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I'm not sure how awards work, but if possible, can we add an award for this one? The award is mentioned in the book description. I have my info from my physical copy. The World Beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto
the back says:
--Winner of--
The Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies
cheers
#5 that edition existed already, but is actually an Alternate Cover. Adding note to make this clear.
Emy wrote: "#5 that edition existed already, but is actually an Alternate Cover. Adding note to make this clear."Okay, thank you!
Hi librarians. This book has a description for another book entirely:The Jurchen in Twelfth-Century China: A Study of Sinicization
I've typed up the description below from the flap of my physical copy:
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Essentially a case-study of sinicization, an important and recurring phenomenon in Chinese history, this book examines the relations between the Chinese and the seminomadic Jurchen from Manchuria. It traces the political, economic and sociocultural change among the Jurchen conquerors who tried to perpetuate their rule of the conquered majority in North China, elucidating the fusion of Chinese and Jurchen cultures, and the consequent assimiliation of the Jurchen by the Chinese.
The Jurchen, a Tungusic people from Manchuria, conquered the Liao and the Northern Sung and established the Chin dynasty. The change brought about by their mixed acceptance of and reaction against Chinese culture eventually evolved into a Sino-Jurchen cultural synthesis. Although largely sinicized by the end of the Chin dynasty, they left their mark on the formation of political institutions and on the literary heritage of China.
This author is in twice, with his middle initial and without. Same books attributed to him (rightly). J. Crump
J. I. Crump
The covers of his books always have the initial, J.I.
Thanks librarians.
9 There were some other profiles for this author. This is now the right profile https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
This book is in twice: The Legacy Of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art And Culture In Western Asia, 1256 1353
- can we keep this description? It's full and as on the cover flap.
The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353
- this is the accurate title. Need to add a second author. The book has:
Edited by Linda Komaroff and Stefano Carboni
Thanks librarians
11 both are valid editions, so they are now combined. Title is edited and author added.
Book description to add. Taken from the publisher's site. Thanks as usual librarians. Sanctioned Violence in Early China
This book provides new insight into the creation of the Chinese empire by examining the changing forms of permitted violence--warfare, hunting, sacrifice, punishments, and vengeance. It analyzes the interlinked evolution of these violent practices to reveal changes in the nature of political authority, in the basic units of social organization, and in the fundamental commitments of the ruling elite. The work offers a new interpretation of the changes that underlay the transformation of the Chinese polity from a league of city states dominated by aristocratic lineages to a unified, territorial state controlled by a supreme autocrat and his agents. In addition, it shows how a new pattern of violence was rationalized and how the Chinese of the period incorporated their ideas about violence into the myths and proto-scientific theories that provided historical and natural prototypes for the imperial state.
"The interpretation of warfare is rich in providing a coherent statement on a subject poorly understood by Westerners. This book is a substantial and highly original piece of work." -- Roger T. Ames
"What I like most about the book is the author's mastery of the essential primary and secondary sources, and that he has marshalled these to discuss an essential theme in ancient Chinese history. The author's knowledge of the anecdotal literature is extremely good and impressive. I also like the fact that he is using materials ignored by earlier scholars as well as newly-excavated manuscripts." -- Jeffrey Riegel
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O Xerife Samuel Parker vai casar-se em Hadley City e Lucky Luke está entre os convidados. Mas a cerimónia é interrompida pela notícia que os Dalton estão a caminho da cidade. Lucky Luke oferece-se para os enfrentar, mas o xerife, prestes a reformar-se, insiste em tratar do assunto sozinho...
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Com uma camisa amarela, um lenço encarnado ao pescoço, uma mecha rebelde de cabelo e uma palha na boca, é Kid Lucky, ou seja, o nome Lucky Luke quando era pequeno. Na escola de Nothing Gulch, é mais rápido a fugir aos trabalhos do que a sua própria sombra! Este aprendiz de cowboy de palmo e meio está sempre pronto a descobrir as tradições do Oeste, os ensinamentos dos pioneiros, mas acima de tudo a divertir-se com os seus amiguinhos! É o nascimento da lenda do maior cowboy do Oeste (ainda em miniatura)!
