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 Fear No EvilBest Price: $8.95 Having met the esteemed Sharanksy and heard him speak many times, this book, which he... |  A History of Japan, Second Edition: From Stone Age to SuperpowerBest Price: $11.99 This book is my recent reading about Japanese history and I found it is written in a wonderfully... |  The Medical Classic of the Yellow EmperorBest Price: $25.95 Let me start off by saying that I am new in my studies into Chinese Medicine and that over the... |  The AssassinsBest Price: $4.80 You come across a book every once in a while that you know is a solid, scholarly account of a... |  1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in DeclineBest Price: $14.00 1581 was a book used in the political science Class of Carleton University in Ottawa. It just... |
 Setting the East Ablaze: Lenins Dream of an Empire in AsiaBest Price: $8.00 Peter Hopkirk's third installment of the Great game is as masterful as the first two. Lenin's... |  Bhutan: Himalayan Mountain Kingdom, Fifth Edition (Odyssey Illustrated Guides)Best Price: $13.70 This guidebook to Bhutan was not at all helpful. It is filled with tiny details which may be of... |  Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist AgentBest Price: $8.83 While it is relatively easy for us to weigh the pros and cons of the values of Pham Xuan An in... |  India: An Illustrated History (Hippocrene Illustrated Histories)Best Price: $6.50 Reading Prem Kishore and Anuradha Kishore Ganpati's book, India an Illustrated History, brought... |  Sputnik: The Shock of the CenturyBest Price: $5.68 In Sputnik, Paul Dickson takes a single historic event and uses it as a spot from which to take... |
 Jihad in Islamic History: Doctrines and PracticeBest Price: $16.95 What is jihad? Does it mean violence, as many non-Muslims assume? Or does it mean peace, as some... |  Get in the Booth! A Citizen's Guide to the 2008 ElectionsBest Price: $17.48 |  Midway: The Battle that Doomed Japan, the Japanese Navy's StoryBest Price: $12.22 Battle of Midway is often considered the turning point of Pacific war. This book co authored by... |  Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect RevolutionaryBest Price: $10.28 A fascinating book, its rare look into the machinations and motivations of Communist China's top... |  The Jewish CenturyBest Price: $12.75 I purchased this book months ago, and kept putting off reading it. The reason for this is that... |
 The Living I Ching: Using Ancient Chinese Wisdom to Shape Your LifeBest Price: $12.19 This beautiful translation is in keeping with the care and character of the very best in Chinese... |  Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of RememberingBest Price: $18.47 Analyzing the ways U.S. culture has been formed and transformed in the 80s and 90s by its... |  The Forbidden City (Wonders of the World)Best Price: $11.94 If you want a big, glossy picture book of the Forbidden City don't buy this book. If you want... |  Freedom from Fear and Other Writings: Revised EditionBest Price: $7.18 The best writing I've ever read ... about striving democracy in peace... I love That Woman!!!! |  Chinese History: A Manual, Revised and EnlargedBest Price: $26.50 Wilkinson's 'Chinese History: A Manual' is an essential volume on the bookshelf of any serious... |
 America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and I)Best Price: $20.60 I was honored by having Bob Vitalis teach me a class while I was at the University of... |  Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China's Territorial Disputes (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)Best Price: $17.00 As China emerges as an international economic and military power, the world waits to see how the... |  Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism (The Contemporary Middle East)Best Price: $16.00 Zach Lockman's "Contending Visions of the Middle East" traces the development of... |  Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan Before Pearl HarborBest Price: $19.94 In this and in his previous book, War Plan Orange, Ed Miller takes dull and mundane subjects and... |  Ancient Israel: From Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple (2nd Edition)Best Price: $43.70 If you are looking for a history of ancient Israel. This is probably as good as you can get. |
 A Concise History of the Russian RevolutionBest Price: $8.97 To read this book you have to understand what was happening around the world at that time and if... |  Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942Best Price: $6.71 Not enough different from the original to be worth purchasing. If you don't have the original... |  The Silk Road: Xi'an to Kashgar, Eighth Edition (Odyssey Illustrated Guides)Best Price: $15.37 The early trade in silk was carried on against incredible odds by great caravans of merchants... |  The Vietnam War: A Concise International HistoryBest Price: $11.00 The Vietnam War remains a topic of extraordinary interest, not least because of striking... |  Origins of the Russian Intelligentsia: The Eighteenth-Century Nobility (A Harvest/HBJ book)Best Price: $4.99 Marc Raeff investigates the early development of the Russian intelligentsia, a unique social and... |
