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The Sino-Indian War of 1962: New Perspectives
ISBN: 9780367338299 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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227,73 zł |
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Postmulticulturalism; Realities, Discourses, Practices
ISBN: 9781433153600 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Postmulticulturalism: Realities, Discourses, Practices looks to analyze and assess the current salience and future prospects of Canada's official multiculturalism by recasting the understanding of its past, present, and future through the prism of a postmulticulturalism lens. This book begins with the observation of a messy postmulticultural world of transnationality, cosmopolitanism, postethnicity, and multiversality, rather than an ordered multicultural world of homogeneity, centrality, and clarity. However durable and popular as a diversity governance model, Canada's official...
Postmulticulturalism: Realities, Discourses, Practices looks to analyze and assess the current salience and future prospects of Canada's official mult...
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547,66 zł |
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Friendship and Work Culture of Women Managers in Japan: Tokyo After Ten
ISBN: 9780367355814 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on ethnographic data gathered from fieldwork spanninga 15-year period, this book offers new insights into understanding the lives and experiences of women managers in Japan. Based on empirical case studies, it explores the ways in which professional women in Tokyo creatively mobilize their friendships as a strategic site for mitigating the disappointments in their working lives, and conceptualizing new understandings of independence and equality. It analyses their use of language, time, space and money to negotiate new identities in an increasingly flexible work environment. In...
Drawing on ethnographic data gathered from fieldwork spanninga 15-year period, this book offers new insights into understanding the lives and experien...
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217,38 zł |
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Mahatma Gandhi: Essays and Reflections on His Life and Work
ISBN: 9780367180195 / Angielski / Twarda / 557 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in 1939, this work was presented to Mahatma Gandhi on his 70th birthday, October 22nd, 1939. This work is not only a remarkable tribute from notable men and women of diverse views, but an important estimate of the life and thought of Mahatma Gandhi. Published in 1939, this work was presented to Mahatma Gandhi on his 70th birthday, October 22nd, 1939. This work is not only a remarkable tribute... |
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750,67 zł |
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Identities and Interests: Race, Ethnicity, and Affinity Voting
ISBN: 9780774838924 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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383,10 zł |
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Globalization and Culture: Global Melange
ISBN: 9781538115237 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now updated with new chapters on culture and populism, this book argues that we are witnessing the formation of a global melange culture through processes of cultural mixing. Its historically deep and geographically wide approach to globalization is essential reading as we face the increasing spread of conflicts bred by cultural misunderstanding.
Now updated with new chapters on culture and populism, this book argues that we are witnessing the formation of a global melange culture through proce...
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163,49 zł |
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Governance and Multiculturalism: The White Elephant of Social Construction and Cultural Identities
ISBN: 9783030237394 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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192,74 zł |
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Cultural Awareness in Therapy with Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Adults and Older People: A Practical Guide
ISBN: 9781785928383 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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141,63 zł |
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Armed Conflicts in South Asia 2008: Growing Violence
ISBN: 9781138380295 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the major armed conflicts in South Asia — in India (with special reference to the Northeast, Jammu & Kashmir and the Naxalites), Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. Designed as an annual series, the articles cover a set of issues across volumes. Each article provides a brief historical sketch of the emergence of armed conflict and outlines its various phases. The roles, objectives and strategies of the major state, non-state and international actors are critically evaluated.
This book examines the major armed conflicts in South Asia — in India (with special reference to the Northeast, Jammu & Kashmir and the Naxalites), ...
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113,84 zł |
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Urban Poverty, Local Governance and Everyday Politics in Mumbai
ISBN: 9780367177416 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the informal (political) patronage relations between theurban poor and service delivery organisations in Mumbai, India. It examines the conditions of people in the slums and traces the extent to which they are subject to social and political exclusion. Delving into the roles of the slum-based mediators and municipal council
This book explores the informal (political) patronage relations between theurban poor and service delivery organisations in Mumbai, India. It examines...
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227,73 zł |
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New Dynamics in Us-China Relations: Contending for the Asia Pacific
ISBN: 9781138379299 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Washington’s strategic pivot to Asia and Beijing’s pursuit of new strategic and security interests in the region have led to increasing tensions between the two powers. US leaders have stressed that their increased interest in Asia is driven by a desire to benefit from the thriving regional economies, as well as to play the leading role in maintaining peace and stability in the region. However, Beijing is particularly concerned about US efforts to consolidate its alliances and deepen security partnerships with a number of regional states. Given the centrality of the two powers to the...
Washington’s strategic pivot to Asia and Beijing’s pursuit of new strategic and security interests in the region have led to increasing tensions b...
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248,44 zł |
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Tracking the Media: Interpretations of Mass Media Discourses in India and Pakistan
ISBN: 9781138380318 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about media content analysis in the English language print media in South Asia, with reference to certain contemporary issues. It is written from the perspective of the need to analyze media discourses and the ways in which their circulation creates a ‘common sense’ view of the world. The focus is on English language papers and news magazines; additionally, some Hindi, Urdu, and Sindhi newspapers are examined. The highlight is on the ways in which English language publications contribute to and function within middle class matrices of modernity, consumption, conflict, and...
