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Paperback. Civil wars, genocides, natural disasters and other emergencies multiplied in the 1990s in the South, and in the Balkans and the former Soviet bloc. This book examines how to respond to the difficulties thrown up by these humanitarian crises, and what kind of aid should be brought in. Editor(s): Pirotte, Claire; Grunewald, Francois; Husson, Bernard. Translator(s): Robinson, Julia Monod-. Num Pages: 224 pages, notes, boxes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 3JJPR; GTF; JKSR; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 135 x 16. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781856497558
ISBN
9781856497558
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99

Paperback. Offers an understanding of insurgency and explains the changing behavior of insurgent groups toward the civilians they claim to represent. This book seeks to establish whether contemporary subcultures display modern or postmodern sensibilities and forms. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: GTJ; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814795781
ISBN
9780814795781
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Hardcover. Offers an understanding of insurgency and explains the changing behavior of insurgent groups toward the civilians they claim to represent. This book seeks to establish whether contemporary subcultures display modern or postmodern sensibilities and forms. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: GTJ; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814795774
ISBN
9780814795774
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.06

Paperback. Published to coincide with the 40th Anniversary of MSF, this book reveals the realpolitik behind NGO work Editor(s): Magone, Claire; Neuman, Michael; Weissman, Fabrice. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: GTF; JKSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 215 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849041638
ISBN
9781849041638
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.87

Paperback. Series: Cultural Studies of the Americas S. Num Pages: 188 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; GTB; JFC; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 260 x 180 x 11. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780816629992
ISBN
9780816629992
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.51

Hardcover. Gender and Peacebuilding offers a comprehensive and up to date analysis of how and why gender matters in contemporary peace operations. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: GTJ; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780745682518
ISBN
9780745682518
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.45

Paperback. Gender and Peacebuilding offers a comprehensive and up to date analysis of how and why gender matters in contemporary peace operations. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: GTJ; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745682525
ISBN
9780745682525
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.39

Hardcover. The follow up to Share This: The Social Media Handbook for PR Professionals. Share This is a practical handbook to the changes taking place in the media and was conceived and written by 24 public relations practitioners using many of the social tools and techniques that it addresses. Num Pages: 324 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: GTC; KJSP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 630.
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
324
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118676936
ISBN
9781118676936
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.89

Hardback. Explores how Asian Americans figured in the effort to shape the credibility of American democracy during the Cold War, even while their perceived "foreignness" cast them as likely alien subversives Series: Nation of Nations. Num Pages: 285 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1K; GTB; HBG; HBLW3; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
New York University Press
Number of pages
285
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814759356
ISBN
9780814759356
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.74

Paperback. This collection of seminal primary readings in the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of Korea from the sixteenth century to the present day lays the groundwork for understanding Korean civilization and demonstrates how leading intellectuals and public figures in Korea have looked at life, the traditions of their ancestors, and the world they lived in. Editor(s): Ch'oe, Yongho; Lee, Peter H.; De Bary, William Theodore; Yongho, Ch'oe. Series: Introduction to Asian Civilizations. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPK; GTB; HBJF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 686.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231120319
ISBN
9780231120319
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.00
€ 36.08

Paperback. This work examines the dramatic transformation of one of the most important objects of worship in the Buddhist tradition - the Indian (male) bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, or the embodiment of compassion - into the (female) Chinese Kuan-yin, or the "Goddess of Mercy" Num Pages: 688 pages, 48 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 34. Weight in Grams: 932.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
688
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231120296
ISBN
9780231120296
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.56

Paperback. A significant contribution to both political theory and China studies, this volume provides a critical assessment of the past and future Chinese socialism. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; HBJF; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 535.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822337980
ISBN
9780822337980
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. Num Pages: 361 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
361
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816631827
ISBN
9780816631827
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.48

Paperback. A study of representations of the French Atlantic slave trade in the history, literature, and film of France and its former colonies in Africa and the Caribbean. Num Pages: 592 pages, 15 illustrations, 1 table, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1DDF; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 32. Weight in Grams: 812.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
592
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822341512
ISBN
9780822341512
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.17

Paperback. Examines how technology and online media shape social interaction. This book explores how technology mediates social interaction. It identifies and explicates key social and interactional issues in voice-based and text-based chat rooms, emails, social networking websites, and mobile telephony. Series: Studies in Social Interaction. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: GTC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 232 x 11. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748649488
ISBN
9780748649488
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.54

Paperback. Drawing on hundreds of sermons, essays, speeches, letters, journals, plays, poems, and newspaper articles, the author of this volume explores how intellectuals, preachers, and polemicists transformed both the forms and the substance of public discussion in 18th-century Connecticut. Series: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Num Pages: 524 pages, 18 illustrations, 4 figures, index, appendices. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CBP; CFG; GTC; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 771.
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
Number of pages
524
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
KEX0227922
ISBN
9780807847725
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. This study examines the disparities between the two dominant American political-military approaches to the use of force as an instrument of foreign policy. Case studies illustrate how the basic disagreements between the two approaches influence policy-making and military decisions. Num Pages: 485 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTJ; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 28. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
502
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231096577
ISBN
9780231096577
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.27

Paperback. A comparative account of the organized violence in the Caucasus region, looking at four key areas: Chechnya, Karabakh (including Armenia and Azerbaijan), Georgia, and Dagestan Num Pages: 308 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DV; 1DVU; GTB; HBJD; HBTB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
NYU Press
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814797242
ISBN
9780814797242
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.83

Paperback. Offers a re-evaluation of the history of the Vietnamese Communist Party and an analysis of the inner workings of Vietnamese historiography. This book challenges core assumptions about the history of the Vietnamese Communist Part and attempts to shed light on divisions within the revolutionary movement along regional, class, and ideological lines. Series: Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies. Num Pages: 280 pages, 4 illus. BIC Classification: 1FMV; GTB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295984292
ISBN
9780295984292
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.12

Paperback. Enka, a sentimental ballad genre, epitomizes for many the nihonjin no kokoro (heart/soul of Japanese), and to older members of the Japanese public this music evokes a direct connection to the traditional roots of "Japaneseness". Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 250 pages, 7 halftones, 8 musical examples, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AVGJ; GTB; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674012769
ISBN
9780674012769
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.78

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