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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 $35.00 Your price: $7.50 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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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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China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran Publisher Comments China Witness is an extraordinary work of oral history that illuminates the diverse ways in which the Chinese perceive and understand their own history. Xinran, the acclaimed author of The Good Women of China and Sky Burial, traveled across China in 2005... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Cave of the Yellow Dog: A Mongolian Journey by Byambasuren Davaa Publisher Comments Davaa, a young filmmaker, returns to her native country and to the region where she grew up to show us life among the nomadic people. Through the touching story of the young girl Nansaa and her little dog Zochor, she depicts the freedom of life on the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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What Life Was Like in the Land of the Dragon: Imperial China, A.D. 960-1368 by Time Life Publisher Comments Drawing on art, artifacts, and literature that was left behind, these richly illustrated volumes recount captivating tales of everyday life in long-ago vanished worlds.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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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A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations by Conrad Schirokauer Publisher Comments This compelling text explores the development of China and Japan through their art, religion, literature, and thought as well as through their economic, political, and social history. This author team combines strong research with extensive classroom... (read more) List Price $135.35 Your price: $39.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters by B R Myers Publisher Comments Understanding North Korea through its propaganda What do the North Koreans really believe? How do they see themselves and the world around them? Here B.R. Myers, a North Korea analyst and a contributing editor of The Atlantic, presents the first full... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China by Philip P Pan Publisher Comments 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) List Price $28.00 Your price: $4.25 Sale - Hardcover
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Pakistan: Deep Inside the World's Most Frightening State by Mary Anne Weaver Publisher Comments 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 Islamic world. But with militant Islamists now expanding their control over some of the country's... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W Dower Publisher Comments Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important history of the more than six years of American occupation, which affected every level of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Witnessing History: One Chinese Woman's Fight for Freedom by Jennifer Zeng Publisher Comments Because Zeng followed a spiritual practice called Falun Gong, her life in China was shattered. Sentenced to re-education, she was beaten, tortured with electric prods, starved, deprived of sleep, and forced to knit for days at a time, her hands bleeding,... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman Publisher Comments In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Invisible Palace: The True Story of a Journalist's Murder in Java by Jose Manuel Tesoro Publisher Comments One August night in 1996, on a rural highway in Java, an investigative journalist was beaten to death by unknown assailants. Two months later, police arrested a high-school drop-out and put him on trial for the reporter's murder. One problem: the accused... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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China's Great Leap by Minley Worden Publisher Comments With contributions from some of the most well respected and experienced Chinese writers, journalists, and organizers, China’s Great Leap examines the People’s Republic of China as its government and 1.3 billion people prepare for the 2008... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Places In Between by Rory Stewart Publisher Comments In January 2002, Rory Stewart survived a walk across Afghanistan by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. In this memoir, he writes about heroes and rogues, tribal elders and teenage soldiers... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mao Zedong: A Penguin Life (Penguin Lives Biographies) by Jonathan Spence Publisher Comments The complex persona of Chairman Mao--remembered with hate, awe, and even reverence--calls for what the Boston Globe has termed "AJonathan? Spence's engaging blend of history, literature, and biography." Drawing from his expertise in Chinese... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.97 Sale - Hardcover
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In the Valley of Mist: Kashmir: One Family in a Changing World by Justine Hardy Publisher Comments A personal, moving, and vibrant picture of one of the most beautiful and troubled places in the world, described through the experiences of one family, whose fortunes have changed dramatically with those of the region. If there is a paradise on earth, it... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $12.95 Sale - Hardcover
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