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A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese, Paperback - Duanduan Li

465,99 RON 498,99 RON

Reducere. As the teaching of Chinese increasingly uses simplified characters, this new version of the popular A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese fill...

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Chaoyue: Advancing in Chinese: A Textbook for Intermediate & Preadvanced Students 'With CD (Audio)', Paperback - Yea-Fen Chen

456,99 RON 488,99 RON

Reducere. Chaoyue: Advancing in Chinese covers the five Cs--communication, cultures, comparisons, connections, and communities--and follows three communicati...

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Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet, Hardcover - Max Oidtmann

449,99 RON

DescriptionIn 1995, the People's Republic of China resurrected a Qing-era law mandating that the reincarnations of prominent Tibetan Buddhist monks...

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Local Politics in Jordan and Morocco. Strategies of Centralization and Decentralization, Hardback - Janine A. Clark

449,99 RON

Janine A. Clark examines why Morocco decentralized while Jordan did not and evaluates the impact of their divergent paths in order to explain how a...

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Return of Work in Critical Theory. Self, Society, Politics, Hardback - Nicholas H. Smith

449,99 RON

This book presents a new account of the significance and the human costs of work. A collaboration between experts in philosophy, social theory, and...

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Art and Posthistory. Conversations on the End of Aesthetics, Hardback - Demetrio Paparoni

449,99 RON

From the 1990s until just before his death, the legendary art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto carried out extended conversations about conte...

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Classical Japanese. A Grammar, Hardback - Haruo Shirane

441,99 RON

Written by a leading scholar in the field, Classical Japanese: A Grammar is an elegant, comprehensive, and practical guide to classical Japanese. E...

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The End of Children?. Changing Trends in Childbearing and Childhood, Paperback - ***

439,99 RON

This timely volume brings insights from multiple disciplines to bear on debates about declining fertility rates and modern approaches to child rais...

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Toxic Safety. Flame Retardants, Chemical Controversies, and Environmental Health, Hardback - Alissa Cordner

418,99 RON

Marketed as a life-saving advancement, flame retardants are now mired in controversy. Alissa Cordner describes how stakeholders use scientific evid...

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Fathering from the Margins. An Intimate Examination of Black Fatherhood, Hardback - Aasha M. Abdill

418,99 RON

Aasha M. Abdill draws on fieldwork in Bedford-Stuyvesant to dispel stereotypes of black men as deadbeat dads. She presents qualitative and quantita...

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Sources of East Asian Tradition, Volume 2: The Modern Period, Paperback - Wm Theodore De Bary

416,99 RON 446,99 RON

Reducere. In Sources of East Asian Tradition, Wm. Theodore de Bary offers a selection of essential readings from his immensely popular anthologies Sources of...

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The Shorter Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature, Paperback - Victor Mair

400,99 RON 429,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWith its fresh translations by newer voices in the field, its broad scope, and its flowing style, this anthology places the immense rich...

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Records of the Grand Historian: Han Dynasty, Volume 1, Paperback - Qian Sima

392,99 RON 420,99 RON

Reducere. Sima Qian (145?-90? BCE) was the first major Chinese historian. His Shiji, or Records of the Grand Historian, documents the history of China and it...

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Records of the Grand Historian: Han Dynasty, Volume 2, Paperback - Qian Sima

391,99 RON 419,99 RON

Reducere. This second volume of the history of the Han dynasty consists of chapters dealing principally with the reign of Emperor Wu, one of the most energet...

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Critique, Norm, and Utopia: A Study of the Foundations of Critical Theory, Paperback - Seyla Benhabib

391,99 RON 419,99 RON

Reducere. Displaying an impressive command of complex materials, Seyla Benhabib reconstructs the history of theories from a systematic point of view and exam...

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Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction. The Water Margin and the Making of a National Canon, Hardback - William C. Hedberg

387,99 RON

In The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction, William C. Hedberg investigates the reception of The Water Margin in a variety of early modern and mo...

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Licentious Fictions. Ninjo and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese Novel, Hardback - Daniel Poch

387,99 RON

Nineteenth-century Japanese literary discourse and narrative developed a striking preoccupation with ninjo-literally "human emotion, " but often us...

