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  • Aboriginal Siberia.

    A Study in Social Anthropology. With a Preface by R.R. Marett.

    Series series Elibron Classics
    Elibron Classics.Digitized replica of 1914 edition by The Clarendon Press, Oxford. This is an illustrated edition.Maria Antonina Czaplicka (October 25, 1884 - May 27, 1921), also referred to as Marya Antonina Czaplicka and Marie Antoinette Czaplicka, was a Polish cultural anthropologist who is best known for her ethnography of Siberian shamanism. Czaplicka's research survives in three major works: ... Leer más

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  • A Brief History of the Middle East

    Series series Brief Histories
    Western civilization began in the Middle East: Judaism and Christianity, as well as Islam, were born there. For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology and medicine, and were militarily far more powerful. It took another three hundred centuries for the West to catch up, and overtake, the Middle East.Why does it seem different now? Why does Osama bin ... Leer más

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  • Black Dragon River

    A Journey Down the Amur River Between Russia and China

    “As the book’s subtitle indicates, Mr. Ziegler uses one of the world’s great rivers as a vehicle to pursue this story—and what a vehicle it is. . . . [He] writes beautifully, and with the fervor of a naturalist.” ***—*The Wall Street Journal“The writing is superb . . . a true labour of love, Black Dragon River is a triumph.” *—The SpectatorBlack Dragon River* is a personal... ... Leer más

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  • Sikhism

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Sikh religion has a following of over 20 million people worldwide. However,events such as the verbal and physical attacks on Sikhs just after September 11, where Sikhs were being mistaken for Muslims, suggest that the Sikh faith still remains mysterious to many. This Very Short Introduction introduces newcomers to the meaning of the Sikh religious tradition, its teachings, practices, rituals ... Leer más

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  • The Fifth Book of Peace

    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • **From the National Book Award-winning author of China Men and The Woman Warrior comes a work weaving fiction and memoir into a luminous meditation on war and peace, devastation and renewal.“A trenchant opus about surviving the fires of life. . .a wonderful, mulitlayered work. Marvelous.” --San Francisco Chronicle**The Fifth Book of Peace opens as Maxine Hong ... Leer más

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  • SAS: Secret War in South East Asia

    de Peter Dickens ...
    From 1963 to 1966 Britain successfully waged a secret war to keep the Federation of Malaysia free from domination by Soekarno's Indonesia and by Chinese Communists. At the forefront of this campaign were the men of the Special Air Service the SAS an elite branch of the British military whose essence is secrecy and whose tools are boldness, initiative, surprise, and high skill.Working in four-man ... Leer más

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  • The Archaeology of Japan

    From the Earliest Rice Farming Villages to the Rise of the State

    Series series Cambridge World Archaeology
    This is the first book-length study of the Yayoi and Kofun periods of Japan (c.600 BC–AD 700), in which the introduction of rice paddy-field farming from the Korean peninsula ignited the rapid development of social complexity and hierarchy that culminated with the formation of the ancient Japanese state. The author traces the historical trajectory of the Yayoi and Kofun periods by employing ... Leer más

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  • The Gempei War 1180–85

    The Great Samurai Civil War

    Series Libro 297 - Campaign
    Internationally renowned samurai expert Dr Stephen Turnbull delves into a pivotal era of Japanese history in this highly illustrated account of The Gempei War, a conflict that defined the age and the ethos of the samurai.Never before had there been a large-scale clash between two rival samurai families, the Taira and the Minamoto, and never again would the result of a war in Japan be quite so ... Leer más

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  • The Scourge of God

    de Miklos Josika ...
    "The Scourge of God" tells the tale of the terrible Tartar invasion of Hungary during the reign of Bela IV. (1235-1270), when the Mongol hordes devastated Magyarland from end to end. Baron Miklos Josika (1796–1865), the Walter Scott of Hungary, was born at Torda, in Transylvania, on April 28th, 1796. While a child, he lost both his parents, and was brought up at the house and under the care of ... Leer más

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  • Networks of Empire

    Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company

    de Kerry Ward ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative World History
    This book argues that the Dutch East India Company empire manifested itself through multiple networks that amalgamated spatially and over time into an imperial web whose sovereignty was effectively created and maintained but always partial and contingent. Networks of Empire proposes that early modern empires were comprised of durable networks of trade, administration, settlement, legality, and ... Leer más

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  • The Economic History of China

    From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

    China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship between political institutions and economic development. Economic prosperity also was vitally important to the longevity of the Chinese Empire throughout the preindustrial era. Before the eighteenth century, China's economy shared some of the features, ... Leer más

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  • Asia.com

    Asia Encounters the Internet

    Edición de K. C. Ho, Randy Kluver, C.C. Yang ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations/Asia.com
    The internet is developing quicker in Asia than in any other region of the world. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the information society in an Asian context, and the impact of these technologies in Asia. These impacts are inevitably uneven and conditioned by issues of telecommunications infrastructure, government policies, cultural and social values, and economic realities. The ... Leer más

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