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The Binding Vine
ISBN: 9781558614024 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "There can be no vaulting over time," thinks Urmila, the narrator of Shashi Deshpande's profound and soul-stirring novel. "We have to walk every step of the way, however difficult or painful it is; we can avoid nothing." After the death of her baby, Urmila finds her own path difficult to endure. But through her grief, she is drawn into the lives of two very different women--one her long-dead mother-in-law, a thwarted writer, the other a young woman who lies unconscious in a hospital bed. And it is through these quiet, unexpected connections that Urmi begins her journey toward healing. The...
"There can be no vaulting over time," thinks Urmila, the narrator of Shashi Deshpande's profound and soul-stirring novel. "We have to walk every step ...
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78,78 |
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Unmeltable Ethnics: Politics and Culture in American Life
ISBN: 9781560007739 / Angielski / Miękka / 546 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new, enlarged edition of an influential book--originally published in 1972 as The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics--extends the author's wise and generous view of ethnicity. Its aim "is to raise consciousness about a crucial part of the American experience: to involve each reader in self-inquiry. Who, after all, are you? What history brought you to where you are? Why are you different from others?" But the point of such inquiry is civility: "The new ethnic consciousness embodied in this book delights in recognition of subtle differences in the movements of the soul. It is not a... This new, enlarged edition of an influential book--originally published in 1972 as The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics--extends the author'... |
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243,36 |
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Reluctant Exiles?: Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese
ISBN: 9781563244322 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work presents an assessment of the migration from Hong Kong that has occurred since the second half of the 1980s. This pronounced outflow of highly educated people (a "brain drain") is having a profound impact on destination areas, as well as on Hong Kong itself.
This work presents an assessment of the migration from Hong Kong that has occurred since the second half of the 1980s. This pronounced outflow of high...
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198,65 |
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The New Pacific Community in the 1990s
ISBN: 9781563247835 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the end of the Cold War and the subsequent new regional alignments, American foreign policy and influence in the Asia-Pacific region face a major turning point. In this book ten North American specialists from various disciplines reconceptualize the forces shaping the New Pacific Community: international politics as a by-product of peaceful cooperation; the changing role of the military; the political economy as a determinant of human rights; environmental and demographic issues; and culture as an evolutionary and dynamic phenomenon in the lives of new immigrants as they make their way...
With the end of the Cold War and the subsequent new regional alignments, American foreign policy and influence in the Asia-Pacific region face a major...
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471,87 |
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Drawing the Line
ISBN: 9781566890601 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inada hip hops from Buddhism to Soul, the mountains to jazz, concentration camps to Charlie Parker.
Inada hip hops from Buddhism to Soul, the mountains to jazz, concentration camps to Charlie Parker.
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70,31 |
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The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, & Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient
ISBN: 9781586483944 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few Westerners escape the images, expectations and misperceptions that lead us to see Asia as exotic, sensual, decadent, dangerous, and mysterious. Despite -- and because of -- centuries of East-West interaction, the stereotypes of Western literature, stage, and screen remain pervasive icons: the tea-pouring, submissive, sexually available geisha girl; the steely cold dragon lady dominatrix; as well as the portrayal of the Asian male as effeminate and asexual. These "Oriental" illusions color our relations and relationships in ways even well-respected professional "Asia hands" and scholars...
Few Westerners escape the images, expectations and misperceptions that lead us to see Asia as exotic, sensual, decadent, dangerous, and mysterious. De...
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97,61 |
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In the Empire of Genghis Khan: A Journey Among Nomads
ISBN: 9781592281060 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stewart retraces the pilgrimage across the old empire of Genghis Khan, from Istanbul to Mongolia. Winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.
Stewart retraces the pilgrimage across the old empire of Genghis Khan, from Istanbul to Mongolia. Winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.
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58,39 |
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I Am A Big Thai Male Prostitute: A Humorous Confession
ISBN: 9781596890398 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Without remorse and with a sense of humor, a well-endowed Thai male prostitute describes how he became an expert of his trade.
Without remorse and with a sense of humor, a well-endowed Thai male prostitute describes how he became an expert of his trade.
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77,33 |
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From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide
ISBN: 9781842775264 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taner Akcam is one of the first Turkish academics to acknowledge and discuss openly the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman-Turkish government in 1915. This book discusses western political policies towards the region generally, and represents the first serious scholarly attempt to understand the Genocide from a perpetrator rather than victim perspective, and to contextualize those events within Turkey's political history. By refusing to acknowledge the fact of genocide, successive Turkish governments not only perpetuate massive historical injustice, but also pose a fundamental... Taner Akcam is one of the first Turkish academics to acknowledge and discuss openly the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman-Turkish govern... |
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470,61 |
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From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide
ISBN: 9781842775271 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taner Akcam is one of the first Turkish academics to acknowledge and discuss openly the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman-Turkish government in 1915. This book discusses western political policies towards the region generally, and represents the first serious scholarly attempt to understand the Genocide from a perpetrator rather than victim perspective, and to contextualize those events within Turkey's political history. By refusing to acknowledge the fact of genocide, successive Turkish governments not only perpetuate massive historical injustice, but also pose a fundamental... Taner Akcam is one of the first Turkish academics to acknowledge and discuss openly the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman-Turkish govern... |
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172,50 |
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Viet Cong and NVA Tunnels and Fortifications of the Vietnam War
ISBN: 9781846030031 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Field fortifications and tunnel systems are typically thought of as defensive and active protective measures, but the VC/NVA also employed them offensively. It was common for extensive field works to be constructed to support assaults and sieges on US fire-support bases and remote camps. Their tactics reflected attempts to counter the massive firepower they faced: when directly engaging the enemy they employed hugging tactics (moving in and remaining closely engaged, even intermingling units, to prevent the enemy from bringing his artillery and close air support to bear). Their field works...
