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The Forest
ISBN: 9789715426350 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While writing a book on the Hukbalahap, a wartime anti-Japanese resistance movement in the Philippines, William "Bill" Pomeroy met and fell in love with Celia Mariano, one of its most active women members. The Forest tells the story of the two years--1950-1952--Bill and Celia spent in the mountains with the Huks.
While writing a book on the Hukbalahap, a wartime anti-Japanese resistance movement in the Philippines, William "Bill" Pomeroy met and fell in love wi...
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Art for Social Change and Cultural Awakening: An Anthropology of Residence in Taiwan
ISBN: 9780739165850 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Artistic residency has become widely adopted in Western countries while only recently having become popular and well-supported within Taiwan. This book explores the challenges that this form of art practice faced in contemporary Taiwan from the revocation of Martial Law in 1987 to the 2000s--arguably one of the most exciting periods in the sociocultural history of the island. Case studies show what is at stake politically, historically, and socially in artists' endeavours to give shape to a sense of Taiwanese identity. Despite the prevalence of artists engaged in social issues in today's...
Artistic residency has become widely adopted in Western countries while only recently having become popular and well-supported within Taiwan. This boo...
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208,89 |
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Lolas' House: Filipino Women Living with War
ISBN: 9780810135864 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lolas' House tells the stories, in unprecedented detail, of sixteen surviving Filipino "comfort women." During World War II more than 1,000 Filipino women and girls were kidnapped by the Imperial Japanese Army. They were taken from their homes, snatched from roadsides, and chased down in fields. Overall the Japanese forced 400,000 women across Asia into sexual slavery. M. Evelina Galang began researching these stories in the 1990s as 173 lolas, "grannies" in Tagalog, emerged after decades of shame and silence to demand recognition and justice from the Japanese government. Galang...
Lolas' House tells the stories, in unprecedented detail, of sixteen surviving Filipino "comfort women." During World War II more than 1,000 Fil...
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72,82 |
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The Theory and Practice of Associative Power: Cords in the Villages of Vietnam 1967-1972
ISBN: 9780761868996 / Angielski / Miękka / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book asserts that the United States needs to use Associative Power in place of both Hard Power and Soft Power to succeed in achieving its national security objectives. The author uses the CORDs program during the Vietnam War as an example of Associative Power.
This book asserts that the United States needs to use Associative Power in place of both Hard Power and Soft Power to succeed in achieving its nationa...
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218,60 |
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Japan and the shaping of post-Vietnam War Southeast Asia: Japanese diplomacy and the Cambodian conflict, 1978-1993
ISBN: 9781138200234 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in 1978 and the consequent outbreak of the Cambodian conflict brought Southeast Asia into instability and deteriorated relations between Vietnam and the subsequently established Vietnam-backed government in Cambodia on the one hand and the ASEAN countries on the other. As a result of the conflict, the Soviet Union established a foothold in Southeast Asia and China, through its support to the anti-Vietnam Cambodian resistance, improved relations with Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand. Japan's Fukuda Doctrine - its declared priorities of promoting... The Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in 1978 and the consequent outbreak of the Cambodian conflict brought Southeast Asia into instability and deter... |
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704,38 |
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The Rebel of Rangoon (INTL PB ED): A Tale of Defiance and Deliverance in Burma
ISBN: 9781568585086 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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83,58 |
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The ASEAN Miracle: A Catalyst for Peace
ISBN: 9789814722490 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a miracle. In an era of growing cultural pessimism, there is a pervasive belief that different civilizations cannot function together. Yet the ten countries of ASEAN are a thriving counter-example of coexistence. Here, more than 625 million people live together in peace. In 1967, leaders from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand struck a landmark agreement, forming ASEAN. They had realized that political and economic cooperation would bring greater stability and prosperity to the region. Fifty years and five...
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a miracle. In an era of growing cultural pessimism, there is a pervasive belief that different c...
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82,53 |
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The Tragedy of Vietnam
ISBN: 9781138632677 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Tragedy of Vietnam is a brief and accessible text providing a comprehensive overview of the causes and consequences of the Vietnam War. Patrick J. Hearden offers historical background of the conflict and examines its long-term consequences on a regional and global scale. This fifth edition includes expanded discussions of post-war American-Vietnamese relationships and outlines the ways in which the Vietnam War experience has shaped foreign policy debates in the United States up until the present day. The Tragedy of Vietnam is a brief and accessible text providing a comprehensive overview of the causes and consequences of the Vietnam War. Patrick... |
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777,25 |
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The Tragedy of Vietnam
ISBN: 9781138632653 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Tragedy of Vietnam is a brief and accessible text providing a comprehensive overview of the causes and consequences of the Vietnam War. Patrick J. Hearden offers historical background of the conflict and examines its long-term consequences on a regional and global scale. This fifth edition includes expanded discussions of post-war American-Vietnamese relationships and outlines the ways in which the Vietnam War experience has shaped foreign policy debates in the United States up until the present day. The Tragedy of Vietnam is a brief and accessible text providing a comprehensive overview of the causes and consequences of the Vietnam War. Patrick... |
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320,57 |
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Hearing Allah's Call: Preaching and Performance in Indonesian Islam
ISBN: 9781501713125 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hearing Allah's Call changes the way we think about Islamic communication. In the city of Bandung in Indonesia, sermons are not reserved for mosques and sites for Friday prayers. Muslim speakers are in demand for all kinds of events, from rites of passage to motivational speeches for companies and other organizations. Julian Millie spent...
