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Suicide of Miss Xi(2021) GOODMAN, BRYNAWhen a young woman killed herself in the office she shared with her employer in 1920s Shanghai, the city reeled in shock. Xi Shangzhen became a symbol of the failures of the Chinese Republic as well as the broken promises of citizens’ rights, gender equalVezava: Trda38,44 € -
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Asian American Spies(2021) HAYASHI, BRIAN MASARU (PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, KENT STATE UNIVERSITY)This history of Asian Americans in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II reveals the inner workings of this spy agency and how Euroamerican leaders' conceptions of "race" and "loyalty" shaped US wartime intelligence.Vezava: Trda57,01 € -
Thief Who Stole My Heart(2021) DEHEJIA, VIDYAThe first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India's Chola dynasty in social context From the ninth through the thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical perVezava: Trda116,03 € -
Turkey, Egypt, and Syria(2020) NUMANI, SHIBLIVividly captures the experiences of prominent Indian intellectual and scholar Shibli¯ Nu‘ma¯ni¯ (1857-1914) as he journeyed across the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in 1892. A professor of Arabic and Persian, Nu‘ma¯ni¯ took a six-month leave from teaching to tVezava: Trda98,44 € -
Sacred Willow(2017) ELLIOTT, MAITied in to Ken Burns' forthcoming (2017) TV series on Vietnam, to which the author is a major contributor, the reissue of a Pulitzer finalist memoir of a Vietnamese family in the 20th centuryVezava: Mehka28,03 € -
Renewal of Buddhism in China(2021) YU, CHUN-FANG (EMERITA PROFESSOR OF RELIGION AND EALAC)First published in 1981, Chün-fang Yü’s The Renewal of Buddhism in China challenged the conventional view that Buddhism had reached its height under the Tang dynasty (618–907) and steadily declined afterward. This fortieth anniversary edition features anVezava: Mehka48,47 € -
Autobiography Of A Geisha(2004) MASUDA, SAYOSayo Masuda's story is an extraordinary portrait of rural life in japan and an illuminating contrast to the fictionalised lives of glamorous geishas. At the age of sis Masuda's poverty-stricken family sent her to work as a nursemaid.Vezava: Mehka22,42 € -
She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen(2020) HICKMAN, KATIEAn extraordinary and illuminating book that tells the incredible stories of the first British women to set foot in India - 250 years before the Raj.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
History of International Oil Politics(2020) GASSANLY, MURADOffers both an argument for multi-theoretical pluralism and a proposal for a theory-synergetic approach in international relations. Murad Gassanly explores how international relations paradigms could be utilized in approaching the vital field of internatiVezava: Trda250,80 € -
Irregular War(2017) ROGERS, PAULThe first book to put the failure of the war on terror and the rise of ISIS in the wider context of a future world of irregular and asymmetric warVezava: Mehka28,50 € -
Magnificent Delusions(2015) HAQQANI, HUSAIN"[Haqqani's] purpose isn't to narrate his service as ambassador or score political points but to outline the contours of American relations with Pakistan over time, with a final chapter depicting the 2011 collapse as a new instance of historical trends. WVezava: Mehka21,37 € -
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Lives Between The Lines(2022) VATIKIOTIS, MICHAELAn intimate portrait of a critical period of Middle Eastern history (1869-1948), seen through the eyes of a single familyVezava: Mehka14,01 €
