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The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders
by Emmanuel Guibert
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In 1986, Afghanistan was torn apart by a war with the Soviet Union. This graphic novel/photo-journal is a record of one reporters arduous and dangerous journey through Afghanistan, accompanying the Doctors Without Borders. Didier Lefevres... ( read more)
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Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang
by Ziyang Zhao
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Zhao may be more dangerous in death than he was in life. -- Time How often can you peek behind the curtains of one of the most secretive governments in the world? Prisoner of the State is the first book to give readers a front row seat to the secret... ( read more)
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Seeds of Terror: How Heroin Is Bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda
by Gretchen Peters
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Most Americans think of the Taliban and al Qaeda as a bunch of bearded fanatics fighting an Islamic crusade from caves in Afghanistan. But that doesn't explain their astonishing comeback along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Why is it eight years after... ( read more)
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Living in China
by Daisann Mclane
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Unique homes in the People's Republic Dating back more than six thousand years, China is the world's oldest civilization and most populous nation. With its remarkable history, rich culture, and diversity of ethnic groups, China is an endlessly... ( read more)
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Making Sense of Pakistan (Columbia/Hurst)
by Farzana Shaikh
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Once a model of Muslim enlightenment, Pakistan is now facing a lethal Islamist threat. Many believe this is due to Pakistan's partnership with the United States, while others see it as the consequence of an authoritarian rule that has marginalized... ( read more)
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History of Imperial China #3: China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty
by Mark Edward Lewis
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The Tang dynasty is often called China’s “golden age,” a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic... ( read more)
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The Miracle: The Epic Story of Asia's Quest for Wealth
by Michael Schuman
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In little more than a generation, Asia has emerged from centuries of stagnation to become the rising force of the global economy. This transformation has been so spectacular that some have called it a miracle. How did it happen? Taking the reader from... ( read more)
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Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India, and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade
by Bill Emmott
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The former editor in chief of the Economist returns to the territory of his bestselling book The Sun Also Sets to lay out a fresh analysis of the growing rivalry between China, India, and Japan -- what it will mean for America, the global economy, and... ( read more)
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Invisible China: A Journey Through Ethnic Borderlands
by Colin Legerton
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In this eloquent and eye-opening adventure narrative, Colin Legerton and Jacob Rawson, two Americans fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and Uyghur, throw away the guidebook and bring a hitherto unexplored side of China to light. They journey over 14,000... ( read more)
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In Afghanistan: Two Hundred Years of British, Russian and American Occupation
by David Loyn
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Afghanistan has been a strategic prize for foreign empires for more than 200 years. The British, Russians, and Americans have all fought across its beautiful and inhospitable terrain, in conflicts variously ruthless, misguided and bloody. This violent... ( read more)
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The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars
by Andrew X. Pham
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One of the Ten Best Books of the Year, Washington Post Book World One of the Los Angeles Times' Favorite Books of the Year One of the Top Ten National Books of 2008, Portland Oregonian A 2009 Honor Book of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians... ( read more)
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To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan
by Nicholas Schmidle
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A gritty, lively, and revelatory look inside the crucial and volatile nation of Pakistan In To Live or to Perish Forever, Nicholas Schmidle takes readers to Pakistans rioting streets, to Taliban camps in the North-West Frontier Province, and on many... ( read more)
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Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China
by Philip P. Pan
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From an award-winning journalist for The Washington Post and one of the leading China correspondents of his generation comes an eloquent and vivid chronicle of the world's most successful authoritarian state -- a nation undergoing a remarkable... ( read more)
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The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed
by Michael Meyer
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A fascinating, intimate portrait of Beijing through the lens of its oldest neighborhood, facing destruction as the city, and China, relentlessly modernizes. Soon we will be able to say about old Beijing that what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders... ( read more)
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Vietnam at War
by Mark Philip Bradley
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For many Westerners, the Vietnam War summons images of American soldiers patrolling rice paddies, battling an elusive enemy as helicopters circle overhead. But there were, in fact, many Vietnam wars--an anti-colonial war with France, a cold war turned... ( read more)
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"Socialism Is Great!": A Worker's Memoir of the New China
by Lijia Zhang
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With a great charm and spirit, “Socialism Is Great!” recounts Lijia Zhang's rebellious journey from disillusioned factory worker to an organizer in support of the Tiananmen Square demonstrators, to eventually become the writer and journalist... ( read more)
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1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance (P.S.)
