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A clear-eyed view of what is really at stake in Thailand’s continuing turmoil. * David Streckfuss, author of Truth on Trial in Thailand: Defamation, Treason, and Lèse-Majesté *\u003cbr\u003eA bold and convincing argument that at the centre of Thailand’s political turmoil is the succession to the throne. * Paul Handley, journalist and author of The King Never Smiles *\u003cbr\u003eFinally someone says the unsayable. A must read for observers of Thai politics. * Pavin Chachavalpongpun, associate professor at Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University *\u003cbr\u003eAndrew MacGregor Marshall has written perhaps the best introduction yet to the roots of Thailand’s present political impasse, He explains how an aspect of the crisis whose importance many analysts in Thailand and overseas have an interest in minimising - the looming succession in the Thai royal family - is in fact central. 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For the many Westerners who continue to repeat outmoded and Orientalist slogans about the Kingdom, the book should prove to be a real eye-opener—not least in its discussion of the events that led to the current king taking the throne and expanding the social and political significance of the monarchy. * Pacific Affairs Journal *\u003cbr\u003eA timely and highly readable account of the grim political reality of the Land of Smiles. An essential primer for every visitor. * Joe Studwell, author of Asian Godfathers and How Asia Works *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Telling the Truth About Thailand     Part I: Royalty Versus Reality     1. 'When the Legends Die, All Collapses' - Thailand's political awakening    2. 'In a Never–Never Land, Never Mind' - Welcome to the Land of Smiles    3. 'Cosmological Bluster' - The Dramatics of Despotism     Part II: Thai–Style Democracy and its Discontents     4. 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Japan and the World in Cultural Debate 49. Thinking with the Past: History Writing in Modern Japan, by Carol Gluck Bibliography Index","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864250429783,"sku":"9780231139199","price":34.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231139199.jpg?v=1722271070"},{"product_id":"ethnic-conflict-and-protest-in-tibet-and-xinjiang-9780231169998","title":"Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite a decade of rapid economic development, China’s western borderlands have experienced a wave of ethnic unrest not seen since the 1950s. Through on-the-ground interviews and firsthand observations, this volume creates an invaluable record of the conflicts and protests as they have unfolded—the most extensive chronicle of events to date.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEthnic unrest in Tibet and among the Uyghurs in Xinjiang is very much in the news and is a subject of great academic and public interest. It is hard to research because the Chinese government limits access to these areas. Nonetheless, these resourceful and courageous scholars have managed to access these regions, find out what is troubling the ethnic minority residents there, and assess how deep the trouble is. -- Andrew J. Nathan, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eChina's Search for Security\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEthnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang\u003c\/i\u003e is a terrific book. Ten experts take a balanced and clear-eyed view of the conditions and politics behind the recent wave of ethnic unrest in China. It should be required reading for those who would understand the interlocking causes of conflict, including decision makers in Beijing. -- June Teufel Dreyer, author of \u003ci\u003eChina's Political System\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese studies of contemporary China's relations with the Tibetans and the Uyghurs offer insights on a wide variety of issues, including the Chinese state's policies toward Buddhism and Islam, the causes of conflicts between China and these so-called minority nationalities, the government's economic policies and the ensuing environmental effects, and the possible economic synergies between Chinese and Tibetan and Uyghur entrepreneurs. 