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 God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong XiuquanBest Price: $10.72 After running into arguments and discussions on the question what a civil war is (what about... |  The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese RepressionBest Price: $3.25 I'll keep this short and sweet: Mann offers a lot of sobering thoughts, and his narrative is... |  Six Records of a Floating Life (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $7.10 I decided to read "Six Records of a Floating Life" after spending a summer in Suzhou,... |  The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor (Modern Library Classics)Best Price: $10.28 I think reading this book is an experience in itself. Its remarkable how similar we all are in... |  Kyoto: Seven Paths to The Heart of The CityBest Price: $13.73 I was privileged to have spent 4 months in Japan, but of all the places I visited, I fell in... |
 Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency (PSI Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era)Best Price: $26.95 Col. Roger Trinquier served in Indochina during and after the Second World War, including the... |  What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean? (Historians at Work)Best Price: $11.00 Being half white and half Japanese was sometimes hard enough but when you would be in a history... |  Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two WorldsBest Price: $8.86 The army is an Ataturk fundemantalist and is holding Turkey back. Kinzer has a very good ... |  The Authentic Confucius: A Life of Thought and PoliticsBest Price: $6.71 Confucius' influence has endured for nearly 2,500 years at the heart of Chinese culture, even... |  Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945Best Price: $5.00 It feels cruel to be overly critical about this book because I can't imagine the author wrote... |
 Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of S)Best Price: $18.74 I recently finished reading "Into that Silent Sea: Trail blazers of the Space Era... |  Ancient Mesopotamia: The Sumerians, Babylonians, And Assyrians (People of the Ancient World)Best Price: $5.57 This attractive and informative book is part of the People of the Ancient World series of books... |  Classic Russian Cooking: Elena Molokhovets' "A Gift to Young Housewives"Best Price: $15.98 I found this book recommended to me by my Russian professor, and after eating at a Russian... |  Thicker Than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership with Saudi ArabiaBest Price: $8.94 Detailed analysis of U.S. relations with Saudi Arabia American foreign policy exists... |  Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan (Columbia/Hurst)Best Price: $15.49 Ahmed Rashid's "Taliban" is the definitive book on the Taliban pre-2001, and there is... |
 The One that Got Away: My SAS Mission behind Enemy LinesBest Price: $10.94 Great book, real life action hero's. A must buy for anyone interested in SF community and what... |  34 Days: Israel, Hezbollah, and the War in LebanonBest Price: $13.97 This is the first comprehensive account of the progression of the Second Lebanese War, from the... |  Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965Best Price: $14.25 I read this book during the three weeks I was visiting Vietnam with my family, 39 years after my... |  A Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist SymbolsBest Price: $14.99 Tibetan Buddhist symbolism is extremely complex,yet in this volume artist/Buddhist Robert Beer... |  Ancient Turkey: A Traveller's HistoryBest Price: $16.19 I picked up this book in preparation for a class trip to Turkey to look at architecture and... |
 A Brief History of the Late Ottoman EmpireBest Price: $19.83 At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and... |  Records of the Grand Historian: Qin DynastyBest Price: $26.10 Written about one hundred years after the events 2kYs ago, it is less far from the truth than... |  Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of TransnationalityBest Price: $18.00 Aihwa Ong uses the example of the international (and now transnational) diaspora of... |  Lenin's Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet Archives (Hoover Institution Press Publication) (Hoover Institution Press Publication)Best Price: $16.50 The secret world of the Soviet Union revealed The opening of the once-secret Soviet state... |  Rescue of Streetcar 304: A Navy Pilot's Forty Hours on the Run in Laos (Ausa)Best Price: $13.56 This is a truly amazing story of determined, (real) heroism by both downed aviators and their... |
 Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and PowerBest Price: $10.45 Empress Catherine II, usually referred to as Catherine the Great, was one of the most... |  Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and WarBest Price: $3.59 The purpose of this review is to try and convince you to read this book. Not that it is... |  Olympic Dreams: China and Sports, 1895-2008Best Price: $14.97 Already the world has seen the political, economic, and cultural significance of hosting the... |  China's Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang DynastyBest Price: $11.43 The book i got back was totally messed up. It started on page 9 with no intro or anything in the... |  Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire (The New Cambridge History of India)Best Price: $20.00 This book covers the historiography of how Indian developed in the British Empire up through the... |
