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Orientalism - Western Conceptions of the Orient

For generations now, Edward W. Said's "Orientalism" has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire, and this "Penguin Modern Classics" edition contains a preface written by Said shortly before his death in 2003. In thi...

The Japanese Mind - Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture

In THE JAPANESE MIND, Roger Davies offers Westerners an invaluable key to the unique aspects of Japanese culture. Readers will gain a clear understanding of what really makes the Japanese, and their society, tick. Among the topics explored are: ai...

Understanding the Contemporary Middle East

The third edition of "Understanding the Contemporary Middle East" includes two entirely new chapters, one on religion and politics and one on the economies of the Middle East, as well as a greatly expanded discussion of the 2003 invasion...

Holy War, Holy Peace - How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East

War has been made holy by the families of Abraham, and the monotheistic religions of those families, for many centuries. But, argues Marc Gopin, peacemaking was made holy too, through a variety of cultural and religious practices that have been vi...

Beyond Islam - A New Understanding of the Middle East

In this magisterial work, Sami Zubaida draws on a distinguished career's worth of experience trying to understand the region to address the fundamental question in Middle East studies: what is the Middle East? He argues, controversially, that to s...

Integrated Water Resources Management in South and South East Asia

The concept of integrated water resources management (IWRM) is not new: it has been around for over two generations. During the 1990s, this concept was rediscovered by some international institutions, and they have since then promoted it extensive...

Japan : makt och tanke

En bok om Japan, den politiska maktens historia och det kulturella arvet. Författaren, Japankännare och Sveriges ambassadör i Sydkorea, behandlar bl.a. idétraditioner och seder samt historiska och kulturella relationer mellan Japan och dess grannl...

Wages of Violence - Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay

When Bombay changed its name to Mumbai in 1995, it was the culmination of a long process that transformed India's primary symbol of modernity and cultural diversity into a site of intense ethnic conflict and violent nationalism. "Wages of Vio...

Kata - The Key to Understanding and Dealing with the Japanese

Literally the form and order of doing things in Japan, kata is the cultural conditioning that causes the Japanese to think and react in the way they do. This book explains the concept of kata and offers insight into the art of bowing, the importan...

The General's Son - Journey of an Israeli in Palestine

Ny Democracy's Fourth Wave? - Digital Media and the Arab Spring

In 2011, the international community watched as citizens mobilized through the Internet and digital media to topple three of the world's most entrenched dictators: Ben Ali in Tunisia, Mubarak in Egypt, and Qaddafi in Libya. This book examines not ...

Defending the West - A Critique of Edward Said's 'Orientalism'

This is the first systematic critique of Edward Said's influential work, "Orientalism", a book that for almost three decades has received wide acclaim, voluminous commentary, and translation into more than fifteen languages. Said's main ...

Reconstructing Beirut - Memory and Space in a Postwar Arab City

Reconstructing Beirut contributes to a new approach to Middle East studies that applies recent theories of memory and space/place, bringing a fresh framework for analyzing contemporary Arab cultures and post-conflict cities.

Development Issues in the Arab World

Disruption following the Gulf War, and the need to satisfy both rising economic aspirations and the Islamic values of the region's peoples, demands fresh examination of development issues in the Arab world. This introductory text assesses how agri...

The Resurgence of East Asia - 500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives

The East Asian expansion since the 1960s stands out as a global power shift with few historical precedents. The Resurgence of East Asia examines the rise of the region as one of the world's economic power centres from three temporal perspectives: ...

The Arab Spring - Critical Analyses

This volume provides a wealth of in-depth, country-specific analyses of the Arab Spring, in addition to works that examine the larger theoretical framework and socio-political implications of events. Unlike other analyses, often from the perspecti...

Mass Mediations - New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond

Offering a stimulating diversity of perspectives, this collection examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle East. The contributors approach popular culture broadly, with an ...

Becoming Japanese - Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation

In 1895 Japan acquired Taiwan as its first formal colony after a resounding victory in the Sino-Japanese war. For the next fifty years, Japanese rule devastated and transformed the entire socioeconomic and political fabric of Taiwanese society. In...

Palestinian Politics After the Oslo Accords - Resuming Arab Palestine

This timely and critically important work does what hostilities in the Middle East have made nearly impossible: it offers a measured, internal perspective on Palestinian politics, viewing emerging political patterns from the Palestinian point of v...

A Reference Grammar of Thai

A Reference Grammar of Thai provides a clear, detailed and comprehensive guide to Thai grammar, designed for intermediate to advanced learners. Written by two leading experts on Thai, it places a special emphasis on functional accounts of its gram...

Language and Society in Japan

Language and Society in Japan deals with issues important to an understanding of language in Japan today, among them multilingualism, language and nationalism, and literacy and reading habits. It is organised around the theme of language and ident...

State-Directed Development - Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery

Why have some developing country states been more successful at facilitating industrialization than others? An answer to this question is developed by focusing both on patterns of state construction and intervention aimed at promoting industrializ...

A History of Nepal

Nepal emerged as a unified state over two hundred years ago, centred on the Kathmandu Valley with its two thousand years of urban civilisation. While John Whelpton's history focuses on the period since the overthrow of the Rana family autocracy in...

Interactions Between Religion and Development in India - Values, Organizations and Social Movements

The Price of Fear - The Truth Behind the Financial War on Terror

Finance has taken centre stage since 9/11 and the waging of the "War on Terror". But despite extensive media coverage, the war on this financial front remains little understood. This book traces the origins of the well-tried money launde...

Dharavi - Documenting Informalities

Redevelopment plans threaten the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people who live and work in Dharavi, a city within the city of Mumbai. In Dharavi houses and workplaces have developed over generations. Markets, alleys and the landscape its...

Vietnam Today - A Guide to a Nation at a Crossroads

Here is a first look at Vietnam in the twenty-first century, a nation undergoing rapid change and opening up to the world. "Vietnam Today" reveals the most prominent characteristics of the Vietnamese: their energy and drive, the dominanc...

Brännpunkt Jerusalem : om judendom, kristendom, islam, fundamentalism, fred och försoning i den heliga staden

The Israel-Palestine Conflict - Contested Histories

The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories provides non-specialist readers with an introduction and historical overview of the issues that have characterized and defined 130 years of the still unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Provi...

Burma's Mass Lay Meditation Movement - Buddhism and the Cultural Construction of Power

"Burma's Mass Lay Meditation Movement: Buddhism and the Cultural Construction of Power" describes a transformation in Buddhist practice in contemporary Burma. This revitalization movement has had real consequences for how the oppressive ...