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This volume is a model for productive cross-regional scholarship and demonstrates the value of combining deep area knowledge with disciplinary rigor. * Pacific Affairs *\u003cbr\u003eA useful and timely contribution to our understanding of these complex and important regions. -- Michael Dillon * Ethnic and Racial Studies *\u003cbr\u003eThis is an excellent and well researched book. -- Colin Mackerras, Department of International Business and Asian Studies, Griffith University Brisbane, Australia * Journal of Contemporary Asia *\u003cbr\u003eThis well presented and important collection of chapters explores aspects of the recent and continuing disturbances in Tibet and Xinjiang based upon research undertaken by academics at various stages in their careers. * Asian Affairs *\u003cbr\u003eThe body of research produced is undoubtedly of a very high standard, and makes a valuable contribution to the study of the ongoing conflicts in Xinjiang and Tibet. * Asian Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eAn important and highly useful book. * BizIndia *\u003cbr\u003eA much-needed contribution to the canon of literature on interethnic relations in China. * A much-needed contribution to the canon of literature on interethnic relations in China. *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Understanding the Current Wave of Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang, by Ben Hillman\u003cbr\u003e1. Unrest in Tibet and the Limits of Regional Autonomy, by Ben Hillman\u003cbr\u003e2. Propaganda in the Public Square: Communicating State Directives on Religion and Ethnicity to Uyghurs and Tibetans in Western China, by Antonio Terrone\u003cbr\u003e3. Discussing Rights and Human Rights in Tibet, by Françoise Robin\u003cbr\u003e4. The Chinese Education System as a Source of Conflict in Tibetan Areas, by Clémence Henry\u003cbr\u003e5. Lucrative Chaos: Interethnic Conflict as a Function of the Economic \"Normalization\" of Southern Xinjiang, by Thomas Cliff\u003cbr\u003e6. Environmental Issues and Conflict in Tibet, by Yonten Nyima and Emily T. Yeh\u003cbr\u003e7. Fringe Existence: Uyghur Entrepreneurs and Ethnic Relations in Urban Xinjiang, by Tyler Harlan\u003cbr\u003e8. Prosperity, Identity, Intra-Tibetan Violence, and Harmony in Southeast Tibet: The Case of Gyalthang, by Eric Mortensen\u003cbr\u003e9. Interethnic Conflict in the PRC: Xinjiang and Tibet as Exceptions?, by James Leibold\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864254951767,"sku":"9780231169998","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231169998.jpg?v=1722271092"},{"product_id":"to-live-as-long-as-heaven-and-earth-9780520230347","title":"To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis text offers a complete critical translation and commentary for Ge Hong's (283-343 ce) \"Traditions of Divine Transcendents\" which gathered together the narratives of those who strove to become transcendents - deathless beings with supernormal powers - in early medieval China.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book marks a new milestone in the study of Chinese religious history. Only a scholar as intelligent and dedicated as Campany would dare tackle and so eloquently translate one of the most important and difficult works of early Chinese religious history.\"-Paul Katz, author of Images of the Immortal: The Cult of Lu Dongbin at the Palace of Eternal Joy; \"A pathbreaking work of lasting significance to the field of Chinese religious history. The scholarship is solid and current, drawing upon the best research from America, Europe, China, and Japan. The translation is accurate, clear, and elegant, based upon an innovative analysis of surviving sources.\"-Terry Kleeman, author of Great Perfection: Religion and Ethnicity in a Chinese Millennial Kingdom; \"Campany's annotated translation of Ge Hong's (283-343) classic, the first in English, admirably captures the book's rich evocation of the religious culture of Southern China in the fourth century. Ge Hong here offers a series of case studies of what he regarded as the historical and exemplary evidence for the existence of immortals. This translation of Traditions of Divine Transcendents conveys a lively and multifaceted vision of the Taoist conception of physical immortality. 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In spite of the wealth of knowledge the author clearly possesses about traditional China, he chooses to cover in depth a select number of topics—personages, events, institutions, etc.