by Gavin Menzies
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The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of the ideas and ideals of classical Greece and Rome. But now bestselling historian Gavin Menzies makes the... ( read more)
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Comparative Central European Holocaust Studies (Comparative Cultural Studies)
by Louise O. Vasvari And Steven T
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The work presented in the volume in fields of the humanities and social sciences is based on 1) the notion of the existence and the "describability" and analysis of a culture (including, e.g., history, literature, society, the arts, etc.) specific of/to... ( read more)
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The Silk Road: Ten Thousand Miles Through Central Asia
by Sven Hedin
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Linking East and West, Asia with Europe, the Silk Road was once the most important trading route in the world. A conduit for the exchange of prized silks, spices and jewels as well as philosophies, cultures and religions, the Silk Road was a catalyst for... ( read more)
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The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online (Contemporary Asia in the World)
by Guobin Yang
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Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecedented ways. Despite efforts to control these activities, online activism has been an agent of... ( read more)
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The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan
by Robert D. Crews
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The Taliban remain one of the most elusive forces in modern history. A ragtag collection of clerics and madrasa students, this obscure movement emerged out of the rubble of the Cold War to shock the world with their draconian Islamic order. The Taliban... ( read more)
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Shadow War: The Untold Story of Jihad in Kashmir
by Arif Jamal
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For nearly sixty years, India and Pakistan have battled over the territory of Kashmir. The two nuclear-armed states have fought three bloody wars in the region, but the countries have also fought in the shadows. Having interviewed nearly a thousand... ( read more)
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Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform
by Stephan Haggard
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In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regime's... ( read more)
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War, Coups & Terror: Pakistan's Army in Years of Turmoil
by Brian Cloughley
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The author of War, Coups, and Terror has been closely acquainted with Pakistani military for some thirty years. His links with its past and present senior officers have given him a unique insight into its operations and its controversial role within... ( read more)
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Liberate and Leave: Fatal Flaws in the Early Strategy for Postwar Iraq
by Don E Eberly
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Praise for Liberate and Leave: “Liberate and Leave vividly portrays the extraordinarily difficult and dangerous conditions under which civilians like Don Eberly worked to rebuild Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, conditions exacerbated... ( read more)
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Tokyo: A Cultural History (Cityscapes)
by Stephen Mansfield
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From its obscure origins as a fishing village along a marshy estuary, Tokyo grew into one of the world's largest and most culturally vibrant metropolises. For all its modernity and craving for the new, it is a city impregnated with the past. In the... ( read more)
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The Rise of China: Essays on the Future Competition
by Gary J. (edt) Schmitt
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With its expanding economy and formidable military growth, China is positioning itself to challenge the United States as the greatest international power on the world stage. The Rise of China is a collection of essays about the nature of that challenge... ( read more)
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China's Great Train: Beijing's Drive West and the Campaign to Remake Tibet
by Abrahm Lustgarten
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“A great yarn . . . [Lustgarten] also accomplishes something more valuable: He provides insight into the seat-of-the-pants nature of many of Chinas massive schemes.”The Washington Post Book World When the “sky train” to Tibet... ( read more)
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In the Valley of Mist: Kashmir: One Family in a Changing World
by Justine Hardy
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A personal, moving, and vibrant picture of one of the most beautiful and troubled places--the Kashmir Valley--this memoir relates the experiences of Hardy and her family, whose fortunes have changed dramatically with those of the region. b&w photos.... ( read more)
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Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor
by Yong Kim
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Kim Yong shares his harrowing account of life in a labor camp-a singularly despairing form of torture carried out by the secret state. Although it is known that gulags exist in North Korea, little information is available about their organization and... ( read more)
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Gandhi: Voice of a New Age Revolution
by Martin B. Green
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The name of Mahatma Gandhi is one of the most widely recognized in the world. His Autobiography has been translated into all major languages. The film Gandhi remains popular.Yet many mysteries surround this man, especially about his inner life and... ( read more)
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New Light on Nimrud: Proceedings of the Nimrud Conference 11th-13th March 2002
by J.e. Curtis Et Al
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This book publishes 34 papers by international and Iraqi experts given at a conference on Nimrud at The British Museum in 2002. Excavations at the important Assyrian capital city of Nimrud have continued intermittently since 1845, culminating with the... ( read more)
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The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation (Tracking Globalization)
by Christina Schwenkel
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Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate: Memories of Empire in a New Global Context (Studies in Security and International Affairs)
by Charles Horner
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