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Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1972. Reprint. Hard Cover. 083691550X . Facsimile reprint of 1942 volume. Square exlib with tight binding and hinges, bright pages. Exlib marks, library pocket on rear endpaper. Call number in ink on lower spine. 140 pp. Collection of writings by noted American novelist Pearl S. Buck (The Good Earth) on the U.S. national agenda in World War II; argues that cultural unity across lines of race and ethnicity are needed inside the na... more information

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Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1989. Soft Cover. 0813309387 . Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Remainder mark across lower edge of book (visible when closed). General light shelf wear. 222 pp. Book documents cataclysmic changes of China's entire post=liberation era, detailing their effects in a personalized style. Author is Chinese-American anthropologist. (from back of wraps); Remainder; 9.0" (23 cm) Tall . ... more information

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New York: H. W. Wilson Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1974. Hard Cover. 0824205219 . Square with sharp corners, tight binding and hinges, bright pages. Exlib marks. Light edge rubbing and minor soiling to cloth over boards. Very lightly read. 199 pp. Overview of history, governments, peoples and issues facing the nations of south Asia (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka).; Ex-Library; 7.75" (20 cm) Tall . ... more information

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Syracuse NY: Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1978. Soft Cover. 0915984784 . Square with minor edge rubbing, tight binding, clean & bright pages without sign of reading wear. 229 pp. Typescript font. Anthropological study of four rural village families in Karimpur, India.; 9.0" (23 cm) Tall . ... more information

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Rutland, Vt.: Charles E. Tuttle. Good with no dust jacket. 1963. Soft Cover. Square with tight binding. Wraps have owner's name on front, light edgewear, crease at lower front corner, general light soiling. Interior pages clean, bright; no writing or marks. Crease on lower corner of most pages in book. 96 pp. Basic introduction for spectators at sumo wrestling matches. Illustrated with black and white photographs.; 9.0" (23 cm) Tall . ... more information

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New York: Association Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1964. Soft Cover. Slightly cocked, tight binding. Clean, off-white pages. 128 pp. plus wraps. Wraps are age-darkened, with general light handling wear. Introduction to the essentials of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan's thought. Radhakrishnan was an important figure in the renaissance of modern India in the mid-20th century and an interpreter of its religio-philosophic foundations. (from back of wraps); 8.00" (20 cm) Tall . ... more information

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New York: W. Morrow. Good in Good dust jacket. 1964. Hard Cover. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean but age-darkened pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with bumped corners and soiling. DJ has edge wear, shelf wear, scuffing, soiling. 179 pp. Travel account by son of Sir Laurence Olivier. Descriptions of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Burma. Illus. photos.; 8.5" (21.5 cm) Tall . ... more information

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Ann Arbor, MI: Center For Chinese Studies University of Michigan. Good with no dust jacket. 1973. Soft Cover. 0892640154 . Stiff paper wraps are a bit creased on front with tape-repaired tear near spine, generally lightly soiled but intact. Binding is sound, pages are clean. General light reading wear. 259 pp. Contents: Roxane Witke, "Mao Tse-tung, Women and Suicide"; Witke, "Woman as Politician in China of the 1920s"; Suzette Leith, "Chinese Women in the Early Communist ... more information

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New York: Holt Rinehart Winston. Good in Good dust jacket. 1965. Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. Exlibrary markings. Square, sound binding and hinges, bright pages. Paper over boards has edge rubbing. DJ has call number label at lower spine, light overall shelf wear; in new mylar sleeve. 279 pp. Memoirs of university professor who traveled to Iran as a Fulbright Scholar.; Ex-Library; 8.5" (21.5 cm) Tall . ... more information

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Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: University of Chicago Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1982. Soft Cover. 0226763455 . Square with tight binding. Minor shelf wear and light soiling to exterior. Pages bright and clean. 293 pp. Sociological study of rural Japanese women.; 9.0" (23 cm) Tall . ... more information

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Princeton: Princeton University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1980. Hard Cover. 0691053103 . Square, tight binding and hinges, sharp corners, bright pages. Occasional underlined phrases with marginal notes. DJ has light overall shelf wear. 128 pp. Illustrated black and white photographs. Author discusses shifts in Japanese views of the West as well as Western ideas of the Japanese in light of the mingling of traditional Japanese culture, Chinese Confucianism, and Western civilization that ... more information

