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East Asia, Far East
Mountain Geoecology and Sustainable Development of the Tibetan Plateau
. Ed(S): Zheng, Du; Zhang, Quingsong; Wu, Sha...
Hardback. Covers the fundamental issues regarding geoecology and sustainable mountain development on the Tibetean Plateau. This book discusses the evolution and differentiation of physical environments, uplifting, environmental changes, and natural zonation of the Plateau. It also contains case studies on Namjabarwa Mountains and Hengduan Mountains. Editor(s): Zheng, Du; Zhang, Quingsong; Wu, Shaohong. Series: Geojournal Library. Num Pages: 396 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; RGBS; RGW; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 758.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- 2
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792366881
- ISBN
- 9780792366881
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.13
€ 195.13
Hardback. With the growth of the recycling sector, trade in recyclables increased tremendously. It is striking that most of this trade flows from developed to developing countries. This book addresses the causes of this trade pattern and investigates its economic and environmental effects. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FKA; 1FPC; KCN; RNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792368984
- ISBN
- 9780792368984
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.82
€ 127.82
Hardback. Focuses on the change that the traditional paradigm of production and international trade has undergone. This book documents the process of international production fragmentation and trade in East Asian economies, studies the mechanics of the process, explores the theory behind the phenomenon, and identifies important policy implications. Editor(s): Cheng, Leonard Kwok-Hon; Kierzkowski, Henryk. Num Pages: 350 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FP; KCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792373308
- ISBN
- 9780792373308
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.32
€ 194.32
hardcover. There has been a growing interest in the use of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) both in China and globally. In China, increased health care costs are associated with the use of Western drugs and their related side-effects. This book includes papers on this subject, covering research and development, clinical studies, and commercialization. Editor(s): Lin, Yuan; Betz, Joseph M.; Bindra, Jasjit S.; Bobzin, Steven C. (Galileo Laboratories, Santa Clara, CA, USA). Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; MMG; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- 2001st Edition
- Number of pages
- 249
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792374114
- ISBN
- 9780792374114
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 192.26
€ 192.26
Hardback. Describes, analyzes, and evaluates the process that is transforming the Japanese financial system. This book addresses various issues relating to the transition of the Japanese financial system from a bank-centered and relationship-based system to a competitive market-based system. Editor(s): Hoshi, Takeo; Patrick, Hugh T. Series: Innovations in Financial Markets and Institutions. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPR; 3JM; KFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 659.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 321
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792377832
- ISBN
- 9780792377832
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 247.13
€ 247.13
hardcover. Includes papers which deal with three critical aspects of governance in China, India, and Russia: political reforms at the local level; fiscal reforms in intergovernmental relations; and, legal reforms. This volume discusses the role of incentives in fiscal federalism. Editor(s): Dethier, Jean-Jacques. Num Pages: 466 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1FKA; 1FPC; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 840.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- 2000th Edition
- Number of pages
- 466
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792379096
- ISBN
- 9780792379096
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 249.68
€ 249.68
Hardback. Offers a study of counterproductive cooperation. This book takes to task the critical importance of conducting systematic theory-guided empirical research to examine the validity of arguments that international monetary cooperation could be highly counterproductive. Num Pages: 110 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1FPJ; 1KBB; KCBM; KCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 9. Weight in Grams: 810.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 110
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792384595
- ISBN
- 9780792384595
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.00
€ 67.00
Hardback. Scrutinizes the main features of the Taiwanese development experience under the interrelated themes and domains such as: Outward-orientation vs inward-orientation; Sources of growth; Dynamic balanced growth process; and The role of government in the transition to a more market-oriented economy. Editor(s): Thorbecke, Erik; Wan, Henry. Num Pages: 454 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 245 x 164 x 35. Weight in Grams: 824.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 454
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792385134
- ISBN
- 9780792385134
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 252.27
€ 252.27
Hardback. Provides an analysis of various components of the Japanese economy and business structures. This book includes contributions on organizations; income distributions; technological progress; and macro performance. It examines the retail sector, the role of information in evaluating distribution systems, and ownership structures. Editor(s): Sato, Ryuzo; Ramachandran, Rama V.; Hori, Hajime. Series: Research Monographs in Japan-U.S.Business and Economics. Num Pages: 450 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; KCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 829.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 450
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792397724
- ISBN
- 9780792397724
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 196.15
€ 196.15
