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Great Game (92 Edition) by Peter Hopkirk Publisher Comments THE GREATGAME: THE EPIC STORY BEHIND TODAY'S HEADLINES Peter Hopkirk's spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asoa has been hailed as essential reading with that era's legacy playing itself out today. The Great Game... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Warriors of the Steppe: A Military History of Central Asia, 500 B.C. to A.D.1700 by Erik Hildinger Publisher Comments The nomadic peoples of central Asia—Huns, Bulgars, Magyars, Mongols—are still known to us for their legendary fighters Attila, Genghis Khan, and Timur Lenk (Tamerlane), as well as for their feats of calculated brutality. (Timur Lenk would leave... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from T by Christopher I Beckwith Publisher Comments "Empires of the Silk Road is a major scholarly achievement. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of the history of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the present. But it is much more than a simple narrative of events in what is... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Life Along the Silk Road by Susan Whitfield Publisher Comments The Silk Road was the most traveled trade route for over 1,000 years until it was eclipsed by maritime trade. Whitfield presents composite stories of merchants, soldiers, artists, and princesses who traveled the route, and presents its history through... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Descent Into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid Publisher Comments After September 11th , Ahmed Rashid's crucial book Taliban introduced American readers to that now notorious regime. In this new work, he returns to Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia to review the catastrophic aftermath of America's failed war on... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Oasis Identities: Uyghur Nationalism Along China's Silk Road by Justin Jon Rudelson Publisher Comments The rising tide of ethnic nationalism that has swept across Central Asia in the past decade has energized efforts by the Chinese government to win favor among its ethnic minorities. As a result, China has granted the Uyghurs -- a Turkic Muslim people who... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer by Patrick French Publisher Comments Sir Francis Younghusband was one of the last great imperialists and adventurers. In 1903 he single-handedly turned a small diplomatic mission into a full-scale military invasion of Tibet. He later became an outlandish mystical philosopher and fervent... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Azerbaijan Diary: A Rogue Reporter's Adventures in an Oil-Rich, War-Torn, Post-Soviet Republic by Thomas Goltz Publisher Comments This underground classic tells the story of oil-rich Azerbaijan's first years of independence from Moscow. Goltz's vivid, personal account, filled with memorable portraits of individuals in high places and low, carries the reader from the battlefront to... (read more) List Price $40.25 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid Publisher Comments The terrorist attacks of September 11 have turned the world's attention to areas of the globe about which we know very little. Ahmed Rashid, who masterfully explained Afghanistan's Taliban regime in his previous book, here turns his skills as an... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $3.98 Used - Hardcover
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The New Central Asia: Geopolitics and the Birth of Nations by Olivier Roy Publisher Comments In a new, revised edition of his acclaimed book, Olivier Roy examines the political development of central Asia, from Russian conquests to the “War on Terror” and beyond. During the anti-Gorbachev coup in August 1991, most communist leaders... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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War at the Top of the World: The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir and Tibet by Eric S Margolis Publisher Comments In this stunning read, veteran foreign correspondent Eric Margolis presents a revelatory history of the complicated and volatile conflicts that entangle one of the most beautiful and remote parts of the world.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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War at the Top of the World: The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashjmir and Tibet by Eric S Margolis Publisher Comments What will the post-Taliban government of Afghanistan look like? How will the war in Afghanistan affect the already unstable politics of Central Asia? In "War at the Top of the World, veteran foreign correspondent Eric Margolis presents a revelatory... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid Publisher Comments Ahmed Rashid, whose masterful account of Afghanistan's Taliban regime became required reading after September 11, turns his legendary skills as an investigative journalist to five adjacent Central Asian Republics—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia by Peter Hopkirk Publisher Comments For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth, Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia, fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it "The Great Game," a phrase... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid Publisher Comments Correspondent Ahmed Rashid brings the shadowy world of the Taliban--the world's most extreme and radical Islamic organization--into sharp focus in this enormously insightful book. He offers the only authoritative account of the Taliban available to... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dragon Fighter: One Woman's Epic Struggle for Peace with China by Rebiya Kadeer Publisher Comments Along the ancient Silk Road where Europe, Asia, and Russia converge stands the four-thousand-year-old homeland of a peaceful people, the Uyghurs. Their culture is filled with music, dance, family, and love of tradition passed down by storytelling through... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Nazarbayev and the Making of Kazakhstan by Jonathan Aitken Publisher Comments Kazakhstan is colossal in size, complicated in its history, colourful in its culture and is a nation state that most outsiders know little of. Much of the existing narrative revolves around the country's first president, Nursultan Nazarbayev. But his... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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Caucasus in the Wake of Warriors by Nicholas Griffin Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-231) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Murderers in Mausoleums: Riding the Back Roads of Empire Between Moscow and Beijing by Jeffrey Tayler Publisher Comments A gripping journey through some of the planets most remote and challenging terrain and its peoples, in search of why democracy has yet to thrive in lands it seemed so recently ready to overtake Across the largest landmass on earth, in lands once... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Taliban (2ND 10 Edition) by Ahmed Rashid Publisher Comments Correspondent Ahmed Rashid brings the shadowy world of the Taliban—the worlds most extreme and radical Islamic organization—into sharp focus in this enormously insightful book. He offers the only authoritative account of the Taliban... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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