 The Coldest War: A Memoir of KoreaBest Price: $2.94 This book was just ok. What bothers me is that Brady gives intricate details of his life during... |  China A to Z: Everything You Need to Know to Understand Chinese Customs and CultureBest Price: $6.84 China is changing fast. Opening up to the West, morphing into an economic power house; ever so... |  Japan before Perry: A Short HistoryBest Price: $16.62 This book covers the history of Japan in an enthusiastic way from its early histories with the... |  The Question of HuBest Price: $3.77 Once again Jonathan Spence has written a wonderful book, which is both a model of historical... |  At Hell's Gate: A Soldier's Journey from War to PeaceBest Price: $6.30 This is a book everyone should read. I totally agree with the writer, that we all know and live... |
 They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel's LobbyBest Price: $11.54 This book comes from a qualified credible source and is very educational. It not only speaks of... |  Stolen Valor : How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its HistoryBest Price: $19.00 I served in Vietnam from June of 1970 until January of 1972, mostly with the Americal Division. ... |  Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power Is Transforming the World (A New Republic Book)Best Price: $10.55 I thought this was a good study of something that needs to be discussed more, particularly in... |  Soviet MiG-15 Aces of the Korean War (Aircraft of the Aces)Best Price: $14.41 Although a wide literature can be found about the USAF heroes in the Korean War, the Soviet... |  Bhutan: Land of the Thunder DragonBest Price: $18.34 This beautifully photographed, written and published book was more than I had expected. It... |
 Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World WarBest Price: $23.00 Chris Bellamy's 'Absolute War' truly fills up a big 'white spot' in our knowledge of the... |  Four Hours in My LaiBest Price: $4.62 I read the true story of the My Lia Massacre when it first came out, and then knew why when we... |  Ancient China (Treasure Chest)Best Price: $14.18 This book was supposed to come with a Chinese Caligraphy brush/ink and some instructions. That... |  Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial RevolutionsBest Price: $31.00 In writing my book: "The day when politician will debate about our genes, Understanding the... |  Special Operations Forces in Iraq (Elite)Best Price: $12.89 Intelligence specialist Leigh Neville identifies, describes and illustrates the Special... |
 The Great Wall: The Extraordinary Story of China's Wonder of the WorldBest Price: $11.58 China, it seems, is a land that conjures much myth in the conscience of non-Chinese, and... |  China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central EurasiaBest Price: $23.08 This book provides an fairly indepth account of dynastic expansion. The Qing retained the... |  From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu YiBest Price: $19.98 This is very nice used book that was delivered very quickly. I like this seller and will... |  Soong DynastyBest Price: $5.99 A very intriguing look at the power behind the power in China before the Communist takeover.... |  Confucius: Golden Rule, TheBest Price: $7.20 Interesting. I bought this book to read and learn about Confucius. This book is short and gives... |
 The Debate on the Constitution : Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification : Part One, September 1787-February 1788 (Library of America)Best Price: $12.85 This is an infinitely useful collection of primary sources. Any student of this period should... |  A Political Economy of the Middle East: Third EditionBest Price: $40.50 This book starts to fill a gap sorely lacking on political economy in the Middle East. At times,... |  The Temple Tiger and More Man-Eaters of Kumaon (Oxford India Paperbacks)Best Price: $7.28 I first read this book just after it was first published some 50 years ago. It was, I recall, a... |  Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary (Philip E. Lilienthal Books)Best Price: $13.50 In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology's most distinguished ethnographers... |  Governments And Politics In Russia And The Post-soviet RegionBest Price: $38.00 This text investigates and evaluates the developing political processes in Russia, Ukraine,... |
 Healing with Ki-Kou: The Secrets of Ancient Chinese Breathing Techniques, Second EditionBest Price: $16.95 Healing with Ki-Kou: The Secret of Ancient Chinese Breathing Techniques by Li Xiang - 156 Pages ... |  A History of ThailandBest Price: $18.34 Having visited Thailand a couple of times I knew some of the basic history. This book helps fill... |  A History of Japan: Revised EditionBest Price: $11.18 This book is really dense, but I suppose that's because it's a book on the history of a very... | ||
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