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Egypt’s Wearable Heritage Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9789080774445
Pub Date: 01 Nov 2016
Imprint: Blikvelduitgevers Publishers
Illustrations: full colour images
Description:
Egypt’s Wearable Heritage combines different subjects of crafts and arts from Egypt and the West-Asian and North African region. It is a richly illustrated and colourful book on different aspects of ‘wearable heritage’, such as jewellery, costume, amulets, but also hairstyles and even weaponry. Egypt’s Wearable Heritage contains aspects of beliefs, economy and socio-cultural phenomena and contemporary culture.
Imagining Urban Futures Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 276
ISBN: 9780819576712
Pub Date: 07 Oct 2016
Illustrations: 16 illus.
Description:
Carl Abbott, who has taught urban studies and urban planning in five decades, brings together urban studies and literary studies to examine how fictional cities in work by authors as different as E. M. Forster, Isaac Asimov, Kim Stanley Robinson, and China Miéville might help us to envision an urban future that is viable and resilient.
Reinventing China Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781626430518
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2016
Description:
This study examines a small group of highly educated Chinese who have exerted outsized influence on China's recent rise. They share one thing in common - they all left China to study in the US and subsequently returned to China to apply what they had learned. Their work has in some ways made China more like the US.
Social Stratification in Contemporary China Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 392
ISBN: 9781626430372
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2016
Description:
Social Stratification in Contemporary China raises and debates major sociological issues of modern and present-day China from a historical perspective. Such topics as "equality and inequality"and "acceptability of defined inequality" have been dealt with in a broad historical context since 1949 when the People's Republic was founded. The work is widely accepted as one of the most important studies trying to clarify the difficult perceptions of policy of reform and opening up that was formulated and implemented in the early 1980s in China.
Some Friends Came to See Us' Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 90
ISBN: 9780861592067
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2016
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Illustrations: 100
Description:
Walter Edward Guinness (1880–1944), the first Lord Moyne, was an Anglo-Irish politician, businessman and explorer. Travelling across the globe in his private yacht in search for ethnographic material, Lord Moyne visited South Papua three times in 1929, 1935 and 1936. Unlike previous explorers of New Guinea, Lord Moyne and his group travelled along the rivers much further inland, and were able to make sustained contact with several groups of villages, engaging in performances and bartering for a range of objects that included shields and other carvings.
Just War Reconsidered Cover Just War Reconsidered Cover
Format: 
Pages: 236
ISBN: 9780813168296
Pub Date: 12 Aug 2016
Pages: 236
ISBN: 9780813175010
Pub Date: 02 Mar 2018
Description:
In the seminal Just and Unjust Wars, Michael Walzer famously considered the ethics of modern warfare, examining the moral issues that arise before, during, and after conflict. However, Walzer and subsequent scholars have often limited their analyses of the ethics of combat to soldiers on the ground and failed to recognize the moral responsibilities of senior political and military leaders.In Just War Reconsidered: Strategy, Ethics, and Theory, James M.
Public Diplomacy & Academic Mobility in Sweden Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9789188168511
Pub Date: 01 Aug 2016
Description:
Academic exchange is one of the cornerstones of public diplomacy. Receiving foreign academics is one way of influencing foreign elites in an attempt to build goodwill and stable international networks. The result is that academic mobility and the internationalisation of higher education and research have always been directly affected by foreign policy decisions and diplomatic considerations -- and still are.
Sensitive Objects Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 285
ISBN: 9789187675669
Pub Date: 01 Aug 2016
Description:
Some objects stand out as personal and important to us. A packed suitcase, an inherited vase, the remains from a humanitarian aid package - things can induce affects. In this book the authors focus on material culture and on practice - on what affect does.
Appalachia Revisited Cover Appalachia Revisited Cover
Format: 
Pages: 318
ISBN: 9780813166971
Pub Date: 22 Jul 2016
Series: Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies
Illustrations: 9 figures, 7 tables, 2 maps
Pages: 318
ISBN: 9780813174419
Pub Date: 04 Oct 2017
Series: Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies
Illustrations: 9 figures, 7 tables, 2 maps
Description:
Known for its dramatic beauty and valuable natural resources, Appalachia has undergone significant technological, economic, political, and environmental changes in recent decades. Home to distinctive traditions and a rich cultural heritage, the area is also plagued by poverty, insufficient healthcare and education, drug addiction, and ecological devastation. This complex and controversial region has been examined by generations of scholars, activists, and civil servants -- all offering an array of perspectives on Appalachia and its people.