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Many Worlds Under One Heaven. Material Culture, Identity, and Power in the Northern Frontiers of the Western Zhou, 1045-771 BCE, Hardback - Yan (Profe

387,99 RON

Many Worlds Under One Heaven analyzes a wide range of newly excavated materials to offer a new perspective on political and cultural change under t...

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Huayan University Network. The Teaching and Practice of Avatamsaka Buddhism in Twentieth-Century China, Hardback - Erik J. Hammerstrom

387,99 RON

Erik J. Hammerstrom recasts the history of twentieth-century Chinese Buddhism by examining how Huayan Buddhism was imagined, taught, and practiced ...

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Minjian: The Rise of China's Grassroots Intellectuals, Hardcover - Sebastian Veg

387,99 RON

DescriptionWho are the new Chinese intellectuals? In the wake of the crackdown on the 1989 democracy movement and the rapid marketization of the 19...

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Reforming Modernity: Ethics and the New Human in the Philosophy of Abdurrahman Taha, Hardcover - Wael Hallaq

387,99 RON

DescriptionReforming Modernity is a sweeping intellectual history and philosophical reflection built around the work of the Morocco-based philosoph...

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Vernacular Industrialism in China. Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900-1940, Hardback - Eugenia Lea

387,99 RON

By examining the manufacturing, commercial, and cultural activities of the maverick industrialist Chen Diexian (1879-1940), Eugenia Lean illustrate...

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Classical Japanese Reader and Essential Dictionary, Hardback - ***

387,99 RON

Contains selected readings that address an array of grammatical concerns in Japanese. This book features approximately 2, 500 key words, highlighti...

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Slave Between Empires. A Transimperial History of North Africa, Hardback - M'hamed Oualdi

387,99 RON

In June 1887, a man known as General Husayn, a manumitted slave turned dignitary in the Ottoman province of Tunis, passed away in Florence after a ...

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From Hegel to Nietzsche: The Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Thought, Paperback - Karl Lowith

384,99 RON 411,99 RON

Reducere. Beginning with an examination of the relationship between Hegel and Goethe, L with discusses how Hegel's students, particularly Marx and Kierkegaar...

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Real Power to the People. A Novel Approach to Electoral Reform in British Columbia, Paperback - R. B. Herath

376,99 RON

Publisher: University Press of AmericaAuthor(s): R. B. HerathNumber of pages: 244Publication date: 2007Dimensions: 153 x 227 x 21Cover type: Paperb...

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Mediation of Legitimacy in Early China. A Study of the Neglected Zhou Scriptures and the Grand Duke Traditions, Hardback - Yegor Grebnev

359,99 RON

Yegor Grebnev examines crucial noncanonical texts preserved in the Yi Zhou shu (Neglected Zhou Scriptures) and the Grand Duke traditions. He develo...

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Risk Management in Social Work: Preventing Professional Malpractice, Liability, and Disciplinary Action, Paperback - Frederic G. Reamer

358,99 RON 384,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis new text is based on Frederic G. Reamer's key reference for practitioners, Social Work Malpractice and Liability: Strategies for Pr...

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Between Ocean and City: The Transformation of Rockaway, New York, Paperback - Lawrence Kaplan

355,99 RON

Rockaway Beach was once a popular seaside resort in south Queens with a small permanent population. Shortly after World War II, large parts of this...

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Culture and Society, 1780-1950, Paperback - Raymond Williams

352,99 RON 377,99 RON

Reducere. Acknowledged as perhaps the masterpiece of materialist criticism in the English language, this omnibus ranges over British literary history from Ge...

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Paradoxes of Peacebuilding Post-9/11, Paperback - ***

346,99 RON

What kind of peace is possible in the post-9/11 world? Is sustainable peace an illusion in a world where foreign military interventions are replaci...

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Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar, Paperback - Edwin G. Pulleyblank

345,99 RON

A comprehensive introduction to the syntactical analysis of classical Chinese.Publisher: University of British Columbia PressAuthor(s): Edwin G. Pu...

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What's Trending in Canadian Politics?: Understanding Transformations in Power, Media, and the Public Sphere, Paperback - Mireille Lalancette

343,99 RON

What trends are shaping contemporary political communication and behaviour in Canada, and where are they heading? What's Trending in Canadian Polit...