—in a language that is understandable to the average man in the street, without relying on opaque verbosity. Consequently, the book is likely to leave a profound and lasting impact on the reader in areas it focuses on, which will in turn help him or her better understand a given period of Late Imperial China from a long-term perspective. -- Victor Cunrui Xiong * Chinese Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003eA personal meditation on the later imperial history of China by an author who has studied and taught the subject all his life and whose knowledge of it is truly formidable. It is written in a readable, accessible style that attracts the reader’s sustained attention. -- John W. Dardess, University of Kansas\u003cbr\u003eA major contribution to our present literature on the general historiography of late Imperial China. Not only is it eminently accessible to a wide nonspecialized intellectual public, it also provides a major corrective within the field to some of the tendencies that have dominated the writing of Chinese history. Mote has highly cogent things to say about the nature of what has been called the ‘gentry’ in China and highly relevant questions to raise about the notion of a demographic explosion in eighteenth-century China and examines many of the prevailing abstract conceptions which dominate the field. Yet, he vividly demonstrated how limited our effort has been to explore in depth the vast documentary materials available to us, which are supposed to provide the ‘empirical data’ for our models, paradigms, and structural theories. Mote’s major contribution is his detailed account of the growing complexity of relations between the Chinese state and the surrounding East Asian world during the period 900–1800. -- Benjamin I. Schwartz, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface   Acknowledgments    PART ONE: CONQUEST DYNASTIES AND THE NORTHERN SONG, 900-1127    The Five Dynasties   Later Imperial China's Place in History   The Course of Five Dynasties History   The Eastward Shift of the Political Center   Simultaneous Developments in the Ten States   China and Inner Asia in Geographic and Historical Perspective    Abaoji   The Khitans and Their Neighbors   Ethnic Diversity and Language Community   The Lessons of History   The New Leader Emerges   The Significance of Khitan Acculturation   Abaoji Receives Yao Kun, Envoy of the Later Tang Dynasty    Building the Liao Empire   Succession Issues after Abaoji   The Meaning of the Early Liao Succession Crises   The Khitan Inner Asian Tribal Empire   Liao-Korean Relations   Expansion into North China   Liao-Song Relations    Liao Civilization   Multicultural Adaptations   Khitan Society   Patterns of Acculturation   Buddhism in Khitan Life   Interpretations of Liao Success    Creating the Song Dynasty   The Vigor of the Later Zhou and the Founding of the Song   On Being the Emperor in Tenth-Century China   Governing China   The Military Problem    The World of Ideas in Northern Song China   The Man of the Age: Ouyang Xiu   The Course of a Song Dynasty Official Career   The Civil Service Examination System   The Social Impact of the Song Examination System   Political Reform and Political Thought   Neo-Confucian Political Thought    Dimensions of Northern Song Life   High Culture   The Example of Su Shi   The New Elite and Song High Culture   Religion in Song Life   Song Society    Origins of the Xi Xia State   The Tangut People: Names and Ethnic Identities   Early History of the Tangut Tribal People   The Tanguts Come into the Song Orbit   Yuan-hao Proclaims the Xi Xia Dynasty   The Xi Xia as an Imperial Dynasty    PART TWO: CONQUEST DYNASTIES AND THE SOUTHERN SONG, 1127-1279    The \"Wild Jurchens\" Erupt into History   Aguda's Challenge   The End of the Liao Dynasty   The Northern Song Falls to the Jurchens   Who Were These Jurchens?   Explaining the Jurchens' Success    The Jurchen State and Its Cultural Policy   The Conquerors Turn to Governing   The Period of Dual Institutions, 1115-1135   The Era of Centralization, 1135-1161   The Period of Nativist Reaction, 1161-1208   The End of the Jin Dynasty, 1208-1234    The Later Xi Xia State   Xi Xia in the Era of the Jin Dynasty, 1115-1227   The Crisis of the \"Partition of the State\"   The Destruction of the Xi Xia State   The Tangut Achievement   Xia Buddhism    Trends of Change under Jin Alien Rule   Divisions: North and South, Chinese and Non-Chinese   Jurchen Dominance   The Impact of the Civil Service Examinations   High Culture during the Jin Dynasty   Economic Life under the Jin    The Southern Song and Chinese Survival   A Fleeing PrinceCA New Emperor   War versus Peace   Patterns of High Politics after the Treaty of 1141    Chinese Civilization and the Song Achievement   New Social Factors   Elite Lives and Song High Culture   Confucian Thinkers   Other Kinds of Elite Lives   Some Generalizations about the Song Elite    Southern Song Life--A Broader View   Calculating Song China's Population   Governing at the Local Level   Paying for Government   Status in the Chinese Population   Urban and Rural   Families, Women, and Children   VA Poet's Observations    A Mid-Thirteenth-Century Overview   The Heritage of the Liao, Xi Xia, and Jin Periods   The System of Ritualized Interstate Relations   The Growing Scope of International Trade   Cultural Interaction    PART THREE: CHINA AND THE MONGOL