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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798669195748Author E C HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 586Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

'Pleasure of Thinking is a very captivating book. Wang Xiaobo's unique blend of rationality, serenity, candor, and sense of humour serves as an embodiment of the liberalism he ardently believes in' Ai WeiweiThe dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528906791Author David KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 203g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515236412Author John Norman GouletFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480278752Author Semyon WhiteFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496148858Author Patrick J LethertFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781466308824Author Marianne MillnamowFormat PaperbackImprint CreatespacePublisher CreatespaceWeight(grams) 73g

This supplement brings the principal text current with recent developments in the law.Book InformationISBN 9781647089061Author Roger A. Fairfax Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Foundation PressPublisher West Academic PublishingWeight(grams) 186g

This report identifies ways to develop human capital by training agricultural professionals to lead the next generation of technology- and innovation-driven agribusinesses. It suggests providing more incentives to young and skilled entrepreneurs and...

This is one of the most justly celebrated texts of the Chinese tradition - impressive for both its bold philosophical imagination and its striking literary style. Accepting the challenge of translating this captivating classic in its entirety, Burton...

This impressive new scholarly translation and commentary on the key work of J do Shinsh 's 8th lineage successor to founder Shinran is an extremely valuable contribution by one of the leading academics in the field. Professor Kemmyo Taira Sato is...

Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit brings a sophisticated and graceful method of analysis to this English translation of her book on the shishosetsu, one of the most important yet misunderstood genres in Japanese literature. Thorough and insightful, this study...

The Mathematical Elasticity set contains three self-contained volumes that together provide the only modern treatise on elasticity. They introduce contemporary research on three-dimensional elasticity, the theory of plates, and the theory of shells. Each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800581975Author Amy BoxshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Make Believe IdeasPublisher Make Believe IdeasWeight(grams) 215g

MPT's summer issue, 'The Previous Song: Focus on Somali Poetry' includes new poems by Asmaa Jama and Hibaq Osman, translations of Amran Maxamed Axmed and Xasan Daahir Ismaaciil 'Weedhsame', an introduction to the lyrics of Qaraami - the popular music of...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780137332267Author Joan SaslowPage Count 176Imprint PearsonPublisher Pearson Education (US)Weight(grams) 340g

Sun on the squeaky sand Sun on the roo Sun on the riverland Sun on me and...YOU! The beach is a fascinating place for a little wombat ... until the rain comes! A heartwarming story inspired by one of Australia's most loved national parks, Wilsons...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911343943Author Eve MathewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint UEA Publishing ProjectPublisher UEA Publishing ProjectWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596728Author Tao YuanmingFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

This book surveys the impact of the British Empire on nineteenth-century British literature from a postcolonial perspective. It explains both pro-imperialist themes and attitudes in works by major Victorian authors, and also points of resistance to and...

This book presents a provocative and timely reconsideration of modern Scottish literature in the light of ecological thought. Louisa Gairn demonstrates how successive generations of Scottish writers have both reflected on and contributed to the...

An engaging and original study of current research on television audiences and the concept of emotion, this book offers a unique approach to key issues within television studies. Topics discussed include: television branding; emotional qualities in...

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 9781604979411Author Ao WangFormat HardbackPage Count 378Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 721gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm

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 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...

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...

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...

What is the sentimental? How can we understand it by way of the visual and narrative modes of signification specific to cinema and through the manners of social interaction and collective imagining specific to a particular culture in transition? What can...

for SATB (with divisions) and organ Density of light is an anthem that sets an evocative hymn by Thomas Troeger. The text is drawn from an Epiphany reading and explores the theme of the triumphing of light over darkness. The organ opens with a rising...

-- 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,...

The 1970s was one of the most culturally vibrant periods in American history. This book discusses the dominant cultural forms of the 1970s - fiction and poetry; television and drama; film and visual culture; popular music and style; public space and...

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,...

During the Tang dynasty, the imperial capital of Chang'an (present-day Xi'an) was unrivaled in its monumental scale, with about one million inhabitants dwelling within its walls. It was there that one of the most enduring cultural and political...