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History of the Arabic Written Tradition Volume 2
ISBN: 9789004326316 / Arabski / Twarda / 638 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brockelmann s History of the Arabic Written Tradition offers bio-bibliographic information about works written in Arabic and their authors, with an emphasis on manuscripts from the classical period. This originally multivolume reference work is divided in chronologically organized sections, which are subdivided by literary genre. Individual entries typically consist of a biographical section and a list of the author s works in manuscript and print, with references to secondary literature. The Brockelmann , now also available in English, is an indispensable research tool for...
Brockelmann s History of the Arabic Written Tradition offers bio-bibliographic information about works written in Arabic and their authors, wit...
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821,15 zł |
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The Significance of the Commonwealth, 1965-90
ISBN: 9781349390250 / Angielski / Miękka / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book takes a new look at the Commonwealth from the founding of the Secretariat in 1965 to the 14th Commonwealth Games in 1990. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 looks at origins, the Heads of Government Meetings, the Secretariat and the Commonwealth in a global setting. Part 2 covers race, Africa, inequalities and the security of small states. The final part, on Functioning, looks at regionalism, functional organisations, professional linkages, peoples, sport and the role of the Queen as Head of the Commonwealth. It concludes with an 'Agenda for the 1990s'.
This book takes a new look at the Commonwealth from the founding of the Secretariat in 1965 to the 14th Commonwealth Games in 1990. The book is divide...
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192,30 zł |
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British Intelligence and the Japanese Challenge in Asia, 1914-1941
ISBN: 9781349425983 / Angielski / Miękka / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first full-length study of the role played by British Intelligence in influencing policy towards Japan from the decline of the Alliance to the outbreak of the Pacific War. Using many previously classified records it describes how the image of Japan generated by Intelligence during this period led Britain to underestimate Japanese military capabilities in 1941. The book shows how this image was derived from a lack of adequate intelligence resources and racially driven assumptions about Japanese national characteristics.
This is the first full-length study of the role played by British Intelligence in influencing policy towards Japan from the decline of the Alliance to...
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423,10 zł |
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Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East: Directions and Policy Options in the New Century
ISBN: 9781349531905 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This vital book examines why states seek to gain Weapons of Mass Destruction, a crucial issue in developing strategies against proliferation. Leading experts examine specific countries and the interplay among political, economic, cultural and regional factors driving decisions whether to acquire WMD.
This vital book examines why states seek to gain Weapons of Mass Destruction, a crucial issue in developing strategies against proliferation. Leading ...
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192,30 zł |
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Theaters of Desire: Authors, Readers, and the Reproduction of Early Chinese Song-Drama, 1300-2000
ISBN: 9781349526710 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Blending a flair for textual nuance with theoretical engagement, Theaters of Desire not only contributes to our understanding of the most influential form of early Chinese song-drama in local and international cultural contexts, but adds a Chinese perspective to the scholarship on print culture, authorship, and the regulatory discourses of desire.
Blending a flair for textual nuance with theoretical engagement, Theaters of Desire not only contributes to our understanding of the most influential ...
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192,30 zł |
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Negotiating Knowledge in Early Modern Empires: A Decentered View
ISBN: 9781349503339 / Angielski / Miękka / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume takes a decentered look at early modern empires and rejects the center/periphery divide. With an unconventional geographical set of cases, including the Holy Roman Empire, the Habsburg, Iberian, French and British empires, as well as China, contributors seize the spatial dynamics of the scientific enterprise.
This volume takes a decentered look at early modern empires and rejects the center/periphery divide. With an unconventional geographical set of cases,...
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192,30 zł |
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The Asia Crisis: The Cures, Their Effectiveness and the Prospects After
ISBN: 9781349654369 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book contains soundly researched analyses and robust and databased forecasts by international experts in the areas and provides in a concise and well argued manner a deep understanding of the fundamental factors affecting the direction of development of growth, trade, investment and business in Asian and world economies up to 2010.