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Por ocasião das celebrações do cinquentenário de Astérix, nascido a 29 de outubro de 1959 nas páginas do primeiro número da revista Pilote, Albert Uderzo imaginou um presente excecional para festejar os seus heróis e os seus milhões de leitores em todo o mundo!
Fiel ao espírito de caricatura e de brincadeira da época da Pilote, criou um álbum de histórias curtas de Astérix sobre o tema do aniversário, com 56 páginas de bandas desenhadas inéditas! Enquanto Astérix e Obélix foram caçar javalis na floresta que circunda a Aldeia, Matasétix reuniu um grande número dos 400 personagens dos álbuns de Astérix, para preparar o aniversário dos dois companheiros.
Ao longo das páginas, encontramos Astérix e os seus amigos com mais 50 anos, um hilariante desfile de moda com Obélix, mensagens de aniversário assinadas por Númerobis, por Falbala ou pelos piratas, um guia de viagem criado a partir de um texto de René Goscinny inédito em álbum, capas de discos célebres adaptadas a Cacofonix e até um incrível Museu Gaulês imaginado pelo adivinho Charlatanix.
Um magnífico álbum que termina, uma vez não são vezes, não com um banquete, mas com uma ronda magistral de mais de 60 personagens que demonstram, se preciso fosse, todo o virtuosismo e a juventude do traço de Albert Uderzo.
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Mais uma vez a famosa aldeia dos irredutíveis gauleses foi invadida! Mas, desta feita, os romanos estão completamente inocentes. De um momento para o outro, todos os habitantes da aldeia gaulesa ficam imobilizados, com excepção de Astérix, Obélix, Panoramix e Ideiafix. Esta situação coincide com a chegada de uma misteriosa nave, tripulada por um estranho personagem de nome Tune, oriundo de uma estrela distante. Os nossos heróis ficam então a saber que possuem uma “arma secreta” pretendida pelos Nagmas, uns seres estranhos e antipáticos, rivais dos habitantes de Wendalsity. Os nossos amigos gauleses vão contar com a preciosa ajuda do simpático Tune, para evitar que a famosa poção mágica caia nas mãos dos terríveis Nagmas – que pretendem tornar-se os únicos senhores do Universo – e espera-se uma missão deveras complicada! Mas nada vai impedir que esta história termine como todas as outras… com um magnífico banquete!
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César quer fazer desaparecer a pequena aldeia gaulesa que o ridiculariza e, para isso, ordena a construção de uma cidade romana modelo a rodeá-la. Assim, segundo ele, a aldeia isolada terá de desaparecer ou adaptar-se e tornar-se romana. O arquitecto da cidade começa por se confrontar com os Gauleses que o impedem de arrasar a floresta. No entanto, estes acabam por ceder para que os escravos incumbidos deste trabalho possam ser libertados. Quando o primeiro edifício fica concluído e chegam os primeiros inquilinos romanos, a situação na aldeia degrada-se rapidamente: todos tentam aproveitar a nova clientela. Mas os Gauleses saberão reagir. Com a ajuda – involuntária – de Cacofonix, vão deter a «invasão» que passará a ser apenas um episódio de má memória.
Thanks ;)
New description:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Miguel Strogoff, correio do czar, tem uma importante missão a cumprir: atravessar a Rússia, de Moscovo a Irkutsk, e avisar o grão-duque, irmão do czar, da iminente invasão tártara, à frente da qual se encontra Ivan Ogareff, um homem que traiu a sua pátria, um inimigo pessoal do grão-duque.
Para Miguel Strogoff começa um longo e perigoso périplo que cedo se transforma num desafio de vida ou de morte: chegar antes dos Tártaros a Irkutsk e salvar o irmão do czar.
thanks
Info to add. Book has two entries:
Turko-Mongol Rulers, Cities and City Life
Turko-Mongol Rulers, Cities and City Life
author name needs correction to:
Edited by David Durand-Guédy
book description from the publisher's site:
For nearly a millennium, a large part of Asia was ruled by Turkic or Mongol dynasties of nomadic origin. What was the attitude of these dynasties towards the many cities they controlled, some of which were of considerable size? To what extent did they live like their subjects? How did they evolve? Turko-Mongol Rulers, Cities and City Life aims to broaden the perspective on the issue of location of rule in this particular context by bringing together specialists in various periods, from pre-Chingissid Eurasia to nineteenth-century Iran, and of various disciplines (history, archaeology, history of art).
