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A Cloud of Witnesses - Celebrating Indonesian Mennonites (Paperback): John D Roth A Cloud of Witnesses - Celebrating Indonesian Mennonites (Paperback)
John D Roth
R435 R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Save R34 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Jewish State (Hardcover): Theodor Herzl The Jewish State (Hardcover)
Theodor Herzl; Foreword by Jerold S Auerbach
R535 Discovery Miles 5 350 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Qing Dynasty - A Captivating Guide to the History of China's Last Empire Called the Great Qing, Including Events Such... The Qing Dynasty - A Captivating Guide to the History of China's Last Empire Called the Great Qing, Including Events Such as the Fall of Beijing, Opium Wars, and Taiping Rebellion (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R664 R593 Discovery Miles 5 930 Save R71 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Compelling Ideal - Thought Reform and the Prison in China, 1901-1956 (Hardcover): Jan Kiely The Compelling Ideal - Thought Reform and the Prison in China, 1901-1956 (Hardcover)
Jan Kiely
R2,092 Discovery Miles 20 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this groundbreaking volume, based on extensive research in Chinese archives and libraries, Jan Kiely explores the pre-Communist origins of the process of systematic thought reform or reformation (ganhua) that evolved into a key component of Mao Zedong's revolutionary restructuring of Chinese society. Focusing on ganhua as it was employed in China's prison system, Kiely's thought-provoking work brings the history of this critical phenomenon to life through the stories of individuals who conceptualized, implemented, and experienced it, and he details how these techniques were subsequently adapted for broader social and political use.

The Sword Scroll - Gunpo Heiho Ki: Kenjutsu no Maki (Paperback): Eric Shahan, Fumio Manaka The Sword Scroll - Gunpo Heiho Ki: Kenjutsu no Maki (Paperback)
Eric Shahan, Fumio Manaka; Mao Yuanyi
R304 Discovery Miles 3 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Bridge to the New Testament - A Comprehensive Guide to the Forgotten Years of the Inter-Testament Period (Hardcover): Denny... The Bridge to the New Testament - A Comprehensive Guide to the Forgotten Years of the Inter-Testament Period (Hardcover)
Denny Sissom
R1,999 Discovery Miles 19 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Evolution of Power - China's Struggle, Survival, and Success (Hardcover): Xiao-Bing Li, Xiansheng Tian Evolution of Power - China's Struggle, Survival, and Success (Hardcover)
Xiao-Bing Li, Xiansheng Tian; Contributions by Changfu Chang, Qiang Fang, Zhaohui Hong, …
R4,650 Discovery Miles 46 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Evolution and Power: China's Struggle, Survival, and Success, edited by Xiaobing Li and Xiansheng Tian, brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to provide a comprehensive look at China s rapid socio-economic transformation and the dramatic changes in its political institution and culture. Investigating subjects such as party history, leadership style, personality, political movements, civil-military relations, intersection of politics and law, and democratization, this volume situates current legitimacy and constitutional debates in the context of both the country s ideology, traditions, and the wider global community. The contributors to this volume clarify key Chinese conceptual frameworks to explain previous subjects that have been confusing or neglected, offering case studies and policy analyses connected with power struggles and political crises in China. A general pattern is introduced and developed to illuminate contemporary problems with government accountability, public opposition, and political transparency. Evolution and Power provides essential scholarship on China s political development and growth.

Obstacle to Peace - The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Hardcover): Jeremy R. Hammond, Richard (Foreward) Falk,... Obstacle to Peace - The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Hardcover)
Jeremy R. Hammond, Richard (Foreward) Falk, Gene (Intro) Epstein
R939 Discovery Miles 9 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Life Of Sir Henry Lawrence; Volume 1 (Hardcover): Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes Life Of Sir Henry Lawrence; Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes; Herman Merivale
R981 Discovery Miles 9 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Grit and Gold (Hardcover): Gayatri Chandrashekar Grit and Gold (Hardcover)
Gayatri Chandrashekar
R597 Discovery Miles 5 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bali in the Early Nineteenth Century - The Ethnographic Accounts of Pierre Dubois (English, French, Hardcover): Helen. M. Creese Bali in the Early Nineteenth Century - The Ethnographic Accounts of Pierre Dubois (English, French, Hardcover)
Helen. M. Creese
R5,110 Discovery Miles 51 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Bali in the Early Nineteenth Century, Helen Creese examines the nature of the earliest sustained cross-cultural encounter between the Balinese and the Dutch through the eyewitness accounts of Pierre Dubois, the first colonial official to live in Bali. From 1828 to 1831, Dubois served as Civil Administrator to the Badung court in southern Bali. He later recorded his Balinese experiences for the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences in a series of personal letters to an anonymous correspondent. This first ethnography of Bali provides rich, perceptive descriptions of early nineteenth-century Balinese politics, society, religion and culture. The book includes a complete edition and translation of Dubois' Legere Idee de Balie en 1830/Sketch of Bali in 1830.

