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Hardback. North Korea's foreign policy behavior has long intrigued scholars, puzzled laymen, frustrated negotiators, and aggravated policy-makers. This book brings together the work of ten of the world's foremost scholars on North Korea to critically analyze the key factors that are shaping North Korea's foreign policy behavior and its future direction. Editor(s): Park, Kyung-Ae. Num Pages: 242 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230103634
ISBN
9780230103634
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.82

Hardback. The growth of entrepreneurship in South Korea has turned the country into an economic powerhouse. In this collection of essays, scholars highlight the favourable political and cultural values conductive to its development, including the characteristics of entrepreneurial family firms and the impact of new media and globalization. Editor(s): Shim, T. Youn-ja. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; KCL; KJH; KJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230107076
ISBN
9780230107076
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.54

Hardback. This book examines the influence of genre on contemporary Asian American literary production. Drawing on cultural theories of representation, social theories of identity, and poststructuralist genre theory, this study shows how popular prose fictions have severely constrained the development of Asian American literary aesthetics. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230108318
ISBN
9780230108318
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.44

hardcover. The contributors explore the rapid growth of Indian multinationals and provide valuable insights into the patterns and trends of their outward investments and the factors that led to their emergence in the global FDI market. They also look at their continuously evolving strategies in theglobal economy. Editor(s): Sauvant, Karl P.; Pradhan, Jaya Prakash; Chatterjee, Ayesha; Harley, Brian. Num Pages: 311 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; KCL; KJK; KJVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2010th Edition
Number of pages
311
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230108448
ISBN
9780230108448
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.75

Hardback. Develops new and intriguing insights into globalization theory and internationalization practice, expanding the investigation of East Asian values and contexts in comparison and separate from Western-dominant thoughts of globalization and internationalization in higher education. Editor(s): Palmer, John D.; Roberts, Amy; Cho, Young Ha; Ching, Gregory S. Series: International and Development Education. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1FP; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230109322
ISBN
9780230109322
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.37
€ 47.04

Hardback. This book focuses on the 2001-2002 crisis that brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war. Authors focus on: the political history that led to the crisis; the conventional military environment, the nuclear environment and coercive diplomacy and de-escalation during the crisis; and how South Asia can avoid similar crises in the future. Editor(s): Davis, Zachary S. Series: Initiatives in Strategic Studies: Issues and Policies. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FKP; JPSD; JPSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230109384
ISBN
9780230109384
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. This book looks critically at various constructions of the Indian citizen from 1991 to 2007, the period when economic liberalization became established government policy. Examining differing images of citizenship and its rules and rituals, Chowdhury sheds light on the complex interactions between culture and political economy in the New India. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJPR; 3JMC; HBJF; HBLW3; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230109513
ISBN
9780230109513
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. Chou and Ching examine the processes of schooling in Taiwan amidst social, cultural, economic, and political conflict resulting from local and global dilemmas. Collectively, these issues offer a panoramic and in-depth glimpse from the past to the future of educational trends in Taiwan. Series: International and Development Education. Num Pages: 314 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; JNA; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230110892
ISBN
9780230110892
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.37
€ 47.64

Hardcover. A groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, Hong provides helpful insight into how it is taught and studied by taking into account not only the auteurs of New Taiwan Cinema, but also the history of popular genre films before the 1980s. The book is essential for students and scholars of Taiwan, film and visual studies, and East Asian cultural history. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230111622
ISBN
9780230111622
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.86

Hardback. Saudi Arabia influences American policy through both conventional and unconventional methods, all due to the petro-dollars that have been generated from America's addiction to foreign oil. With chapters written by renowned experts, this book uses first-hand accounts to explore this vast influence Editor(s): Stern, Sarah N. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBXS; 1KBB; JPS; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
287
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230112087
ISBN
9780230112087
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

Hardback. How do NGOs overcome the suspicion and perception of them as Western agents? This book uncovers the skilful manoeuvring that women's NGOs have to perform in order to survive a hostile environment Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKP; JFSJ1; JPWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230113206
ISBN
9780230113206
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.53

