from 58 scholars in archaeology, history, anthropology, religion, and medicine make this a vital resource for those working in East Asian or world history, medical history, anthropology, biomedicine, and healing arts. Editor(s): Hinrichs, T. J.; Barnes, Linda L. Num Pages: 480 pages, 76 halftones, 5 line illust7ations, 9 maps, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; MBX; MX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 249 x 34. Weight in Grams: 908.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
480
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674047372
ISBN
9780674047372
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.15
€ 54.32

paperback. Warned by a fortune-teller not to risk flying, the author - a seasoned correspondent - took to travelling by rail, road and sea. Consulting fortune-tellers and shamans wherever he went, he learnt to understand and respect older ways of life and beliefs now threatened by the crasser forms of Western modernity. Num Pages: 384 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1F; VXA; WT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 276.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Flamingo
Condition
New
SKU
9780006550716
ISBN
9780006550716
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. A gripping memoir about the fated love affair between a Hindu monk and a Western woman in the Indian Himalayas. Num Pages: 327 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKAH; BM; HRLK; VX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 326.
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
Number of pages
327
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780999166
ISBN
9781780999166
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.72

Hardcover. Good in good dustjacket. Dj has a few nicks and tears and spine of book is bumped. The Pages have age wear but are clean and legible
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Foreign Languages Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1959
SKU
KCD0019137
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. An introduction to Indonesia s history, culture, and politics, which brings together more than 150 selections, including journalists articles, explorers chronicles, photographs, poetry, stories, cartoons, drawings, letters, and speeches. Editor(s): Hellwig, Tineke; Tagliacozzo, Eric. Series: The World Readers. Num Pages: 488 pages, 46 photos, 2 tables, 1 map, 11 figures. BIC Classification: 1FMN; GTB; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822344247
ISBN
9780822344247
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.82

Paperback. Based on years of careful ethnographic fieldwork in Hanoi, this book offers an account of the moral quandaries that accompany innovations in biomedical technology. Arguing for more sustained anthropological attention to human quests for belonging, it addresses existential questions of love and loss that concern us all. Num Pages: 336 pages, 10 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1FMV; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520278431
ISBN
9780520278431
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.27

Num Pages: 128 color images. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; WC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 225 x 17. Weight in Grams: 526.
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764327469
ISBN
9780764327469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 21.35

Hardback. Num Pages: 238 pages, 582 color and b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJ; AJCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 314 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1936.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764321535
ISBN
9780764321535
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.46
€ 42.51

Hardcover. More than 500 images explore the free-form embroidered creations of the tribal people of India's renown Gujarat Province. Dating back 30 to 100 years, they include original garments, temple offerings, welcome banners, and second-generation quilted works t Num Pages: 208 pages, 800 color photos. BIC Classification: 1FKA; AFW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 228 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1382. India's Tribal Textile Art. 208 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FKA; AFW. Dimension: 287 x 228 x 24. Weight: 1384.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764330322
ISBN
9780764330322
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.46
€ 39.60

Paperback. Num Pages: 432 pages, 12 halftones. 8 line illus. 10 tables. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FB; KCP; KCS; KCZ; LAFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 600.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691156415
ISBN
9780691156415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.20

Paperback. Based on primary documents and interviews, this text describes three rounds of responses to a tragic case of mercury poisoning, focusing on the efforts of its victims and their supporters to secure redress. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 416 pages, 43 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JPHV; JPW; MMGT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 574.
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674007857
ISBN
9780674007857
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.82

Paperback. Num Pages: 576 pages, illus & 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JH; 3JJ; BGH; HBJF1; HBTQ; JWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 173 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1010.
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845197858
ISBN
9781845197858
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.23
€ 52.74

Tells the story of the courageous men who agreed to put their lives in danger to perform a critical mission in which they could not be officially acknowledged. This book chronicles the communist air attack on Site 85, the only such aerial bombing of the entire Vietnam War. Num Pages: 368 pages, 36 photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; HBJF; HBJK; HBLW3; JWG; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 681.
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231103169
ISBN
9780231103169
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 149.07

Paperback. Editor(s): Mitchell, Timothy. Series: Contradictions of modernity series. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1HBM; 3JH; 3JJ; JFC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
260
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
First edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816631346
ISBN
9780816631346
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.59

Hardcover. Timothy J. Van Compernolle reconsiders the rise of the modern novel in Japan by connecting the genre to new discourses on ambition and social mobility, arguing that social mobility is the privileged lens through which Meiji novelists explored abstract concepts of national belonging, social hierarchy, and the new space of an industrializing nation. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; DS; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674659797
ISBN
9780674659797
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.07

Hardback. Covering topics from pop music in Korea to TV commercials in Malaysia, this collection shows how imported cultural forms have been invested with fresh meaning and transformed by local artists to result in new forms of assertion and resistance. Editor(s): Craig, Timothy J.; King, Dr. Richard. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 4039. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774808743
ISBN
9780774808743
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.28

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