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The Making of Contemporary Kuwait: Identity, Politics, and its Survival Strategy

The Making of Contemporary Kuwait: Identity, Politics,...

Author: Mahjoob Zweiri (Qatar University, Qatar) ,  Sinem Cengiz
ISBN: 9781032563817
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book explores the contemporary history, governance, foreign policy, political economy, culture and society...  Read More >>

Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature: Inciting Difference

Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese...

Author: Victoria Young
ISBN: 9781032564869
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book examines contemporary debates on such concepts as national literature, world literature, and the relationship...  Read More >>

Basic Okinawan: From Conversation to Grammar

Basic Okinawan: From Conversation to Grammar

Author: Rumiko Shinzato ,  Shoichi Iwasaki
ISBN: 9780824893651
Format: Paperback
$89.76

The first Okinawan language textbook written for English-speakers, Basic Okinawan: From Conversation to Grammar...  Read More >>

Twilight Beauty: Wistful Women in Art

Twilight Beauty: Wistful Women in Art

Author: Various Artists
ISBN: 9784756258359
Format: Paperback
$72.95

"Portraits of beautiful, wistful women drawn by up-and-coming artists.Many people find hints of beauty, emotion,...  Read More >>

Port Arthur: A Monster Heroism

Port Arthur: A Monster Heroism

Author: Richard Barry
ISBN: 9789361475429
Format: Paperback
$53.01

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A Popular Account of Thugs and Dacoits, the Hereditary Garotters and Gang-Robbers of India

A Popular Account of Thugs and Dacoits, the Hereditary...

Author: James Hutton
ISBN: 9789357923903
Format: Paperback
$46.31

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Palestine: A Policy

Palestine: A Policy

Author: Albert M. Hyamson (Author is deceased, executor is unknown. Royalties to be held on account untill the estate get in touch sf case 01978672 for contract 197007)
ISBN: 9781032309750
Format: Paperback
$58.99

First published in 1942, Palestine is a brief history of Zionism, interspersed with a wealth of observation stimulation...  Read More >>

Typhoon Louise vs. the United States Navy: Catastrophe at Okinawa, October 9-10, 1945

Typhoon Louise vs. the United States Navy: Catastrophe...

Author: Gene Eric Salecker
ISBN: 9781476692739
Format: Paperback
$84.70

In October 1945, Typhoon Louise tore into Okinawa, slamming ships together and tossing them onto reefs and beaches....  Read More >>

Imperial Japan on Screen, 1931-2022

Imperial Japan on Screen, 1931-2022

Author: Bob Herzberg
ISBN: 9781476689876
Format: Paperback
$84.70

Deals with the seldom-written topic featuring depictions of Imperial Japan from the time it was a totalitarian power...  Read More >>

After Alexander: The Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods at Pella in Jordan

After Alexander: The Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods...

Author: John Tidmarsh
ISBN: 9781743329634
Format: Paperback
$100.00

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Indian Government and Politics

Indian Government and Politics

Author: Peu Ghosh
ISBN: 9789389347852
Format: Paperback
$62.70

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Postwar South Korea and Japanese Popular Culture

Postwar South Korea and Japanese Popular Culture

Author: Sungmin Kim
ISBN: 9781876843809
Format: Paperback
$61.60

Analyses the history of how Japanese culture has been accepted into Korean society, citing numerous animated and...  Read More >>

Japan and Bengal: Exchange and Encounter (1893-1938)

Japan and Bengal: Exchange and Encounter (1893-1938)...

Author: Pratyay Banerjee
ISBN: 9781920850081
Format: Paperback
$94.91

Explores how writers of Bengal, also travelogue writers, nationalists and cultural enthusiasts from this part of...  Read More >>

Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament: An Anthology

Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament:...

Author: Victor H. Mair ,  Zhenjun Zhang (St. Lawrence University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350337213
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Bathed with the blood and tears of countless poets and authors and naturally expressing the most heartfelt emotions...  Read More >>

From Camp David to the Gulf: Negotiations, Language and Propoganda and War

From Camp David to the Gulf: Negotiations, Language...

Author: Safty Safty ,  Adel Safty
ISBN: 9781895431100
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Set in the context of some of the current debates in the foreign policy literature, this book offers a general introduction...  Read More >>

Alternative Politics in Contemporary Japan: New Directions in Social Movements

Alternative Politics in Contemporary Japan: New Directions...

Author: David H. Slater ,  Patricia G. Steinhoff
ISBN: 9780824897437
Format: Hardback
$184.80

Engagingly written by an international community of Japan specialists committed to doing extended fieldwork with...  Read More >>

Chasing Traces: History and Ethnography in the Uplands of Socialist Asia

Chasing Traces: History and Ethnography in the Uplands...

Author: Pierre Petit ,  Jean Michaud
ISBN: 9780824895556
Format: Hardback
$184.80

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Struggle for Empire: The Battles of General Zuo Zongtang

Struggle for Empire: The Battles of General Zuo Zongtang...

Author: Kenneth M. Swope
ISBN: 9781682472859
Format: Hardback
$72.60

Provides the first comprehensive modern biography in English of the late Qing dynasty statesman, strategist, and...  Read More >>

Palestine To-day and Tomorrow: A Gentile's Survey of Zionism

Palestine To-day and Tomorrow: A Gentile's Survey of...

Author: John Holmes
ISBN: 9781032762623
Format: Hardback
$189.00

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Food in the Making of Modern Korea: A Handbook

Food in the Making of Modern Korea: A Handbook

Author: Cherl-Ho Lee
ISBN: 9789819715329
Format: Hardback
$659.97

Relevant to food historians and food scientists, and East Asian studies scholars with a particular interest in Korean...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Egyptian History

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Egyptian History

Author: Beth Baron (Distinguished Professor of History, Distinguished Professor of History, The City College and Graduate Center, City University of New York) ,  Jeffrey Culang (Independent Scholar, Independent Scholar)
ISBN: 9780190072742
Format: Hardback
$338.00

The essays in this Oxford Handbook rethink the modern history of one of the most important and influential countries...  Read More >>

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