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 Voices of Qi: An Introductory Guide to Traditional Chinese MedicineBest Price: $8.00 This book is great for those interested in Chinese medicine. It gives a great overview of the... |  Silk Road: Monks, Warriors & MerchantsBest Price: $16.57 Got to me in a decent enough time and nothing was wrong with the book so i would say overall... |  Essential Works of Lenin: "What Is to Be Done?" and Other WritingsBest Price: $5.49 The Essential Works of Lenin does provide a remarkably concise introduction to Lenin's thought. ... |  Modernization And Revolution In China: From the Opium Wars to World PowerBest Price: $23.45 Besides the fact that this was specifically designed to be a textbook (whatever that means) ...... |  About Face: The Odyssey of an American WarriorBest Price: $5.69 This is a story of a soldier in an army in decline, a lost war and a premature end of a... |
 The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their RevolutionBest Price: $6.25 The Gate of Heavenly Peace thoroughly documents the naivety of a prevailing idea during the... |  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. |  Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and PakistanBest Price: $4.98 I developed quite a dislike for Kaplan as I read this book, but the subject matter was... |  The Dynasties of China: A HistoryBest Price: $7.44 If you are trying to find a starting place in the history of China, then this is a good book for... |  Rampant Raider: An A-4 Skyhawk Pilot in VietnamBest Price: $19.49 I have always had an interest in the Vietnam War since I visited the country in 1995 with the... |
 Russia : A Concise HistoryBest Price: $7.07 Very disappointing work Not updated to reflect current changes affected well before the book's... |  Afghanistan: Hidden TreasuresBest Price: $18.27 Almost 30 years ago, a precious trove of art was spirited away from the National Museum of... |  No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for FallujahBest Price: $8.98 People might be sick and tired of Iraq, but this is an excellent recounting of the battle of... |  A Year in JapanBest Price: $7.65 This beautiful book contains a wealth of detail, both in the artwork itself and in the author's... |  An Introduction to Japanese Society, Second EditionBest Price: $19.14 While no book is able to entirely encapsulate a culture, Yoshio Sugimoto's "An Introduction... |
 The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China Of Ancient China (History and Warfare)Best Price: $10.30 Sawyer knows his subject. He is a master of Chinese warfare and culture. He even teaches you how... |  States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and ChinaBest Price: $18.36 Those seeking a work that will enlighten them on the cause of state revolutions will be sorely... |  Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon PapersBest Price: $4.50 This provides Ellsberg's history behind his release of the Pentagon Papers. Included is... |  Paul: A Critical LifeBest Price: $19.00 "Paul: A Critical Life" by Murphy-O'Connor is a very detailed book written for those... |  Unholy War: Terror in the Name of IslamBest Price: $5.86 Written in response to September 11, Unholy War is aimed largely at an audience unfamiliar with... |
 Chinese Posters: Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural RevolutionBest Price: $6.90 Say what you want about oppressive regimes, they always have the best propaganda. Art, when... |  Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding (Philip A. Lilienthal Asian Studies Imprint)Best Price: $11.89 This study is by a Barnard College professor that I heard lecture at the China Institute in New... |  Golden Bones: An Extraordinary Journey from Hell in Cambodia to a New Life in AmericaBest Price: $12.97 While the United States battled the Communists of North Vietnam in the 1960s and '70s, the... |  IndiaBest Price: $11.95 I am reading this book now and will update this review as necessary. The author is an excellent... |  Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty VerseBest Price: $13.12 I found the notes to the poems particularly valuable - thanks to them, the collection becomes a... |
 The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-FamineBest Price: $12.95 The black earth Was sown with bones And watered with blood For a harvest of sorrow On the... |  China's New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing SocietyBest Price: $16.88 What is it like to be a Westerner teaching political philosophy in an officially Marxist state?... |  Heritage of Chinese Civilization, The (2nd Edition)Best Price: $34.66 For Introduction to Chinese History and Introduction to East Asia courses. A clear and... |  PANZERSCHLACHT: Armoured Operations on the Hungarian Plains September-November 1944Best Price: $35.97 The major tank battles on the Hungarian plains fought in late 1944 have been neglected, for some... |  When Thunder RolledBest Price: $3.94 For some time now I've had a fascination with the F-105 Thunderchief and the men who went... |
