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   Featured Title: Islamic Civilization in South Asia

   Islamic Civilization in South Asia provides both undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as the general reader, with a comprehensive account of the history of Islam in India, encompassing political, socio-economic, cultural and intellectual aspects.

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   Featured Title: Understanding Japanese Society 4th Edition

   Routledge would like to bring your attention to the 4th edition of Understanding Japanese Society which is released this month.

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   Featured Title: Government and Politics in Taiwan

   Written by an experienced teacher and scholar this new textbook introduces the reader to the big questions that concern change and continuity in how politics operates and how Taiwan is governed.

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   Featured Title: Human Resource Management in China

   Fang Lee Cooke builds on the foundations of traditional Chinese HRM practice and brings it right up to date, including analysis of currently under-explored issues such as diversity management, talent management, new pay schemes, and performance management.

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   Featured Title: The Chinese Army Today

   The Chinese Army Today is a comprehensive study of the Chinese military, examining its ground forces in a level of detail not found in any other contemporary works. This new, revised edition has been fully updated to take account of recent changes in the institution.

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   Featured Title: Understanding Chinese Society

   "There has long been a need for an up-to-date textbook such as Understanding Chinese Society, in which leading scholars cover major developments in China's rapidly changing society...It should be welcomed for a variety of courses on Chinese politics and society, as well as general education and sociology courses where China is placed in a comparative perspective."  - Stanley Rosen, Director of the East Asian Studies Center and Professor of Political Science, University of Southern California, USA.

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   Featured Title: Japan’s International Relations

   The latest edition of this comprehensive and user-friendly textbook provides a single volume resource for all those studying Japan's international relations. It offers a clear and concise introduction to the most important aspects of Japan's role in the globalized economy of the twenty-first century.

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   Featured Title - Politics in India

   Providing a comprehensive analysis of the broad spectrum of India’s politics, this undergraduate textbook explains the key features of politics in India in a comparative and accessible narrative. Illustrated with relevant maps, life stories, statistics and opinion data, the book focuses on anti-poverty measures, liberalisation of the economy, nuclearisation and relations with the United States and Asian neighbours such as Pakistan and China.

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   Featured Title: The International Politics of the Asia Pacific

   This fully revised third edition of Michael Yahuda's extremely successful textbook brings the region fully up-to-date, introducing students to the international politics of the Asia-Pacific region since 1945, assessing the post-cold War uncertainties that challenged balance and power within the region; the 'war on terror'; new political administrations in all the key player-states; and increased cooperative security between some nations, polarised by volatile relationships between others.

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    Featured Title: Women’s Movements in Asia

    “Experts in analyzing gender issues offer this unique comparative analysis of the evolution of ‘national essence feminism’ in the context of global feminism. To find out how the women’s movement in twelve Asian nations have fought for bodily autonomy, participation in politics and religion, new definitions of womanhood, changed family relations and much more – this book is the best (indeed the only) one to read.” -- Chilla Bulbeck Professor emerita and visiting research fellow, The University of Adelaide, Australia

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