Hardback. This volume seeks to revise the Saidian analytical framework which dominated research on the subject of colonial knowledge for almost two decades, which emphasized colonial knowledge as a series of representations of colonial hegemony. It seeks to contribute to research in the field by analyzing knowledge in colonial India as a dynamic process. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FK; 1FM; 3JH; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 215 x 21. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230113374
ISBN
9780230113374
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.11

hardcover. This book examines how the process of nation-building in Egypt helped transform Egypt from an Ottoman province to an Arabic speaking national community. Through the life and works of 'A'isha Taymur, Hatem gives insight into how literature and changing gender roles contributed to the definition and/or development of a sense of community. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HBE; 3JH; DSK; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2011th Edition
Number of pages
249
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230113503
ISBN
9780230113503
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.69

Hardback. The most recent account of what is going on in the fast changing world and Chinese economics. Topics in the book include economic development, banking and finance, education reform, consumption patterns, the impact of social networking, population dynamics, policy making, and the challenges ahead for the rising economic global superpower. Num Pages: 205 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; KCG; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230115675
ISBN
9780230115675
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.01

hardcover. Against a background of weak and contested national identity and capricious interaction between religious affiliation and confessional politics, this book illustrates in detailed analysis this "comprehensive" project of Islamism according to its ideological and practical evolutionary change. Series: The Middle East in Focus. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBL; HRAM2; HRH; JPFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2011th Edition
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230116542
ISBN
9780230116542
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.93

Hardback. This book argues that, given the existence of a discrete Malay archipelago security complex, it is a fallacy for the United States to approach this region primarily through the prism of global counter-terrorism Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1KBB; JPS; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 475.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230116832
ISBN
9780230116832
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.11

Hardcover. This book examines the relationship between colonial anxieties about personal behavior, gender, morality, and colonial rule in India during the first century of British rule, when the East India Company governed India rather than the British State directly, focusing on the ideology of "The Empire of Opinion." Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKA; 3JF; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 165 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230116931
ISBN
9780230116931
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.59

Hardback. How do East Asian cultural heritages in shape film? How are these legacies being revived, or even re-created, by contemporary filmmakers? This collection examines the dynamic interactions between East Asian culture heritages and cinemas in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. Editor(s): Shuk-Ting Kinnia, Yau. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FP; APFA; APFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 230 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230116955
ISBN
9780230116955
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.48

Hardcover. Presents the performance art 'butoh' as an evolving artistic bodily response to the Japanese society of the 1960s-1980s - a society characterized by conflict and proliferating information. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJP; ASDT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 23. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
2012th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230120402
ISBN
9780230120402
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.75
€ 89.12

Hardcover. This is the first book in English to examine, through material in the popular press, the radical changes that took place in Japanese ideas about sex, romance and male-female relations in the wake of Japan's defeat and occupation by Allied forces at the end of the Second World War. Num Pages: 251 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPG; HBTB; JFCA; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230120594
ISBN
9780230120594
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.67

Hardback. The authors provide a systematic analysis of looking beyond the abuses of human rights in the Middle East with a view toward problematizing traditional doctrinal thinking and concepts in the region, ascertaining comparative and historical roots of human rights abuses in the Middle East. Editor(s): Monshipouri, Mahmood. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; HRH; JFSR2; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
281
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230120617
ISBN
9780230120617
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.37
€ 47.36

Hardback. British knowledge about China changed fundamentally in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rather than treating these changes in British understanding as if Anglo-Sino relations were purely bilateral, this study looks at how British imperial networks in India and Southeast Asia were critical mediators in the British encounter of China. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FPC; 3JF; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230200463
ISBN
9780230200463
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.25

Hardback. Asia is widely regarded as having benefited most from the dynamic growth effect of the recent wave of globalization. By examining mechanisms at work in the globalization--poverty nexus through specific case studies reflecting different settings, the book seeks to find ways to rediscover and resume a pattern of shared growth in Asia Editor(s): Nissanke, Machiko; Thorbecke, Erik. Series: Studies in Development Economics and Policy. Num Pages: 338 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 581.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
338
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230201880
ISBN
9780230201880
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.67

Hardback. The first full account of British policy towards China, Japan and Korea from the final stages of the Second World War to the outbreak of the Korean War, set against the backdrop of the Anglo-American relationship, broader Far Eastern developments, the beginnings of the Cold War, and Britain's relationship with the Commonwealth. Series: Global Conflict and Security Since 1945. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FPC; 1FPJ; 1FPK; 1KBB; HBTW; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230202979
ISBN
9780230202979
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.07

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