 The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan (Kodansha Globe)Best Price: $1.15 This book really enhances, enlarges and clarifies one's understanding of Lady Muraski's world... |  Bravo Two ZeroBest Price: $3.82 Lots of details about tactics and also about the author's thought process. Very honest; the... |  The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea--The Forgotten War of the South PacificBest Price: $14.50 This is one of the best written historical books that I have ever read. It reads more like a... |  Understanding VietnamBest Price: $13.99 This is a superb scholarly work which is a must-read for anyone interested in Vietnam -- its... |  A New History of IndiaBest Price: $36.07 Stanley Wolpert delivers one of the most concise yet thorough accounts of Indian history to... |
 Dragon Days: Time for "Unconventional" TacticsBest Price: $11.00 The author is well-known in the military and academic environments. With the last FM-100, it was... |  The Great Terror: A ReassessmentBest Price: $11.48 The Great Terror remains the cornerstone of any serious debate or study on Stalinist paradise on... |  Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History, Updated EditionBest Price: $10.68 I found this book very engrossing and educational. Vast majority of Korean history books do not... |  Catherine the GreatBest Price: $6.87 i hard to believe a little german priness would become the most powerful woman in europe.but... |  History Upside Down: The Roots of Palestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli AggressionBest Price: $10.94 This is a must read book to get to the real truth about the Arab-Israeli conflict that has been... |
 The Modern Middle East: A Political History since the First World WarBest Price: $18.99 My brother recommended this book for me as a highly informative volume on modern middle eastern... |  Stalin: Breaker of NationsBest Price: $7.89 Having read this as an assignment coming into high school, it has been over six years since I've... |  Beijing: From Imperial Capital to Olympic CityBest Price: $11.79 I found this book tremendously helpful before my first visit to Beijing. It gives perspecitve... |  Sputnik: The Shock of the Century (Science Matters)Best Price: $3.83 In Sputnik, Paul Dickson takes a single historic event and uses it as a spot from which to take... |  Chinese Religious Traditions (Religions of the World Series)Best Price: $23.50 |
 The Taliban and the Crisis of AfghanistanBest Price: $16.93 This book is extremely well written and is a fount of information. It is a must for anyone... |  Red Star over China: The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese CommunismBest Price: $6.00 among all the books that make comments on china that been written by western people this is an... |  Communism: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)Best Price: $7.95 As a detailed examination of communism and a virtual historical "balance sheet" of the... |  Vietnam Today: A Guide To A Nation At A CrossroadsBest Price: $14.82 Vietnam is a country that is changing extremely rapidly in both economic and social spheres,... |  For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold WarBest Price: $17.98 This very good book is a largely successful effort to produce a portrait of the Cold War that is... |
 Religions of the Silk Road: Overland Trade and Cultural Exchange from Antiquity to the Fifteenth CenturyBest Price: $18.24 This is a short introduction to how major world religions interacted and changed along the Silk... |  Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the GulagBest Price: $14.05 The most important thing that I gained by reading Janusz Bardach's book is that the will to... |  Ottoman CenturiesBest Price: $7.49 Unless you're an absolute Ottomaniac, this one-volume history of the great Turkish Empire should... |  In SiberiaBest Price: $7.95 Colin Thubron takes you right into Siberia with him. And with him, you can experience the... |  Modern JapanBest Price: $59.71 Duus did an excellent job in writing this book about Japanese History. It is divided into 4... |
 The Search for Modern China: A Documentary CollectionBest Price: $18.16 This is a really good collection of documents meant to complement Spence's "The Search for... | ||||
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