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The Kazakhs: Second Edition by Martha Brill Olcott
€25.11This compete history of one of the largest non-Slavic ethnic groups charts it from its emergence in the mid-fifteenth century to the present. Olcott details the major events that have shaped the character of the Islamic nation of Kazakhstan, discussing... -
Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: The Definitive Collector's Edition (Woodblock Prints) by Andreas Marks 9784805317716
RRP: €41.64€29.01A landmark book presenting the early "deluxe" versions of Hiroshige's Edo prints for the first time!Utagawa Hiroshige's unique landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (modern-day Tokyo), first published in the 1850s, is among the best-known... -
China's Terracotta Army: Band 09/Gold (Collins Big Cat) by Juliet Kerrigan
RRP: €8.03€7.95When 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. ... -
Japanese Architecture: An Exploration of Elements and Forms by Mira Locher 9784805313282
RRP: €29.74€20.27Thick thatched roofs and rough mud plaster walls. An intricately carved wood transom and a precisely woven tatami mat-each element of traditional Japanese architecture tells a story.In Japanese Architecture, author Mira Locher explores how each of these... -
The Tao of Deception: Unorthodox Warfare in Historic and Modern China by Ralph D. Sawyer 9780465072057
RRP: €45.22€44.86The 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... -
Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise by Christopher Marquis
RRP: €29.75€20.21A thoroughly researched assessment of how China's economic success continues to be shaped by the communist ideology of Chairman Mao A Financial Times "Best Book of 2022" Tied for the 2023 Axiom Gold Medal, sponsored by Axiom Business Book Awards It... -
Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937-May 1942 by Richard B. Frank 9781324002109
RRP: €38.07€33.72In 1937 the swath of the globe from India to Japan contained half the world's population but only two nations with real sovereignty (Japan and Thailand) and two with compromised sovereignty (China and Mongolia). All other peoples in the region endured... -
Defectors from the PRC to Taiwan, 1960-1989: The Anti-Communist Righteous Warriors by Andrew D. Morris 9781032221731
RRP: €47.59€41.72Defections from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were an important part of the narrative of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan during the Cold War, but their stories have previously barely been told, less still examined, in English.During the... -
The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Divided Nation by Declan Walsh
RRP: €13.08€9.51'All those interested in South Asia and its complex politics and culture should read this book' - Pankaj MishraThe demise of Pakistan - a country with a reputation for volatility, brutality and radical Islam - is regularly predicted. But things rarely... -
History of Art in Japan by Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere
RRP: €35.70€25.93History 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... -
The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 by Ben Kiernan 9780300144345
RRP: €23.79€20.19This 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]... -
Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green:: A Year in the Desert with Team America by Johnny Rico 9780891418979
RRP: €23.79€14.55Apologies 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 -
The Reign of the Vedic Gods by Swami Achuthananda 9780975788318
RRP: €11.84€8.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975788318Author Swami AchuthanandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint RelianzPublisher RelianzWeight(grams) 152g -
Valences of the Dialectic by Fredric Jameson 9781844674633
RRP: €42.83€32.27After half a century exploring dialectical thought, renowned cultural critic Fredric Jameson presents a comprehensive study of a misunderstood yet vital strain in Western philosophy. The dialectic, the concept of the evolution of an idea through... -
Ghosts, Monsters and Demons of India by Rakesh Khanna 9781786788078
RRP: €22.60€15.87"I was not prepared for how deeply this book captivated me ... Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India is exemplary of what a book can be, how it can operate. It's a bridge across space, time, and language" -Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour... -
The Making of Modern Japan by Marius B. Jansen 9780674009912
RRP: €36.83€30.71Magisterial in vision, sweeping in scope, this monumental work presents a seamless account of Japanese society during the modern era, from 1600 to the present. A distillation of more than fifty years' engagement with Japan and its history, it is the... -
To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino 9781538121788
RRP: €21.41€16.71Drawing on the voices of atomic bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and the aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices, detonated over Japan, changed life on Earth forever. To... -
Great State: China and the World by Timothy Brook
RRP: €15.46€11.11China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty to the next, it has maintained them for the eight... -
Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c.800-1830 by Victor B. Lieberman 9780521804967
RRP: €49.97€30.76This 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... -
Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal 9780393357677
RRP: €19.03€15.09In 1611, thirty-four-year-old Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and favourite wife of the Emperor Jahangir who ruled the Mughal Empire. An astute politician as well as a devoted partner, she... -
Two Trees Make a Forest: On Memory, Migration and Taiwan by Jessica J. Lee
