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1421: The Year China Discovered America (P.S.) by Gavin Menzies Publisher Comments On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China to "proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas." When the fleet returned home in October 1423, the emperor had... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Forsaken Warriors: The Story of an American Advisor Who Fought with the South Vietnamese Rangers and Airborne by Robert L Tonsetic Publisher Comments An inside account of the South Vietnamese elites who strove to carry on the war against the Communists during the U.S. Army's withdrawal . . .The book is a personal memoir of the author's service as a US Army advisor during the end-stages of America's... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $22.08 New - Hardcover
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Blinded by the Sunlight: Emerging from the Prison of Saddam's Iraq by Matthew Mcallester Publisher Comments For eight terrifying days in March, while Baghdad was ablaze with bombs, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Matt McAllester and four other Westerners were imprisoned in Abu Ghraib, the most horrific prison in the Middle East. Crashing from his adrenaline... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Thunder From the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Synopsis Two Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondents offer a cutting-edge report on Asia and the ways in which it is reshaping the world. Through vivid descriptions of the people they encountered during their 14 years in Asia, the authors present a brilliant... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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East Meets West: Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia by Daniel A Bell Publisher Comments Is liberal democracy a universal ideal? Proponents of "Asian values" argue that it is a distinctive product of the Western experience and that Western powers shouldn't try to push human rights and democracy onto Asian states. Liberal democrats in the... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $18.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Publisher Comments Make this your next book club selection and everyone saves. Get 15% off when you order 5 or more of this title for your book club. Simply enter the coupon code MORTENSONTHREE at checkout. This offer does not apply to eBook purchases. This offer applies... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dreamland: European Jews in the Aftermath of the Great War by Howard Morle Sachar Publisher Comments From the dean of modem Jewish historians comes a panoramic examination of the experience of Europe's Jews in the aftermath of "the war to end all wars." Dreamland traces the fissures that appeared all too quickly in those democracies born from the rubble... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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48 Hours of Kristallnacht: Night of Destruction/Dawn of the Holocaust: An Oral History by Mitchell G Bard Publisher Comments On the night of November 9, 1938, rampaging mobs throughout Germany and the newly acquired territories of Austria and Sudetenland freely attacked Jews in the street, in their homes, and at their places of work and worship. Over the next forty-eight hours... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.97 New - Hardcover
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Asian Development and Public Policy (Policy Studies Organization Series) by Stuart S Nagel Publisher Comments This book analyzes various important aspects of methodology and substance regarding economic, social, and political policy in Asia directed toward achieving more effective, efficient, and equitable societal institutions. The chapters are authored by... (read more) List Price $184.25 Your price: $18.40 Used - Hardcover
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Arthur Ruppin and the Production of Pre-Israeli Culture by Etan Bloom Publisher Comments This study focuses on one individual, Arthur Ruppin (1876-1943), who established and directed the Palestine Office of the World Zionist Organization during the first decades of the 20th century. His involvement and his impact were large, and his... (read more) List Price $206.95 Your price: $131.32 New - Hardcover
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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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Ancestral Realms of the Naxi: Quentin Roosevelt's China by Christine Matieu And Cindy Ho Synopsis A comprehensive introduction to over a thousand years of Naxi culture, art and religion, which presents the outstanding objects of the Quentin Roosevelt Collection, the most complete collection of Naxi Dongba art in the world.... (read more) List Price $70.00 Your price: $46.90 New - Hardcover
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New Directions in Anglo-Jewish History by Geoffrey Alderman Synopsis The past two decades have witnessed a remarkable renaissance in the academic study of the history of the Jews in Great Britain and of their impact upon British history. The essays presented in this volume reflect and offer some of the finest fruits of... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $43.55 New - Hardcover
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This Heated Place: Encounters in the Promised Land by Deborah Campbell Publisher Comments A freelance writer who once lived in Israel delivers a compelling account of travel in war-torn Israel, with personal insights into the region's complex, bloody struggles.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Clash of Modernities: The Islamist Challenge and the Making and Unmaking of the "New" Jew, Turk, and Arab (Studies in Comparative Social Science) by Khaldoun Samman Publisher Comments To understand the Middle East we must also understand how the West produced a temporal narrative of world history in which westerners placed themselves on top and all others below them. In a landmark reinterpretation of Middle Eastern history, this book... (read more) List Price $117.25 Your price: $59.63 New - Hardcover
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External Trade Bulletin of the Escwa Region by United Nations Publisher Comments The Bulletin includes statistical data and indicators on the international trade in goods of ESCWA member countries, based primarily on national sources, with additional material provided by secondary sources. Data presented includes summary tables on... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $13.31 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Bundist Counterculture in Interwar Poland by Jack Jacobs Book News Annotation What explains the electoral successes of the General Jewish Workers' Bund in 1930s Poland? Although varied answers have been suggested in the past, Jacobs (political science, City U. of New York) argues that any attempt to understand the successes of... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $26.77 New - Hardcover
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All the wrong places :adrift in the politics of the Pacific rim by James Fenton Publisher Comments James Fenton is the right man in the wrong place in dangerous times. This journalist, poet, and critic is almost always at the center of a revolution. Fenton was one of the last journalists in Saigon, and his reporting from the abandoned American embassy,... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East--From the Cold War to the War on Terror by Patrick Tyler Publisher Comments The White House and the Middle East—from the Cold War to the War on Terror The Middle East is the beginning and the end of U.S. foreign policy: events there influence our alliances, make or break presidencies, govern the price of oil, and draw... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and West (Vintage) by Ian Buruma Publisher Comments From Naipauls India to the last days of Hong Kong, and from the ghosts of Pearl Harbor to Benazir Bhutto, Buruma delivers an engaging and incisive look at the ways East and West understand–and misunderstand–each other. At home in both worlds,... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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