East Asia, Far East
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East Asia, Far East
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 3JB; 3JD; HBJF; HBLC; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231172288
- ISBN
- 9780231172288
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.24€ 49.96
€ 64.24
€ 49.96
Hardback. In classical Chinese, 'The Great Enterprise' means winning The Mandate of heaven to rule over China, the Central Kingdom. This first of a two-volume work on 'The Great Enterprise' of the Manchus is the first scholarly narrative in any language relating their conquest of China during the seventeenth century. Num Pages: 680 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 680
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520235182
- ISBN
- 9780520235182
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.44€ 71.81
€ 93.44
€ 71.81
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822353720
- ISBN
- 9780822353720
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.14
€ 29.99
€ 29.14
Paperback. In premodern China, elite painters used imagery not to mirror the world around them, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering their art alongside the philosophical traditions that inform it, this book explores the "nonobject" - a notion exemplified by paintings that do not seek to represent observable surroundings. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Num Pages: 288 pages, 7 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1FPC; ABA; ACBP; AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- First edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226415314
- ISBN
- 9780226415314
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 36.58
€ 47.99
€ 36.58
Paperback. China's Great Wall north of Beijing is one of the world's most famous sights. For 2,000 years, the Wall marked the border between China and nomadic peoples to the north and west. The author covers two millennia of history, from the country's first unification onwards, when the Great Wall, built and rebuilt over centuries of war. Num Pages: 464 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 28. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553817683
- ISBN
- 9780553817683
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.73
€ 14.99
€ 11.73
Paperback. Editor(s): Helleiner, Eric; Kirshner, Jonathan. Series: Cornell Studies in Money. Num Pages: 288 pages, 13, 2 tables, 11 charts. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JPS; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801479595
- ISBN
- 9780801479595
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 34.56
€ 35.99
€ 34.56
Hardback. Series: Columbia Business School Publishing. Num Pages: 320 pages, 32 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; KCM; KJJ; KJV; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231166089
- ISBN
- 9780231166089
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.41
€ 33.99
€ 24.41
Paperback. A complete fortune-telling guide to your character and your destiny, based on Chinese animal signs - covering relationships, money, career, and health and well-being, with superb artworks of the twelve signs and plenty of helpful, attractive graphics Num Pages: 224 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; VXFA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Publisher
- Watkins Media Limited
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780283951
- ISBN
- 9781780283951
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.90
€ 21.99
€ 15.90
Hardback. Beginning in her grandmother's kitchen in California, the author travels to her family's home in China, and from there fans out to embrace Hakka cooking across the globe. She likens Hakka cooking to a nomadic type of 'soul food', or a hearty cooking tradition that responds to a shared history of hardship and oppression. Illustrator(s): Lau, Alan Chong. Num Pages: 312 pages, 40 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FPC; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 770. Chinese Soul Food from Around the World. 312 pages, Illustrations, maps. Beginning in her grandmother's kitchen in California, the author travels to her family's home in China, and from there fans out to embrace Hakka cooking across the globe. She likens Hakka cooking to a nomadic type of 'soul food', or a hearty cooking tradition that responds to a shared history of hardship and oppression. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FPC; WBN. Dimension: 238 x 178 x 25. Weight: 806.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520273283
- ISBN
- 9780520273283
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 32.37
€ 44.99
€ 32.37
Hardback. Explore the history, types, and value ranges of Chinese snuff bottles from the 17th century to the present concentrating mostly on affordable examples. Here 340 diverse bottles of stone, glass, enamels, porcelain, and other materials are described & shown in beautiful color photographs. You'll want to own some. Num Pages: 160 pages, 340 colour photos. BIC Classification: 1FPC; WCN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764315909
- ISBN
- 9780764315909
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 24.81
€ 36.99
€ 24.81
Hardback. This Handbook brings together major aspects of Japanese linguistics, presenting overviews, current concerns and future directions of each topic. The areas included are phonology, syntax, semantics, morphology, language acquisition, sentence processing, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics. Editor(s): Tsujimura, Natsuko. Series: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics. Num Pages: 544 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; CF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 266 x 187 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1194.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631205043