RRP: €13.08€9.06I have learned many words for 'island': isle, atoll, eyot, islet, or skerry. They exist in archipelagos or alone, and always, by definition, I have understood them by their relation to water. But the Chinese word for island knows nothing of water. For a... -
The Japanese Cinema Book by Hideaki Fujiki
RRP: €44.02€38.85The Japanese Cinema Book provides a new and comprehensive survey of one of the world's most fascinating and widely admired filmmaking regions. In terms of its historical coverage, broad thematic approach and the significant international range of its... -
Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China by Jing Tsu
RRP: €13.08€9.51A PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTA riveting, masterfully researched account of the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language to the modern world, transforming China into a superpower in the processWhat does it take to reinvent the world's oldest living... -
Overreach: China, America, and the New Cold War by Susan Shirk
RRP: €29.14€25.20For decades, China's rise to power was characterized by its reassurance that this rise would be peaceful. Then, as Susan L. Shirk, shows in this sobering, clear-eyed account of China today, something changed. For three decades after Mao's death in... -
How I Survived a Chinese Re-education Camp: A Uighur Woman Speaks Out by Gulbahar Haitiwaji
RRP: €22.60€14.60'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... -
Ming: Art, People and Places by Jessica Harrison-Hall 9780714124834
RRP: €11.89€8.33Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Royals and Rebels: The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire by Priya Atwal 9781787383081
RRP: €29.75€27.11In late-eighteenth-century India, the glory of the Mughal emperors was fading, and ambitious newcomers seized power, changing the political map forever. Enter the legendary Maharajah Ranjit Singh, whose Sikh Empire stretched throughout northwestern India... -
Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping by Roger Faligot 9781787386044
RRP: €20.22€18.97In 1920s Shanghai, Zhou Enlai founded the first Chinese communist spy network, operating in the shadows against nationalists, Western powers and the Japanese. The story of Chinese spies has been a global one from the start. Unearthing previously... -
The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj by David Gilmour 9780712665650
RRP: €15.46€11.11In 1900 just over a thousand British civil servants ruled a population of nearly 300 million people spread over a territory now covered by India, Pakistan, Burma and Bangladesh. In its time, the Indian Civil Service was regarded as efficient, benevolent... -
Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race by Michael A. Cremo 9780892132942
RRP: €47.59€35.64Apologies 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 -
A History of Thailand by Chris Baker
RRP: €27.36€22.66Since 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,... -
Gujarat Under Modi: Laboratory of Today's India by Christophe Jaffrelot 9781849044295
RRP: €35.70€32.31In 2012 Narendra Modi became the first Hindu nationalist politician thrice elected to lead a state of the Indian Union, his stewardship as Chief Minister of Gujarat being the longest in that state's history. Modi and his BJP supporters explained his... -
The Gift of Anger: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Arun Gandhi
RRP: €13.08€9.51Be inspired in 2020 by Ghandi's ten lessons for life.Gandhi was an icon, but what would he teach us if he were alive today? ___________In this Sunday Times bestseller, his grandson Arun reveals the ten vital and extraordinary lessons his grandfather... -
Curzon: Imperial Statesman by David Gilmour
RRP: €22.60€16.20'A fast-moving, entertaining and finely written story' Simon Schama'Masterly ... a remarkable portrait of a brilliant complex and tragic genius' William Dalrymple, Los Angeles TimesGeorge Nathaniel Curzon's controversial life in public service stretched ... -
Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld by David E. Kaplan 9780520274907
RRP: €29.75€23.79Known for their striking full-body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eighty thousand strong - more than four times the size of the American mafia. Despite their criminal nature, the yakuza are accepted by fellow... -
Khartoum: The Ultimate Imperial Adventure Michael Asher 9780140258554
RRP: €15.46€11.11The British campaign in the Sudan in Queen Victoria's reign is an epic tale of adventure more thrilling than any fiction. The story begins with the massacre of the 11,000 strong Hicks Pasha column in 1883. Sent to evacuate the country, British hero... -
A Fort of Nine Towers by Qais Akbar Omar
RRP: €17.84€15.17'To read this book is to understand Afghanistan as it exists today. This haunting memoir traces the unimaginable odyssey of one family whose world has collapsed . . . Poetic, powerful, and unforgettable.' - Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and... -
On Afghanistan's Plains: The Story of Britain's Afghan Wars by Jules Stewart
€22.80Britain's military involvement in Afghanistan is a contentious subject, yet it is often forgotten that the current conflict is in fact the fourth in a string of such wars dating back more than 170 years. Aiming to protect British India from the expanding... -
The Way of the Samurai by Inazo Nitobe 9781788885072
RRP: €9.51€7.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788885072Author Inazo NitobeFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
You'll Die in Singapore: The True Account of One of the Most Amazing Prison Escapes in WWII Charles McCormac, DCM 9789814625562
RRP: €10.70€7.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814625562Author Charles McCormacFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint monsoonPublisher Monsoon BooksDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 15mm