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The Idea of New India: Essays in Defence of Critical Thought by Pramod Kumar 9781032150697
RRP: £135.00£117.28The idea of 'New India' has acquired a new currency. The dominant grammar of politics dilutes the critical impulse and deters the expression of alternate politics. The interpretive possibilities have been replaced by a reactive exchange. Technology is... -
Rethinking Bihar and Bengal: History, Culture and Religion by Birendra Nath Prasad 9781032117225
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book unravels some significant yet hitherto neglected aspects of history, culture and religion of Bihar and Bengal: two regions that were connected through an intricate network of rivers. Themes delved into are: early historic urbanisation in the... -
The Middle Class in Colonial Malabar: A Social History by Sreejith K. 9781032116358
RRP: £135.00£117.28Members of the middle class in colonial Malabar left behind a copious amount of writings. These are to be found, among other places, in magazines, autobiographies and diaries. This book explores the social history of the middle class in the region during... -
Open and Distance Learning in Secondary School Education in India: Potentials and Limitations by Jyotsna Jha 9781032176628
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book examines the state of the Open and Distance Learning (ODL)-based secondary education in India. ODL-based education has been a key resource for children in India who can neither cope with nor avail of regular schooling opportunities due to... -
Opportunities and Challenges for the Greater Mekong Subregion: Building a Shared Vision of Our River by Charles Samuel Johnston 9781032175195
RRP: £39.99£35.06The Mekong River is a vital and valuable resource, with huge development potential for the six states through which it flows. Given the significant asymmetry of power between those states, however, there is a real risk that some might utilise it to the... -
Agent Orange and Rural Development in Post-war Vietnam by Vu Le Thao Chi 9781032173382
RRP: £39.99£35.06Vu tells the story of Vietnamese farmers who have survived a 30-year war of independence and unification, its damaging legacies in their living environment, and the unfamiliar pressure of the market economy. Vietnamese famers are neither simply... -
Transition in Afghanistan: Hope, Despair and the Limits of Statebuilding by William Maley 9780367438722
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book, by one of the most experienced authorities on the subject, presents a deep analysis of the very difficult current situation in Afghanistan. Covering a wide range of important subjects including state-building, democracy, war, the rule of law,... -
Corruption and the Russian Economy: How Administrative Corruption Undermines Entrepreneurship and Economic Opportunities by Yulia Krylova 9780367438685
RRP: £39.99£35.06Corruption and the Russian Economy examines why the number of entrepreneurs is declining so rapidly in contemporary Russia, how many economic opportunities are being irrevocably lost each year because of administrative corruption, and why... -
Chinese Private Manufacturing Firms: The Challenges of Global Competition by Xiao Chen 9780367438555
RRP: £39.99£35.06Since the beginning of China's economic reform in 1978, private manufacturing firms have played an indispensable role in, and have made a remarkable contribution to, the country's economic development. This book, based on extensive original research,... -
Television in Transition in East Asia by Ki-Sung Kwak 9780367438364
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book examines the development of television broadcasting in Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea. It explores the policy regimes guiding the development of television broadcasting as a powerful institution and the extent to which new forms of television... -
Ideology and Social Protests in Eastern Europe: Beyond the Transition's Liberal Consensus by Veronika Stoyanova 9780367438548
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book argues that the recent political mobilizations in Eastern Europe have been underpinned by a class struggle between a more conservative and a more radical line of contention. The latter line, the book contends, is designed by and for subaltern... -
Contemporary Chinese Theatre by Roger Howard 9780367771492
£93.60Chinese theatre underwent a great experiment under the cultural revolution. Using the reformed Beijing operas as models, the whole range of theatre arts, from straight plays to acrobatics and from ballet to ballads saw a profound transformation... -
China in the Asian Financial Crisis by Peter Nolan 9780367523398
RRP: £37.99£33.38The widely held view of the Asian Financial Crisis is that it had no substantial impact on China. In fact, the country was far more vulnerable than most people realized, due to the high possibility of financial contagion entering the system from Hong... -
