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China: Fragile Superpower by Susan Shirk 9780195373196
RRP: €16.65€12.90Once a sleeping giant, China today is the world's fastest growing economy--the leading manufacturer of cell phones, laptop computers, and digital cameras--a dramatic turn-around that alarms many Westerners. But in China: Fragile Superpower, Susan L... -
Education in China Since 1976 by Xiufang Wang 9780786413942
RRP: €42.83€35.50China has the largest education system in the world. This text examines the education system in post-Mao China from 1976 to the start of the 21st century. It explores how the Chinese government treats education within the nation's broader social,... -
Forbidden Nation: A History of Taiwan by Jonathan Manthorpe 9780230614246
RRP: €26.17€22.37Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Kyoto: A Cultural and Literary History by John Dougill 9781904955139
RRP: €17.85€16.49Kyoto, the ancient former capital of Japan, breathes history and mystery. Its temples, gardens and palaces are testimony to many centuries of aristocratic and religious grandeur. Under the veneer of modernity, the city remains filled with countless... -
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Two Volumes in One Lafcadio Hearn 9780804847551
RRP: €20.22€13.93Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a complete, two-volume set of one of the most outstanding books on 19th century Japanese history and culture.Though Lafcadio Hearn went on to write a dozen more books on Japan, this collection of first impressions remains... -
The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester 9780060884611
RRP: €21.41€13.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060884611Author Simon WinchesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Wuhan Lockdown by Guobin Yang
RRP: €26.18€21.13A metropolis with a population of about 11 million, Wuhan sits at the crossroads of China. It was here that in the last days of 2019, the first reports of a mysterious new form of pneumonia emerged. Before long, an abrupt and unprecedented lockdown was... -
Cambridge Lower Secondary Complete Global Perspectives: Student Book by Karem Roitman 9781382008747
RRP: €28.55€27.52The Cambridge Lower Secondary Complete Global Perspectives Student Book provides a clearly defined route through the subject that completely covers the three-year programme and all the required skills, making it fantastic value for money. This... -
Chinese Looks: Fashion, Performance, Race by Sean Metzger
RRP: €29.74€25.79From yellow-face performance in the 19th century to Jackie Chan in the 21st, Chinese Looks examines articles of clothing and modes of adornment as a window on how American views of China have changed in the past 150 years. Sean Metzger provides a... -
Bangladesh - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Urmi Rahman
RRP: €11.89€9.23Culture Smart guides help travellers have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will help you make the most of your visit, while tips on... -
China Coup: The Great Leap to Freedom by Roger Garside
RRP: €23.80€18.91An expert's take on how a coup in China could launch a transition to democracy. This short book predicts-contrary to the prevailing consensus-that China's leader Xi Jinping will very soon be removed from office in a coup d'etat mounted by rivals in the... -
Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History by Bruce Cumings 9780393327021
RRP: €23.79€20.67Korea has endured a "fractured, shattered twentieth century," and this updated edition brings Bruce Cumings's leading history of the modern era into the present. The small country, overshadowed in the imperial era, crammed against great powers during the... -
Kimono Design: An Introduction to Textiles and Patterns by Keiko Nitanai
RRP: €21.41€14.35Kimono Design: An Introduction to Textiles and Patterns uses hundreds of photographs and a wealth of information on colors, fabrics and embellishments to paint a portrait of Japanese culture, art and thought. Lavish classical patterns, sweeping scenes,... -
A Brief History of Ancient China by Edward L Shaughnessy 9781350170377
€38.73A Brief History of Ancient China adapts a traditional Chinese historical format to present a multi-faceted account of the first two millennia of China's earliest history: from the time of the legendary rulers Yao and Shun (c. 2000 BCE) down to the end of... -
Escape of the Amethyst by C E Lucas Phillips 9781800552814
RRP: €13.08€11.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800552814Author C E Lucas PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Warfare in the Latin East, 1192-1291 by Christopher Marshall 9780521477420
RRP: €42.83€39.58This book offers a detailed examination of warfare in the Latin East from the end of the Third Crusade, to the demise of the Latin Kingdom in 1291. It considers both the crusades and the long periods of truce during which warfare was restricted to... -
African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan by Thomas Lockley 9781335044983
RRP: €23.79€16.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335044983Author Thomas LockleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm)... -
How to Grow a Navy: The Development of Maritime Power by Geoffrey Till 9780367607968
RRP: €42.83€37.71This book examines the large but neglected topic of the development of maritime power from both an historical and a contemporary point of view.Navies have never been more important than they are now, in a century becoming, as widely expected,... -
Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life by Michael M. J. Fischer
RRP: €26.17€23.19In Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life Michael M. J. Fischer calls for a new anthropology of the arts that attends to the materialities and technologies of the world as it exists today. Fischer examines the work of key Southeast and East Asian... -
The Travels of Dean Mahomet: An Eighteenth-Century Journey through India Dean Mahomet 9780520207172
RRP: €32.13€28.70This unusual study combines two books in one: the 1794 autobiographical travel narrative of an Indian, Dean Mahomet, recalling his years as camp-follower, servant, and subaltern officer in the East India Company's army (1769 to 1784); and Michael H... -
