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  • BOLLYWOOD. POPULAR INDIAN CINEMA
    MOHAN, LALIT (ED.)
    Written by Gulzar, Shyam Benegal, Lalit Mohan Joshi, among many other experts on the Industry, Bollywood, Popular Indian Cinema is the ultimate guide to the most popular of Indian cinema. A gripping analysis of the last 100 years is provided by the book’s editor, Lalit Mohan Joshi. It covers the long Indian film history including rarely seen images from film archives together w...
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    49,45 €

  • ARMENIA AND KARABAGH. THE STRUGGLE FOR UNITY
    WALKER, CHRISTOPHER J. (ED)
    The focus of this book is an issue crucial to Armenian identity - the disrupted enclave of mountainous(Nagorno) Karabagh in neighbouring Azerbaijan. For centuries a centre of Armenian culture and intellectual life and with an Armenian majority, Karabagh or Artsakh has consistently been denied an Armenian identity by successive Russian, British and Azeri rulers. Since 1920 Armen...
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    45,53 €

  • AMONG THE TIBETANS
    BIRD, ISABELLA
    Isabella Bird was the greatest travel writer of the late nineteenth century and she undertook her journey into western Tibet in the early summer of 1889, when she was already in her late fifties. But she was not the slightest bit fazed at the prospect of discomfort and possible death. And nearly die she did, at least once, before the trip was over. Isabella travelled over sever...
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    24,00 €

  • KURDISTAN
    FRYER, JONATHAN
    Kurdistan is one of the Middle East's great recent success stories. The area occupies much of what is now northern and north-eastern Iraq. The Kurds have a distinguished and eventful history; their capital, Erbil, claims to be the oldest continuously inhabited city. Occupying strategically important lands and formidable mineral reserves, the region has from ancient times been a...
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    52,50 €

  • TRAVELLERS TO THE MIDDLE EAST FROM BURCKHARDT TO THESIGER
    NASH, GEOFFREY (ED.)
    ‘Travellers to the Middle East from Burkhardt to Thesiger’ is a compendious anthology of travellers' writings produced during the high tide of Britain’s involvement in the Middle East. The anthology contains extracts from many of the canonical travel texts of the period, including passages by T. E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell and Robert Byron, as well as many more extracts from bot...
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    75,00 €

  • EURASIAN CROSSROADS
    MILLWARD, JAMES A.
    CROSSROADS OF EUROASIA ...
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    37,50 €

  • BHUJ. ART/ ARCHITECTURE/ HISTORY
    TYABJI, AZHAR
    This book presents a series of perspectives on the cultural evolution of 16th-century Bhuj in the district of Kachchh, India - a city that witnessed considerable destruction in the earthquake of January 2001. It provides glimpses of the city through photographs taken during the 19th century and later. It offers an analysis of the three-year redevelopment planning process that b...
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    66,00 €27,30 €

  • STEEL & SILK
    MOUBAYED, SAMI
    STEEL & SILK ...
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    29,95 €

  • CHINESE LABEL ART 1900-1976
    CAHAN, ANDREW S.
    Combining wonderful graphics with fascinating history, this book is a showcase of outstanding Chinese label, packaging, and advertising art created between 1900 and 1976. These stunning images came from cities in China such as Canton and Shanghai, as well as places beyond the border such as Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore, where large Chinese populations thrived and commercial ...
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    53,65 €

  • SRI LANKA IN THE MODERN AGE
    WICKRAMASINGHE, NIRA
    Since the late 1970s, civil war has left Sri Lanka in an almost permanent state of crisis. Conventional histories of the country by liberal and Marxist scholars in the last twenty years have thus tended to focus on the state’s failure to accommodate the needs and demands of the minorities. The entire history of the twentieth century has been traced to this one key issue. Sri La...
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    57,75 €29,50 €

  • HEART OF BEIRUT
    KHALAF, SAMIR
    HEART OF BEIRUT ...
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    10,00 €

  • PALESTINE AND EGYPT UNDER THE OTTOMANS
    KHATIB, HISHAM
    PALESTINE AND EGYPT UNDER THE OTTOMANS ...
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    98,20 €