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Families We Need: Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care's Resistance in Contemporary China
ISBN: 9781978829305 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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612,21 |
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Crip Colony: Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines
ISBN: 9781478016922 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sony Coranez Bolton examines the racial politics of disability, mestizaje, and sexuality in the Philippines, showing how heteronormative, able-bodied, and able-minded mixed-race Filipinos offered a model and path for assimilation into the US empire.
Sony Coranez Bolton examines the racial politics of disability, mestizaje, and sexuality in the Philippines, showing how heteronormative, able-bodied,...
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406,51 |
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Crip Colony: Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines
ISBN: 9781478019565 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sony Coranez Bolton examines the racial politics of disability, mestizaje, and sexuality in the Philippines, showing how heteronormative, able-bodied, and able-minded mixed-race Filipinos offered a model and path for assimilation into the US empire.
Sony Coranez Bolton examines the racial politics of disability, mestizaje, and sexuality in the Philippines, showing how heteronormative, able-bodied,...
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97,90 |
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Japanese Americans and the Racial Uniform: Citizenship, Belonging, and the Limits of Assimilation
ISBN: 9781479816361 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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362,43 |
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Japanese Americans and the Racial Uniform: Citizenship, Belonging, and the Limits of Assimilation
ISBN: 9781479816378 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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122,40 |
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China's Social Credit: Theoretical, Empirical Research, and Countermeasures
ISBN: 9781032450599 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyzes credit crisis issues in China from the aspect of individuals, enterprises, and government through investigations of six Chinese urban and rural areas.After China’s Reform and Opening Up in the 1970s, a slew of new problems involving integrity, trust, and credit appeared with the establishment of a market economy and the creation of new business opportunities. To track these phenomena down to their very origins and to explore the theoretical principles underlying them through a truly holistic sociology, this book highlights a native Chinese perspective when dissecting and...
This book analyzes credit crisis issues in China from the aspect of individuals, enterprises, and government through investigations of six Chinese urb...
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710,17 |
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Crossing Boundaries and Confounding Identity: Chinese Women in Literature, Art, and Film
ISBN: 9781438492155 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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373,78 |
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Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China
ISBN: 9781501768996 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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509,37 |
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Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China
ISBN: 9781501769009 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ecological States critically examines ecological policies in the People's Republic of China to show how campaigns of scientifically based environmental protection transform nature and society. While many point to China's ecological civilization programs as a new paradigm for global environmental governance, Jesse Rodenbiker argues that ecological redlining extends the reach of the authoritarian state. Although Chinese urban sustainability initiatives have driven millions of citizens from their land and housing, Rodenbiker shows that these migrants are not passive subjects of state policy....
Ecological States critically examines ecological policies in the People's Republic of China to show how campaigns of scientifically based environmenta...
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97,90 |
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Peoples of the Greater Mekong: The Ethnic Minorities
ISBN: 9789811261749 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book tells the story of the Mekong River, from its source in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to its delta in southern Vietnam, and the geographical changes in its environment on its journey to the sea. It mainly focuses on the many ethnic minorities living within the Mekong's reach. These minority nationalities all have their own distinct customs, traditions and ways of life that have carried on for many centuries. Much of that has survived the influences of politics, national integration and modernization. Nevertheless, their traditions and lifestyles are being profoundly affected by recent...
This book tells the story of the Mekong River, from its source in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to its delta in southern Vietnam, and the geographical cha...
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269,38 |
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Children and NGOs in India: Development as Storytelling and Performance
ISBN: 9780367607647 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an ethnographic exploration of slum children’s participation in NGO programs that centres children’s narratives as key to understanding the lived experience of development in India where 50% of the population is under the age of 25.
This book is an ethnographic exploration of slum children’s participation in NGO programs that centres children’s narratives as key to understandi...
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195,86 |
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Literature and Nation-Building in Vietnam: The Invisibilization of the Indians
ISBN: 9781032020266 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyses why Indians have been made invisible in Vietnamese society and historiography.
This book analyses why Indians have been made invisible in Vietnamese society and historiography.
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205,65 |
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Tibet as I Knew It: The Memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba
ISBN: 9781666908565 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written in the 1990s after retirement from his services as a doctor and discovered by his daughter in the loft of their house in Darjeeling in India in 2017, this memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba provides an intricate portrayal of early twentieth-century Tibet. With his finger on the pulse of the Tibetan ethos, Pemba offers glimpses into the traditional sociology of Tibet and occasionally its snail-paced reforms, as well as the British Raj in India, while recollecting his young days in his native country. Pemba also draws information from prized sources like his father´s diaries and his...
Written in the 1990s after retirement from his services as a doctor and discovered by his daughter in the loft of their house in Darjeeling in India i...
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377,13 |
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The Adventures of Ma Suzhen: 'An Heroic Woman Takes Revenge in Shanghai'
ISBN: 9783030890377 / Angielski / Miękka / 131 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The comic novel,The Adventures of Ma Suzhen,was written during a highpoint in the popularity ofxia“knight-errant” fiction. It is an action-packed tale of a young woman who takes revenge for her brother, Ma Yongzhen, a gangster and performing strongman, who has been murdered by a rival gang in China’s most cosmopolitan city, Shanghai. After publication of the book in 1923, the character of Ma Suzhen appeared on stage, and subsequently in a film made by the Mingxing Film Company. The book version translated here, displays a delightful combination of thexiaand popular“Mandarin Ducks and...
The comic novel,The Adventures of Ma Suzhen,was written during a highpoint in the popularity ofxia“knight-errant” fiction. It is an action-packed ...
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201,24 |
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The Party Family: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China
ISBN: 9781501715518 / Angielski / Twarda / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Party Family explores the formation and consolidation of the state in revolutionary China through the crucial role that social ties—specifically family ties—played in the state's capacity to respond to crisis before and after the foundation of the People's Republic of China. Central to these ties, Kimberley Ens Manning finds, were women as both the subjects and leaders of reform. Drawing on interviews with 163 participants in the provinces of Henan and Jiangsu, as well as government documents and elite memoirs, biographies, speeches, and reports, Manning offers a new theoretical...
The Party Family explores the formation and consolidation of the state in revolutionary China through the crucial role that social ties—specifically...
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587,73 |
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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 |