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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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Tai Lands and Thailand: Community and State in Southeast Asia by Andrew Walker Publisher Comments Most current ethnographic work on the Tai world of mainland Southeast Asia associates community with tradition, locality, and subsistence economy. This book challenges the view that community is a traditional social form being undermined by the modern... (read more) List Price $33.95 Your price: $19.43 New - Trade Paper
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Understanding Gandhi: Gandhians in Conversation with Fred J Blum by Jayshree Mehta Publisher Comments Understanding Gandhi is a collection of interviews conducted by Fr d J. Blum (1914 1990), of six of Mahatma Gandhi s closest associates-J.B. Kriplani, Raihana Tyabji, Dada Dharmadhikari, Sushila Nayar, Jhaver Patel and Sucheta Kripalani. The interviewees... (read more) List Price $33.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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First Emperor (07 Edition) by Sima Qian Publisher Comments "The following year Qin unified all under Heaven and the title of August Emperor was immediately adopted." The short-lived Qin dynasty unified China in 221 BC and created an imperial legacy that lasted until 1911. The extraordinary story of the First... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Winning Modern Wars: Iraq, Terrorism, and the American Empire by Wesley K Clark Publisher Comments General Wesley K. Clark's Waging Modern War, a Washington Post bestseller, examined his experience directing the NATO-led war in Kosovo. As Clark saw it, the Kosovo war—limited in scope, measured in effect, extraordinarily complex in execution... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $1.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Dear Senator Smith: Small-Town Maine Writes to Senator Margaret Chase Smith about the Vietnam War by Eric R. Crouse Publisher Comments In the years 1967-1971, Senator Margaret Chase Smith was the only female member of the Senate and her reputation of integrity and independent thinking attracted the attention of those seeking to understand and voice their opinion on the Vietnam War... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $37.50 New - Hardcover
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The Highway War: A Marine Company Commander in Iraq by Seth W B Folsom Publisher Comments An insightful memoir of anxious battle preparations and fierce... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $5.95 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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Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities by Stephen Legg Publisher Comments Drawing upon the theories and methodologies of governmentality as presented in Michel Foucault’s translated lecture courses, Spaces of Colonialism provides an analysis of the attempts made by the Government of India to secure and order Delhi, the... (read more) List Price $79.99 Your price: $38.45 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Losing the Golden Hour: An Insider's View of Iraq's Reconstruction (Adst-Dacor Diplomats and Diplomacy Book) by James Stephenson Publisher Comments In emergency medicine, the golden hour is the first hour after injury during which treatment greatly increases survivability. In post-conflict transition terminology, it is the first year after hostilities end. Without steadily improving conditions then,... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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External Trade Bulletin of the ESCWA Region by United Nations Publisher Comments This is the 11th issue of this bulletin which offers a wide selection of trade data regarding countries in the ESCWA region. It is divided in three sections containing: summary tables on overall trade, trends and share of the region in total world trade,... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $26.62 Google eBooks - Electronic
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An Investigation Into Early Desert Pastoralism; Excavations At the Camel Site, Negev. by Steven A Rosen Publisher Comments Investigation into Early Desert Pastoralism: Excavations at the Camel Site, Negev focuses on two primary purposes, one theoretical/methodological and the second substantive. Briefly stated, the book comprises a case study of excavations at an early (ca... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $26.77 New - Trade Paper
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Letters to Dalia by Hani Soubra Publisher Comments I have long felt the need to tell the true story of events I have personally experienced in the Middle East. I want to reach out to a global audience by conveying messages of hope and peace that can be shared all over the world. This book explores the... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $11.53 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Struggle for Hegemony in India by Shashi And Bhagwan Josh Joshi Publisher Comments Struggle for Hegemony in India is a three-volume series that delineates the multidimensional activities of the Indian communists. This revised edition covers an extensive period from 1920 to 2009, tracing the communist movement from its earliest years in... (read more) List Price $169.75 Your price: $100.50 New - Hardcover
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Reawakening: The New, Broader Middle East by Jerry M Rosenberg Synopsis In Reawakening: The New, Broader Middle East, Jerry Rosenberg proposes a practical set of models and flow-charts for a reinvented Marshall Plan of the region's twenty-eight nations. Following a detailed review of the 1948 European Recovery Program (the... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price: $18.50 New - Trade Paper
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East Asia by the Year 2000 and Beyond: Shaping Factors: A Study for the European Commission by Wolfgang Pape Book News Annotation Incorporating and synthesizing the work of European and Asian scholars, this text uses computer modeling techniques and other recent methodologies to identify and analyze key political, social, and economic trends in Japan, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong... (read more) List Price $59.95 Your price: $29.98 New - Hardcover
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A Partisan from Vilna by Rachel. Trans. By F. Jackson Piotrow Margolis Publisher Comments A Partisan of Vilna is the memoir of Rachel Margolis, the sole survivor of her family, who escaped from the Vilna Ghetto with other members of the FPO (United Partisan Organization) resistance movement and joined the Soviet partisans in the forests of... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $26.80 New - Hardcover
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The Deserter's Tale: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq by Joshua Key Publisher Comments Joshua Key, a young husband and father from a conservative background in Oklahoma, enlisted in the United States Army in 2002, to get training as a welder and to lift his family out of poverty. He believed he would not be deployed unless World War III... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $11.50 New - Hardcover
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India, Global Powers and West Asia: Political and Economic Dynamics by Anwar Alam Book News Annotation The ten papers in this collection examine the rise of China as an economic power, trace the origins of India's Israel policy, describe India's engagements with the Gulf Cooperation Council, and explore the dynamics of the competition between the US... (read more) List Price $43.50 Your price: $29.14 New - Hardcover
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Islamic Culture in Crisis: A Reflection on Civilizations in History by Dja Publisher Comments Islamic Culture in Crisis examines efforts by intellectuals and leaders in the Islamic world to adapt to what Hichem Djait calls the incredible novelty of modernity that has come to Europe during the past 150 years. The chapters in the work are grouped... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $26.77 New - Hardcover
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