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China Wakes by Nicholas D. Kristof 9780679763932
£18.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780679763932Author Nicholas D. KristofFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Random... -
Stages of Capital: Law, Culture, and Market Governance in Late Colonial India by Ritu Birla
RRP: £23.99£21.24In Stages of Capital, Ritu Birla brings research on nonwestern capitalisms into conversation with postcolonial studies to illuminate the historical roots of India's market society. Between 1870 and 1930, the British regime in India implemented a barrage... -
Imperiled Destinies: The Daoist Quest for Deliverance in Medieval China by Franciscus Verellen 9780674237247
RRP: £62.95£50.24Imperiled Destinies examines the evolution of Daoist beliefs about human liability and redemption over eight centuries and outlines ritual procedures for rescuing an ill-starred destiny. From the second through the tenth century CE, Daoism emerged as a... -
Beyond Regimes: China and India Compared by Prasenjit Duara
RRP: £29.95£23.66For many years, China and India have been powerfully shaped by both transnational and subnational circulatory forces. This edited volume explores these local and global influences as they play out in the contemporary era. The analysis focuses on four... -
Orientalism: A Reader by A. L. Macfie
RRP: £31.00£29.09In the period of decolonisation that followed the end of the Second World War a number of scholars, mainly Middle Eastern, launched a sustained assault on Orientalism - the theory and practice of representing 'the Orient' in Western thought -accusing its... -
From the Ashes of 1947: Reimagining Punjab by Pippa Virdee
RRP: £75.00£67.74This book revisits the partition of the British Indian province of Punjab, its attendant violence and, as a consequence, the divided and dislocated Punjabi lives. Navigating nostalgia and trauma, dreams and laments, identity(s) and homeland(s), it... -
Constructing International Relations: The Next Generation: The Next Generation by Karin M. Fierke 9780765607393
RRP: £37.99£33.38The constructivist approach is the most important new school in the field of postcold war international relations. Constructivists assume that interstate and interorganizational relations are always at some level linguistic contexts. Thus they bridge IR... -
The Making of a New Rural Order in South China: Volume 2, Merchants, Markets, and Lineages, 1500-1700 by Joseph P. McDermott
RRP: £120.00£105.04This volume is written for anyone who has wondered about the growth of Chinese businesses and their relation to Chinese family and government institutions. Making full use of its partner volume's findings on village institutions in the southern... -
Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese History by Sven Saaler 9780367581053
RRP: £43.99£38.84The Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese History is a concise overview of modern Japanese history from the middle of the nineteenth century until the end of the twentieth century. Written by a group of international historians, each an authority in his... -
The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions by Professor Evelyn Sakakida Rawski
RRP: £31.00£24.43The Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) was the last and arguably the greatest of the conquest dynasties to rule China. Its rulers, Manchus from the north, held power for three centuries despite major cultural and ideological differences with the Han majority. In... -
Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century by Susan Naquin 9780300046021
£22.38During the eighteenth century, China's new Manchu rulers consolidated their control of the largest empire China had ever known. In this book Susan Naquin and Evelyn S. Rawski draw on the most recent research to provide a unique overview and reevaluation... -
Arming the Chinese: The Western Armaments Trade in Warlord China, 1920-28, Second Edition by Anthony B. Chan
RRP: £27.99£24.14The existence of warlords and warlordism is not a post-9/ll phenomenon. The international arms trade has a long history, and includes the sale of foreign weapons to Chinese warlords after the First World War.First published in 1982, this book remains the... -
Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia by Richard J. Samuels 9780801474903
RRP: £24.99£21.67For the past sixty years, the U.S. government has assumed that Japan's security policies would reinforce American interests in Asia. The political and military profile of Asia is changing rapidly, however. Korea's nuclear program, China's rise, and the... -
Conquest and Community: The Afterlife of Warrior Saint Ghazi Miyan by Shahid Amin 9780226372600
RRP: £26.00£24.85Few topics in South Asian history are as contentious as that of the Turkic conquest of the Indian subcontinent that began in the twelfth century and led to a long period of Muslim rule. How is a historian supposed to write honestly about the bloody... -
The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth by Dipesh Chakrabarty 9780226100456
RRP: £26.00£24.85Features a leading scholar in early twentieth-century India, Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870-1958) was knighted in 1929 and became the first Indian historian to gain honorary membership in the American Historical Association. By the end of his lifetime,... -
Boundless Winds of Empire: Rhetoric and Ritual in Early Chosŏn Diplomacy with Ming China by Sixiang Wang
RRP: £30.00£23.29For more than two hundred years after its establishment in 1392, the Choson dynasty of Korea enjoyed generally peaceful and stable relations with neighboring Ming China, which dwarfed it in size, population, and power. This remarkably long period of... -
Women Shall Not Rule: Imperial Wives and Concubines in China from Han to Liao by Keith McMahon 9781442222892
RRP: £84.00£74.05Chinese emperors guaranteed male successors by taking multiple wives, in some cases hundreds and even thousands. Women Shall Not Rule offers a fascinating history of imperial wives and concubines, especially in light of the greatest challenges to... -
Imaginative Mapping: Landscape and Japanese Identity in the Tokugawa and Meiji Eras by Nobuko Toyosawa 9780674241121
RRP: £50.95£40.56Landscape has always played a vital role in shaping Japan's cultural identity. Imaginative Mapping analyzes how intellectuals of the Tokugawa and Meiji eras used specific features and aspects of the landscape to represent their idea of Japan and produce... -
Blessings from Beijing - Inside China's Soft-Power War on Tibet by Greg Bruno
