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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...

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 : $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...

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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Ballot Box China

Grassroots Democracy in the Final Major One Party State

Asian Arguments

Kerry Brown Zed Books

Since 1988, China has undergone one of the largest, but least understood experiments in grassroots democracy. Across 650,000 villages in China, with over one...

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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...

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Meltdown

The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis

Mike Chinoy St. Martin's Griffin

When George W. Bush took office in 2001, North Korea’s nuclear program was frozen and Kim Jong Il had signaled he was ready to negotiate. Today, North Korea...

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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

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The Music Room

A Memoir

Namita Devidayal Thomas Dunne Books

When Namita is ten years old, her mother takes her to Kennedy Bridge, a seamy neighborhood in Bombay, home to hookers and dance girls. There, in a cramped...

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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,...

Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	Bayonets to Lhasa Francis Younghusband and the British Invasion of Tibet Peter Fleming Tauris Parke Paperbacks A brilliant portrayal of what is now viewed as the key episode of the Great Game

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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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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...

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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 : $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...

Trade Paperback : $18.95 Buy	Indian Balm Travels amongst Fakirs and Fire Warriors Paul Hyland Tauris Parke Paperbacks Indian Balm is the captivating account of a journey Paul Hyland made along the little-known course of the sacred Godavari river in Southern India: a pilgrimage...

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...

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 : $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 : $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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China's Great Train

Beijing's Drive West and the Campaign to Remake Tibet

Abrahm Lustgarten St. Martin's Griffin

“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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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 : $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...

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