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Hardback. The extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell was marked by myriad achievements. Although best known for her desert travels and her part in the creation of the modern state of Iraq, she also made a significant contribution to the field of archaeology. This book explores Bell's achievements, emphasizing the tenacious, inquisitive side of her personality. Num Pages: 192 pages, 80 bw integrated, line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1QDAM; 1QDT; AMGD; HBJF1; HBLW; HDDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848854987
- ISBN
- 9781848854987
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.24€ 49.51
€ 53.24
€ 49.51
Paperback. Kazakhstan is the most surprising country on earth, and certainly one of the most tolerant. The only thing most people know about Kazakhstan is that it is homeland to Borat - and he isn't even real. Num Pages: 304 pages, maps & illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FCZ; HBJF; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Profile Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861971098
- ISBN
- 9781861971098
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.70
€ 13.00
€ 11.70
Paperback. For seven generations, Japan's 'Hidden Christians' preserved a faith that was forbidden on pain of death. Just as remarkably, descendants of the Hidden Christians continue to practise their beliefs today, refusing to rejoin the Catholic Church. Why? And what is it about Japanese culture that makes it so resistant to Western Christianity? Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HRCC2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- SPCK Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780281075522
- ISBN
- 9780281075522
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.44
€ 14.44
paperback. Relates the author's childhood in Palestine, the flight to Britain after the catastrophe of 1948, and coming of age in the coffee-bars of Golders Green, the middle-class Jewish quarter in North London. Num Pages: 452 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JJP; BGA; HBJF1; HBLW3; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 38. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781844673681
- ISBN
- 9781844673681
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.44
€ 38.44
Paperback. 421pp.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- SKU
- KEX0193519
- ISBN
- 9780824814038
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 6.99€ 4.99
€ 6.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. This text reconstructs the history of the Sufi Naqshbandi brotherhood and its impact on the North Caucasus (Chechnya and Daghestan) in the early 19th century. It draws on Naqshbandi Arabic sources to explain the pivotal role of Sufism in transforming mountain society. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 maps, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FC; HBJD; HBJF; HBLL; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 763.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850653844
- ISBN
- 9781850653844
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.15€ 58.62
€ 59.15
€ 58.62
Hardback. A comprehensive, English-language study of early twentieth-century Japanese modern art. It constructs a critical theory of artistic modernism in Japan between 1900 and 1930 by analyzing the work of Yorozu Tetsugoro, whose paintings she casts as a polemic response to Japan's late-nineteenth-century encounter with European art. Series: The Phillips Book Prize Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, 16 color illustrations and 99 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; ACBP; ACX; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 260 x 189 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1034.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520259522
- ISBN
- 9780520259522
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.99€ 64.94
€ 83.99
€ 64.94
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520281165
- ISBN
- 9780520281165
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.89
€ 33.99
€ 24.89
Paperback. Denise Lett argues that South Korea's contemporary urban middle class not only exhibits upper-class characteristics, but also has a culturally inherited disposition to seek high status. Combined with a favourable political and economic climate, many Koreans have thus been able to achieve it. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 270 pages, 3 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; HBJF; HBLW; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674007819
- ISBN
- 9780674007819
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.61
€ 23.99
€ 20.61
Paperback. Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die. This is the story of Park's struggle to survive in the most repressive country on earth, and her harrowing escape. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; BM; BTP; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 144 x 29. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241973035
- ISBN
- 9780241973035
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.84
€ 13.00
€ 11.84
Paperback. Num Pages: 302 pages, Illustrations, map. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Cornell Univ East Asia Program
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781885445131
- ISBN
- 9781885445131
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.56
€ 31.99
€ 28.56
paperback. Editor(s): Shagrir, Iris. Series: Crusades - Subsidia. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; HBJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781138259751
- ISBN
- 9781138259751