WORLD    The Career of the Great Khan Chinggis   Backgrounds of Mongol History   The Ethnic Geography of Inner Asia in the Late Twelfth Century   Mongol Nomadic Economy and Social Life   The Mongols Emerge into History   The Youth of Temujin   Chinggis Khan as Nation Builder   Forging the Mongol World Empire, 1206-1259   The Nearer Horizons of Empire, 1206-1217   The First Campaign to the West, 1218-1225   Chinggis Khan, the Man   The Second Campaign to the West, 1236-1241   Mongol Adaptations to China under Chinggis and Ogodei   Mongke Khan and the Third Campaign to the West   Relations among the Four Khanates   Khubilai Khan Becomes Emperor of China   The Early Life of Khubilai   Khubilai and His Chinese Advisers before 1260   As Mongke's Field General in China   Maneuvering to Become the Great Khan   The Great Khan Khubilai Becomes Emperor of China   The Conquest of the Southern Song, 1267-1279   The War against Khaidu   Khubilai's Later Years   Khubilai Khan's Successors, 1294-1370    China under Mongol Rule   Yuan Government   Managing Society and Staffing the Government   Religions   China's People under Mongol Rule   The Yuan Cultural Achievement    PART FOUR: THE RESTORATION OF NATIVE RULE UNDER THE MING, 1368-1644    From Chaos toward a New Chinese Order   Disintegration   Competitors for Power Emerge   Rival Contenders, 1351-1368   Zhu Yuanzhang, Boy to Young Man    Zhu Yuanzhang Builds His Ming Dynasty   Learning to Be an Emperor   Setting the Pattern of His Dynasty   Constructing a Capital and a Government   The Enigma of Zhu Yuanzhang    Civil War and Usurpation, 1399-1402   The New Era   The Thought of Fang Xiaoru: What Might Have Been   From Prince to Emperor    The \"Second Founding\" of the Ming Dynasty   Ming Chengzu's Imprint on Ming Governing   The Eunuch Establishment and the Imperial Bodyguard   Defending Throne and State   Securing China's Place in the Asian World   The New Capital    Ming China in the Fifteenth Century   Successors to the Yongle Emperor   The Mechanics of Government   The Grand Canal in Ming Times    The Changing World of the Sixteenth Century   Emperor Wuzong, 1505-1521   Emperor Shizong's Accession   The Rites Controversy   Emperor Shizong and Daoism   The Emperor Shizong and His Officials   Wang Yangming and Sixteenth-Century Confucian Thought    Ming China's Borders   Border Zones, Zones of Interaction   Tension and Peril on the Northern Borders   Tibet and the Western 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A Fragmented Identity: An Introduction to Contemporary Ethnic and Political Conditions in the Caucasus  II. In the Wake of International Great-Power Politics 1.The Golden Age of Georgia 2.The Mongol incursions and supremacy  III. The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia 1.Semi-independent Armenian warlords and Muslim Armenian viziers 2.The Rubenids of Cilicia: From principality to kingdom 3.The Kingdom of Cilician Armenia  IV. The South Caucasus under Turkmen, Ottoman and Iranian Safavid Domination 1.Georgia and the devastations of Timur-e Lang 2.The partition of Georgia  Excursus: The Armenian catholicosate’s return to Etchmiadzin and a renewed schism 3.The South Caucasus as battleground for eight Ottoman–Safavid wars 4.The South Caucasus under Safavid rule Excursus: The Armenian Mekhitarist congregation 5.A brief reunification of Kartli and Kakheti and the foundation of independent khanates  V. First Russian Advances into the North Caucasus      1. 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Independence in the South Caucasus 1.The disintegration of the Soviet Union 2.The Armenian declaration of independence and the issue of Karabakh 3.The Azerbaijani declaration of independence and the development of the oil and gas industry 4.The First Karabakh War 1992–1994 5.Georgian independence and the South Ossetian and Abkhazian wars  X. Autonomy and Failed Independence in the North Caucasus      1. The northern region: Rostov, Krasnodar, Adygea, Stavropol and Kalmykia      2. The western and central region: Karachay-Cherkessia, Kabardino-Balkaria, North           Ossetia–Alania and Ingushetia      3. The eastern region: Chechnya and Dagestan   XI. The Caucasus in the Twenty-First Century 1.Republics and regions of the northern Caucasus 2.The independent republics in the southern Caucasus 2.1Azerbaijan 2.2The Second Karabakh War, 27 September–10 November 2020 2.3Armenia 2.4Georgia 2.4.1The Georgian–Russian War, 7–12 August 2008 2.4.2Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia since the 2008 war 3.Outlook   Appendices Notes Bibliography List of Maps Photo credits Acknowledgements Indexes Concepts  People Places","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865785807191,"sku":"9780755636280","price":33.