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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783962032074Author Mariano PavanelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Galda VerlagPublisher Galda VerlagWeight(grams) 445g

This innovative analysis of the Philippine historical crisis is accompanied by a critique of a U.S. racial formation in which Filipinos constitute the largest Asian group. Literary and artistic expressions by Filipinos manifest a new emerging identity...

Female Doctors in Canada is an accessible collection of articles by experienced physicians and researchers exploring how systems, practices, and individuals must change as medicine becomes an increasingly female-dominated profession. As the ratio of...

This book establishes asylum seekers as a socially excluded group, investigating the policy of dispersing asylum seekers across the UK and providing an overview of historic and contemporary dispersal systems. It is the first book to seek to understand...

Disorienting Politics mines 21st-century media artifacts--including films like The Martian and TV/streaming media shows such as Firefly and House of Cards--to make visible the economic, cultural, political, and ecological entanglements of China and the...

A contradictory creation indeed, the European Union has most of the institutions of a modern democracy, yet it does not function as one. Moreover, its growing scope of activity and supranational decision making processes are undermining the legitimacy of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725286351Author Theodros A TekluFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

More than ever before, China is on the move. When the flow of people and images is fused, meanings of self, place, space, community, and nation become unstable and contestable. This fascinating book explores the ways in which movement within and across...

Rich in historical perspective on women and men in the context of economic development, this ethnography provides a unique window on rural China since the 1930s. Laurel Bossen uses her detailed knowledge to explore theories regarding such momentous...

This book, first published in 1989, examines the practice of international business in the Asia-Pacific region. It examines the factors which have influenced its growth and dissemination and analyses particular elements in a transnational, cross-cultural...

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IntroductionPart I: KOREA AND JAPANThe Influence of Chinese Stories and Novels on Korean Fiction (translated by W.R. Skillend) by Kim Dong-ukThe Plots of Chinese Fiction in Korean Vernacular Novels by A.F. TrotsevichChinese Colloquial Novels in Japan -...

This book analyzes Chinese history, politics, and economic development through the lens of labor allocation within the world's largest workforce. Capturing the peculiarities, continuities, and changes in the PRC's institutional structure, Fei-Ling Wang...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725265707Author Damasus C OkoroFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 290g

Japanese Americans have long contended with settler colonization and mass criminalization by the state, most notably during the WWII era when they were forced into incarceration camps. In Carceral Entanglements, Wendi Yamashita asks, how do narratives of...

The Balinese devotion to their temples is both legendary and conspicuous, but the ways in which they enshrine their innermost desires have long been hidden. This ethnography draws back the veil by focusing on the romantic experiences of women in a rural...

The first English-language anthology of its kind, Red Is Not the Only Color offers a window into the uncharted terrain of intimate relations between Chinese women. As urban China has undergone rapid transformation, same-sex relations have emerged as a...

Introduction to the History of African Civilization explores the major issues dominating African Civilization from the earliest recorded period to the eve of colonial conquest of the continent. C. Magbaily Fyle begins with a discussion of the myths and...

Ethnicity is a highly politicized issue in contemporary China. Twentieth-century nation-building has been intimately involved with classification of ChinaOs fifty-five ethnic minorities and with fostering harmony and unity among nationalities. Officially...

The last quarter of the 20th Century saw political and military upheavals in the Persian Gulf area which included, among other things, an epochal revolution in Iran, a very long and bloody war between Iran and Iraq, a second war between Iraq and an...

In recent years, Mexican films have received high acclaim and impressive box-office returns. Moreover, Mexico has the most advanced movie industry in the Spanish-speaking world, and its impact on Mexican culture and society cannot be overstated. Mexico's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789522226822Author Timo KallinenFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden SeuraPublisher Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden...

Tong Shao-Yi and His Family presents a biography of the Chinese statesman Tong Shao-Yi, one of the first hundred boys sent from China in the 1870's to live with American families and attend American schools. Tong returned to China in 1881 to become a...

This book examines the political parties which emerged on the territories of the former Ottoman, Qing, Russian, and Habsburg empires and not only took over government power but merged with government itself. It discusses how these parties, disillusioned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789967252721Author Richard HewittFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Sonoon JerPublisher Sonoon JerWeight(grams) 60g

Uninformed and reactionary responses in the years following the events of 9/11 and the ongoing 'War on Terror' have greatly affected ideas of citizenship and national belonging. In Securitized Citizens, Baljit Nagra, develops a new critical analysis of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725265691Author Damasus C OkoroFormat HardbackPage Count 214Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Few groups face as many misconceptions within their new countries as do Muslim immigrants. This book challenges the common misperceptions of Muslim immigrants as a homogeneous, religiously driven group and identifies the tensions they experience within...

Canadian Sikhs have seen great changes in the lives of their communities, which are primarily concentrated in larger urban centres, especially Vancouver and the British Columbia lower mainland. In The Sikh Diaspora in Vancouver, Kamala Elizabeth Nayar...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789518580686Author Clifford SatherFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Suomen Kirjallisuuden SeuraPublisher Suomen Kirjallisuuden SeuraWeight(grams) 431g

During the early decades of the twentieth century, Thailand's capital, Bangkok, took on an increasingly cosmopolitan character-a development fueled both by global economic forces and a local revolution in communications. The 1920s were a particularly...

Vision and Time is a wake up call for Africans and people of goodwill that the academic enterprise cannot continue knowledge creation with a business as usual attitude. There has to be a major transformation of the intellectual perspectives regarding...

The Constitutional History and Law of Sierra Leone (1961-1995) is a legal analysis of the complex interaction between constitutional norms and institutional and societal forces. Sierra Leone, a new Commonwealth state once regarded as a model of British...

This indispensable text reader provides a broad-ranging and thoughtfully organized feminist introduction to the ongoing controversies of development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Designed for use in a variety of college courses, the volume collects...

How are histories of racial oppression dealt with in contexts of diversity? Chana Teeger tackles this question by examining how young South Africans, born into democracy, confront their country’s racist apartheid past in high school history lessons...

In this first book to explore the Chinese diaspora from geographical perspectives, leading scholars in the field consider the profound importance of meanings of place and the spatial processes of mobility and settlement for the Chinese overseas. They...

Ethnic and religious differences, a widening socio-economic divide, tension between foreigners and locals. These are some of the contemporary challenges to integration in Singapore. How we navigate them will determine the type of society we become. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786206154655Author Besim MuhadriFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783942883146Author Tatiana BulgakovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Verlag Der Kulturstiftung SibirienPublisher Verlag Der Kulturstiftung...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789518581348Author Hanna SnellmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden SeuraPublisher Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden...