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East Asia, Far East
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East Asia, Far East
Paperback. Japan is an icon of the modern world, and yet it remains an enigma to many, who see it as a confusing montage of the alien and the familiar, the ancient and modern. The aim of this Very Short Introduction is to explode the myths and explore the reality of modern Japan - by taking a concise look at its history, economy, politics, and culture. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 176 pages, 21 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JMC; HBJF; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 67 x 11. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199235698
- ISBN
- 9780199235698
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89
Hardback. This text focuses on Japanese weddings as a window on contemporary values, analyzing the relation between the commercialization of these services and their symbolic content. Weddings mark the attainment of full adult status in Japan and this book looks at what marriage and adulthood means in Japan. Num Pages: 188 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 28. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804715126
- ISBN
- 9780804715126
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.01
€ 114.01
Paperback. Japanese weddings have become commercial affairs, with most conducted at specialized establishments offering expensive, lavish services. This book focuses on these ceremonies as a window on contemporary values, analyzing the relation between commercialization and symbolic content. Num Pages: 188 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 13. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804718158
- ISBN
- 9780804718158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Paperback. Stunning biographical portraits explore the lives of five women--two actresses, two writers, and a painter--who did their best to stand up and cause more trouble than was considered proper in Japanese society. Their lives stretch across a century and a half of explosive cultural and political transformations in Japan. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 photos. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; BG; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231113571
- ISBN
- 9780231113571
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.68
€ 37.99
€ 27.68
Hardback. Stunning biographical portraits explore the lives of five women--two actresses, two writers, and a painter--who did their best to stand up and cause more trouble than was considered proper in Japanese society. Their lives stretch across a century and a half of explosive cultural and political transformations in Japan. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 photos. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; BG; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231113564
- ISBN
- 9780231113564
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.56€ 80.25
€ 104.56
€ 80.25
Hardback. This collection brings together diverse analyses of women in Japan--including department store elevator girls, tour bus guides, airline stewardesses, soldiers, soccer players, beauty queens, and educators--who have been intimately involved in the practices and professions of modernity. Editor(s): Freedman, Alisa; Miller, Laura; Yano, Christine Reiko. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC; JFSJ; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804781138
- ISBN
- 9780804781138
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.11
€ 119.11
Paperback. This collection brings together diverse analyses of women in Japan--including department store elevator girls, tour bus guides, airline stewardesses, soldiers, soccer players, beauty queens, and educators--who have been intimately involved in the practices and professions of modernity. Editor(s): Freedman, Alisa; Miller, Laura; Yano, Christine Reiko. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC; JFSJ; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804781145
- ISBN
- 9780804781145
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Hardcover. The contributors provide a comparative analysis of the modern economic development of Japan and China that are often explained in frameworks of East Asian developmentalism, varies of capitalism or world economic system, and explore their broader significances for the rise and global expansion of modern economy. Editor(s): Huang, Xiaoming. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; GTF; JPS; KCM; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137323071
- ISBN
- 9781137323071
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 265 x 184 x 25. Weight in Grams: 800.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781600218378
- ISBN
- 9781600218378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.86€ 133.76
€ 194.86
€ 133.76
Paperback. This volume presents a broad range of writings on literature from the period of the inception of literary modernity in China. Editor(s): Denton, Kirk A. Num Pages: 572 pages, reference material. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 788.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 564
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725590
- ISBN
- 9780804725590
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.47€ 53.33
€ 53.47
€ 53.33
hardcover. This volume presents a broad range of writings on literature from the period of the inception of literary modernity in China. Editor(s): Denton, Kirk A. Num Pages: 572 pages, reference material. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 38. Weight in Grams: 979.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 572
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725583
- ISBN
- 9780804725583
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 235.06
€ 235.06
Paperback. A collection of essays which use critical theory to reflect on issues pertaining to modern Chinese literature and culture. It addresses topics such as 20th-century literature produced in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China; film, art, history, popular culture, and literary and cultural criticism and the geographies of migration and diaspora. Editor(s): Chow, Rey. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822325970
- ISBN
- 9780822325970
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.79
€ 31.99
€ 28.79
Paperback. Displaying the beauty and skill of Chinese ink paintings through a selection of highlights from the British Museum's collection, this book features hanging scrolls, hand scrolls, large-scale paintings and album leaves to explore the innovative contributions of individual masters from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Num Pages: 128 pages, 66 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; ACBP; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 248 x 12. Weight in Grams: 642. A Century of New Directions. 128 pages, 66 colour illustrations. Displaying the beauty and skill of Chinese ink paintings through a selection of highlights from the British Museum's collection, this book features hanging scrolls, hand scrolls, large-scale paintings and album leaves to explore the innovative contributions of individual masters from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FPC; ACBP; AFC. Dimension: 245 x 248 x 12. Weight: 642.
- Publisher
- British Museum Press
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714124704
- ISBN
- 9780714124704
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.72
€ 39.72
Hardback. A biographical dictionary which offers short, information-packed entries for approximately 1,800 Chinese artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Num Pages: 274 pages, 80 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; AGB; GBCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 274
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520244498
- ISBN
- 9780520244498
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.36€ 65.36
€ 84.36
€ 65.36
Hardback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804774093
- ISBN
- 9780804774093
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.25
€ 87.25
Paperback. An intriguing historical examination of China's widespread opium epidemic Num Pages: 200 pages, 1 drawing, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFC; JFFH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 325.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Edition
- First Softcover Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472067688
- ISBN
- 9780472067688
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.61
€ 37.61
Paperback. A wide-ranging, accessible guide to contemporary economic policy debates. Systematically examines the performance of UK, US, Japanese, German and Swedish economies, using up-to-date research data. Assesses the impact of globalisation on each model economy. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DFG; 1DNS; 1FPJ; 1KBB; KCP; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745620596
- ISBN
- 9780745620596
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.63
€ 28.63
Modeling Risk Management for Resources and Environment in China
. Ed(S): Wu, Desheng Dash; Zhou, Yong
Paperback. Editor(s): Wu, Desheng Dash; Zhou, Yong. Series: Computational Risk Management. Num Pages: 592 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; KCN; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 34. Weight in Grams: 896.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 592
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642270833
- ISBN
- 9783642270833
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 196.99
€ 196.99
Hardcover. Num Pages: 170 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCH; 1MBF; JNKP; JNLC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781619423084
- ISBN
- 9781619423084
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.19€ 84.38
€ 121.19
€ 84.38
Hardcover. Series: Advances in Foreign Policy Analysis. Num Pages: 177 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 165 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403971791
- ISBN
- 9781403971791
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.40
€ 66.40