Jannah Jewels Book 2: The Chase In China by Umm Nura 9780986720833
RRP: €10.41€7.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986720833Author Umm NuraFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Gentle Breeze BooksPublisher Gentle Breeze BooksWeight(grams) 109g -
A.U.A. Language Center Thai Course: Book 1 by J. Marvin Brown
RRP: €23.79€21.19The set includes extensive grammar, dialogues, and conversations, as well as tone distinction, manipulation, and identification.Book InformationISBN 9780877275060Author J. Marvin BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 247Imprint Southeast Asia Program... -
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap by Yuen Yuen Ang
RRP: €26.17€23.19WINNER OF THE 2017 PETER KATZENSTEIN BOOK PRIZE"BEST OF BOOKS IN 2017" BY FOREIGN AFFAIRSWINNER OF THE 2018 VIVIAN ZELIZER PRIZE BEST BOOK AWARD IN ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY"How China Escaped the Poverty Trap truly offers game-changing ideas for the analysis... -
The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia by Sheila Miyoshi Jager 9780674983397
RRP: €40.40€34.06A dramatic new telling of the dawn of modern East Asia, placing Korea at the center of a transformed world order wrought by imperial greed and devastating wars.In the nineteenth century, Russia participated in two "great games": one, well known, pitted... -
The Greeks in Asia by John Boardman 9780500252130
RRP: €38.08€25.72This book, by Britain's most distinguished historian of ancient Greek art, recounts the influence of Greek communities and their culture through Central Asia, India and Western China, from the Bronze Age through to the rise of Islam. Boardman examines a... -
Arthashastra by Kautilya 9789354403705
€14.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354403705Author KautilyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint Fingerprint! PublishingPublisher Prakash Books -
The Pacific War: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa Dale Dye 9781472810618
RRP: €15.46€11.11Meticulous detail and insightful analysis combine with a gripping chronological narrative to provide the essential guide to the Pacific Theater of World War II. On December 7, 1941, Japanese fighter planes appeared from the clouds above Pearl Harbor... -
Rising Sun by John Toland 9781848845251
RRP: €23.79€17.73This magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning history, told primarily from the Japanese viewpoint, traces the dramatic fortunes of the Empire of the Sun from the invasion of Manchuria to the dropping of the atomic bombs, demolishing many myths surrounding this... -
History of Japan: A Captivating Guide to Japanese History, Including Events Such as the Genpei War, Mongol Invasions, Battle of Tsushima, and Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Captivating History 9781647480714
RRP: €23.79€15.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647480714Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm)... -
Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World by John Keay 9781632869432
RRP: €35.70€20.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632869432Author John KeayFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Bloomsbury PublishingPublisher Bloomsbury PublishingWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 224mm... -
Central Asia in World History by Peter B. Golden 9780195338195
RRP: €33.31€22.09A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the "pivot of history," a land where nomadic invaders and Silk Road traders changed the destinies of states that ringed... -
Beauty Sleep by Kathryn Evans 9781474954877 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.51€2.73Winner of the CrimeFest award for Best Crime Novel for Young AdultsWho am I? What am I? When am I?Laura can't remember who she is. But the rest of the world knows. Because Laura is famous - a dying girl who was frozen until she could be cured. A... -
Tokyo Travel Guide Insiders: The Ultimate Travel Guide With Essential Tips About What To See, Where To Go, Eat And Slepp Even If Your Budget Is Limited by Jpinsiders 9781735412504
RRP: €17.84€13.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735412504Author JpinsidersFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint JpinsidersPublisher JpinsidersWeight(grams) 152g -
The Sino-Soviet Border War: Volume 2: Confrontation at Lake Zhalanashkol, August 1969 by Dimitry Ryabushkin 9781914377051
RRP: €20.17€17.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914377051Author Dimitry RyabushkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Spoils of Partition: Bengal and India, 1947-1967 by Joya Chatterji 9780521188067
RRP: €47.59€39.58Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China by Dieter Kuhn
RRP: €26.12€22.80Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly half of all humankind. In this concise history, we learn why the inventiveness of this era has been... -
Soft Power in Central Asia: The Politics of Influence and Seduction by Kirill Nourzhanov 9781793650795
RRP: €35.70€31.50Central Asia often evokes images of imperial power rivalry dating back to the 19th century. Yet as the region's international politics becomes more complex in the age of globalization, the need for new ways of looking at its many actors is more pressing... -
One Child: Life, Love and Parenthood in Modern China by Mei Fong
RRP: €11.89€8.71Tang Shuxiu and her husband are on an 800-mile train journey from Beijing to Shifang, where they believe their only child has perished in a recent earthquake. Three days after the event, Tang is too dehydrated to cry. Liu Ting becomes a national hero... -
The History of Central Asia: The Age of Decline and Revival by Christoph Baumer
RRP: €59.50€55.35For more than a hundred years, Central Asia was the heartland of the mightiest military power on the planet. But after the fragmentation of the all-conquering Mongol polity, the region began a steep decline which rendered this former domain of horse... -
Japan At War: An Oral History: An Oral History by Haruko Taya Cook 9781565840393
RRP: €21.41€15.34A "deeply moving book" (Studs Terkel) and the first ever oral history to document the experience of ordinary Japanese people during World War II"Hereafter no one will be able to think, write, or teach about the Pacific War without reference to [the...