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 The New Oxford Picture Dictionary (English/Chinese Edition)Best Price: $14.77 i bought the dictionary, hoping to use it as a reference tool to teach my 4 year old chinese. i... |  Stolen Valor : How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its HistoryBest Price: $19.68 The authors are not just about discussing the low-lifes who never served, the... |  The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung PeriodBest Price: $17.95 This book presents a comprehensive portrait of the lives of women in Sung China (960-1279 AD). ... |  World War II Japanese Tank Tactics (Elite)Best Price: $12.89 In this book expert author and tactician Gordon L Rottman provides the first English-language... |  Stairway to Heaven: Chinese Alchemists, Jewish Kabbalists, and the Art of Spiritual TransformationBest Price: $14.97 It is easy to look at the mysticism of the ancients and see nothing but unintelligible... |
 The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988 (Essential Histories)Best Price: $4.99 The historical content and political analysis in the book is so much in line with the way the... |  A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History, with a Selective Guide to DVDs and VideosBest Price: $12.00 There are two reasons why I enjoyed reading A Hundred Years of Japanese Film. The first is I... |  Chinese Art and Culture (Trade Version)Best Price: $114.67 This is a great book for a serious survey of Chinese art and also for common readers interested... |  The Illustrated Book of Five Rings (Shambhala Pocket Classics)Best Price: $6.88 It was a birthday present for my nephew and he loved it. It showed up in plenty of time for the... |  Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941-1945Best Price: $14.98 Evan Mawdsley, a Professor of Modern History at the University of Glasgow is an expert in Soviet... |
 The Army and VietnamBest Price: $13.00 Krepinevich has a cult following among professors and students at the Marine Corps Command and... |  Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism in VietnamBest Price: $15.12 I'm extremely glad to see that this important book has finally been republished and become... |  Zen Sourcebook: Traditional Documents from China, Korea, and JapanBest Price: $11.64 There are, of course, many collections that document the early days of Ch'an/Zen Buddhism. This... |  The Foreign Policy Of Russia: Changing Systems, Enduring InterestsBest Price: $28.87 Donaldson and Nogee are quite successful in presenting Russia's foreign policy in a very... |  Reflections On A Mountain Lake: Teachings on Practical BuddhismBest Price: $6.98 This book is a Buddhist western woman's dream. Ani Tenzin Palmo has the ability to transcend... |
 ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian AgeBest Price: $22.39 "ReORIENT" is a fairly silly title perhaps, but behind this lurks German economic... |  The Question of HuBest Price: $7.40 Once again Jonathan Spence has written a wonderful book, which is both a model of historical... |  The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World WarBest Price: $8.00 Hicks presents a complete history of the subject up to 1994, using both interviews and... |  China's Ascent: Power, Security, and the Future of International Politics (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)Best Price: $16.52 Contributors Robert Art, Brandeis University Avery Goldstein, University of Pennsylvania ... |  When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest DynastyBest Price: $6.28 This is one of the best history books that I have read. The best thing about it is that it reads... |
 Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled AgeBest Price: $13.07 I found this an oddly pedestrian and listless book suffused with a sympathetic but apologetic... |  China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising PowerBest Price: $11.50 This was an enjoyable read, great if you what a flavor of China but not if you want an in-depth... |  If Not Now, When?: Duty and Sacrifice in America's Time of NeedBest Price: $17.13 A Medal of Honor recipient looks back at his own service-and ahead to America's future. Jack... |  Nathaniel's Nutmeg: Or the True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of HistoryBest Price: $0.33 I give the author 2 stars for taking on an interesting topic and having done exhaustive research... |  Chief Culprit: Stalin's Grand Design to Start World War II (Blue Jacket Bks)Best Price: $25.71 Bestselling author Victor Suvorov probes newly released Soviet documents and reevaluates... |
 Drowning in the Desert: A JAG's Search for Justice in IraqBest Price: $17.79 Several people are waiting to greet Captain Vivian Gembara when she returns home after a... |  Into the Heart of BorneoBest Price: $3.77 received above book; correct cover, but inside is another book by name of 'the glass key' by... |  The One that Got Away: My SAS Mission behind Enemy LinesBest Price: $10.96 Great book, real life action hero's. A must buy for anyone interested in SF community and what... |  A Year in JapanBest Price: $7.64 This beautiful book contains a wealth of detail, both in the artwork itself and in the author's... |  Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the GulagBest Price: $12.95 The most important thing that I gained by reading Janusz Bardach's book is that the will to... |
