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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 The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Talibanandrsquo;s backyard Anyone who despairs of the individualandrsquo;s power to change lives has to read the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Saudi Arabia (Middle East in Focus) by Sherifa Zuhur Publisher Comments In this comprehensive introduction to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, author Sherifa Zuhur reveals the fascinating people, culture, politics, and economic development of the largest Arab country of the Middle East. The book provides a detailed summary of... (read more) List Price $100.00 Your price: $67.00 New - Hardcover
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A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations by Conrad Schirokauer Publisher Comments This compelling text explores the development of China and Japan through their art, religion, literature, and thought as well as through their economic, political, and social history. This author team combines strong research with extensive classroom... (read more) List Price $135.35 Your price: $39.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Security Arrangements in the Persian Gulf: With Special Reference to Iran's Foreign Policy by Mahboubeh F Sadeghinia Synopsis The strategic and economic characteristics of the Persian Gulf have made it of critical importance to all the states bordering its coastline, as well as the entire worlds economy and political life. Its significant geopolitical situation, in addition to... (read more) List Price $69.95 Your price: $46.87 New - Hardcover
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Nehru and Modern India: An Anatomy of Nation-Building by G. Gopa Kumar Synopsis Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru - the First Prime Minister of independent India - was the embodiment of the spirit and ideals of democracy, socialism, secularism, nationalism, equality, and social justice. Estimating the contemporary significance and historical... (read more) List Price $48.75 Your price: $25.96 New - Hardcover
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The Calm Before the Storm: Selected Writings of Itamar Singer on the End of the Late Bronze Age in Anatolia and the Levant by Itamar Singer Book News Annotation Singer (ancient Near Eastern history and cultures, Tel Aviv U.) has gathered 42 articles written over 35 years of his career, which has pivoted mostly on the Hittites. Among the topics are a political history of Ugarit, Hittite cultural influence in... (read more) List Price $69.95 Your price: $46.87 New - Trade Paper
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Pakistan: Deep Inside the World's Most Frightening State by Mary Anne Weaver Publisher Comments No nation is more critical to U.S. foreign policy than nuclear-armed Pakistan. Wedged between India and Afghanistan, it is the second largest country in the Islamic world. But with militant Islamists now expanding their control over some of the country's... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong by Edward A Gargan Publisher Comments From Tibet to Vietnam, from windswept plateaus to the South China Sea, the Mekong flows for three thousand miles, snaking its way through Southeast Asia. Long fascinated with this part of the world, former New York Times correspondent Edward Gargan... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Short History of Asia by Colin Mason Publisher Comments The peoples of Asia now make up more than half of the world's population. They are increasingly well-educated, and successful in every area of modern trade and technology. Their influence in the rest of the world is also becoming greater. Colin Mason... (read more) List Price $39.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The great hill stations of Asia by Barbara Crossette Publisher Comments For the European and later the American colonial soldier, the civil administrator and his clerk, the merchant, the missionary, and the families who followed them east of Suez, daily life was less a matter of advancing the glory of God or empire than a... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Routledge Handbook of Political Islam by Shahram Akbarzadeh Publisher Comments The Routledge Handbook of Political Islam provides a multidisciplinary overview of the phenomenon of political Islam, one of the key political movements of our time. Drawing on the expertise from some of the top scholars in the world it examines the main... (read more) List Price $257.25 Your price: $134.00 New - Hardcover
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The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East by Kishore Mahbubani Publisher Comments For centuries, the Asians (Chinese, Indians, Muslims, and others) have been bystanders in world history. Now they are ready to become co-drivers. Asians have finally understood, absorbed, and implemented Western best practices in many areas: from free... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World by Mark Norell Publisher Comments An elegantly, lavishly illustrated history of the legendary Silk Road and the cultural pathway it blazed for the modern world. Spanning centuries of history, this engrossing book--created in conjunction with the world-famous American Museum of... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $19.95 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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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 Publisher Comments 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. In this volume Professor Geoffrey Alderman presents essays that reflect the richness... (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 $89.00 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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All the wrong places :adrift in the politics of the Pacific rim by James Fenton Publisher Comments Unlike any Vietnam coverage ever read, Fenton's reporting from the abandoned American embassy in Saigon is typical of his in-the-middle-of-it-all view of Cambodia, Siagon, the Philippines, and Korea.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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