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Hardcover. This book assesses the key factors underlying such Australian-Japanese cooperation and those policy challenges that could impede it. Experts offer critical insights into why their two countries - traditionally the two key 'spokes' in the US bilateral alliance network spanning Asia - are moving toward a security relationship in their own right. Editor(s): Tow, William; Kersten, Rikki. Series: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1MBF; 1QRP; GTF; JPRB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230279018
- ISBN
- 9780230279018
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Hardcover. This bookexamines inclusive growth in a range of social and economic areas in India, including physical infrastructure, vulnerable sections of the population and underdeveloped states. It provides a comprehensive study of disparity and deepens insight into understanding processes of economic and social development. Editor(s): Hirashima, Shigemochi; Oda, Hisaya; Tsujita, Yuko. Series: IDE-JETRO series. Num Pages: 328 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; KCG; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 220 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230290235
- ISBN
- 9780230290235
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover. At a time of significant change in the precarious world of female individualization, this collection explores such phenomena by critically incorporating the parameters of popular media culture into the overarching paradigm of gender relations, economics and politics of everyday life. Editor(s): Kim, Youna. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; JFC; JFDT; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230292727
- ISBN
- 9780230292727
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Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. This is the most complete and compelling account of idols and celebrity in Japanese media culture to date. Engaging with the study of media, gender and celebrity, and sensitive to history and the contemporary scene, these interdisciplinary essays cover male and female idols, production and consumption, industrial structures and fan movements. Editor(s): Galbraith, Patrick W.; Karlin, Jason G. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; APT; JFCA; JFCK; JFDT; JFDV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230298309
- ISBN
- 9780230298309
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.78
€ 138.78
Hardcover. EPUB Editor(s): Ohara, Moriki; Vijayabaskar, M.; Lin, Hong. Series: IDE-JETRO series. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FPC; KCD; KCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230298781
- ISBN
- 9780230298781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.67
€ 67.67
Hardcover. This book investigates entrepreneurial initiatives in the three largest economies of the world: China, Japan and the USA. It brings together historical, institutional, and ethnographic approaches and highlights entrepreneurial patterns that result from cultural, legal, and political forces that facilitate and constrain entrepreneurship. Editor(s): Usui, Chikako. Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Asian Business Series. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FP; 1KBB; KJD; KJH; KJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 615.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230298811
- ISBN
- 9780230298811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.00
€ 162.00
Hardcover. Award winning case studies focusing on the growth of innovation in India. Editor(s): Yesudian-Storfjell, Suseela. Num Pages: 160 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; KJK; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 219 x 15. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300637
- ISBN
- 9780230300637
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Hardcover. Examines the shift in leading companies in India towards greater 'value added' and innovative work. Is the move towards greater levels of innovation the future of the services off-shoring industry in India? Editor(s): Yesudian, Suseela. Num Pages: 141 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; KJD; KJK; KNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 144 x 14. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300675
- ISBN
- 9780230300675
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.05
€ 66.05
Hardcover. Written by fifteen leading academics from the Japan Society for International Development (JASID), this book undertakes a review of Japan's economic development over the last 150 years, and seeks to clarify Japanese priorities in domestic and foreign policy for the coming decades. Editor(s): Toyoda, Toshihisa; Nishikawa, Jun; Kan Sato, Hiroshi. Num Pages: 312 pages, 0, 11 black & white tables, 16 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; KCB; KCP; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230302068
- ISBN
- 9780230302068
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.71
€ 128.71
Hardcover. A window into the highly complex Indian luxury market, providing strategies to guide brands in entering this high potential market and capturing the luxury rupee. Sets out to uncover strategies that will help to avoid market failure and leverage opportunities to win in India. Editor(s): Atwal, Glyn; Jain, Soumya. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; KJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 170 x 222 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230336728
- ISBN
- 9780230336728
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Condition: New
€ 127.54
€ 127.54
Hardcover. This book explores the challenges and obstacles faced by dissident leaders in Asia seeking to introduce reforms into regimes that are either imperfectly democratic or frankly hostile to democratic practices and institutions. Editor(s): Kane, John; Loy, Hui-Chieh; Patapan, Haig. Series: Palgrave Series in Asian Governance. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; JPHC; JPHL; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230337534
- ISBN
- 9780230337534
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. This collection of essays offers a comprehensive discussion of the challenge of promoting human rights in the face of nationalism's persistence as an ideological and mobilizational force in politics. Editor(s): Cheng, Grace. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DF; 1FB; JPFN; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338562
- ISBN
- 9780230338562
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Hardcover. This volume brings together experts with diverse disciplinary backgrounds in the China field, from cultural studies to history to musicology, to make a timely intervention-from the historical demise of enuchism to male cross-dressing shows in contemporary Taiwan-to inaugurate a subfield in Chinese transgender studies. Editor(s): Chiang, Howard. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSJ5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340626
- ISBN
- 9780230340626
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.43
€ 67.43
Hardcover. In this volume, some of the leading scholars on China's development examine China's responses to the global financial crisis and their implications for China's economy, society, and the international balances of power. Editor(s): Yang, Dali L. Series: China in Transformation. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340855
- ISBN
- 9780230340855
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardcover. Written by scholars from both inside and outside China, this wide-ranging collection of essays explores the complexity of the relationship between governance and civil society by combining theoretical exploration and empirical case studies based on the governance practice in China. Editor(s): Yu, Jianxing; Guo, Sujian. Num Pages: 253 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHB; JPA; JPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340961
- ISBN
- 9780230340961
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Hardcover. Practice-based film education is a crucial element in the institutional landscape of film. This book fills the gap in understanding practice-based film scholarship, focusing on Europe, Asia, and Australia. Editor(s): Hjort, Mette. Series: Global Cinema. Num Pages: 281 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1F; 1MBF; APFX; JNRV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341432
- ISBN
- 9780230341432
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Hardcover. Food safety concerns have boosted the Asian demand for quality food in general and products of geographical indications in particular. This book shows how Asian countries are empowering regions and enterprises involved in differentiation strategies, and the effects that this regulation can have. Editor(s): Augustin-Jean, Louis; Ilbert, Helene; Saavedra-Rivano, Neantro. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; KCG; KCM; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230355750
- ISBN
- 9780230355750
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.90
€ 127.90
Hardcover. Housing policy has been central to the economic success stories of the major East Asian economies as well as a pillar of social and welfare provision. This book explores not only the development of their distinctive approach, but also the challenges posed in recent years, and currently, by rapid socio-economic and demographic change. Editor(s): Doling, John; Ronald, Richard. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FP; JFFB; KCU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230358584
- ISBN
- 9780230358584
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. This volume takes a comparative approach to understand general tendencies in post-Communist transition in Russia and China. Bringing together perspectives from Political Science, Sociology and IR, it analyses three arenas of social change: socio-economic systems, political systems, and foreign policies. Editor(s): Pursiainen, Christer. Num Pages: 248 pages, 13 black & white tables, 15 figures. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1FPC; JPA; JPB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230363922
- ISBN
- 9780230363922
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. A state-of-the-art analysis of the situation of national television in Arab countries, addressing what Arab national broadcastings today say about public policy and political opening. The essays deal with the reforms of public broadcasting organizations and the evolution, perspectives and issues of national broadcasting. Editor(s): Guaaybess, Tourya. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; JFDT; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230367166
- ISBN
- 9780230367166
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89