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Paperback. Explores a range of grassroots efforts - initiated by the state and society alike - intended to restrain arbitrary and corrupt official behaviour and enhance the accountability of local authorities. This book covers topics such as village and township elections, fiscal reforms, legal aid, media supervision, and informal associations. Editor(s): Perry, Elizabeth J.; Goldman, Merle. Series: Harvard Contemporary China Series. Num Pages: 416 pages, 18 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 564.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674024861
ISBN
9780674024861
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 34.74

Hardcover. Editor(s): Mason, Edward C. Num Pages: 245 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FMV; GTB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 256 x 183 x 19. Weight in Grams: 598.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
SKU
V9781616689445
ISBN
9781616689445
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 220.26
€ 149.67

Paperback. This translation presents the Analects in a revolutionary new format that, for the first time in any language, distinguishes the original words of the Master from the later sayings of his disciples and their followers, enabling readers to experience China's most influential philosophical work in its true historical, social, and political context. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 342 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DNF; DSBB; HBG; HBLA; HPD; HRKN1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
342
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231104319
ISBN
9780231104319
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 30.89

Hardcover. "8vo. Contains 3 maps, 25 illustrations, including coloured frontispiece, and index. Includes chapters on "The Honourable East India Company And China"; "Robert Fortune And His Period"; and "The Wilson Era". 230p. Hardback. Firm binding, clean text, dulled dust jacket with some open tearing to rubbed edges, clean text. Scare title. Very good copy. First edition". Keywords: Subjects
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Collins, London
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1945
Edition
1st
SKU
KON0774003
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 57.00

Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages, 422 colour & b/w photos & charts. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJF; HBLW; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 215 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1280.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764348907
ISBN
9780764348907
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.12
€ 46.73

Paperback. Examines the complex history of Japanese colonial and postcolonial interactions with Korea, particularly in matters of cultural policy. This book focuses on past and present Japanese fascination with Korean culture as he reassesses colonial anthropology, heritage curation, cultural policy, and Korean performance art in Japanese mass media culture. Series: Colonialisms S. Num Pages: 280 pages, 18 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1FPK; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 226 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386. Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910-1945. Series: Colonialisms S. 280 pages, illustrations. Examines the complex history of Japanese colonial and postcolonial interactions with Korea, particularly in matters of cultural policy. This book focuses on past and present Japanese fascination with Korean culture as he reassesses colonial anthropology, heritage curation, cultural policy, and Korean performance art in Japanese mass media culture. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1FPK; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW. Dimension: 152 x 226 x 18. Weight: 386.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520266742
ISBN
9780520266742
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Hardback. How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he remain a scholarly observer when the country of his birth is engulfed by terror? How does an anthropologist write an ethnography without transforming it into a pornography of violence? This book discusses such questions. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 maps 2 line illus. BIC Classification: 1FKS; JFC; JFFE; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691027739
ISBN
9780691027739
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.29
€ 42.15

Paperback. The poetry written by the Japanese imperial court between A.D. 550 and 1350 is regarded as one of the great literatures of the world. This volume introduces readers to that literature, offering at once a condensation, a reorganization, and an extension (to A.D. 1500) of "Japanese Court Poetry" (1901). (Poetry) Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1968
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804706360
ISBN
9780804706360
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.21

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 348 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FPJ; 1KBB; 2AB; DNF; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691646534
ISBN
9780691646534
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 179.30

paperback. Kohima, 2007. A young man has just been gunned down in cold blood - the latest casualty in the conflict that has brutalized the people of Nagaland, in the neglected northeastern corner of India. This title traces the story of one man's life from 1937 to 2007. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: 1FK; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Zubaan India
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9789381017029
ISBN
9789381017029
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.03

paperback. West Papua has been occupied by the Indonesian military for forty years. The author, an anthropologist, went there planning to study the resistance movements working for independence. This title narrates the complexities of West Papuan attitudes, including their unfulfilled expectations of freedom following the fall of Suharto. Num Pages: 328 pages, 52 photographs, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1MKLP; JHM; JPW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780822351344
ISBN
9780822351344
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.76

Hardback. Analysing developments in the Middle East, this book concludes that: economic liberalization has failed to entail the continuous growth and widespread welfare gains expected by its proponents; and it has also failed to decentralize and democratize the allocation of resources and enable individuals to participate in the production of social norms. Editor(s): Kienle, Eberhard. Num Pages: 349 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; JPH; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 170 x 30. Weight in Grams: 712.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Saqi Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
349
Condition
New
SKU
V9780863569494
ISBN
9780863569494
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.22
€ 49.91

Paperback. Asad's regime in Syria has introduced great economic change over the last decade. Through analyzing the relationship between processes of economic and political liberalization in the domestic arena - and their repercussions internationally - this work develops possible future scenarios. Editor(s): Kienle, Eberhard. Num Pages: 208 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FBS; JPQ; JPS; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 295.
Publisher
I. B. Tauris
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860641350
ISBN
9781860641350
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.74

Paperback. A collection of essays addressing the problem of how to achieve a stable political order in a unified Korea. Editor(s): Eberstadt, Nicholas; Ellings, Richard J. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; GTB; HBJF; HBLW3; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Edition
n
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295981291
ISBN
9780295981291
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.53

mass_market. Offers a firsthand account of the exploits and accomplishments of the first African American special operations LRRP team in Vietnam, and describes their perilous missions amid the vast Viet Cong tunnel complexes of Cu Chi. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations , ports. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; BTM; HBJF; HBWS2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 109 x 175 x 32. Weight in Grams: 152.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Presidio Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780891418177
ISBN
9780891418177
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.77

Paperback. Ed Macy is an elite pilot, one of the few men qualified to fly Apache helicopters, the world's deadliest fighting machines. This is his account of a fearless mission behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 3JMC; BTM; HBWS4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007288175
ISBN
9780007288175
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.93

Paperback. World-renowned climber Ed Viesturs paints a portrait of obsession, dedication, and human achievement in a love letter to the world's highest peak. Num Pages: 352 pages, 16 page 4-C insert. BIC Classification: 1FKAH; BM; WSZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Touchstone
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781451694741
ISBN
9781451694741
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.42

Hardcover. "Dulled, corners and spine extremities slightly rubbed. 8vo Original Red Cloth. A good clean copy. First Edition". Keywords: Subjects
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Foreign Languages Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1956
SKU
KON0515357
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Multiple-component retail product. Num Pages: 554 pages, 15 b/w images. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1QDB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
OUP India India
Number of pages
554
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Slp
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199457465
ISBN
9780199457465
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 117.71

Hardback. Eddy U offers a new interpretation of socialism and its failure in the last century. Taking on the conventional view that socialist China and other Soviet-type societies represented the domination of bureaucracy, he argues that these societies were not bureaucratic enough. Num Pages: 296 pages, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 531.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804756891
ISBN
9780804756891
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.31

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