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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788495427366Format HardbackPage Count 292Imprint Ediciones EneidaPublisher Ediciones Eneida

This book identifies past socio-economic conditions in the different ecological regions of Pakistan as viewed by the communities the author has worked or interacted with, present conditions, and emerging trends. It also identifies the actors of change...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662426711Author Nathaniel BaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Page Publishing, Inc.Publisher Page Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams) 152g

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Mirjana Vrbaski: odd time, the artist's first monograph, cuts to the core of Vrbaski's practice: A ritualistic search for states of quiet tension. Accompanied by Koen Potgieter's insightful contemplation, odd time juxtaposes Vrbaski's austere portraits...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639088182Author Sameer HemmadyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams) 367g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorEmily Bryson is an ESOL lecturer, writer, teacher trainer and graphic facilitator. Her first teaching experience was at a summer school in Poland in 2002. After...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733540063Author Richard HarteisFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Poets Choice PublishingPublisher Poets Choice PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781393970057Author Eric R AsherFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Eric R Asher LLCPublisher Eric R Asher LLCWeight(grams) 133g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781336755Author Irene EizenFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Rethink PressPublisher Rethink PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631955082Author Alena ChapmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Morgan James Publishing llcPublisher Morgan James Publishing llc

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This well written and thoroughly researched biographical account of the life and times of a South African WW2 pilot (the author's father) is sure to appeal widely. The story is by necessity highly personal, drawing on family history and changing...

The last few days have been days of intolerable tension we have done nothing but pack our belongings and store them in bomb-proof sites. Danger threatens from all sides. The Americans are using phosphorous shells, against which all extinguishers are...

Writing Places is a creative writing and literary translation project between students at the University of East Anglia in Norwich and Jadavpur University in Kolkata. Encouraging students to explore the connections between writing and place, this...

Cultures have long defined themselves through biological elements to prove their strength and longevity, from cherry blossoms in Japan to amber waves of grain in the United States. In Ecology without Culture, Christine L. Marran introduces the concept of...

Solomon is the figurehead who holds the family of 'wisdom' texts together. In this study, Katharine Dell argues that a core of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes forms the inner sanctum of the 'Solomonic wisdom corpus', with the Song of Songs as a close relative,...

This book, newly available in paperback, presents a distinctive theoretical approach to the problem of borders in the study of global politics. It turns from current debates about the presence or absence of borders between states to consider the...

This book is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the key debates concerning the representation of masculinities in a wide range of popular television genres. The volume looks at the depiction of public masculinity in the soap opera,...

Often considered China's greatest poet, Du Fu (712-770) came of age at the height of the Tang dynasty, in an era marked by confidence that the accumulated wisdom of the precedent cultural tradition would guarantee civilization's continued stability and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorBurton Watson is one of the world's best-known translators from the Chinese and Japanese. His translations include The Lotus Sutra, The Vimalakirti Sutra, Ryokan:...

Despite more than a passing nod to such crowdpleasing classics as Hitchcock's North by Northwest, playwright-turned-independent filmmaker David Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner is a particularly idiosyncratic film that betrays its origin outside the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974261867Author Robin, D GillFormat PaperbackPage Count 740Imprint Paraverse PressPublisher Paraverse PressWeight(grams) 1299gDimensions(mm) 246mm *...

The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. It is often...

Often considered an exotic garment of "traditional Japan," the kimono is in fact a vibrant part of Japanese modernity, playing an integral role in literature and film throughout the twentieth century. Reading the Kimono is the first extended study to...

In an age of social media and reality television, reading and consumption habits in India now demand homegrown pulp fictions. Ulka Anjaria categorizes post-2000 Indian literature and popular culture as constituting “the contemporary,” a movement defined...

Yi Kwang-su (1892-1950) was one of the pioneers of modern Korean literature. When the serialization of Mujong (The Heartless) began in 1917, it was an immediate sensation, and it occupies a prominent place in the Korean literary canon. The Heartless...

Focusing on two late-Ming or early-Qing plays central to the Chinese canon, this thought-provoking study explores crucial questions concerning personal identity. How is a person, as opposed to a ghost or animal, to be defined? How can any specific person...

In the last two decades, China has become a dramatically more urban society and hundreds of millions of people have changed residence in the process. Family and communal bonds have been broken in a country once known as "a society of kith and kin." There...

Maeda Ai was a prominent literary critic and an influential public intellectual in late-twentieth-century Japan. Text and the City is the first book of his work to appear in English. A literary and cultural critic deeply engaged with European critical...

The long seventeenth century in China was a period of tremendous commercial expansion, and no literary genre was better equipped to articulate its possibilities than southern drama. As a form and a practice, southern drama was in the business of...

Yan Zhitui (531-590s) was a courtier and cultural luminary who lived a colourful life during one of the most chaotic periods, known as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, in Chinese history. Beginning his career in the southern Liang court, he was taken...

Today the term "Japanese literary classics" implies such texts as the Man'yoshu, Kojiki, Tale of Genji, Tale of the Heike, Noh drama, and the works of Saikaku, Chikamatsu, and Basho, which are considered the wellspring and embodiment of Japanese...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974261850Author Robin D GillFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint Paraverse PressPublisher Paraverse PressWeight(grams) 893gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm...

-- Los Angeles TimesThe fourth book in a multivolume history of modern Japanese literature by one of the world's most accomplished translators and scholars of Japanese culture and literature, this volume offers unparalleled insight into Japanese poetry,...

This work comprises the first complete English translation of Shi no Genri, one of the most important attempts at a theory of literature written in the modern period. Hagiwara Sakutaro (1886-1942) was not only an original poet but also a perceptive and...

Listen to what I am about to tell you: do not read this book alone. You really shouldn't. In one of the most playful experiments ever put between two covers, every other section of Trance-Migrations prescribes that you read its incantatory tales out loud...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024095Author KangxiFormat HardbackPage Count 316Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research Library &...

The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. The first book of its...