Contributors include: Michal Biran, David Durand-Guédy, Kurt Franz, Peter Golden, Minoru Inaba, Nobuaki Kondo, Yuri Karev, Tomoko Masuya, Charles Melville, Jürgen Paul and Andrew Peacock
add cover:
book cover image is at this location on the publisher's site: http://www.brill.com/sites/default/fi...
Thanks librarians
HiCan we clean up this title? The Ancient Novel and Beyond the Ancient Novel and Beyond
Title is meant to be: The Ancient Novel and Beyond
It's also entered as: Ancient Novel and Beyond, The. Mnemosyne: Bibliotheca Classica Batava
thanks librarians
21 Fixed the title and editors; combined
Is it possible to add this book? Author is Ralph Fox
Following info from Google Books: http://books.google.com.au/books/abou...
Bibliographic information
Title: Genghis Khan
Volume 315 of The albatross modern continental library
Author: Ralph Winston Fox
Publisher: Albatross, 1936
Length: 222 pages
I own a physical copy of the above edition and can confirm these details:
paperback
author name given as Ralph Fox (no Winston)
'published by The Albatross'
copyright December 1936, by The Albatross Verlag G.M.B.H., Hamburg
222 pages
Is there anything else we need that I can supply?
re 23, book added here:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
I was able to find a cover image that I believe matches your edition. Can you confirm? Also, is it a paperback?
Z-squared wrote: "I was able to find a cover image that I believe matches your edition. Can you confirm? Also, is it a paperback?"Thanks so much. Yes, that's the cover I have (nice image). It is a paperback, yes.
Hi, This book:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9...
is one of a series. It is Grubtown Tales vol 7, and needs to be included in the series collection on the author's page.
Thank you.
#26 doneHowever, Worldcat says it is Grubtown Tales book 6.
The book that was added as book 6 (When bunnies turn bad) should be book 7 according to Worldcat.
Since the last one was published in 2011, and the one you asked in 2010, the numbering from Worldcat seemed right to me.
(Author website only had the first 5 books).
Arenda - thank you, and well spotted! I am getting them both from the library in a few days, so I will give you a definitive answer then, although I expect you are right.
A couple of asks for this book. Can we merge these two entries:
Neveryona
Neveryóna
Can we add page count to this edition (info from my physical copy): Neveryona
pages: 544
and the publisher is Grafton Books
For this edition, can we also use the book description beneath, from the back of my copy? (The one we have refers to a particular, different edition):
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In the ancient, fabled land of Nevèrÿon, they tell of a gleaming golden city, driven deep beneath the waves of history - the city whose whispered name is Neveryóna.
For Pryn, a young girl fleeing her village on the back of a dragon, Neveryóna is the shining symbol of all that is out of reach. It leads her to the exotic port city of Kolhari, where she talks with the wealthy merchant Madame Keyne, walks with Gorgik the Liberator as he schemes against the Court of Eagles - and crosses the Bridge of Lost Desire in search of her destiny...
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thanks librarians
BrynCombined
Added the info to your copy plus a bit more from WorldCat. What format is it?
I hope that this is the correct thread for this query. I would like for any reviews that I post to be forwarded to my author FB page instead of my personal FB page. I have many more FB friends on that page and it will provide much better exposure for any books that I review and for their authors.
Hello librarians, Can we add a contributor to this book?
Rethinking Central Asia: Non Eurocentric Studies In History, Social Structure And Identity
The contributor is İsenbike Togan.
She has essays in the book -- of which I have a copy.
Thanks so much. (It's a great book).
Bea wrote: "I hope that this is the correct thread for this query. I would like for any reviews that I post to be forwarded to my author FB page instead of my personal FB page. I have many more FB friends on t..."Bea, librarians have no input with reviews, only with book pages.
