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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden Publisher Comments A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Iron & Silk (Vintage Departures) by Mark Salzman Publisher Comments Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China's foremost martial arts teacher.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cleanest Race (10 Edition) by B. R. Myers Publisher Comments Understanding North Korea through its propaganda What do the North Koreans really believe? How do they see themselves and the world around them? Here B.R. Myers, a North Korea analyst and a contributing editor of The Atlantic, presents the first full... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man by Jonathan Spence Publisher Comments A renowned historian captures a critical moment in Chinese history. Zhang Dai is recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of China's Ming dynasty. When he was born into a wealthy family in 1597, the Ming dynasty had been in place for... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Autobiography : the Story of My Experiments With Truth (83 Edition) by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Publisher Comments Personal account of the life of the man who freed India from colonization through the Satyagraha — nonviolent protest — movement. His early boyhood life, legal studies, purification, and ultimate salvation of his homeland is... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester Staff Pick Krakatoa is the eloquent narrative of the cataclysmic destruction in 1883 of the volcanic island of the same name. Killing nearly 40,000 people (mostly from the resultant tsunamis), this violent eruption was "the most violent explosion ever recorded and... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Little Red Guard: A Family Memoir by Wenguang Huang Publisher Comments Three generations of a family living under one roof reflect the dramatic transformations of an entire society in this memoir of life in 20th century China When Wenguang Huang was nine years old, his grandmother became obsessed with her own death. Fearing... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia, by Peter C Perdue Publisher Comments "China Marches West" is a tour de force that will fundamentally alter the way we understand Central Eurasia.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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Confessions of a Yakuza by Junichi Saga Publisher Comments A riveting tale of murder and unexpected compassion by the author of Memories of Silk and Straw, recounting the true life saga of one of the last traditional gang bosses in Japan.... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Red Star Over China by Edgar Snow Synopsis 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 Maos 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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work and Ideas by Mahatma Gandhi Publisher Comments Mohandas K. Gandhi, called Mahatma (“great soul”), was the father of modern India, but his influence has spread well beyond the subcontinent and is as important today as it was in the first part of the twentieth century and during this... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Japan's Lost Decade: Origins, Consequences, and Prospects for Recovery by Gary R Saxonhouse Publisher Comments This volume explores the origins of Japan’s current economic crisis and assesses the country’s prospects for recovery. An exploration of the origins and consequences of Japan’s current economic crisis. Examines the collapse of the... (read more) List Price $45.50 Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from T by Christopher I Beckwith Publisher Comments "Empires of the Silk Road is a major scholarly achievement. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of the history of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the present. But it is much more than a simple narrative of events in what is... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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When China Rules the World (09 Edition) by Martin Jacques Publisher Comments “Provocative . . . a fascinating account.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In this prodigiously researched book, Martin Jacques presents a groundbreaking look at how China’s continued economic ascendency will alter the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
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My Lai: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History & Culture) by James S Olson Publisher Comments The massacre at My Lai on March 16, 1968 continues to haunt students of the Vietnam War as a moment that challenges notions of American virtue. James Olson and Randy Roberts have combed unpublished testimony and gather a collection of eyewitness accounts... (read more) List Price $19.20 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Man Who Stayed Behind by Sidney Rittenberg Publisher Comments The Man Who Stayed Behind is the remarkable account of Sidney Rittenberg, an American who was sent to China by the U.S. military in the 1940s. A student activist and labor organizer who was fluent in Chinese, Rittenberg became caught up in the turbulence... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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India by Dk Publishing Synopsis Through stunning photography and insightful text, "India" covers the landscape, history, people, culture, and architecture of this vibrant nation.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $27.50 Used - Hardcover
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg: Or, the True and Incredible Adventure of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History by Giles Milton Publisher Comments The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago--remote, tranquil, and now largely ignored. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, however, Run's harvest of nutmeg turned it into the most lucrative of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban by Sarah Chayes Publisher Comments From a beloved former NPR reporter comes a news-breaking eyewitness account of how the U.S. government and armed forces allowed, and even abetted, the tragic return to violent warlordism in Afghanistan following the defeat of the Taliban.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - 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 "Fascinating...clearly stated, interesting and provoking.... A plainspoken account of living in Asia." --San Francisco Chronicle Anyone who has heard his weekly commentary on NPR knows that T. R. Reid is trenchant, funny, and deeply... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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