| ||||
 The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet TerritoriesBest Price: $21.91 A very sad commentary involving the killing and mutilation of many thousands of innocent people.... |  The Russian Moment in World HistoryBest Price: $11.99 Like the reviewer above, I'm also surprised by the amount of good (or at least mildly approving)... |  A Short History of Chinese PhilosophyBest Price: $10.25 My teacher chose to use this book as our main textbook for my Asian Philosophy class. I was... |  The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's ResponseBest Price: $7.42 Excellent Book that brings out the truth about the Armenian Genocide and Turkish intention for... |  Opium Season: A Year on the Afghan FrontierBest Price: $5.95 I just retired as a USAID Foreign Service Officer after 26 years of service. Although I didn't... |
 Plan of AttackBest Price: $1.98 A lot has been said here. Woodward tells a straight story and has incredible access to Bush... |  Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern IranBest Price: $8.44 This book is a work of a genious abstract vision of womanhood through the eyes and Persian... |  The Art of Japanese Sword PolishingBest Price: $26.15 Very Informative Great book To lean about grades of stones and thier uses |  Empire of SignsBest Price: $7.00 It wearies to hear once more that Barthes' "The Empire of Signs" is an example of... |  Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume 2, Second Edition, Abridged: Part 2: 1868 to 2000 (Introduction to Asian Civilizations)Best Price: $23.06 For almost fifty years, Sources of Japanese Tradition has been the single most valuable... |
 Three Ways of Thought in Ancient ChinaBest Price: $7.00 It's easy to give short shrift to a book that hopes to summarize three major traditions of... |  Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San FranciscoBest Price: $13.99 In Unbound Feet, Yung offers us a very personal account of Chinese women in San Francisco, the... |  Orphans Of The Cold War America And The Tibetan Struggle For SurvivalBest Price: $4.48 Like I do with many books I read, I picked this one up because of issues arising in current... |  Modern JapanBest Price: $40.00 Duus did an excellent job in writing this book about Japanese History. It is divided into 4... |  Seed of Sarah: MEMOIRS OF A SURVIVOR (Illini Books Edition)Best Price: $7.64 I could not put this book down once I picked it up. I have read many great books involvong the... |
 Capitalism Without Democracy: The Private Sector in Contemporary ChinaBest Price: $14.94 The book refutes the prevailing modernization theory that capitalism can lead to democracy.... |  Scorpion Down: Sunk by the Soviets, Buried by the Pentagon: The Untold Story of the USS ScorpionBest Price: $5.99 I'm sorry to say i bought this book and suggest you never buy a book from this author. too many... |  India: An Illustrated History (Hippocrene Illustrated Histories)Best Price: $8.84 Reading Prem Kishore and Anuradha Kishore Ganpati's book, India an Illustrated History, brought... |  Heroes Among Us: Firsthand Accounts of Combat from America's Most Decorated Warriors in Iraq and AfghanistanBest Price: $2.00 Wow, this book just blew me way. I was not the kind of person who loved reading and read during... |  Russia: A HistoryBest Price: $17.29 This is a comprehensive book covering several hundred years of Russian history. Although the... |
 India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information AgeBest Price: $8.99 Ever wonder how India changed from an impoverished and allegedly over populated third world... |  The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han (History of Imperial China)Best Price: $18.74 This is a very good book covering this time period. It's broken down in to sections (religion,... |  A History of Eastern Europe 1740-1918Best Price: $33.92 Ian Armour's authoritative history of Eastern Europe spans the turbulent years from 1740 to... |  Understanding the Contemporary Middle EastBest Price: $26.49 I quote here the first and last sentence of the intro to chapter 6: "It would be an... |  The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese MedicineBest Price: $11.00 This remarkable book accomplishes several things. First, it is a stunningly CLEAR analysis of... |
 Russia: The Once and Future Empire From Pre-History to PutinBest Price: $18.94 The central tenet of this book is that, throughout history, Russia has developed a narrative of... |  The Silk Route: 7,000 Miles of HistoryBest Price: $3.26 This book was included in a Maryland Department of Education lesson plan for teaching the Silk... |  Palestine in the Time of Jesus: Social Structures and Social ConflictsBest Price: $19.80 The book has outstanding diagrams that really add to one's understanding of the political,... |  Sources of Korean Tradition, Vol. 1Best Price: $18.95 This is a nice book to get for anyone serious about studying early Korean History (pre-Yi... |  Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition (Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religions)Best Price: $18.75 It's really a look at the Goddesses from a scholar's point of view without any religious... |
 Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red SeaBest Price: $8.00 I read this book 6 years ago. It made me laugh and really appreciate the author and his... |  Contemporary Japan, Second Edition (Contemporary States and Societies)Best Price: $19.30 Contemporary Japan by Duncan McCargo is an exceptionally well written and succinct overview of... |  Russia and the Soviet Union: An HistoriBest Price: $37.80 This lucid account of Russian and Soviet history presents major trends and events from ancient... |  The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China Of Ancient China (History and Warfare)Best Price: $10.11 Sawyer knows his subject. He is a master of Chinese warfare and culture. He even teaches you how... |  The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire (Studies in Middle Eastern History)Best Price: $35.95 This is an excellent book. It is about the Harem, but not about fantasies or orientalist vision,... |
 Diary of Lady Murasaki (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $5.85 The Diary of Lady Murasaki is a very fine read, even by today's standards. Sadly short due to... |  Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to KrushchevBest Price: $15.00 Its really great to see some Russian points of view on this part of history. It's a complex... |  Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Central Asia (Historical Atlas)Best Price: $12.06 This is a nice atlas with useful information, even though it is not full color. Simply put,... |  Hokusai's Mount Fuji: The Complete Views in ColorBest Price: $18.28 Hokusai's prints can be enjoyed in many ways. Simply as samples of the woodcut artist's craft,... |  The Oligarchs: Wealth And Power In The New RussiaBest Price: $8.98 I'm about a quarter into the book. I am very impressed. It is riveting. I went on a tour of... |
 The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and MotifsBest Price: $36.95 If you're interested in Tibetan Buddhist iconography for whatever reason you can't go wrong with... |  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 ... |  No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for FallujahBest Price: $13.99 People might be sick and tired of Iraq, but this is an excellent recounting of the battle of... |  Execution by Hunger: The Hidden HolocaustBest Price: $10.13 Excellent first hand account of the attempts of collectivization under Stalin; attempts that met... |  Shadow Shoguns: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Postwar Political MachineBest Price: $16.50 For anyone who has lived in Japan, there are way way too many books that attempt to explain away... |
 Thai Women In The Global Labor Force: Consuming Desires, Contested SelvesBest Price: $19.95 |  Sculpting in Time: Tarkovsky The Great Russian Filmaker Discusses His ArtBest Price: $22.99 Tarkovsky's 'Sculpting in Time' offers a fascinating glimpse into this master's theoretical and... |  The Good Women of China: Hidden VoicesBest Price: $7.16 While doing a research paper about Chinese femininity, I stumbled upon this book and thought at... |  The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947Best Price: $7.79 Easy and concise. The myths are removed, and you are presented with a unbais history of Tibet. |  Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and PresentBest Price: $20.27 Zanca and Sahadeo have done an excellent job of collecting a series of essays that illuminate... |
 Bhutan: Land of the Thunder DragonBest Price: $18.35 This beautifully photographed, written and published book was more than I had expected. It... |  When Thunder RolledBest Price: $3.79 For some time now I've had a fascination with the F-105 Thunderchief and the men who went... |  Terrify No More: Young Girls Held Captive and the Daring Undercover Operation to Win Their FreedomBest Price: $3.25 This book is a great disappointment. Buying this book I thought to obtain some serious... |  The Jew in the Medieval World: A Source Book, 315-1791Best Price: $17.95 This amazing book has 96 primary sources - excerpts from books and essays by and about... |  Historical Atlas of Central Europe (History of East Central Europe, Vol. 1, 1)Best Price: $29.13 I was fortunate to pick up this atlas at a discount store, and what a treasure trove of history... |
 Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their EmpireBest Price: $14.95 Cannadine, as I see it, is the British equivalent of of the American Paul Fussell. He is a great... |  The Turks in World HistoryBest Price: $16.08 It is a good and brief source of information, sometimes, quite detailed about the history of... |  Unknown Waters: A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651)Best Price: $16.65 CAPT McLaren's splendid account of USS QUEENFISH's historic under-ice survey is well-written and... |  Taiwan: A Political HistoryBest Price: $17.95 the book prevents the basic facts, but lacks analytical depth. a good intro nonetheless for... | |
Asia Books
See also for Asia Books