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Encounters with the Middle East: True Stories of People and Culture That Help You Understand the Region
by Nesreen Khashan And Jim Bowman  Publisher Comments Encounters with the Middle East collects 30 rich, engaging travel stories that capture uplifting scenes from everyday life and deliver sensitive, bittersweet renderings of people and landscapes often shaken by conflict. This book, with black and white...
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When Asia Was the World
by Stewart Gordon Publisher Comments While European intellectual, cultural, and commercial life stagnated during the early medieval period, Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of religious, commercial, and intellectual connections,...
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History Upside Down: The Roots of Palestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Aggression
by David Meir-levi Synopsis Forty years ago, a significant part of the political, religious, intellectual, and terrorist leadership of the Arab world declared an all-out war against the documented history of the Middle East and America's role in the Muslim world. Arab PR...
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Missionary & the Libertine
by Ian Buruma Synopsis In this collection of essays, Ian Buruma examines the relationship between Asia and the West, and seeks to refute the notion that an absolute division between East and West exists....
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This Heated Place: Encounters in the Promised Land
by Deborah Campbell Publisher Comments This Heated Place takes the reader into 21st Century Israel and the occupied territories. Incisive, impassioned and compelling, here is a bright new voice that depicts the daily lives of Arabs and Jews caught up in a complex and bloody struggle....
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Holy Land Mosaic: Stories of Cooperation and Coexistence Between Israelis and Palestinians
by Daniel Gavron Publisher Comments Holy Land Mosaic chronicles the less reported side of the Middle East scene the ongoing projects of conciliation and coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians, and between Arabs and Jews in Israel. Daniel Gavron presents a personal journey through...
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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...
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Revolution, Repression, and Revival: The Soviet Jewish Experience
by Zvi Gitelman and Yaacov Ro'i Synopsis Revolution, Repression and Revival The Experience of Jews in the Former Soviet Union enhances our understanding of the Russian Jewish past by bringing together some of the latest thinking by the leading scholars from the former Soviet Union, Israel and...
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The World According to Washington: An Asian View
by Patwant Singh Publisher Comments In this challenging, widely documented book, the distinguished Indian writer Patwant Singh examines US interventions in Asia from the Korean War to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and its aftermath. He demonstrates graphically how US administrations have...
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Inside China
by National Geographic Publisher Comments China's emergence as an economic and cultural giant reigns as a key international story of our time. In an unprecedented visual tour de force, National Geographic chronicles this astonishing ascent through some of the most eye-opening, evocative, and...
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Fighting Words: Language Policy and Ethnic Relations in Asia (Bcsia Studies in International Security)
by Michael E Brown Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [449]-461) and index....
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The International Relations of Northeast Asia (Asia in World Politics)
by Samuel S Kim Synopsis 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...
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Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade
by Bill Emmott Publisher Comments The former editor in chief of the Economist returns to the territory of his bestselling book The Sun Also Sets to lay out an entirely fresh analysis of the growing rivalry between China, India, and Japan and what it will mean for America, the global...
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Husband of a Fanatic : a Personal Journey Through India, Pakistan, Love, and Hate (05 Edition)
by Amitava Kumar Publisher Comments In the summer of 1999, while India and Pakistan were engaged in a war, Amitava Kumar — a Hindu Indian writer living and teaching in the United States — married a Pakistani Muslim woman. That event led to a process of discovery that prompted...
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The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought (Columbia Studies in International and Global History)
by Cemil Aydin Publisher Comments In this rich intellectual history, Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a political and religious reaction to the liberal and democratic values of the West. Nor is anti-Westernism a natural response to Western...
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The Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and West
by Ian Buruma Publisher Comments For centuries Westerners have projected fan-tasies of a decadent, voluptuous East in contrast to the puritanism of their own cultures. A Japanese theatrical troupe performing in his native Holland in 1971 exposed the young Ian Buruma to these temptations,...
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One Family
by Andrew Kolin Synopsis One Family is a social and cultural history of one Jewish Family prior to and during the Holocaust written by the son of a Holocaust survivor....
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Iran and Its Place Among Nations
by Alidad And Aria Mehrabi Mafinezam Publisher Comments Iran and Its Place among Nations takes a bird's-eye view of where Iran has been in the international community, where it is today, and where it may ideally end up in the future. Is Iran an Eastern country, bound by traditions that hinder economic...
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The Battle of Ap Bac, Vietnam: They Did Everything But Learn from It
by David M Toczek Book News Annotation Toczek (history, Unites States Military Academy) closely describes the reasons for the defeat of the South Vietnamese Army (the ARVN) and its American advisors in January 1963 at Ap Bac. It was clear, according to Toczek's research, that the ARVN was...
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Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, and the Myth of the Exotic Oriental
by Sheridan Prasso Synopsis A prize-winning journalist and Asia expert goes on a reality tour of Asia's sex trade, campuses, business districts, and corridors of power to issue a profound and provocative critique of the West's approach to Asia....
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