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Hardcover. Editor(s): Juhasz, Esther. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: 1FBH; AKTH; WTHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 288 x 249 x 36. Weight in Grams: 2508. From the Collection of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. 368 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.). Editor(s): Juhasz, Esther. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FBH; AKTH; WTHM. Dimension: 288 x 249 x 36. Weight: 2526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- 5Continents
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788874396023
- ISBN
- 9788874396023
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.04€ 56.23
€ 57.04
€ 56.23
Hardcover. A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema provides the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of this unique global cinema. By embracing the interdisciplinary approach of contemporary film and cultural studies, this collection navigates theoretical debates while charting a new course for future research in Hong Kong film. Editor(s): Cheung, Esther M. K.; Marchetti, Gina; Yau, Esther C. M. Series: CNCZ - Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPCH; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 175 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1118.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470659281
- ISBN
- 9780470659281
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 210.68
€ 210.68
paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; DCF; HBJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 369.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Nightboat Books United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New
- SKU
- V9780984459872
- ISBN
- 9780984459872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.34
€ 17.99
€ 16.34
Paperback. Examines why some states seek nuclear weapons while others renounce them. Looking at nine cases in East Asia and the Middle East, this book finds two distinct regional patterns. It shows how, in East Asia, the norm since the late 1960s has been to forswear nuclear weapons, and in the Middle East, the opposite is the case. Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics. Num Pages: 424 pages, 1 line illus. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1FP; JPS; JWMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691134680
- ISBN
- 9780691134680
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.66
€ 52.99
€ 37.66
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; BM; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783780471
- ISBN
- 9781783780471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.91
€ 11.99
€ 9.91
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674060685
- ISBN
- 9780674060685
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.59
€ 44.99
€ 37.59
Hardback. This book explains why no opposition party has been able to offer itself as a sustained challenger in Japan. Num Pages: 286 pages, 32 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521846929
- ISBN
- 9780521846929
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.20€ 69.59
€ 88.20
€ 69.59
Hardback.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Jarrolds
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1950
- SKU
- KRS0005549
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 20.99€ 4.99
€ 20.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. First published in 1844, and it was read by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche in Germany and Emerson and Thoreau in America. Reintroducing Burnouf to a new generation of Buddhologists, Buffetrille and Lopez have revived a seminal text in the history of Orientalism. It provides a view of how the Buddhism religion was understood in the nineteenth century. Translator(s): Buffetrille, Katia; Lopez, Donald S. Series: Buddhism and Modernity. Num Pages: 616 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRAX; HRE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 156 x 36. Weight in Grams: 826.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 616
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226269689
- ISBN
- 9780226269689
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 39.72
€ 50.99
€ 39.72
Paperback. 608pp. "A slightly worn cover, with bumped on the bottom and on the spine edge, with minor foxing on the top of edges." Keywords: "India, Nepal, Guidebook Series, English"
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- 26th Edition
- SKU
- KHS0071721
- ISBN
- 9780679019176
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 560 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBJF1; HBLA; HRCG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 228 x 29. Weight in Grams: 762.
- Publisher
- Baker Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801031991
- ISBN
- 9780801031991
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.11
€ 42.99
€ 30.11
Paperback. The updated second edition of The War for Palestine presents the genesis of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Editor(s): Rogan, Eugene L.; Shlaim, Avi. Series: Cambridge Middle East Studies. Num Pages: 310 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBP; HBJF1; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 10. Weight in Grams: 452. Rewriting the History of 1948. Series: Cambridge Middle East Studies. 310 pages, 3 maps. Editor(s): Rogan, Eugene L.; Shlaim, Avi. The updated 2008 second edition of The War for Palestine presents the genesis of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1FBP; HBJF1; HBLW3. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 10. Weight: 424.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521699341
- ISBN
- 9780521699341
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.25
€ 31.99
€ 30.25
Hardback. Editor(s): Mandel, Eugene. Num Pages: 106 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; JP. Dimension: 230 x 155. .
