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Multinationals and Asia: Organizational and Institutional Relationships
ISBN: 9780415514057 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adopting an international business perspective, this book surveys recent business developments in Asia, and the activities of multinational firms in the region, focusing in particular on the changing nature of organizational and institutional relationships, including intra- and inter- organizational relationships, business relationships with institutions, and relationships with stakeholders. The international team of contributors discuss the current and future trends in a wide range of business sectors across the region, as well as assessing how the nature of multinationals' activities in the...
Adopting an international business perspective, this book surveys recent business developments in Asia, and the activities of multinational firms in t...
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229,20 |
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Remembering Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes: The Legacy of Filipino American Labor Activism
ISBN: 9780295991900 / Angielski / Miękka / 125 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Remembering Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes examines the lives of two slain cannery union reformers during the tumultuous Civil Rights Era of the 1970s. Author Ron Chew was a close friend of Gene and Silme, and his poignant prologue sets the stage for the story of their political awakening, the events that led to their tragic deaths, and the movement they nurtured. Through memories of family and friends, we learn about the men as second-generation Filipino Americans, as leaders, and as part of a generation striving to make America live up to its democratic ideals. The book... Remembering Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes examines the lives of two slain cannery union reformers during the tumultuous Civil Rights Era of... |
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92,17 |
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The Changing Village Environment in Southeast Asia: Applied Anthropology and Environmental Reclamation in the Northern Philippines
ISBN: 9780415511537 / Angielski / Miękka / 12 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume follows the work of the 'Good Roots Project' on Luzon in the Philippines. The scheme is an attempt on the part of industry, science and government to better understand the processes of deforestation and initiate a strategy whereby upland ecosystems can be returned to productive stability.
This volume follows the work of the 'Good Roots Project' on Luzon in the Philippines. The scheme is an attempt on the part of industry, science and go...
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229,20 |
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Inherited Responsibility and Historical Reconciliation in East Asia
ISBN: 9780415535694 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the challenges of historical reconciliation in East Asia, and calls for reimagining our understandings of historical identity and responsibility by adopting a 'forward-looking' approach that eschews obsession with the past in favour of grounding the possibility of mutual trust in a reflective and deliberative engagement with history.
This book examines the challenges of historical reconciliation in East Asia, and calls for reimagining our understandings of historical identity and r...
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780,44 |
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Living the Juche Lie North Korea's Kim Dynasty
ISBN: 9781937592189 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From a writer who has made ten trips to North Korea and seen things first hand... The author takes a complex situation; one that factors greatly in US geopolitical decision and policy making and turns it into an understandable and easy read. It is an insightful analysis of the current situation in North Korea and how the past has led to the present and has significant impact on the future. The Evolution of Power to Yet Another Generation of Kims-And the Conditions Giving Rise To It "The December 28, 2011 photographs of tens of thousands of North Koreans lining the streets of Pyongyang,...
From a writer who has made ten trips to North Korea and seen things first hand... The author takes a complex situation; one that factors greatly in US...
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38,00 |
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Claiming the Oriental Gateway: Prewar Seattle and Japanese America
ISBN: 9781439902141 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Claiming the Oriental Gateway, Shelley Sang-Hee Lee explores the various intersections of urbanization, ethnic identity, and internationalism in the experience of Japanese Americans in early twentieth-century Seattle. She examines the development and self-image of the city by documenting how U.S. expansion, Asian trans-Pacific migration, and internationalism were manifested locally--and how these forces affected residents' relationships with one another and their surroundings. Lee details the significant role Japanese Americans--both immigrants and U.S. born citizens--played in the social...
In Claiming the Oriental Gateway, Shelley Sang-Hee Lee explores the various intersections of urbanization, ethnic identity, and internationalism in th...
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117,02 |
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Uncivil Youth: Race, Activism, and Affirmative Governmentality
ISBN: 9780822354055 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Uncivil Youth, Soo Ah Kwon explores youth of color activism as linked to the making of democratic citizen-subjects. Focusing attention on the relations of power that inform the social and political practices of youth of color, Kwon examines how after-school and community-based programs are often mobilized to prevent potentially "at-risk" youth from turning to "juvenile delinquency" and crime. These sorts of strategic interventions seek to mold young people to become self-empowered and responsible citizens. Theorizing this mode of youth governance as "affirmative governmentality,"...