RRP: £28.00£23.27As we approach the sixtieth anniversary of China's 1959 invasion of Tibet - and the subsequent creation of the Tibetan exile community - the question of the diaspora's survival looms large. Beijing's foreign policy has grown more adventurous,... -
Mencius by Mencius 9780231122054
RRP: £28.00£21.80Known throughout East Asia as Mengzi, or "Master Meng," Mencius (391-308 B.C.E.) was a Chinese philosopher of the late Zhou dynasty, an instrumental figure in the spread of the Confucian tradition, and a brilliant illuminator of its ideas. Mencius was... -
Climate Change and the Art of Devotion: Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550-1850 by Sugata Ray
RRP: £58.00£51.17In the enchanted world of Braj, the primary pilgrimage center in north India for worshippers of Krishna, each stone, river, and tree is considered sacred. In Climate Change and the Art of Devotion, Sugata Ray shows how this place-centered theology... -
The Language of the Taj Mahal: Islam, Prayer, and the Religion of Shah Jahan by Michael D. Calabria 9780755637898
£29.35The Taj Mahal, built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (1592-1666 CE) as a mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz Mahal (1593-1631 CE), is considered exceptional in the history of world architecture.This book provides a deeper understanding of the Taj Mahal and... -
Book of Mini-sagas: No. 2 by Brian Aldiss 9780862994860 [USED COPY]
£1.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780862994860Author Brian AldissFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Sutton Publishing LtdPublisher Sutton Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 130g -
Marriage: God's Design for Intimacy by James Reapsome 9780862017026 [USED COPY]
£2.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780862017026Author James ReapsomeFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Scripture Union PublishingPublisher Scripture Union PublishingWeight(grams) 140g -
Son of Escobar: First Born by Roberto Sendoya Escobar 9781913543976 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913543976Author Roberto Sendoya EscobarFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Ad Lib Publishers LtdPublisher Ad Lib Publishers Ltd -
The Reunification of China: Peace through War under the Song Dynasty by Peter Lorge 9781107084759
£120.00The Song dynasty (960-1279) has been characterized by its pre-eminent civil culture and military weakness. This groundbreaking work demonstrates that the civil dominance of the eleventh century was the product of a half-century of continuous warfare and... -
Alex Valentine: The Midnight Children by C A McGrail 9781528978057
RRP: £9.99£8.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528978057Author C A McGrailFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
No Tombstone for Tommy by Zelda Fitzgibbons 9781434356734
RRP: £7.99£7.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434356734Author Zelda FitzgibbonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 105g -
A Test Drive To Chicago: And Other Trips and Tales by David J Suvak 9781479755530
RRP: £14.00£12.86Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Real Bible Code by Charletta Paige 9781453533291
RRP: £14.00£12.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781453533291Author Charletta PaigeFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 77g -
Invisible Me by Susan Gray 9781412013345
RRP: £17.00£15.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781412013345Author Susan GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Not AvailPublisher Not Avail -
The Universe Is Inviting You in by Matthew C Horne 9780979455001
RRP: £17.00£11.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979455001Author Matthew C HorneFormat PaperbackImprint Optimum Success InternationalPublisher Optimum Success InternationalWeight(grams) 181g -
Chicago Blackhawks by Todd Kortemeier 9781634944892
RRP: £31.99£20.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634944892Author Todd KortemeierFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Press Room EditionsPublisher Press Room EditionsWeight(grams) 177g -
Toronto Blue Jays by Ted Coleman 9781634945127
RRP: £29.99£18.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634945127Author Ted ColemanFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Press Room EditionsPublisher Press Room EditionsWeight(grams) 177g -
Arachis hypogaea: Cultivation, Production and Nutritional Value by Richard J. Whitworth 9781536193862
RRP: £141.99£115.06Arachis hypogaea L., commonly known as the groundnut or peanut, is a versatile legume that is grown primarily for its edible seeds and is consumed worldwide. Groundnut requires a warm growing season with well distributed rainfall, and India and China are... -
Structural Realism and Systemic Geopolitical Analysis: Convergences and Divergences by Ioannis Th. Mazis 9781536191967
RRP: £72.99£58.66This book emphasizes the comparative study of theoretical as well as hypothetical issues of structural realism of international relations theory vis-A-vis those of systemic geopolitical analysis. Are they scientific fields evolved in parallel, common... -
Lexicon of Global Melodrama by Prof. Dr. Heike Paul 9783837659733
RRP: £50.00£40.71This new go-to reference book for global melodrama assembles contributions by experts from a wide range of disciplines, including cultural studies, film and media studies, gender and queer studies, political science, and postcolonial studies. The... -
Emerging Adults and Adulthood by Ashley Demoura 9781536192797
RRP: £72.99£58.66This book comprises three chapters that each approach the subject of emerging adults from a different perspective. Chapter One examines the impact that parental involvement has on the personal development of emerging adults in China, with a specific... -
The Homo within the Sapiens by Jorge A. Colombo 9781536189384
RRP: £84.99£68.91While creativity and solidarity form the main constructive profile for our species, the primal animal drive for dominance involving basal brain circuits places our future at risk. This bipolar nature distorts the global perspective of our collective... -
The Cultural Politics of Affect and Emotion: A Case Study of Chinese Reality TV by Wei Dong 9783837662849
RRP: £50.00£40.71Against the background of the media commercialization reform since the 1990s in China and drawing on the case of "X-Change" (2006-2019), Wei Dong investigates the entanglements between emotion and subjectivity, ideology, identity and hegemonic...