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Society & culture: general
Paperback. Why would a country strongly influenced by Buddhism's reverence for life allow legalized, widely used abortion? This title examines abortion as a window on the culture and ethics of Japan. Num Pages: 275 pages, 12 b&w photos 3 graphs. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HRE; JFC; JFMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691029658
- ISBN
- 9780691029658
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.82
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Hardback. How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he remain a scholarly observer when the country of his birth is engulfed by terror? How does an anthropologist write an ethnography without transforming it into a pornography of violence? This book discusses such questions. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 maps 2 line illus. BIC Classification: 1FKS; JFC; JFFE; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691027739
- ISBN
- 9780691027739
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€ 53.48€ 42.15
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Paperback. Drawing upon a wide range of women's sources - memoirs, letters, essays, journalistic articles, fiction, treatises, and extensive oral histories - this title shows how Egyptian women assumed agency and in so doing subverted and refigured the conventional patriarchal order. Series: Princeton Paperbacks. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; HBJH; HBLW; HRH; JFFK; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691026053
- ISBN
- 9780691026053
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Condition: New
€ 53.48€ 42.15
€ 53.48
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Paperback. Tracing the evolution of an extraordinary biracial coalition in Los Angeles behind Mayor Tom Bradley, this book shows how 'crossover' politics and racial violence coexist in urban America. Challenging the pessimism about biracial coalitions in general, it compares their relative successes in Los Angeles to their disheartening failures in New York. Num Pages: 352 pages, 25 halftones 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFF; JFSG; JFSL1; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 542.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised
- SKU
- V9780691025483
- ISBN
- 9780691025483
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Condition: New
€ 65.36€ 50.82
€ 65.36
€ 50.82
Paperback. Emphasizing the importance of cultural theory for film history, this book guides readers on a series of "inferential walks" through Italian culture in the first decades of the 21st century. It draws a cultural history that persuasively argues for a spatial, corporal interpretation of film language. Num Pages: 436 pages, 100 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; APFA; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 657.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 436
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691025339
- ISBN
- 9780691025339
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Condition: New
€ 53.48€ 42.11
€ 53.48
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Paperback. Offers a reassessment of the 'consumer rites' that social critics have decried. This book discusses how holiday celebrations were almost banished by Puritans and religious reformers but went on to be romanticized and reinvented in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It offers a cultural history of the commercialization of American holidays. Num Pages: 384 pages, 101 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; HRA; HRLF; JFC; JHBS; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691017211
- ISBN
- 9780691017211
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Condition: New
€ 53.48€ 42.11
€ 53.48
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Paperback. Focusing on the earliest forays into microscopical research, from 1620 to 1720, this book provides technological history of the knowledge that helped launch philosophy into the modern era. It argues that the discovery of microworld presented metaphysicians with the task of reconciling the ubiquity of life with human-centered theological systems. Series: Studies in Intellectual History & the History of Philosophy. Num Pages: 290 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JD; 3JF; HPC; JFCX; PDA; PDND; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 234 x 15. Weight in Grams: 432.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691017099
- ISBN
- 9780691017099
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.72
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Paperback. Exploring the political forces that shaped Impressionism, this work proposes that at the heart of the modern is a "guilty secret" - the need of the dominant, mainly bourgeois, classes in Paris to expunge from historical memory the haunting nightmare of the Commune and its socialist ideology. Series: Princeton Series in Nineteenth-Century Art, Culture & Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, 162 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; ACVT; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 191 x 254 x 13. Weight in Grams: 524.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691015552
- ISBN
- 9780691015552
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Condition: New
€ 65.36€ 50.63
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Paperback. From ritual killings to subtle acts of self-denial, the practice and rhetoric of sacrifice has a special centrality in modern American literature. This book portrays an episode in American cultural history when the literary movement of realism and the fledgling field of sociology both converged in the belief that sacrifice is basic to sociality. Num Pages: 496 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 657.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691015064
- ISBN
- 9780691015064
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Shows Charles Ives in the context of his world in a number of ways. This volume features essays which examine Ives' relationships to European music and to American music, politics, business, and landscape. It also shows Ives as a composer well versed in four distinctive musical traditions who blended them in his mature music. Editor(s): Burkholder, Peter J. Series: The Bard Music Festival. Num Pages: 464 pages, 13 halftones 3 b&w illus 1 map 50+ music exs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVA; AVGC6; AVH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 29. Weight in Grams: 686.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780691011639
- ISBN
- 9780691011639
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Condition: New
€ 53.48€ 42.15
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Paperback. Traces the story of the postwar labor movements supported by a blend of historical investigation and sophisticated statistical analysis in a framework for comparative research. This book integrates institutional explanation and comparative method in a way that balances comparative generality with the historical experiences of specific cases. Num Pages: 256 pages, 14 line illus. 35 tables. BIC Classification: 3JJP; JFSL3; JHBL; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 371.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691010335
- ISBN
- 9780691010335
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Condition: New
€ 59.42€ 46.48