Hardback. Takes a macroeconomic policy approach to analyzing a question of the healthcare debate: Can the anticipated increasing rate of growth in future healthcare expenditures be financially absorbed by the society's increasing income and output? This book explains how healthcare financing could in the future be ethically, and economically accomplished. Series: Research Monographs in Japan-U.S.Business and Economics. Num Pages: 150 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; KCL; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 910.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 150
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792399483
- ISBN
- 9780792399483
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.29
€ 126.29
Hardcover. This volume is the product of scholars of various backgrounds, specialties and agendas bringing forth their most treasured findings regarding the Chinese Catholic Church. The chapters in this book covering the church from 1900 to the present trace the development of the Church in China from many historical and disciplinary vantage points. Editor(s): Chu, Cindy Yik-Yi. Num Pages: 282 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137361745
- ISBN
- 9781137361745
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.22
€ 64.22
Hardcover. A comprehensive history of how the conflicts and balances of power in the Maoist revolutionary campaigns from 1951 to 1979 complicated and diversified the meanings of films, this book offers a discursive study of the development of early PRC cinema. Num Pages: 289 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 221 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137378736
- ISBN
- 9781137378736
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.57
€ 111.57
Hardback. Drawing together articles from the new online journal The Asan Forum, commissioned from leading experts in the USA, Japan, and South Korea, this book reconsiders what we thought we knew about the three legs of this alliance triangle. Editor(s): Rozman, Gilbert. Series: Asan-Palgrave Macmillan Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 graphs, 10 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1FPKS; 1KBB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 224 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137541703
- ISBN
- 9781137541703
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.30
€ 65.30
Hardback. The authors suggest that China's renewable energy system, the largest in the world, will quickly supersede the black energy system that has powered the country's rapid rise as workshop of the world - and for reasons that have more to do with fixing environmental pollution and enhancing energy security than with curbing carbon emissions. Series: Building a Sustainable Political Economy: Speri Research & Policy. Num Pages: 186 pages, 45 graphs, 12 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; KCN; KNBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 225 x 22. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137546241
- ISBN
- 9781137546241
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.71
€ 64.71
Paperback. This is the first book in English to examine, through material in the popular press, the radical changes that took place in Japanese ideas about sex, romance and male-female relations in the wake of Japan's defeat and occupation by Allied forces at the end of the Second World War. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPG; JFC; JHBK; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 143 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137565105
- ISBN
- 9781137565105
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.15
€ 65.15
Hardcover. This book investigates entrepreneurial initiatives in the three largest economies of the world: China, Japan and the USA. It brings together historical, institutional, and ethnographic approaches and highlights entrepreneurial patterns that result from cultural, legal, and political forces that facilitate and constrain entrepreneurship. Editor(s): Usui, Chikako. Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Asian Business Series. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FP; 1KBB; KJD; KJH; KJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 615.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230298811
- ISBN
- 9780230298811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.82
€ 154.82
Hardcover. Sinophone Cinemas considers a range of multilingual, multidialect and multi-accented cinemas produced in Chinese-language locations outside mainland China. It showcases new screen cultures from Britain, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Australia. Editor(s): Yue, Audrey; Khoo, Olivia. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137311191
- ISBN
- 9781137311191
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.74
€ 64.74
Hardcover. Natural disasters in Asian countries have brought global attention to the work of local Buddhist communities and groups. Here, the contributors examine local Buddhist communities and international Buddhist organizations engaged in a variety of relief work in countries including India, Thailand, Sri Lanka, China, and Japan. Editor(s): Kawanami, Hiroko; Samuel, Geoffrey. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FM; 1FP; HRE; JFSR; JKSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380227
- ISBN
- 9781137380227
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.57
€ 64.57
Students of political science and theory, democratization, and Chinese culture and history will benefit from the book's substantive discussions of democracy, and scholars and specialists will appreciate the larger arguments about the influence of these ideas and their transmission through time. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7, 7 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPA; JPB; JPHC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421409160
- ISBN
- 9781421409160
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.31
€ 77.31
Paperback. The nature of what's authentic and what's not confounds me daily in Japan.' - Pico Iyer, 'The Beauty of the Package' 'I wanted to make something that showed "real" and "fake" becoming friendly with each other.' - Yuji Hamada, Primal Mountain Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388. . Good copy with some signs of shelfware.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Granta Publications Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KEX0305735
- ISBN
- 9781905881772
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 12.00
€ 12.00