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A Brief History of the Masses. Three Revolutions, Hardback - Stefan Jonsson

335,99 RON

Drawing on examples from literature, politics, philosophy, and additional pieces of art, this book reveals surprising parallels between the people'...

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Modern Korean Fiction: An Anthology, Paperback - Bruce Fulton

325,99 RON 348,99 RON

Reducere. To represent the past century of Korean fiction, this definitive collection extends beyond familiar writers, challenges cultural norms, and crosses...

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Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery and Booke of Sweetmeats, Paperback - Martha Washington

322,99 RON 345,99 RON

Reducere. Martha Washington's recipes: More than five hundred classics dating from the Elizabethan and Jacobean times, are gathered in this family cookbook t...

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1795 to the Present, Paperback - Norman Davies

319,99 RON 342,99 RON

Reducere. The most comprehensive survey of Polish history available in English, God's Playground demonstrates Poland's importance in European history from me...

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Records of the Grand Historian: Qin Dynasty, Paperback - Qian Sima

319,99 RON 342,99 RON

Reducere. Sima Qian (145?-90? BCE) was the first major Chinese historian. His Shiji, or Records of the Grand Historian, documents the history of China and it...

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Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918, Paperback - Jeffrey B. Perry

319,99 RON 342,99 RON

Reducere. Hubert Harrison was an immensely skilled writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist who, more than any other political leader of his ...

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Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919, Paperback - Andre Schmid

315,99 RON 338,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionKorea Between Empires chronicles the development of a Korean national consciousness. It focuses on two critical periods in Korean histor...

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To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico, Paperback - Stanley Hordes

314,99 RON 337,99 RON

Reducere. In 1981, while working as New Mexico State Historian, Stanley M. Hordes began to hear stories of Hispanos who lit candles on Friday night and absta...

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By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783, Hardcover - Michael Green

310,99 RON

Soon after the American Revolution, ?certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast mat...

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Aging Behind Prison Walls. Studies in Trauma and Resilience, Paperback - Keith Morgen

310,99 RON

Tina Maschi and Keith Morgen offer a data-driven and compassionate analysis of the lives of incarcerated older people. The book draws on extensive ...

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Home- And Community-Based Services for Older Adults: Aging in Context, Paperback - Keith Anderson

310,99 RON 332,99 RON

Reducere. As older adults and their families opt out of nursing homes, a range of home and community-based services (HCBS) have risen up to provide care. HCB...

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Sources of Japanese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600, Paperback - Wm Theodore de Bary

310,99 RON

Sources of Japanese Tradition is a best-selling classic, unrivaled for its wide selection of source readings on history, society, politics, educati...

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Sources of Chinese Tradition: From 1600 Through the Twentieth Century, Paperback - Wm Theodore de Bary

310,99 RON

For four decades Sources of Chinese Tradition has served to introduce Western readers to Chinese civilization as it has been seen through basic wri...

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Environment, Power, and Society for the Twenty-First Century. The Hierarchy of Energy, Paperback - Howard Odum

304,99 RON

Introduces the concepts of emergy and transformity. This book presents the natural energies such as solar radiation and the cycling of water, carbo...

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Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II, Paperback - Yoshiaki Yoshimi

302,99 RON 324,99 RON

Reducere. Available for the first time in English, this is the definitive account of the practice of sexual slavery the Japanese military perpetrated during ...

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Counterpoint in Composition: The Study of Voice Leading, Paperback - Felix Salzer

300,99 RON

-- Stanley Persky, City University of New YorkAbout the AuthorThe late Felix Salzer was a Professor at Queens College, City University of New York,...

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Sakamoto Ryōma and the Meiji Restoration - Marius Jansen

298,99 RON

Exploring a tumultuous time in Japanese 19th-century history, when the country began to emerge from self-imposed exile, this study profiles activis...

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Hitchcock's Films Revisited, Paperback - Robin Wood

298,99 RON 319,99 RON

Reducere. When Hitchcock's Films was first published, it became known as a book on film that came to be considered a necessary text in the Hitchcock bibliogr...