I suggest you ask in the GR Author Group or contact support.
hello librarianscan we combine these?
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
is the hardback
CUHK Series:Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
is the Kindle of this title. 'CUHK' or Chinese University of Hong Kong is the publisher, but this series name doesn't appear on cover or title page (I have the Kindle ebook).
thanks
#37 Done. I also fixed the title and publisher.
Mystics, Monarchs and Messiahs: Cultural Landscapes of Early Modern IranWe have an incorrect page count. It should be 576 pages. (I have a paperback copy).
Also, can we replace the description? I have taken this from my copy and the publisher's site: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.ph...
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Focusing on idealists and visionaries who believed that Justice could reign in our world, this book explores the desire to experience utopia on earth. Reluctant to await another existence--another form, or eternal life following death and resurrection--individuals with ghuluww, or exaggeration, emerged at the advent of Islam, expecting to attain the apocalyptic horizon of Truth. In their minds, Muhammad’s prophecy represented one such cosmic moment of transformation. Even in the early modern period, some denizens of Islamdom continued to hope for a utopia despite aborted promises and expectations. In a moment of enthusiasm, one group called the Qizilbash (Red Heads) took up arms at the turn of the sixteenth century to fight for Shaykh Isma’il Safavi, their divinely inspired leader. The Safavis succeeded in establishing an empire, but their revolutionary sensibilities were exposed to erasures and expulsion into the realms of heresy. The social settings in which such beliefs were performed in early modern Iran are highlighted in order to tease out the relationship between discourse and practice, narrating the ways in which a Persianate ethos uncovered new Islamic identities (Alid and Sufi). Mystics, Monarchs and Messiahs explores these belief systems within a dialogue between Semitic, Indo-Iranian, and Hellenic cultures that continued to resist the monotheist impulse to delay the meeting of the holy with the human until the end of time.
"This is a book with a touch of grandeur about it. It penetrates every level of a great civilization as it passed through a spiritual and social crisis of the first order... If there is a single recent book which I would recommend to a non-specialist reader in order to learn about how gripping a subject Islamic history can be, it would be Babayan's Mystics, Monarchs and Messiahs."
-- Peter Brown, Rollins Professor of History, Princeton University
Bryn wrote: "Mystics, Monarchs and Messiahs: Cultural Landscapes of Early Modern IranWe have an incorrect page count. It should be 576 pages. (I have a paperback copy).
Also, can we replace th..."
Done
576? Are you sure it isn't 575?
Nandar wrote: "576? Are you sure it isn't 575?"Sorry, yes, 575. I added the other side of the page.
Tang China in Multi-Polar Asiaour description is truncated. The beneath is from the publisher's site: http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-8941-...
thanks librarians
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Using a synthetic narrative approach, this ambitious work uses the lens of multipolarity to analyze Tang China’s (618–907) relations with Turkestan; the Korean states of Koguryŏ, Silla, and Paekche; the state of Parhae in Manchuria; and the Nanzhao and Tibetan kingdoms. Without any one entity able to dominate Asia’s geopolitical landscape, the author argues that relations among these countries were quite fluid and dynamic—an interpretation that departs markedly from the prevalent view of China fixed at the center of a widespread “tribute system.”
To cope with external affairs in a tumultuous world, Tang China employed a dual management system that allowed both central and local officials to conduct foreign affairs. The court authorized Tang local administrators to receive foreign visitors, forward their diplomatic letters to the capital, and manage contact with outsiders whose territories bordered on China. Not limited to handling routine matters, local officials used their knowledge of border situations to influence the court’s foreign policy. Some even took the liberty of acting without the court’s authorization when an emergency occurred, thus adding another layer to multipolarity in the region’s geopolitics.
The book also sheds new light on the ideological foundation of Tang China’s foreign policy. Appropriateness, efficacy, expedience, and mutual self-interest guided the court’s actions abroad. Although officials often used “virtue” and “righteousness” in policy discussions and announcements, these terms were not abstract universal principles but justifications for the pursuit of self-interest by those involved. Detailed philological studies reveal that in the realm of international politics, “virtue” and “righteousness” were in fact viewed as pragmatic and utilitarian in nature.
