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Hardback. This text focuses on Japanese weddings as a window on contemporary values, analyzing the relation between the commercialization of these services and their symbolic content. Weddings mark the attainment of full adult status in Japan and this book looks at what marriage and adulthood means in Japan. Num Pages: 188 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 28. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804715126
- ISBN
- 9780804715126
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.28
€ 113.28
Paperback. Japanese weddings have become commercial affairs, with most conducted at specialized establishments offering expensive, lavish services. This book focuses on these ceremonies as a window on contemporary values, analyzing the relation between commercialization and symbolic content. Num Pages: 188 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 13. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804718158
- ISBN
- 9780804718158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.48
€ 27.99
€ 26.48
Paperback. Brings the story of modern Iran, exploring the political, cultural, and social changes. This book provides insightful commentary on the Iran-Iraq war, the Persian Gulf War, and the effects of 9/11 and Iran's strategic relationship with the US. It also discusses developments in education, health care, the arts, and the role of women. Num Pages: 406 pages, 18 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBN; HBJF1; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 406
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 2Rev Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300121056
- ISBN
- 9780300121056
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.66
€ 30.99
€ 22.66
Paperback.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- BBC Broadcast to Schools
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1957
- SKU
- KRS0005653
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 20.99€ 4.99
€ 20.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Clean copy fine in dust wrapper. DW dulled and with nicks and small tears. Remains a very good copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1962
- Publisher
- Ernest Benn
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0006749
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Stunning biographical portraits explore the lives of five women--two actresses, two writers, and a painter--who did their best to stand up and cause more trouble than was considered proper in Japanese society. Their lives stretch across a century and a half of explosive cultural and political transformations in Japan. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 photos. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; BG; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231113571
- ISBN
- 9780231113571
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.52
€ 37.99
€ 27.52
Hardback. Stunning biographical portraits explore the lives of five women--two actresses, two writers, and a painter--who did their best to stand up and cause more trouble than was considered proper in Japanese society. Their lives stretch across a century and a half of explosive cultural and political transformations in Japan. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 photos. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; BG; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231113564
- ISBN
- 9780231113564
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.34€ 79.73
€ 104.34
€ 79.73
Hardback. This collection brings together diverse analyses of women in Japan--including department store elevator girls, tour bus guides, airline stewardesses, soldiers, soccer players, beauty queens, and educators--who have been intimately involved in the practices and professions of modernity. Editor(s): Freedman, Alisa; Miller, Laura; Yano, Christine Reiko. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC; JFSJ; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804781138
- ISBN
- 9780804781138
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.74
€ 118.74
Paperback. This collection brings together diverse analyses of women in Japan--including department store elevator girls, tour bus guides, airline stewardesses, soldiers, soccer players, beauty queens, and educators--who have been intimately involved in the practices and professions of modernity. Editor(s): Freedman, Alisa; Miller, Laura; Yano, Christine Reiko. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC; JFSJ; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804781145
- ISBN
- 9780804781145
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.51
€ 30.99
€ 27.51
Paperback. An environmental, institutional, and cultural history of forestry in colonial eastern India. By examining the influence of regional political formations and bio-geographic processes on land and forest management, the book offers an analysis of the factors that influenced landscape change. Num Pages: 376 pages, 14 illustrations, 4 maps, glossary, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JHMC; RGBL; RNF; TVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 24. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804745567
- ISBN
- 9780804745567
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.39
€ 40.99
€ 36.39
Hardcover. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 265 x 184 x 25. Weight in Grams: 800.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781600218378
- ISBN
- 9781600218378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.44€ 132.89
€ 194.44
€ 132.89
Paperback. This volume presents a broad range of writings on literature from the period of the inception of literary modernity in China. Editor(s): Denton, Kirk A. Num Pages: 572 pages, reference material. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 788.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 564
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725590
- ISBN
- 9780804725590
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 53.17
€ 53.36
€ 53.17
hardcover. This volume presents a broad range of writings on literature from the period of the inception of literary modernity in China. Editor(s): Denton, Kirk A. Num Pages: 572 pages, reference material. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 38. Weight in Grams: 979.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 572
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725583
- ISBN
- 9780804725583
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 233.53
€ 233.53
Paperback. A collection of essays which use critical theory to reflect on issues pertaining to modern Chinese literature and culture. It addresses topics such as 20th-century literature produced in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China; film, art, history, popular culture, and literary and cultural criticism and the geographies of migration and diaspora. Editor(s): Chow, Rey. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822325970
- ISBN
- 9780822325970
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.62
€ 31.99
€ 28.62
Hardback. A biographical dictionary which offers short, information-packed entries for approximately 1,800 Chinese artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Num Pages: 274 pages, 80 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; AGB; GBCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 274
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520244498
- ISBN
- 9780520244498
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.18€ 65.15
€ 84.18
€ 65.15
Hardback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804774093
- ISBN
- 9780804774093
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.32
€ 86.32
Paperback. An intriguing historical examination of China's widespread opium epidemic Num Pages: 200 pages, 1 drawing, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFC; JFFH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 325.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Edition
- First Softcover Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472067688
- ISBN
- 9780472067688
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.26
€ 37.26
Paperback. Shedding fresh light on modern art beyond the West, this text introduces readers to artists, art movements, debates and theoretical positions of the modern era that continue to shape contemporary art worldwide. Area histories of modern art are repositioned and interconnected towards a global art historiography. Editor(s): O'Brien, Elaine; Chiu, Melissa; Tejada, Roberto; Nicodemus, Everlyn; Genocchio, Benjamin; Coffey, Mary K. Num Pages: 458 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 1H; 1KL; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 190 x 18. Weight in Grams: 896.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 458
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444332308
- ISBN
- 9781444332308
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.35
€ 51.35
Hardback. Shedding fresh light on modern art beyond the West, this text introduces readers to artists, art movements, debates and theoretical positions of the modern era that continue to shape contemporary art worldwide. Area histories of modern art are repositioned and interconnected towards a global art historiography. Editor(s): O'Brien, Elaine; Chiu, Melissa; Tejada, Roberto; Nicodemus, Everlyn; Genocchio, Benjamin; Coffey, Mary K. Num Pages: 458 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1H; 1KL; ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 191 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 458
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444332292
- ISBN
- 9781444332292
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.62
€ 105.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBXK; AMA; AMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 206. .
- Publisher
- Niggli
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783721209587
- ISBN
- 9783721209587
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.07
€ 40.99
€ 34.07
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Braun Publish,Csi
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783721209488
- ISBN
- 9783721209488
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 39.12
€ 46.99
€ 39.12
Paperback. An introduction to the subject of Arab journalism, drawing on Arabic as well as English language sources. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1FB; JFD; JFSR2; KNTJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748634118
- ISBN
- 9780748634118
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.31
€ 38.99
€ 35.31
Hardback. An introduction to the subject of Arab journalism, drawing on Arabic as well as English language sources. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1FB; JFD; JFSR2; KNTJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748634101
- ISBN
- 9780748634101
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.50€ 119.62
€ 124.50
€ 119.62
Paperback. A thoroughly up-to-date revision of a landmark textbook. Num Pages: 344 pages, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1H; GTB; HBJH; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253217820
- ISBN
- 9780253217820
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.29
€ 27.99
€ 26.29