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Advice for Callow Jurists and Gullible Mendicants on Befriending Emirs
Abd Al-Wahhab Ibn Ahmad Ibn Ali Al-Sha'Rani
This mirror for princes sheds light on the relationship between spiritual and political authority in early modern Egypt Translator(s): Sabra, Adam. Series: World Thought in Translation. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3H; HBJF1; HBLC1; HRAM2; HRHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300198652
- ISBN
- 9780300198652
Condition: New
€ 58.73€ 46.87
€ 58.73
€ 46.87
Offers a look at Asia from 700 to 1500 AD, a time when Asia was the world, by describing the personal journeys of Asia's many travellers - the merchants who traded spices along the Silk Road, the apothecaries who exchanged medicine and knowledge from China to the Middle East, and the philosophers and holy men who crossed continents to explore. Num Pages: 288 pages, 35 pages of b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 3F; 3H; HBJF; HBLC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 622.
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300126365
- ISBN
- 9780300126365
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
- Publisher
- United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253007230
- ISBN
- 9780253007230
Condition: New
€ 38.82
€ 38.82
Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFS; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 32. Weight in Grams: 720.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231148009
- ISBN
- 9780231148009
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.68
€ 26.99
€ 20.68
Exhibitions of Chinese artifacts were a rare occurrence when the Chinese controlled their own representations in America. This title demonstrates that exhibitions of Chinese artifacts held great popular appeal. Series: Gutenberg-E. Num Pages: 348 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231130943
- ISBN
- 9780231130943
Condition: New
€ 79.87€ 62.72
€ 79.87
€ 62.72
Partners and Rivals, the latest book from acclaimed economist Wendy Dobson, examines the central role that China and the United States will play on the global stage in the next half-century. Series: Rotman-UTP Publishing. Num Pages: 208 pages, 6 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JPS; KCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 19. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442647527
- ISBN
- 9781442647527
Condition: New
€ 43.85
€ 43.85
Engaging China is a concise account of the evolution and state of the Canadian approach to China, its achievements, disappointments, and current dilemmas. Series: UTP Insights. Num Pages: 144 pages, 5 graphs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBC; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442646551
- ISBN
- 9781442646551
Condition: New
€ 51.47
€ 51.47
Traces the development of feminist consciousness in Japan from 1871 to 1941. This book uncovers some histories as it examines how middle-class women navigated between domestic and international influences to form ideologies and strategies for reform. Num Pages: 222 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJ; JFFK; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439910382
- ISBN
- 9781439910382
Condition: New
€ 71.97
€ 71.97
stationery. Indonesian Notebook contains myriad documents by Indonesian writers, intellectuals, and reporters that provide the largely absent Indonesian perspectives of the 1955 Bandung Conference and of Richard Wright's activities there, adding new depths to the understandings of the conference. It also includes a newly discovered lecture by Wright. Editor(s): Roberts, Brian Russell; Foulcher, Keith. Num Pages: 286 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1H; GTJ; HBTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360513
- ISBN
- 9780822360513
Condition: New
€ 111.46
€ 111.46
Explores the dialectic of cynicism and hope and the role of human rights in the production of rule in the occupied Palestinian territories. Series: Stanford Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBP; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804784702
- ISBN
- 9780804784702
Condition: New
€ 129.03
€ 129.03
Num Pages: 240 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JFSG; JFSL3; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 232 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801452826
- ISBN
- 9780801452826
Condition: New
€ 140.48
€ 140.48
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
Condition: New
€ 107.41
€ 107.41
Accounts of China's global rise emphasize economics and politics, largely neglecting the cultivation of China's people. This title by focusing on the decade since 2000, and especially 2004 - 09, argues that the vital politics of population has been central to the globalizing agenda of the reform state. Series: The Edwin O.Reischauer Lectures. Num Pages: 156 pages, 1 halftone, 5 line illustrations, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JHBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 245 x 20. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 156
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674055711
- ISBN
- 9780674055711
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.39
€ 47.99
€ 40.39
Examines the criminal justice system in modern China, an institution deeply rooted in politics, society, and culture. This book also reveals the broad contours of criminal justice from late imperial China to the Deng reform era and details the underlying values, successes and failures, and ultimate human costs of the system. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBTB; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 163 x 31. Weight in Grams: 732.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674033238
- ISBN
- 9780674033238
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.39
€ 47.99
€ 40.39
Argues that the Chinese Revolution of 1911 engendered a new political life - one that began to free men and women from the inequality and hierarchy that formed the spine of China's social and cultural order. This title demonstrates how a sea change in political performance left leaders dependent on popular support. Num Pages: 408 pages, 11 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLW; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 162 x 31. Weight in Grams: 686.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520267367
- ISBN
- 9780520267367
Condition: New
€ 83.39€ 65.22
€ 83.39
€ 65.22
- Publisher
- United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253220042
- ISBN
- 9780253220042
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.61
€ 17.99
€ 17.61
From yellow-face performance in the 19th century to Jackie Chan in the 21st, this book examines articles of clothing and modes of adornment as a window on how American views of China have changed in the past 150 years. It provides a cultural history of three iconic objects in theatrical and cinematic performance. Num Pages: 316 pages, 35 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFCK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253012470
- ISBN
- 9780253012470
Condition: New
€ 92.36
€ 92.36
Reveals the historical links between these two world regions, describes the emergence of South-South solidarities, and offers methodologies for the study of transnationalism, global culture, and international relations. Editor(s): Amar, Paul. Series: Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa. Num Pages: 366 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1KLSB; GTB; HBJF1; HBJK; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 24. Weight in Grams: 645.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 366
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253012234
- ISBN
- 9780253012234
Condition: New
€ 92.36
€ 92.36
Editor(s): Donner, Henrike. Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, 4 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSC; JHB; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 163 x 241 x 18. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415671675
- ISBN
- 9780415671675
Condition: New
€ 187.92
€ 187.92
The spread of Islam across maritime Southeast Asia was one of the great transformations that shaped today's world. Links with the Middle East were crucial, but ties with the Ottoman empire have received little attention from historians. This book uses original archival research to focus on the relationship, from the 16th century to the present day. Editor(s): Peacock, Andrew; Gallop, Annabel Teh. Series: Proceedings of the British Academy. Num Pages: 300 pages, 22 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1QDT; HBJF; JFSR2; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 164 x 23. Weight in Grams: 816.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780197265819
- ISBN
- 9780197265819
Condition: New
€ 117.83
€ 117.83
Series: UCLA Center for Middle East Development (CMED) Series. Num Pages: 398 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FBN; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 242 x 29. Weight in Grams: 758.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 398
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138813106
- ISBN
- 9781138813106
Condition: New
€ 187.52
€ 187.52
Paperback. The first part of this book examines domestic developments and their influence on Iran's policy and posture. The second explores Iran's regional ambitions and politics. Num Pages: 372 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBN; JPH; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 234 x 20. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714681214
- ISBN
- 9780714681214
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.95
€ 71.95
paperback. This is the first book to examine war and violence in Sri Lanka through the lens of cross-cultural studies on just-war tradition and theory. An important contribution to the understanding of the power of religion to create both peace and war. Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKS; HRE; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 12. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700716821
- ISBN
- 9780700716821
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 74.81
€ 74.81
paperback. Num Pages: 220 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JFSL; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415546218
- ISBN
- 9780415546218
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.95
€ 71.95