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  • The Triple Asian Olympics - Asia Rising

    The Pursuit of National Identity, International Recognition and Global Esteem

    Edited by J. A. Mangan, Sandra Collins, Gwang Ok ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    Realpolitik as a component of the Olympic Games held in East Asia has been largely ignored by historians. However, sport was an integral part of cultural diplomacy and the expression of national prowess for the three Games held in East Asia: 1964 Tokyo, 1988 Seoul and 2008 Beijing. It is time this was recorded. The Olympic Games had transformational political, economic and cultural effects for the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Martial Arts in Asia

    History, Culture and Politics

    Edited by Fan Hong, Gwang Ok ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    The reawakening of Asian martial arts is a distinct example of cultural hybridity in a global setting. This book deals with history of Asian martial arts in the contexts of tradition, religion, philosophy, politics and culture. It attempts to deepen the study of martial arts studies in their transformation from traditional to modern sports. It is also important that this book explores how Asian ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Japanese Imperialism: Politics and Sport in East Asia

    Rejection, Resentment, Revanchism

    Edited by Gwang Ok, Tianwei Ren, Peter Horton, J.A. Mangan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This cutting edge collection presents a political reading of the power of modern sport in Asia. Providing an interdisciplinary study of political and cultural tensions in Asia, past and present, through the key case-study of sport, it illuminates the complex practices and legacies of Japanese imperialism across East and Southeast Asia through the 20th century and beyond. Focusing on the deep ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
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  • The Jewish War

    by Josephus, E. Mary Smallwood ...
    Translated by G. Williamson ...
    Josephus’ account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish rebellion against Rome between AD 66 and 70. Originally a rebel leader, Josephus changed sides after he was captured to become a Rome-appointed negotiator, and so was uniquely placed to observe these turbulent events, from the siege of Jerusalem to the final heroic resistance and ... Read more

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  • Quest for Kim

    by Peter Hopkirk ...
    This book is for all those who love Kim, that masterpiece of Indian life in which Kipling immortalized the Great Game. Fascinated since childhood by this strange tale of an orphan boy's recruitment into the Indian secret service, Peter Hopkirk here retraces Kim's footsteps across Kipling's India to see how much of it remains.To attempt this with a fictional hero would normally be pointless. But ... Read more

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  • Comfort Women & My Kale Sister Plants

    by YoonOk Kim ...
    I have my two missing aunts!The only thing we knew was that my two aunts were in a truck taken somewhere by Japanese.It never occurred to me that my two missing aunts could have been used as Comfort Women—sex slaves until.... ... Read more

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  • Gaming the World

    How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture

    by Andrei S. Markovits, Lars Rensmann ...
    The globalizing influence of professional sportsProfessional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow them. This book examines the twenty-first-century phenomenon of global sports, in which professional ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Disciples of All Nations:Pillars of World Christianity

    Pillars of World Christianity

    by Lamin O. Sanneh ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in World Christianity
    Long the dominant religion of the West, Christianity is now rapidly becoming the principal faith in much of the postcolonial world--a development that marks a momentous shift in the religion's very center of gravity. In this eye-opening book, Lamin Sanneh examines the roots of this "post-Western awakening" and the unparalleled richness and diversity, as well as the tension and conflict, it has ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Anthropology of Sport and Human Movement

    A Biocultural Perspective

    by Jon Entine, Bernd Heinrich, Clifford Geertz, Robert Scott, Greg Downey, Vilma Charlton, Dirk Lund Christensen, Loren Cordain, Søren Damkjaer, Joe Friel, Rachael Irving, Kerrie P. Lewis, Peter G. Mewett, Andy Miah, Timothy Noakes, Yannis P. Pitsiladis ...
    The evolution of the human species has always been closely tied to the relationship between biology and culture, and the human condition is rooted in this fascinating intersection. Sport, games, and competition serve as a nexus for humanity's innate fixation on movement and social activity, and these activities have served throughout history to encourage the proliferation of human culture for any ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • The Archaeology of Early China

    From Prehistory to the Han Dynasty

    by Gideon Shelach-Lavi ...
    This volume aims to satisfy a pressing need for an updated account of Chinese archaeology. It covers an extended time period from the earliest peopling of China to the unification of the Chinese Empire some two thousand years ago. The geographical coverage includes the traditional focus on the Yellow River basin but also covers China's many other regions. Among the topics covered are the emergence ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals

    by Stephen F. Dale ...
    Series Book 5 - New Approaches to Asian History
    Between 1453 and 1526 Muslims founded three major states in the Mediterranean, Iran and South Asia: respectively the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires. By the early seventeenth century their descendants controlled territories that encompassed much of the Muslim world, stretching from the Balkans and North Africa to the Bay of Bengal and including a combined population of between 130 and 160 ... Read more

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