North Korea and the World Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 464
ISBN: 9780813167466
Pub Date: 22 Jul 2016
Illustrations: 16 b&w photos, 4 maps, 5 figures, 5 tables
Description:
With nearly twenty-five million citizens, a secretive totalitarian dictatorship, and active nuclear and ballistic missile weapons programs, North Korea presents some of the world's most difficult foreign policy challenges. For decades, the United States and its partners have employed multiple strategies in an effort to prevent Pyongyang from acquiring weapons of mass destruction. Washington has moved from the Agreed Framework under President Bill Clinton to George W.
Madam Belle Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 226
ISBN: 9780813168449
Pub Date: 13 Jul 2016
Series: Topics in Kentucky History
Illustrations: 39 b&w photos
Description:
Belle Brezing made a major career move when she stepped off the streets of Lexington, Kentucky, and into Jennie Hill's bawdy house -- an upscale brothel run out of a former residence of Mary Todd Lincoln. At nineteen, Brezing was already infamous as a youth steeped in death, sex, drugs, and scandal. But it was in Miss Hill's "respectable" establishment that she began to acquire the skills, manners, and business contacts that allowed her to ascend to power and influence as an internationally known madam.
Flowers Cracking Concrete Cover Flowers Cracking Concrete Cover
Format: 
Pages: 302
ISBN: 9780819576477
Pub Date: 05 Jul 2016
Pages: 302
ISBN: 9780819576484
Pub Date: 05 Jul 2016
Description:
Flowers Cracking Concrete is the first in-depth study of the forty-year career of Eiko & Koma—two artists from Japan who have lived and worked in New York City since the mid-1970s, establishing themselves as innovative and influential modern and postmodern dancers. They continue to choreograph, perform, and give workshops across the United States and around the world. Rosemary Candelario argues that what is remarkable about Eiko & Koma’s dances is not what they signify but rather what they do in the world.
State as Investment Market, The Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9780822964131
Pub Date: 24 Jun 2016
Description:
Based on the case of Kyrgyzstan, while going well beyond it to elaborate a theory of the developing state that comprehends corruption as not merely criminal, but a type of market based on highly rational decisions made by the powerful individuals within, or connected to, the state.
Singnagtugaq Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9780982170380
Pub Date: 21 Jun 2016
Imprint: International Polar Institute
Description:
Published in 1915, Singnagtugaq: A Greenlanders Dream, created both furor and literary history as the first original novel in Greenlandic. Initially the book was seen as an encounter between the historic clash of good and evil–Danish colonizers and the colonized Greenlanders. The book portrays this encounter in vivid, harsh terms reflecting the time.
Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up Cover Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up Cover
Format: 
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9780813167343
Pub Date: 10 Jun 2016
Series: Culture of the Land
Illustrations: 22 b&w photos, 12 figures
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9780813167596
Pub Date: 10 Jun 2016
Series: Culture of the Land
Illustrations: 22 b&w photos, 12 figures
Description:
The global economy has witnessed important changes in recent years. In the United States, enterprising communities have transitioned from tobacco farming to growing organic produce, from extractive fishing to vertical farming, from nonrenewable energy consumption to the implementation of solar cooperatives -- and have transformed from impoverished neighborhoods into green development zones. Yet these promising achievements remain a small part of the total economy and are largely ignored by policy makers, pundits, and economists.
Chinese Dance Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9780819576316
Pub Date: 07 Jun 2016
Description:
As China becomes increasingly important in world relations, many components of the country’s cultural arts remain unknown outside China. Shih-Ming Li Chang and Lynn E. Frederiksen’s Chinese Dance: In the Vast Land and Beyond undertakes the challenge of discovering the relationship between Chinese dance in its many forms and the cultural contexts of dance within the region and abroad.