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Paperback. Successful in both Japan and the West, Akira had a huge impact on the international growth in popularity of manga and anime. Closely analysing the film and its key themes, Colin O'Dell and Michelle Le Blanc assess its historical importance, its impact on the Western perception of anime, and its influence on science fiction cinema. Series: BFI Film Classics. Num Pages: 96 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; APFV. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 191 x 137 x 7. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844578085
- ISBN
- 9781844578085
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.28
€ 17.99
€ 14.28
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; 3JM; AGB; AMX; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 111 x 21. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141983912
- ISBN
- 9780141983912
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 456 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; KCM; KCT; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 799.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691647937
- ISBN
- 9780691647937
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 226.50
€ 226.50
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; KCM; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691650340
- ISBN
- 9780691650340
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.58
€ 144.58
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 486 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; GTF; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1057.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 486
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691638843
- ISBN
- 9780691638843
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 239.28
€ 239.28
Hardback. This analysis of agrarian reform in the Philippines evaluates the capacity of new democratic regimes to promote redistributive agrarian reform, an issue of concern to developing countries throughout the world. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1FP; JPHV; KFFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 738.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725309
- ISBN
- 9780804725309
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.69
€ 95.69
Paperback. In the past fifty years, two factors have led to global population aging: a decline in fertility to levels close to --or even below --replacement and a decline in mortality that has increased world average life expectancy by nearly 67 percent. Editor(s): Eggleston, Karen; Tuljapurkar, Shripad. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; 1FPKS; KCL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 230 x 12. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Asia/Pacific Research Center, Div of The Institute for International Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781931368209
- ISBN
- 9781931368209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.11
€ 37.11
Hardback. Series: New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives. Num Pages: 196 pages, 40 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; KCU; RGCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer Verlag, Japan Japan
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9784431555902
- ISBN
- 9784431555902
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.11
€ 143.11
Paperback. Tells stories of a young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China, a barber who made $150 million in the gambling dens of Macau, and, the richest woman in China, a recycling tycoon known as the 'Wastepaper Queen'. This book describes the clash between the individual and the Communist Party's struggle. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099589976
- ISBN
- 9780099589976
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.80
€ 15.99
€ 11.80
Paperback. Opens a critical perspective on the slow death of socialism and the rebirth of capitalism in the world's most dynamic and populous country. Based on fieldwork and extensive interviews in Chinese textile, apparel, machinery, and household appliance factories, this book finds a rising tide of labor unrest mostly hidden from the world's attention. Num Pages: 340 pages, 1 line illustration, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPFC; KCF; KCS; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478. Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt. 340 pages, Illustrations. Opens a critical perspective on the slow death of socialism and the rebirth of capitalism in the world's most dynamic and populous country. Based on fieldwork and extensive interviews in Chinese textile, apparel, machinery, and household appliance factories, this book finds a rising tide of labor unrest mostly hidden from the world's attention. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPFC; KCF; KCS; KNXB. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 21. Weight: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520250970
- ISBN
- 9780520250970
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.24
€ 40.99
€ 29.24
hardcover. Against Harmony traces the history of progressive and radical experiments in Japanese Buddhist thought and practice from the mid-Meiji period (ca. 1885) through the early Showa period (ca. 1935). Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HRE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- OXFORD UNIV PR United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190664008
- ISBN
- 9780190664008
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 212.78
€ 212.78
Hardback. Scholars have described the eighteenth century in China as a time of "state activism" and often associate the Taiping Rebellion and postbellum restoration efforts with the origins of elite activism. Seunghyun Han, however, argues that the ascendance of elite activism can be traced to the Jiaqing and Daoguang reigns in the early nineteenth century. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674737174
- ISBN
- 9780674737174
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.84
€ 47.99
€ 39.84
Hardback. This book argues that a combination of property rights reform, administrative fragmentation, and technological advance has caused the post-Mao Chinese state to lose a significant degree of control over "thought work," or the management of propagandistic communications flowing into and through Chinese society. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804734615
- ISBN
- 9780804734615
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.02
€ 86.02
Hardcover. Two of the most destructive moments of state violence in the 20th century occurred in Europe between 1933 and 1945 and in China between 1959 and 1961, the Great Leap famine. This is the first book to bring the two histories together in order to examine their differences and to understand if there are any similar processes of transmission at work. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1FPC; 3JJ; HBJD; HBJF; HBTB; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857450869
- ISBN
- 9780857450869
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.28
€ 155.28
Paperback. Considers setting and place as irreducible features of the human condition and sociocultural existence. Focusing on a range of periods in places from France to the Balkans and from Siberia to San Diego, this work concentrates on such subjects as the Lockean landscapes, 19th-century Australian and North American landscape paintings, and zoos. Num Pages: 448 pages, 15 tables, 7 figures. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1DVWYB; 1FPC; 1HFGS; 1KBB; 3JJPR; JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 33. Weight in Grams: 757.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822322665
- ISBN
- 9780822322665
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.61
€ 33.99
€ 30.61
Paperback. Explores the dynamic changes now taking place in the South Korean government as a result of recent social and economic liberalization. This title traces the emergence in Korea of a post-developmental state. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780878406609
- ISBN
- 9780878406609
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.45
€ 70.45
Paperback. The midnight hour approaches in an almost-empty diner. Mari sips her coffee and reads a book, but soon her solitude is disturbed: a girl has been beaten up at the Alphaville hotel, and needs Mari's help. Meanwhile Mari's beautiful sister Eri lies in a deep, heavy sleep that is 'too perfect, too pure' to be normal; it has lasted for two months. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099506249
- ISBN
- 9780099506249
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.00
€ 13.99
€ 11.00
Hardback. Illuminates various aspects of a central but unexplored area of American history: the midcentury Japanese American experience. This title includes case studies that focus on various developments relating to Japanese Americans in the aftermath of their wartime confinement, including resettlement nationwide. Num Pages: 328 pages, 13 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520271586
- ISBN
- 9780520271586
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.70€ 57.54
€ 74.70
€ 57.54
Paperback. Illuminates various aspects of a central but unexplored area of American history: the midcentury Japanese American experience. This title includes case studies that focus on various developments relating to Japanese Americans in the aftermath of their wartime confinement, including resettlement nationwide. Num Pages: 328 pages, 13 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480. Portraits in Midcentury Japanese American Life and Politics. 328 pages, illustrations. Illuminates various aspects of a central but unexplored area of American history: the midcentury Japanese American experience. This title includes case studies that focus on various developments relating to Japanese Americans in the aftermath of their wartime confinement, including resettlement nationwide. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 21. Weight: 462.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 328
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520271593
- ISBN
- 9780520271593
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.24
€ 40.99
€ 29.24
Hardback. Extends the study of China's "soft power" into theatre studies and looks more widely at syncretic traditions evolving in other long-term historic exchanges between Asia and Africa. Num Pages: 264 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1H; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- James Currey
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847011466
- ISBN
- 9781847011466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.17
€ 98.17