Field fortifications and tunnel systems are typically thought of as defensive and active protective measures, but the VC/NVA also employed them offens...
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78,38 |
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Arming the State: Military Conscription in the Middle East and Central Asia, 1775-1925
ISBN: 9781860644047 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Universal conscription has been the main form of military recruitment in the 19th and 20th centuries. In Central Asia and the Middle East it has been ruthlessly imposed on agrarian and undeveloped societies with little regard for individual interest, economic disruption, or intense local resistance. This book provides a fresh approach to the understanding of conscription, with contributions from social and political historians in an area traditionally covered by military historians. It focuses on the previously undiscussed areas of Ottoman Turkey and Egypt (where some of the most extreme...
Universal conscription has been the main form of military recruitment in the 19th and 20th centuries. In Central Asia and the Middle East it has been ...
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695,46 |
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Kazakhstan : Power and the Elite
ISBN: 9781860648540 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kazakhstan is a major Central Asian state occupying a key geopolitical position in a region of huge interest to the West as well as to its potential superpower neighbors. External vulnerability is compounded by internal instability in a region of intense rivalry and a potential geopolitical flashpoint. This ground-breaking political study is within an historical framework and based not only on original official and academic material but, most importantly, on over 150 interviews with leaders of the national and regional elite.
Kazakhstan is a major Central Asian state occupying a key geopolitical position in a region of huge interest to the West as well as to its potential s...
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645,78 |
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Cambodia
ISBN: 9781861891860 / Angielski / Miękka / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cambodia has a long and rich history, first becoming an artistic and religious power in Southeast Asia in the Angkor period (802 1432), when its kings ruled from vast temple complexes at Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom. The cultural influence of Cambodia on other countries in the region has been enormous, quite out of keeping with its reduced territory and limited political and economic power today.
In Cambodia, writer and photographer Michael Freeman examines the country s present troubled situation in the light of its political and cultural history, looking at many aspects of modern... Cambodia has a long and rich history, first becoming an artistic and religious power in Southeast Asia in the Angkor period (802 1432), when its kings...
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78,17 |
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Asia and Oceania: International Dictionary of Historic Places
ISBN: 9781884964046 / Angielski / Twarda / 978 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The volumes in this series provide illustrated histories of the famous sites of the world. Each volume considers: location, description and site office details, and an essay that contains a full history of the site and its current condition. This volume looks at Asia and Oceania.
The volumes in this series provide illustrated histories of the famous sites of the world. Each volume considers: location, description and site offic...
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1266,73 |
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A Reader in EDO Period Travel
ISBN: 9781901903232 / Angielski / Twarda / 347 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Largely ignored hitherto by Western scholars, Plutschow's Edo Period Travel provides the first in-depth study of the subject which is centred on fifteen of the period's most notable travellers, some of whom are well known in other fields - as intellectuals, artists, poets, folklorists and natural scientists, for example - but rarely, if at all, as travellers. The first traveller put in the spotlight is the celebrated intellectual and botanist Kaibara Ekiken (1630-1714) and the last is the explorer of Ezo (now Hokkaido) and government official Matsuura Takeshiro (1818-88). Such was the...
Largely ignored hitherto by Western scholars, Plutschow's Edo Period Travel provides the first in-depth study of the subject which is centred o...
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425,63 |
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Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee
ISBN: 9781929918829 / Angielski / Miękka / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
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77,92 |
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Theater in Lebanon: Production, Reception and Confessionalism
ISBN: 9783899423877 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With a rich history of conflicts, a society full of contrasts, Lebanon presents a theater not less fascinating with its wide spectrum of social peculiarities. Confessionalism, which crystallizes to a key concept in the social balance as well as its misbalance, defines the images of the "self" and of the "other" within the Christian and Moslem social worlds and in the manner they interrelate with each other. It also generates a complex base for the interpretation of theatrical signs and symbols, theater being another stage for interaction between two conflicting social worlds. This book sheds...
With a rich history of conflicts, a society full of contrasts, Lebanon presents a theater not less fascinating with its wide spectrum of social peculi...
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177,73 |
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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: The Firsthand Experiences of a British Woman in Outback Japan in 1878
ISBN: 9784990284800 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Isabella L. Bird was one of the most famous British travelers of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Her account of her trip to Japan in 1878 is viewed as a classic of travel writing and a valuable account of little documented areas of Japan in that era.
Isabella L. Bird was one of the most famous British travelers of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Her account of her trip to Japan in 1878 is viewed...
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121,01 |
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Oriental Responses to the West: Comparative Essays in Select Writers from the Muslim World
ISBN: 9789004091771 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modern writers and scholars from the Islamic East have represented actual or fictional encounters with the West in a surprising variety of ways. Far from constituting a mono- lithic approach to the West, as Western "Orientalism" often tended to, these writings reveal an interest in and sometimes acute perception of cross-cultural conflict and synthesis. The very difficulties experienced by writers and critics immersed in two or more cultures have led to new creative and innovative forms of response to the West. By shifting focus in East-West relations towards the East, it initiates further...
Modern writers and scholars from the Islamic East have represented actual or fictional encounters with the West in a surprising variety of ways. Far f...
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511,61 |
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