Comprehensive and authoritative, Tang China in Multi-Polar Asia is a major work on Tang foreign relations that will reconceptualize our understanding of the complexities of diplomacy and war in imperial China.
#42 Fixed
Arenda wrote: "#26 doneHowever, Worldcat says it is Grubtown Tales book 6.
The book that was added as book 6 (When bunnies turn bad) should be book 7 according to Worldcat.
Since the last one was published in 20..."
Hi Arenda,
having got the Philip Ardagh books (both of them), I can confirm you were completely correct in what you said, and the whole series is numbered correctly now. :)
To tidyIslamicate Sexualities: Translations across Temporal Geographies of Desire
editors are: Kathryn Babayan and Afsaneh Najmabadi
--first we have correctly, second to be added
Can I ask about the (Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs) included in the title? I don't know policy on this, it just seems messy in my feed to have that cumbersome title.
add book description:
Islamicate Sexualities: Translations across Temporal Geographies of Desire explores different genealogies of sexuality and questions some of the theoretical emphases and epistemic assumptions affecting current histories of sexuality. Concerned with the dynamic interplay between cultural constructions of gender and sexuality, the anthology moves across disciplinary fields, integrating literary criticism with social and cultural history, and establishes a dialogue between historians (Kathryn Babayan, Frédéric Lagrange, Afsaneh Najmabadi, and Everett Rowson), comparative literary scholars (Sahar Amer and Leyla Rouhi), and critical theorists of sexualities (Valerie Traub, Brad Epps, and Dina al-Kassim). As a whole, the anthology challenges Middle Eastern Studies with questions that have arisen in recent studies of sexualities, bringing into conversation Euro-American scholarship of sexuality with that of scholars engaged in studies of sexualities across a vast cultural (Iberian, Arabic, and Iranian) and temporal field (from the tenth century to the medieval and the modern).
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I own a copy.
thanks librarians
Hi, can we neaten this one?It has several entries:
The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb
The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb
The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb
The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb
I have a Kindle ebook, so can't confirm details of pb or hb.
Also, the author Peter A. Lorge is the same as this guy: Peter Lorge. On his other books, he has not used the middle initial. Here's his bibliography to confirm: http://as.vanderbilt.edu/history/bio/...
thanks as ever librarians
Okay usually I would link the two author profile by placing both names on separate author field. However, GR system is rejecting my database entry so that's annoying.
Anyways combined the books and linked the two author profiles together.
Okay received clarification for my data entry problem. I'm going to merge his profile together and keep Peter A. Lorge
Can we merge these -- hardcover and ebook:Early Christian Remains of Inner Mongolia: Discovery, Reconstruction and Appropriation
Early Christian Remains of Inner Mongolia: Discovery, Reconstruction and Appropriation
Author name as seen on the cover should be: Tjalling H.F. Halbertsma
The book description for the hardcover is fuller -- can we keep that one?
cheers librarians
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Can we add a description for this book? I have copied it from the site of the publisher Xlibris.
Also, the hardback and paperback editions need to be combined. Cheers.
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Temujin by Hollyn Gee Conant
He was born with a blood clot grasped in his fist -- a sign that he was destined to become a great leader. Though his parents named him Temujin, the world would come to know him as Genghis Khan, one of Mongolia's greatest and most legendary leaders. Author Hollyn Gee Conant explores the story behind this mysterious historical figure in her novel, Temujin.
After the birth of Temujin, the shaman predicted that Yesugei's son would lead and range the world over, far beyond the land of his fathers. He would be beloved by many, hated and feared by many more. Kings will flee at his coming. His wealth will be uncounted, and his sons will be emperors. But before this could come to pass, Temujin has to face many hardships especially after the death of his father.
There is very little factual information about the early life of Temujin because of the lack of contemporary written records. The few sources that do exist are often conflicting. Yet in her historical novel, the author paints a vivid picture of how Genghis Khan might have lived from his childhood to his adulthood when he came into his destiny. Now, readers can learn more about the leader that gave birth to the Mongol empire, a figure that is shrouded in myth and is brought to life in Temujin.