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Peterborough NH: Cobblestone Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2000. Softcover. 0382445880 . Square, stapled binding is sound. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light shelf wear with address label imprinted on back. 48 pp. <br><br>; Readings in the culture of Sikhs, written for elementary school audience. ; 9.0" tall; 48 pages . ... more information

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London: George Allen & Unwin. Good in Good dust jacket. 1972. Hard Cover. 0049500147 . Square exlib with tight binding and hinges, bright pages. Exlibrary marks, library pocket on rear endpaper. DJ well preserved with clipped corner, in new mylar sleeve. 318 pp. Essays by G. F. Hudson, W. Klatt, W. A. C. Adie, R. Bonwit, G. R. Story, W. F. Crawley, H. Khuhro, L. Palmier.; Ex-Library; 9.0" (23 cm) Tall . ... more information

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Honolulu, HI, U.S.A.: University of Hawaii Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1992. Soft Cover. 0824814207 . Square, tight binding, minor handling wear to wraps and bit of fading at spine. Pages slightly off-white and clean. 236 pp. Essays by Theodore C. Bestor, "Conflict, Legitimacy, and Tradition in a Tokyo Neighborhood"; Takie Sugiyama Lebra, "The Spatial Layout of Hierarchy: Residential Style of the Modern Japanese Nobility"; Mary C. Brinton, "Christmas Cakes and Wedding... more information

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New York: Praeger Publishers. Good in Good dust jacket. 1962. Hard Cover. Square with tight binding and hinges, clean and bright pages. Owner's name on ffep. DJ has moderate edge wear especially at top spine, general shelf wear. 464 pp. Essays on Sino-Soviet relations by Cyril E. Black, T. H. Rigby, Robert C. North, H. F. Schurmann, Masamichi Inoki, Boris Meissner, Masao Onoe, Robert F. Byrnes, Hugh Seton-Watson, Paul F. Langer, Jacques Gillermaz, Basile H. Kerblay, Vidya Prakash Dutt, Peter S.... more information

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Honolulu, HI, U.S.A.: University of Hawaii Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1975. Soft Cover. 0824803655 . Square, tight binding, clean and bright pages, no writing or marks. Stiff paper wraps are edge-rubbed. Font is typescript (double-spaced). 95 pp. Three essays: "Reflections on Some Aspects of the Theory of Rasa," "An Invitation to Contemplation: The Rock Garden of Ryoanji and the Concept of Yugen," and "Bruegel and Ma Yuan: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Poss... more information

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Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: Harvard University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1976. Hard Cover. 0674471938 . Square with tight binding and hinges, clean and bright pages. Owner's name at top corner of ffep. DJ displays edge rubbing and minor shelf wear. 225 pp. Political biography of Kawakami Hajime (1879-1946), an early popularizer of Marxism in Japan as well as a Communist on his own unique terms and author of an autobiography that is a classic of modern Japanese literature (DJ blurb).; 9.2... more information

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Yogyakarta: Gadjah Mada University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1987. Soft Cover. 9794200212 . Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Light shelf wear to wraps. No evidence of reading wear. Book is in English translation. 111 pp. Indonesian anthropologist's scholarly study of Javanese kingship tradition and rural society. Bibliography, appendices, glossary of non-English terms, index.; 8.25" (21 cm) Tall . ... more information

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Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: University. Good with no dust jacket. 1964. Hard Cover. 0875840388 . Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Cloth over boards generally shelfworn. 274 pp. <br><br> Study of industrial growth and finance in the developing economy of Iran in the mid-1960s. ; Exlibrary; 8.5" (21.5 cm) Tall; 274 pages . ... more information

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Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.: Center for Chinese Studies Publications. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1975. Soft Cover. 0892640219 . Square with minor edge rubbing to wraps. Owner's name inside front. No other writing or marks. Pages clean and bright. Typescript font. Binding tight. 102 pp. Study of White Lotus, Taiping, Nien, Miao, Muslim and other rebellions in 19th century China, with attention to sources of social dissidence, hierarcy of dissidence, and suppression and consequences of rebellion... more information

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