Social Change in Syria: Family, Village and Political Party by Sulayman N. Khalaf 9780367506278
RRP: £37.99£33.38Studying a rural village in northern Syria during a period of tremendous social and political change (1940s to 1970s), this book offers a unique perspective on how agrarian transformations in land distribution and its use deeply affected social and... -
Dependence and Autonomy: Women's Employment and the Family in Calcutta by Hilary Standing 9781032285924
£106.61What are the effects of employment on women's well-being and social position in a Third World city? Until recently before publication, Calcutta (now Kolkata) had been notable for having one of the lowest rates of female employment in India. This had... -
China Bloodies Bulletless Borders by Anil Bhat 9789390095476
RRP: £35.00£33.51After the shock of the conflict against the Indian Army in Sikkim in 1967 and the loss of almost 400 soldiers, the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) pressed for resolving all territorial disputes by discussion only, without using force or firearms... -
Ethiopian Church Archives Collection: Volume 1: Ethiopian Manuscripts Digital Library, Codices 1-213 by Meley Mulugetta 9781569024492
RRP: £59.95£38.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569024492Author Meley MulugettaFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S. -
Russia's Far North: The Contested Energy Frontier by Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen 9780367438531
RRP: £39.99£35.06The Russian Far North is immensely rich in resources, both energy and other resources, and is also one of the least developed regions of Russia. This book presents a comprehensive overview of the region. It examines resource issues and the related... -
The Dazzle of the Digital: Unbundling India Online by Meghna Bal 9780367343033
RRP: £45.99£37.53The Dazzle of the Digital is written in the context of digital technology's inextricable link with progress and modernity in India, with the Covid pandemic in the backdrop. Digital technology such as smartphones and the internet exemplify the popular... -
Insights from the Risale-i Nur: Said Nursi's Advice for Modern Believers by Thomas Michel 9781597842891
RRP: £9.99£6.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597842891Author Thomas MichelFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint The Light IncPublisher Tughra BooksWeight(grams) 332g -
Private Anti-Piracy Navies: How Warships for Hire are Changing Maritime Security by John J. Pitney, Jr. 9781498520560
RRP: £48.00£42.05The twenty-first century has seen a sharp rise in privatization of the military, especially of logistics and security functions during the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The outbreak of Somali piracy that started in 2008 has prompted a similar... -
Afghanistan: Politics and Economics in a Globalising State by Niamatullah Ibrahimi 9781138320918
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book offers an overview of the formation of the Afghan state and of the politics, economic challenges and international relations of contemporary Afghanistan. It opens with an account of some of the key features that make Afghanistan unique and... -
Gender and Hindu Nationalism: Understanding Masculine Hegemony by Prem Kumar Vijayan 9781032401201
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book presents an innovative approach to gender, nationalism, and the relations between them, and analyses the broader social base of Hindu nationalist organisation to understand the growth of 'Hindutva', or Hindu nationalism, in India. Arguing that... -
Writing Beijing: Urban Spaces and Cultural Imaginations in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Films by Yiran Zheng 9781498531016
RRP: £78.00£24.57One of the oldest cities in the world, Beijing was an imperial capital for centuries. After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Beijing became not only the political center of the new communist country, but also the signifier of... -
Cultural Histories of India: Subaltern Spaces, Peripheral Genres, and Alternate Historiography by Rita Banerjee 9781032400563
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book explores the social and cultural histories of India, focusing on cultural encounters and representations of subaltern communities from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. Examining cultural encounters between Europeans and Indians... -
Parliaments in South Asia: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh by Nizam Ahmed 9781032400662
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book explores the development, decline and resurgence of parliaments in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Although the three parliaments formally have a common origin and follow almost similar rules and procedures, substantial variations can be... -
