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paperback. Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it, then, that today the former British colonial trading post is a thriving Asian metropolis with not only the world's number one airline, but also the world's fourth-highest per capita real income? This title is the story of that transformation. Num Pages: 768 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FMS; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 38. Weight in Grams: 828.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harper Business New York
Condition
New
SKU
9780060957513
ISBN
9780060957513
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.45

Paperback. Paints seven scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupation, 1932 to 1945. This title presents a memory of family and a vivid portrayal of life in a time of anguish. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1FPK; 3JJH; BGHA; HBJF; HBLW; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 143 x 15. Weight in Grams: 266.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
40 Anv
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520268128
ISBN
9780520268128
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.49

Paperback. The Aravind Eye Care System, based in India, is the world's largest provider of high-quality eye care. This book explores Aravind's history and the distinctive philosophies, practices, and commitments that are the keys to its success. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; KJVX; MBP; MJR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 217 x 24. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781605099798
ISBN
9781605099798
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 22.60

Hardcover. Muhammad b. Hatim's chronicle is the fullest historical source on Yemen for the period it covers, from the conquest of Yemen by Saladin's brother Turanshah to when the Rasulids, who had come to the country as followers of the Ayyubids, had replaced their old masters as its rulers. Editor(s): Smith, G.R. Series: New. Num Pages: 786 pages, and 188pp. BIC Classification: 1FBXY; 3H; DNF; HBJF1; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 276 x 174 x 61. Weight in Grams: 1900.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1974
Publisher
Gibb Memorial Trust United Kingdom
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
786
Condition
New
SKU
V9780906094297
ISBN
9780906094297
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.54
€ 145.91

Paperback. One day Greg Mortenson set out to climb K2 - the world's second highest mountain - in honour of his younger sister, but when another member of his group fell ill, they turned around and Greg became lost in the mountains of Pakistan. He wandered into a poor village, where the chief and his people took him in. Num Pages: 240 pages, full colour photographs. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 1FKP; BM; JKSN1; JNL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Penguin Random House Children´s UK
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141329000
ISBN
9780141329000
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.50

Hardback. Based on more than two decades of research conducted on five continents, this work focuses on the activities of members of the Society of Jesus from its foundation to the eve of its expulsion from the Portuguese world. Num Pages: 748 pages, 23 half-tones 10 maps. BIC Classification: 1DSP; 1FKA; 1FPC; 1FPJ; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; HBTB; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 6466 x 4531 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
748
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804722711
ISBN
9780804722711
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.73

Paperback. Tales of adventure and courage among the peoples of Eastern Siberia Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FCS; 3JH; CF; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 133 x 108 x 23. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
International Polar Institute Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint of 1918 ed.
SKU
V9780982170342
ISBN
9780982170342
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.02

Paperback. Describes the T-72, the first high-quality Soviet main battle tank which provided the backbone of the Warsaw Pact armies and also equipped Saddam Hussein's Republican Guards. A detailed double page full cutaway is included. Illustrator(s): Sarson, Peter. Series: Osprey New Vanguard S. Num Pages: 48 pages, 48ill.(8col.). BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1FBQ; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; JWD; JWM; TTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 167 x 4. Weight in Grams: 166.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Osprey Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
48
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855323384
ISBN
9781855323384
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.24

Paperback. Charting the spectacular rise of a society which leapt in little more than a generation from late feudal to early industrial forms of organisation, this history of modern Japan examines the violent 1930s, an Empire won and lost, and the economic miracle. Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
318
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415851527
ISBN
9780415851527
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.21

Paperback. Traces Japanese historical development from the first evidence of human habitation in the archipelago to the consolidation of political power under the Tokugawa shogunate at the beginning of the seventeenth century. This book views its subject from the perspective of developments that impacted all social classes rather than the privileged few. Num Pages: 264 pages, 29 illustrations, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBLC; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780824833794
ISBN
9780824833794
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.09

Hardcover. In Japanese Landscapes and Gardens, 1650-1950 Wybe Kuitert presents a richly illustrated survey of the gardens and the people who commissioned, created, and used them and chronicles the modernization of traditional aesthetics in the context of economic, political, and environmental transformation. Series: Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture. Num Pages: 384 pages, 140 color, 49 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3J; AMV; HBJF; WMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 254. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812244748
ISBN
9780812244748
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.67
€ 78.13

