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Hardcover. Why do some Arab Spring uprisings led to reforms and others to revolutions? This study looks at the relative success of the move to democracy in these four Middle Eastern countries, comparing the secular leaders of Tunisia and Egypt, and their desire for revolution, with the monarchs of Morocco and Jordan, and their priority of reform. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 472.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748692712
ISBN
9780748692712
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.91
€ 100.65

Paperback. Haiming Liu presents a transnational history of a Chinese family from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. It makes it clear that, for many Chinese American families, migration does not mean a break from the past but the beginning of a life that incorporates and transcends dual national boundaries. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JFFN; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813535975
ISBN
9780813535975
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 44.59

Paperback. A collection of essays that illustrates how transnational ties between the US and Asia have shaped, and are increasingly defining, Asian American politics in our multicultural society. It shows how the grassroots activism of America's newest minority both reflects and is instrumental in broader processes of political change throughout the Pacific. Editor(s): Collet, Christian; Lien, Pei-te. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 252 pages, 9 Tables, 7 Figures, 2 Halftones. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; JFFN; JFSL3; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592138616
ISBN
9781592138616
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.63

Hardback. For centuries, readers of Tao Qian have felt directly addressed by his poetic voice. This book revisits Tao's approach to his readers by attempting to situate it within the particular poetics of address that characterized the Six Dynasties classicist tradition. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 275 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSB; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 652.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674053212
ISBN
9780674053212
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 37.06

Paperback. Num Pages: 149 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1F; KCL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The Peterson Institute for International Economics
Condition
New
SKU
V9780881326642
ISBN
9780881326642
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.20

Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKP; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 143 x 24. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Bhatkal & Sen India
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9788185604602
ISBN
9788185604602
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 37.41

Paperback. The author was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kublai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. This book offers a fascinating glimpse of what he encountered abroad: unfamiliar religions, customs and societies. Translator(s): Cliff, Nigel. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 3H; BTH; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241253052
ISBN
9780241253052
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.70

Hardback. Marco Polo voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kublai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. This translation gives an account of his travels and offers a glimpse of what he encountered abroad: unfamiliar religions, customs and societies; the spices and silks of the East; and wild beasts of faraway. Translator(s): Cliff, Nigel. Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics. Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; BTH; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 132 x 32. Weight in Grams: 592.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
9780141198774
ISBN
9780141198774
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 22.99
€ 14.56

Paperback. Offers an account of life in late eighteenth-century India. This book presents an Indian's view of the British conquest of India and conveys the vital role taken by Indians in the colonial process, especially as they negotiated relations with Britons both in the colonial periphery and the imperial metropole. Num Pages: 214 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBR; 1FKA; 3JF; BG; DNF; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520207172
ISBN
9780520207172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.31

Paperback. Ostensibly written by an English knight, the Travels purport to relate his experiences in the Holy Land, Egypt, India and China. Mandeville claims to have served in the Great Khan's army, and to have travelled in the lands beyond' countries populated by dog-headed men, cannibals, Amazons and Pygmies. Translator(s): Moseley, C. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141441436
ISBN
9780141441436
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.94

Paperback. Num Pages: 488 pages, 11 maps, 39 colour & 185 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1FM; HBJF; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 540.
Publisher
Impact Publications United States
Number of pages
488
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9781570232039
ISBN
9781570232039
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 20.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, notes, texts translated, index. BIC Classification: 1F; HRAX; HRQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 434.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300022919
ISBN
9780300022919
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.68

hardcover. The latest, probing look at the 1905 Portsmouth Peace Treaty, the last peace agreement between Japan and Russia Editor(s): Ericson, Steven; Hockley, Allen. Num Pages: 268 pages, 4 illus. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1FPJ; 3JJC; GTJ; HBW; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584657224
ISBN
9781584657224
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.29

Paperback. A body is found on a remote Philippines beach and Maximo Bonga - cantankerous World War Two veteran and owner of the weirdest guesthouse in town - is the perfect fall guy. But one of Maximo's boarders sets out to defend the old soldier in a kangaroo court set up at the local cockpit. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMP; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
Octopus Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849537230
ISBN
9781849537230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.81

Paperback. "A Navy SEAL's highly-charged account of his combat missions in Iraq and his miraculous recovery from wounds that might have killed him--if it were not for his grit and the devotion of his wife and family"--Provided by publisher. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; HBWS5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 203 x 25. Weight in Grams: 326.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062208323
ISBN
9780062208323
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.27

Paperback. This final volume to Patricia E. Roy's pivotal trilogy exploring racial discrimination against Chinese- and Japanese-Canadians examines the removal of all Japanese-Canadians from the BC coast during WWII, while Chinese-Canadians gained the right to vote in 1947. Num Pages: 400 pages, 21 b/w photos, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBC; GTB; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774813815
ISBN
9780774813815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 40.03

Paperback. Examines Israel's shift to the right at the hands of Menachem Begin, the supposed 'disciple' of Vladimir Jabotinsky. This book challenges the conventional wisdom that Begin was the natural heir to Jabotinsky. It demonstrates how Israel drifted away from Jabotinsky's ideas towards a maximalist Zionism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; JPFN; JW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848850248
ISBN
9781848850248
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.30

Paperback. Explores the contested history of art and nationalism in the tumultuous last decades of British rule in India. With a fascinating array of art works, this book throws much light on a previously neglected strand of modern art and introduces the work of artists who are little known in Europe or America. Num Pages: 256 pages, 40 black & white illustrations, 107 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJG; 3JJH; ACBK; ACXD2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 247 x 193 x 19. Weight in Grams: 644.
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861893185
ISBN
9781861893185
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.70

Paperback. Considers the European representation and understanding of landscape and nature in early nineteenth-century India. This book draws on travel narratives, literary texts, and scientific literature to show the diversity of European responses to the Indian environment and the ways in which these contributed to the wider colonizing process. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; GTB; RGC; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295993836
ISBN
9780295993836
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.51

Paperback. An ethnography of lawyer-free family courts and mediations of rape and domestic violence charges in India, in which, the author depicts everyday life in legal sites of marital trouble, reevaluating feminist theories of law, marriage, violence, property, and the state. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 scattered b&w. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFK; JFSJ1; JHBK; LNMB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520282452
ISBN
9780520282452
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.42

Paperback. The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire - a millennium and a half in the making - was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. This title explores what happened to China between these two dramatic invasions. Series: History of Imperial China. Num Pages: 336 pages, 18 halftones, 7 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3H; 3JB; 3JD; HBJF; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 394.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674072534
ISBN
9780674072534
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 25.26

Hardcover. The US, China, and Japan form a 'troubled triangle,' with each country negotiating its foreign policy toward the other two in response to economic and security pressures that operate as an interrelated duality. Written by international relations experts, this book examines how the three countries respond to this set of pressures and to each other. Editor(s): Inoguchi, Takashi; Ikenberry, G. John. Series: Asia Today. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JM; JPS; KCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 25. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137321992
ISBN
9781137321992
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.55

Paperback. A biography of the celebrated Chinese writer of the 20th century, Lu Xun. It seeks to set aside all the propaganda that has accrued over the decades since his death, and present him as a credible human being, neither aggrandized nor belittled. Brief sketches of Lu Xun's work are appended. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JJ; BG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The Chinese University Press Hong Kong
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9789629960605
ISBN
9789629960605
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.85

Paperback. 132pp
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Australia and New Zealand Book Co
Publication date
1975
SKU
KHS1005713
ISBN
9780855520342
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

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