In Uncivil Youth, Soo Ah Kwon explores youth of color activism as linked to the making of democratic citizen-subjects. Focusing attention on th...
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429,24 |
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Mobile Homes: Spatial and Cultural Negotiation in Asian American Literature
ISBN: 9780415650205 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring the works of Chiang Yee, Hualing Nieh, David Wong Louie, Fae Myenne Ng, John Okada and Toshio Mori, 'Mobile Homes' highlights the significance of travelling in the Asian American experience and demonstrates how heterogeneous Asian America has always been.
Exploring the works of Chiang Yee, Hualing Nieh, David Wong Louie, Fae Myenne Ng, John Okada and Toshio Mori, 'Mobile Homes' highlights the significan...
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229,20 |
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Us, Hawai'i-Born Japanese: Storied Identities of Japanese American Elderly from a Sugar Plantation Community
ISBN: 9780415654739 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a book about the collective identities of Japanese American elderly in a former sugar plantation community in the rural town of Puna, Hawai'i.
This is a book about the collective identities of Japanese American elderly in a former sugar plantation community in the rural town of Puna, Hawai'i.
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258,48 |
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The Story of China Studies
ISBN: 9781622120888 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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75,62 |
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Little Manila Is in the Heart: The Making of the Filipina/O American Community in Stockton, California
ISBN: 9780822353256 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early twentieth century not long after 1898, when the United States claimed the Philippines as an American colony Filipinas/os became a vital part of the agricultural economy of California's fertile San Joaquin Delta. In downtown Stockton, they created Little Manila, a vibrant community of hotels, pool halls, dance halls, restaurants, grocery stores, churches, union halls, and barbershops. Little Manila was home to the largest community of Filipinas/os outside of the Philippines until the neighborhood was decimated by urban redevelopment in the 1960s. Narrating a history spanning much...
In the early twentieth century not long after 1898, when the United States claimed the Philippines as an American colony Filipinas/os became a vital p...
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507,29 |
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Living with Transition in Laos: Market Intergration in Southeast Asia
ISBN: 9780415649766 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on extensive original research, this book assesses how economic transition and marketisation are being translated into progress (or not) at the local level, and at the resulting impact on poverty, inequality and livelihoods.
Based on extensive original research, this book assesses how economic transition and marketisation are being translated into progress (or not) at the ...
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248,71 |
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The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American
ISBN: 9780822354383 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the 1990s, a new cohort of Asian American writers has garnered critical and popular attention. Many of its members are the children of Asians who came to the United States after the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 lifted long-standing restrictions on immigration. This new generation encompasses writers as diverse as the graphic novelists Adrian Tomine and Gene Luen Yang, the short story writer Nam Le, and the poet Cathy Park Hong. Having scrutinized more than one hundred works by emerging Asian American authors and having interviewed several of these writers, Min Hyoung Song...
Since the 1990s, a new cohort of Asian American writers has garnered critical and popular attention. Many of its members are the children of Asians wh...
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439,01 |
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Asian-American Life Stories: Achievements by Young Asian-American Leaders
ISBN: 9781596891142 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Asian-American Life Stories" is a very important book for the study of Asian-Americans in the United States of America. This book contains autobiographical writings by 11 young Asian-American leaders, who represent various segments of the Asian immigrant population in the United States. Many of the autobiographies in this book, therefore, contain very valuable historical and sociological date for understanding the Asian experience in the United States. This book is ideal for use in the classroom at the high school and college levels, and can provide valuable points of reference for in-class...
"Asian-American Life Stories" is a very important book for the study of Asian-Americans in the United States of America. This book contains autobiogra...
