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Paperback. Talks about gender, ethnicity, and nation in China, as seen through an ethnography of the changing cultural production of the Miao, a minority population. Series: Body, Commodity, Text. Num Pages: 384 pages, 42 b&w photographs, 1 table, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFC; JFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822324447
- ISBN
- 9780822324447
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.83
€ 41.99
€ 29.83
Hardcover. Volume X.287p tables. Original blue cover in Mylar sleeve. Spine a slightly edgeworn. Otherwise a very good clean copy. Keywords: Subjects
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- H.M.S.O
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1908
- SKU
- KEX0100894
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 80.89€ 4.99
€ 80.89
€ 4.99
Hardback. For most of East Asia, Buddhist sutras were written in classical Chinese and inaccessible to many devotees. How, then, did such devotees access these texts? The author argues that the medieval genre of 'explanatory tales' illuminates the link between human body (devotee) and sacred text (sutra). Series: Buddhisms S. Num Pages: 288 pages, 7 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3H; HBJF; HRES. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520265615
- ISBN
- 9780520265615
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.62€ 65.36
€ 83.62
€ 65.36
hardcover. Centered around an ethnographic case study of a dragon king temple, this book examines the social and political dynamics underlying the revival of popular religion in contemporary rural China. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 table, 13 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRKN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804751605
- ISBN
- 9780804751605
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.10
€ 139.10
Paperback. Centered around an ethnographic case study of a dragon king temple, this book examines the social and political dynamics underlying the revival of popular religion in contemporary rural China. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 table, 13 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HR; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804761000
- ISBN
- 9780804761000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.10
€ 33.99
€ 31.10
Paperback. "The story of Miriam Peretz' s life the story of a mother and a homeland; of love for the Land of Israel, the State of Israel, and the Jewish people; and of the victory of spirit and faith. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 220 x 30. Weight in Grams: 752.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Gefen Publishing House
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789652298355
- ISBN
- 9789652298355
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 27.84
€ 41.99
€ 27.84
Hardcover. Num Pages: 600 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; MBX; VXH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1096.
- Publisher
- Wisdom Publications,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 600
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780861714674
- ISBN
- 9780861714674
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.18€ 52.09
€ 58.18
€ 52.09
paperback. Presents a history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to the revolution of 1966. Explaining how modern Damascus is rooted in immemoriable layers of culture and tradition, this work explores the historical, artistic, social and religious inheritance of the Damascenes with anecdotes about travellers. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBS; WTL; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Anniversary
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099532293
- ISBN
- 9780099532293
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.48
€ 17.99
€ 13.48
Paperback. Series: Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications. Num Pages: 95 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1FBXS; 1QDA; HBJF1; HBLA; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 172 x 7. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 95
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772890685
- ISBN
- 9788772890685
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.55
€ 38.99
€ 28.55
paperback. Based on a comprehensive reading of eighteenth-century Chinese novels and a theoretical approach grounded in poststructuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist criticism, this title examines how such privilege functions in these novels and provides the first full account of literary representations of sexuality and gender in pre-modern China. Num Pages: 392 pages, 6 drawings. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GDC; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822315667
- ISBN
- 9780822315667
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.83
€ 41.99
€ 29.83
hardcover. Num Pages: 144 pages, 70 colour photographs and illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; WBN; WBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 232 x 22. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Publisher
- Pavilion Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910904619
- ISBN
- 9781910904619
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.77
€ 23.99
€ 17.77
Hardback. Written from a feminist perspective, this is a cultural and ideological study of modern China as seen in the writing of experimental fiction, one of the main attempts to subvert the conventions of socialist realism in contemporary Chinese literature. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 23. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724630
- ISBN
- 9780804724630
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.99
€ 144.99
Paperback. Written from a feminist perspective, this is a cultural and ideological study of modern China as seen in the writing of experimental fiction, one of the main attempts to subvert the conventions of socialist realism in contemporary Chinese literature. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 311.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724647
- ISBN
- 9780804724647
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.83
€ 32.99
€ 29.83
Paperback. An ethnographic exploration of how young South Asian Muslim immigrants living in the United States experienced and understood national belonging (or exclusion) in the years immediately following September 11, 2001. Num Pages: 352 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; 3JMC; JFFN; JFSR2; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822344094
- ISBN
- 9780822344094
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.90
€ 41.99
€ 29.90
Hardcover. Num Pages: 330 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 1KBB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 29. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- IBEX Publishers,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780936347844
- ISBN
- 9780936347844
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.01€ 57.46
€ 73.01
€ 57.46
Paperback. Presents the voices of young Americans - former soldiers who have opted out of the war - who draw their power from wrenching honesty about first hand experiences. This book provides a direct account from soldiers that turned their back on what they viewed as an immoral mission, and who refused to sacrifice themselves in the conflict in Iraq. Num Pages: 254 pages, b/w illustrations integrated. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; BGH; BTM; HBJK; HBLW3; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Blake Publishing Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KMK0007987
- ISBN
- 9781844543632
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. From England's Jerusalem to Shanghai, China, the story of one man's mission to bring the East and West into closer union. Num Pages: 336 pages, 30. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1FPC; 3JH; HBJF; HRCX7; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 245 x 35. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445661346
- ISBN
- 9781445661346
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.36
€ 26.99
€ 20.36
Paperback. In the sixteenth century, the vast and sophisticated empire of China lay almost entirely unknown to Western travellers. Confronting enormous challenges, the Italian priest Matteo Ricci and a tiny handful of learned companions gained permission to settle in the fabled Forbidden City. This title tells the story of the first Jesuit mission to China. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.), maps. (some col.). BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRCX7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 133 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571225187
- ISBN
- 9780571225187
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. Translator(s): Montgomery, James. Series: Library of Arabic Literature. Num Pages: 108 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1FB; 3F; DQ; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5334 x 3556. .
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479899890
- ISBN
- 9781479899890
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.65
€ 17.65
Mission to Tibet: The Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Account of Fath...
Fr. Ippolito Desideri S.J.
Paperback. Num Pages: 696 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, frontispiece, figures. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; 3JF; HBJF; HBLL; HRCX7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1106.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Wisdom Publications
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780861716760
- ISBN
- 9780861716760
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.86
€ 37.99
€ 34.86
Hardback. Foreign military and political advisers have long been used to modernise armies, societies and economies overseas and this book tells this story, from the late nineteenth century to the present. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 3JM; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 0. Weight in Grams: 768.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849044806
- ISBN
- 9781849044806
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.55€ 75.44
€ 76.55
€ 75.44
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195333381
- ISBN
- 9780195333381
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. In this volume, experts on East Asia focus on each of the past five decades to explain the weak predictive power of traditional IR theory as applied to the region and uncover the true forces driving change. Editor(s): Rozman, Gilbert. Series: International Relations and Comparisons in Northeast Asia. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137512918
- ISBN
- 9781137512918
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardback. An enthralling and detailed history of the Mitsubishi Zero, an aircraft that was both feared and revered during the course of its operational history at the vanguard of Japanese military engineering. Num Pages: 240 pages, 16 pages of black and white plates. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJH; HBWQ; JWG; JWMV3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781593196
- ISBN
- 9781781593196
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.28
€ 26.99
€ 20.28