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Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Route Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9781901927146
ISBN
9781901927146
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.30

Paperback. When Siraj, the ruler of Bengal, overran the British settlement of Calcutta in 1756, he allegedly jailed 146 European prisoners overnight in a cramped prison. Of the group, 123 died of suffocation. This title follows the ever-changing representations of this historical event and founding myth of the British Empire in India. Num Pages: 440 pages, 23 halftones. 5 line illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKA; 3JF; HBJF; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 615.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
440
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691152011
ISBN
9780691152011
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.55

Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 3JJG; HBJF; HBLW; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231158503
ISBN
9780231158503
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.07
€ 50.79

Paperback. Modern Orientalism was born in the eighteenth century after a very long gestation period defined less by economic or political motives than by religious ideology. The Birth of Orientalism presents a completely new picture of the Western encounter with Asia, its underlying dynamics, and the discovery of Buddhism and Hinduism. Series: Encounters with Asia. Num Pages: 568 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: 1F; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 826.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812223460
ISBN
9780812223460
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.15
€ 58.53

Paperback. Good clean copy showing some age and shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1964
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KMK0004094
ISBN
9780002226585
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. Editor(s): Liu, Lydia H.; Karl, Rebecca E.; Ko, Dorothy. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 328 pages, 6. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 582.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231162906
ISBN
9780231162906
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.30
€ 90.18

Paperback. Editor(s): Liu, Lydia H.; Karl, Rebecca E.; Ko, Dorothy. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 328 pages, 6. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 432.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231162913
ISBN
9780231162913
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.27

Hardback. This volume provides a history of the domination of the Big Four in the Chinese accounting industry, explaining why China was unable to keep the market for its own accounting firms. The book details how easy access to U.S. capital markets led to major accounting scandals, and a clash between U.S. and Chinese regulators. Series: Studies in the Development of Accounting Thought. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; KFC; KNST. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 567.
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783504855
ISBN
9781783504855
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 165.87

Hardback.
Publisher
The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies United States
Number of pages
210
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674051386
ISBN
9780674051386
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.66

Paperback. Num Pages: 188 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 290.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
188
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226846620
ISBN
9780226846620
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.89

Hardcover. Editor(s): Sidharth, Burra G. Num Pages: 94 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 13. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
94
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594541155
ISBN
9781594541155
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 236.59
€ 161.37

paperback. Explores one of the unresearched subjects of the First World War: the German bid for world power - and the destruction of the British Empire - through the harnessing of the Ottoman Empire. Num Pages: 480 pages, 2 x 8 b&w inset. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1FB; 3JJF; HBJD; HBJF1; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141047652
ISBN
9780141047652
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 12.37

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The Perseus Books Group United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780465025237
ISBN
9780465025237
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.47

Hardcover. Begins with three case studies, each of which probes one facet of the relationship between women and fiction in the early 19th Century. This book examines in turn the prefaces written by four women for a novel about women; the activities of a woman editor and writer of fiction; and writings on fiction by three leading literary women. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 180 x 35. Weight in Grams: 750.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674021464
ISBN
9780674021464
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 46.10

Paperback. The Battle of Midway in the central Pacific, on the morning of June 4, 1942, marked a dramatic turning point in the Second World War, when Allied forces seized the upper hand from the Axis powers. Lincoln Prize winner Craig Symonds' riveting, global account of the Battle is now in paperback. Series: Pivotal Moments in American History. Num Pages: 464 pages, 40 halftones, 10 line. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJF; HBJK; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 211 x 31. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199315987
ISBN
9780199315987
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.30

Hardback. Relates how the British, aided by Arab insurgents and the French, defeated the Turks, although not without difficulty, and captured northern Palestine and most of Syria. Num Pages: 270 pages, 22, 16 black and white, 6 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1FBS; 3JJG; HBJF1; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 784.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843838036
ISBN
9781843838036
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 39.16

paperback. Num Pages: 298 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBP; GTB; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 227 x 16. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
Haymarket Books United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781608463244
ISBN
9781608463244
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.61

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
608
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804762069
ISBN
9780804762069
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.65

Paperback. A controversial polemic countering modern revisionist narratives demonising the Mao regime. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Pluto Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745327808
ISBN
9780745327808
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.72

Hardback. Tells the story of one middle-class family, the Rezas, shopkeepers in Lahore's ancient Anarkali Bazaar, caught in the great struggles that have rippled through Pakistan - compellingly narrated by a young Pakistani-American scholar and diplomat who has observed the traumas of the region at first hand. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKP; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
PublicAffairs,U.S. United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781610391665
ISBN
9781610391665
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 26.93

Paperback. Transnational labor migration often begins with the dream of securing a more stable and prosperous future, a chance to survive. This book reveals some of the complex phenomena and processes that operate in the lives and dreams of Thai male migrant workers living abroad. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMS; JFFN; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 160 x 13. Weight in Grams: 248.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP
Condition
New
SKU
V9786162150753
ISBN
9786162150753
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

Hardback. Told through the life and work of a barber--Ibn Budayr--this book explores emerging written historical forms by non-scholars in the 18th century Ottoman Empire to offer a revisionist history that connects 18th century society and culture to the 19th century Arab Renaissance. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804785327
ISBN
9780804785327
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.86

Paperback. Told through the life and work of a barber--Ibn Budayr--this book explores emerging written historical forms by non-scholars in the 18th century Ottoman Empire to offer a revisionist history that connects 18th century society and culture to the 19th century Arab Renaissance. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804797276
ISBN
9780804797276
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.77

Hardcover. Num Pages: 144 pages, 30 full-colour photos. BIC Classification: 1FMV; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 217 x 15. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781607745334
ISBN
9781607745334
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 12.45

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