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Hardback. The first book to examine the proposition that Irish public servants in India were moved by their 'Irishness' to subvert or eccentrically implement policies of the Raj. Essential reading for those wishing to understand the three-way interaction between the Irish, the empire and the peoples of India. Series Editor(s): Thompson, Andrew; MacKenzie, John. Series: Studies in Imperialism. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations, black & white|Maps. BIC Classification: 1FK; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 163 x 243 x 26. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719083853
- ISBN
- 9780719083853
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.47
€ 158.47
Paperback. A study of terrorist violence in the Middle East. It constructs a typology of terrorist groups which takes into consideration three main factors: ideology, goals, and recruitment patterns. With the assistance of this functional typology, it argues that future acts of terrorism can be predicted. Num Pages: 288 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JJP; GTJ; HBJF1; HBLW3; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739103531
- ISBN
- 9780739103531
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.26
€ 69.26
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, 113 photos. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HREX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 222 x 10. Weight in Grams: 817.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231128919
- ISBN
- 9780231128919
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.50
€ 54.99
€ 39.50
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; WBN; WBV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 191 x 16. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Callisto Media Inc.
- Edition
- Gld
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781623156510
- ISBN
- 9781623156510
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.95
€ 20.99
€ 20.95
Hardcover. A pictorial history of the Indian Air Force Num Pages: 180 pages, 320 colour and b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 370 x 270 x 20. Weight in Grams: 2040.
- Publisher
- Spellmount Publishers
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781862270978
- ISBN
- 9781862270978
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.39
€ 53.39
Hardback. What is the sentimental? How can we understand it by way of the visual and narrative modes of signification specific to cinema and through the manners of social interaction and collective imagining specific to a particular culture in transition? This book explores these questions through contemporary Chinese directors. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231133326
- ISBN
- 9780231133326
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.77
€ 134.77
Hardback. Series Editor(s): Sivaramakrishnan, Arvind; Sivaramakrishnan, K.; Kaimal, Padma; Yang, Anand A. Series: Global South Asia. Num Pages: 224 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, 2 maps, 9 illus., 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FK; HBJF; JHMC; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295995526
- ISBN
- 9780295995526
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.53
€ 140.53
Paperback. Murder, human-rights abuse, drugs, blackmail, extortion, extreme violence, medical maltreatment and unjustifiable death penalties feature as everyday occurrences in the living hells that are Bangkwang and Klong Prem jails. The author has graphically revealed this shocking reality through the eyes of a long-term inmate from the West. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1 x 8pp b/w. BIC Classification: 1FMT; BTP; JKVP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845965815
- ISBN
- 9781845965815
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.49
€ 17.99
€ 13.49
Hardcover. Drawing on a variety of film semiotic theories, this book sheds light on works by mainland Chinese directors, Hong Kong New Wave directors, Taiwan New Cinema directors, and overseas Chinese directors. Zeng examines the cultural/historical implications of exile through the detailed analysis of film language and theoretical exploration. Series: Semiotics and Popular Culture. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137002396
- ISBN
- 9781137002396
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Hardback. This text draws upon ethnographic research in Nepal to examine how selves, identities, and experience are produced in dialogical relationships through time in a multi-ethic nation-state and within a discourse of nationalism. Editor(s): Holland, Dorothy; Pach, Alfred, III; Skinner, Debra. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKN; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847685981
- ISBN
- 9780847685981
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.72
€ 194.72
Hardback. Traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal codes, diaries, town registers, petitions, and criminal records, this title describes how the work of selling women transformed communities across the archipelago. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 282 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3J; HBJF; HBLH; HBTB; JFMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 534. Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. 282 pages, Illustrations. Traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal codes, diaries, town registers, petitions, and criminal records, this title describes how the work of selling women transformed communities across the archipelago. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3J; HBJF; HBLH; HBTB; JFMX. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 22. Weight: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520270909
- ISBN
- 9780520270909
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.39€ 65.54
€ 83.39
€ 65.54
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814772584
- ISBN
- 9780814772584
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.67
€ 33.99
€ 30.67
