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Paperback. The gripping true story of bomb disposal work that won Ivison a George Medal - and started a living nightmare.. Num Pages: 272 pages, 30. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 3JMC; BTM; HBJF1; HBWS5; JWM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Phoenix
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753828304
- ISBN
- 9780753828304
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.12
€ 13.99
€ 11.12
Paperback. Authoritative profile of the glamorous Desert Rats brigade Num Pages: 480 pages, 16pp b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 1HB; HBJD; HBLW3; HBWQ; JWH; JWTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 118 x 182 x 32. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780755312894
- ISBN
- 9780755312894
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.92
€ 15.99
€ 11.92
Paperback. Gutenberg in Shanghai demonstrates how Western technology and evolving traditional values resulted in the birth of a unique form of print capitalism whose influence on Chinese culture was far-reaching and irreversible. Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies. Num Pages: 408 pages, 40 b/w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; TDPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774810418
- ISBN
- 9780774810418
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.70
€ 40.99
€ 36.70
Paperback. The New Silk Road Diplomacy traces how China, faced with internal and external challenges to its authority following the collapse of the Soviet Union, constructed a gradualist approach to Central Asia that prioritized multilateral diplomacy. Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies Series. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JFSL3; JPA; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774816939
- ISBN
- 9780774816939
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.70
€ 40.99
€ 36.70
Paperback. Stories of homosexual love affairs between samurai men and boys and between young kabuki actors and their patrons held broad appeal in pre-modern Japanese culture. An independent popular writer, Saikaku wrote "Nanshoku Okagami" in 1687 with the intention of extending his readership. Num Pages: 384 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GJ; 3JD; FA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804718950
- ISBN
- 9780804718950
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Paperback. This study of the regulation of sexuality in the Qing dynasty explores the social context for sexual behavior criminalized by the state, showing how regulation shifted away from status to a new regime of gender that mandated a uniform standard of sexual morality and criminal liability for all people, regardless of their social status. Series: Law, Society & Culture in China. Num Pages: 440 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ; LNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804745598
- ISBN
- 9780804745598
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.10
€ 33.99
€ 31.10
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804784719
- ISBN
- 9780804784719
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Hardcover. Showcases the cotton textiles that were created and manufactured in Russia and exported to Central Asia from 1850 to 1950. An introductory essay describes the fascinating history of this influence of Middle Eastern and Western aesthetic styles. This work is illustrated with vintage photography from the turn of the 20th century. Num Pages: 208 pages, cl / bw / tt illustrations, cl200 / bw / tt200 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1FC; WFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 313 x 264 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Abrams
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810993815
- ISBN
- 9780810993815
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.51€ 41.86
€ 53.51
€ 41.86
Paperback. The Internet and social media are pervasive and transformative forces in contemporary China. The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China explores the changing relationship between China's Internet and social media and its society, politics, legal system, and foreign relations. Editor(s): DeLisle, Jacques; Goldstein, Avery; Yang, Guobin. Num Pages: 296 pages, 11 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223514
- ISBN
- 9780812223514
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Condition: New
€ 64.21€ 63.20
€ 64.21
€ 63.20
Paperback. Editor(s): Lunning, Frenchy. Series: Mechademia. Num Pages: 296 pages, 53 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AKLC; HBW; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780816667499
- ISBN
- 9780816667499
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.15
€ 23.99
€ 22.15
Paperback. Admiral Stockdale looks back at his ten years in Vietnam. Ranging in subject from methods of communication in prison to military ethics to the principles of leadership, the thirty-four selections contained in this volume are a unique record of what their author calls a "melting experience," a pressure-packed existence that forces one to grow. Num Pages: 148 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMV; BGH; HBJF; HBJK; HBWS2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 281.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Hoover Institution Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817981525
- ISBN
- 9780817981525
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.00
€ 11.99
€ 11.00
Paperback. Globalization is usually thought of as the worldwide spread of Western - particularly American - popular culture. Yet if one nation stands out in the dissemination of pop culture in East and Southeast Asia, it is Japan. This title explores how Japanese popular culture circulates in Asia. Num Pages: 288 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFCA; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822328919
- ISBN
- 9780822328919
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Paperback. This cultural history of the evolution of modern marriage practices in colonial Bengal shows that arranged marriage as it is practiced today is a modern practice from the colonial era. Num Pages: 360 pages, 42 photographs, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FKB; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822344780
- ISBN
- 9780822344780
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.98
€ 32.99
€ 29.98
Paperback. An ethnographic account of the logics and regimes of value propelling desires for transnational mobility-largely via human smuggling networks-throughout Fuzhou, China. Num Pages: 360 pages, 20 illustrations, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFN; JKVM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822348061
- ISBN
- 9780822348061
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.98
€ 32.99
€ 29.98
Paperback. Num Pages: 700 pages, 80 black and white. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBWQ; JFSR1; JWXR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1066.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 700
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780853039082
- ISBN
- 9780853039082
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.98
€ 57.98
Paperback. Offers sources vital for the reconstruction of events in the first Islamic century, covering the period which ends with the unsuccessful Arab siege of Constantinople, an event which both modern historians and Syriac chronographers see as making a decisive caesura in history. Series: Translated Texts for Historians. Num Pages: 352 pages, 4 tables, 5 maps, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FB; DNF; HBJF1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 132 x 206 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780853232384
- ISBN
- 9780853232384
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.77
€ 43.77
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857381613
- ISBN
- 9780857381613
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 275 pages, 1, maps. BIC Classification: 1FM; HBJF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780877277255
- ISBN
- 9780877277255
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.98
€ 32.99
€ 29.98
Hardback. This volume examines how the Kurdish issue has acted as both an impediment and impetus to democratization in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; JFSL; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137409980
- ISBN
- 9781137409980
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.49
€ 127.49
Paperback. A powerful and moving account of the treatment of Raif Badawi, the Saudi blogger sentenced to 1000 lashes, as well as the story of his wife and their family's struggle. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBXS; 3JJPN; BGHA; JPVH1; JPVH2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 233 x 25. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408707937
- ISBN
- 9781408707937
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.68
€ 19.99
€ 18.68