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From the award-winning author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a riveting, intimate account of America’s troubled war in Afghanistan. When President ...

The Japanese Pottery Handbook, first published by Kodansha in 1979, has become a classic, beloved by anyone interested in pottery for its practical, step-b...

A Petroleum Republic -- Venezuela To 1600 -- The Colonial Era (to 1810) -- Movements Toward Independence (1810-1830) -- The Age Of Caudillismo (1830-1898) -...

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

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...

“This book provides one of the most detailed explanations of U.S.-Japan relations and clearly presents a new way of understanding U.S.-Japan trade and sec...

This brief and inexpensive paperback provides an introduction to some of the world's great philosophical traditions through original sources. It can be used...

"He seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter . . . the premier war correspondence of Vietnam."—Washington Post. "...

Key problems, conflicts, and decisions in Israel's past and present are analyzed in this fully documented, dramatic history of the turbulent events that hav...

Charles Holcombe begins by asking the question 'what is East Asia?' In the modern age, many of the features that made the region - now defined as including ...

Heroes Are Often Defined As Ordinary Characters Who Are Thrust Into Extraordinary Circumstances, And Through Courage And A Dash Of Luck, Cement Their Place ...

Behind the wholesome image of the world’s most popular drink lies a strangely murky and often violent past. When tea began to be imported into the West fro...

Kang Sheng held tremendous power in China for more than 50 years. As a member of Mao's inner circle, he created China's dreaded secret police, unleashed the...

Largely based on the information conveyed by bestselling novels, magazines, cartoons, movies and television shows, this is an illuminating look at American ...

Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast. In May 200...

Review\Joanna Chiu, a reporter for the Toronto Star, provides a powerful, heartfelt account of Chinese immigrants and their fraught encounters with Beijingâ...

Book by Menzies, GavinCategories: HistoryWorld

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...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of economics from its beginnings—at the end of the Middle Ages—to contemporary developments...

Product Description INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERINSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER“Chickie takes us thousands of miles on a hilarious quest laced with...

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...

India -- The Dawn: The Indus Valley Civilization -- Buddhism -- The Early Dynasties: Maurya And Kushan, Early Buddhist Art -- The Elaboration Of Maha-yana I...

Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer—and one o...

“Illuminating.… An eloquent testament to a doomed city and its people.” ―The Wall Street Journal In early 1945, General Douglas MacArthur prepared ...

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...

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

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

Few people can point to Okinawa on a map, yet this tiny island sitting between China and Japan was and continues to be one of the most crucial Asian nerve c...

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...

Linda Benson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: HistoryWorld

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 ...

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...

a Remarkable Achievement...vivid...fluent, Graceful.... A Publishing Event.—boston Globe new York Times monumental.... History That Is Always Lively, Alway...

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...

helen Hardacre, A Leading Scholar Of Religious Life In Modern Japan, Examines The Japanese State's Involvement In And Manipulation Of Shinto From The Meij...

Takeyuki Tsuda. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Sociology Race RelationsDiscrimination & Racism...

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...

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...

Malcolm Gladwell Weaves Together The Stories Of A Dutch Genius And His Homemade Computer, A Band Of Brothers In Central Alabama, A British Psychopath, And P...

Why haven't the poorest Africans been able to prosper in the twenty-first century? Celebrated economist George Ayittey thinks the answer is obvious: economi...

Based on a decade of research and on interviews with many of Mao’s close circle in China who have never talked before--and with virtually everyone outsid...

Author D.r. Sardesai Presents The History Of India In Its Entire Civilizational Depth. Using An Indiacentric, As Opposed To Eurocentric, Approach, Sardesai ...

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,...

Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, Wild Swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more 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...

A history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in mid-nineteenth-century China profiles a period of extreme violence, during which a massive uprising, led by rel...

Subalterns and Raj presents a unique introductory history of India with an account that begins before the period of British rule, and pursues the continuit...

A controversial collection from the author of the celebrated Imagined Communities.While Benedict Anderson is best known for his classic book on nationalism,...