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Paperback. The midnight hour approaches in an almost-empty diner. Mari sips her coffee and reads a book, but soon her solitude is disturbed: a girl has been beaten up at the Alphaville hotel, and needs Mari's help. Meanwhile Mari's beautiful sister Eri lies in a deep, heavy sleep that is 'too perfect, too pure' to be normal; it has lasted for two months. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099506249
- ISBN
- 9780099506249
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
€ 13.99
€ 11.10
Paperback. Explores the dynamic changes now taking place in the South Korean government as a result of recent social and economic liberalization. This title traces the emergence in Korea of a post-developmental state. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780878406609
- ISBN
- 9780878406609
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 74.59
€ 74.59
paperback. Num Pages: 145 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 1KBB; HBTQ; JPHV; JPS; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 150. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Fernwood Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 145
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780850365504
- ISBN
- 9780850365504
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.61
€ 19.99
€ 18.61
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; JFC; JFSR1; JFSR2; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816621552
- ISBN
- 9780816621552
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.81
€ 36.99
€ 33.81
Paperback. Caught betwixt the Asian continent and the hegemonic power of the United States, the Philippines occupies a contested space or borderland between past and present, East and West. Balancing the memory of colonial experience with an emergent nation-making dream, this innovative book asks if a meaningful future can be envisioned. Series: Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian & Pacific Perspectives. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMP; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847698615
- ISBN
- 9780847698615
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.71
€ 67.71
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 21 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; 1KBB; 3JM; DSBH; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231174008
- ISBN
- 9780231174008
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.98
€ 40.99
€ 28.98
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 21 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1KBB; 3JM; JFCA; JFD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231174015
- ISBN
- 9780231174015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 22.43
€ 29.99
€ 22.43
Hardback. This text offers background to the Asian crisis from an economic, political and social point of view, and suggests possible scenarios which could take place in the future. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; JPS; KCB; KCP; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 469.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333777626
- ISBN
- 9780333777626
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. After the Destruction of Giant Buddha Statues in Bamiyan (Afghanistan) in 2001 Editor(s): Margottini, Claudio. Series: Natural Science in Archaeology. Num Pages: 306 pages, 55 black & white illustrations, 199 colour illustrations, 27 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1FCA; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 183 x 19. Weight in Grams: 852.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642300509
- ISBN
- 9783642300509
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.73
€ 135.73
Hardcover. The shift to the modern world in East Asia was accomplished in part via the experience of colonial rule in the late nineteenth century. Following imperial crisis in the 1930s and 1940s, independent nation states formed from which the political structure of East Asia is based today. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FP; 3JJ; HBJF; HBTB; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137345677
- ISBN
- 9781137345677
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Paperback. Considers setting and place as irreducible features of the human condition and sociocultural existence. Focusing on a range of periods in places from France to the Balkans and from Siberia to San Diego, this work concentrates on such subjects as the Lockean landscapes, 19th-century Australian and North American landscape paintings, and zoos. Num Pages: 448 pages, 15 tables, 7 figures. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1DVWYB; 1FPC; 1HFGS; 1KBB; 3JJPR; JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 33. Weight in Grams: 757.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822322665
- ISBN
- 9780822322665
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.95
€ 41.99
€ 30.95
Hardcover. Two of the most destructive moments of state violence in the 20th century occurred in Europe between 1933 and 1945 and in China between 1959 and 1961, the Great Leap famine. This is the first book to bring the two histories together in order to examine their differences and to understand if there are any similar processes of transmission at work. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1FPC; 3JJ; HBJD; HBJF; HBTB; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857450869
- ISBN
- 9780857450869
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.23
€ 164.23
paperback. In looking back on four decades of anthropology in the field, Geertz creates a personal history that is also a retrospective reflection on developments in the human sciences amid political, social, and cultural changes in the world. Series: The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FMN; 1HBM; GTF; HBJF; HBJH; HBLW; JHBC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674008724
- ISBN
- 9780674008724
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.99
€ 35.99
€ 30.99
Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKS; JFSL1; JP; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 147 x 27. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199463503
- ISBN
- 9780199463503
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.21
€ 43.21
Paperback. New findings show that the death toll from the Cambodian genocide was approximately 2.2 million about a half million higher than commonly believed. Despite regular denials from the surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge, the author demonstrates not only that they were aware of the mass killings, but that they personally managed and directed them. Series: Modern Southeast Asia Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illus., maps. BIC Classification: 1FMC; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Texas Tech University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896725805
- ISBN
- 9780896725805
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.57
€ 27.99
€ 25.57
Paperback. The legacy of the massacre of civilians at My Lai reverberates throughout Vietnam. This study considers how Vietnamese villagers in My Lai and Ha My - a village where South Korean troops committed an equally appalling massacre of unarmed civilians - assimilate the catastrophe of these mass deaths into their everyday ritual life. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 231 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FMV; JFFE; JHM; JWXK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 330. Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. 231 pages, 1 map. The legacy of the massacre of civilians at My Lai reverberates throughout Vietnam. This study considers how Vietnamese villagers in My Lai and Ha My - a village where South Korean troops committed an equally appalling massacre of unarmed civilians - assimilate the catastrophe of these mass deaths into their everyday ritual life. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FMV; JFFE; JHM; JWXK. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 16. Weight: 330.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 231
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520247970
- ISBN
- 9780520247970
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.52
€ 40.99
€ 29.52
Hardback. This book argues that a combination of property rights reform, administrative fragmentation, and technological advance has caused the post-Mao Chinese state to lose a significant degree of control over "thought work," or the management of propagandistic communications flowing into and through Chinese society. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804734615
- ISBN
- 9780804734615
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.80
€ 85.80
Hardback. Scholars have described the eighteenth century in China as a time of "state activism" and often associate the Taiping Rebellion and postbellum restoration efforts with the origins of elite activism. Seunghyun Han, however, argues that the ascendance of elite activism can be traced to the Jiaqing and Daoguang reigns in the early nineteenth century. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674737174
- ISBN
- 9780674737174
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 39.93
€ 46.99
€ 39.93
hardcover. In October 2001, the Bush administration sent Amb. James F. Dobbins, who had overseen nation-building efforts in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo, to war-torn Afghanistan to help the Afghans assemble a successor government to the Taliban. Num Pages: 192 pages, b+w photos & maps. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 3JMC; HBJF; HBLX; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc. United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597970839
- ISBN
- 9781597970839
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.60
€ 27.99
€ 25.60
Paperback. In 1980, at the age of ten, Loung Ung escaped a devastated Cambodia and flew to the US as a refugee. She and her eldest brother, with whom she escaped, left behind their three surviving siblings. This book follows the parallel lives of Loung and her closest sister, Chou, during the 15 years it took for them to be reunited. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1 x 8pp b/w. BIC Classification: 1FMC; 3JJPL; BGHA; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Thus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845963088
- ISBN
- 9781845963088
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.80
€ 14.99
€ 11.80
Paperback. McNamara, aware of the magnitude of his errors and burdened by the war's destructiveness, draws lessons from his experience with the aim of preventing wars in the future. Editor(s): Neu, Charles E. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJF; HBJK; HBWS2; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Maryland
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801863325
- ISBN
- 9780801863325
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.68
€ 30.99
€ 26.68
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 74 b&w, 13 colour photos. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; AJ; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816677498
- ISBN
- 9780816677498
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.52
€ 29.52
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691651248
- ISBN
- 9780691651248
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 196.85
€ 196.85
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Eye Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785635014
- ISBN
- 9781785635014
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76