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Treasured Oases: A Selection of Jao Tsung-i’s Dunhuang Studies
Dunhuang: China’s traditional northwest frontier and overland conduit of exchange with the Old World. Jao Tsung-i: China’s last great traditional man of letters, polymath, and pioneer of comparative humanistic inquiry during Hong Kong’s global heyday. Jao and Dunhuang had a special relationship that this book makes accessible in English for the first time. Inside, Jao proposes an entirely…
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- '9789004522558
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- 266 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Collected Works of Jao Tsung-i, Volume: 2
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Value without Fetish : Uno Kōzō’s Theory of ‘Pure Capitalism’ in Ligh…
Value without Fetish presents the first in-depth English-language study of the influential Japanese economist Uno Kōzō‘s (1897-1977) theory of ‘pure capitalism’ in the light of the method and object of Marx’s Critique of Political Economy. A close analysis of the theories of value, production and reproduction, and crisis in Uno’s central texts from the 1930s to the 1970s reveals his…
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- 9789004449909
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- 588 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume: 227
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Unfree Lives : Slaves at the Najahid and Rasulid Courts of Yemen
Unfree Lives illuminates Yemen’s forgotten history of slavery, as well as the transregional dimensions of slave trading in the Red Sea and wider Indian Ocean world. By analyzing Arabic narrative and administrative sources, Magdalena Moorthy Kloss reconstructs the lives of women and men who were trafficked to Yemen as children and then placed in various subaltern positions — from domestic se…
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- 9789004693784
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- 248 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Studies in Global Slavery, Volume: 16
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Understanding and combatting African Swine Fever : A European perspective
The recent introduction and spread of African swine fever (ASF) into Europe and Asia has shown that an integrated, multidisciplinary effort is needed to tackle this disease and the complex challenges it poses. This book presents practical guidelines on surveillance for detection of ASF virus, how to prevent outbreaks in the domestic pig sector through biosecurity and cleaning and disinfection r…
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- 9789086869107
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- 310 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Un piccolo esempio. La psicagogia matematica di Platone
‘Let me give you a simple example of what I mean, and you will see the rest for yourself.’ This is how Plato usually introduces mathematical examples to illustrate important philosophical puzzles. The research presented in this book offers a systematic analysis of these examples and demonstrates their crucial psychagogical function. Providing a toolkit of paradoxical objects that challenge …
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- '9789004701472
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- 224 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Brill's Plato Studies Series, Volume: 18
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Uma Politics : An Ethnography of Democratization in West Sumba, Indonesia, 19…
Democracy cannot be implemented overnight. Democratization is an often unpredictable process. This book concentrates on that political transformation in one of Indonesia’s most ‘traditional’ islands, Sumba. Why does democratization create such great opportunities for local politicians with their private agenda’s? Why does regional autonomy, as part of the national democratization progra…
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- '9789004253926
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- 296 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Volume: 260
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Up in Arms: Gun Imaginaries in Texas
Up in Arms provides an illustrative and timely window onto the ways in which guns shape people’s lives and social relations in Texas. With a long history of myth, lore, and imaginaries attached to gun carrying, the Lone Star State exemplifies how various groups of people at different historical moments make sense of gun culture in light of legislation, political agendas, and community buildin…
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- 9789004514676
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- 276 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- European Perspectives on the United States, Volume: 1
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Unlocking markets to smallholders : Lessons from South Africa
This book assesses the institutional, technical and market constraints as well as opportunities for smallholders, notably, emerging farmers in disadvantaged areas such as the former homelands of South Africa. Emerging farmers are previously disadvantaged black people who started or will start their business with the support of special government programs. Public support programs have been devel…
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- 9789086861682
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- 268 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Mansholt Publication series, Volume: 10
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Universal Śaivism : The Appeasement of All Gods and Powers in the Śāntyadh…
In Universal Śaivism Peter Bisschop provides a critical edition and annotated translation of the sixth chapter of the Śivadharmaśāstra `Treatise on the Religion of Śiva’, the so-called Śāntyadhyāya 'Chapter on Appeasement’. The Sanskrit text is preceded by an extensive introduction on its composition, transmission and edition. The Śivadharmaśāstra has arguably played a crucial r…
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- 9789004384361
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- 230 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Gonda Indological Studies, Volume: 18
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Vedic Cosmology and Ethics : Selected Studies
How did ‘Vedic man’ think about the destiny of man after death and related ethical issues? That heaven was the abode of the gods was undisputed, but was it also accessible to man in his pursuit of immortality? Was there a realm of the deceased or a hell? What terms were used to indicate these ‘yonder worlds’? What is their location in the cosmos and which cosmographic classifications ar…
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- 9789004400139
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- 184 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Gonda Indological Studies, Volume: 19
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