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Hardcover. Presents diaries and correspondence left by members of the tokkotai and other Japanese student soldiers who perished during the World War II. Outside of Japan, these kamikaze pilots were considered unbridled fanatics who willingly sacrificed their lives for the emperor. This book explores writings, which speak otherwise. Num Pages: 232 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJH; BTM; HBJF; HBWQ; JWG; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 181 x 25. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226619507
ISBN
9780226619507
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.05
€ 45.08

Paperback. Presents diaries and correspondence left by kamikaze pilots and other Japanese student soldiers who perished during the war. These kamikaze pilots were considered unbridled fanatics who willingly sacrificed their lives for the emperor. This work is useful for those interested in the history of Japan and World War II. Num Pages: 246 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJH; BTM; HBJF; HBWQ; JWG; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226619514
ISBN
9780226619514
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.22

Paperback. Why did almost 1000 highly educated "student soldiers" volunteer to serve in Japan's kamikaze operations at the end of World War II, even though Japan was losing the war? This study of the role of the state in pushing imperial ideology shows the power of symbolic communication. Num Pages: 376 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJH; HBJF; HBWQ; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 582.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226620916
ISBN
9780226620916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.83

Paperback. Num Pages: 512 pages, 2 x 8pp B&W plates. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; BGL; DSBF; DSG; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408863169
ISBN
9781408863169
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.30

Hardcover. Focusing on Japan's Kwantung Leasehold and Railway Zone in China's northeastern provinces, Emer O'Dwyer traces the history of Japan's prewar Manchurian empire over four decades to show how South Manchuria was naturalized as a Japanese space and how this process contributed to the success of the Japanese army's early 1930s takeover of Manchuria. Num Pages: 526 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 238 x 41. Weight in Grams: 864.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674504332
ISBN
9780674504332
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.09
€ 54.57

Hardback. The first publication in book form of the historic postrevolution conversations between activist playwright and Czech president Vaclav Havel and Polish journalist Adam Michnik Translator(s): Matynia, Elzbieta. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3JJPR; 3JM; JPA; JPB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300204032
ISBN
9780300204032
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.42
€ 43.33

Hardback. .
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691091945
ISBN
9780691091945
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 197.56
€ 148.48

Hardback. This sourcebook is designed for undergraduate students taking survey courses in the modern period. The primary sources illuminate and extend the reader's understanding of the themes at the heart of Britain's transformation over the course of the last three centuries. Editor(s): Wasson, Ellis. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 662.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444333718
ISBN
9781444333718
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.29

Paperback. This sourcebook is designed for undergraduate students taking survey courses in the modern period. The primary sources illuminate and extend the reader's understanding of the themes at the heart of Britain's transformation over the course of the last three centuries. Editor(s): Wasson, Ellis. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 175 x 242 x 16. Weight in Grams: 514.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444333725
ISBN
9781444333725
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.71

Paperback. Now available in a fully-revised and updated second edition, A History of Modern Britain: 1714 to the Present provides a comprehensive survey of the social, political, economic and cultural history of Great Britain from the Hanoverian succession to the present day. Num Pages: 464 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170. .
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118869017
ISBN
9781118869017
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 40.93

Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 30. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3; JFD; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 624.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801437489
ISBN
9780801437489
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.79

Paperback. * Contains up-to-date coverage of key theorists in sociology, social theory, philosophy, cultural studies, feminism, psychoanalysis and philosophy. * Theorists covered include Benjamin, Elias, Goffman, Lacan, Said, Jameson, Heidegger, Giddens, Bauman, Williams, and many others. Editor(s): Elliott, Anthony; Ray, Larry. Num Pages: 336 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HPS; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 258 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631219729
ISBN
9780631219729
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.72

Hardcover. Confessions of the Shtetl explores Jewish conversions to a variety of Christian confessions in the Russian empire, with special attention to the relations of trust and attraction between Jews and Christians that facilitated religious conversions in the provincial heartland of Jewish Eastern Europe. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD; HBTB; HRJP; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804798280
ISBN
9780804798280
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.27

Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 32 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMB; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJF; HBLW3; HBLX; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 518.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231173285
ISBN
9780231173285
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.15
€ 46.46

hardcover. This is the story of how the women's movement in China took advantage of the government's official efforts to position women in the rural economic reforms of the 1980s to achieve a significant and ever-increasing role in China's developing turn toward a market economy, which was not the state's intent. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; JFFK; JHMC; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804744058
ISBN
9780804744058
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.47

Paperback. This book explores the link between the everyday relations of gender and the reform of the rural political economy in the 1980's, and argues that the reconstitution of the Chinese state in the reform era draws force and authority from the inherent politics and power of gender. Editor(s): Judd, Ellen R. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPN; JFFK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Reissue
SKU
V9780804726986
ISBN
9780804726986
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.36

Paperback. This is the story of how the women's movement in China took advantage of the government's official efforts to position women in the rural economic reforms of the 1980s to achieve a significant and ever-increasing role in China's developing turn toward a market economy, which was not the state's intent. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; JFFK; JHMC; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 316. 208 pages, 1 map. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; JFFK; JHMC; KCP. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804744065
ISBN
9780804744065
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Paperback. After El Salvador's brutal civil war ended in 1992, crime rates shot up. People began to speak of the peace as "worse than the war." This study examines how narratives of post-conflict violence, told by ordinary people, offered ways of coping with uncertainty during a stunted transition to democracy. Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence Series. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCS; 3JJPR; 3JM; JPH; JPVR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812222357
ISBN
9780812222357
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.17

Paperback. Though they are almost completely absent from the historical record, Palestinian women were extensively involved in the unfolding national struggle in their country during the British mandate period. This history studies the development of the Palestine women's movement between 1920 and 1948. Num Pages: 350 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st PAPERBACK
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520237902
ISBN
9780520237902
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 30.14

Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 3, 1 black & white line drawings, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; 1KLSB; 3JJ; JFCV; KNAC; KNDF; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 602.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421420301
ISBN
9781421420301
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 26.31

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