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Hardcover. This is the first book to critically analyze the future of higher education systems in the four BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - and the USA, analyzing academic salaries, contracts and working conditions and how national policy will affect the academic profession in each context. Editor(s): Altbach, Philip G.; Reisberg, Liz; Yudkevich, Maria; Androushchak, Gregory; Kuzminov, Yaroslav. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1FKA; 1FPC; 1KBB; 1KLSB; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230369788
ISBN
9780230369788
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.07

Hardcover. A widely respected legal scholar, Islamist activist, and renowned host of al-Jazeera's most popular religious program, "Sharia and Life", Yusuf al-Qaradawi is a controversial figure of contemporary Islamism. This book contains essays that initiate readers into his immensely influential speeches and thought. Editor(s): Graf, Bettina; Skovgaard-Petersen, Jakob. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 145 x 24. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781850659303
ISBN
9781850659303
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.27

paperback. 'A 'Must' read for anyone interested in the debate about globalization and its discontents.' Joseph H.H. Weiler, Jean Monnet Professor of Law, NYU School of Law Num Pages: 424 pages, 45 figures/10 tables. BIC Classification: 1FBH; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745316758
ISBN
9780745316758
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 28.16

Hardcover. Engaging with feminist focussed studies of development, this edited collection places the household at the centre of understandings of the gendered nature of economic development in Asia. Editor(s): Elias, Juanita; Gunawardana, Samanthi J. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; GTF; JHBK; KCM; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137338891
ISBN
9781137338891
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.30

Hardcover. In this volume, some of the leading scholars on China's development examine China's responses to the global financial crisis and their implications for China's economy, society, and the international balances of power. Editor(s): Yang, Dali L. Series: China in Transformation. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230340855
ISBN
9780230340855
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.74

Hardcover. The Global Rise of Asian Transformation provides insights into the complex process of macro-political and economic dynamics reshaping the current business landscape in Asia. Editor(s): Hoontrakul, Pongsak; Balding, Christopher; Marwah, Reena. Num Pages: 271 pages, 31 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; KCG; KJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137412355
ISBN
9781137412355
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.38

Hardcover. This book sets out to unravel and explain the puzzle of the global rise of China: how, in just forty years, China has been quickly transformed from a poor, backward third-world country to one of the world s core economic powerhouses. Series: China Today. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JM; GTF; JP; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 536.
Publisher
Polity
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745664736
ISBN
9780745664736
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.05

Paperback. This book sets out to unravel and explain the puzzle of the global rise of China: how, in just forty years, China has been quickly transformed from a poor, backward third-world country to one of the world s core economic powerhouses. Series: China Today. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JM; GTF; JP; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 149 x 26. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publisher
Polity
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745664743
ISBN
9780745664743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.95

hardcover. The Global Silicon Valley Home takes a close look at how participants in the jet-set, wired-to-the-Net, trans-Pacific commuter culture have invented new ways of thinking about how their homes reflect their personal identities. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 tables, 9 figures, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; 1KBB; JFC; JFSL; JHBL; KNDH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804752152
ISBN
9780804752152
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.56

Hardback. This book examines the global and regional operations of Chinese business firms and considers their implications for the management and organization of these firms, aided by specific case studies. Editor(s): Yeung, Henry Wai-Chung; etc.; Olds, Kristopher (Lecturer, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore). Num Pages: 340 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFS; KJK; KJM; KJV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 586.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333716298
ISBN
9780333716298
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 181.68

Hardcover. This book provides a framework for understanding the global flows of cuisine both into and out of Asia and describes the development of transnational culinary fields connecting Asia to the broader world. Individual chapters provide historical and ethnographic accounts of the people, places, and activities involved in Asia's culinary globalization. Editor(s): Farrer, James. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; JFCV; JFFS; WBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137522283
ISBN
9781137522283
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.13

Hardcover. This book investigates the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party's crucial goal of using the propaganda system to consolidate its power within the domestic political environment and its prominent recent attempts to use propaganda overseas to increase China's international power. Series: Asia Today. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPS; JPVN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137382146
ISBN
9781137382146
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.97

Hardcover. The Glubb Reports studies papers written by General Sir John Glubb, the long-serving British commander of the Jordanian Arab Legion. It covers issues such as the role of tribes and desert control, the impact of Palestine, the Arab Legion's role in the first Arab-Israeli war, the expansion of the Arab Legion, and Glubb's dismissal in 1956. Series: Britain and the World. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBJF1; HBLW; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137380104
ISBN
9781137380104
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.26

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 30 Full-Colour Photos. BIC Classification: 1F; WBHS; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Celestial Arts
Edition
Original
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781587611353
ISBN
9781587611353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 18.29

Hardback. Drawing on a range of memoirs, art, poetry, and contemporary records, this title reconstructs their experience of captivity, return, and encounter with a postwar Japan that now seemed as alien as it had once been familiar. Num Pages: 256 pages, 14 b/w photographs, 3 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
295
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520276154
ISBN
9780520276154
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.00
€ 49.90

Paperback. Series: Collins Big Cat. Num Pages: 56 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; YNM; YQH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008208950
ISBN
9780008208950
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.79

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 16 b/w sketches. BIC Classification: 1FMM; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 191 x 25. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Monsoon Books Singapore
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9789810844844
ISBN
9789810844844
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.66

Hardback. This book is a full translation of the Gongyang Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals, a history of the Chinese state of Lu from 722 to 481 BCE, annotated so as to highlight the moral philosophy of its supposed writer, Confucius. Editor(s): Miller, Harrison; Miller, Harry. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3D; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 29. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Tra
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137497635
ISBN
9781137497635
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 170.96

Paperback. When the author finds a photo among her father's possessions shortly after his death, she recognises the child in the veil and bride's clothes as her mother, but the groom is unfamiliar. Who had her mother married all those years before? This title presents the story of the insufferable mother-daughter bond. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBN; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099525486
ISBN
9780099525486
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.65

Paperback. A unique and gripping document: the recently discovered diaries which reveal the story of an elderly German who saved so many lives he became known as the 'Oskar Schindler of China' Num Pages: 416 pages, Integrated: 35, integrated. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJG; BGA; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349111414
ISBN
9780349111414
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.33

Paperback. The Good War tackles the issue of NATO in Afghanistan, exploring NATO's evolution in the 1990s and blending NATO's transformation from a reactive defense organization into a pro-active risk manager with the ethic of liberalism. It raises questions such as why an alliance built upon the territorial defence of Europe ended up in Afghanistan. Num Pages: 192 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1FCA; JPSL; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 11. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
2011th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230294288
ISBN
9780230294288
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.54

Hardcover. The Good War tackles the issue of NATO in Afghanistan, exploring NATO's evolution in the 1990s and blending NATO's transformation from a reactive defense organization into a pro-active risk manager with the ethic of liberalism. It raises questions such as why an alliance built upon the territorial defence of Europe ended up in Afghanistan. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FCA; JPSL; JWK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 429.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230294271
ISBN
9780230294271
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.39

Paperback. In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph, a 'good war' in comparison to the debacle in Iraq. This book explores the intentions and hubris that caused the West's strategy in Afghanistan to flounder, refuting the long-held notion that the war could have been won with more troops and cash. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 3JM; HBJF; HBLX; HBWS4; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 36. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099578772
ISBN
9780099578772
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.41

paperback. Talks about love, about how, despite cruelty, despite politics, the female urge to nurture and cherish remains. This work features women who are strong, strikingly resourceful characters and who offer unforgettable insights into Chinese women's lives. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 40. Weight in Grams: 174.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099440789
ISBN
9780099440789
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.14

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