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Forces of Nature: New Perspectives on Korean Environments
ISBN: 9781501768781 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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587,73 |
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Forces of Nature: New Perspectives on Korean Environments
ISBN: 9781501768798 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together a multidisciplinary conversation about the entanglement of nature and society in the Korean peninsula, Forces of Nature aims to define and develop the field of the Korean environmental humanities. At its core, the volume works to foreground non-human agents that have long been marginalized in Korean studies, placing flora, fauna, mineral deposits, and climatic conditions that have hitherto been confined to footnotes front and center. In the process, the authors blaze new trails through Korea's social and physical landscapes. What emerges is a deeper appreciation of the...
Bringing together a multidisciplinary conversation about the entanglement of nature and society in the Korean peninsula, Forces of Nature aims to defi...
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122,40 |
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The Party Family: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China
ISBN: 9781501771415 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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141,98 |
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Cultures of the Hindukush After Jettmar: A Bibliography
ISBN: 9781778252204 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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194,22 |
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Robinson Crusoe in Asia
ISBN: 9789811640537 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays expands the study of that immensely widely read and much-adapted novel, beyond the first book –The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe(usually known simply asRobinson Crusoe) – to take in the far less well-knownFarther Adventuresand the almost unreadSerious Reflections, beyond Defoe’s texts, to their re-writing and adaptation and beyond the Atlantic and South American context to an Asian and Pacific context. The essays consider both how Asia is represented in the books (in terms of politics, economics, religion), and how the book has...
This collection of essays expands the study of that immensely widely read and much-adapted novel, beyond the first book –The Life and Strange Surpri...
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563,56 |
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Small Island, Large Ocean: Mauritius and the Indian Ocean World
ISBN: 9781032498263 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about a ‘Small Island’, namely Mauritius in the southwestern Indian Ocean. It is also about a ‘Large Ocean’, the Indian Ocean world—its peoples, histories and cultures.
This book is about a ‘Small Island’, namely Mauritius in the southwestern Indian Ocean. It is also about a ‘Large Ocean’, the Indian Ocean wor...
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759,15 |
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Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror
ISBN: 9781645481300 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From hungry ghosts, vampiric babies, and shapeshifting fox spirits to the avenging White Lady of urban legend, for generations, Asian women’s roles have been shaped and defined through myth and story. In Unquiet Spirits, Asian writers of horror reflect on the impact of superstition, spirits, and the supernatural in this unique collection of 21 personal essays exploring themes of otherness, identity, expectation, duty, and loss, and leading, ultimately, to understanding and empowerment.
From hungry ghosts, vampiric babies, and shapeshifting fox spirits to the avenging White Lady of urban legend, for generations, Asian women’s roles ...
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88,44 |
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Public Camp Orders and the Power of Microstructures in the Thai-Burmese Borderland
ISBN: 9781793608970 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study examines social interactions in long-term refugee camps on the Thai-Burmese border. Based on seventeen months of participant observation, the author's analysis illuminates the social order in refugee camps beyond state and humanitarian governance.
This study examines social interactions in long-term refugee camps on the Thai-Burmese border. Based on seventeen months of participant observation, t...
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146,94 |
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The Asian Studies Parade: Archival, Biographical, Institutional and Post-Colonial Approaches
ISBN: 9789087283995 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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538,76 |
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Modified Bodies, Material Selves: Beauty Ideals in Post-Reform Shanghai
ISBN: 9780295751757 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thin body, white skin, and big eyes. Such beauty ideals are ubiquitous across Shanghai, where salons and weight-loss clinics offering an array of products and treatment options beckon city dwellers with promises of a "better life." Set against the backdrop of China's post-reform era, Modified Bodies, Material Selves compares the radically different attitudes of middle-class Chinese and Western women living in Shanghai toward the pursuit of beauty. Through comparative ethnography, anthropologist Julie E. Starr parses how experiences of bodies and embodied identities, and the politics ascribed...
