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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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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 $27.95 Your price: $9.95 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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What Life Was Like in the Jewel in the Crown: British India, Ad 1600-1905 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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When a Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save Mankind -- Or Destroy It by Jonathan Watts Publisher Comments As a young child, Jonathan Watts believed if everyone in China jumped at the same time, the earth would be shaken off its axis, annihilating mankind. Now, more than thirty years later, as a correspondent for The Guardian in Beijing, he has discovered it... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 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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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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Holy Warriors: A Journey Into the Heart of Indian Fundamentalism by Edna Fernandes Publisher Comments Home to all the major religions, India is also, inevitably, host to virtually every type of religious fanatic. No other nation has witnessed as much proselytization or heard as many war cries in the name of God as India. For centuries, Hindus... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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History of India Volume 1 by Romila Thapar Publisher Comments A full account of Indian history from the establishment of Aryan culture to the coming of the Mughals in 1526 A.D.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice by Malalai Joya Publisher Comments Malalai Joya was named one of Time magazines 100 Most Influential People of 2010. An extraordinary young woman raised in the refugee camps of Iran and Pakistan, Joya became a teacher in secret girls schools, hiding her books under her burqa so the... (read more) List Price $15.00 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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History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos by Luis Francia Publisher Comments The Philippines is a country in its adolescence, struggling by fits and starts to emerge from a rich, troubled and multilayered past. From its first settlement through the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century to the subsequent American occupation... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 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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When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rough Revolution by Elizabeth Becker Publisher Comments Award-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker started covering Cambodia in 1973 for The Washington Post, when the country was perceived as little more than a footnote to the Vietnam War. Then, with the rise of the Khmer Rouge in 1975 came the closing of the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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Kerala: Of Gods & Men by Laurent Aubert Publisher Comments The extraordinary photographs of Johnathan Watts allow us to witness the richness of the Hindu rituals of Kerala and perfectly portray the diversity of peoples and customs in this colourful southern Indian state. The contrasts here are many: light and... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $22.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Retreat from Kabul: The Catastrophic British Defeat in Afghanistan, 1842 by Patrick Macrory Publisher Comments Using research from contemporary letters, dispatches, and journals, author Patrick Macrory provides a gripping account of what is known as the First Afghan War. The war was Britain's folly: at the height of its power in India, Britain sought to... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama by Thomas Laird Publisher Comments The Story of Tibet is a work of monumental importance, a fascinating journey through the land and history of Tibet, with His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama as guide. Over the course of three years, journalist Thomas Laird spent more than sixty hours... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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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