Till We Have Built Jerusalem - Architects of a New City (Paperback): Adina Hoffman Till We Have Built Jerusalem - Architects of a New City (Paperback)
Adina Hoffman
R620 R570 Discovery Miles 5 700 Save R50 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Nazar:Vision, Belief, and Perception in Islamic Cultures (Hardcover): Samer Akkach Nazar:Vision, Belief, and Perception in Islamic Cultures (Hardcover)
Samer Akkach
R3,193 Discovery Miles 31 930 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Nazar, literally 'vision', is a unique Arabic-Islamic term/concept that offers an analytical framework for exploring the ways in which Islamic visual culture and aesthetic sensibility have been shaped by common conceptual tools and moral parameters. It intertwines the act of 'seeing' with the act of 'reflecting', thereby bringing the visual and cognitive functions into a complex relationship. Within the folds of this multifaceted relationship lies an entangled web of religious ideas, moral values, aesthetic preferences, scientific precepts, and socio-cultural understandings that underlie the intricacy of one's personal belief. Peering through the lens of nazar, the studies presented in this volume unravel aspects of these entanglements to provide new understandings of how vision, belief, and perception shape the rich Islamic visual culture. Contributors: Samer Akkach, James Bennett, Sushma Griffin, Stephen Hirtenstein, Virginia Hooker, Sakina Nomanbhoy, Shaha Parpia, Ellen Philpott-Teo, Wendy M.K. Shaw.

Historicizing Anti-Semitism (Proceedings of the International Conference on The Post-September 11 New Ethnic/Racial... Historicizing Anti-Semitism (Proceedings of the International Conference on The Post-September 11 New Ethnic/Racial Configurations in Europe and the United States - The Case of Anti-Semitism, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, June 29-30, 2007) (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Mohammad H. Tamdgidi; Edited by (ghost editors) Lewis R Gordon, Ramon Grosfoguel
R2,194 Discovery Miles 21 940 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Underwood of Korea [microform] - Being an Intimate Record of the Life and Work of the Rev. H.G. Underwood, D.D., LL.D., for... Underwood of Korea [microform] - Being an Intimate Record of the Life and Work of the Rev. H.G. Underwood, D.D., LL.D., for Thity-one Years a Missionary of the Presbyterian Board in Korea (Hardcover)
L H (Lillias Horton) 18 Underwood
R923 Discovery Miles 9 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
History of the Hebrews - Their Political, Social and Religious Development, and Their Contribution to World Betterment... History of the Hebrews - Their Political, Social and Religious Development, and Their Contribution to World Betterment (Hardcover)
Frank Knight 1861-1933 Sanders
R922 Discovery Miles 9 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Frontiers of the Ottoman Imagination - Studies in Honour of Rhoads Murphey (Hardcover): Marios Hadjianastasis Frontiers of the Ottoman Imagination - Studies in Honour of Rhoads Murphey (Hardcover)
Marios Hadjianastasis
R4,594 Discovery Miles 45 940 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Frontiers of the Ottoman Imagination is a compilation of articles celebrating the work of Rhoads Murphey, the eminent scholar of Ottoman studies who has worked at the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham for more than two decades. This volume offers two things: the versatility and influence of Rhoads Murphey is seen here through the work of his colleagues, friends and students, in a collection of high quality and cutting edge scholarship. Secondly, it is a testament of the legacy of Rhoads and the CBOMGS in the world of Ottoman Studies. The collection includes articles covering topics as diverse as cartography, urban studies and material culture, spanning the Ottoman centuries from the late Byzantine/early Ottoman to the twentieth century. Contributors include: Ourania Bessi, Hasan Colak, Marios Hadjianastasis, Sophia Laiou, Heath W. Lowry, Konstantinos Moustakas, Claire Norton, Amanda Phillips, Katerina Stathi, Johann Strauss, Michael Ursinus, Naci Yorulmaz.

History of the Arabic Written Tradition Supplement Volume 3 - ii (Paperback): Carl Brockelmann History of the Arabic Written Tradition Supplement Volume 3 - ii (Paperback)
Carl Brockelmann
R1,767 Discovery Miles 17 670 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The present English translation reproduces the original German of Carl Brockelmann’s Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL) as accurately as possible. In the interest of user-friendliness the following emendations have been made in the translation: Personal names are written out in full, except b. for ibn; Brockelmann’s transliteration of Arabic has been adapted to comply with modern standards for English-language publications; modern English equivalents are given for place names, e.g. Damascus, Cairo, Jerusalem, etc.; several erroneous dates have been corrected, and the page references to the two German editions have been retained in the margin, except in the Supplement volumes, where new references to the first two English volumes have been inserted. Supplement volume SIII-ii offers the thee Indices (authors; titles; and Western editors/publishers).