- ISBN
- 9780631205043
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 245.72
€ 245.72
Hardback. In this second volume of his authoritative history of the region, Christoph Baumer explores the unique flow of goods, peoples and ideas along the dusty tracks and wandering caravan routes that brought European and Mediterranean orbits into contact with Asia. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FC; 1FP; 3D; 3F; HBJF; HBLA; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 298 x 241 x 35. Weight in Grams: 2456.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780768328
- ISBN
- 9781780768328
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.40€ 56.21
€ 58.40
€ 56.21
Paperback. Michael Pillsbury, who has served in senior national security positions in the U.S. government since the days of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, draws on Chinese documents, speeches, and books to reveal the roots of the strategy to supplant the United States as the world's dominant power. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 210 x 25. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Griffin Publishing
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9781250081346
- ISBN
- 9781250081346
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.09
€ 19.99
€ 18.09
Hardback. Sheds new light on fighting "the forgotten war" Series: Twentieth-Century Battles. Num Pages: 312 pages, 16 b&w illus., 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPK; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253009081
- ISBN
- 9780253009081
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.47
€ 40.47
Hardback. Examines the transformation of education policy in China, with an emphasis on transformations in the post-1978 period. This title also emphasises on policy change and its subsequent impact on different aspects of education at various levels of educational institutions, particularly in areas of educational financing and curriculum reform. Editor(s): Wiseman, Alexander W.; Huang, Tiedan. Series Editor(s): Wiseman, Alexander W. Series: International Perspectives on Education and Society. Num Pages: 350 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJP; JNF; JNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 39. Weight in Grams: 762.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780521862
- ISBN
- 9781780521862
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.08
€ 141.08
Paperback. Presents an inside view of the rich array of characters, political and ideological tensions, and technological genius that defined the imperial cities of China. This book covers the First Emperor's obsessive - and fatal - attempts to engage the Immortals in 219-210 BC, to the creativity that produced the golden age of literature and art. Num Pages: 336 pages, b&w inset. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845950101
- ISBN
- 9781845950101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.72
€ 19.99
€ 14.72
Hardback. The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was the third most powerful navy in the world at the start of World War II, and came to dominate the Pacific in the early months of the war. This book details the Japanese ships which fought in the Pacific and examines the principles on which they were designed, and how they were armed. Num Pages: 392 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJH; HBG; HBLW; HBWQ; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 195 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1512.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472801463
- ISBN
- 9781472801463
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 29.66
€ 45.99
€ 29.66
Paperback. When the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyed Russia's battle fleet during the Russo-Japanese War, it marked the emergence of Japan as one of the world's major naval powers. This book outlines the history of the naval campaign against the Russian fleet. Illustrator(s): Wright, Paul. Series: New Vanguard. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1FPJ; 3JJC; HBLW; HBW; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 184 x 5. Weight in Grams: 185.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 48
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472811196
- ISBN
- 9781472811196
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.27
€ 16.27
Paperback. Reviews the trajectory of the Taiwan-China economic relationship, exploring the implications for the two sides, as well as the broader implications for both the region and the United States. Num Pages: 198 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; KCL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The Peterson Institute for International Economics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780881325010
- ISBN
- 9780881325010
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.44
€ 24.99
€ 18.44
Paperback. In North Korea, citizens found humming South Korean pop songs risk being sent to a gulag for six months of hard labour. Jail sentences are handed out if portraits of the late Kim Jong-il are not properly dusted. Shoot-to-kill orders are in effect for anyone caught trying to cross the Yalu or Tumen Rivers into China. Num Pages: 544 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099578659
- ISBN
- 9780099578659
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.72
€ 19.99
€ 14.72