Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – March 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 10, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations A city from the dawn of history: Erbil in the cuneiform sources / by John MacGinnis. Présence et pouvoir hittites à Ougarit : le cas des DUMU.LUGAL / Charlotte Lebrun. Documents of Judean exiles and West Semites in Babylonia in the collection of David Sofer / by Laurie E. Pearce and Cornelia Wunsch. Life, death, and coming of age in Antiquity: individual rites of passage in

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Japan and Korea – June 2012 to May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 21, 2013|Japan, Korea|0 comments

朝鮮通信使の足跡 : 日朝関係史論 / 仲尾宏著. Women of the Yi dynasty / [edited by Park Young-hai ; translated by Choi Jin-young et al.]. 평화 를 사랑 하는 세계인 으로 / 문 선명. Elections in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan under the single non-transferable vote : the comparative study of an embedded institution / edited by Bernard Grofman … [et al.]. A slow walk through Jeong-dong / written by Michael Gib, illustrated by

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Korea – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 8, 2012|Korea|0 comments

Transnational sport : gender, media, and global Korea / Rachael Miyung Joo. Making and faking kinship : marriage and labor migration between China and South Korea / Caren Freeman. The domestic politics of Korean unification : debates on the North in the South, 1948-2008 / Kim Hakjoon. North Korea : beyond charismatic politics / Heonik Kwon and Byung-Ho Chung. Navigating turbulence in Northeast Asia : the future of the U.S.-ROK

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Japan – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 2, 2012|Japan|0 comments

Japan’s local newspapers : Chihoshi and revitalization journalism / Anthony S. Rausch. Scream from the shadows : the women’s liberation movement in Japan / Setsu Shigematsu. Urban spaces in Japan / edited by Christoph Brumann and Evelyn Schulz. The evolution of Japan’s party system : politics and policy in an era of institutional change / edited by Leonard J. Schoppa. Japan’s transnational environmental policies : the case of environmental technology

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Korea – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 30, 2012|Korea|0 comments

Women and Confucianism in Chosŏn Korea : new perspectives / edited by Youngmin Kim and Michael J. Pettid. IT development in Korea : a broadband nirvana? / Kwang-Suk Lee. The quest for statehood : Korean immigrant nationalism and U.S. sovereignty, 1905-1945 / Richard S. Kim. Militants or partisans : labor unions and democratic politics in Korea and Taiwan / Yoonkyung Lee. Korean unification and the positions and roles of the

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Middle East and Central Asia – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 30, 2012|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Journals Arabica  – Volume 1(1954) onwards. Books International migration and development in the Arab region : challenges and opportunities / Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). Sources for the history of Sasanian and post-Sasanian Iran / edendum curavit Rika Gyselen. Islam, the state, and political authority : medieval issues and modern concerns / edited by Asma Afsaruddin. Angels in Islam : Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyuṭī’s al-Hạbāʼik fī akhbār al-malāʼik /

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