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East Asia, Far East

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East Asia, Far East

Paperback. Exploring trade in Japan from a fresh angle, this study analyzes Japanese governmental and business strategies on the basis of modern economic models. Recommendations are made for the tackling of international trade conflicts regarding the cartelized Japanese system. Series: Contributions to Economics. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; KCLT; KNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
SKU
V9783790806991
ISBN
9783790806991
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 122.16

Hardcover. The world is seeing a shift in economic power from west to east. Japanese FDI differs from the American example, and this will become crucial. This book tracks trends in Japanese FDI to other Asian countries, suggests future policies, analyzes methodological aspects, and provides an overview of Japanese FDI. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; KCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230201552
ISBN
9780230201552
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.79

Hardcover. After the Chinese detonated their first nuclear test in 1964, America and India were both concerned. The CIA knew it needed to gather more information, but had few ways of achieving this. This text chronicles the effort to plant a sensing device on a Himalayan peak in order to listen in on China. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, 28 photographs, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FPC; 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJF; HBJK; HBLW3; JPSH; JWMN; WSZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700612239
ISBN
9780700612239
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.25

Paperback. In 1983, the author turned 30 and was overwhelmed by the desire to escape the confines of his life in Beijing. With his long hair, jeans and artistic friends, he was under surveillance from his work unit and the police, as Deng Xiaoping clamped down on 'Spiritual Pollution'. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 336 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; BG; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Vintage London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099283294
ISBN
9780099283294
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.37

Hardcover. The first complete overview of the most important contemporary architecture practice ever to have emerged from China Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; AMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 259 x 299 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1706.
Publisher
Phaidon Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714871967
ISBN
9780714871967
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.12

Hardback. This book presents pioneering research on China's energy economy, using a new econometric approach to assess budget constraints, technological change, energy demand and economic growth. Provides new econometric findings and derives new policy implications. Series: Lecture Notes in Energy. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; KCM; KCN; KNB; TH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 589.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Edition
2012
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9783642258862
ISBN
9783642258862
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.51

Hardback. Even though China has created an administrative structure and regulatory programmes to curb pollution, environmental quality has continued to deteriorate. This study analyzes compliance with environmental programmes involving wastewater discharge standards, fees, and permits. Num Pages: 250 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; RNH; RNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847693986
ISBN
9780847693986
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 181.34

Num Pages: 48 pages, 48 Hand Drawn Colour Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; YFJ. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 221 x 194 x 7. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
BetterLink Press Incorporated United States
Number of pages
48
Condition
New
SKU
V9781602209626
ISBN
9781602209626
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.42

Paperback. This book applauds the sacrifices of the fighting men who answered their country's call. Here, they tell their story in the informal setttings of veteran bull sessions. Num Pages: 247 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; HBJF; HBLW3; JWL; WZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Republic of Texas Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
247
Condition
New
SKU
V9781556228995
ISBN
9781556228995
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.65

Hardcover. A political and managerial brief on Chinese global power, this new book puts into a modern context the Chinese opportunities created by the West's chaotic and destructive capitalism. It examines China's attitudes towards the West, its capacity for strategic change and its plans for expanding its global influence. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 figures, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPS; KJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230234031
ISBN
9780230234031
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.55

Hardback. A comprehensive history of Republican Beijing, this text examines how the capital acquired its identity as a consummately "traditional" Chinese city. The author argues that nostalgia directed towards the living Republic city is an essential characteristic of Chinese modernity. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 403 pages, 15 b/w photographs, 10 maps, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; HBJF; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
403
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520230507
ISBN
9780520230507
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.15
€ 64.94

Hardback. At the periphery of the Chinese empire, a group of innovative entrepreneurs built companies that dominated the Chinese salt trade and created thousands of jobs in the Sichuan region. This book challenges long-held beliefs that social structure, absence of modern banking, and cultural bias against business precluded industrial development in China. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Num Pages: 432 pages, 9 halftones, 10 line drawings, 26 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; KNDF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 502 x 30. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231135962
ISBN
9780231135962
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.01
€ 73.08

