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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 : $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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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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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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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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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 : $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...

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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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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	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...

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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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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 : $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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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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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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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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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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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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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
Guardian First Book Award - Nominee - Nominee
Oregon Book Award - Nominee - 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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