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Eastward to Tartary (Vintage Departures) by Robert D Kaplan Publisher Comments Eastward to Tartary, Robert Kaplan's first book to focus on a single region since his bestselling Balkan Ghosts, introduces readers to an explosive and little-known part of the world destined to become a tinderbox of the future. Kaplan takes us on a... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid Publisher Comments 'Shrouding themselves and their aims in deepest secrecy, the leaders of the Taliban movement control Afghanistan with an inflexible, crushing fundamentalism. The most extreme and radical of all Islamic organizations, the Taliban inspires fascination... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Descent Into Chaos: the U.S. and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia (08 Edition) by Ahmed Rashid Publisher Comments The #1 New York Times bestselling author provides a shocking analysis of the crisis in Pakistan and the renewed radicalism threatening Afghanistan and the West. Ahmed Rashid is “Pakistan’s best and bravest reporter” (Christopher... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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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: $8.98 Sale - 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: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Ride to Khiva the Classic Great Game Best-Seller by Frederick Burnaby Publisher Comments In the winter of 1875, a young British officer set out across central Asia on an unofficial mission to investigate the latest secret Russian moves in the Great Game. His goal was the mysterious caravan city of Khiva, closed to all European travelers by... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $10.50 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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The Devil and the Disappearing Sea: A True Story about the Aral Sea Catastrophe by Robert Ferguson Publisher Comments Set among the ruins of the Soviet empire, this darkly comic true-crime thriller involves environmental disaster, international intrigue, and an unsolved murder. In January 2000, Rob Ferguson went to Uzbekistan to work on a project designed to save the... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $10.50 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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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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Mission to Tashkent by F M Bailey Publisher Comments Colonel F. M. Bailey, whose extraordinary adventures are told here, was long accused by Moscow of being a British master spy sent in 1918 to overthrow the Bolsheviks in Central Asia. As a result, he had, many years after his death, an almost legendary... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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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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Central Asia in Historical Perspective (John M. Olin Critical Issues Series) by Beatrice F. Manz Publisher Comments Since the demise of Soviet power, the newly independent republics are redefining their identities and their relations with the world at large. In Central Asia, which lies at the crossroads of several cultures, the emerging trends are complex and... (read more) List Price $47.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Preventive Action Reports #4: Calming the Ferghana Valley: Development and Dialogue in the Heart of Central Asia by Nancy Lubin Publisher Comments This report assesses the potential for conflict in Central Asia through the prism of one of its most volatile areas, the Ferghana Valley. The Ferghana Valley project of the Council on Foreign Relations' Center for Preventive Action (CPA) has produced... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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