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1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies Publisher Comments Based on 15 years of in-depth research, "1421" traces the voyages of an extraordinary fleet of Chinese ships, whose crews actually charted America 70 years before Columbus. Four 8-page color inserts. 37 maps & diagrams.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - 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: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere: A Memoir by John Nathan Publisher Comments John Nathan arrived in Tokyo in 1961 fresh out of Harvard College, bringing with him no practical experience, no more than two connections, no prospects, and little else to recommend him but stoic, unflappable pluck. Japan at that time was still in the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Iron & Silk (Vintage Departures) by Mark Salzman Publisher Comments Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China's foremost martial arts teacher.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Falling Leaves Return To Their Roots: the True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah Publisher Comments A story of greed, hatred and jealousy centred around a young girl growing up during the Communist revolution in China. Blamed for her mother's death, and ignored by both her father and her stepmother, she has written a story with the emotional force of a... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Lords of the Earth: An Incredible But True Story from the Stone-Age Hell of Papua's Jungle by Don Richardson Publisher Comments '\'In 1962, Don and Carol Richardson risked their lives to share the gospel with the Sawi people of New Guinea. Peace Child told their unforgettable story of living among these headhunting cannibals who valued treachery through “fattening... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless Nation by Karel Van Wolferen Publisher Comments A full-scale examination of the inner workings of Japan's political and industrial system.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way by Jon Krakauer Publisher Comments Greg Mortenson, the bestselling author of Three Cups of Tea, is a man who has built a global reputation as a selfless humanitarian and children’s crusader, and he’s been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. But, as Jon Krakauer... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wild Swans Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang Publisher Comments In 1924, at the age of 15, the author's grandmother became the concubine of a powerful warlord, whom she was seldom to see during the ten years of their "marriage". Her daughter, born in 1931, experienced the horrors of Japanese occupation in Manchuria... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad Staff Pick In this remarkable portrait, Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad recounts with brutal honesty the day to day lives of one Afghani family persevering through life in a country beset by chaos. With the assent of the Khan family with whom she lives... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom by Zoya Publisher Comments Kabul was always more beautiful in the snow. Even the piles of rotting rubbish in my street, the only source of food for the scrawny chickens and goats that our neighbors kept outside their mud houses, looked beautiful to me after the snow had covered... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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From the Place of the Dead: The Epic Struggle of Bishop Belo of East Timor by Arnold Kohen Publisher Comments East Timor's struggle for independence under Indonesian occupation has dominated international headlines. Now, as UN troops uphold the August 1999 referendum calling for the island nation's self-rule, From the Place of the Dead offers the only up-to-date,... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History by Janet E Hunter Publisher Comments This is a concise, reliable guide to the people, places, events, and ideas of significance from the Meiji Restoration to the present.... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto (Vintage Departures) by Pico Iyer Publisher Comments When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today -- not the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Return to Tibet: Tibet After the Chinese Occupation by Heinrich Harrer Synopsis The bestselling author of "Seven Years in Tibet" presents this compelling mix of history, religion, and travel writing, which bears witness to the suffering and perseverance of the ancient civilization under Chinese rule.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Evolving Roles of the State, Private, and Local Actors In Rural Russia by Ammar Siamwalla Publisher Comments This book reviews the evolution of paradigms and practices in relation to the roles of the state and the public sector in rural development since the late 1970s.... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $6.40 Used - Trade Paper
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Studies on China #20: Chinese Historical Microdemography by Stevan Harrell Publisher Comments Using local studies to answer global questions, this compilation challenges traditional notions concerning historical Chinese population trends. Genealogies, epitaphs, and household registers are some of the local and primary materials used to examine... (read more) List Price $74.25 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Bewitched the West by Lesley Downer Publisher Comments Sadayakko was Japan's most notorious geisha--and its first international superstar. "Madame Sadayakko" is the true story of this extraordinary woman--muse to writers, artists, and fashion designers. Her adventures lift the veil on the secretive world of... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Idea of India by Sunil Khilnani Publisher Comments The key book on India in the postnuclear era, with a new Introduction by the author.Our appreciation of the importance of India can only increase in light of the recent revelations of its nuclear capabilities. Sunil Khilnani's exciting, timely study... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Introducing Japan by Donald Richie Publisher Comments From the metropolitan bustle of busy, modern Tokyo to the serenity of classical Kyoto, from the northern frontier land of snowy Hokkaido to distinctly colorful Kyushu and Okinawa in the southwest, Japan is a country of striking contrasts and frequent... (read more) List Price $17.25 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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