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Kristin Surak
Making Tea, Making Japan: Cultural Nationalism in Practice
The tea ceremony persists as one of the most evocative symbols of Japan. Originally a pastime of elite warriors in premodern society, it was later recast as an emblem of the modern Japanese state, only to be transformed again into its current incarnation, largely the hobby of middle-class housewives...
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Mark Peattie
The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945
Winner of the 2012 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award (non-US). Most studies of the Sino-Japanese War are presented from the perspective of the West. Departing from this tradition, The Battle for China brings together Chinese, Japanese, and Western scholars to provide a comprehe...
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Shaun Rein
The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China's Economy in the New World Order
China dominates manufacturing and is the world's largest retail market, but for companies outside of China, finding ways to do business in the country is increasingly uncertain in the face of rising US-China tension, combined with China's crackdowns on the tech and education sectors. Shaun Rein ru...
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John David Ragan
Forgotten Saint-Simonian Travelers in Egypt: Suzanne Voilquin, Ismayl Urbain, and Jehan d'Ivray
The paradoxes of nineteenth-century colonialism in the Middle East revealed through the accounts of three working class European travelers to Egypt This book tells the stories of two French women and a French African man, travelers connected to the Saint-Simonian utopian socialists, who came to w...
$66.36
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Z-LION 4 Inch Rubber Backer Pad Hook&Loop Backing Pad with 5/8-11 Thread for Counter Edge Wet Dry Polishing
Diameter: 4 inch/ 95mm Rubber backer pad are designed for connecting polishing tool and polishing pads It is made with premium grade rubber, Ideal for diamond polishing pads, sanding disc, and some other --backed grinding discs Use top quality -, will not peel off Fits all same size sander/polishers...
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George H. Berkhofer
No Place Like Home: A History of Domestic Architecture in Springfield & Clark County, Ohio
No Place Like Home is a book which tries to capture the essential spirit of Springfield, Ohio, as expressed by its architecture over the last two hundred years. The story begins with the crude structures erected by pioneers like Simon Kenton. These huts of rough logs and branches are seen to gradual...
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Yu the Great
The Classic of Mountains and Seas: Shan Hai Jing
The Classic of Mountains and Seas is a mini-encyclopedia in pre-Qin classics that contains a variety of materials such as history, mythology, religion, astronomy, geography, folk customs, ethnic groups, products, and medicine. It can also be regarded as the oldest geographical and cultural record. S...
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Liang Wei Hao
The First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895): The Conflict That Revealed the Weakness of the Qing Dynasty: An Historical Analysis of the Causes, Military .
This book explains a major war between two powerful countries in East Asia that happened from 1894 to 1895. For a long time, China was the strongest and most important country in the region, with a very old and traditional system of government. Meanwhile, its neighbor, Japan, had been working very h...
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Echo Brown
Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard
A William C. Morris Award Finalist "Brown has written a guidebook of survival and wonder." ― The New York Times "Just brilliant."― Kirkus Reviews Heavily autobiographical and infused with magical realism, Black Girl Unlimited fearlessly explores the intersections of poverty, sexual vio...
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Ronald H. Fritze
Travel Legend and Lore: An Encyclopedia
Contains 284 entries providing introductory synopses of both mythical and historical travel and "tourist" sites prior to the 20th century. Listings appear under the names of people, places, things, events, and concepts and focus on the expectations and beliefs of travelers, including their ideas abo...
$90.94
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Antony Polonsky
The Jews in Poland and Russia: Volume I: 1350 to 1881 (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)
Each of the three volumes of this magisterial work provides a comprehensive picture of the realities of Jewish life in the Polish lands in the period it covers, while also considering the contemporary political, economic, and social context. Volume I: 1350 to 1881 provides a wide-ranging overview d...
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Ibrahim Elbadawi
Democracy in the Arab World (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics)
Despite notable socio-economic development in the Arab region, a deficit in democracy and political rights has continued to prevail. This book examines the major reasons underlying the persistence of this democracy deficit over the past decades and touches on the prospects for deepening the process ...
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Dr James E. Faust
Cut Flowers and Foliages (Crop Production Science in Horticulture)
The cut flower and foliage industry is a global business with major production locations in North America, South America, Central America, East Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Few other horticulture crops are as ubiquitous, yet the production techniques and challeng...
$68.14
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Riccardo Moratto
The Routledge Handbook of Korean Interpreting (Routledge Handbooks in Translation and Interpreting Studies)
Professor Riccardo Moratto and Professor Hyang-Ok Lim bring together the most authoritative voices on Korean interpreting. The first graduate school of interpretation and translation was established in 1979 in South Korea. Since then, not only has the interpretation and translation market grown expo...
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Gavan McCormack
Resistant Islands: Okinawa Confronts Japan and the United States (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives)
Now in a thoroughly updated edition, Resistant Islands offers the first comprehensive overview of Okinawan history from earliest times to the present, focusing especially on the recent period of colonization by Japan, its disastrous fate during World War II, and its current status as a glorified US ...
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Eric Gartman
Return to Zion: The History of Modern Israel
The history of modern Israel is a story of ambition, violence, and survival. Return to Zion traces how a scattered and stateless people reconstituted themselves in their traditional homeland, only to face threats by those who, during the many years of the dispersion, had come to regard the land as...
$14.87
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Bernadette Mayer
The Golden Book of Words
Here at last is a new edition of a famous early work by Bernadette Mayer, one of the most beloved, radical, and witty American poets This landmark early book (its original printing by Angel Hair Books was 750 copies, and they are now extremely rare) by the late great Bernadette Mayer is finally ava...
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Dr. Dieter Buchhart
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Iconic Works
The artist’s most inspired works in one volume. Jean-Michel Basquiat—artist and art world provocateur—took New York City by storm with his powerful and complex works that relentlessly engaged with charged sociopolitical issues, including race, police brutality, and structural inequity. In th...
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Rita Mae Brown
Wish You Were Here: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery
Curiosity just might be the death of Mrs. Murphy--and her human companion, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen.  Small towns are like families:  Everyone lives very close together. . .and everyone keeps secrets.  Crozet, Virginia, is a typical small town-until its secrets explode into murder.  Croz...
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Vicki Penner
ilittibaaimpa': Let's Eat Together! A Chickasaw Cookbook
The second cookbook published by the Press, presented as a companion volume to the popular ilimpa'chi': We re Gonna Eat! A Chickasaw Cookbook (2011) brings together recipes, reminiscences, and heaping helpings of slices of life from the kitchens of five modern Chickasaw Nation families. Chickasaw co...
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