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The Silk Road

Connecting Histories and Futures

by Tim Winter ...

Series series Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics
From the Great Game to the present, an international cultural and political biography of one of our most evocative, compelling, and poorly understood narratives of history. The Silk Road is rapidly becoming one of the key geocultural and geostrategic concepts of the twenty-first century. Yet, for much of the twentieth century the Silk Road received little attention, overshadowed by nationalism and ... Read more

$37.99 CAD

From the Great Game to the present, an international cultural and political biography of one of our most evocative, compelling, and poorly understood narratives of history. The Silk Road is rapidly becoming one of the key geocultural and geostrategic concepts of the twenty-first century. Yet, for much of the twentieth century the Silk Road received little attention, overshadowed by nationalism and
... Read more
Geocultural Power

China's Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty-First Century

by Tim Winter ...

Series series Silk Roads
Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative is forging connections in infrastructure, trade, energy, finance, tourism, and culture across Eurasia and Africa. This extraordinarily ambitious strategy places China at the center of a geography of overland and maritime connectivity stretching across more than sixty countries and incorporating almost two-thirds of the world’s population. But what ... Read more

$32.99 CAD

Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative is forging connections in infrastructure, trade, energy, finance, tourism, and culture across Eurasia and Africa. This extraordinarily ambitious strategy places China at the center of a geography of overland and maritime connectivity stretching across more than sixty countries and incorporating almost two-thirds of the world’s population. But what
... Read more
Post-Conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism

Tourism, Politics and Development at Angkor

by Tim Winter ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations
Angkor, Cambodia’s only World Heritage Site, is enduring one of the most crucial, turbulent periods in its twelve hundred year history. Given Cambodia’s need to restore its shattered social and physical infrastructures after decades of violent conflict, and with tourism to Angkor increasing by a staggering 10,000 per cent in just over a decade, the site has become an intense focal point of ... Read more

$114.04 CAD

Angkor, Cambodia’s only World Heritage Site, is enduring one of the most crucial, turbulent periods in its twelve hundred year history. Given Cambodia’s need to restore its shattered social and physical infrastructures after decades of violent conflict, and with tourism to Angkor increasing by a staggering 10,000 per cent in just over a decade, the site has become an intense focal point of
... Read more
Around Haslemere & Hindhead From Old Photographs

by Tim Winter, Graham Collyer ...

Series series From Old Photographs
Around Haslemere and Hindhead From Old Photographs offers a fascinating glimpse into life in the southA ]west corner of Surrey over the last hundred years or so. More than 230 images illustrate the changes that have overtaken the area in and around the old market town of Haslemere and Hindhead. This charming book introduces us to the famous people who made their home in the area, people such as ... Read more

$14.99 CAD

Around Haslemere and Hindhead From Old Photographs offers a fascinating glimpse into life in the southA ]west corner of Surrey over the last hundred years or so. More than 230 images illustrate the changes that have overtaken the area in and around the old market town of Haslemere and Hindhead. This charming book introduces us to the famous people who made their home in the area, people such as
... Read more
The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology

Edited by Tim Winter ...

Series series Cambridge Companions to Religion
This series of critical reflections on the evolution and major themes of pre-modern Muslim theology begins with the revelation of the Koran, and extends to the beginnings of modernity in the eighteenth century. The significance of Islamic theology reflects the immense importance of Islam in the history of monotheism, to which it has brought a unique approach and style, and a range of solutions ... Read more

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This series of critical reflections on the evolution and major themes of pre-modern Muslim theology begins with the revelation of the Koran, and extends to the beginnings of modernity in the eighteenth century. The significance of Islamic theology reflects the immense importance of Islam in the history of monotheism, to which it has brought a unique approach and style, and a range of solutions
... Read more
Professional Skills in Sport Psychology Consultancy

Personal and Interpersonal Dynamics

Edited by Brian Hemmings, Tim Holder, Stacy Winter ...

Professional Skills in Sport Psychology Consultancy raises awareness of intrapersonal and interpersonal professional practice skills. The book chapters focus on the aspiring practitioner’s personal and professional development when working with all kinds of recipients of psychological support in sport including individual athletes, teams, coaches, parents, and administrators.Organized in two ... Read more

$81.99 CAD

Professional Skills in Sport Psychology Consultancy raises awareness of intrapersonal and interpersonal professional practice skills. The book chapters focus on the aspiring practitioner’s personal and professional development when working with all kinds of recipients of psychological support in sport including individual athletes, teams, coaches, parents, and administrators.Organized in two
... Read more
Routledge Handbook of Heritage in Asia

Edited by Patrick Daly, Tim Winter ...

