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Syrian Intervention in Lebanon
Oxford University Press 1986; US$ 144.99Conflict and intervention in the Middle East are not uncommon occurrences. Yet when civil strife erupted in Lebanon in 1975, the events that followed were unusual indeed. Unlike most patterns of intervention, Syria displayed remarkable tactical flexibility by first intervening on behalf of the rebels, its traditional allies, then shifting its allegiance... more...
Zainichi Korean Identity and Ethnicity
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95Shedding light on contemporary Japanese society in an international context, Japanese-Korean relations and modern day notions of a multicultural Japan, this book addresses the broad notions and questions of citizenship, identity, ethnicity and belonging through investigation of Japan?s Korean population (zainichi). Despite zainichi Korean existence... more...
Japan
Infobase Publishing 2003; US$ 30.00- Information-packed volumes provide comprehensive overviews of each nation's people, geography, history, government, economy, and culture- Abundant full-color illustrations guide the reader on a voyage of discovery- Maps reflect current political boundaries more...
Japan
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2012; US$ 34.99This popular and accessible introduction to Japan offers readers an authoritative yet concise overview of two thousand years of Japanese history. Now fully updated to the present, this edition also includes an array of photographs and illustrations. The first half of the book explores the pre-Meiji era up to 1868. The second half traces domestic and... more...
Beware of Small States
Nation Books 2010; US$ 19.99A definitive history of Lebanon, from one of the region?s most celebrated and controversial journalists more...
Letters to Dalia
Easton Studio Press, LLC 2010; US$ 12.99From the Introduction: Letters to Dali is the book I?ve always dreamed of writing. It is a collection of letters meant to be easily read. Each letter covers a topic I believe has had an impact on our lives as Arabs living in the Middle East. And as Lebanese who have suffered, but did not learn, from the terrible consequences of civil war. The letters?... more...
Things Japanese
Stone Bridge Press 2007; US$ 14.95The guiding work on Japan, Japanese culture, and Japanese objects and institutions more...
The Mikado's Empire
Stone Bridge Press 2007; US$ 14.95In its day the most popular book on the culture and history of then-mysterious Japan. more...
Japan-Bashing
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 135.00The aim of this book is to examine and analyse the phenomenon of ?Japan-bashing?, from its invention and popularisation in the United States in the late 1970s to the emergence of other national variants, including in Australia and Japan, to its gradual decline in the late 1990s. It is the first major book-length study of ?Japan-bashing from a multinational... more...
Tropics of Savagery
University of California Press 2010; US$ 55.00Tropics of Savagery is an incisive and provocative study of the figures and tropes of ?savagery? in Japanese colonial culture. Through a rigorous analysis of literary works, ethnographic studies, and a variety of other discourses, Robert Thomas Tierney demonstrates how imperial Japan constructed its own identity in relation both to the West and to... more...









