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Hardback. A study that offers a new view of South Korea's transformation since 1960. Focusing on three turning points-the creation of the development state in the 1960s, democratization in 1987, and the 1997 economic crisis, it shows how Korea sustained growth by resolving crises in favor of greater political and economic openness. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 250 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; KCM; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Number of pages
250
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674726741
ISBN
9780674726741
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 37.31

Hardback. What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group - rural women - at the center of the inquiry? This title explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Series: Asia Pacific Modern. Num Pages: 472 pages, 8 b/w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 163 x 36. Weight in Grams: 780. Rural Women and China's Collective Past. Series: Asia Pacific Modern. 472 pages, Illustrations, maps. What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group - rural women - at the center of the inquiry? This title explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSJ1. Dimension: 225 x 163 x 36. Weight: 780.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
472
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520267701
ISBN
9780520267701
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.07
€ 64.45

Hardback. "First published in German as Dekolonisation by Jan C. Jansen and Jeurgen Osterhammel, A Verlag C.H. Beck oHG, Meunchen 2013"--Title page verso. Translator(s): Riemer, Jeremiah. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 1H; 1KJ; 3JJ; HBTB; HBTQ; HBTV; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 282 x 29. Weight in Grams: 468.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691165219
ISBN
9780691165219
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.49

Paperback. A new and provocative reassessment of the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict Translator(s): Watzman, Haim. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; 3JJG; HBJF1; HBLW. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611688115
ISBN
9781611688115
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 26.02

Paperback. Examines state-business relations in the wake of economic liberalisation, privatisation and the 'Arab spring' Editor(s): Hertog, Steffen; Luciani, Giacomo; Valeri, Marc. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; KCP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 29. Weight in Grams: 506.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849042352
ISBN
9781849042352
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.98

Paperback. China 1900-76 has been written specifically to support AS Edexcel Units 2 and 3, and is also suitable for AQA Module 4H option D. Editor(s): Stewart, Geoff; Rees, Rosemary. Series: Heinemann Advanced History. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; 4KL; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 246 x 175 x 16. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
Heinemann Secondary Education
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780435327699
ISBN
9780435327699
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.58

Paperback. In this extended elegey for her mother, each poem written in couplets and contained within the space of sixteen lines, Mimi Khalvati takes the weather, the seasons and the passage of night and day as the ground on which she draws her emblems of human life and love. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 216 x 8. Weight in Grams: 130.
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847772589
ISBN
9781847772589
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.69

Paperback. The status of Taiwan has been one of the most complex and politically-loaded issues facing China since the end of the Cold War. This study enquires how this most important of international relations issues has developed, and how the web of US-Chinese-Taiwanese relations might disentangle itself. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 367. Fine copy
Publisher
I.B.Tauris
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KST0010466
ISBN
9781860647321
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 5.49

Paperback. The status of Taiwan has been one of the most complex and politically-loaded issues facing China since the end of the Cold War. This study enquires how this most important of international relations issues has developed, and how the web of US-Chinese-Taiwanese relations might disentangle itself. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 367. Fine copy
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
I.B.Tauris
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
SKU
KST0010465
ISBN
9781860647321
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 5.49

Paperback. In Red Legacies in China, Mao-era legacies serve as a framework to examine the cultural productions and afterlives of the communist revolution in order to understand China's continuities and transformations from socialism to postsocialism. Essays discuss arts, literature and film, language and thought, architecture, museums, and memorials. Editor(s): Li, Jie; Zhang, Enhua. Series: Harvard Contemporary China Series. Num Pages: 420 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674737181
ISBN
9780674737181
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.07

Paperback. 'Chu's smart, iconoclastic portrait dismantles seven misconceptions' [NEW STATESMEN] about modern China and offers a corrective to Western assumptions. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JP; KCY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 276.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780224749
ISBN
9781780224749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Hardback. My food memories stem way back to when I was a child where traditions and family hugely influence the way I cook. My mother introduced me to the markets and farms at a young age, exposing me to the concept of paddock to plate. "Watch and learn," mom would always say. I guess I did. Num Pages: 248 pages, Full colour. BIC Classification: 1FMS; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 268 x 25. Weight in Grams: 944.
Publisher
Landmark Books Pte.Ltd ,Singapore
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9789814189606
ISBN
9789814189606
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 23.62

paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages, col. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 358.
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804820974
ISBN
9780804820974
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.33

