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Paperback. Presents a narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Tracking one man's descent into the Kafkaesque underworld of contemporary Tokyo, this title unites East and West, tragedy and farce, compassion and detachment, slang and philosophy. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; FA; FM; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099448785
- ISBN
- 9780099448785
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.33
€ 13.99
€ 10.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 11. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; KCB; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410. An excellent, clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KRS0019537
- ISBN
- 9780801488108
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. Surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal with the 'otherness' of eastern culture, customs and beliefs. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780141187426
- ISBN
- 9780141187426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.14
€ 14.99
€ 11.14
Paperback. Depicting the final years of the Shah in Iran, this book offers a meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. It describes the tyrannical monarch, who, despite his cruel oppression of the Iranian people, sees himself as the father of a nation, who can turn a backward country into a great power. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBN; HBJF1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- 9780141188041
- ISBN
- 9780141188041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.33
€ 13.99
€ 10.33
Paperback. Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab. This book offers hope and a way forward for all those committed to the struggle to liberate Palestine. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBP; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 112 x 180 x 25. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241973523
- ISBN
- 9780241973523
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Hardback. Aims to use the Mongolian question to illuminate much larger issues of twentieth-century Asian history: how war, revolution, and great-power rivalries induced or restrained the formation of nationhood and territoriality. This book focuses on the Mongolian question, which ran through Chinese politics in the first half of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 506 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPM; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. Weight in Grams: 957.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 506
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804754262
- ISBN
- 9780804754262
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.55
€ 91.55
Paperback. This volume collects together Salam Pax's writings to tell the story of the war in Iraq from inside that besieged country. It provides a gripping perspective on the conflict and its aftermath. Num Pages: 176 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; DNF; HBJF1; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KNW0008816
- ISBN
- 9781843542629
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel. Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099448471
- ISBN
- 9780099448471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Taking up personal narratives of slaves and slave owners, Tell This in My Memory offers a new window into the study of slavery in modern Middle Eastern. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HFG; 3JH; HBJF1; HBJH; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804788649
- ISBN
- 9780804788649
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.48
€ 30.99
€ 27.48
Paperback. Translator(s): Wallace, B. Alan. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; HRE; VXH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Shambhala Publications Inc United States
- Edition
- Likely 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781559391481
- ISBN
- 9781559391481
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.42
€ 33.99
€ 24.42
Hardcover. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1963
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KKD0007361
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Good copy with some shelf wear, minor tears to top and bottom of spine, book otherwise clean
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- Publisher
- Goodyear Publishing Co ,U.S.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KKD0007364
- ISBN
- 9780876206195
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; WTH; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 382. Good copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0007580
- ISBN
- 9780486468761
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Tracing Japan's religions from the Hein Period through the middle ages and into modernity, this book explores the unique establishment of Shinto, Buddhism, and Confucianism in Japan, as well as the later influence of Roman Catholicism, and the problem of Restoration--both spiritual and material--following World War II. Num Pages: 475 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBTB; HRKN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 475
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231028387
- ISBN
- 9780231028387
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.55
€ 46.99
€ 33.55
Paperback. A compilation of case studies about Japanese intellectuals' relationships to modernity in three majors arenas of art (art and aesthetics, theater, and literature) beginning in the 1850s to the 1970s. It discusses how inevitable wave of modernity was responded to, discussed, assimilated, changed by some practitioners of art and intellectuals. Editor(s): Nara, Hiroshi. Num Pages: 284 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; ACBP; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 227 x 17. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739118429
- ISBN
- 9780739118429
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.54
€ 56.54
Paperback. In the Ottoman Empire, many members of the ruling elite were legally slaves of the sultan and therefore could, technically, be ordered to surrender their labor, their property, or their lives at any moment. This work offers insights into Ottoman life and thought. It also examines female harem slaves, and slave dealers, and slave owners. Series: Publications on the Near East. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBTB; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295976426
- ISBN
- 9780295976426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
€ 32.99
€ 29.73
Paperback. Gaining prominence as a seaport under the Ottomans in the mid-1500s, the city of Mocha on the Red Sea coast of Yemen pulsed with maritime commerce. This book tells how and why Mocha's urban shape and architecture took the forms they did. Series: Donald R. Ellegood International Publications. Num Pages: 272 pages, 46 illus. BIC Classification: 1FBXY; 3JB; 3JD; AMX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295989112
- ISBN
- 9780295989112
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.93
€ 33.99
€ 30.93
Hardcover. The author argues that by fostering awareness of membership in an elite group, the native place lodges generated a sense of belonging to a nation that furthered the reforms undertaken in the early twentieth century. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 326 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 180 x 27. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780674019560
- ISBN
- 9780674019560
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 42.19
€ 50.99
€ 42.19
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JFFN; JFFP; JFFS; JKSF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 5. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781503600119
- ISBN
- 9781503600119
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.51
€ 30.99
€ 27.51
Hardback. Discusses the complexities of a trading network in this period, outling commodity chains, links between colonies and colonial centres, and tensions between local polities and competing empires. Series: Worlds of the East India Company. Num Pages: 208 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FM; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HBTQ; KCLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783270699
- ISBN
- 9781783270699
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.09
€ 98.09
Hardback. Editor(s): Shen, Simon; Blanchard, Jean-Marc F. Series: Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739139943
- ISBN
- 9780739139943
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.59
€ 103.59
Paperback. Tracing the evolution of state military institutions from the seventh to the twelfth centuries, this book challenges much of the received wisdom of Western scholarship on the origins and early development of warriors in Japan. Num Pages: 284 pages, 4 half-tones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3F; 3H; HBJF; HBLC; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804726962
- ISBN
- 9780804726962
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.86
€ 33.99
€ 30.86
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
€ 34.99
€ 32.04
Paperback. Throughout the East there runs a legend of a great mountain at the centre of the world, where four rivers have their source. Charles Allen traces this legend to Western Tibet where there stands Kailas, worshipped by Hindus and Buddhists alike as the home of their gods and the navel of the world." Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; WTLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 19. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- DO NOT USE
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349139388
- ISBN
- 9780349139388
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.89
€ 15.99
€ 11.89