Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Asian American Politics by Andrew L. Aoki 9780745634463
RRP: $70.95$62.09This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of Asian American participation in US politics. Written to be easily accessible to students, the book covers historical and cultural context, political behavior and attitudes, interest groups... -
The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924 by Henry Kiyama 9781880656334
RRP: $19.34$15.04* Translator is well known Japan expert, with over 50K sales, incl. Manga! Manga! (Kodansha, 0870117521, 30,000 cps), America and the Four Japans (1-880656-06-X, 3,500 cps), and Dreamland Japan (1-880656-23-X, 9,000+ cps) both Stone Bridge Press *... -
Goddess Traditions in India: Theological Poems and Philosophical Tales in the Tripurārahasya by Silvia Schwarz Linder 9781032232867
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book on the Tripurārahasya, a South Indian Sanskrit work which occupies a unique place in the Śākta literature, is a study of the Śrīvidyā and Śākta traditions in the context of South Indian intellectual history in the late middle ages.Associated... -
Twenty-First Century Bollywood by Ajay Gehlawat 9781138654273
RRP: $49.01$43.06Key changes have emerged in Bollywood in the new millennium. Twenty-First Century Bollywood traces the emerging shifts in both the content and form of Bollywood cinema and examines these new tendencies in relation to the changing dynamics of Indian... -
The Goddess and the King in Indian Myth: Ring Composition, Royal Power and The Dharmic Double Helix by Raj Balkaran 9781138609570
RRP: $174.15$151.29The Sanskrit narrative text Devi Mahatmya, "The Greatness of The Goddess," extols the triumphs of an all-powerful Goddess, Durga, over universe-imperiling demons. These exploits are embedded in an intriguing frame narrative: a deposed king... -
Comparative Sociology of Examinations by Fumiya Onaka 9781138609242
RRP: $174.15$151.81Contemporary societies are constructed, constricted, and constrained by various series of examinations. Governments of both Western and non-Western countries tend to conduct detailed, multi-layered and continuous systems of tests or examinations... -
Deradicalisation and Terrorist Rehabilitation: A Framework for Policy-making and Implementation by Rohan Gunaratna 9781138602519
RRP: $174.15$151.29The threat of terrorism, if not adequately managed, is likely to increase exponentially. As terrorist groups' influence and networks spread globally, a concerted effort in counterterrorism strategy is critical to mitigating the threat they present... -
International Case Studies of Terrorist Rehabilitation by Rohan Gunaratna 9781138604520
RRP: $174.15$151.29The post 9/11 era has produced structured rehabilitation programmes in a wide range of countries including Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Pakistan, Malaysia, Egypt, Iraq, and Uzbekistan. There are also ad hoc and emerging programmes in Nigeria, China,... -
Theorizing Cohesive Development: An Alternative Paradigm by Sunil Ray 9781138580633
RRP: $174.15$151.29This volume proposes an alternative development paradigm to the existing capitalist extant one, and studies how it is distinctly different from the older system. Rooted in the principles of solidarity between humans, as well as between humans and nature,... -
Security, Socialisation and Affect in Indian Families: Unfamiliar Ground by Ira Raja 9781138383012
RRP: $42.56$37.62Sociological research on Indian families has largely focused on questions of household form and structure, to the exclusion of not only the more nebulous dimensions of family life and relationships but also the discursive and imagined aspects of our... -
Revolutionary Lives in South Asia: Acts and Afterlives of Anticolonial Political Action by Kama Maclean 9781138379374
RRP: $61.91$53.93The term 'revolutionary' is used liberally in histories of Indian anticolonialism, but scarcely defined. Implicitly understood, it functions as a signpost or a badge, generously conferred in hagiographies, loosely invoked in historiography, and... -
Religion and Identity in the South Asian Diaspora by Rajesh Rai 9781138377370
RRP: $42.56$37.62Religious identity constitutes a key element in the formation, development and sustenance of South Asian diasporic communities. Through studies of South Asian communities situated in multiple locales, this book explores the role of religious identity in... -
Constitutional Remedies in Asia by Po Jen Yap 9781138351127
RRP: $174.15$151.29Many jurisdictions in Asia have vested their courts with the power of constitutional review. Traditionally, these courts would invalidate an impugned law to the extent of its inconsistency with the constitution. In common law systems, such an... -