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.42
€ 66.42
Paperback. In POW camp the dying Olympic runner, Eric Liddell, gave Steve his running shoes and challenged him to pray for the Japanese. But how could he? Num Pages: 224 pages, 8pp b/w plate section. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; BM; HRCV9; HRCX7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Lion Hudson Plc United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854249708
- ISBN
- 9781854249708
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.68
€ 13.99
€ 11.68
Hardcover. This book provides the first full-blown, up-to-date, English-language based narrative on the history, politics, and policy of Japan's strategic space development. Num Pages: 408 pages, 15 tables, 17 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JPA; JPV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 712. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804700634
- ISBN
- 9780804700634
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.82
€ 76.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 576 pages, illus & 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JH; 3JJ; BGH; HBJF1; HBTQ; JWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 173 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1010.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845197858
- ISBN
- 9781845197858
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.18€ 52.84
€ 53.18
€ 52.84
Hardback. Priya Joshi demonstrates how a paradoxical legacy has shaped the works of Indian writers such as Krupa Satthianadhan, Ahmed Ali and Salman Rushdie, a process she calls the "indigenization" of the English novel. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780231125840
- ISBN
- 9780231125840
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.30€ 90.47
€ 118.30
€ 90.47
Hardback. The Japanese invasion of Shanghai in 1937 led 30 million Chinese to flee their homes in terror, and live--in the words of artist and writer Feng Zikai--"in a sea of bitterness" as refugees. Keith Schoppa paints a comprehensive picture of the refugee experience in one province, Zhejiang, where the Japanese launched notorious campaigns. Num Pages: 360 pages, 12 maps, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; 3JJG; HBJF; HBLW; HBTD; JFFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 242 x 27. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674059887
- ISBN
- 9780674059887
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 42.02
€ 49.99
€ 42.02
Hardback. Editor(s): Pisseleu, Maxime. Num Pages: 56 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 6. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781629485645
- ISBN
- 9781629485645
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.80€ 58.39
€ 82.80
€ 58.39
Paperback. Translator(s): Fujieda, Eri; Fujieda, Hamazari. Num Pages: 221 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JP; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Monthly Review Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780853458593
- ISBN
- 9780853458593
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.48
€ 16.99
€ 15.48
Paperback. "Unflinchingly illustrates the reality of life during this extraordinary moment in American history."-Dinitia Smith, The New York Times Editor(s): Gordon, Linda; Okihiro, Gary Y. Num Pages: 224 pages, 104 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJH; AJCR; HBJK; HBWQ; JWXR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 179 x 14. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393330908
- ISBN
- 9780393330908
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.60
€ 20.99
€ 19.60
Paperback. In Impossible Citizens, Neha Vora draws on her ethnographic research in Dubai's Indian-dominated downtown to explore how Indians live suspended in a state of permanent temporariness. Num Pages: 264 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBXU; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822353935
- ISBN
- 9780822353935
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.51
€ 30.99
€ 27.51
paperback. This study, extending well beyond military history, documents the ways in which five different countries - Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, China, and Japan - refashioned their armed forces along European lines during the three centuries after 1600. Num Pages: 212 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1DVUA; 1FPC; 1FPJ; 1HBE; 3J; HBJD; HBJF; HBJH; HBLH; HBLL; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226703190
- ISBN
- 9780226703190
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.77
€ 37.99
€ 29.77
Paperback. In 1987, the Japanese government inaugurated the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) program in response to global pressure to 'internationalize' its society. This book explores the cultural and political dynamics of internationalization in Japan. It is suitable for policy analysts, students of Japan, and prospective and former JET participants. Num Pages: 346 pages, 15 line illustrations, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JHMC; JNA; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First
- Number of pages
- 346
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520216365
- ISBN
- 9780520216365
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.39
€ 38.99
€ 28.39
Hardcover. Editor(s): Gallagher, Denise M. Num Pages: 102 pages, tables & charts. BIC Classification: 1FKA; RBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 147 x 14. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 102
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611228441
- ISBN
- 9781611228441
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.22€ 94.92
€ 137.22
€ 94.92