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Timor-Leste by Andrew McWilliam 9781032401614
RRP: £43.99£38.44Reflecting on the legacies of Timor-Leste's remarkable journey from colonialism to sovereign and democratic Independence, the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Timor-Leste provides a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on all aspects of life in... -
Afghanistan Declassified: A Guide to America's Longest War by Brian Glyn Williams
RRP: £25.99£20.84Nearly 100,000 U.S. soldiers were deployed to Afghanistan at the height of the campaign, fighting the longest war in the nation's history. But what do Americans know about the land where this conflict is taking place? Many have come to have a grasp of... -
Down on the Batture by Oliver A. Houck 9781496843418
RRP: £21.95£14.13The lower Mississippi River winds past the city of New Orleans between enormous levees and a rim of sand, mud, and trees called "the batture." On this remote and ignored piece of land thrives a humanity unique to the region-ramblers, artists,... -
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent by Dipo Faloyin 9781324065890
RRP: £14.99£12.18So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In this bold and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective, weaving a vibrant tapestry of stories... -
Revolution in the Middle East by P. J. Vatikiotis
RRP: £43.99£38.44What does revolution mean in the Middle East? Can the Middle East experience be compared with revolution in China, Latin America and East Europe? These questions are the focus of this book, first published in 1972, which examines the revolutionary... -
The Palestinian Economy: Studies in Development under Prolonged Occupation by George T. Abed
£102.01This volume brings together the results of the symposium on `Economic Development under Prolonged Occupation' held at Oxford University in January 1986. The basic aim of the symposium was to stimulate research and discussion on issues of economic... -
Zen and the Ways by Trevor Leggett
£35.46Expression of Zen inspiration in everyday activities such as writing or serving tea, and in knightly arts such as fencing, came to be highly regarded in the Japanese tradition. In the end some of them were practised as spiritual training as themselves;... -
Administration and Development in the Arab World: An Annotated Bibliography by Jamil E. Jreisat
£86.60This book, first published in 1986, examines the literature on administration, human resources and development in the Arab world. It emphasizes contemporary societies and their internal dynamics, the least known and most critical aspects of Arabic... -
Chinese Business Enterprise in Asia by Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown
£112.01This volume, first published in 1995, looks at the development of Chinese business and management practices across Asia from the late nineteenth century. Experts examine how familism and informal networks have contributed to Chinese entrepreneurial... -
China Since the 'Gang of Four' by Bill Brugger
RRP: £32.99£29.16This book, first published in 1980, addresses the questions raised by the death of Mao Zedong and the arrest of the `Gang of Four'. Was China reverting to a capitalist form of development, and abandoning Mao's policies? Was China's leadership remaining... -
China's Rural Areas: Building a Moderately Prosperous Society by China Development Research Foundation
RRP: £39.99£35.06The prosperity of China's people has advanced very much in recent decades. However, in many respects China is still a developing country, and this is especially true of rural areas where economic progress has not been as marked as in urban areas and... -
BRI and International Cooperation in Industrial Capacity: Country Cooperation Guide by Xu Shaoshi
RRP: £135.00£117.28The Belt and Road & International Production Capacity Cooperation: Country-by-Country Guide provides research reports on international production capacity and equipment manufacturing cooperation of major countries, providing a better understanding on... -
BRI and International Cooperation in Industrial Capacity: Industrial Layout Study by Xu Shaoshi
RRP: £135.00£117.28BRI and International Production Capacity Cooperation: Industrial Layout conducts analysis on China's advantageous surplus capacity of various industries and measures for optimizing their overseas layout with experience on production capacity cooperation... -
Deng Xiaoping: Chronicle of an Empire by Ruan Ming
RRP: £135.00£117.68In 1978, Deng Xiaoping, China's paramount leader, launched the economic reforms that turned the world's most populous nation into an economic dynamo. Yet Deng also shaped the destiny of a China that to this day is locked in the iron embrace of the...