The book contains soundly researched analyses and robust and databased forecasts by international experts in the areas and provides in a concise and w...
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384,63 zł |
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Crisis in the Congo: The Rise and Fall of Laurent Kabila
ISBN: 9781349536450 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume offers a comprehensive history and analysis of the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the tumultuous period of 1997 - 2001. The author examines the most recent events in this turbulent region, offering a contemporary account that is both extensive and detailed.
This volume offers a comprehensive history and analysis of the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the tumultuous period of 1997 - 2001. The autho...
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192,30 zł |
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Digital Archetypes: Adaptations of Early Temple Architecture in South and Southeast Asia. by Sambit Datta and David Beynon
ISBN: 9781138252523 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique book presents a broad multi-disciplinary examination of early temple architecture in Asia, written by two experts in digital reconstruction and the history and theory of Asian architecture. The authors examine the archetypes of Early Brahmanic, Hindu and Buddhist temple architecture from their origins in north western India to their subsequent spread and adaptation eastwards into Southeast Asia. While the epic monuments of Asia are well known, much less is known about the connections between their building traditions, especially the common themes and mutual influences in the early...
This unique book presents a broad multi-disciplinary examination of early temple architecture in Asia, written by two experts in digital reconstructio...
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259,30 zł |
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Conflict and Cooperation in Sino-British Business, 1860-1911: The Impact of the Pro-British Commercial Network in Shanghai
ISBN: 9781349413225 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a study about the collapse of Chinese traditional commercial order in the late Qing period. It regards the process as an influence from the prevalence of pro-British Chinese commercial networks in the 1880s. Through the analysis of various Sino-British commercial conflicts after the Arrow war, this book reveals when and where such a commercial network was born and what impact it brought about on the Chinese society.
This is a study about the collapse of Chinese traditional commercial order in the late Qing period. It regards the process as an influence from the pr...
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192,30 zł |
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Wild Grass: Yecao, Weeds by Lu Xun (Lu Hsun)
ISBN: 9781537114880 / Chiński / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wild Grass (Yecao, Weeds), is a collection of twenty-three prose poems written by Lu Xun (1881-1936). The poems, written between 1924 and 1926, features some of Lu Xun's most complex and psychologically dense creative works. Lu Xun, formerly also romanized Lu Hsun, was the pen name of Zhou Shuren (25 September 1881 - 19 October 1936), a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. Writing in Vernacular Chinese as well as Classical Chinese, Lu Xun was a short story writer, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, and poet. In the 1930s he became the titular head of the League of...
Wild Grass (Yecao, Weeds), is a collection of twenty-three prose poems written by Lu Xun (1881-1936). The poems, written between 1924 and 1926, featur...
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36,73 zł |
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Explorations in Asian Christianity – History, Theology, and Mission
ISBN: 9780830851003 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Asia is the birthplace of Christianity. If Christianity is not usually seen as an Asian religion, that is because the history of Christianity in Asia has long been a difficult one. Whereas Christianity in the West received royal support, Asian Christianity has led a more nomadic and exilic existence. Today it is the least Christianized region of the world. Scott W. Sunquist is a recognized expert on the history of the Christian faith in Asia. Over the years he has published and spoken frequently on this theme.Explorations in Asian Christianity gathers his key writings on the topic...
Asia is the birthplace of Christianity. If Christianity is not usually seen as an Asian religion, that is because the history of Christianity in Asia ...
