Greening East Asia: The Rise of the Eco-Developmental State, Paperback - Ashley Esarey

East Asia hosts a fifth of the world's population and consumes over half the world's coal, a quarter of its petroleum products, and a tenth of its ...

DescriptionIran has emerged from decades of isolation and struggle to become a leading, if not the pre-eminent, regional power. Iran projects its i...

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This book is the product of research undertaken at the African Development Bank (AfDB) on the lessons that the continent of Africa can draw from th...

This volume follows the making of the Chinese Buddhist canon from the fourth century to the digital era. Approaching the subject from a historical ...

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The author of the bestselling COSA NOSTRA explores the previously underexposed mafias of Southern Italy.Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): Joh...

Combining an intellectual history of social policy with a sweeping history of the educational system, Daniel S. Moak looks beyond the rise of neoli...

Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings is the first complete translation of the well-known document produced at the court of Emperor Huizong (r. 1100-1125)....

Reducere. Faith, Hope, and Sustainability explores the experiences of fifteen faith communities striving to care for the earth and live more sustainably. A c...

Publisher: University of California PressIllustration(s): 22 b-w illustrations, 2 maps, 3 tablesNumber of pages: 352Collection: The Global SquarePu...

The untold story of how welfare and development programs in the United States and Latin America produced the instruments of their own destruction I...

Reducere. The period between the American Revolution and the middle nineteenth century dramatically changed New York State and the Iroquois. Upstate metropol...

Publisher: Books of Africa LtdIllustration(s): 49 colour and 35 mono photographsNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 158 x 232 x 2...

Reducere. Japan and the four little dragons--Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore--constitute less than 1 percent of the world's land mass and less ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): J MillsNumber of pages: 220Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 137 x 216 x 21Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedesc...

An in-depth look at Xi Jinping's China and Putin's Russia, proposing the idea of the 'civilizational state' set on challenging the liberal internat...

This book analyzes, from a historical comparative perspective, the Korean economic development model, the extent to which it has changed from its c...

Reducere. First published in 1981, Japan's Renaissance is a detailed and exhaustively researched account of the regime of Japan's second shogunate, and also ...

Reducere. Still Hear the Wound: Towards an Asia, Politics, Art To Come introduces English language readers for the first time to work by an emerging group of...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the East India Company, then keep reading...For years, the topic of the East India Company has f...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the East India Company, then keep reading...For years, the topic of the East India Company has f...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Professor Diana S. KimIllustration(s): 20 b/w illus. 6 tables. 6 maps.Number of pages: 336Collectio...

The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200-118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen u...

Reducere. Aurora Firedrake returns in the spellbinding sequel to The Last of the Firedrakes.The seven kingdoms of Avalonia are crumbling and evil is spreadin...

The Unadjusteds Trilogy - Book 2GENETIC MODIFICATION HAS BEEN OUTLAWED.THE REMAINING ALTEREDS WANT REVENGE.When Silver's mother is abducted by a ro...

DescriptionEastern Asia is blessed with rich and spectacular birds, and all 520 regularly occurring species are featured in this spectacular and la...

Reducere. A coming-of-age novel set during the Korean War, by Pak Wan-Suh, one of Korea's leading contemporary writers. The award-winning author of more than...

Reducere. Seleucus inherited a rather large chunk of land, extending from Anatolia in the west to the borders of India in the east. You could say he hit the ...

DescriptionWorld-renowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century -- now upd...

Phillips reveals how Mughal, Manchu and Western imperialists developed common strategies of 'define and conquer' and 'define and rule' to subjugate...