High Jinks in Jingle Land
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Juvenile Publishing Company, 1922. Leslie Wilcox. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. More
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Silk and Religion: An Exploration of Material Life and the Thought of People, AD 600-1200
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. This book deals with the silk trade in Eurasia between the seventh and twelfth centuries and explores how religious ideas and institutions affected economic behaviour. More
The Thorny Gates of Learning in Sung China: A Social History of Learning in Sung China
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Series: Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions This book explores the profound cultural impact of the civil service examinations during the period when they first became the primary means of government recruitment. More
Changing Chinese Foodways in Asia
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by one of the authors/editors. Through the lens of Chinese food, the authors address recent theories in social science concerning cultural identity, ethnicity, boundary formation, consumerism and globalization, and the invention of local cuisine in the context of rapid... More
The Ethnic Origins of Nations
Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. Reprint. Paperback. A comprehensive account of the ways in which nations and nationhood have evolved over time. More
The Ancient Economy
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Updated Edition. Paperback. Sather Classical Lectures: Volume Forty-Three "Technical progress, economic growth, productivity, even efficiency have not been significant goals since the beginning of time," declares M. I. Finley in his classic work. The states of the ancient Mediterranean world had no recognizable... More
The Open Society and Its Enemies: Volume II - The High Tide of Prophecy: Hegel, Marx, and the Aftermath
London: Routledge, 1992. Fifth Edition (revised and reprinted). Paperback. Additional handling charge for heavy item. Written in political exile in New Zealand during the Second World War and first published in two volumes in 1945, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the most famous books... More
Literary Meaning: From Phenomenology to Deconstruction
Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publisher Ltd, 1984. Reprint. Paperback. This book is both a guide to, and interpretation of, the course of modern literary theory. Exploring the various theories of reading which have informed post–war literary criticism, it shows that for all the fervour of current debate about new movements in... More
Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce 1450 - 1680 (Volume Two: Expansion and Crisis)
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. First Edition. Paperback. Between the fifteenth and the mid-seventeenth centuries, when the Renaissance and early capitalism were transforming Europe, changes no less dramatic were occurring in Southeast Asia. This diverse tropical region was integrated into a global trade system, while trade-based cities came to... More
Identities, Boundaries, and Social Ties
Boulder, Colorado: Paradigm Publishers, 2005. First Edition. Paperback. "A compelling examination of central problems in social organization and comparative politics{...} Ideal for introducing the arguments of some of Tilly's books to students in brief, accessible form." - Contemporary Sociology. More
Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics: From the Postscript to the Logic of Scientific Discovery
London: Routledge, 2000. Reprint. Paperback. Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper's Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery . The Postscript is the culmination of Popper's work in the philosophy of physics and a new famous attack on subjectivist approaches... More
The Development of Family and Marriage in Europe
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Reprint. Paperback. Series: Studies in Literacy, Family, Culture and the State. More
Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963. First Edition. Paperback. "A remarkably interesting account of Indonesian agricultural history, primarily covering the period of Dutch control, from 1619 to 1942. Drawing on ecology, sociology, and economics, Geertz...provides an insightful and persuasive analysis."—The Annals. More
China Unbound: Evolving perspectives on the Chinese past
London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. First Edition. Paperback. Series: Critical Asian Scholarship This volume contains a number of articles on modern Chinese history and historiography written by one of the leading academic experts on the subject. The author provides a critique of older approaches to nineteenth-century history and offers powerful reinterpretations of... More
Property Rights and Economic Reform in China
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. This book analyzes the changes in property rights in contemporary China in light of the rapid economic growth of the last two decades. More
Everyday Modernity in China: China Program Book (Studies in Modernity & National Identity)
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. First Edition. Paperback. Series: Studies in Modernity and National Identity Is modernity in non-Western societies always an "alternative" modernity, a derivative copy of an "original modernity" that began in the West? No, answer the contributors to this book, who then offer an absorbing... More
Policing Shanghai 1927 - 1937
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. First Paperback Printing. Paperback. A print on demand volume printed in toner. Pre-war Shanghai: casinos, brothels, Green Gang racketeers, narcotics syndicates, gun-runners, underground Communist assassins, Comitern secret agents. Frederic Wakeman's masterful study of the most colorful and corrupt city in the world at the... More
Police (A Harry Hole thriller)
London: Vintage, 2014. Paperback. More
Blood Hunt (A Jack Harvey novel)
London: Orion Paperback, 2003. Reprint. Paperback. More
Cockroaches (A Harry Hole thriller)
London: Vintage, 2014. Paperback. More
Set in Darkness (An Inspector Rebus Novel:11)
London: Orion Paperback, 2001. Reprint. Paperback. More
Gaudy Night (A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery)
London: New English Library, 1985. Paperback. More
Clouds of Witness (A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery)
London: New English Library, 1988. Paperback. More
Busman's Honeymoon (A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery)
Sevenoaks: New English Library, 1985. Paperback. More
Five Red Herrings (A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery)
Sevenoaks: New English Library, 1984. Paperback. More