Editore: Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0824824784 ISBN 13: 9780824824785
Da: Atlantic Bookshop, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo, cloth, xiii, 165pp. First edition/printing. Good: scattered pencil marginalia and underlining. Solid binding.
Editore: University of Hawaii Press, The August 2001, Honolulu, 2001
Da: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: None. 307 pages, several pages of b&w illustrations and photographs. Minor wear to wrappers. Else very good. Record # 454734.
Editore: Honolulu, HI, U.S.A.: University of Hawaii Press, 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0824824644 ISBN 13: 9780824824648
Da: Black and Read Books, Music & Games, Arvada, CO, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
New book.
Editore: University of Hawai'i Press. (c.2001)., Honolulu., 2001
ISBN 10: 0824825128 ISBN 13: 9780824825126
Da: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Black and white photographic illustrations, xiv + 220pp, paperback. "Secret Places features writers from Nepal. Through new fiction, poetry, and essays, the authors explore their complex nation and its diverse people: from caste discrimination and the exploitation of women to the shimmering world of the spirit." Publisher's description.
Editore: University of Hawaii Press. (c.2001)., Honolulu., 2001
ISBN 10: 0824824687 ISBN 13: 9780824824686
Da: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Paperback edition. x + 181pp, index, bibliography, paperback, spine lightly faded, very good condition. This book "is an analysis of Chinese prescriptions of gender as represented in Cao Xueqin's famous eighteenth-century Chinese novel of manners, 'The Red Chamber Dream', or 'The Story of the Stone'. Drawing on feminist literary critical methods, it examines Qing notions of masculinity and femininity, including themes such as bisexuality, motherhood, virginity and purity, and gender and power. Its central aim is to challenge the common assumption that the novel represents some form of early Chinese feminism by examining the text in conjunction with historical data. The book will be especially important to those interested in issues of gender in China, the history of Chinese literary criticism, and the application of feminist theory to the Asian text." Publisher's description.
Editore: Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawai'i Press, 2001., 2001
ISBN 10: 0824825101 ISBN 13: 9780824825102
Da: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condizione: As New. Photographic stiff paper wrappers ; 115 pp. : 40 black and white photographs ; 27 x 29 cm. ; ISBN: 0824825101 ; LCCN: 2001-33602 ; ".the result of visits to fourteen aquariums in the United States and Japan and diving trips off the coasts of California (including Santa Barbara Island), Hawai'i, and Midway Atoll. In his work. photographer Wayne Levin seeks to understand and depict not only [the] complex relationship [between humans and] captive marine life, but [also the] love affair with technology, [the] desire for contact with other species, [the] impulse to educate, [and the] capacity to dominate." ; slight bump ; else AS NEW. Book.
Editore: Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawai'i Press, 2001., 2001
Da: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. iv, 281 pp. ; ISSN: 1069-5834 ; OCLC: 28108670 ; pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: "Like Kissing through a Handkerchief" : Traduttore Traditore (a review of Lydia Liu, editor, Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circula tions) / Reviewed by Joshua A. Fogel -- Göran Malmqvist, Bernhard Karlgren: Ett Forskarporträtt / Reviewed by Lothar von Falkenhausen -- Second-Language Studies and College-level Chinese Language Textbooks in the U.S. / By Cynthia Y. Ning ; several reviews of new books ; FINE. Book.
Editore: Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawai'i Press, 2001., 2001
ISBN 10: 0824823958 ISBN 13: 9780824823955
Da: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: As New. Color pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; [1st printing] ; xliii, 157 pp. : illustrated ; 22 cm. ; ISBN: 0824823958 ; LCCN: 00-64899 ; "Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell arrived in Northern Thailand in 1912, the young wife of a recently ordained Presbyterian m issionary. Thousands of miles lay between her and her grandparents' farm in Nova Scotia, where she had been born and raised. But over the next sixteen years, Thailand became her beloved new home. She was awed by its physical beauty--the great rivers , the orchid-studded hills--and became devoted to its people. Beginning as a nurse, she eventually directed a small hospital. There she discovered her talent for organization and hard work. She also found, to her grief, that her work separated her f rom her children. Mission to Siam casts unexpected light on colonialism, the Asia missions, and the convulsive changes that a newly united Thailand underwent in the early twentieth century." ; AS NEW. Book.
