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The Authors Of This First Full-length Biography Of Maharaja Ranjit Singh In English Make Use Of A Variety Of Eye-witness Accounts, From Reports By Maratha S...

Contrary to the prevailing view in the West that the 500-year dominance of Western civilization points to it being the only universal civilization, Can Asia...

Yukio Hashimoto -- Kamonka: Chinese Restaurant -- Daidaiya: Japanese Restaurant -- Lan-ting: Chinese Restaurant -- Gekka: Bar -- Oto Oto: Japanese Restauran...

The British Army’s SAS—the Special Air Service—is recognized as one of the world’s premier special operations units. During the Gulf War, deep behin...

Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders, captured by the Japanese in Singapore. Forced into manual labor as a POW, he survived 750 days i...

Acclaimed designer Michael Smith has earned a reputation as the thinking celebrity's decorator, with a client list that includes Cindy Crawford, Kate Caps...

A young Canadian woman describes her decision to seek out adventure before settling down to a conventional life, her journey to the tiny Buddhist kingdom of...

Using diaries, journals, and correspondences, Druett recounts the daily grind surgeons on nineteenth-century whaling ships faced: the rudimentary tools they...

From The Sugar Rush Of Tokyo's Idol Subculture To The Discordant Polyrhythms Of Its Experimental Punk And Indie Scenes, This Book By Japan Times Music Colum...

Although numerous books on the Cultural Revolution have been published, they do not analyze the profound shift in aesthetic values that occurred in China...

Robert Lyman’s deep knowledge and understanding of the war in Burma, and the great battles at Kohima and Imphal in 1944, are well known. In this book he u...

Correspondent Ahmed Rashid brings the shadowy world of the Taliban—the world’s most extreme and radical Islamic organization—into sharp focus in this...

Beginning in the late '60s, hundreds of thousands of Westerners descended upon India, disciples of a cultural revolution that proclaimed that the magic and ...

In 1906 in turn-of-the century Boston, a small, esoteric book about tea was written with the intention of being read aloud in the famous salon of Isabella ...

JAPANESE ACCENTS IN WESTERN INTERIORS by Peggy Landers Rao and Jean Mahoney, photographs by Toshiaki Sakuma 1988 Third printing hardcover 168 pages Shufunot...

Many of the prisoners held by the Japanese during the WWII were so scarred by their experiences that they could not discuss them even with their families. T...

An eminent expert on Japanese culture draws on unparalleled access to Sony's archives and executives to craft a revelatory portrait of the passions and loy...

This Volume Is A Collection Of Primary Source Documents And Is A Companion To The Text: The Search For Modern China, 2nd Edition. The Documents Range From T...

'Clements has a knack for writing suspenseful sure-footed conflict scenes: His recounting of the Korean invasion led by samurai and daimyo Toyotomi Hideyos...

Osprey's Campaign title for one of the most important naval battles in the history of World War II (1939-1945), Midway, which was fought barely six months a...

Autumn 1944. World War Ii Is Nearly Over In Europe But Is Escalating In The Pacific, Where American Soldiers Face An Opponent Who Will Go To Any Length To A...

Deep In The Mountainous Jungle Of Malaysia The Aboriginal Sng'oi Exist On The Edge Of Extinction, Though Their Way Of Living May Ultimately Be The Kind Of E...

This Book, By A Veteran Observer Of The Middle East, Tells The Story Of The Gassing Of Halabja. It Shows How Iraq Was Able To Develop Ever More Sophisticate...

Asia's History Has Been Shaped By Her Waters. In Unruly Waters, Historian Sunil Amrith Reimagines Asia's History Through The Stories Of Its Rains, Rivers, C...

Named by Bill Gates as one of his Top 5 Books of the YearAn Economist Best Book of the YearIn the 1980s and 1990s many in the West came to believe in the m...

National BestsellerIn Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Theroux recreates an epic journey he took thirty years ago, a giant loop by train (mostly) through E...

On December 25, 1991, at 7:35 p.m., soldiers lowered the red Soviet flag flying over the Kremlin and raised the Russian tri-color in its place. The moment ...

Take a colorful tour of Japan's capital with this alternative Japan travel guide that explores Tokyo's distinctive architecture, fashion, food, and so much...

Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Jan Wong looks back on her body of work as a foreign correspondent in China in the late '80s and early '90s...

This is a fascinating 2008 study of the Vietnamese experience and memory of the Vietnam War through the lens of popular imaginings about the wandering souls...

now Available In Two Volumes, This Accessible, Yet Rigorous, Introduction To The Political, Social, And Cultural History Of China Provides A Balanced And T...

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 ...

segal, Who Wrote This To Supplement His the Black Diaspora, Is A Cultural Historian, Not A Specialist In Islamic History. He Is An Authority On The Subject...

In this comparative, interdisciplinary study based on extensive fieldwork as well as historical sources, Janet Sturgeon examines the different trajectories ...

Fosco Maraini Visited Tibet In 1937 And Again In 1948. In 1951 He Published Secret Tibet, An Account That Was A Synthesis Of The Two Journeys. After An Inte...

Product Description Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and no...

A personal memoir of the war in Vietnam, in which the author first served as a Marine and which he later covered as a reporterCategories: Engineering & ...

Depicts the efforts of four people to improve the harsh conditions of life in the impoverished and over-populated area of Calcutta, IndiaCategories: Politic...

In the museums of Ürümchi, the windswept regional capital of the Uyghur Autonomous Region (also known as Chinese Turkestan), a collection of ancient mummie...

The author, a former Special Secretary of India's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), examines a series of interconnect...

Introduction: A Generation Revisited -- Long Time Passing -- Two Soldiers -- The Generation -- A Different War -- Southie And The Rebels -- Draft And Protes...

Jonathan D. Spence. Elisabeth Sifton Books. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 319-337.Categories: History AsiaChina

The Subaltern Studies Collective, Founded In 1982, Was Begun With The Goal Of Developing A New Critique Of Both Colonialist And Nationalist Perspectives In ...

This Book Is The Second Edition Of The Author's History Of Modern China. The New Discussions In This Revision Include The Extension Of Imperial Power Into C...

Prologue: Our Title To India -- Empire At War -- Harvesting The Colonies -- Scorched -- At Any Price -- Death Of A Thousand Cuts -- An Occupied And Starving...

Prologue: The Boxer Catastrophe -- An Old World Dies; A New One Is Born -- The Slide Into Chaos -- Forming A New Culture: The May Fourth Movement -- Which W...

Born Into A Wealthy, Politically Influential Indian Family In The Waning Years Of The Raj, Jawaharlal Nehru Was Raised, Under His Father's Careful Guidance,...

This book is the first major reassessment of ancient Chinese religion to appear in recent years. It provides a historical investigation of broadly shared r...