Paperback. Argues that the West has also sought to possess Jerusalem by acquiring its representations. From relics of the True Cross and Templar replicas of the Holy Sepulchre to Franciscan recreations of the Passion to nineteenth-century mass-produced prints, this work describes the evolving forms by which the city has been possessed in the West. Num Pages: 296 pages, 78 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBJF1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 302 x 18. Weight in Grams: 696.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226894225
- ISBN
- 9780226894225
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 41.51
€ 51.99
€ 41.51
Hardback. The book argues that the concept of self-defense in Islamic and International law is compatible. Al-Qaeda's declaration of Jihad does not meet the Islamic legal test. Similarly, the invasion of Iraq does meet the international legal test. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 1KBB; JPS; JPWL; LAFS; LBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230606180
- ISBN
- 9780230606180
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Paperback. Theorists of autobiography tend to emphasize the centrality of the individual against the community. By contrast, in her reading of Hebrew autobiography, Tamar Hess identifies the textual presence and function of the collective and its interplay with the Israeli self. What characterizes the ten writers she examines is the idea of a national self, a Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBJF1; HBLX; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 319 x 16. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Brandeis University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611688801
- ISBN
- 9781611688801
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 39.04
€ 49.99
€ 39.04
Hardback. Theorists of autobiography tend to emphasize the centrality of the individual against the community. By contrast, in her reading of Hebrew autobiography, Tamar Hess identifies the textual presence and function of the collective and its interplay with the Israeli self. What characterizes the ten writers she examines is the idea of a national self, a Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBJF1; HBLX; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Brandeis University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611688795
- ISBN
- 9781611688795
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.87€ 67.01
€ 79.87
€ 67.01
Paperback. Editor(s): Tickell, Alex. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; BGL; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280. 168 pages. Editor(s): Tickell, Alex. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FKA; BGL; DN. Dimension: 212 x 152 x 12. Weight: 280.
- Publisher
- Nottingham Trent University
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781842330494
- ISBN
- 9781842330494
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.48
€ 13.99
€ 13.48
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan London
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509806492
- ISBN
- 9781509806492
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.15
€ 11.99
€ 10.15
Hardcover. The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. This volume includes lectures, writings, letters, speeches, and other literary works of Nehru during September 1959. Editor(s): Palat, Madhavan K. Series: Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru. Num Pages: 366 pages, 17 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBLW3; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 170 x 28. Weight in Grams: 784.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199451272
- ISBN
- 9780199451272
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.95
€ 68.95
Hardcover. The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. This volume includes lectures, writings, letters, speeches, and other literary works of Nehru during November 1959. Editor(s): Palat, Madhavan K. Series: Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru. Num Pages: 726 pages, 27 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBLW3; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 171 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1320.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199451296
- ISBN
- 9780199451296
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.14
€ 97.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages, 140. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 3JJP; ACXJ; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 254 x 51. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780816694280
- ISBN
- 9780816694280
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.63
€ 41.99
€ 37.63
Seismic Hazard and Building Vulnerability in Post-Soviet Central Asian...
. Ed(S): King, Stephanie A.; Khalturin, Vital...
Hardback. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Earthquake Risk Management Strategies for Post-Soviet Central Asian Republics: Avoiding Repetition of 1988 Sakhalin Disasters, held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, 22-25 October 1996 Editor(s): King, Stephanie A.; Khalturin, Vitaly, I.; Tucker, B.E. Series: NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 2. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FC; RBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 565.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792355878
- ISBN
- 9780792355878
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 199.37
€ 199.37
Hardback. This is the first book in either English or Chinese to study the group of students who came to the U.S. in the early 20th century to attend American universities and played pivotal roles in Chinese intellectual, economic, and diplomatic life upon their return to China. Num Pages: 348 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 625.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804736961
- ISBN
- 9780804736961
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.01
€ 94.01
Paperback. The tradition of Chan Buddhism - more popularly known as Zen - has been romanticized throughout its history. This book shows how modern critical techniques make possible a more skeptical, accurate, and - ultimately - productive assessment of Chan lineages, teaching, fundraising practices, and social organization. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 b/w illustration, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; HREZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520237988
- ISBN
- 9780520237988
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44