Paperback. Passage to Manhood is a groundbreaking and beautifully written ethnography that addresses the intersection of modernity, heroin use, and AIDS as they intersect in a new "rite-of-passage" among young ethnic-minority males in contemporary China. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 table, 3 figures, 3 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFH2; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804770255
ISBN
9780804770255
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.31

Hardback. In Tourist Distractions Youngmin Choe uses Korean hallyu cinema as a lens to examine the importance of tourist films and film tourism in creating transnational bonds throughout East Asia and how they help Korea negotiate its twentieth-century history with the neoliberal present. Num Pages: 264 pages, 87 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; APFA; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822361114
ISBN
9780822361114
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.16

Paperback. This history of the Chinese Civil War attempts to answer two questions: Why was the war fought? And What were the immediate and lasting results of the Communists' victory? It also shows how campaigns were mounted against changes in politics, society and culture. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPG; HBJF; HBLW3; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 226 x 2. Weight in Grams: 578.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804744843
ISBN
9780804744843
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.81

Hardcover. Editor(s): Calit, Harry S. Num Pages: 237 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMP; HBJF; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 263 x 186 x 20. Weight in Grams: 690.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590335765
ISBN
9781590335765
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.17
€ 63.81

Hardback. Series: Wiley Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; HBJF; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405179713
ISBN
9781405179713
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.81
€ 52.53

Hardback. Offers selections from the foundational texts of the Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Zen traditions. This title provides students with an introduction to the first 1200 years of this tradition. It includes general introduction and notes that provide historical, biographical, and cultural context. Editor(s): Addiss, Stephen; Lombardo, Stanley; Roitman, Judith. Num Pages: 312 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; 1FPK; HREZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872209107
ISBN
9780872209107
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.65
€ 43.22

Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; JPA; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 163 x 10. Weight in Grams: 159.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Monthly Review Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781583670934
ISBN
9781583670934
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.46

Paperback. Explores the rise and fall of Sanskrit, India's ancient language, as a vehicle of poetry and polity. Num Pages: 706 pages, 1 b/w photograph, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2BBA; DSB; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 41. Weight in Grams: 956.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
706
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520260030
ISBN
9780520260030
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 38.81

Paperback. A study of the mapping and remapping of male-male sexuality over four centuries of Japanese history. It explores the languages of medicine, law, and popular culture from the seventeenth century through the American Occupation. It opens with speculations about how an Edo translator might grapple with a twentieth-century text on homosexuality. Num Pages: 411 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBTB; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 281 x 31. Weight in Grams: 682.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
411
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520251656
ISBN
9780520251656
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.38

paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; DCF; HBJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 369.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Nightboat Books United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Edition
New
SKU
V9780984459872
ISBN
9780984459872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.62

Paperback. Examines the evolution of the modern Afghan state in the shadow of Britain's imperial presence in South Asia during the first half of the nineteenth century, and challenges the staid assumptions that the Afghans were little more than pawns in a larger Anglo-Russian imperial rivalry known as the 'Great Game'. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 280 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FCA; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230302372
ISBN
9780230302372
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.86

Paperback. China's rise has now entered a new phase, as it seeks to translate its considerable economic heft into a larger role on the world stage, challenging American supremacy. The author shows why China may struggle to unseat the West - its ambitious designs are provoking anxiety, especially in Asia, while America's global alliances have deep roots. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JM; HBJF; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 16. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
PENGUIN BOOKS
Condition
New
SKU
V9780718194628
ISBN
9780718194628
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 16.77

Paperback. A collection of 100 proven recipes from the host of PBS-TV''s "Yan Can Cook", offers updated versions of classic dishes gathered from Chinese cuisine, including step-by-step drawings and discussions of effective cooking techniques. Series: For dummies. Num Pages: 360 pages, colour and b&w illustrations, index. BIC Classification: 1FPC; WBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 184 x 21. Weight in Grams: 664.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764552472
ISBN
9780764552472
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 22.91

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