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Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan Publisher Comments “Funny, touching, tragic….A remarkable tale of corruption, child trafficking and civil war in a far away land—and one mans extraordinary quest to reunite lost Nepalese children with their parents.”—Neil White, author... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The City of Heavenly Tranquility: Beijing in the History of China by Jasper Becker Publisher Comments When the world descends on Beijing for the 2008 Olympics, it will find the results of a helter skelter rush for modernization and wealth. In the course of a thousand years, temples and shrines, palaces, and gardens had filled the walls of old Peking. Its... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price: $6.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Tibet Turning the Wheel of Life Uk by Francoise Pommaret Synopsis An exploration of the cultural and historical roots of the Tibetan people, their customs and beliefs, and their relations with the wider world.... (read more) Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Foreign Devils on the Silk Road by Peter Hopkirk Publisher Comments The story of the intrepid men who, at great personal risk, led the longrange archaeological raids on the Silk Road, incurring the undying wrath of the ChineseThe Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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India a Portrait an Intimate Biography of 1.2 Billion People by Patrick French Publisher Comments A monumental biography of the subcontinent from the award-winning author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul. Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the... (read more) Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power by Tariq Ali Publisher Comments Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world. It is the only Islamic state to have nuclear weapons. Its border with Afghanistan extends over one thousand miles and is the likely hideout of Osama bin Laden. It has been under military... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $4.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Empires of the Indus by Alice Albinia Publisher Comments One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imperial expansion, and today is the cement of Pakistan's... (read more) Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Games without Rules: The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan by Tamim Ansary Publisher Comments Today, most people in the West still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between Western democracies and Islamist terrorism. That war is real; its happening; but it sits atop an older struggle, between Kabul and the countryside, between order and... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Walking with the Comrades by Arundhati Roy Publisher Comments From the award-winning author of The God of Small Things comes a searing frontline exposé of brutal repression in India In her latest book, internationally renowned author Arundhati Roy draws on her unprecedented access to a little-known rebel... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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1421: The Year China Discovered America (P.S.) by Gavin Menzies Publisher Comments On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China to "proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas." When the fleet returned home in October 1423, the emperor had fallen,... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Unbound: A True Story of War, Love, and Survival by Dean King Publisher Comments In October 1934, 30 brave Chinese women left their respective homes to join the Chinese Communist Army and march against the hundreds of thousands of enemy soldiers who had surrounded them. Together with 86,000 Red Army soldiers-including future Chinese... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Nuclear Showdown North Korea Takes on the World by Gordon G Chang Publisher Comments If we lose, I will destroy the world, said Kim Jong Il, supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Kim's regime insults all of us. Its very existence is an affront to humanity's sense of decency and challenges accepted notions of... (read more) Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia by Karl E Meyer Publisher Comments From the romantic conflicts of the Victorian Great Game to the war-torn history of the region in recent decades, Tournament of Shadows traces the struggle for control of Central Asia and Tibet from the 1830s to the present. The original Great Game, the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond by Pankaj Mishra Publisher Comments In his new book, Mishra brings literary authority and political insight to bear on travels that are at once epic and personal as he sees the pressures of Western-style modernity, prosperity, and globalization on a rapidly changing region.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Geisha: A Life by Mineko Iwasaki Publisher Comments No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story -- until now. "Many say I was the best geisha of my generation," writes Mineko Iwasaki. "And yet, it was a life that I found too constricting to... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Yoshiwara: Geishas, Courtesans, and the Pleasure Quarters of Old Tokyo (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature) by Stephen Longstreet Publisher Comments For centuries, Yoshiwara was the famed pleasure center of Tokyo. An erotic world unmatched by the West was created by beautiful courtesans, geishas, dancers, actors and artists. To this "floating world" came the hedonists and the sensual pleasure hunters... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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City of Heavenly Tranquility: Beijing in the History of China. Jasper Becker by Jasper Becker Publisher Comments When the world descends on Beijing for the 2008 Olympics, it will find the results of a helter skelter rush for modernization and wealth. In the course of a thousand years, temples and shrines, palaces, and gardens had filled the walls of old Peking. Its... (read more) Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx, and Mujahid by Ralph Magnus Publisher Comments In this broad introductory volume, Ralph Magnus and Eden Naby detail Afghanistan's physical situation, human environment, and modern history, as well as the rise and fall of competing internal forces, most recently the Taliban. The authors offer... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Everyday Life in Traditional Japan (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature) by Charles J Dunn Publisher Comments Everyday Life in Traditional Japan paints a vivid portrait of Tokugawa Japan, a time when contact with the outside world was deliberately avoided and the daily life of the different classes consolidated the traditions that shaped modern Japan. Authentic... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity by Amartya Kumar Sen Publisher Comments In sixteen linked essays, Nobel Prize--winning economist Amartya Sen discusses India's intellectual and political heritage and how its argumentative tradition is vital for the success of its democracy and secular politics. The Argumentative Indian is "a... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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