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Revolt in Paradise (Griffin Paperback)
by K'tut Tantri  Publisher Comments Here is the stunning account of K'tut Tantri's life in Java as a young artist and later as a resistance fighter for Indonesian independence. 8-page black-and-white photo insert....
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Japanese Society
by Chie Nakane Publisher Comments "A brilliant wedding of 'national character' studies and analyses of small societies through the structural approach of British anthropology. One is of course reminded of Ruth Benedict's "Chrysanthemum and the Sword" which deals also with Japanese...
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Jews, Turks, and Ottomans : Shared History, Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Century (02 Edition)
by Avigdor Levy Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-379) and index....
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Saudi Arabia Business Intelligence Report
by International Busine Publisher Comments Business intelligence information for successful export-import, business and investment operations, strategic contacts and more. Updated...
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The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds
by Jonathan D. Spence Publisher Comments China has transfixed the West since the earliest contacts between these civilizations. Now Jonathan Spence, our foremost historian of Chinese politics and culture, tells us, in his elegant new book, how the West has understood China over seven centuries....
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The Yamato Dynasty: The Secret History of Japan's Imperial Family
by Sterling Seagrave Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-376) and index....
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Over-Stating the Arab State: Politics and Society in the Middle East
by Nazih N. Ayubi Publisher Comments This study of politics and the role of the state in the Arab world is aimed at students of Middle East politics, political theory and political economy. Ayubi's main objective is to place the Arab world within a theoretical framework that avoids both...
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Human Tradition Around the World #3: The Human Tradition in Modern Japan
by Anne Walthall Publisher Comments The Human Tradition in Modern Japan is a collection of short biographies of ordinary Japanese men and women, most of them unknown outside their family and locality, whose lives collectively span the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their...
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All in the Family: Absolutism, Revolution and Democratic Prospects in the Middle Eastern Monarchies (Suny Series in Middle Eastern Studies)
by Michael Herb Publisher Comments All in the Family provides a compelling and fresh analysis of the importance of monarchism in the region, and points out the crucial role of the ruling families in creating monarchial regimes. It addresses the issue of democratization in the middle...
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Venture of Islam #2: The Venture of Islam, Volume 2: The Expansion of Islam in the Middle Periods
by Marshall G. S. Hodgson Publisher Comments "The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrated with charts and maps, Hodgson traces and interprets the historical development of Islamic civilization...
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The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood
by Shusha Guppy Publisher Comments "Guppy's memoir of life in Iran before the Ayatollahs is exquisite. It conveys a sense of the country and its customs, which reveal better than most documents, the nature of the crisis which Iran is still enduring." -William Shawcross, Sunday Times...
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Nation in Waiting: Indonesia in the 1990s
by Adam Schwarz About the Author Adam Schwarz is editor-in-chief of AsiaWise.com, an online finance investment publication based in Hong Kong....
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Islamic Political Ethics : Civil Society, Pluralism, and Conflict (02 Edition)
by Sohail H. (ed.) Hashmi Publisher Comments One of the most dynamic aspects of the Islamic revival during the past two centuries has been the rethinking of Islamic political thought. A broad range of actors, ideas, and ideologies characterize the debate on how Islamic ethics and law should be...
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Japan: A Short Cultural History
by George B Sansom Publisher Comments Its penetrating analysis of institutions, sensitive interpretations of cultural developments, and stylistic charm contrasted with the plodding pedestrian surveys and over-written anecdotal accounts that had hitherto served in the Occident as...
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Tibetan Civilization (72 Edition)
by R. A. Stein Publisher Comments An overall view of the Tibetan civilization, both ancient and modern Tibet. This book relates developments in Tibet to those in the rest of Asia....
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Crisis in Kashmir: Portents of War, Hopes of Peace
by Sumit Ganguly Publisher Comments Tracing the origins of the insurgency that has wracked the Indian-controlled portion of Jammu and Kashmir since 1989....
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Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, Revised and Updated
by David K Shipler Publisher Comments The Jew, according to the Arab stereotype, is a brutal, violent coward; the Arab, to the prejudiced Jew, is a primitive creature of animal vengeance and cruel desires. In this monumental work, revised and more relevant than ever, David Shipler delves...
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Between Memory & Desire the Middle East
by R Stephen Humphreys Publisher Comments Middle Easterners today are caught between memories of the past and frustrated hopes for the future. They struggle to find solutions to crises of economic stagnation, political gridlock, and cultural identity. In recent decades Islam has become central...
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Field, forest, and family :women's work and power in rural Laos
by Carol Ireson Publisher Comments After the Vietnam War, socialist governments ascended to power in all the countries of the former Indochina. In Laos, more than a decade of socialist reorganization was followed by economic liberalization in the late 1980s. Laotian women had...
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Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
by Adeline Yen Mah 
Publisher Comments Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealth and position could not shield...
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