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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 : $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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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 : $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

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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The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China

David J. Silbey Hill and Wang

The year is 1900, and Western empires—both old and new—are locked in regional entanglements across the globe. The British are losing a bitter war against the...

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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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China's First Emperor and His Terracotta Warriors

Frances Wood St. Martin's Press

Unifier or destroyer, law-maker or tyrant? China’s First Emperor (258-210 BC) has been the subject of debate for over 2,000 years. He gave us the name by which...

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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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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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Mass Market Paperbound : $7.99 Buy	Covert Ops The CIA's Secret War In Laos James E. Parker, Jr. St. Martin's Paperbacks Uncommon war. Uncommon bonds. In 1972, U.S. soldiers battle the North Vietnamese. Behind the headlines, a secret war rages in Laos. Sky, a close knit cadre...

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Delhi

Adventures in a Megacity

Sam Miller St. Martin's Press

A provocative portrait of one of the world’s largest cities, delving behind the tourist facade to illustrate the people and places beyond the realms of the...

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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 : $32.00 Buy	Empires at War A Short History of Modern Asia Since World War II Francis Pike I.B. Tauris As the major geopolitical power bloc, Asia -- with 4 billion people, two-thirds of the world's population, a huge land-mass and the fastest-growing economies...

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Forbidden Nation A History of Taiwan Jonathan Manthorpe Palgrave Macmillan A gripping history of Taiwan and its tense relations with China

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 : $18.00 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 : $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 : $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 : $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 : $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...

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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India My Love

A Spiritual Journey

Osho St. Martin's Griffin

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 : $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...

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