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224,33 zł |
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Surveillance in Asian Cinema: Under Eastern Eyes
ISBN: 9781138125148 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Critical theory and popular wisdom are rife with images of surveillance as an intrusive, repressive practice often suggestively attributed to eastern powers and opposed to western liberalism. Hollywood-dominated global media has long promulgated a geopoliticized east-west axis of freedom vs. control. This book focuses on Asian and Asia-based films and cinematic traditions obscured by lopsided western hegemonic discourse and more specifically probes these films treatments of a phenomenon that western film often portrays with neo-orientalist hysteria. Exploring recent and historical movies... Critical theory and popular wisdom are rife with images of surveillance as an intrusive, repressive practice often suggestively attributed to easte... |
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778,05 zł |
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Asian Comics
ISBN: 9781496813015 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Grand in its scope, Asian Comics dispels the myth that, outside of Japan, the continent is nearly devoid of comic strips and comic books. Relying on his fifty years of Asian mass communication and comic art research, during which he traveled to Asia at least seventy-eight times and visited many studios and workplaces, John A. Lent shows that nearly every country had a golden age of cartooning and has experienced a recent rejuvenation of the art form. As only Japanese comics output has received close and by now voluminous scrutiny, Asian Comics tells the story of the major... Grand in its scope, Asian Comics dispels the myth that, outside of Japan, the continent is nearly devoid of comic strips and comic books. Re... |
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221,88 zł |
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Le Mur de Berlin: Histoire, Mémoires, Représentations
ISBN: 9782807601413 / Francuski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Le 9 novembre 1989 au soir s'ouvrait le Mur de Berlin. Vingt-huit ans durant, il avait divise la ville, l'Allemagne, l'Europe et meme le monde en deux blocs rivaux. Il devint l'un des emblemes majeurs de la guerre froide. Erige pour mettre fin a la fuite vers l'Ouest des Allemands de l'Est, il fut a l'origine de la mort de plus de 130 personnes, soulevant emotions et indignation internationales. L'ouverture puis la demolition du Mur ont ete vecues par les contemporains comme un veritable changement d'epoque, mettant fin a l'ordre bipolaire. En une quinzaine de chapitres, cet ouvrage... Le 9 novembre 1989 au soir s'ouvrait le Mur de Berlin. Vingt-huit ans durant, il avait divise la ville, l'Allemagne, l'Europe et meme le monde en d... |
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254,70 zł |
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Migration, Prostitution and Human Trafficking: The Voice of Chinese Women
ISBN: 9781412865319 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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119,25 zł |
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Early Islamic Law in Basra in The 2nd/8th Century: Aqwal Qatadah b. Da'amah al-Sadusi
ISBN: 9789004339477 / Arabski / Twarda / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The manuscript of the Aqw l Qat da has repeatedly attracted particular interest among modern scholars, as it raises questions concerning the early development of the Ib Basran community and the emergence of Islamic jurisprudence in Iraq. It is a unique document because it attests to the existence of a scholarly link between Sunn s and Ib s during the early development of Islamic law. The fact that the legal responsa and traditions of Qat da b. Di ma al-Sad s (60/680-117/735) are part of an Ib collection, in which the traditions of Ib Imam J bir b. Zayd (d....
The manuscript of the Aqw l Qat da has repeatedly attracted particular interest among modern scholars, as it raises questions concerning the ea...
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597,60 zł |
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The Portuguese in the East: A Cultural History of a Maritime Trading Empire
ISBN: 9781784539160 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vasco da Gama's voyage to India in the late 15th Century opened up new economic and cultural horizons for the Portuguese.
Vasco da Gama's voyage to India in the late 15th Century opened up new economic and cultural horizons for the Portuguese.
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171,12 zł |
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Between the Hammer and the Anvil?: Chinese and Russian Policies in Outer Mongolia, 1911-1921
ISBN: 9780933070066 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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233,42 zł |
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Inner Asia: A Syllabus (Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series)
ISBN: 9780877500810 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This syllabus was prepared as a two-semester (thirty-week) course containing fifty-four outlines covering major topics in Inner Asian history. Suggestions for further reading are provided, together with some practical advice concerning matters of possible interest to instructors. This syllabus was prepared as a two-semester (thirty-week) course containing fifty-four outlines covering major topics in Inner Asian history. Sugg... |
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114,06 zł |
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