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The Divine Songs of Zarathushtra by D. J. Irani
£111.61Zarathusthtra brought about important religious reform in Iran, giving a definitely moral character and direction to religion whilst at the same time preaching the doctrine of monotheism, which offered an eternal foundation of reality to goodness as an... -
China Inward and Outward Investment Development Report 2016 by Xu Shaoshi
RRP: £135.00£117.28China Inward and Outward Investment Development Report 2016 gathers facts about two-way investment of China and its local regions, providing a wealth of information for a comprehensive understanding of the country's two-way investment development.Book... -
Re-Educating Chinese Anti-Communists by J.A. Fyfield
RRP: £32.99£29.16This book, first published in 1982, is an in-depth study of the process of 're-education' undergone by those who had opposed the Communist revolution in China. Told at first hand by several men who had occupied military or government positions of... -
The Empress Nurbanu and Ottoman Politics in the Sixteenth Century: Building the Atik Valide by Pinar Kayaalp
RRP: £41.99£36.75Nurbanu (1525–1583) is one of the most prominent yet least studied royal women of the Ottoman dynasty. Her political and administrative career began when she was chosen as the favorite concubine of the crown prince Selim. Nurbanu’s authority increased... -
Doing Business in Korea by Arthur M. Whitehill
RRP: £31.99£28.33The South Korean economy was a spectacularly successful twentieth century story. This book, first published in 1987, examines many important aspects of the Korean way of doing business, and provides a valuable guide not only to the business practices of... -
The Art of Chinese Poetry by James J.Y. Liu
£93.60This book, first published in 1962, is a majestic survey of the whole structure of Chinese poetry. It is a critical introduction to the field as well as an exposition of Chinese views on the nature of poetry. It discusses the Chinese language as a poetic... -
T'ai Chi Ch'uan and I Ching: A Choreography of Body and Mind by Da Liu
£93.60This book, first published in 1974, explains the connections between T'ai Chi Ch'uan and I Ching and shows that they are the keys by which the theoretical philosophy of Taoism can be converted to a practical way of knowledge. This careful and helpful... -
Modern Japan: Aspects of History, Literature and Society by W. G. Beasley
£106.61Originally published in 1975, much of Western scholarly writing on Japan had in recent years concerned the study of modernisation. The papers in this volume, which were prepared by leading specialists from Europe and Israel, concentrate on the problems... -
The Chinese Eye: An Interpretation of Chinese Painting by Chiang Yee
£106.61This book, first published in 1935, examines the world of Chinese painting: the background, styles, audience and reception, intentions and achievements. Written with a Western readership in mind, it intends to put Chinese visual art in the perspective of... -
Electoral Politics in the Middle East: Issues, Voters and Elites by Jacob M. Landau
RRP: £47.99£41.81Comparative political study of the Middle East got off to a late start. Unlike any previous studies in comparative politics, this book, first published in 1980, represents an important methodological advance in that it proceeds by themes rather than by... -
United States Foreign Policy and the Middle East/North Africa: A Bibliography of Twentieth-Century Research by Sanford R. Silverburg
RRP: £47.99£42.21This book consists of western, primarily English, language sources published through 1988 and early 1989 concerning foreign policy toward the Middle East and North Africa during the twentieth century.Book InformationISBN 9781138920255Author Sanford R... -
The Covenant and the Sword: Arab-Israeli Relations, 1948-56 by Earl Berger
£86.60The central argument in this book, first published in 1965, is that the Israelis invaded Egypt in 1956 because they could see no other feasible way out of their predicament: they believed that Egypt, either alone or together with other Arab states, would... -
Saudi Arabia in the Oil Era Pbdirect: Regime and Elites; Conflict and Collaboration by Mordechai Abir
RRP: £27.99£24.28This book is about the socio-political dynamics in modern Saudi Arabia both in European languages and Arabic. It discusses the changes that the country, society, educational system, government, politics of Saudi Arabia underwent due to modernisation.Book... -
Saudi Arabia 2000 Pbdirect: A Strategy for Growth by Jean Paul Cleron
