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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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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 : $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...

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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 : $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...

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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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Hardcover : $22.95 Buy	River of Time A Memoir of Vietnam Jon Swain St. Martin's Press

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...

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...

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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 : $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 : $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 : $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...

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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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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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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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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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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 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 : $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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