 Warriors: An Infantryman's Memoir of VietnamBest Price: $3.94 I read this book in an effort to remember my tour of service in Vietnam back in 1969. Being a... |  The Majesty of Mughal Decoration: The Art and Architecture of Islamic IndiaBest Price: $39.17 I bought this after reading a brief but favorable mention in the NY Times. The interdisciplinary... |  Women and the Family in Rural TaiwanBest Price: $11.95 Margery Wolf's anthropological case study of women in a rural Taiwanese farm village reexamines... |  Lords of the Land: The War for Israel's Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007Best Price: $4.24 Deeply researched and well presented examination of post-1967 Israeli settlement in the West... |  America, Russia and the Cold War 1945-2006Best Price: $46.13 I wanted to check a beginner's book on cold war and was VERY disappointed. I don't understand... |
 Making a KillingBest Price: $13.55 Hello, this book apparently was not received by ship to address and I sent email asking for it... |  The Russian Experiment in Art, 1863-1922 (World of Art)Best Price: $11.31 This book was required reading for a class I took on Russian Art and Architecture, and I assure... |  One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964: The Secret History of the Cuban Missile CrisisBest Price: $11.00 One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964: The Secret History of the... |  The Balinese (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)Best Price: $27.00 Lansing does something that few anthropologists can do with ethnography. He applies his... |  Indestructible: The Unforgettable Story of a Marine Hero at the Battle of Iwo JimaBest Price: $4.75 This book is full of self praise and a large ego. Not a humble word in it. The author talks of... |
 A History of Modern LebanonBest Price: $18.68 This book by Fawwwaz Traboulsi, aside from the poor print and paper qaulity, leaves the reader... |  The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo TakamoriBest Price: $4.92 Book was in good condition. Really fast delivery. It came in like a day. Thanks! |  Isaak Levitan: Lyrical LandscapeBest Price: $32.34 I am a painter and am always scouring book stores and sources for good books on other artists.I... |  After the Taliban: Nation-Building in AfghanistanBest Price: $15.57 In October 2001, the Bush administration sent Amb. James F. Dobbins, who had overseen... |  The Modern History of IraqBest Price: $30.49 There are two standard histories of modern Iraq, Marr's book and Charles Tripp's A History of... |
 The Koreans: Who They Are, What They Want, Where Their Future LiesBest Price: $4.79 The problem with the book is that the author constantly compares Korea to the West. In his view,... |  Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear DisasterBest Price: $4.79 The facts of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl trickled out from east to west slowly at first.... |  A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War: Russia, 1941-1944Best Price: $4.88 Of all the countless memiors written by German veterans of the Eastern Front, A STRANGER TO... |  China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental AutocracyBest Price: $17.94 I am not a political scientist, economist or expert on China, and I found this book quite clear... |  The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the Global CityBest Price: $15.00 Bangkok has been at the frontier of capitalism's drive into the global south for three decades.... |
 Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)Best Price: $21.50 Although Russia experienced dramatic political breakthroughs in the late 1980s and early 1990s... |  Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan (Columbia/Hurst)Best Price: $15.53 Ahmed Rashid's "Taliban" is the definitive book on the Taliban pre-2001, and there is... |  The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in AfghanistanBest Price: $3.89 I read this book in Husaybah, Iraq on the bloodiest of my three combat tours with Third... |  Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and PakistanBest Price: $4.88 I developed quite a dislike for Kaplan as I read this book, but the subject matter was... |  Arab Historians of the Crusades (Islamic World)Best Price: $16.45 A considerable amount of history during the early Middle Ages was written by Middle Easterners,... |
 In Denial: Historians, Communism and EspionageBest Price: $10.12 I wondered where the Socialist and Communist cadre went to after the burnings and bombings of... |  Eurasian Crossroads: A History of XinjiangBest Price: $33.20 Eurasian Crossroads is the first comprehensive history of Xinjiang, the vast central Eurasian... |  Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle EastBest Price: $3.64 Mr. Cohen was obviously young and naive when he wrote the book. It offers only a view of youth... | ||
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