Thinking Beyond the State: Migration, Integration, and Citizenship in Japan and the Philippines by Johanna O Zulueta 9781845199302
$50.88Human mobility has been a widely examined phenomenon in the social sciences, and in this increasingly globalized world migration continues to be of significant concern. The chapters comprising this volume on Thinking Beyond the State address the need to... -
Food Governance in India: Rights, Security and Challenges in the Global Sphere by Ruchita Beri 9781032224596
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book offers insights into the issues around food security, public health, equity and global governance. With a focus on India, it highlights the complex networks of sociopolitical, economic and agricultural challenges to ensure self-sufficiency in... -
Everyday Soviet Utopias: Planning, Design and the Aesthetics of Developed Socialism by Anna Alekseyeva 9780367662455
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book explores how intellectuals of the later Soviet decades – the 1970s and 1980s – sought to bring about the socialist utopian world. It argues that the last two decades of the Soviet Union were not characterised by state withdrawal and malaise, as... -
The Early Transnational Chinese Cinema Industry by Yongchun Fu 9780367661342
RRP: $51.59$45.23Based on extensive original research, including in studio archives, industrial surveys, official records, trade journals, and English and Chinese newspapers, this book explores the role of the American film industry in the development of cinema in China... -
Researching China in Southeast Asia by Ngeow Chow-Bing 9780367671068
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book maps out the state of China Studies in seven Southeast Asian countries from different perspectives. It looks at the history, current status, and characteristics of the study of China in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia,... -
Divinizing in South Asian Traditions by Diana Dimitrova 9780367589752
RRP: $51.59$45.23The issue of divinizing in South Asian traditions has not been examined before as a process involving various methods to affect the socio-cultural cognition of the community. It is therefore essential to consider the context of "divinizing" and to... -
China and the Challenge of Economic Globalization: The Impact of WTO Membership by Hung-Gay Fung 9780367669737
RRP: $47.72$42.48First Published in 2006.Book InformationISBN 9780367669737Author Hung-Gay FungFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 620g -
Ethnographic Inquiry and Lived Experience: An Epistemological Critique by Wing-Chung Ho 9780367662950
RRP: $59.33$51.77Ho addresses two fundamental theoretical questions about how best to practice ethnographic inquiries to obtain qualitative, experience-near, and shareable accounts of human living. The first question is regarding the epistemology of ethnography. Ho... -
The Political Economy of Brain Drain and Talent Capture: Evidence from Malaysia and Singapore by Adam Tyson 9780367584801
RRP: $51.59$45.23Brain drain and talent capture are important issues globally, and especially crucial in countries such as Malaysia and Singapore, which aspire to be innovation-driven advanced economies. This book provides a thorough analysis of the impact of brain drain... -
Transitional Justice in Nepal: Interests, Victims and Agency by Yvette Selim 9780367589370
RRP: $51.59$45.23The conflict in Nepal (1996 – 2006) resulted in an estimated 15,000 deaths, 1,300 disappearances, along with other serious human rights and humanitarian law violations. Demands for peace, democracy, accountability and development, have abounded in the... -
China's New Silk Road: An Emerging World Order by Carmen Amado Mendes 9780367585242
RRP: $51.59$45.23Much is being written about China’s new 'One Belt, One Road' initiative, but much of the writing focuses on China itself, on the destinations of the road – Europe and the Middle East – or on the countries through which the road passes, such as Central... -
South Korean Popular Culture and North Korea by Youna Kim 9780367662233
RRP: $51.59$45.23Over recent decades South Korea's vibrant and distinctive populist culture has spread extensively throughout the world. This book explores how this "Korean wave" has also made an impact in North Korea. The book reveals that although South Korean media... -
Island X: Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism by Wendy Cheng 9780295752068
RRP: $121.26$103.33Island X delves into the compelling political lives of Taiwanese migrants who came to the United States as students from the 1960s through the 1980s. Often depicted as compliant model minorities, many were in fact deeply political, shaped by Taiwan's... -
Asian American Histories of the United States by Catherine Ceniza Choy 9780807012710
