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  • African-Asian Encounters

    New Cooperations and New Dependencies

    Edited by Arndt Graf, Azirah Azirah Hashim ...
    Series series Global Asia
    In recent decades, ties between Africa and Asia have greatly increased. And while most of the scholarly attention to the phenomenon has focused on China, often with an emphasis on asymmetric power relations in both politics and economics, this book takes a much broader view, looking at various small and medium-sized actors in Asia and Africa in a wide range of fields. It will be essential for ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Orientalism and Conspiracy

    Politics and Conspiracy Theory in the Islamic World

    Edited by Arndt Graf, Schirin Fathi, Ludwig Paul ...
    The relationship between Islam and the West has frequently been subject to misunderstanding and mistrust and recent events in the international arena have only deepened this perceived divide, culturally and politically. The West often views the Islamic world - and the Islamic world the West - through a prism of mutual suspicion. In such conditions conspiracy, theories can flourish on both sides of ... Read more

    $199.99 CAD

  • Port Cities in Asia and Europe

    Edited by Arndt Graf, Chua Beng Huat ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    With the demise of European socialist economies and the marketization of Asian communist countries, a new global capitalism has reshaped the configuration of the world economy, with speed a determining factor to all transactions of information, finance, goods and services and people.Sea-ports that were significant for a slower but no less global economy have been undergoing transformation to stay ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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  • George Yeo On Bonsai, Banyan And The Tao

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    Since his undergraduate days in Cambridge, George Yeo has spoken and written much in and out of government. Many remember the things which he said or wrote years ago. This book is a compilation of some of his best speeches and writings which were selected by Asad Latif and Lee Huay Leng in consultation with him.The book has a rather unusual title because there are many aspects to George Yeo which ... Read more

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  • Migration in West Africa

    IMISCOE Regional Reader

    Edited by Joseph Kofi Teye ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access Regional Reader examines the dynamics and impacts of international migration within and from West Africa. The book presents key theoretical perspectives and empirical findings on historical trends, geographical patterns, drivers and socio-economic impacts of both voluntary and involuntary migration in West Africa, a region that is characterised by high level of mixed migration ... Read more

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  • What Is Islam?

    The Importance of Being Islamic

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  • The Chinese in Toronto from 1878

    From Outside to Inside the Circle

    by Arlene Chan ...
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    Women and Sexuality in Global Conflict

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  • The Chinese Community in Toronto

    Then and Now

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    by Tamar L. Gutner ...
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