Editore: Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawai'i Press, 2001., 2001
ISBN 10: 0824823885 ISBN 13: 9780824823887
Da: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: As New. 1st Edition. Photographic stiff paper wrappers ; [1st edition, 2nd printing] ; x, 277 pp. ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0824823885 ; LCCN: 00-55936 ; OCLC: 44425572 ; ".uses the stage as a metaphor to demonstrate how everyday life requires Japanese women to be skilled performers. She shows how they function on stage in their accepted roles while effecting small but significant changes backstage. Over the last thirty years, Japanese women have expanded their influence and extended this cultural process of multiple arenas to find compromises between the old virtues of personhood and new ideals for self. They conform, maneuver, and make choices within these multiple stages as they juggle various concerns and desires. By the 1990s their personal choices have made a difference, calling into question the very nature of these multiple arenas." ; AS NEW. Book.
Editore: Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, (2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 082482427X ISBN 13: 9780824824273
Da: Andrew Isles Natural History Books, Prahran, VIC, Australia
second edition),Octavo,206 pp.,photographs, other illustrations, softcover. This classic introductory volume has a new preface and biography of the author. Insects of Hawaii is a comprehensive and authoritative manual of the insects of the Hawaiian Islands, including their origin, distribution, hosts, parasites, predators, and control. It is among the most completely illustrated works of its kind.
Editore: Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawai'i Press, 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0824824253 ISBN 13: 9780824824259
Da: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condizione: As New. 2nd Edition. 2nd ed. ; photographic color stiff paper wrappers ; xxi, 392 pp. ; maps ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0824824253 ; LCCN: 00-60761 ; OCLC: 44669832 ; "The intense emotions attached to issues of race were made tragically evident in the racial riots of May 1969, wh ich this book sees as a watershed in modern Malaysian history. As Malaysia enters the twenty-first century, the government is determined to oversee the transition to an economy focused on manufacturing and advanced technology, and to eliminate pover ty and the association between occupation and race. While several recent studies deal with the impact of colonial rule and Malaysia's spectacular economic transition, this book is unique because it tracks developments from early times and identifie s continuities as well as change. Combining the authors' specialist knowledge of precolonial sources with the most recent contemporary research, this new edition reinforces the position of [this book] as a standard reference ." ; AS NEW. Book.
Editore: Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawa'i Press, 2001., 2001
ISBN 10: 0824820193 ISBN 13: 9780824820190
Da: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: As New. 1st Edition. [1st edition, 1st printing] ; Stiff blue and black wrappers ; xiii, 405 pp. ; maps ; 24 cm. ; Among Marshallese the ri-bwebwenato (storyteller) is well known and respected, a living repository and transmitter of traditional history and culture. Here are ninety folktales and stories of historical events, collected and translated into English during the third quarter of the twentieth century. They include tales of origins, humanlike animals, ogres, and sprites, some malevolent, some playful. Man y are presented in the original language and are amplified by extensive commentary ; AS NEW. Book.
Editore: University of Hawai'i Press Honolulu 2001, 2001
Da: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Prima edizione
1st edition hardback with dust jacket New book octavo xv + 368pp., map, bibliog., index, 'A new vision of wealth and power has taken root in the bilateral diplomacy of Japan and China - one that emphasises sustainability for the long term , avoidance of the upheaval of war, and integration into a multi-layered global, regional, and bilateral order'.
Editore: University of Hawaii Press (2001), Honolulu, 2001
Da: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark, Svendborg, Danimarca
Condizione: Minor rubbing. VG. orig.cloth Minor rubbing. VG. 23x15cm, ix,293 pp Contents: Vernacularization before Shuihu zhuan; Told or Written: That Is the Question; The Narrative Pattern: The Uniform versus the Multiform; From Voice to Text: The Orality-Writing Dynamic; The Engine of Narrative Making: Audiences, Storytellers and Shuhui ziansheng; Literary Vernacular and Novelistic Discourse.