RRP: $21.92$16.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807012710Author Catherine Ceniza ChoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Food Governance in India: Rights, Security and Challenges in the Global Sphere by Ruchita Beri 9781138347137
RRP: $174.15$151.29This book offers insights into the issues around food security, public health, equity and global governance. With a focus on India, it highlights the complex networks of socio-political, economic and agricultural challenges to ensure self-sufficiency in... -
Security, Socialisation and Affect in Indian Families: Unfamiliar Ground by Ira Raja 9780415622011
RRP: $154.80$133.66Sociological research on Indian families has largely focused on questions of household form and structure, to the exclusion of not only the more nebulous dimensions of family life and relationships but also the discursive and imagined aspects of our... -
Goddess Traditions in India: Theological Poems and Philosophical Tales in the Tripurarahasya by Silvia Schwarz Linder 9780367277031
RRP: $167.70$144.62This book on the Tripurarahasya, a South Indian Sanskrit work which occupies a unique place in the Sakta literature, is a study of the Srividya and Sakta traditions in the context of South Indian intellectual history in the late middle ages. Associated... -
The Feminist Shaw: Shaw and the Contemporary Literary Theories of Feminism by Nishtha Mishra 9780367210748
RRP: $174.15$151.29This book takes us through the life and works of George Bernard Shaw as a feminist. It critically explores his major plays to showcase how his works discuss ideas, practices, discourses, and ideologies that are considered to be antecedents to the modern... -
Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor by Allan Punzalan Isaac 9780823298525
RRP: $109.65$93.59.Book InformationISBN 9780823298525Author Allan Punzalan IsaacFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Fordham University PressPublisher Fordham University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
China in Japan's National Security: Domestic Credibility by Toshiya Takahashi 9781032174426
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book explores Japan's emerging national security policy in relation to China. It considers the rise of nationalism in contemporary Japan, the recent actions of the Abe government to change Japan's security policy course and the importance of... -
Claiming Place: On the Agency of Hmong Women by Chia Youyee Vang 9780816697786
RRP: $33.53$28.43Countering the idea of Hmong women as victims, the contributors to this pathbreaking volume demonstrate how the prevailing scholarly emphasis on Hmong culture and men as the primary culprits of women's subjugation perpetuates the perception of a Hmong... -
Desis In The House: Indian American Youth Culture In Nyc by Sunaina Maira 9781566399272
RRP: $32.24$27.39She sports a nose-ring and duppata (a scarf worn by South Asian women) along with the latest fashion in slinky club wear; he's decked out in Tommy gear. Their moves on the crowded dance floor, blending Indian film dance with break-dancing, attract no... -
The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen: Heroic Pasts in India, c. 1500-1900 by Ramya Sreenivasan 9780295987606
RRP: $33.53$28.43Winner of the 2009 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies The medieval Rajput queen Padmini - believed to have been pursued by Alauddin Khalji, the Sultan of Delhi - has been the focus of numerous South... -
Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World by Tahseen Shams 9781503610699
RRP: $127.71$108.73Challenging the commonly held perception that immigrants' lives are shaped exclusively by their sending and receiving countries, Here, There, and Elsewhere breaks new ground by showing how immigrants are vectors of globalization who both produce and... -
Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest: Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians in the Twentieth Century by Louis Fiset 9780295984612
$36.70Challenging the notion that Nikkei individuals before and during World War II were helpless pawns manipulated by forces beyond their control, the diverse essays in this rich collection focus on the theme of resistance within Japanese American and... -
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American History, Art, and Culture in 101 Objects by Erika Lee 9781588347510
RRP: $49.02$30.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588347510Author Erika LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian Books -
Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake by Diane C. Fujino
RRP: $33.53$28.43Demanding liberation, advocating for the oppressed, and organizing for justice, siblings Mitsuye Yamada (1923–) and Michael Yasutake (1920–2001) rebelled against respectability and assimilation, charting their own paths for what it means to be Nisei...