This Handbook is the first major volume to examine the conservation of Asia’s culture and nature in relation to the wider social, political and economic forces shaping the region today.Throughout Asia rapid economic and social change means the region’s heritage is at once under threat and undergoing a revival as never before. As societies look forward, competing forces ensure they re-visit the ... Read more

$100.99 CAD

This Handbook is the first major volume to examine the conservation of Asia’s culture and nature in relation to the wider social, political and economic forces shaping the region today.Throughout Asia rapid economic and social change means the region’s heritage is at once under threat and undergoing a revival as never before. As societies look forward, competing forces ensure they re-visit the
... Read more
Expressions of Cambodia

The Politics of Tradition, Identity and Change

Edited by Leakthina Chau-Pech Ollier, Tim Winter ...

Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
Taking a theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, the essays in this collection provide compelling insight into contemporary Cambodian culture at home and abroad. The book represents the first sustained exploration of the relationship between cultural productions and practices, the changing urban landscape and the construction of identity and nation building twenty-five years after the fall ... Read more

$105.80 CAD

Taking a theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, the essays in this collection provide compelling insight into contemporary Cambodian culture at home and abroad. The book represents the first sustained exploration of the relationship between cultural productions and practices, the changing urban landscape and the construction of identity and nation building twenty-five years after the fall
... Read more
Shanghai Expo

An International Forum on the Future of Cities

Edited by Tim Winter ...

Series series CRESC
In 2010 Shanghai hosted the largest, most spectacular and most expensive expo ever. Attracting a staggering 73 million visitors, and costing around US$45 billion dollars, Shanghai Expo broke the records in the history of world's fairs and universal expositions. With more than half of the world’s population now living in cities, many of which face uncertain futures, this mega event confronted some ... Read more

$114.04 CAD

In 2010 Shanghai hosted the largest, most spectacular and most expensive expo ever. Attracting a staggering 73 million visitors, and costing around US$45 billion dollars, Shanghai Expo broke the records in the history of world's fairs and universal expositions. With more than half of the world’s population now living in cities, many of which face uncertain futures, this mega event confronted some
... Read more
The Lives of Man

A Guide to the Human States: Before Life, In the World, and After Death

by Imam 'Abdallah Ibn Alawi al-Haddad ...

Translated by Mostafa al-Badawi ...

Series series The Fons Vitae Imam al-Haddad Spiritual Masters series
A dramatic exposition of the classical Muslim division of human life into five stages: before conception, life in the world, life in the grave, the resurrection, and heaven or hell. Extensive Qur'anic and Hadith references explain the condition of the soul at each stage. ... Read more

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A dramatic exposition of the classical Muslim division of human life into five stages: before conception, life in the world, life in the grave, the resurrection, and heaven or hell. Extensive Qur'anic and Hadith references explain the condition of the soul at each stage.
... Read more
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Seduction of a Psychopomp

Erogenous Hand Holding and Other Ways to Tame your Reaper

by Elsie Winters ...

Narrated by Tim Campbell, Allison River ...

Series series Boundlands
Unabridged

8 hours 21 min

I won't live to see my twenty-ninth birthday unless I make a deal to marry Death.An arranged marriage to a grim reaper? Whatever keeps me on this side of the dirt.My new husband Victor is formidable, built like a god, and . . . is scary supposed to be this sexy? Because it's kind of sexy. The problem is he doesn't seem to get this whole marriage thing. Every time I approach him for company, he ... Read more

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I won't live to see my twenty-ninth birthday unless I make a deal to marry Death.An arranged marriage to a grim reaper? Whatever keeps me on this side of the dirt.My new husband Victor is formidable, built like a god, and . . . is scary supposed to be this sexy? Because it's kind of sexy. The problem is he doesn't seem to get this whole marriage thing. Every time I approach him for company, he
... Read more
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Hard Work

A Life On and Off the Court

by Tim Crothers, Roy Williams ...

Narrated by Alan Winter ...

Unabridged

8 hours 11 min

Roy Williams, head coach of the University of North Carolina men’s basketball team, the Tar Heels, has the highest winning percentage in NCAA history. Over the last seven years, the 58-year-old Asheville, N.C., native—who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2007—has won 205 games, including 24 in the NCAA Tournament. That’s more Final Fours, more wins, and more NCAA Tournament victories than any ... Read more

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Roy Williams, head coach of the University of North Carolina men’s basketball team, the Tar Heels, has the highest winning percentage in NCAA history. Over the last seven years, the 58-year-old Asheville, N.C., native—who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2007—has won 205 games, including 24 in the NCAA Tournament. That’s more Final Fours, more wins, and more NCAA Tournament victories than any
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