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Chandos Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843342175
ISBN
9781843342175
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 9.62

Paperback. This volume presents translations of a selection of the letters sent by crusaders and pilgrims from Asia Minor, Syria and Palestine. There are accounts of all the great events from the triumph of the capture of Jerusalem in 1099 to the disasters of Hattin in 1187 and the loss of Acre in 1291. Series Editor(s): Barber, Professor Malcolm; Edbury, Professor Peter W.; Hamilton, Professor Bernard; Housley, Professor Norman; Jackson, Professor Peter. Series: Crusade Texts in Translation. Num Pages: 206 pages, Includes 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1FBP; 1FBS; 3H; BJ; HBJF; HBLC1; HBWC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 398.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
206
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472413932
ISBN
9781472413932
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.77

Paperback. Originally published in 1979 as a three-volume work, this single volume paperback edition has been revised and focuses on the development of Japanese literature and literary tradition over 14 centuries. Editor(s): Sanderson, Don. Translator(s): Sanderson, Don; Bailey, Paul. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 630.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
412
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
Abridged
Condition
New
SKU
V9781873410486
ISBN
9781873410486
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.17

paperback. What does the future hold for the world's most unstable region? This title examines the changing casts of characters in this story, the future of the Taliban and international terrorism, and the political manoeuvring both within Pakistan and Afghanistan and among Western allies, offering a way forward for all countries involved. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKP; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241960073
ISBN
9780241960073
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.79

Hardcover. How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? This title explores how the British organized the process of "islanding," aiming to create a separable unit of colonial governance and trade in keeping with conceptions of ethnology, culture, and geography. Num Pages: 344 pages, 33 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKS; HBJF; HBLL; HBTM; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 672.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226038223
ISBN
9780226038223
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 42.94

Hardback. A wide-ranging analysis of whether tribes and tribal identities are becoming more rather than less pronounced in the contemporary Middle East. Editor(s): Rabi, Uzi. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JM; HBJF1; HBLX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849043458
ISBN
9781849043458
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.29
€ 53.04

Paperback. Editor(s): Saussy, Haun; Handler-Spitz, Rebecca; Lee, Pauline. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JB; HBJF; HBLH; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231166133
ISBN
9780231166133
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.61

Hardcover. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSJ; JFSK; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403960207
ISBN
9781403960207
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.80
€ 32.81

Paperback. Based on his groundbreaking reporting for Vanity Fair, journalist James Harkin's harrowing investigation into the abduction, captivity, and execution of American journalist James Foley and the fate of more than two-dozen other ISIS hostages. Num Pages: 320 pages, No pictures; possibly a map. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JMG; HBJF1; HBLX; HBTV; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349141404
ISBN
9780349141404
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Hardback. A foundation of Chinese life sciences and medicine, this title is available in an annotated English translation. Combining the views of different schools, it relies on natural law as conceptualized in "yin/yang" and Five Agents doctrines to define health and disease, and repeatedly emphasizes personal responsibility for the quality of one's life. Num Pages: 1560 pages, 2 volumes encased Book includes CD. BIC Classification: 1FPC; MBX; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 173 x 272 x 100. Weight in Grams: 2740. An Annotated Translation of Huang Di's Inner Classic - Basic Questions. Volumes of the Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen Project. 1560 pages. A foundation of Chinese life sciences and medicine, this title is available in an annotated English translation. Combining the views of different schools, it relies on natural law as conceptualized in "yin/yang" and Five Agents doctrines to define health and disease, and repeatedly emphasizes personal responsibility for the quality of one's life. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPC; MBX; MX. Dimension: 173 x 272 x 100. Weight: 2736.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
1560
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Ct. Paul U. Unschuld, General ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520266988
ISBN
9780520266988
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 202.49
€ 144.45

Paperback. Num Pages: 564 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 32. Weight in Grams: 652.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1931
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804709545
ISBN
9780804709545
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.92

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