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East Asia, Far East
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East Asia, Far East
Hardcover. Scholars from three continents collaborate to create a truly global understanding of curriculum in the world's most populous country. This book discusses major topics in curriculum studies in China and shows how Chinese scholars understand their field's history, circumstances, and place in a globalized world. Editor(s): Pinar, William F. Series: International and Development Education. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 black & white tables, 1 charts. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JNA; JNKC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137384034
- ISBN
- 9781137384034
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.86€ 87.84
€ 105.86
€ 87.84
Hardcover. Today's "clash of civilizations" between the Islamic world and the West are in many ways rooted in 19th-century resistance to Western hegemony. This compellingly argued and carefully researched transnational study details the ways in which Japan served as a model for Ottomans in attaining "non-Western" modernity in a Western-dominated global order. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 372 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1FPJ; 3JJ; HBJF; HBJF1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 234 x 26. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137384591
- ISBN
- 9781137384591
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.93
€ 128.93
Hardcover. Since the late 1990s, the Japan Coast Guard (JCG) has countered a myriad of 'outlaw' threats at sea including piracy, terrorism, the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and the threat posed by 'rogue states'. Japan's innovative strategy has transformed maritime security governance in Southeast Asia and beyond. Series: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JKVM; JPRB; JPS; JWF; JWK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137385543
- ISBN
- 9781137385543
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.78
€ 138.78
Hardcover. This study looks at the underlying foundations of global order, putting aside mainstream institutionalist approaches in showing how China and the US are engaged in an intense process of contestation and renegotiation of an institutionalized order that has long been taken for granted. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JPB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137386892
- ISBN
- 9781137386892
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardback. Junmin Wan takes a two prong approach to analysing this pressure in Japan in his new volume Consumer Casualties. He first clarifies the consumer preference for habit to identify useful approaches toward solving a number of economic issues, such as gambling and other addictive practices. Num Pages: 184 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFFT; KCK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137387240
- ISBN
- 9781137387240
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.18
€ 127.18
hardcover. Series: Politics and Development of Contemporary China. Num Pages: 333 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 5 colour illustrations, 5 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JKSW1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 333
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137390691
- ISBN
- 9781137390691
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.56
€ 140.56
The Chinese Stock Market. A Retrospect and Analysis from 2002. A Retro...
. Ed(S): Cheng, Siwei; Li, Ziran
Hardback. Both quantitative and qualitative analysis is used to review China's stock market in a book containing the latest research on China's IPO market, the 2006-07 market bubble, the development of institutional investors, the stock index futures market, stock sector performance, corporate governance of listed firms and China's growth enterprise market. Editor(s): Cheng, Siwei; Li, Ziran. Num Pages: 438 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; KCX; KFFM2; KJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 438
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137391094
- ISBN
- 9781137391094
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.11
€ 129.11
Hardback. Series: The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy. Num Pages: 281 pages, 3 colour illustrations, 3 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPR; 3JM; JFSC; JPA; KCM; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137393388
- ISBN
- 9781137393388
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.75
€ 128.75
Hardcover. This book is a unique contribution to the study of democratization in Hong Kong, with chapters including the legal tradition in Hong Kong, the features of Hong Kong's indigenous democracy, the 2014 Umbrella Movement, and the evolution of the Chief Executive election. Series: The Theories, Concepts and Practices of Democracy. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPCH; JPHC; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137397133
- ISBN
- 9781137397133
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.28
€ 127.28
Hardcover. This volume is concerned with labor market developments in China from a comparative perspective on selected East and South Asian countries. It closely examines the changing structure of China's labor market in the context of the Lewisisan turning point in ecomomic development. Editor(s): Minami, Ryoshin; Makino, Fumio; Kim, Kwan S. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; KCF; KCG; KCM; KCU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137397256
- ISBN
- 9781137397256
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.19