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780755636280.jpg?v=1722275561"},{"product_id":"clueless-in-tokyo-9780804857222","title":"Clueless in Tokyo","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A cool, clever and captivating look at modern Japan. 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He shows due scepticism about national legends and etymological claims. Baumer writes with  admirable clarity. His book is magnificently illustrated, and all the reader can want is for volume 2, covering the next  thousand years, to appear as soon as possible. * Professor Donald Rayfield, Emeritus Professor of Russian, Queen Mary University of London, UK *\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating book with glorious photography. * Irish Tech News *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI At the edge of Europe and Asia - An Introduction 1. A Time of Conflict 2. A Special Geography 3. Peoples and Languages 4. Objectives and Sources  II The Formation of the Landscape and Early Humans of the Palaeolithic 1. The Origin of the Caucasus Mountains and the History of the Adjacent Seas - Black Sea and Caspian Sea      Excursus: Did the Flood take place near the Black Sea? 2. Homo Georgicus: First Early Humans Outside Africa 3. Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens in the North and South Caucasus  III Prehistoric Cultures: From the Neolithic to the Iron Age 1. The Southern Caucasus 1.1 The Shulaveri-Shomu-Aratashen culture 1.2 The Chalcolithic cultures of Sioni and Leila Tepe 1.3 The Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Kura-Araxes Culture 1.4 The Kurgan Cultures of the Middle Bronze Age        Excursus: The invention of wheel and cart 1.5 Late Bronze Age and Iron Age 1.6 Early Tribal Organizations, War Alliances and Confederations 1.7 The Colchis in Prehistoric Times  2. The Northern Caucasus 2.1 Chalcolithic Settlements and Early, Flat Tumuli 2.2 The Early Bronze Age Cultures of Maikop  2.3 The Middle and Late Bronze Age Dolmen Culture 2.4 The Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Pri-Elbrus Culture  IV. A First Caucasian state, Greek Empires and Northern Equestrian Peoples  1. Urartu\/Biainili: The First Caucasian State 1.1 The Creation of Biainili 1.2 Biainili Struggles with Assyria for Supremacy in the Middle East 1.3 Rise of Assyria and Weakening of Biainili 1.4 Biainili's Decline 2. Equestrian Peoples from the North and Greek Trading Colonies 2.1 The Cimmerians 2.2 Immigrant Scythians and Autochthonous Maiotes 2.3 Greek Emporia in the North-western Caucasus 2.4 Sarmatians, Alans and the Hun Invasion  V. The South Caucasus under Achaemenid Sovereignty, Armenian Kingdoms and Pontos 1 The Achaemenid Sovereignty 2 The Hellenization of the Colchis  3. Early Kingdoms of Armenia 3.1 Armenian Dynasties of the Orontides\/Yervanduni and Early Artaxiad 3.2 Tigranes the Great, Pontos and the Mithridaic Wars        Excursus: The eight deities of the Armenian pantheon 3.3 Late Artaxiad: Armenia between Rome and Parthia 3.4 Roman Patronage of Pontos  VI Roman-Parthian Condominiums in the South Caucasus 1. Comments on Early Historiography in the Southern Caucasus 2. The Kingdom of Kartli (Iberia) and Lazica 2.1 Legendary Ancestors and the Parnavazids 2.2 Iberia in the Orbit of Rome  3. Caucasian Albania in pre-Islamic Time 4. Armenia  4.1 Armenia as a Roman-Parthian Condominium 4.2 Armenia between Sasanid and Roman Sovereignty  VII The Introduction of Christianity as a State Ideology and the Political Division of the South Caucasus 1. Legends of Apostolic Missionary Work 2. Armenia and the Tradition of Gregori the Enlightener 2.1 Syrian-Mesopotamian and Greek-Cappadocian Impulses 2.2 King Trdat IV and Gregori the Illuminator 2.3 Characteristics of Early Armenian Christianity 2.4 A power struggle between King and Catholics and the division of Armenia       Excursus: Mesrop Mashtots and the invention of the Armenian script 3. Kartli: From King Mirian III to the Abolition of the Monarchy 3.1 The Legend of St. Nino and the Christianization of Kartli 3.2 Kartli Under Persian Sovereignty 4 The Conversion of Albania and the Apostolic Church of Caucasian Albania 5 Lazica and a First Christianization of the North Caucasian Alans 5.1 The Lazican Wars 5.2 The Christianization of Lazica, Alania and Svanetia and the veneration of military saints 6. The Persian Hegemony in Armenia, Georgia and Albani 7. The Alienation Between the Caucasian Church Hierarchies   VIII  Between Caliphate, Byzantium and Khazars 1. Southern Caucasian Principalities under Islamic Rule until the Battle of Bagravand in 772 2. The Rise of the Bagratid dynasties 2.1 The Emergence of the Armenian Kingdom       Excursus: Paulikians and Tondrakians    2.2 The Formation of the Georgian