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Undaunted: My Struggle for Freedom and Survival in Burma (10 Edition) by Zoya Phan Publisher Comments Once a royal kingdom and then part of the British Empire, Burma long held sway in the Western imagination as a mythic place of great beauty. In recent times, Burma has been torn apart and isolated by one of the most brutal dictatorships in the world. Now,... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover 
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From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey by Pascal Khoo Thwe Publisher Comments A heartbreaking tale, told with lyricism, affection and insight.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Everything Is Broken: A Tale of Catastrophe in Burma by Emma Larkin Publisher Comments Read Emma Larkin's posts on the Penguin Blog. A deeply reported account of life inside Burma in the months following the disastrous Cyclone Nargis and an analysis of the brutal totalitarian regime that clings to power in the devastated nation. On May 2... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's Prisoner of Conscience by Justin Wintle Publisher Comments Burma is a country where, as one senior UN official puts it, "just to turn your head can mean imprisonment or death." Aung San Suu Kyi is considered to be Burma's best hope for freedom, and, because of her unwavering commitment to nonviolent resistance... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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No Bad News for the King: The True Story of Cyclone Nargis and Its Aftermath in Burma by Emma Larkin Publisher Comments An incisive, unprecedented report on life inside Burma from the author of Finding George Orwell in Burma On May 2, 2008, an enormous tropical cyclone made landfall in Burma, wreaking untold havoc and killing more than 138,000 people. In No Bad News for... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Voice of Hope by Aung San Suu Kyi Publisher Comments “The dialogues [in The Voice of Hope] express Aung San Suu Kyi’s humor, erudition, wisdom and accessibility, and demonstrate why she has become a world spiritual leader.”—The New York Times Book Review “Reading this book... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Aung San Suu Kyi: A Biography by Jesper Bengtsson Publisher Comments The leader of Burma 's democracy movement, Aung San Suu Kyi, has joined Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, and the Dalai Lama in the global pantheon of those whose lives are dedicated to freedom. Throughout the world, she is... (read more) Your price: $27.50 New - Hardcover
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Than Shwe: Unmasking Burma's Tyrant by Benedict Rogers Publisher Comments Than Shwe is one of the world's most brutal dictators, presiding over a military regime that persists in repressing and brutalizing its own people. Until now, his story has not been told. Than Shwe: Unmasking Burma's Tyrant provides the first-ever... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Trade Paper
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From Land of Green Ghosts : a Burmese Odyssey (02 Edition) by Pascal Khoo Thwe Publisher Comments In 1988, Dr. John Casey, a professor visiting Burma, meets a waiter in Mandalay with a passion for the works of James Joyce, and the encounter changes both their lives. Pascal, a member of the Kayan Padaung tribe, was the first member of his community to... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Roadmap by Suragamika Publisher Comments This remarkable work of creative nonfiction takes place in Burma, spanning more than two decades of the pro-democracy movement. It is a spare and poignant portrayal of the country's continuing political instability and two fictitious families whose lives... (read more) List Price $18.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Burma: The Next Killing Fields? (Real Story Series) by Alan Clements Publisher Comments Foreword by the Dalai Lama This emotionally gripping book tells the story of Burma's struggle for independence and democracy, based on interviews with hundreds of Burmese from ordinary citizens to freedom fighters in the jungle.... (read more) List Price $5.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Chasing the dragon :into the heart of the Golden Triangle by Christopher R Cox Book News Annotation Boston Herald journalist Christopher Cox recounts the extraordinary adventures (and seedy misadventures) he experienced over three years during his ultimately successful quest to gain a personal audience with Burmese General Khun Sa, dubbed "The... (read more) Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Burmese Looking Glass: A Human Rights Adventure and a Jungle Revolution by Edith T. Mirante Publisher Comments The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, awarded to Burma's imprisoned opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, focused world attention on a land in chains. Burma, a Southeast Asian nation the size of France, has been isolated by decades of brutal dictatorship. Few... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $8.88 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Singing to the Dead: A Missioner's Life Among Refugees from Burma by Vict Armour Hileman Publisher Comments It is 1992, and the Burmese government's current war on its indigenous people runs into its fourth year. In neighboring Thailand, a small band of Buddhist monks harbors refugees from Burma inside their modest temple in the slums of Bangkok. The monks and... (read more) List Price $24.75 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Brave Men of the Hills: Resistance and Rebellion in Burma, 1825-1932 by Parimal Ghosh Publisher Comments Burma was conquered by Britain in the course of three wars fought in 1825, 1852, and 1885, and colonial rule was to last until 1948. when Burma regained its lost independence. Throughout this period there were several armed uprisings against foreign rule... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $18.64 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin Staff Pick While tracing Orwell's early career in Burma and its impact on his writing, Larkin provides a harrowing glimpse into how current day Burma hauntingly mirrors the worlds Orwell wrote about in 1984 and Animal Farm.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Letters from Burma by Aung San Suu Kyi Publisher Comments Human-rights activist and leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to six years' house arrest in Rangoon in 1989 by the ruling military junta SLORC. She paints a vivid, poignant yet optimistic picture of her native... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A History of Myanmar Since Ancient Times: Traditions and Transformations by Michael A Aung Thwin Publisher Comments The Republic of the Union of Myanmar is often characterized as a place of repressive military rule, civil war, censorship, and corrupt elections—and despite recent attempts to promote tourism to see the country’s natural beauty, it is... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price: $39.00 New - Hardcover
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For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question: A Story from Burma's Never-Ending War by Mac McClelland Publisher Comments It's time the world understood what's going on in Burma. It has more child soldiers than any other country in the world, the CIA had its first secret war there, and it's also home to the Darfur you've never heard of. In 2006, Mac McClelland arrived to... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Monographs in International Studies. Southeast Asian Series #102: Myth and History in the Historiography of Early Burma: Paradigms, Primary Sources, and Prejudices by Michael Aung Thwin Publisher Comments After careful re-reading and analysis of original Old Burmese and other primary sources, the author discovered that four out of the five events considered to be the most important in the history of early Burma, and believed to have been historically... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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