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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: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance by Gavin Menzies Publisher Comments The New York Times bestselling author of 1421 offers another stunning reappraisal of history, presenting compelling new evidence that traces the roots of the European Renaissance to Chinese exploration in the fifteenth century The brilliance of the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present by Andrew Gordon Publisher Comments In The Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, Andrew Gordon paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. He takes students from the days of the shogunate--the feudal... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $22.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings by Homer A Jack Publisher Comments The Gandhi Reader collects the significant writings by and about Mahatma Gandhi, culled form 500 volumes, newspapers, and magazines. Here is Gandhi in his own words and those of his closest associates, including selections from his autobiography... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire by Arundhati Roy Publisher Comments Just in time for the elections, Arundhati Roy offers us this lucid briefing on what the Bush administration reallymeans when it talks about "compassionate conservativism"and "the war on terror."Roy has characteristic fun in these essays, skewering the... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag by Chol Hwan Kang Publisher Comments North Korea is today one of the last bastions of hard-line Communism. Its leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party regime, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for "re... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ho Chi Minh by William J Duiker Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [581]-670) and index.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place by Ian Baker Publisher Comments The myth of Shangri-la originates in Tibetan Buddhist beliefs in beyul, or hidden lands, sacred sanctuaries that reveal themselves to devout pilgrims and in times of crisis. The more remote and inaccessible the beyul, the vaster its reputed qualities.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia by Karl E Meyer Publisher Comments From the romantic conflicts of the Victorian Great Game to the war-torn history of the region in recent decades, Tournament of Shadows traces the struggle for control of Central Asia and Tibet from the 1830s to the present. The original Great Game, the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Colors of the Mountain by Da Chen Publisher Comments Colors of the Mountain is a classic story of triumph over adversity, a memoir of a boyhood full of spunk, mischief, and love, and a welcome introduction to an amazing young writer. <BR>Da Chen was born in 1962, in the Year of Great Starvation. Mao... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China by Gray Tuttle Publisher Comments After the collapse of dynastic rule in China, religion succeeded where the rhetoric of nationalism and ethnicity had failed in linking China and Tibet. As Gray Tuttle explains, to win over the Tibetan elite, Chinese nationalist politicians embraced a... (read more) List Price $58.50 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Sky Burial : Epic Love Story of Tibet (06 Edition) by Xinran Xue Publisher Comments In 2002 Xinran’s Good Women of China became an international bestseller, revealing startling new truths about Chinese life to the West. Now she returns with an epic story of love, friendship, courage and sacrifice set in Chinese-occupied Tibet... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Magic and Mystery in Tibet by Alexandr David Neel Publisher Comments A practicing Buddhist and Oriental linguist recounts supernatural events she witnessed in Tibet during the 1920s. Intelligent and witty, she describes the fantastic effects of meditation and shamanic magic -- levitation, telepathy, more. 32 photographs.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas by Barbara Crossette Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Snakes and Ladders: Glimpses of Modern India by Gita Mehta Publisher Comments In this personally charged work of reflection, reminiscence, and reportage, Gita Mehta serves as a guide to India's multihued mosaic. India is a land of great contrasts. It is the world's most populous democracy, but still upholds the caste system. It is... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Local Democracy in India: Interpreting Decentralization by Girish Kumar Publisher Comments The fundamental objective of this large-scale study is to reconstruct the contemporary historical value of panchayats (a traditional rural Indian political system) in the decentralization of the country. Using interviews and discussions with all the... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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