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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 In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Greg Mortenson Publisher Comments From the author of the #1 bestseller Three Cups of Tea, the continuing story of this determined humanitarian's efforts to promote peace through education In this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad Staff Pick In this remarkable portrait, Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad recounts with brutal honesty the day to day lives of one Afghani family persevering through life in a country beset by chaos. With the assent of the Khan family with whom she lives... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ancient Futures: Lessons from Ladakh for a Globalizing World by Helena Norberg-hodge Publisher Comments This gripping portrait of the rapidly evolving socioeconomic life of Ladakh - the Western Himalayan land known as Little Tibet - offers crucial lessons in sustainable development as its people attempt to balance growth and technology with cultural values.... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us about Living in the West by T R Reid Publisher Comments Anyone who has heard his weekly commentary on NPR knows that T. R. Reid is trenchant, funny, and deeply knowledgeable, and now he brings this erudition and humor to the five years he spent in Japan, where he served as The Washington Post's Tokyo bureau... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia 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) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know (What Everyone Needs to Know) by David Steinberg Publisher Comments In the past two decades, Burma/Myanmar has become a front-page topic in newspapers across the world. This former British colony has one of the most secretive, corrupt, and repressive regimes on the planet, yet it houses a Nobel Peace Prize winner who is... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Red Star Over China by Edgar Snow Publisher Comments The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with the first authorized account of Mao's life, as well as a history of the famous Long March and the men and women who were responsible for the... (read more) List Price $16.50 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Western Power in Asia: Its Slow Rise and Swift Fall, 1415-1999 by Arthur Cotterell Publisher Comments Western Power in Asia is an accessible and informal account of the Western era of power in Asia. It offers the general reader a unique overview of a vast historical canvas. Its chief merit is that it brings together for the first time so much political... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Japanese Consumer: An Alternative Economic History of Modern Japan by Penelope Francks Publisher Comments By the late twentieth century, Japanese people were renowned as the worlds most avid and knowledgeable consumers of fashion, luxury and quality, while the goods that embodied their tastes and lifestyle were becoming a part of global culture. Penelope... (read more) Your price: $38.25 New - 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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gandhi: 'hind Swaraj' and Other Writings Centenary Edition (UK Edition) by Mohandas Gandhi Publisher Comments Hind Swaraj is Mahatma Gandhis fundamental work. Not only is it key to understanding his life and thoughts, but also the politics of South Asia in the first half of the twentieth century. Celebrating 100 years since Hind Swaraj was first published in a... (read more) Your price: $34.00 New - Mass Market
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The Japanese Consumer: An Alternative Economic History of Modern Japan by Penelope Francks Publisher Comments By the late twentieth century, Japanese people were renowned as the world's most avid and knowledgeable consumers of fashion, luxury and quality, while the goods that embodied their tastes and lifestyle were becoming a part of global culture. Penelope... (read more) List Price $94.25 Your price: $87.75 New - Hardcover
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The International Relations of Northeast Asia (Asia in World Politics) by Samuel S Kim Publisher Comments This authoritative work explores the complex and evolving interplay among national, regional, and global forces influencing Northeast Asia's security, economy, and identity. Written by a team of leading scholars, the book presents a variety of... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World by Yang Erche Namu and Christine Mathieu Publisher Comments This lyrical evocation of girlhood in a remote Himalayan village where women truly rule is now in paperback. In the remote Himalayas, on the shores of Lake Lugu, there is a place the Chinese call "the Country of Daughters." This is the home of the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan by Christina Lamb Publisher Comments Twenty-one-year-old Christina Lamb left suburban England for Peshawar on the frontier of the Afghan war. Captivated, she spent two years tracking the final stages of the mujaheddin victory over the Soviets, as Afghan friends smuggled her in and out of... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Dragon Fighter: One Woman's Epic Struggle for Peace with China by Alexandra Cavelius Publisher Comments A remarkable autobiographical journey from humble beginnings to a position as a powerful world figure fighting for her nation"s self-determination.Along the ancient Silk Road where Europe, Asia, and Russia converge stands the four-thousand-year-old... (read more) Your price: $28.95 New - Hardcover
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Translating the West: Language and Political Reason in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Douglas R Howland Synopsis In this rich and absorbing analysis of the transformation of political thought in nineteenth-century Japan, the author examines the transmission to Japan of key concepts -- liberty, rights, sovereignty, and society -- from Western Europe and the United... (read more) List Price $31.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pacific Century the Emergence of Mod 3RD Edition by Mark Borthwick Publisher Comments The Asia-Pacific region is rapidly emerging as the global economic and political powerhouse of the twenty-first century. Looking at both Southeast and East Asia, this richly illustrated volume stresses broad, cross-cutting themes of regional history... (read more) List Price $66.25 Your price: $31.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea: New Women, Old Ways (Global, Area, and International Archive) by Hyaeweol Choi Synopsis This book traces the genealogy of modern womanhood in the encounters between Koreans and American Protestant missionaries in the early twentieth century. Hyaeweol Choi's textured, historically specific analysis shows that what it meant to be a modern... (read more) Your price: $36.75 New - Trade Paper
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