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Paperback. Offers an analysis of rigorous, empirical evidence that exposes the central paradox of racial representation. Using data on representatives elected to Congress between 1972 and 1994, this work examines the link between the racial composition of a congressional district and its representative's race as well as ideology. Num Pages: 176 pages, 28 line illus. 15 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL1; JPH; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 257.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691010106
- ISBN
- 9780691010106
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.82
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Paperback. Explores the brighter side of eternity: heaven. Dispensing with the images of goodness that can make even heaven seem unbearable, this book stimulates our imagination with a history of how the joy of paradise has been conceived by writers, philosophers, and artists for whom heaven was an imminent reality. Num Pages: 256 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRLB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 371.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691006840
- ISBN
- 9780691006840
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 30.95
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Paperback. The era of the American Revolution was one of violent and unpredictable social, economic, and political change, and the dislocations of the period were most severely felt in the South. This title contends that the military struggle there involved a triangle - two sets of white belligerents and approximately 400,000 slaves. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTV; JFSL3; JPWL; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 599.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691006260
- ISBN
- 9780691006260
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Condition: New
€ 53.48€ 42.15
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Hardback. Focuses on the interplay between sexual science and legal decision-making, giving insights into such controversial social and sexual topics as rape, pornography, lesbian motherhood, and sex discrimination. Green examines how the law weighs the desires of the individual against social standards. Num Pages: 336 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFM; JMU; LN; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 590.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674802681
- ISBN
- 9780674802681
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Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 45.10
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€ 45.10
Paperback. By looking at how Tokyo Disneyland is experienced by employees, management and visitors, Aviad Raz shows that it is much more an example of successful importation, adaption, and domestication, and that it has succeeded precisely because it has become Japanese even while marketing itself as foreign. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 256 pages, 9 illustrations, 3 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC; JHBS; KNSG; KNSP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 360.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674768949
- ISBN
- 9780674768949
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.62
€ 27.99
€ 24.62
Paperback. This text argues that despite the upset children experience after parental separation, most adapt successfully provided the mother is secure both financially and psychologically, and conflict between parents is low. The usual casualty of divorce is a declining relationship between father and child. Series: The Family & Public Policy. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JFSP2; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 224.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674655775
- ISBN
- 9780674655775
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Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 37.93
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Paperback. This second edition of Dru Gladney's critically acclaimed study of the Muslim population in China includes a new preface by the author, as well as a valuable addendum to the bibliography, already hailed as one of the most extensive listing of modern sources on the Sino-Muslims. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 518 pages, 40ill.1ch.5M. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSR2; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 35. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 518
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674594975
- ISBN
- 9780674594975
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 26.67
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Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 281.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674569515
- ISBN
- 9780674569515
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 35.88
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Paperback. A full-scale economic analysis of homelessness, this text offers answers in terms of markets, not the bad habits or pathology of individuals. Focusing on six cities, it discusses homelessness as a response to changes in the housing market that are linked to the shrinking of the middle class. Num Pages: 352 pages, 38 linecuts. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFB; JFS; JKSB; KCC. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674543430
- ISBN
- 9780674543430
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 34.86
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Hardcover. Series: East Asian Monograph. Num Pages: 178 pages, 1ill.5M. BIC Classification: JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 400.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674471924
- ISBN
- 9780674471924
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 26.57
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Paperback. Historians and social scientists give an account of what youth has been in the West and what it has meant through the ages, tracing the changing character of young people in culture, society, economics, politics and art from early times. Editor(s): Levi, Giovanni; Schmitt, Jean-Claude. Translator(s): Naish, Camille. Num Pages: 402 pages, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA; HBLC; HBTB; JFSP1; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 610.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 402
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674404076
- ISBN
- 9780674404076
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Condition: New
€ 52.23€ 48.17
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Hardback. Duden's reading of the female body lends a historical and philosophical perspective to such topics as foetal rights, reproductive technologies, abortion, and the right to privacy. This work calls into question contemporary certainties and the policies and programmes they serve to justify. Translator(s): Hoinacki, Lee. Num Pages: 134 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: A; JFCX; JFSJ1; JHBF; JPVH; MJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 134
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First English Language Edition
- SKU
- V9780674212671
- ISBN
- 9780674212671
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.56
€ 25.99
€ 22.56
Hardback. Stigmatized throughout Japanese history as outcastes, the burakumin are contemporary Japan s largest minority. In this study of youths from two different communities, Christopher Bondy explores how individuals navigate their social world, demonstrating the ways in which people make conscious decisions about disclosing a stigmatized identity." Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; JFSC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 236 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674088405
- ISBN
- 9780674088405
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.10
€ 45.99
€ 38.10