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Understanding China [3rd Edition]

A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Political Culture

John Bryan Starr Hill and Wang

After ten years, John Bryan Starr has thoroughly revised and updated his classic introduction to the background of, the data about, and the issues at stake in...

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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...

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Catfish and Mandala

A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam

Andrew X. Pham Picador

Winner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Whiting Writers' Award A Seattle Post-Intelligencer...

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Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize - Winner - Pacific Rim Nonfiction
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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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Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	The Koreans Who They Are, What They Want, Where Their Future Lies 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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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 : $21.99 Buy	Genghis Khan Life, Death, and Resurrection John Man St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals, alive in memory as a scourge, hero, military genius and demi-god. To Muslims, Russians and westerners, he is a...

Trade Paperback : $26.99 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...

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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 : $18.99 Buy	Attila The Barbarian King Who Challenged Rome John Man St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books A stunning biography of history’s most infamous warlord, Attila the Hun For a crucial twenty years in the early fifth century, Attila held the fate of the...

Trade Paperback : $21.99 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...

Trade Paperback : $14.00 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...

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The Lions of Iwo Jima

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

“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 : $18.00 Buy	Godzilla on My Mind Fifty Years of the King of Monsters William Tsutsui Palgrave Macmillan This year, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of his first appearance on the screen, the original, uncut version of Godzilla was released in American theaters to...

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...

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As China Goes, So Goes the World

How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything

Karl Gerth Hill and Wang

In this revelatory examination of the most overlooked force that is changing the face of China, the Oxford historian and scholar of modern Asia Karl Gerth...

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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...

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Pakistan

Deep Inside the World's Most Frightening State

Mary Anne Weaver; With a New Introduction and Afterword Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

No nation is more critical to U.S. foreign policy than nuclear-armed Pakistan. Wedged between India and Afghanistan, it is the second largest country in the...

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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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Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	Last Witnesses Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans Erica Harth Palgrave Macmillan Sixty years after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and FDR's Executive Order 9066 making possible the incarceration of over 110,000 Americans of Japanese...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Understanding China A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Political Culture John Bryan Starr; Revised and Updated Edition Hill and Wang In this succinct, modest, and refreshingly forthright book--now revised and updated for the new century--Starr introduces to the uninitiated reader the...

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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Pol Pot

Anatomy of a Nightmare

Philip Short Holt Paperbacks

“The text sparkles with shrewdly plausible inferences mortared into a compelling narrative . . . [Short] is excellent at coining pithy summations of political...

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Trade Paperback : $21.95 Buy	A History of Japan 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...

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