Thin body, white skin, and big eyes. Such beauty ideals are ubiquitous across Shanghai, where salons and weight-loss clinics offering an array of prod...
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556,53 |
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Islam in India: History, Politics and Society
ISBN: 9781032508917 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Islam in India: History, Politics and Society is based on the historical and contemporary relevance of the religion and its related culture(s) in India.
Islam in India: History, Politics and Society is based on the historical and contemporary relevance of the religion and its related culture(s) in Indi...
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759,15 |
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Regional Sufi Centres in India: Significance and Contribution
ISBN: 9781032508931 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors of this volume discuss some of the regional Sufi Centres in India and their contribution in the social emancipation of the society.
The authors of this volume discuss some of the regional Sufi Centres in India and their contribution in the social emancipation of the society.
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710,17 |
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Sustainable Development in India and South-East Asia
ISBN: 9781032515854 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sustainable Development in India and South-East Asia attempts to explore and analyse the nature of economic relationship between India and the South-East Asia. It assesses the prospects for this relationship to grow and flourish.
Sustainable Development in India and South-East Asia attempts to explore and analyse the nature of economic relationship between India and the South-E...
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759,15 |
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India’s Sri Lanka Policy
ISBN: 9781032515878 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on India’s foreign policy towards Sri Lanka before the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord (ISLA) in July 1987 and India’s military intervention after the ISLA.
This book focuses on India’s foreign policy towards Sri Lanka before the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord (ISLA) in July 1987 and India’s military interventi...
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747,55 |
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Living across connectivity: Intimacy, Entrepreneurship And Activism Of East Asian Migrants online and offline
ISBN: 9781839988868 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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412,44 |
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Conjugal Relationships in Chinese Culture: Sino-Western Discourses and Aesthetics on Marriage
ISBN: 9789811998409 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reviews the presentation of conjugal relationships in Chinese culture and their perception in the West. It explores the ways in which the act of marriage is represented/misrepresented in different literary genres, as well as in cultural adaptations. It looks at the gendered characteristics at play that affect conjugal relationships in Chinese societal practices more widely. It also distinguishes between the essential features that give rise to nuptial arrangements from the Chinese perspective, looking at what in which Sino and/or Western mentalities differ in terms of notions of...
This book reviews the presentation of conjugal relationships in Chinese culture and their perception in the West. It explores the ways in which the a...
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563,56 |
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Miscellany of the South Seas: A Chinese Scholar's Chronicle of Shipwreck and Travel through 1830s Vietnam
ISBN: 9780295751665 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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469,15 |
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Modified Bodies, Material Selves: Beauty Ideals in Post-Reform Shanghai
ISBN: 9780295751764 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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180,18 |
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Miscellany of the South Seas: A Chinese Scholar\'s Chronicle of Shipwreck and Travel Through 1830s Vietnam
ISBN: 9780295751672 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1835 young Chinese scholar Cai Tinglan was caught in a typhoon while sailing across the Taiwan Strait. He and his shipmates spent a harrowing week at sea before drifting to the coast of central Vietnam. With an escort of Vietnamese soldiers, Cai traveled north along the famous "Mandarin Road," meeting governors-general of each province he passed through along his overland journey to Fujian Province in China. Cai documented his experiences in Miscellany of the South Seas (Hainan zazhu), a vivid account of clothing, food, religious practices, government affairs, and other aspects of daily...
In 1835 young Chinese scholar Cai Tinglan was caught in a typhoon while sailing across the Taiwan Strait. He and his shipmates spent a harrowing week ...
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144,30 |
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Black Magic, Witchcraft and Occultism: Secret Cultural Practices in India
ISBN: 9781032522500 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is one of the rare collections where black magic, occult practices and witchcraft are recorded and academically analyzed.
This book is one of the rare collections where black magic, occult practices and witchcraft are recorded and academically analyzed.
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759,15 |
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