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 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: $22.20 This is a really good collection of documents meant to complement Spence's "The Search for... |  Sun Tzu: Art of War (History and Warfare)Best Price: $1.75 Sun Tzu's Art of War is extremely aged and terse, making it not the most pleasant read, but as... |
| Modern Japan Best 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 Collection Best Price: $22.20 This is a really good collection of documents meant to complement Spence's "The Search for... | Sun Tzu: Art of War (History and Warfare) Best Price: $1.75 Sun Tzu's Art of War is extremely aged and terse, making it not the most pleasant read, but as... |  Fear No EvilBest Price: $8.95 Having met the esteemed Sharanksy and heard him speak many times, this book, which he... |  Where We Were in Vietnam: A Comprehensive Guide to the Firebases, Military Installations and Naval Vessels of the Vietnam War, 1945-1975Best Price: $24.13 Very full, complete and fascinatingly comprehensive. A must for any history buff or writer of... |
 Asian ArtBest Price: $60.00 La Plante's text is able to give you a good feel for the artistic culture of India, China, and... |  The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov: The Story of Stalin's Persecution of One of the Great Scientists of the Twentieth CenturyBest Price: $6.00 Until Peter Pringle's brilliant new book, only a few specialists in the west knew anything about... |  Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman EmpireBest Price: $10.32 This book is large for a reason- it is a comprehensive work on the History of the Ottoman... |  The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of AmericaBest Price: $16.64 See 'Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil' by... |  The Illustrated Art of WarBest Price: $17.98 I cannot rave enough about this book. As I'm sure most translators or more authoritative people... |
 Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First CenturyBest Price: $20.11 "Adam Smith in Beijing" by Giovanni Arrighi delivers a sophisticated history and... |  Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day UkraineBest Price: $16.87 For a long time Galicia was a 'hotbed' of nationalism and this book shows the ramifications of... |  Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All SidesBest Price: $3.88 The scope and richness of this book's personal accounts are breathtaking and unparalleled in... |  Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal StateBest Price: $21.28 I am an American who speaks Russian and lived in Russia in 1997, part of the time discussed in... |  The Modern History of IraqBest Price: $24.95 There are two standard histories of modern Iraq, Marr's book and Charles Tripp's A History of... |
 The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of BurmaBest Price: $8.36 This is a well written book and a very informative one for the Western society to have a broader... |  Russia - Lost in Transition: The Yeltsin and Putin LegaciesBest Price: $17.88 |  Silent Warrior: The Marine Sniper's Story Vietnam ContinuesBest Price: $3.94 Read the story of Carlos Hathcock, "White Feather", just another American Hero our... |  Shanghai Diary: A Young Girl's Journey from Hitler's Hate to War-Torn ChinaBest Price: $11.49 Being impacted by Hitler's regime about the same age as Ursula Bacon, I can easily empathize... |  From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and TibetBest Price: $7.39 Do you remember a picnic or a party in your past that was so delightful that it has always... |
 Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim DynastyBest Price: $11.83 This book provides exceptional insight into the isolated country of North Korea. With his... |  Stalking the Vietcong: Inside Operation Phoenix: A Personal AccountBest Price: $3.94 "In Sweden, Foreign Minister Torsten Nilsson reveals that Sweden has been providing... |  The Silk Route: 7,000 Miles of HistoryBest Price: $2.95 This book was included in a Maryland Department of Education lesson plan for teaching the Silk... |  Indian Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)Best Price: $6.68 This book is difficult for me to recommend for the average person. Despite it's size, the... |  Stalin: The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret ArchivesBest Price: $10.50 For 50 years, few have disputed that Stalin was one of the cruelest men since Vlad the Impaler... |
 Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied ItalyBest Price: $7.59 I group this book with Eric Newby's "Love and War in the Appenines" for unsentimental... |  Haruko's World: A Japanese Farm Woman and Her CommunityBest Price: $23.92 Haruko's World is a study by Gail Lee Bernstein of the women farmers of a Japanese community... |  The Cost of LivingBest Price: $5.95 Compelling, and powerfully written. The author equates big dams and nuclear bombs, showing both... |  The Way of the Fertile Soul: Ten Ancient Chinese Secrets to Tap into a Woman's Creative PotentialBest Price: $3.95 I bought this book after having read "the infertility cure" and I was expecting the... |  Shantung Compound: The Story of Men and Women Under PressureBest Price: $14.35 This book is a classic on people who were interned in China during WWII. I have used it in... |
 Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against JapanBest Price: $14.36 Prompt and Utter Destruction carefully builds arguments in favor of the decision to use the bomb... |  Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines, 1945-2001Best Price: $26.33 In light of the previously posted shining reviews on this text, I suppose there is not much more... |  The Soviet Colossus: History And AftermathBest Price: $27.43 Recommended as an introductory examination upon the paradox that was the Soviet Union. I think... | The Soviet Colossus: History And Aftermath Best Price: $27.43 Recommended as an introductory examination upon the paradox that was the Soviet Union. I think... |  Beijing's Games: What the Olympics Mean to ChinaBest Price: $22.45 Susan Brownell has approached the topic of the Beijing Olympics with the seriousness which it... |
 The Emergence Of Modern Southeast Asia: A New HistoryBest Price: $26.10 This is the most comprehensive introductory text on Southeast Asian History that I have come... |  Caucasus: A Journey to the Land between Christianity and IslamBest Price: $10.99 Nick Griffin had taken a trip to the Caucasus to make a film about this region and turned it... |  Japanese Today: Change and Continuity, Enlarged EditionBest Price: $10.00 Note: This review was published in 1988 and is of the first edition. Nothing that has happened... |  Godfather of the Kremlin: The Decline of Russia in the Age of Gangster CapitalismBest Price: $10.24 This is a great book by a good author with a fantastic approach to the subject at hand.Even with... |  The Portable Karl Marx (Viking Portable Library)Best Price: $8.92 There is little question that Marx was the most important economic/political theorist of the... |
 The Lost Daughters of ChinaBest Price: $1.93 This was an interesting book for those that might be planning to adopt from China. It talks... |  Politics in Russia (5th Edition)Best Price: $53.77 I used this book with some success in my upper division course on Russian politics. The book... | |||
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