£78.60The sharp increase in both the price of crude oil and resulting revenues to Saudi Arabia has seen the rapid growth of the kingdom's international trade and a large accumulation of financial assets. These sudden and drastic changes have taken place,... -
Anthropology in Action: An Experiment in the Iringa District of the Iringa Province Tanganyika Territory by G. Gordon Brown
£99.00Originally published in 1935, when the province of Iringa in what is now Tanzania was still under British administrative control, this book is inevitably a product of its time, but nonetheless it represents an important project in collaboration between... -
Choice and Constraint in a Swahili Community: Property, Hierarchy and Cognatic Descent on the East African Coast by Ann Patricia Caplan
RRP: £32.99£29.16Originally published in 1975, this book examines property and power relations in a Swahili village on Mafia Island off Tanzania. It focuses on the cognatic descent groups which are important in many areas of village life such as land-holding, marriage,... -
Egyptian Art by Jean Capart
RRP: £96.99£84.45Originally published in 1923, this book provides an exploration of Egyptian art. Drawing on environmental factors of the Egyptian region, architecture, history and Egyptian society, Capart also provides an insight into the psyche of the Egyptian artist... -
Sukumaland: An African People and Their Country: A Study of Land Use in Tanganyika by P. C. Lloyd
£34.24Originally published in 1953, this book discusses the Sukuma people who represent the largest ethnic group in Tanzania. It is devoted mainly to the resources, use, problems and systems of tenure of the territory of Sukumaland, but also contains an... -
Sukumaland: An African People and Their Country: A Study of Land Use in Tanganyika by D. W. Malcolm
£111.61Originally published in 1953, this book discusses the Sukuma people who represent the largest ethnic group in Tanzania. It is devoted mainly to the resources, use, problems and systems of tenure of the territory of Sukumaland, but also contains an... -
Sectarianism in Southern Nyasaland by R. L. Wishlade
£98.60Originally published in 1965, this is a study of Christian secessionist sects in the southern Province of Nyasaland (Malawi). It discusses the nature and context of sectarianism in Africa and analyses the developemnt of the sects, their ritual and... -
The Pastoral Fulbe Family in Gwandu by C. Edward Hopen
£98.60Originally published in 1958, this book discusses how marriage and Fulbe family life, the economy and the whole organization of society is centred on cattle; how the welfare of the herd and its increase, the balance betweent he size of the herd and the... -
The Sonjo of Tanganyika: An Anthropological Study of an Irrigation-based Society by Robert F. Gray
£111.61Originally published in 1963, this was the first monograph concerning an African people in which an irrigation-based society was studied in detail and its implications explored. The Sonjo, a Bantu-speaking people isolated among cattle pastoralists of... -
Religion in a Tswana Chiefdom by B. A. Pauw
£112.01Originally published in 1960, this book is a study of religion among the Tlhaping, a rural Bantu society who were the first among the Tswana tribes to come into contact with Europeans. The religious organization of the Tlhaping has been viewed within the... -
Yakoe Studies by Daryll Forde
RRP: £32.99£29.16Originally published in 1964 this volume collects together 25 years' worth of journal articles from the UK and USA. It brings together detailed descriptions and analyses of various aspects of the Yakoe peoples of the Cross River area of Eastern Nigeria... -
The Chiga of Western Uganda by May M. Edel
£111.61Originally published in 1957, this is an account of the Chiga, a Bantu tribe of Western Uganda. The Chiga are an independent farming people who have no tribal organization, and unlike the neighbouring East African peoples of a similar culture, no caste... -
The Gulf War and the Environment by Farouk El-Baz
RRP: £25.99£22.63The Gulf War inflicted dramatic environmental damage upon the fragile desert and shore environments of Kuwait and north eastern Saudi Arabia. Marine environments experienced oil spills; inland, oil lakes and burning oil wells caused widespread pollution... -
Media and Politics in the Southern Mediterranean: Communicating Power in Transition after 2011 by Roxane Farmanfarmaian
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book provides a comparative study of government media instrumentalisation, women in TV talk shows and online surveillance. It explores the ways media and politics intersect and how this is impacting societies across the southern Mediterranean.Book... -