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590,04 |
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Asian-American Life Stories: Achievements by Young Asian-American Leaders (Paperback)
ISBN: 9781596891326 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Asian-American Life Stories" is a very important book for the study of Asian-Americans in the United States of America. This book contains autobiographical writings by 11 young Asian-American leaders, who represent various segments of the Asian immigrant population in the United States. Many of the autobiographies in this book, therefore, contain very valuable historical and sociological date for understanding the Asian experience in the United States. This book is ideal for use in the classroom at the high school and college levels, and can provide valuable points of reference for in-class...
"Asian-American Life Stories" is a very important book for the study of Asian-Americans in the United States of America. This book contains autobiogra...
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483,90 |
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Asian-American Life Stories: Achievements by Young Asian-American Leaders (B&W)
ISBN: 9781596891531 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Asian-American Life Stories" is a very important book for the study of Asian-Americans in the United States of America. This book contains autobiographical writings by 11 young Asian-American leaders, who represent various segments of the Asian immigrant population in the United States. Many of the autobiographies in this book, therefore, contain very valuable historical and sociological date for understanding the Asian experience in the United States. This book is ideal for use in the classroom at the high school and college levels, and can provide valuable points of reference for in-class...
"Asian-American Life Stories" is a very important book for the study of Asian-Americans in the United States of America. This book contains autobiogra...
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404,30 |
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Yellow Power, Yellow Soul: The Radical Art of Fred Ho
ISBN: 9780252037504 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This dynamic collection explores the life, work, and persona of saxophonist Fred Ho, an unabashedly revolutionary artist whose illuminating and daring work redefines the relationship between art and politics. Scholars, artists, and friends give their unique takes on Ho's career, articulating his artistic contributions, their joint projects, and personal stories. Exploring his musical and theatrical work, his political theory and activism, and his personal life as it relates to politics, Yellow Power, Yellow Soul offers an intimate appreciation of Fred Ho's irrepressible and truly original...
This dynamic collection explores the life, work, and persona of saxophonist Fred Ho, an unabashedly revolutionary artist whose illuminating and daring...
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429,24 |
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Fighting from a Distance: How Filipino Exiles Helped Topple a Dictator
ISBN: 9780252037580 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During February 1986, a grassroots revolution overthrew the fourteen-year dictatorship of former president Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. In this book, Jose V. Fuentecilla describes how Filipino exiles and immigrants in the United States played a crucial role in this victory, acting as the overseas arm of the opposition to help return their country to democracy.A member of one of the major U.S.-based anti-Marcos movements, Fuentecilla tells the story of how small groups of Filipino exiles--short on resources and shunned by some of their compatriots--arrived and survived in the United...
During February 1986, a grassroots revolution overthrew the fourteen-year dictatorship of former president Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. In thi...
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429,24 |
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Beyond the Chinese Connection: Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production
ISBN: 9781617037559 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Beyond -The Chinese Connection, - Crystal S. Anderson explores the cultural and political exchanges between African Americans, Asian Americans, and Asians over the last four decades. To do so, Anderson examines such cultural productions as novels (Frank Chin's Gunga Din Highway 1999], Ishmael Reed's Japanese By Spring 1992], and Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle 1996]); films (Rush Hour 2 2001], Unleashed 2005], and The Matrix trilogy 1999-2003], ) and Japanese animation (Samurai Champloo 2004]), all of which feature... In Beyond -The Chinese Connection, - Crystal S. Anderson explores the cultural and political exchanges between African Americans, Asian Amer... |
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429,24 |
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Grassroots Asian Theology – Thinking the Faith from the Ground Up
ISBN: 9780830840489 / Angielski / Miękka / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A dynamic chapter of church history is now being written in Asia. But the theological inflections at its heart are not well understood by outsiders. The published voices of elite academic theologians have drowned out the cadences of Christian faith as it is spoken, lived and prayed in the homes and churches of Tokyo or Shanghai or Madras. Now, in Grassroots Asian Theology, Simon Chan examines Asian Christianity at its daily, sustaining level. There he uncovers a vibrant theology that is authentically Asian and truly engaging. More than a mere survey, Grassroots Asian Theology makes a serious...
A dynamic chapter of church history is now being written in Asia. But the theological inflections at its heart are not well understood by outsiders. T...
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102,30 |
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