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Paperback. Num Pages: 204 pages, 40 photos. BIC Classification: 1FPC; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 215 x 11. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Blacksmith Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789881613950
- ISBN
- 9789881613950
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.46
€ 16.99
€ 12.46
Hardcover. By the tenth century CE, Mount Wutai had become a major pilgrimage site within the emerging culture of a distinctively Chinese Buddhism. This book traces confluence of factors that produced this transformation and argues that monastic architecture, more than texts, relics, or pilgrimages, was the key to Mount Wutai's emergence as a sacred site. Series: Art History Publication Initiative Books. Num Pages: 344 pages, 61 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; AMN; HRE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 179 x 27. Weight in Grams: 828.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295993522
- ISBN
- 9780295993522
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.96
€ 74.96
Paperback. Series: Cornell East Asia. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; DSB; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Cornell Univ East Asia Program
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933947662
- ISBN
- 9781933947662
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.59
€ 36.99
€ 35.59
Hardback. Series: Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations & Historical Eras. Num Pages: 584 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; GBC; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 147 x 39. Weight in Grams: 950.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 584
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810849303
- ISBN
- 9780810849303
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 243.33
€ 243.33
Paperback. Focuses on the issues of Arab immigrants post 9/11 and the way they interact with global processes Num Pages: 242 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FBL; JFFN; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814707340
- ISBN
- 9780814707340
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.30
€ 32.99
€ 31.30
Paperback. This book offers a concise history of US policy in Iraq since 1990 and how it has evolved over two decades. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 1KBB; 3JJPR; 3JM; HB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405198998
- ISBN
- 9781405198998
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.98
€ 44.98
Paperback. Num Pages: 104 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 143 x 217 x 10. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226731360
- ISBN
- 9780226731360
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 24.51
€ 31.99
€ 24.51
Roots of Wisdom, Branches of Devotion: Plant Life in South Asian Tradi...
Dr. Fabrizio M. Ferrari (Ed.)
Paperback. This volume explores the way in which various religious traditions, including Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, have represented and reflected upon the botanical environment - the sacred nature of trees and flora, the significance of plants as food and medicine, agriculture and the use of plants in ritual and myth. Editor(s): Ferrari, Dr. Fabrizio M.; Dahnhardt, Thomas. Num Pages: 256 pages, 48 figures. BIC Classification: 1FK; HRAC; HRLK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 20. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781791202
- ISBN
- 9781781791202
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.95
€ 41.95
Hardcover. Through an exploration of contemporary Chinese popular religion from its cultural, social, and material perspectives, Wei-Ping Lin paints a broad picture of the dynamics of popular religion in Taiwan. Analyzing these aspects of religious practice in a unified framework, she traces their transformation as adherents move from villages to cities. Num Pages: 217 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRA; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674504363
- ISBN
- 9780674504363
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.31
€ 44.99
€ 37.31
hardcover. The acute energy problems facing China today are characterized by their own histories and realities. Some have come about because of China's energy endowment and stage of development, while others have been created by a combination of domestic and global factors. Num Pages: 398 pages, illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: 1FPC; KNBL; RNFY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 172 x 24. Weight in Grams: 754.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 398
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781118716359
- ISBN
- 9781118716359
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.75
€ 91.75
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195333381
- ISBN
- 9780195333381
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.86
€ 62.86
Paperback. Presents the essential background information and methods for effective teaching and writing on cross-cultural history. This title charts the advances in understanding in their fields of concentration, revealing both specific findings and broad patterns that have emerged. Series: Critical Perspectives on the Past Series. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FB; HBG; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 25. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566390682
- ISBN
- 9781566390682
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.47
€ 46.99
€ 41.47
Paperback. New findings show that the death toll from the Cambodian genocide was approximately 2.2 million about a half million higher than commonly believed. Despite regular denials from the surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge, the author demonstrates not only that they were aware of the mass killings, but that they personally managed and directed them. Series: Modern Southeast Asia Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illus., maps. BIC Classification: 1FMC; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Texas Tech University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896725805
- ISBN
- 9780896725805
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.23
€ 25.99
€ 24.23
Paperback. Num Pages: 275 pages, 1, maps. BIC Classification: 1FM; HBJF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780877277255
- ISBN
- 9780877277255
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.39
€ 32.99
€ 29.39
Hardback. Provides a comprehensive evaluation of the consequences of the Iraq war for the national security of the United States. This work examines both how the war has advanced or retarded the achievement of other important goals of US national security policy and its impact on the ability of the US to pursue its security interests in the future. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 1KBB; 3JMC; HBJF; HBJK; HBLX; HBWS5; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804760133
- ISBN
- 9780804760133
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 32.69
€ 38.99
€ 32.69
Biogeochemistry of Thermokarst Lakes of Western Siberia (Biochemistry ...
Pokrovsky, O. S., Shirokova, L. S., Kirpotin,...
Hardcover. Num Pages: 112 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FCS; RBGD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Nova Science Pub Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781629485676
- ISBN
- 9781629485676
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.82€ 99.57
€ 145.82
€ 99.57
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 380 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; 3JJG; HBWS2; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691610368
- ISBN
- 9780691610368
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.68€ 49.96
€ 64.68
€ 49.96
Paperback. Kedourie attributes much of Britain's faulty and disastrous handling of Middle East problems to what he calls the 'Chatham House Version'. The episodes that Kedourie investigates show 'successive and cumulative manifestations of illusion, misjudgement, maladroitness and failure'. Together they point to hard lessons for the Bush admin. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 157 x 35. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566635615
- ISBN
- 9781566635615
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.75
€ 23.99
€ 22.75
Hardcover. Series: Real Estate Issues. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FP; KFFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470672662
- ISBN
- 9780470672662
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.90
€ 127.90
Paperback. Describes the physical characteristics of the weights and their relationships, their manufacture, standardization and usage as well as the various motifs, their origins and transference to Burma. This title also includes a discussion of the different animal shapes and their symbolic significance. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMB; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 151 x 25. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP Thailand
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789747551204
- ISBN
- 9789747551204
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.83
€ 47.83
Paperback. Based on interviews with forty American and Filipino survivors who-battling hunger, dysentery, malaria, and rapidly encroaching Japanes-were the untested but brilliant defenders of General MacArthur and Wainwright's tiny island fortress. Num Pages: 560 pages, 27. BIC Classification: 1FMP; HBJD; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 159 x 30. Weight in Grams: 752.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815410850
- ISBN
- 9780815410850
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.02
€ 22.02
Paperback. Firmly based on the insight that memory is always mediated and that the past is not a stable object, this title demonstrates that we can intervene positively yet critically in the recovery and reinterpretation of events and experiences that have been pushed to the peripheries of the past. Editor(s): Fujitani, T.; White, Geoffrey M.; Yoneyama, Lisa. Num Pages: 472 pages, 38 b&w photographs, 3 tables, 2 charts. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1QSP; HBJF; HBLW3; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822325642
- ISBN
- 9780822325642
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 33.44
€ 34.99
€ 33.44
Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; GTJ; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Independent Institute,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781598130256
- ISBN
- 9781598130256
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.70
€ 16.99
€ 15.70
Hardcover. An account of how small machines and consumer goods that originated in Europe and North America became objects of everyday use in India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines the assimilation and appropriation of bicycles, rice mills, sewing machines, and typewriters in India. Series: science.culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 22 halftones, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTK; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226922027
- ISBN
- 9780226922027
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.08€ 77.43
€ 94.08
€ 77.43