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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
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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)
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Hiroshima
by John Hersey
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On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and... ( read more)
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The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders
by Emmanuel Guibert
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In 1986, Afghanistan was torn apart by a war with the Soviet Union. This graphic novel/photo-journal is a record of one reporters arduous and dangerous journey through Afghanistan, accompanying the Doctors Without Borders. Didier Lefevres... ( read more)
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The Places In Between
by Rory Stewart
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In January 2002, Rory Stewart survived a walk across Afghanistan by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. In this memoir, he writes about heroes and rogues, tribal elders and teenage soldiers... ( read more)
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Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai
by Katsu Kokichi
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Katsu Kokichi was a low ranking samurai who lived during the last decades of the Tokugawa period of Japan. Upon his retirement he wrote an autobiography that offers modern readers a richly detailed account of daily life in Edo during the early nineteenth... ( read more)
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
by Jung Chang
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The forces of history and the exceptional talents of this young writer combine to produce a work of nonfiction with the breadth and drama of the richest, most memorable fiction classics. Wild Swans is a landmark book, with the intimacy of memoir and the... ( read more)
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Genghis Khan and Making of Modern World (04 Edition)
by Jack Weatherford
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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-?ve years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and... ( read more)
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Japanese Lessons: A Year in a Japanese School Through the Eyes of an American Anthropologist and Her Children
by Gail R. Benjamin
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In Japanese Lessons Gail R. Benjamin recounts her experiences as an American parent with two children in a Japanese elementary school. An anthropologist, Benjamin successfully weds the roles of observer and parent, illuminating the strengths of the... ( read more)
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China Wakes: The Struggle For the Soul of a Rising Power
by Nicholas D Kristof
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"When China wakes, it will shake the world", Napoleon Bonaparte once remarked. That moment is now at hand. And in this book Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the Pulitzer Prize winning Beijing correspondents of The New York Times, bring to life the... ( read more)
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Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan
by Giles Milton
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With all the adventure and bloodcurdling battle scenes of his earlier book, "Nathaniel's Nutmeg," an acclaimed historian dazzles readers with the true story of William Adams, the first Englishman to set foot in Japan (and the inspiration for James... ( read more)
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Women of the Raj
by Margaret Macmillan
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Looking at Britain's involvement in India over three and a half centuries, but particularly the period of empire from the 1850s to 1947, the author recreates the role of the women of the Raj from their own letters and memoirs, from novels, and from... ( read more)
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Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns
by David Lamb
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Vietnam is run by one of the world's last communist governments, but great changes are sweeping the country. It is moving, if with caution and fear, toward a free-market economy. It is slowly lifting many of the civil restrictions that burden its 80... ( read more)
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Tibet: Reflections From the Wheel of Life
by Thomas L. Kelly
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A beautifully illustrated coffee table book that should go well
beyond the coffee table. Beginning with a foreword written by the
Dalai Lama, the volume provides an intimate presentation of the
Tibetan people through photographs and words.
Annotation... ( read more)
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Seven Years in Tibet
by Heinrich Harrer
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"Seven Years in Tibet" is the extraordinary true story of how a young Austrian adventurer became tutor and friend to the Dalai Lama. This timeless story illuminates Eastern culture, as well as the childhood of His Holiness and the current plight of... ( read more)
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The Intellectual Foundations of China (Studies in World Civilization)
by Frederick W Mote
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This brief paperback introduction to the basic ideas that underlie traditional Chinese culture focuses on the "Golden Age" (600 B.C.-150 B.C.) of Chinese philosophy.... ( read more)
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by Loung Ung
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From a childhood survivor of Cambodia's brutal Pol Pot regime comes an unforgettable narrative of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her family, and their triumph of spirit.
Until the age of five, Lounge Ung... ( read more)
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India a Million Mutinies Now
by V S Naipaul
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Naipaul returns to the country with which he has a close yet oblique relationship. He provides an in-depth analysis of society in India, from high to low, as he did 25 years ago in "Area of Darkness". Naipaul also wrote "India: A Wounded Civilization... ( read more)
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1421: The Year China Discovered America
by Gavin Menzies
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On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. Its mission was "to proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas" and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. When... ( read more)
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So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas
by Barbara Crossette
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For more than a thousand years Tibet, Sikkim, Ladakh, and Bhutan were the santuaries of Tantric Buddhism. But in the last half of this century, geopolitics has scoured the landscape of the Himalayas, and only the reclusive kingdom of Bhutan remains true... ( read more)
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The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe
by John Rabe
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The Good Man of Nanking is a crucial document for understanding one of World War II's most horrific incidents of genocide, one which the Japanese have steadfastly refused to acknowledge. It is also the moving and awe-inspiring record of one... ( read more)
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