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China: The Balance Sheet What the World Needs to Know Now about the Emerging Superpower by Center For Strategic Publisher Comments China's emergence as a major international power is perhaps the most important development in world affairs of the 21st century. Now, this book provides an indispensable survey of that country, the world's largest-- a vast land with 1.4 billion people... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover 
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Lam Chi Phat: The Chronicle of an Overseas Chinese Family by Tri Lam Synopsis Memoir of an overseas Chinese family in Vietnam. Life during the French colonial times and the Japanese occupation, during the American war and after the war.... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia by Ronald H. Spector Publisher Comments In this sequel to "Eagle Against the Sun," Spector examines how the end of World War II in the Pacific spawned brutal, new conflicts for power among the peoples of the former Japanese Empire in Asia.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: China's Eternal First Lady by Laura Tyson Li Publisher Comments In a life that spanned the 20th century (1898-2003), Madame Chiang Kai-Shek was inextricably entwined with China's tempestuous evolution from the imperial Qing Dynasty to the end of colonialism in Hong Kong. In this first biography of one of history's... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Terrorism by Eqbal Ahmad Publisher Comments Discusses the term "terrorist" in comparison to "freedom fighter," as the two concepts are perceived in American politics, and offers the author's comments on his return from a trip to Afghanistan to interview Osama bin Laden.... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $6.17 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Hunt for Bin Laden: Task Force Dagger by Robin Moore Publisher Comments “As the [al-Qaida terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets, oblivious to the enemy small-arms fire that was cracking by their heads and shoulders. “ ‘Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze, they recited quietly.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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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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One in a Billion: Xploring the New World of China by Sandy Thompson Publisher Comments China, the world’s largest, fastest developing market, is a place of seduction, opportunity, mystery, and allure. For business, much of the allure is in the numbers: Five thousand years of history; more than 20 percent of the planet’s... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $5.25 Used - Hardcover
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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: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Punjabi Century, 1857-1947 by Prakash Tandon Publisher Comments An important document in the social history of India, this volume presents the autobiography of a Punjabi family over the three tumultuous generations that spanned years from the Mutiny to Independence. The book provides an absorbing view, from within... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Book Club Paperback
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Knowing China by Gregory C Chow Publisher Comments This invaluable book offers an insight into China through its history, culture, people, economy, education, science and technology, as well as government and political system. The author also compares the "twin" cities of Hong Kong and Shanghai, and... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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China in the World Market: Chinese Industry and International Sources of Reform in the Post-Mao Era (Cambridge Modern China Series) by Thomas Geoffr Moore Publisher Comments Thomas G. Moore examines the role of the outside world as a source of change in post-Mao China. Based on extensive documentary and interview material, the book adds the Chinese case to a long tradition of country-based studies by political economists... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price: $6.75 Used - 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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Among the Afghans (Central Asia Book Series) by Arthur Bonner Publisher Comments Arthur Bonner, a New York Times reporter with long experience as a foreign correspondent in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, spent most of 1985 and 1986 in Afghanistan and Pakistan researching the aftermath of the 1979 Soviet invasion of this mountainous,... (read more) List Price $46.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Red Circle: China and Me 1949-2009 by Stephen Songsheng Chen Publisher Comments Red Circle: China and Me, 1949-2009 tells the fascinating story of Stephen Chen and his family. It sketches the history of the People’s Republic of China, not merely as a backdrop, but as the driving force of the book’s action. Red... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Wild Swans Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang Publisher Comments Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, Wild Swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more than ten million copies sold. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China, it is an... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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United States-Japan Economic Relationship by Marcus Noland Synopsis On the Korean peninsula one of the greatest success stories of the post-war era confronts a famine-ridden-and possibly nuclear-armed-totalitarian state. The stakes are extraordinarily high for both North and South Korea, and for countries such as the... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Arrow Talk: Transaction, Transition, and Contradiction in New Guinea Highlands History by Andrew Strathern Publisher Comments Arrow Talk makes a significant contribution to the understanding of Melanesian culture and contemporary sociopolitical issues in Papua New Guinea. In a postmodern era in which culture has been dismissed by many anthropologists as a reification, this book... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Japan Today 3RD Edition by Roger Buckley Publisher Comments Japan Today is an introductory survey of contemporary Japan. It examines the development of Japan's postwar political system (up to the December 1983 general election) and its immense economic advances against a backcloth of social and cultural stability.... (read more) List Price $45.75 Your price: $2.48 Used - Trade Paper
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Japan: The Intellectual Foundations of Modern Japanese Politics (Phoenix Book) by Tetsuo Najita Publisher Comments Historians have long been aware of the richness and complexity of the intellectual history of modern Japanese politics. Najita's study, however, is the first in a Western language to present a consistent and broad synthesis of this subject. Najita... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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