 The Book of Tea (Classics Retold to be Read, Not just Revered)Best Price: $8.00 A fascinating look at the cultural significance and spiritual--and sometimes... |  Collapse of an Empire: Lessons for Modern RussiaBest Price: $17.64 The other reviews allready tells you what you need to know about the very good analysis this... |  Letters from the 442nd: The World War II Correspondence of a Japanese American Medic (The Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies)Best Price: $11.95 Masuda, his family and friends suffer the humiliation and shame of being forced into camps. Then... |  The Bubble Economy: Japan's Extraordinary Speculative Boom of the '80s and the Dramatic Bust of the '90sBest Price: $19.44 We moved to Japan 6 years ago with only a vague understanding of Japanese political-economy. We... |  The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal MedicineBest Price: $14.23 The content of this book, originally translated in 1949, could be 3,000 years old and reflects a... |
 The Mongol Art of WarBest Price: $16.99 I only skimmed through this book at the bookstore...seems a fairly standard chronicle of rather... |  Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern IranBest Price: $8.49 This book is a work of a genious abstract vision of womanhood through the eyes and Persian... |  The Emergence Of Modern Southeast Asia: A New HistoryBest Price: $26.10 The modern states of Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Myanmar, Malaysia,... |  Bloody Streets: The Soviet Assault on Berlin, April 1945On 16 April 1945 the Soviet Army launched the fourth largest offensive of WWII with the goal to... |  Soviet Blitzkrieg: The Battle for White Russia, 1944 (Stackpole Military History Series)Best Price: $10.45 This book recounts the catastrophic defeat of the German Army Group Center in Bielorussia in the... |
 The Discovery of IndiaBest Price: $12.87 This book is compiled from Nehru's letters to his teen-age daughter from a British prison.... |  The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean (California World History Library)Best Price: $20.56 The Graves of Tarim narrates the movement of an old diaspora across the Indian Ocean over the... |  The Words of GandhiBest Price: $6.75 This book is short and sweet (the quotes are spaced out on the pages and they include... |  The Cost of LivingBest Price: $6.50 Compelling, and powerfully written. The author equates big dams and nuclear bombs, showing both... |  The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto MusashiBest Price: $14.00 Anyone who is familiar with Musashi's reputation as a master swordsman and the many stories... |
 Our Oriental Heritage (The Story of Civilization, Vol.1) (Our Oriental Heritage)Best Price: $49.94 Will Durant's awesome accomplishment, THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION, has always seemed more... |  The Honourable Company: A History of the English East India CompanyBest Price: $10.97 It wasn't too long ago that it could be said that "the sun never sets on the British... |  Six Silent Men...Book Three (101st Lrp/Rangers)Best Price: $3.98 I highly recommend any & all of Gary Linderer's books; all are packed with great... |  Special MenBest Price: $4.48 I entered flight school in 68 and went on to a year and half of rotor work in SVN and parts, in... |  Special Forces at War: An Illustrated History, Southeast Asia 1957-1975Best Price: $24.99 The book itself is just great, brilliant pics of some fine men. The Us Special Forces. The... |
 The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A HistoryBest Price: $16.29 This is a truly groundbreaking study that completely overturns the conventional wisdom on the... |  The Iranians: Persia, Islam and the Soul of a NationBest Price: $5.99 This book is about a very enigmatic subject called Iranian identity. Something even the Iranians... |  Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant NonviolenceBest Price: $10.47 This harangue, which won the 1970 Pulitzer, attempts to use nearly every faculty of subterfuge... |  Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of JapanBest Price: $15.24 Alex Kerr is a longtime resident of Japan, has published several books on it, is extensively... |  The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in IraqBest Price: $3.96 Fascinating read about Stewarts's stint as an "assistant provincial governor" of sorts... |
 Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of TransnationalityBest Price: $21.53 Aihwa Ong uses the example of the international (and now transnational) diaspora of... |  Music in North India: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Global Music Series)Best Price: $14.24 The author is a practitioner, so he is perhaps writing for thsoe serious about performing this... |  Pol Pot: Anatomy of a NightmareBest Price: $1.74 Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare "The evacuation of... | ||
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