Regional Studies

This is the first systematic analysis of the early introduction and reception of international law as a Western political and legal science in China. International law in late imperial China is studied both as part of the introduction of the Western...

The present work supplements the original volume of The Arabic Manuscript Tradition (AMT), both its glossary of technical terms and bibliography. It includes new entries of technical terms, additional definitions of, and/or citations for, the entries...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639736263Author Asne SeierstadFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams)...

Virtual Lotus is the first anthology to represent diverse writers throughout Southeast Asia. Their short stories reflect the tremendous social, political, and cultural changes experienced in the region during an age of rapid modernization. Both...

While Karnatic music, a form of Indian music based on the melodic principle of raga and time cycles called tala, is known today as South India's classical music, its status as "classical" is an early-twentieth-century construct, one that emerged in the...

Cultural China is a unique annual publication for up-to-date, informed, and accessible commentary about Chinese and Sinophone languages, cultural practices, politics and production, and their critical analysis. It builds on the University of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788186880753Author Hem KusumFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Aravali Books InternationalPublisher Aravali Books International

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788185055985Author Malati MahajanFormat HardbackPage Count 339Imprint Sandeep PrakashanPublisher Sandeep Prakashan

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788170491101Author Dr. Adnan Khalil PashaFormat HardbackPage Count 277Imprint Manas PublicationsPublisher Manas Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788178350967Author Kanwar SenFormat HardbackImprint Kalpaz PublicationsPublisher Kalpaz Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999721596Author Rob BurtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Limitline PublishingPublisher Limitline PublishingWeight(grams) 535g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390022298Author Sunita LallFormat HardbackPage Count 374Imprint Primus BooksPublisher Primus BooksWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788187358169Author Peeyush BajpaiFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Social Science PressPublisher Social Science Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783758306068Author Jörg BerchemFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Books on DemandPublisher Books on DemandWeight(grams) 141g

"This book discusses Vietnam's relations with ASEAN in the period from the early 1970s to mid-1990s. It focuses on the evolution of Hanoi's view on ASEAN, from denial to integration in the organization. Further, it reveals the reasons behind Hanoi's...

The Soviet Far East (1957) examines the Soviet economic and political development of the Russian Far East between Lake Baikal and the Pacific, as it gained importance as the geographic base of Soviet power in the Far Eastern theatre of international...

The Russian Workers’ Republic (1921) is a result of the author’s two-month travels through Soviet Russia. Moving freely from cities to villages, he provides a snapshot of Russian politics and society, industry and military, at a crucial point in 1920...

Focused on a set of overlapping international orders of regional scope present in the Middle East and North Africa, this book argues that rules and primary institutions have sanctioned the foreign behavior of the sub-system’s international actors since...

Shibata, Carroll and Boege address the various dimensions of the climate change–conflict nexus and shed light on the overwhelming challenges of climate change in the Pacific Islands region.This book highlights the multidimensionality of the problems:...

Focusing on Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 1111) – one of the foremost scholars and authorities in the Muslim world who is central to the Islamic intellectual tradition – this book embarks on a study of doubt (shakk) and certainty (yaqīn) in his epistemology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800087804Author Tim Beasley-MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press

This book, first published in 1967, gives us a rich sampling of ch'u, the characteristic poem of the time of Yuan, when China was under Mongol rule. The ch'u was a popular form of poetry in the sense that although it was written by literati, they wrote...

Global Studies: A Reader on Issues and Institutions provides students with a collection of curated articles that help them better understand the complex, daily functioning of our world. The anthology explores topics and issues that are equally vital at...

Nigerian drug lords in UK prisons, khat-chewing Somali pirates hijacking Western ships, crystal meth-smoking gangs controlling South Africa's streets, and narco-traffickers corrupting the state in Guinea-Bissau: these are some of the vivid images...

This book, first published in 1994, is a compendium of new translations of certain works regarded as fundamental texts in the Serene Reflection Buddhist Tradition (Soto Zen). All the texts were in Chinese, either as original works or as translations from...

Despite attempts to redress the balance, international relations (IR) as a discipline is still dominated by Western theories. The contributors in this book explore the challenges of constructing an alternative, with a dialogue between global and local...

This book, first published in 1912, is an English translation of The Diamond Sutra from the Chinese text of Kumarajiva, one of the most metaphysical of the works ascribed to Buddha. With parallel passages and numerous annotations, this is a classic...

Focusing on the 25 January 2011 Egyptian revolution, this book traces its affective and emotional dynamics into the local realties and everyday politics of the urban subaltern, exploring the impact of revolutionary participation on protestors' engagement...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of India’s social and economic transformation in the decades leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic and explores both resilience and vulnerabilities in Indian society.It provides an in-depth look into diverse...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789365544558Author Anoop PrabhuFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Orangebooks PublicationPublisher Orangebooks PublicationWeight(grams) 163g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917646215Author Alexander DuginFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Arktos MediaPublisher Arktos MediaWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915445209Author Séagh KehoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint University of Westminster PressPublisher University of Westminster PressWeight(grams)...

Based on a combination of a wide range of second-hand sources with previously unknown archival material from Spain, Britain, France and the United States, this book explores the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39 as a propaganda battle aimed mainly at foreign...

This report documents Asia's progress in regional cooperation and integration. This publication documents Asia's progress in regional cooperation and integration. It covers the 48 regional members of the Asian Development Bank and analyzes regional as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789352616114Author Vikas DoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Vani PrakashanPublisher Vani Prakashan

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783758326417Author Axmed Artan HangheFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Books on DemandPublisher Books on DemandWeight(grams) 191g

This edited volume focuses on the attempts of various Caribbean countries to diversify their economies and societies. It is done in the context of political and economic difficulties that these countries have faced since the 2007-2008 economic crash and...

The CAREC Program, now 16 years in operation, has recorded impressive achievements in regional economic cooperation, particularly in the areas of transport, energy, trade facilitation, and trade policy. From 2001 to end September 2017, investments in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789966028679Author Professor Kimani NjoguFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Twaweza CommunicationsPublisher Twaweza CommunicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956791118Author Tatah MentanFormat PaperbackPage Count 578Imprint African Books CollectivePublisher African Books CollectiveWeight(grams) 839g