€ 128.19
Hardcover. This collection presents a varied picture of the state of democracy in Asia, revealing unique findings from a project entitled the 'Asia Democracy Initiative' which explored the role of ordinary people in democratization through the rise of expressive social values in Indonesia, South Korea, the Philippines and Thailand. Editor(s): Dore, Giovanna Maria Dora; Ku, Jae H.; Jackson, Karl. Series: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMN; 1FMP; 1FMT; 1FPK; JPB; JPHV; JPR; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137397492
- ISBN
- 9781137397492
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.45
€ 67.45
hardcover. This volume brings together the work of twenty-seven contributors to deepen our understanding of Chinese migration to Europe, with a particular focus on the case of Prato and Italy. Editor(s): Baldassar, Loretta; Johanson, Graeme; McAuliffe, Narelle; Bressan, Massimo. Num Pages: 351 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1FPC; JFFN; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 26. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Number of pages
- 351
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137400239
- ISBN
- 9781137400239
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.60
€ 128.60
Hardcover. This collection examines the current stage of multicultural challenges and their influence on democracy in 12 countries of Europe and East Asia. Contributors draw out the differences between European and East Asian approaches to universalizing locality and localizing global norms regarding human rights and democratic individuality. Editor(s): Kim, Nam-Kook. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FP; JFFN; JFSL1; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137403445
- ISBN
- 9781137403445
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book examines how the news media in general, and investigative journalism in particular, interprets environmental problems and how those interpretations contribute to the shaping of a discourse of risk that can compete against the omnipresent and hegemonic discourse of modernisation in Chinese society. Series: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFF; KNTJ; RNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137406668
- ISBN
- 9781137406668
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Hardcover. An ethnographic study of gender, place and belonging, Affective Intensities introduces readers to the embodied sensations, flows and experiences of being in extreme music scenes in Australia and Japan. Series: Pop Music, Culture and Identity. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1MBF; AVG; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 222 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137406767
- ISBN
- 9781137406767
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.85
€ 66.85
Hardback. Comics, the Holocaust and Hiroshima breaks new ground for history by exploring the relationship between comics as a cultural record, historiography, memory and trauma studies. Comics have a dual role as sources: for gauging awareness of the Holocaust and through close analysis, as testimonies and narratives of childhood emotions and experiences. Series: The Holocaust and its Contexts. Num Pages: 102 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FPJ; 3JJH; AKLC; HBJD; HBJF; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 102
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137407238
- ISBN
- 9781137407238
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.86
€ 65.86
Hardcover. Just as China is called the world factory for manufactured goods, it is also a world factory for manufactured animal cruelty in a new phenomenon of globalized animal cruelty. Animals in China examines animal protection in China in its legal, social and cultural contexts. Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, 4 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HPQ; JFFZ; LAQ; LNKG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137408013
- ISBN
- 9781137408013
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.49
€ 127.49
Hardback. Japan as the Occupier and the Occupied examines transwar political, military and social transitions in Japan and various territories that it controlled, including Korea, Borneo, Singapore, Manchuria and China, before and after August 1945. This approach allows a more nuanced understanding of Japan's role as occupier and occupied to emerge. Editor(s): Matos, Christine de; Caprio, Mark. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137408105
- ISBN
- 9781137408105
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.32
€ 117.32
Hardcover. Sustainable Entrepreneurship in China provides empirical evidence and cutting-edge research into topical business ethics issues relating to entrepreneurship, corporate governance, and institutional reforms in China. Editor(s): Cumming, Douglas; Firth, Michael; Hou, Wenxuan; Lee, Edward. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; KC; KJH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137412522
- ISBN
- 9781137412522
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.18
€ 66.18
Hardcover. Since the late 1970s China has undergone a great transformation, during which time the country has witnessed an outpouring of competing schools of thought. This book analyzes the major schools of political thought redefining China's transformation and the role Chinese thinkers are playing in the post-Mao era. Series: Politics and Development of Contemporary China. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HPS; JPA; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137427809
- ISBN
- 9781137427809
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64