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Beyond Regimes: China and India Compared by Prasenjit Duara
RRP: €35.64€28.16For 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... -
From the Ashes of 1947: Reimagining Punjab by Pippa Virdee
RRP: €89.25€80.61This 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... -
China in the Early Bronze Age: Shang Civilization by Robert L. Thorp
RRP: €83.30€72.24One of the great breakthroughs in Chinese studies in the early twentieth century was the archaeological identification of the earliest, fully historical dynasty of kings, the Shang (ca. 1300-1050 B.C.E.). The last fifty years have seen major advances in... -
The Buddha's Footprint: An Environmental History of Asia by Johan Elverskog
RRP: €59.50€51.66A corrective to the contemporary idea that Buddhism has always been an environmentally friendly religion In the current popular imagination, Buddhism is often understood to be a religion intrinsically concerned with the environment. The Dharma, the name... -
Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century by Susan Naquin 9780300046021
€26.63During 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... -
Laying Claim to the Memory of May: A Look Back at the 1980 Kwangju Uprising by Linda S. Lewis 9780824825430
RRP: €27.31€26.01The Kwangju Uprising - ""Korea's Tiananmen"" - is one of the most important political events in late twentieth-century Korean history. What began as a peaceful demonstration against the imposition of military rule in the southwestern... -
The Sovereign and the Pirate: Ordering Maritime Subjects in India's Western Littoral by Lakshmi Subramanian
€37.16The book focuses on the phenomenon of predation during the closing decades of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century in Indias western littoral. It attempts a material history of piracy, locating its antecedents, its social context, and its... -
The Rey Chow Reader by Rey Chow 9780231149952
RRP: €33.32€30.18Rey Chow is arguably one of the most prominent intellectuals working in the humanities today. Characteristically confronting both entrenched and emergent issues in the interlocking fields of literature, film and visual studies, sexuality and gender,... -
Memories of Yerevan by Nicolas V. Iljine 9788090889903
RRP: €47.59€42.02Memories of Yerevan is a richly illustrated exploration of one of the world's oldest continually inhabited cities. Yerevan dates back to 782 BCE. This book brings together the work of twenty authors, each of whom is an expert in their field. It is an... -
Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia by Richard J. Samuels 9780801474903
RRP: €29.74€25.79For 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... -
Mountains of Blame: Climate and Culpability in the Philippine Uplands by Will Smith
RRP: €33.31€28.73Swidden agriculture has long been considered the primary cause of deforestation throughout Southeast Asia, and the Philippine government has used this belief to exclude the indigenous people of Palawan Island from their ancestral lands and to force them... -
Burmese Administrative Cycles: Anarchy and Conquest, c. 1580-1760 by Victor B. Lieberman 9780691612812
RRP: €57.12€53.25This book is the first detailed study of administration and politics in premodern Burma and one of the few works of its kind for mainland Southeast Asia. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand... -
Writing and Authority in Early China by Mark Edward Lewis 9780791441145
€35.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791441145Author Mark Edward LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
When the Iron Bird Flies: China's Secret War in Tibet by Jianglin Li
RRP: €33.31€28.43An untold story that reshapes our understanding of Chinese and Tibetan history From 1956 to 1962, devastating military conflicts took place in China's southwestern and northwestern regions. Official record at the time scarcely made mention of the... -
Boundless Winds of Empire: Rhetoric and Ritual in Early Chosŏn Diplomacy with Ming China by Sixiang Wang
RRP: €35.70€27.72For 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... -
Cricket, Public Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Calcutta by Souvik Naha
RRP: €89.25€81.25What prompts common people to kill a guard and rob an office they thought had some tickets for a Test match? Why does a scholar of medieval Bengali literature remark, 'Had life been a sport, it would be cricket'? Who do journalists vindicate by promoting... -
Women Shall Not Rule: Imperial Wives and Concubines in China from Han to Liao by Keith McMahon 9781442222892
RRP: €99.96€88.12Chinese 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... -
Classical Chinese Literature: An Anthology of Translations: From Antiquity to the Tang Dynasty by John Minford 9780231096775
RRP: €59.50€47.74The summation of more than two thousand years of one of the world's most august literary traditions, this volume also represents the achievements of four hundred years of Western scholarship on China. The selections include poetry, drama, fiction, songs,... -
Blessings from Beijing: Inside China's Soft-Power War on Tibet Greg C. Bruno 9781611689785
RRP: €33.32€27.69As 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,... -
Oxford Reading Tree: Floppy's Phonics Decoding Practice: Oxford Level 5: I Spy a Reptile! by Isabel Thomas 9781382030656
RRP: €6.90€5.08Engaging fiction and non-fiction fully aligned to each stage of the Floppy's Phonics teaching programme, allowing children to consolidate their phonic knowledge through reading in context. These fully decodable stories are 100% matched to the phonic... -
Britain & Portuguese Timor: 1941-1976 by Nicholas Tarling
RRP: €28.55€23.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921867347Author Nicholas TarlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 510g -
The Language of the Taj Mahal: Islam, Prayer, and the Religion of Shah Jahan by Michael D. Calabria 9780755637898
€34.93The 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... -
The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy Fung Yu-Lan 9781138996410
RRP: €54.73€48.12First published in 1947.The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy covers the major philosophers and philosophical movements in China from Confucius to the middle of the twentieth century including: Confucius, Mencius, Yang Chu and Mo Ti, the Dialecticians and... -
A Military History of India and South Asia: From the East India Company to the Nuclear Era by Daniel P. Marston, D. Phil.
RRP: €24.98€21.86A Military History of India and South Asia provides a much-needed overview of the military history of the region since 1700, covering the areas that are today the states of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. In chapters devoid of academic... -
India's Revolutionary Inheritance: Politics and the Promise of Bhagat Singh by Chris Moffat
RRP: €36.88€30.29What do anti-colonial histories mean for politics in contemporary India? How can we understand a political terrain that appears crowded with the dead, heroic figures from past struggles who call the living to account and demand action? What role do these... -
Book of Mini-sagas: No. 2 by Brian Aldiss 9780862994860 [USED COPY]
€5.31Apologies 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]
€2.45Apologies 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: €17.84€2.73Apologies 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 Peter Lorge (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee) 9781107084759
€142.80The 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: €11.89€10.04Apologies 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: €9.51€8.98Apologies 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: €16.66€15.42Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Real Bible Code by Charletta Paige 9781453533291
RRP: €16.66€15.33Apologies 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: €20.23€18.93Apologies 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: €20.23€14.59Apologies 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: €38.07€23.80Apologies 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: €35.69€22.38Apologies 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: €168.97€136.92Arachis 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: €86.86€69.81This 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: €59.50€48.44This 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...