Kingdom of Sakartvelo 3. The Empire of the Khazars in the Northern Caucasus 4. The Kingdom of Alanya in the North-western Caucasus 5. Muslim Dynasties of Albania and the Invasion of the Seljuks 5.1 The Sayids 5.2 The Sallarids 5.3 The Rawwadids 5.4 The Shaddadids 5.5 The Yazidids and Hashimids 6. The Kingdoms of Armenia, Byzantium and the Seljuk Conquest 6.1 The Armenian Kingdoms 6.2 The Byzantine Annexation of Armenia 6.3 The Seljuks Conquer Armenia 6.4 Ani under the Rule of the Shaddadids                      IX. Outlook  Appendices I. Population statistics by country II Ancient established languages of the Caucasus by language families  III Chronology of the most important Caucasian dynasties  Notes Bibliography List of Maps Photo credits Acknowledgements Index Concepts People Places","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48868440867159,"sku":"9781788310079","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781788310079.jpg?v=1722288044"},{"product_id":"central-banks-and-monetary-regimes-in-emerging-countries-theoretical-and-empirical-analysis-of-latin-america-9781802203974","title":"Central Banks and Monetary Regimes in Emerging","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eResponding to global events, including the international financial crisis (IFC) and the COVID-19 pandemic, central banks and the monetary regimes in many Latin American countries responded with actions to mitigate the worst impacts. 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He has already written extensively and seminally on everything that is touched upon in this book, so he has the pedigree and the intellect to withstand the criticism which will invariably come. The approach is probably too quirky for the po-faced, but will thrill most readers. It is great fun, terrifically written and down to earth: scholarship and the Irish diaspora as you have never seen them before.\" Marianne Elliott The Irish Times \"If James Joyce had studied the Talmud as assiduously as the Odyssey and been as enamoured of Saint Paul and Saint Patrick as he was of Nora Barnacle, he might have produced as overwhelmingly mordant a work as An Irish History of Civilization - but only if he'd had Conor Cruise O'Brien and Roddy Doyle as re-write men. Don Akenson has one-upped Joyce and forged the consciousness of a race.\" T.F. 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Many urban planners working today tend to promote a grid pattern of streets for neighbourhoods under the mantra of connectivity, resilience, and sustainability while altogether forsaking the cul-de-sac pattern as an anomaly within the past five decades when compared to the rationality of the grid as a planning tool. The general purpose of this book is to contribute towards restoring the balance between these two opposed models of development: the enclave model of the cul-de-sac and the encounter model of the grid. This book suggests viewing neighbourhoods along a continuum of gated-ness rather than a polar opposition between open encounter models and enclosed enclave models. Differences in degree of gated-ness of neighbourhoods would cater to different personalities and types of residents. Adhering strictly to one model of design while eliminating consideration of the other is a form of symbolic violence because, as research demonstrates, people choose which neighbourhood to live in based on two widely different perspectives - the interactive perspective and the affective perspective - which rarely, though occasionally, overlap. To make a case for the social sustainability of suburban neighbourhoods, this book compares single access neighbourhoods with multiple access neighbourhoods in two Western Canadian metropolitan areas. The primary focus of the study was to discover the sense of cohesion residents feel within their neighbourhoods. The work employs a variety of subjective data and objective indicators to show how these neighbourhoods exhibit different degrees of gated-ness and use different modes of private governance. The book explores how these features are manifest in different intensities of social cohesion and place attachment. The work challenges planners and developers to consider the design and morphology of communities, and the way people variably experience this through the notion of a monadic space, can be an important driver of neighbourhood social cohesion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Introduction; Enclave Urbanism or Encounter Urbanism?; The Neighborhood as Place; Single-access Neighborhoods in Calgary, AB; Multiple Access Neighborhoods in Surrey, BC; Comparison of the Four Neighborhoods; Conclusion; Bibliography; Annex 1. Survey Questionnaire; Annex 2. 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