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Sheet map, folded. Num Pages: 5 City Plans; 7 Area Maps. BIC Classification: 1FML; WTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 110 x 10. Weight in Grams: 60.
Publisher
Periplus Editions (HK) ltd.
Publication date
2013
Edition
3 Fol Map
Condition
New
SKU
V9780794607319
ISBN
9780794607319
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.85

Hardback. A revolutionary archaeological discovery--considered by some to be as momentous as the revelation of the Dead Sea Scrolls--sheds fascinating new light on one of the most important texts of ancient Chinese civilization. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GDC; GTB; HPDF; HRKN5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 498.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231118163
ISBN
9780231118163
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.64
€ 80.25

Hardcover. Building on ethnographic research in multiple locations, this book reveals the complexity of odissi as it is practiced today, at the intersection of identity, nationalism, tradition, and neoliberal economics. Series: Dance & Performance Studies. Num Pages: 292 pages, 21 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; ASD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785333682
ISBN
9781785333682
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 162.35

Paperback. Despite its centrality to the political life of India and Pakistan, the few reliable works of history that have appeared on Kashmir insist ahistorically on the existence of a unique Kashmir cultural identity. This text questions the notion of any transcendent cultural uniqueness and "Kashmiriyat". Num Pages: 300 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HRH; JFC; JFSR2; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publ
Number of pages
300
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9781850657002
ISBN
9781850657002
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.33

paperback. What makes someone willing to die, not for a nation, but for a language? In the 1950s and 1960s, southern India saw a wave of dramatic suicides in the name of the Telugu language. This title traces the colonial-era changes in knowledge and practice linked to language that lay behind these events. Series: Contemporary Indian Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, 6 b&w photos, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJPG; CFB; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253220691
ISBN
9780253220691
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.67

Hardcover. Editor(s): Sercombe, Peter; Tupas, Ruanni. Series: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FM; CFB; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403997463
ISBN
9781403997463
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.05

Hardback. Using cases from Tanzania, Nigeria, South Africa, Rwanda, India, Bangladesh and Malaysia, Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite argues that the colonial legacy is perpetuated when global languages are promoted in education. This book establishes that the use of local language in instruction achieves greater student comprehension and therefore quality of education. Series: Palgrave Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy. Num Pages: 208 pages, 6 black & white tables, 10 figures, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1F; 1H; GTF; JNAM; JNFR; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137473189
ISBN
9781137473189
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.50

Hardback. Explores in detail some aspects of the Arab-Jewish divide, which raise fundamental questions regarding the place of the Arabs and Arab language education in the Jewish State. This book aims to describe and analyze language education in the Arab society in Israel from the establishment of the state in 1948 onwards. Series: Language Policy. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBH; CFB; CJB; JNK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9781402005855
ISBN
9781402005855
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.05

Hardcover. Examining how lesbian and gay Israelis negotiate the linguistic performance of their sexualities and the constraints of Israeli national ideologies, this book broadens current understandings of the uses and effects of variation in language and details the interconnections between language use and sexual, national and political identities. Num Pages: 208 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBH; CFB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230227965
ISBN
9780230227965
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.56

Paperback. Series: The Wilder House Series in Politics, History & Culture. Num Pages: 352 pages, 5 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JHM; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801497582
ISBN
9780801497582
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 42.30

Hardback. The first critical ethnography of bilingual education in Japan. Based on fieldwork at five different schools, this examines the role of schools in the unequal distribution of bilingualism as cultural capital. It argues that schooling gives children unequal access to bilingualism thus socializing them into different futures. Series: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; CFDM; JFSC; JNU. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230506947
ISBN
9780230506947
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.64

Num Pages: 34 pages, b/w drawings. BIC Classification: 1FBH; AFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 348 x 242 x 17. Weight in Grams: 888.
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Moshe Kaufman Israel
Number of pages
34
Condition
New
SKU
V9789659060306
ISBN
9789659060306
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.08

Hardback. Tackles a set of intricate questions about the workings of impunity in India. Bringing together senior academics, civil society leaders, and fresh voices from across the subcontinent, this book offers analysis - contextual, structural, and gendered - to break new conceptual ground on the underbelly of "India Shining." Num Pages: 600 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSJ; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Zubaan India
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
SKU
V9789383074204
ISBN
9789383074204
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.91

Paperback. Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226385068
ISBN
9780226385068
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 26.09

Hardback. Landscapes and Landforms of India Editor(s): Kale, Vishwas S. Series: World Geomorphological Landscapes. Num Pages: 284 pages, 23 black & white illustrations, 186 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; RBG; RGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 286 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 912.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9789401780285
ISBN
9789401780285
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 137.34

Paperback. Series: Cornell East Asia. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornell University East Asia Series
Condition
New
SKU
V9781885445285
ISBN
9781885445285
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.67

Paperback. Challenges the heroic myths about the foundation of the State of Israel by investigating the struggle to control land and labor during the early Zionist enterprise. This title argues that it was not the imported Zionist ideas that were responsible for the character of the Israeli state. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLL; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 226 x 19. Weight in Grams: 506.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520204010
ISBN
9780520204010
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.26

Paperback. Editor(s): Tsikata, Dzodzi; Golah, Pamela. Num Pages: 300 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1F; 1H; 1KL; GTF; JFFS; JFSJ; KFFR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 26. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Merlin Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780850367034
ISBN
9780850367034
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.64

Hardcover. Rural poverty remains widespread and persistent in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. A group of leading experts critically examines the impact of land tenure reforms on poverty reduction and natural resource management in countries in Africa and Asia with highly diverse historical contexts. Editor(s): Holden, Stein; Otsuka, Keijiro; Deininger, Klaus. Num Pages: 424 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; 1H; KCM; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 28. Weight in Grams: 644.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137343802
ISBN
9781137343802
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.17

An engaging study of the rapid urbanization of a former village subsumed by the expanding city of Hanoi. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 3JJG; 3JMC; JFSG; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 476.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774826679
ISBN
9780774826679
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.41

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