This book is about media content analysis in the English language print media in South Asia, with reference to certain contemporary issues. It is writ...
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243,26 zł |
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Indonesia's Small Entrepreneurs: Trading on the Margins
ISBN: 9781138381070 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the context of Makassar, on the eastern Indonesian island of Sulawesi, the book explores the socioeconomic and cultural relationships that make life for small entrepreneurs in Makassar so distinctive. Using a new framework for the study of small enterprises - the 'small enterprise integrative framework' - this book gives us a greater understanding of the organization and operations of small enterprises in developing countries, at both the micro and macro levels. The application of this new framework for research reveals the diversity of labour flexibility, networking and cluster styles...
In the context of Makassar, on the eastern Indonesian island of Sulawesi, the book explores the socioeconomic and cultural relationships that make lif...
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248,44 zł |
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Reward for High Public Office: Asian and Pacific Rim States
ISBN: 9781138376656 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The choices made by governments about how to reward their top employees reveal a great deal about their values and their assumptions about governing. This book examines rewards of high public office in seven Asian political systems, a particularly rich set of cases for exploring the causes and consequences of the rewards of high public office, having some of the most generous and most meagre reward packages in the world.There are a range of economic, political and cultural explanations for the rewards provided by governments. Likewise, these choices are assumed to have a number of...
The choices made by governments about how to reward their top employees reveal a great deal about their values and their assumptions about governing. ...
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248,44 zł |
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The Vernacularisation of Democracy: Politics, Caste and Religion in India
ISBN: 9781138376809 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book is an ethnographic exploration of how ‘democracy’ takes social and cultural roots in India and in the process shapes the nature of popular politics. It centres on a historically marginalised caste who in recent years has become one of the most assertive and politically powerful communities in North India: the Yadavs.
The Vernacularisation of Democracy is a vivid account of how Indian popular democracy works on the ground. Challenging conventional theories of democratisation the book shows how the political upsurge of 'the lower orders' is situated within a wider process of the... The book is an ethnographic exploration of how ‘democracy’ takes social and cultural roots in India and in the process shapes the nature of popula...
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253,63 zł |
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Broadening and Deepening Democracy: Political Innovation in Karnataka
ISBN: 9781138384224 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines certain changes in the political make-up of Karnataka, between the early 1970s and the late 1980s, which, in turn, led to the birth of a unique democracy in the state.
In a departure from most studies on political science and political history which pay little or no attention to the role of politicians and focus only on technocratic blueprints, administrative processes and incentive systems, this volume takes into account the role politicians play in shaping the character of their governments, public policy and state–society relations. It studies the political... This book examines certain changes in the political make-up of Karnataka, between the early 1970s and the late 1980s, which, in turn, led to the birth...
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165,62 zł |
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Women Architects and Modernism in India: Narratives and Contemporary Practices
ISBN: 9780367177430 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Studies on architecture in South Asia continue to ignore women in canonical histories of the discipline. This book attempts to recover the stories of the women architects whose careers nearly parallel the development of modernism in colonial and postcolonial India. Writing their experiences into the narrative of mainstream architectural history wit
Studies on architecture in South Asia continue to ignore women in canonical histories of the discipline. This book attempts to recover the stories of ...
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207,03 zł |
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Governing India's Metropolises: Case Studies of Four Cities
ISBN: 9781138380356 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a comparative, sector-based study of the changing character of governance in Indian metropolises in the 2000s. Highlighting the horizontal and vertical ties of the participatory groups, both state and non-state, it looks at key civic issues.
This book is a comparative, sector-based study of the changing character of governance in Indian metropolises in the 2000s. Highlighting the horizonta...
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243,26 zł |
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Negotiating Ethnicity in China: Citizenship as a Response to the State
ISBN: 9781138375970 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This challenging study brings together anthropology and political science to examine how ethnic minorities are constructed by the state, and how they respond to such constructions.Disclosing endless mini negotiations between those acting in the name of the Chinese state and those carrying the images of ethnic minority, this book provides an image of the framing of ethnicity by modern state building processes. It will be of vital interest to scholars of political science, anthropology and sociology, and is essential reading to those engaged in studying Chinese society.
This challenging study brings together anthropology and political science to examine how ethnic minorities are constructed by the state, and how they ...
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248,44 zł |
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Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation: Perspectives from East Asian Languages
ISBN: 9781138380226 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The issue of how interpretation results from the form and type of syntactic structures present in language is one which is central and hotly debated in both theoretical and descriptive linguistics.This volume brings together a series of eleven new cutting-edge essays by leading experts in East Asian languages which shows how the study of formal structures and functional morphemes in Chinese, Japanese and Korean adds much to our general understanding of the close connections between form and interpretation. This specially commissioned collection will be of interest to linguists of all...
The issue of how interpretation results from the form and type of syntactic structures present in language is one which is central and hotly debated i...
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248,44 zł |
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