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Trade Paperback : $24.99 Buy	Raj The Making and Unmaking of British India Lawrence James St. Martin's Griffin In less that one hundred years, the British made themselves the masters of India. They ruled for another hundred, leaving behind the independent nations of...

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...

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India My Love

A Spiritual Journey

Osho St. Martin's Press

India is not just a geography or history. It is not only a nation, a country, a mere piece of land. It is something more: it is a metaphor, poetry, something...

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Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	The Idea of India Sunil Khilnani; With a New Introduction by the Author Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks The key book on India in the postnuclear era, with a new Introduction by the author.Our appreciation of the importance of India can only increase in light of...

Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	Empire of Signs Roland Barthes; Translated by Richard Howard Hill and Wang With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented...

Trade Paperback : $20.00 Buy	Hungry Ghosts Mao's Secret Famine Jasper Becker Holt Paperbacks In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Chinese people suffered what may have been the worst famine in history. Over thirty million perished in a grain shortage...

Mass Market Paperbound : $5.99 Buy	Incursion From America's Chokehold on the Nva Lifelines to the Sacking of the Cambodian Sanctuaries J. D. Coleman St. Martin's Paperbacks

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	The Nobility of Failure Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan Ivan Morris Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Hardcover : $75.00 Buy	Jaipur The Last Destination Aman Nath; Photographs by Samar Singh Jodha I.B. Tauris Jaipur: The Last Destination brings alive nine centuries, pulling history out of the realm of text books and making it a wondrous narrative of war and bravery;...

Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	The Koreans Who They Are, What They Want, Where Their Future Lies Revised and Updated; Michael Breen St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books The rise of South Korea is one of the most unexpected and inspirational developments of the latter part of our century. A few decades ago, the Koreans were an...

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Chinese Lessons

Five Classmates and the Story of the New China

John Pomfret Holt Paperbacks

A first-hand account of the remarkable transformation of China over the past forty years as seen through the life of an award-winning journalist and his four...

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Love and Death in Kathmandu

A Strange Tale of Royal Murder

Amy Willesee and Mark Whittaker St. Martin's Press

A riveting investigation of a devastating crime--the full story of the June 2001 massacre of Nepal's royal family by the heir to the throne

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Trade Paperback : $21.95 Buy	A History of Japan, Second Edition From Stone Age to Superpower Kenneth G. Henshall Palgrave Macmillan In a rare combination of comprehensive coverage and sustained critical focus, this book examines Japanese history in its entirety to identify the factors...

Trade Paperback : $21.95 Buy	Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader North Korea and the Kim Dynasty Bradley K. Martin St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader offers in-depth portraits of North Korea's two ruthless and bizarrely Orwellian leaders, Kim Il-Sung and Kim...

Trade Paperback : $22.95 Buy	A History of China Second Edition Palgrave Essential Histories J.A.G. Roberts Palgrave Macmillan A concise history of China now updated to incorporate the latest research

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The Ruling Caste

Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj

David Gilmour Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

“[A] lavishly enjoyable book.” —Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal Between 1837 and 1901, fewer than one thousand Britons at any one time managed...

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The Lions of Iwo Jima

Major General Fred Haynes (USMC-ret) and James A. Warren Holt Paperbacks

“In 1945 my father, John Bradley, and other members of Combat Team 28 raised a flag on Iwo Jima. Now with The Lions of Iwo Jima, [Haynes] helps America...

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	China's Great Train Beijing's Drive West and the Campaign to Remake Tibet Abrahm Lustgarten Holt Paperbacks “A great yarn . . . [Lustgarten] also accomplishes something more valuable: He provides insight into the seat-of-the-pants nature of many of China’s massive...

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The River of Lost Footsteps

A Personal History of Burma

Thant Myint-U Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

What do we really know about Burma and its history? And what can Burma’s past tell us about its present and even its future? For nearly two decades Western...

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Trade Paperback : $18.95 Buy	Beijing From Imperial Capital to Olympic City Lillian M. Li, Alison J. Dray-Novey, and Haili Kong Palgrave Macmillan Few world cities have a record as long, as fascinating, or as well-documented as Beijing's. A capital almost continuously for more than a thousand years, the...

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...

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Indian Summer

The Secret History of the End of an Empire

Alex von Tunzelmann Picador

At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the British Empire withdrew from India, inviting in all the exhilaration and turmoil of a newly free society. In...

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Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	Vietnam A Portrait of its People at War David Chanoff and Doan Van Toai Tauris Parke Paperbacks Here is the story of the "other side" of the Vietnam War--of the Vietcong and North Vietnamese--which has been largely untold until now. In this remarkable...

Trade Paperback : $28.00 Buy	Forbidden Nation A History of Taiwan Jonathan Manthorpe Palgrave Macmillan A gripping history of Taiwan and its tense relations with China

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