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Tsushima 1905 by Mark Lardas
RRP: £15.99£11.61Japan was closed to the world until 1854 and its technology then was literally medieval. Great Britain, France and Russia divided the globe in the nineteenth century, but Japan was catching up. Its army and navy were retrained by Western powers and... -
The Wisdom of Tea: Life Lessons from the Japanese Tea Ceremony by Noriko Morishita
RRP: £9.99£7.11For more than 25 years Noriko Morishita has studied and practised the intricate rules of the famous Japanese Tea Ceremony, trying to master its complexities in order to find inner peace. In this vivid account of her experience of the universal trials and... -
China's Terracotta Army: Band 09/Gold (Collins Big Cat) by Juliet Kerrigan
RRP: £6.75£6.48When the First Emperor of China died 2,000 years ago, he was buried in a giant tomb. In 1974, this tomb was discovered along with an army of over 6,000 terracotta warriors. Discover the army for yourself and the reason they were buried with the Emperor. ... -
Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery by Siddharth Kara 9780231139618
£12.15Every year, hundreds of thousands of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution, coerced to service hundreds if not thousands of men before being discarded. These trafficked sex slaves form the backbone of one of... -
Hannibal's Oath: The Life and Wars of Rome's Greatest Enemy by John Prevas
RRP: £25.00£14.66According to ancient sources, Hannibal was only nine years old when his father dipped the small boy's hand in blood and made him swear eternal hatred of Rome. Whether the story is true or not, it is just one of hundreds of legends that have appeared over... -
A History of Korea: An Episodic Narrative by Kyung Moon Hwang
RRP: £23.99£22.37Dynamic and meticulously researched, A History of Korea continues to be one of the leading introductory textbooks on Korean history. Assuming no prior knowledge, Hwang guides readers from early state formation and the dynastic eras to the modern... -
The Tao of Deception: Unorthodox Warfare in Historic and Modern China by Ralph D. Sawyer 9780465072057
RRP: £38.00£37.70The history of China is a history of warfare. Wars have caused dynasties to collapse, fractured the thin facade of national unity, and brought decades of alien occupation. But throughout Chinese history, its warfare has been guided by principles... -
The Mongol Invasions of Japan 1274 and 1281 by Stephen Turnbull 9781846034565
RRP: £15.99£12.37From his seat in Xanadu, the great Mongol Emperor of China, Kubla Khan, had long plotted an invasion of Japan. However, it was only with the acquisition of Korea, that the Khan gained the maritime resources necessary for such a major amphibious operation... -
How I Survived a Chinese Re-education Camp: A Uighur Woman Speaks Out by Gulbahar Haitiwaji
RRP: £18.99£12.27'An indispensable account' - Sunday Times 'Moving and devastating' - The Literary Review 'An intimate, highly sensory self-portrait' - Sunday Telegraph (Five Stars) FIRST MEMOIR ABOUT CHINA'A 'RE-EDUCATION' CAMPS BY A UYGHUR WOMAN Since 2017, one million... -
The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 by Ben Kiernan 9780300144345
RRP: £19.99£16.97This edition of Ben Kiernan's definitive account of the Cambodian revolution and genocide includes a new preface that takes the story up to 2008 and the UN-sponsored Khmer Rouge tribunal. "Deeply detailed, meticulously reported. . . . Important [and]... -
Mod Lib The Baburnama by W. M. Thackston
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375761379Author W.M. ThackstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)... -
Poems from the Sikh Sacred Tradition by Guru Nanak
RRP: £16.95£13.85"A landmark volume, filled with beautiful renderings of writings from the Guru Granth Sahib."-Simran Jeet Singh, author of The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your LifeAn exquisite new translation of Guru Nanak's verses, illuminating the... -
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel 9780674725867
RRP: £25.95£22.24Winner of the Lionel Gelber PrizeNational Book Critics Circle Award FinalistAn Economist Best Book of the Year | A Financial Times Book of the Year | A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year | A Washington Post Book of the Year | A Bloomberg News Book of... -
Samurai and the Warrior Culture of Japan, 471a1877: A Sourcebook by Thomas Donald Conlan 9781647920395
RRP: £19.99£16.44In addition to providing excerpts from classic tales of Japan's warrior past, this volume draws on a wide range of lesser-known but revealing sources-including sword inscriptions, edicts, orders, petitions, and letters-to expand and deepen our... -
History of Art in Japan by Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere
RRP: £30.00£19.90History of Art in Japan is a fully illustrated overview of Japanese art, written by one of Japan's most distinguished art historians. This masterful account of the country's exceptional cultural heritage sheds light on how Japan has nurtured distinctive... -
Midnight in Peking: The Murder That Haunted the Last Days of Old China by Paul French
RRP: £10.99£7.77Midnight in Peking is a gripping true murder mystery by Paul FrenchTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'A first-rate murder story, a thrilling narrative. Hurtles along from one cliffhanger to the next' SpectatorPeking, 1937:The teenage... -
Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green:: A Year in the Desert with Team America by Johnny Rico 9780891418979
RRP: £19.99£12.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891418979Author Johnny RicoFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press -
Japan's Best Friend: Dog Culture in the Land of the Rising Sun by Manami Okazaki
RRP: £16.99£12.28In Japan's Best Friend, stunning photographs take readers to religious festivals and shrines that honor dog deities, to the streets of Tokyo where canines are a mainstay of kawaii culture, and inside the doors of cafes that make pup-themed latte art as... -
Unruly Waters: How Mountain Rivers and Monsoons Have Shaped South Asia's History by Sunil Amrith
RRP: £10.99£7.77'An enthralling, elegantly written and, ultimately, profoundly alarming history' EconomistA bold new perspective on the history of South Asia, telling its story through its climate, and the long quest to tame its watersSouth Asia's history has been... -
The Kural: Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural by Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma
RRP: £23.00£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807003619Author Thomas Hitoshi PruiksmaFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Introduction to Classical Chinese by Kai Vogelsang 9780198834984
RRP: £40.99£39.57This textbook provides a comprehensive scholarly introduction to Classical Chinese and its texts. Classical Chinese is the language of Confucius and Mencius and their contemporaries, who wrote the seminal texts of Chinese philosophy more than 2,000 years... -
Mao: A Very Short Introduction by Delia Davin 9780199588664
RRP: £8.99£6.45As a giant of 20th century history, Mao Zedong played many roles: peasant revolutionary, patriotic leader against the Japanese occupation, Marxist theoretician, modernizer, and visionary despot. This Very Short Introduction chronicles Mao's journey from... -
Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c.800-1830 by Victor B. Lieberman 9780521804967
RRP: £41.99£25.85This ambitious work has two novel goals: to overcome the extreme fragmentation of early Southeast Asian historiography, and to connect Southeast Asian to world history. Combining careful local research with wide-ranging theory Lieberman argues that over... -
Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding by Husain Haqqani
RRP: £13.99£10.95The relationship between America and Pakistan is based on mutual incomprehension and always has been. Pakistan,to American eyes,has gone from being a quirky irrelevance, to a stabilizing friend, to an essential military ally, to a seedbed of terror... -
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire by Henrietta Harrison 9780691225463
RRP: £17.99£14.38A fascinating history of China's relations with the West-told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney's fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been... -
Dog Man: An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain by Martha Sherrill
RRP: £24.00£16.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594483905Author Martha SherrillFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 256gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
A History of Bangladesh by Willem van Schendel
RRP: £27.99£24.01Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's state-of-the-art history navigates the extraordinary twists and turns that created modern Bangladesh through ecological disaster, colonialism, partition, a war of... -
The Mughal Throne: The Saga of India's Great Emperors by Abraham Eraly
RRP: £16.99£11.54A history of the great Mughal rulers of India, one of the world's greatest empires.In December 1525 Babur, the great grandson of the Mongol conqueror Tamberlaine, crossed the Indus river into the Punjab with a modest army and some cannon. At the battle... -
The Left in China: A Political Cartography by Ralf Ruckus
RRP: £16.99£11.54'Does a great service by shifting our attention to the oppositional movements of Chinese workers, peasants, students, and women who have contested inequality and exploitation' - Manfred Elfstrom Tracing the history of left-wing, subversive and... -
The Ahoms: A Reimagined History by Arup Kumar Dutta
£22.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356294141Author Arup Kumar DuttaFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 487gDimensions(mm)... -
Introduction to Japanese Culture by Daniel Sosnoski 9784805313138
RRP: £13.99£9.20Featuring full-color photographs and illustrations thoughout, this book presents a comprehensive guide to Japanese culture.The richness of Japan's history is renowned worldwide, and the cultural heritage that its society has produced and handed down to... -
Asian Waters: The Struggle Over the South China Sea and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion by Humphrey Hawksley 9781468314786
RRP: £21.99£18.33In the sphere of future global politics, no region will be as hotly contested as the Asia-Pacific, where great power interests collide amid the mistrust of unresolved conflicts and disputed territory. This is where authoritarian China is trying to... -
The History of Central Asia: The Age of Islam and the Mongols by Christoph Baumer
RRP: £85.00£76.91Between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent. In the first half of the thirteenth century it was also the pre-eminent centre of power in the largest land-based... -
Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race by Michael A. Cremo 9780892132942
£42.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892132942Author Michael A. CremoFormat HardbackPage Count 914Imprint Bhaktivedanta Book TrustPublisher Bhaktivedanta Book TrustWeight(grams) 1545g -
Unbecoming Modern: Colonialism, Modernity, Colonial Modernities by Saurabh Dube 9781032653709
RRP: £39.99£35.06In this volume well-known scholars from India and Latin America - Enrique Dussel, Madhu Dubey, Walter D. Mignolo, and Sudipta Sen, to name a few - discuss the concepts of modernity and colonialism and describe how the two relate to each other. This... -
A History of Thailand by Chris Baker
RRP: £22.99£19.37Since it was first published in 2005, A History of Thailand has been hailed as an authoritative, lively and readable account of Thailand's political, economic, social and cultural history. From the early settlements in the Chao Phraya basin to today,... -
Japanese Design: An Illustrated Guide to Art, Architecture and Aesthetics in Japan by Patricia J. Graham
RRP: £16.99£10.20"Graham has crafted a compact, jewel-like resource for all who seek to understand the sources, evolution, impact, and value of Japanese aesthetics and design principles in our modern world." -Dr. Jane Schall, Sanders Sosland Curator of Modern and... -
The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China by Samuel Hawley 9780992078621
£20.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992078621Author Samuel HawleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 684Imprint Conquistador PressPublisher Conquistador PressWeight(grams) 989g -
In the Shadow of Death: The Story of a Medic on the Burma Railway, 1942 45 by Barwick, Idris James 9781399014427
RRP: £14.99£10.95Idris (Taff) James was a driver in the Royal Army Service Corps and one of the thousands of young British soldiers taken prisoner by the Japanese in early 1942/. He was ordered to become a medic by his Company Commander, who must have been a very shrewd... -
The Invention of China by Bill Hayton
RRP: £11.99£10.15Bill Hayton tells the story of how "China" came to think of itself as China-and what it means for our world today "[A] smart take on modern Chinese nationalism."-Foreign Policy In this compelling and highly-readable account, Hayton shows how China's...