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 106
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634841085
- ISBN
- 9781634841085
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 192.86€ 143.42
€ 192.86
€ 143.42
Hardcover. This volume offers overviews and syntheses in various areas of the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Contributors provide information about the community that produced the scrolls; they then survey the current situation with regard to Qumram law, worship and wisdom, eschatology, and scripture. Editor(s): Ulrich, Eugene C.; VanderKam, James C. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBJ; HRJ; HRLB; HRLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Univ of Notre Dame Pr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268008024
- ISBN
- 9780268008024
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.40
€ 114.40
Hardback. From the mid-17th to the mid-19th Century, millions of Korean men trained in the arts of war to prepare not for actual combat but to sit for the state military examination (mukwa). This book provides a comprehensive socio-political history of the mukwa system. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 275 pages, 2 maps, 7 line illustrations, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; JFSC; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 237 x 26. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674025028
- ISBN
- 9780674025028
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.59
€ 44.99
€ 37.59
Hardback. In 1935, a Chinese woman by the name of Shi Jianqiao murdered the notorious warlord Sun Chuanfang as he prayed in a Buddhist temple. This work of history examines this well-publicized crime and the highly sensationalized trial of the killer. It traces the rise of a sentiment - "public sympathy" - in early twentieth-century China. Num Pages: 304 pages, 15 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJG; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 232 x 27. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520247185
- ISBN
- 9780520247185
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.50€ 63.81
€ 83.50
€ 63.81
Hardback. Flora's Empire brings new light to the complex history of British imperialism in India and its post-Independence legacy. Aided by beautiful period illustrations, it focuses on three centuries of official, domestic, and botanical gardens, as well as on memorial gardens and restorations of Muslim and Hindu sites. Series: Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture. Num Pages: 440 pages, 30 color, 60 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1FKA; AMV. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 260 x 179 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1216.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- First Edition /First Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812243260
- ISBN
- 9780812243260
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.29
€ 92.29
Hardback. In the sixteenth century, European missionaries brought a foreign and global religion to China. Converts then transformed this new religion into a local one. This book focuses on the Catholic communities of Fuan county in northeast Fujian. It suggests that Christianity became part of a pre-existing pluralistic, local religious space. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 450 pages, 5 halftones, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HRCC7; HRCX7; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 163 x 34. Weight in Grams: 860.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 450
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674035966
- ISBN
- 9780674035966
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 45.57
€ 54.99
€ 45.57
Hardback. Examines the geopolitical and economic contexts of the region's export-oriented industrialization. This book focuses on the global and regional elements of the economic system and geo-politics. It also focuses on the domestic actors and institutions which played critical roles in the miracle economies of East Asia. Editor(s): Kim, Eun Mee. Num Pages: 234 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMS; 1FPCH; 1FPCW; 1FPKS; 3JJP; KCM; KCP; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780124074408
- ISBN
- 9780124074408
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.85
€ 84.85
Paperback. This title uses the Asian concept of yin and yang to explain how American virtues and vices are opposite sides of the same coin. Unlike the dualism characteristic of the West, in much of Asia the forces of yin and yang are seen to co-exist in everything, and complete each other in cosmic harmony. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Nicholas Brealey Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781877864858
- ISBN
- 9781877864858
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.62
€ 26.99
€ 18.62
Hardcover. Cliff and Eunice Holliday went to live in Jerusalem in 1922, during a period of political upheaval and unrest. Cliff had the task of restoring the old city and building control outside. This book contains the letters Eunice wrote home, which portray a city during a critical time in its history. Num Pages: 224 pages, halftones, maps, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 3JJG; AMVD; BGHA; HBJF1; HBLW; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 276 x 219 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860640858
- ISBN
- 9781860640858
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.80€ 53.63
€ 58.80
€ 53.63
Paperback. Taking disability theory out of a Western context, Eunjung Kim questions the assumptions that treating disabilities with cure represents a universal good by examining the manifestations of violence that accompany medical and nonmedical cures in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Korea. Num Pages: 312 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; HBJF; JFFE; JFFG; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362883
- ISBN
- 9780822362883
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.35
€ 31.99
€ 30.35
Hardback. Taking disability theory out of a Western context, Eunjung Kim questions the assumptions that treating disabilities with cure represents a universal good by examining the manifestations of violence that accompany medical and nonmedical cures in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Korea. Num Pages: 312 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; HBJF; JFFE; JFFG; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362777
- ISBN
- 9780822362777
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.83
€ 123.83
Hardcover. A systematic survey of all the countries of East Asia, South East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. This book keeps up to date with economic and political developments. It presents over 1300 pages of statistics, directory material and analysis. Series: Europa's Regional Surveys of the World S. Num Pages: 1300 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1FP; 1M; 3JJPR; GBCY; HBJF; JP; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 283 x 221 x 57. Weight in Grams: 2432. Series: Europa's Regional Surveys of the World S. 1300 pages, bibliography. A systematic survey of all the countries of East Asia, South East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. This book keeps up to date with economic and political developments. It presents over 1300 pages of statistics, directory material and analysis. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FP; 1M; 3JJPR; GBCY; HBJF; JP; KCM. Dimension: 283 x 221 x 57. Weight: 2432.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Number of pages
- 1300
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857430622
- ISBN
- 9781857430622
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 188.17€ 31.45
€ 188.17
€ 31.45