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Pakistan's Radioactive Decade: An Informal Cultural History of the 1970s
ISBN: 9780199405695 / Angielski / Twarda / 594 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pakistan's Radioactive Decade focuses on the cultural output of the 1970s, the most momentous ten years in the nation's history. The book examines the unprecedented experimentation that occurred in a diverse range of fields, including art, dance, music, television, fashion and advertising, among others.
Over forty writers present their reflections of the national scene. The book also includes the interviews of many iconic figures from the 1970s. The catalyst for the book was an exhibition by the same title held at Amin Gulgee Gallery in March 2016. Co-curators Niilofur Farrukh and Amin... Pakistan's Radioactive Decade focuses on the cultural output of the 1970s, the most momentous ten years in the nation's history. The book examines the...
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252,77 |
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Non-Han Literature Along the Silk Road
ISBN: 9789811396434 / Angielski / Twarda / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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402,53 |
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Fighting Words: Fifteen Books That Shaped the Postcolonial World
ISBN: 9781789974225 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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232,46 |
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Philippine Islands
ISBN: 9781515271697 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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43,86 |
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Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation: A Study of Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wa-l-naql
ISBN: 9789004412859 / Angielski / Twarda / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation, Carl Sharif El-Tobgui offers a comprehensive analysis of Ibn Taymiyya’s ten-volume magnum opus, Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wa-l-naql (Refutation of the conflict of reason and revelation), elucidating its author’s foundational reconstitution of rationality through the multifaceted ontological, epistemological, and linguistic reforms he carries out.
In Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation, Carl Sharif El-Tobgui offers a comprehensive analysis of Ibn Taymiyya’s ten-volume magnum opus, Darʾ taʿ...
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552,42 |
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Patristic Literature in Arabic Translations
ISBN: 9789004414945 / Angielski / Twarda / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Patristic Literature in Arabic Translations explores the Arabic translations of the Greek and Syriac Church Fathers, focusing on those produced in the Palestinian monasteries and at Sinai in the 8th–10th centuries and in Antioch during Byzantine rule (969–1084). These Arabic translations preserve patristic texts lost in the original languages. They offer crucial information about the diffusion and influence of patristic heritage among Middle Eastern Christians from the 8th century to the present. A systematic examination of Arabic patristic translations sheds light on the development of...
Patristic Literature in Arabic Translations explores the Arabic translations of the Greek and Syriac Church Fathers, focusing on those produced in the...
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560,91 |
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Ethnic Conflict in Buddhist Societies: Sri Lanka, Thailand and Burma: Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma
ISBN: 9780367003227 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at a South and South-east Asia regional workshop on 'Minorities in Buddhist Polities: Sri Lanka, Thailand and Burma', organised by the International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES), Sri Lanka, and the Thai Studies Programme of Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. The tenor for 'Minorities in Buddhist Polities' was set by K. M. de Silva, Executive Director of ICES, in his keynote address. While the workshop would focus attention on policy-orientated issues and adopt a practical approach to ethnic conflict in the Buddhist societies...
This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at a South and South-east Asia regional workshop on 'Minorities in Buddhist Polities: Sri Lan...
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705,83 |
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Engineering Asia: Technology, Colonial Development, and the Cold War Order
ISBN: 9781350150676 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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160,59 |
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Rivers of Sacred Sound; Chant
ISBN: 9781788744393 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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324,63 |
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Cameras, Combat and Courage: The Vietnam War by the Military's Own Photographers
ISBN: 9781526750235 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Never before published photos of the Vietnam War. Intense, first-hand accounts of combat.
Never before published photos of the Vietnam War. Intense, first-hand accounts of combat.
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125,80 |
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Market Cultures: Society and Morality in the New Asian Capitalisms
ISBN: 9780367316808 / Angielski / Twarda / 339 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most remarkable developments of our time has been the spectacular growth of capitalist enterprise among overseas Chinese and Southeast Asians. Market Cultures examines this event, not in terms of formal models and faceless abstractions, but in light of the institutions through which local people give meaning and moral value to business e
One of the most remarkable developments of our time has been the spectacular growth of capitalist enterprise among overseas Chinese and Southeast Asia...
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705,83 |
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Kim Jong Un and the Bomb: Survival and Deterrence in North Korea
ISBN: 9780190060367 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,59 |
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The Political Economy of China's Financial Reforms: Finance in Late Development
ISBN: 9780367294878 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THIS PATHBREAKING Work analyzes the evolution of China's financial reforms since 1979. China's reformers have stressed the construction of a more diverse, flexible, and competitive financial system as a crucial element of China's economic reform program. The authors assess the theory and practice of financial reform in light of China's specific characteristics as a large, developing country that still claims to be pursuing the goal of establishing a new form of "socialist" market economy. The authors utilize two approaches. First, they place the overall design and trajectory of. financial...
THIS PATHBREAKING Work analyzes the evolution of China's financial reforms since 1979. China's reformers have stressed the construction of a more dive...
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705,83 |
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Unconditional: The Japanese Surrender in World War II
ISBN: 9780190091101 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Publishing on 75th anniversary of the Japanese surrender in September 1945, Unconditional not only offers a narrative of the Japanese surrender in its historical moment, but reveals how the policy underlying it poisoned American postwar politics and warped our understanding of World War II for decades.
Publishing on 75th anniversary of the Japanese surrender in September 1945, Unconditional not only offers a narrative of the Japanese surrender in its...
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121,59 |
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The Taiwan-China Connection: Democracy and Development Across the Taiwan Straits
ISBN: 9780367319007 / Angielski / Twarda / 171 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring the transitional role of the state in Taiwan's economic development, this book focuses especially on the impact of trade with mainland China. Tse-Kang Leng argues that the basic structure of political forces within Taiwan and its pattern of external economic relations have been transformed in the 1990s, with cross-Straits trade playing a
Exploring the transitional role of the state in Taiwan's economic development, this book focuses especially on the impact of trade with mainland China...
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705,83 |
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Civil Society and Postwar Pacific Basin Reconciliation: Wounds, Scars, and Healing
ISBN: 9780367445195 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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204,40 |
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A Different Kind of War: The United States Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, October 2001 - September 2005
ISBN: 9781839310386 / Angielski / Twarda / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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212,65 |
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Right to Mourn: Trauma, Empathy, and Korean War Memorials
ISBN: 9780190855246 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through the lens of Korean War memorials, Right to Mourn looks at how long-suppressed memories become public, and asks how a physical monument can possibly communicate trauma and facilitate mourning.
Through the lens of Korean War memorials, Right to Mourn looks at how long-suppressed memories become public, and asks how a physical monument can pos...
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389,07 |
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Power and Primacy: A Recent History of Western Intervention in the Asia-Pacific
ISBN: 9781789976236 / Angielski / Miękka / 313 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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187,93 |
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Factory Politics in the People's Republic of China
ISBN: 9789004421745 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past seven decades—since the 1949 Revolution—every aspect of Chinese society has been profoundly transformed multiple times. No sector has experienced more tumultuous twists and turns than industry. The eight articles contained in this volume examine these twists and turns, focusing on those aspects of industrial relations that involve contention and power, that is, factory politics. They were selected among articles that have appeared in the Chinese journal Open Times (开放时代) over the past decade. Because Open Times has a well-earned reputation for publishing diverse...
Over the past seven decades—since the 1949 Revolution—every aspect of Chinese society has been profoundly transformed multiple times. No sector ha...
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611,91 |