Israeli Culture on the Road to the Yom Kippur War (Hardcover): Dalia Gavriely-Nuri Israeli Culture on the Road to the Yom Kippur War (Hardcover)
Dalia Gavriely-Nuri
R3,172 Discovery Miles 31 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The surprise of the Yom Kippur War rivals that of the other two major strategic surprises in the 20th century Operation Barbarossa, the 1941 German surprise attack on the Soviet Union and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The major difference between these events is that Israeli intelligence had a lot more and better quality information leading up to the attack than did the Americans or the Soviet Union prior to those attacks. Why, then, was the beginning of the war such a surprise? The sudden eruption of the Yom Kippur War in 1973 took Israel and the world by surprise. While many scholars have tried to explain why Israel was caught unawares despite its sophisticated military intelligence services, Dalia Gavriely-Nuri looks beyond the military, intelligence, and political explanations to a cultural explanation. Israeli Culture on the Road to the Yom Kippur War reveals that the culture that evolved in Israel between the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur War played a large role in the surprise. Gavriely-Nuri lays out the cultural environment at the time to show that an attack of any kind would have been experienced as a strategic surprise despite the amount of intelligence available.

Constantinople - and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor; Volume 1 (Hardcover): Thomas 1804-1872 Allom Constantinople - and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor; Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Thomas 1804-1872 Allom; Created by R (Robert) 1772-1852 Walsh
R886 Discovery Miles 8 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Marble, Grass, and Glass (Hardcover): B Sham Moteelall Marble, Grass, and Glass (Hardcover)
B Sham Moteelall
R934 Discovery Miles 9 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The History of Afghanistan, 2nd Edition (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Meredith L. Runion The History of Afghanistan, 2nd Edition (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Meredith L. Runion
R2,086 R1,900 Discovery Miles 19 000 Save R186 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This chronological account traces the history of Afghanistan from pre-civilization to present-day events and considers the future of democracy in Afghanistan. For centuries, Afghanistan has endured control by a gamut of political regimes as a result of its strategic location along the trade route between Asia and the Middle East. The area has been at the center of constant conflict and only in recent years has recovered from the vestiges of warfare. The second edition of this popular reference offers a fresh glimpse at the country, showing modern Afghanistan to be a melting pot of cultures, tribes, and political influences all under the guiding belief of Islam. In addition to thorough coverage of the country's political, economic, and cultural history, the book provides students with an account of recent events in Afghanistan since 2007, such as the death of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan and the removal of NATO soldiers. Other changes include a revised timeline, an updated glossary, additions to the notable figures appendix, and an expanded bibliography that includes electronic resources. Includes an additional chapter on the events of the past 10 years, covering modern Afghanistan and its people Features Operation Neptune Spear, the Central Intelligence Agency-led operation responsible for the death of Osama bin Laden Provides an updated timeline of key events, including those that have occurred since the first edition

The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam (Hardcover, illustrated Edition): John Hunwick, Eve Troutt Powell The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam (Hardcover, illustrated Edition)
John Hunwick, Eve Troutt Powell
R2,421 Discovery Miles 24 210 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

For every gallon of ink that has been spilt on the trans-Atlantic slave trade and its consequences, only one very small drop has been spent on the study of the forced migration of black Africans into the Mediterranean world of Islam. From the ninth to the early twentieth century, probably as many black Africans were forcibly taken across the Sahara, up the Nile valley, and across the Red Sea, as were transported across the Atlantic in a much shorter period. Yet their story has not yet been told. This book provides an introduction to this ""other"" slave trade, and to the Islamic cultural context within which it took place, as well as the effect this context had on those who were its victims. After an introductory essay, there are sections on Basic Texts (Qur'an and Hadith), Some Muslim Views on Slavery, Slavery and the Law, Perceptions of Africans in Some Arabic and Turkish Writings, Slave Capture, the Middle Passage, Slave Markets, Eunuchs and Concubines, Domestic Service, Military Service, Religion and Community, Freedom and Post-Slavery, and the Abolition of Slavery. A concluding segment provides a first-person account of the capture, transportation, and service in a Saharan oasis by a West African male, as related to a French official in the 1930s.

Mobilization, Factionalization and Destruction of Mass Movements in the Cultural Revolution - A Social Movement Perspective... Mobilization, Factionalization and Destruction of Mass Movements in the Cultural Revolution - A Social Movement Perspective (Hardcover)
Joshua Zhang, Philip Monte, James Wright
R3,384 Discovery Miles 33 840 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The China mission year book Being The Christian Movement in China 1910 (Hardcover): D. Macgillivray The China mission year book Being The Christian Movement in China 1910 (Hardcover)
D. Macgillivray
R1,126 R1,018 Discovery Miles 10 180 Save R108 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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