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Sex-Positive Social Work, Paperback - Sj Dodd

295,99 RON 316,99 RON

Reducere. Social workers engage with sex and sexuality in all kinds of practice settings and with a variety of client populations. However, conversations abo...

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Developing Practice Guidelines for Social Work Intervention. Issues, Methods, and Research Agenda, Paperback - ***

294,99 RON

The authors of this work advocate the development of readily available, accessible and professionally sanctioned practice guidelines for social wor...

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Social Work Practice. Concepts, Processes, and Interviewing, Paperback - Marion Bogo

294,99 RON

Aimed at students and educators in the helping professions as well as practitioners, this book presents information on how to interview clients. It...

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The Mahabharata: An English Version Based on Selected Verses, Paperback - Chakravarthi Narasimhan

293,99 RON 314,99 RON

Reducere. Intended to be a treatise on life itself, this epic poem embraces religion and ethics, polity and government, philosophy and the pursuit of salvati...

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The Pillow Book of SEI Shōnagon - Ivan Morris

289,99 RON 310,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of ...

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Class ACT: The Jazz Life of Choreographer Cholly Atkins, Paperback - Cholly Atkins

288,99 RON 309,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionCholly Atkins's career has spanned an extraordinary era of American dance. He began performing during Prohibition and continued his appr...

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Romantic Passion: A Universal Experience?, Paperback - William Jankowiak

288,99 RON 309,99 RON

Reducere. Observers from the West, the book contends, have incorrectly projected rigid ethnocentric notions of love and marriage onto cultures around the wor...

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Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900, Paperback - Haruo Shirane

284,99 RON

DescriptionThis is the first anthology ever devoted to early modern Japanese literature, spanning the period from 1600 to 1900, known variously as ...

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Enforcing Freedom: Drug Courts, Therapeutic Communities, and the Intimacies of the State, Paperback - Kerwin Kaye

282,99 RON 302,99 RON

Reducere. In 1989, the first drug-treatment court was established in Florida, inaugurating an era of state-supervised rehabilitation. Such courts have freque...

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The Political Economy of Resource Regulation. An International and Comparative History, 1850-2015, Paperback - ***

279,99 RON

This is the first global survey of how natural resources have been regulated in the modern world.Publisher: University of British Columbia PressIll...

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After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives, Paperback - Edward Said

277,99 RON 297,99 RON

Reducere. A searing portrait of Palestinian life and identity that is at once an exploration of Edward Said's unclaimable past and a testimony to the lives o...

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Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of 'a'isha Bint ABI Bakr, Paperback - D. A. Spellberg

274,99 RON

In this extraordinary study, D. A. Spellberg examines the life of 'A'isha bint Abi Bakr, Muhammad's most beloved and controversial wife, and a cent...

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Production Power and World Order. Social Forces in the Making of History, Paperback - Robert Cox

274,99 RON

In this seminal study, Robert Cox offers a new approach to the study of power by identifying the connections between production, the state, and wor...

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The Inner Bird. Anatomy and Evolution, Paperback - Gary W. Kaiser

274,99 RON

Introduces readers to the avian skeleton, then moves beyond anatomy to discuss the relationships between birds and dinosaurs and other early ancest...

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Sources of Korean Tradition: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries, Paperback - Peter Lee

271,99 RON

Drawn from Peter H. Lee's Sourcebook of Korean Civilization, Volume I, this abridged introductory collection offers students and general readers pr...

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How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology, Paperback - Zong-Qi Cai

271,99 RON

In this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. The volume...

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How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context: Poetic Culture from Antiquity Through the Tang, Paperback - Zong-Qi Cai

271,99 RON

DescriptionHow to Read Chinese Poetry in Context is an introduction to the golden age of Chinese poetry, spanning the earliest times through the Ta...

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Medieval Tastes. Food, Cooking, and the Table, Hardback - Massimo Montanari

271,99 RON

Italy's best-known food historian travels back to the birth of "modern" cuisine and reveals the remarkable links between medieval tastes and our ow...

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The Shadow of the Object: Psychoanalysis of the Unthought Known, Paperback - Christopher Bollas

271,99 RON 291,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionDuring our formative years, we are continually "impressed" by the object world. Most of this experience will never be consciously though...

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