Paperback. At the periphery of the Chinese empire, a group of innovative entrepreneurs built companies that dominated the Chinese salt trade and created thousands of jobs in the Sichuan region. This book challenges long-held beliefs that social structure, absence of modern banking, and cultural bias against business precluded industrial development in China. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Num Pages: 432 pages, 9 halftones, 10 line drawings, 26 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBTK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231135979
ISBN
9780231135979
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.43

Paperback. This book is a highly original study of transnationalism among immigrants from the county of Taishan, from which, until 1965, a high percentage of the Chinese in the United States originated. The author vividly depicts the continuing ties between Taishanese remaining in China and their kinsmen seeking their fortune in "Gold Mountain." Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBBWF; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; 3JJH; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804746878
ISBN
9780804746878
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.53

Paperback. Maggie Clinton traces the history and cultural politics of the fascist organizations operating under the umbrella of the Chinese Nationalist Party (GMD) in the 1920s and 1930s, showing how the GMD's rightward shift was based on a nativist discourse that emphasized Confucianism's compatibility with industrial modernism. Num Pages: 280 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JPHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822363774
ISBN
9780822363774
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 29.31

Hardback. Maggie Clinton traces the history and cultural politics of the fascist organizations operating under the umbrella of the Chinese Nationalist Party (GMD) in the 1920s and 1930s, showing how the GMD's rightward shift was based on a nativist discourse that emphasized Confucianism's compatibility with industrial modernism. Num Pages: 280 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JPHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822363620
ISBN
9780822363620
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.87

Hardcover. More than 230 full-color images by some of the world's most-renowned photographers. Num Pages: 304 pages, 247 color photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPK; AJC; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 304 x 318 x 30. Weight in Grams: 2568.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393067743
ISBN
9780393067743
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.10
€ 68.49

Paperback. Examines public attitudes to the death penalty in Japan, focusing on knowledge and trust-based attitudinal factors relating to support for, and opposition to, the death penalty. This book offers a conceptual framework in understanding the death penalty without relying on usual human rights approach. Num Pages: 235 pages, 25 black & white illustrations, 20 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFMC; JHBC; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 212 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Germany
Edition
2014th Edition
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9783658006778
ISBN
9783658006778
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.28

Paperback. H.W. 'Bill' Tilman travels from Central China, crossing Sinkiang, the Gobi and Takla Makan Deserts, before escaping to a crumbling British Empire with a crossing of the Karakoram to the new nation of Pakistan. China to Chitral is full of understatement and laconic humour, with descriptions of disastrous attempts on unclimbed mountains with Shipton. Series: H.W. Tilman - The Collected Edition. Num Pages: 184 pages, Black and white maps and photographs. BIC Classification: 1FKP; 1FPC; WSZC; WSZG; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 217 x 23. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Tilman
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909461345
ISBN
9781909461345
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.44

Hardback. This study offers a fresh perspective on the 'comfort women' debates. It argues that the system can be understood as the mechanism of the intersectional oppression of gender, race, class and colonialism, while illuminating the importance of testimonies of victim-survivors as the site where women recover and gain their voices and agencies. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJH; HBJF; HBWQ; JFFJ; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137392497
ISBN
9781137392497
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.10

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AN; HBJF; JFSJ5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295995106
ISBN
9780295995106
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.71

Hardback. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AN; AS; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 244 x 17. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403965509
ISBN
9781403965509
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.94

Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 191 x 11. Weight in Grams: 480.
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
Kodansha America, Inc United States
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781568363936
ISBN
9781568363936
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.12

paperback. This intimate and richly informative diary kept in 1910 by the young wife of a bustling merchant household in Kyoto is an engaging, unique glimpse into the lives of ordinary people in early twentieth-century Japan. Includes 53 illustrations. Num Pages: 280 pages, 11 half-tones 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJC; BGHA; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3556 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804724418
ISBN
9780804724418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

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