Economic Man in Sha Tin: Vegetable Gardeners in a Hong Kong Valley by Go ran Aijmer
RRP: £32.99£29.16This book, first published in 1980, is a study of how refugee immigrants from China make a living as market gardeners in a valley in Hong Kong. Based on extensive field-work, it examines various aspects of economic life; the discussion concerns the... -
Management Issues in China: Volume 2: International Enterprises by John Child
RRP: £14.99£13.58As the 1990s progressed, China began to emerge as an economic giant. The chapters in this book, first published in 1996, illustrate many aspects of China's path to internationalization. They also raise important questions for further study. What becomes... -
Business Transformation in China by Henri-Claude De Bettignies
£72.00This book, first published in 1996, provides an in-depth examination of China's changing business environment as it continues to develop its business infrastructure. Leading experts from Asia and Europe present their research into developments in China... -
Tourism in South-East Asia by Michael Hitchcock
RRP: £32.99£29.16South-East Asia has developed rapidly as a tourist destination, but what are the effects of this growth upon the peoples of the region? How far is it possible to control the impact of tourism whilst also supporting the industry's role in the region's... -
Mao's Prey: The History of Chen Renbing, Liberal Intelletual by Jeannette F. Ford
£73.60This book, first published in 2001, uses key oral histories to confirm and explain the professional and private lives of post-1949 Chinese intellectuals through the focal point of Chen Renbing, a man personally criticised by Mao Zedong. Intellectuals... -
The Reform Decade in China: From Hope to Dismay by Marta Dassu
RRP: £32.99£29.16This book, first published in 1992, provides a detailed analysis of the reform programme in post-Mao China. In it, a distinguished group of specialists show how the dramatic events that came to a head in Tiananmen Square in 1989 were the result of a... -
Practicing Citizenship in Contemporary China by Sophia Woodman
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book examines citizenship as practiced in China today from a variety of angles. Citizenship in China-and elsewhere in the Global South-has often been perceived as either a distorted echo of the 'real' democratic version in Europe and North America,... -
Formosa Under the Dutch: Described from Contemporary Records with Explanatory Notes and a Bibliography of the Island by William Rev. Campbell
RRP: £47.99£41.81First published in 1903, this volume explored the history of Formosa (now Taiwan) under Dutch occupation between 1624 and 1661, along with shedding some light on its early history. As missionaries were again at work in Formosa, the author found it useful... -
The Arab Kingdom and its Fall by Julius Wellhausen
RRP: £49.99£44.50The political community of Islam grew out of the religious community. This book, first published in 1927, is the key work in understanding the early development of Islam and the history of the Arab peoples.Book InformationISBN 9781138221505Author Julius... -
The Sudan: Unity and Diversity in a Multicultural State by Sarah Potts Voll
£114.51Little known in the United States and Western Europe, the Sudan is nevertheless a country of major importance in international affairs. This analytic introduction to the modern Sudan, first published in 1985, provides a summary of the basic dynamics of... -
Kuwait and the Gulf: Small States and the International System by Hassan Ali Al-Ebraheem
£81.60A major result of the Second World War was the emergence of small states which vastly increased the membership of the international system. While a number of small states existed before the war many of these had made no effort to participate actively in... -
The Yemen Arab Republic: The Politics of Development, 1962-1986 by Robert D. Burrowes
RRP: £24.99£21.81Examining political and socioeconomic change in the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR), this book, first published in 1987, focuses primarily on the quarter century following the overthrow of the imamate in 1962. The problems and politics of the period's... -
West African City: A Study of Tribal Life in Freetown by Michael Banton
£98.60Originally published in 1957 this volume deals with the issue of large scale immigration into Freetown, Sierra Leone from the rural areas in the 1950s and the problems which arose as a result. It analyzes the way traditional social systems had to adjust...