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  • Arti marziali cinesi

    Dall’antichità al XXI secolo

    de Peter A. Lorge ...
    Le arti marziali sono un fenomeno complesso documentato da un’enorme quantità di scritti, contrariamente alla diffusa opinione per cui l’unica fonte di conoscenza sulle loro origini e sul loro sviluppo sia la tradizione orale tramandata dai maestri. Questo libro ricostruisce la storia del combattimento in Cina, dall’Età del Bronzo ai giorni nostri. La trasformazione di abilità, tecniche e ... Leer más

    Antes $13.99 USD Ahora $11.99 USD

  • Chinese Martial Arts

    From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

    de Peter A. Lorge ...
    In the global world of the twenty-first century, martial arts are practised for self-defense and sporting purposes only. However, for thousands of years, they were a central feature of military practice in China and essential for the smooth functioning of society. This book, which opens with an intriguing account of the very first female martial artist, charts the history of combat and fighting ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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  • Japanese Ikebana for Every Season

    de Yuji Ueno, Rie Imai ...
    The true meaning of Ikebana—the traditional Japanese art of flower arrangement—is to take a few beautiful flowers and plants and tastefully present them in very simple containers to enhance home decor. The 53 elegant arrangements featured in Japanese Ikebana for Every Season are perfect for special occasions—Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, birthday, anniversary—or any event that calls for a flower ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

    de Jack Weatherford ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The startling true history of how one extraordinary man from a remote corner of the world created an empire that led the world into the modern age—by the author featured in Echoes of the Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan.The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Where China Meets India

    Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia

    de Thant Myint-U ...
    Thant Myint-U's Where China Meets India is a vivid, searching, timely book about the remote region that is suddenly a geopolitical center of the world.From their very beginnings, China and India have been walled off from each other: by the towering summits of the Himalayas, by a vast and impenetrable jungle, by hostile tribes and remote inland kingdoms stretching a thousand miles from Calcutta ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Japan in World History

    de James L. Huffman ...
    Series series New Oxford World History
    Japan in World History ranges from Japan's prehistoric interactions with Korea and China, to the Western challenge of the late 1500s, the partial isolation under the Tokugawa family (1600-1868), and the tumultuous interactions of more recent times, when Japan modernized ferociously, turned imperialist, lost a world war, then became the world's second largest economy--and its greatest foreign aid ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • A Thirst for Empire

    How Tea Shaped the Modern World

    de Erika Rappaport ...
    How the global tea industry influenced the international economy and the rise of mass consumerismTea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. Over centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its cultivation brought about massive changes—in land use, labor systems, market practices, and social hierarchies—the effects of which are with us ... Leer más

    $39.59 USD

  • The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy

    de Henry Keppel ...
    James, Rajah of Sarawak,KCB (born James Brooke; 29 April 1803 – 11 June 1868) was a British adventurer whose exploits in areas of the British Empire led to him becoming the first White Rajah of Sarawak. In 1833, He inherited £30,000, which he used as capital to purchase a 142-ton schooner, The Royalist. Setting sail for Borneo in 1838, he arrived in Kuching in August to find the settlement ... Leer más

    $2.67 USD

  • Women in the Middle East

    Past and Present

    de Nikki R. Keddie ...
    Written by a pioneer in the field of Middle Eastern women's history, Women in the Middle East is a concise, comprehensive, and authoritative history of the lives of the region's women since the rise of Islam. Nikki Keddie shows why hostile or apologetic responses are completely inadequate to the diversity and richness of the lives of Middle Eastern women, and she provides a unique overview of ... Leer más

    $41.79 USD

  • Lhasa

    Streets with Memories

    de Robert Barnett, , Ph.D. ...
    Series series Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
    There are many Lhasas. One is a grid of uniform boulevards lined with plush hotels, all-night bars, and blue-glass-fronted offices. Another is a warren of alleyways that surround a seventh-century temple built to pin down a supine demoness. A web of Stalinist, rectangular blocks houses the new nomenklatura. Crumbling mansions, once home to noble ministers, famous lovers, nationalist spies, and ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Dancing in Shadows

    Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge, and the United Nations in Cambodia

    de Benny Widyono ...
    Series series Asian Voices
    This fascinating book recounts the remarkable tale of a career UN official from Indonesia caught in the turmoil of international and domestic politics swirling around Cambodia during the tumultuous period after the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Writing from his experience first as a member of the UN transitional authority and then as a personal envoy to the UN secretary-general, Benny Widyono re ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • Russian Culture in Uzbekistan

    One Language in the Middle of Nowhere

    de David MacFadyen ...
    Series series Central Asian Studies
    Recent political changes in Central Asia, where the United States is replacing Russia as the dominant power, are having a profound effect on Russian speakers in the region. These people, formerly perceived as progressive and engaging with Europe, are now confronted by the erasure of their literary, musical, cinematic and journalistic culture, as local ethnic and American cultures become much ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD