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Trade Paperback : $32.00 Buy	Highlanders A Journey to the Caucasus in Quest of Memory Yo'av Karny Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks The story of the region, told by an intrepid journalist Many dire predictions followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, but nowhere have they materialized...

Trade Paperback : $29.00 Buy	The Taliban War and Religion in Afghanistan, Revised Edition Politics in Contemporary Asia Peter Marsden Zed Books The Taliban are yet another manifestation of the growth of radical Islam worldwide. This book explores what they stand for and the factors leading to their...

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	A Short History of Asia, Second Edition Colin Mason Palgrave Macmillan The peoples of Asia now make up more than half of the world's population. They are increasingly well-educated, and successful in every area of modern trade and...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	The Birth of Tajikistan National Identity and the Origins of the Republic International Library of Central Asia Studies Paul Bergne I.B. Tauris A vivid history of the birth of a nation. When the Russian Revolution broke out in October 1917, much of Central Asia was still ruled by autonomous rulers such...

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Modern Afghanistan A History of Struggle and Survival Amin Saikal I.B. Tauris Afghanistan’s history is a sad one: Soviet invasion in 1979; Pakistan-backed internal conflict in the 1980s; the Taliban regime and then the US invasion after...

Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	Mongolia Travels in the Untamed Land Jasper Becker Tauris Parke Paperbacks For seventy years Mongolia was all but closed to the west - a forbidden country, shrouded in darkness. Jasper Becker had long dreamed of exploring the sweeping...

Hardcover : $42.00 Buy	Traces in the Desert Journeys of Discovery across Central Asia Christoph Baumer; Foreword by John Hare I.B. Tauris For five millennia, the peoples and cultures of East and West have met and mingled in Central Asia. For explorers and travellers it is a promised land, a...

Trade Paperback : $36.00 Buy	Drugs in Afghanistan Opium, Outlaws and Scorpion Tales David Macdonald Pluto Press Exposes the devastation that the heroin trade and drug addiction is causing within Afghanistan.

Trade Paperback : $35.00 Buy	Military Inc. Inside Pakistan's Military Economy Ayesha Siddiqa Pluto Press Pakistan has emerged as a strategic ally of the United States in the "war on terror." It is the third largest recipient of U.S. aid in the world. But how...

Trade Paperback : $22.50 Buy	Central Asia after the Empire Transnational Institute Yuri Kulchik, Andrey V. Fadin, Victor M. Sergeev; Forward by Fred Halliday Pluto Press

Hardcover : $92.00 Buy	Language Politics in Contemporary Central Asia National and Ethnic Identity and the Soviet Legacy International Library of Central Asia Studies #5 Jacob M. Landau and Barbara Kellner-Heinkele I.B. Tauris Nationalist leaders in the former Soviet states strive for national identity in both the political and cultural domains. Their language policies contend with...

Trade Paperback : $20.95 Buy	Three Women of Herat A Memoir of Life, Love and Friendship in Afghanistan Veronica Doubleday Tauris Parke Paperbacks In the years before the communist coup and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Veronica Doubleday set up home in the ancient city of Herat with her husband,...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	Tajikistan in the New Central Asia Geopolitics, Great Power Rivalry and Radical Islam International Library of Central Asia Studies Lena Jonson I.B. Tauris Central Asia has become the battleground for the major struggles of the 21st century: radical Islam versus secularism, authoritarianism versus identity...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	Orientalism, Empire and National Culture Michael S. Dodson Palgrave Macmillan A reinterpretation of British orientalism in India, which, through an examination of the enabling relationship between British administrators and Indian...

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The Unraveling

Pakistan in the Age of Jihad

John R. Schmidt Farrar, Straus and Giroux

How did a nation founded as a homeland for South Asian Muslims, most of whom follow a tolerant nonthreatening form of Islam, become a haven for Al Qaeda and a...

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Hardcover : $495.00 Buy	Classical Writings of the Medieval Islamic World Persian Histories of the Mongol Dynasties Muhammad Haydar Dughlat, Rashiduddin Fazlullah, Khwandamir Fazlullah and Translated By Wheeler Thackston I.B. Tauris These three volumes represent some of the most important historical sources for medieval Islamic scholarship. Yet the Persian of the original texts is often...

Trade Paperback : $26.95 Buy	Afghanistan The Mirage of Peace Chris Johnson and Jolyon Leslie Zed Books Widely portrayed as the "success of the war on terror," Afghanistan is now in crisis. Increasingly detached from the people it is meant to serve, and unable to...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Retheorizing Religion in Nepal Religion/Culture/Critique Gregory Price Grieve Palgrave Macmillan Retheorizing Religion in Nepal is an engaging and thought-provoking study of religion in South Asia, with important insights for the study of religion and...

Trade Paperback : $28.95 Buy	The Making of Modern Afghanistan Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series B. D. Hopkins Palgrave Macmillan Examines the evolution of the modern Afghan state in the shadow of Britain's imperial presence in South Asia during the first half of the nineteenth century,...

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