Hearing Allah's Call changes the way we think about Islamic communication. In the city of Bandung in Indonesia, sermons are not reserved for mosques a...
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122,67 |
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Withdrawal: Reassessing America's Final Years in Vietnam
ISBN: 9780190691080 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A "better war." Over the last two decades, this term has become synonymous with US strategy during the Vietnam War's final years. The narrative is enticingly simple, appealing to many audiences. After the disastrous results of the 1968 Tet offensive, in which Hanoi's forces demonstrated the failures of American strategy, popular history tells of a new American military commander who emerged in South Vietnam and with inspired leadership and a new approach turned around a long stalemated conflict. In fact, so successful was General Creighton Abrams in commanding US forces that, according to the...
A "better war." Over the last two decades, this term has become synonymous with US strategy during the Vietnam War's final years. The narrative is ent...
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148,92 |
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Poppa-San
ISBN: 9781498241595 / Angielski / Twarda / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is based on the experiences of military personnel during the Vietnam War from 1966 to 1970. I rest easy now after writing this book in honor of those who served. Let the truth be told. Thomas Terry is a telecommunications consultant who took to writing after travel around the world in the US military and as an expatriate. He has been through three war periods in several countries, including Vietnam. He now lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
This book is based on the experiences of military personnel during the Vietnam War from 1966 to 1970. I rest easy now after writing this book in honor...
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129,23 |
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Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
ISBN: 9780674979840 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of the conflict Americans call the Vietnam War and Vietnamese call the American War--a conflict that lives on in the collective memory of both nations. " A] gorgeous, multifaceted examination of the war Americans call the... Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award |
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83,62 |
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Poppa-San
ISBN: 9781532617133 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is based on the experiences of military personnel during the Vietnam War from 1966 to 1970. I rest easy now after writing this book in honor of those who served. Let the truth be told.
Thomas Terry is a telecommunications consultant who took to writing after travel around the world in the US military and as an expatriate. He has been through three war periods in several countries, including Vietnam. He now lives in Phoenix, Arizona. This book is based on the experiences of military personnel during the Vietnam War from 1966 to 1970. I rest easy now after writing this book in honor...
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53,21 |
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Separatist Conflict in Indonesia: The Long-Distance Politics of the Acehnese Diaspora
ISBN: 9781138102941 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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223,41 |
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Becoming Refugee American: The Politics of Rescue in Little Saigon
ISBN: 9780252041358 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vietnamese refugees fleeing the fall of South Vietnam faced a paradox. The same guilt-ridden America that only reluctantly accepted them expected, and rewarded, expressions of gratitude for their rescue. Meanwhile, their status as refugees "as opposed to willing immigrants "profoundly influenced their cultural identity. Phuong Tran Nguyen examines the phenomenon of refugee nationalism among Vietnamese Americans in Southern California. Here, the residents of Little Saigon keep alive nostalgia for the old regime and, by extension, their claim to a lost statehood. Their refugee nationalism is...
Vietnamese refugees fleeing the fall of South Vietnam faced a paradox. The same guilt-ridden America that only reluctantly accepted them expected, and...
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442,06 |
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Becoming Refugee American: The Politics of Rescue in Little Saigon
ISBN: 9780252082887 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vietnamese refugees fleeing the fall of South Vietnam faced a paradox. The same guilt-ridden America that only reluctantly accepted them expected, and rewarded, expressions of gratitude for their rescue. Meanwhile, their status as refugees "as opposed to willing immigrants "profoundly influenced their cultural identity. Phuong Tran Nguyen examines the phenomenon of refugee nationalism among Vietnamese Americans in Southern California. Here, the residents of Little Saigon keep alive nostalgia for the old regime and, by extension, their claim to a lost statehood. Their refugee nationalism is...
Vietnamese refugees fleeing the fall of South Vietnam faced a paradox. The same guilt-ridden America that only reluctantly accepted them expected, and...
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106,83 |
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Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire
ISBN: 9780826358943 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tells the remarkable story of a group of nuns who travelled halfway around the globe in the seventeenth century to establish the first female Franciscan convent in the Far East. Drawing from a manuscript from one of the nuns, other archival sources, and rare books, this study offers a fascinating view of travel, evangelization, and empire.
Tells the remarkable story of a group of nuns who travelled halfway around the globe in the seventeenth century to establish the first female Francisc...
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116,54 |
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Understanding the City Through Its Margins: Pluridisciplinary Perspectives from Case Studies in Africa, Asia and the Middle East
ISBN: 9781138045897 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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704,38 |
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The Myths of Tet: The Most Misunderstood Event of the Vietnam War
ISBN: 9780700625024 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Late in 1967, American officials and military officers pushed an optimistic view of the Vietnam War. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) said that the war was being won, and that Communist strength in South Vietnam was declining. Then came the Tet Offensive of 1968. In its broadest and simplest outline, the conventional wisdom about the offensive--that it was a military defeat for the Communists but a political victory for them, because it undermined support for the war in the United States--is correct. But much that has been written about the Tet Offensive has been misleading. Edwin...
Late in 1967, American officials and military officers pushed an optimistic view of the Vietnam War. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) said ...
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223,46 |
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