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India and the World: A History of Connections, c. 1750-2000 by Claude Markovits
RRP: $46.78$39.72In this pioneering history of modern India, Claude Markovits offers a new interpretation of events of world importance, focusing on the multiplicity of connections between India and the world. Beginning with an examination of India's evolving role in the... -
The River of Lost Footsteps by Thant Myint-U
RRP: $25.33$16.69Burma is currently ruled by a harsh dictatorship unmoved by Western activists and sanctions. It is also the sight of the longest-running conflict in the world. Drawing both on his own family's stories and his years of hands-on political experience... -
Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization by Kuan-Hsing Chen
RRP: $46.78$40.64Centering his analysis in the dynamic forces of modern East Asian history, Kuan-Hsing Chen recasts cultural studies as a politically urgent global endeavor. He argues that the intellectual and subjective work of decolonization begun across East Asia... -
How to Read Buddhist Art by Kurt A. Behrendt 9781588396730
RRP: $38.90$33.81An indispensable introduction to the evolution of Buddhist imagery from its origins in India through its spread to China, Japan, and South Asia For more than 2,000 years, sublime works of art have been created to embody essential aspects of Buddhist... -
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass 9781849044578
RRP: $58.50$53.33New York Times Book of the Year The Blood Telegram is an unprecedented chronicle of a pivotal but little-known chapter of the Cold War. Gary J. Bass shows how Nixon and Kissinger supported Pakistan's military dictatorship as it brutally quashed the... -
The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India by Philip J. Stern
RRP: $79.93$49.63Almost since the event itself in 1757, the English East India Company's victory over the forces of the nawab of Bengal and the territorial acquisitions that followed has been perceived as the moment when the British Empire in India was born. Examining... -
Storm-333: KGB and Spetsnaz seize Kabul, Soviet-Afghan War 1980 by Mark Galeotti
RRP: $27.28$19.01Storm-333, the operation to seize Kabul and assassinate Afghan leader Hafizullah Amin, was at once a textbook success and the start of a terrible blunder. It heralded the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, an operation intended to be a short, largely... -
The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey Into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future by Geoffrey Cain
RRP: $48.75$34.42An in-depth, on-the ground view of how Chinese officials have co-opted technology, infrastructure and the minds of their people to establish the definitive police state.When blocked from facts and truth, and constantly under surveillance, most citizens... -
A History of Cambodia by David P. Chandler
RRP: $97.48$84.83In this clear and concise volume, author David Chandler provides a timely overview of Cambodia, a small but increasingly visible Southeast Asian nation. Praised by the Journal of Asian Studies as an ''original contribution, superior to any other existing... -
Framed by War: Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire by Susie Woo
RRP: $54.58$42.26An intimate portrait of the postwar lives of Korean children and women Korean children and women are the forgotten population of a forgotten war. Yet during and after the Korean War, they were central to the projection of US military, cultural, and... -
Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City by Darren Byler
RRP: $42.88$37.42In Terror Capitalism anthropologist Darren Byler theorizes the contemporary Chinese colonization of the Uyghur Muslim minority group in the northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang. He shows that the mass detention of over one million Uyghurs in... -
Kendo: Culture of the Sword by Alexander C. Bennett 9780520284371
RRP: $58.50$46.20Kendo is the first in-depth historical, cultural, and political account in English of the Japanese martial art of swordsmanship, from its beginnings in military training and arcane medieval schools to its widespread practice as a global sport today... -
The Ahmadis and the Politics of Religious Exclusion in Pakistan by Ali Usman Qasmi 9781783082339
RRP: $136.50$130.86In this path-breaking new work, Ali Usman Qasmi traces the history of the political exclusion of the Ahmadiyya religious minority in Pakistan by drawing on revealing new sources. This volume is the first scholarly study of the declassified material of... -
Haiku Illustrated: Classic Japanese Short Poems by Hart Larrabee
RRP: $58.48$40.79Haiku - seventeen-syllable poems that evoke worlds despite their brevity - have captivated Japanese readers since the seventeenth century. Today the form is practiced worldwide and has become established as part of our common global heritage. This... -
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea by JaHyun Kim Haboush 9780520280489
RRP: $52.65$41.85Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, form one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong composed this masterpiece, depicting a court life... -
Finger Bone by Hiroki Takahashi
RRP: $27.28$23.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739822590Author Hiroki TakahashiFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Honford StarPublisher Honford Star -
Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919-1941 by Michael Barnhart
RRP: $54.58$47.07The roots of Japan's aggressive, expansionist foreign policy have often been traced to its concern over acute economic vulnerability. Historian Michael Barnhart tests this assumption by examining the events leading up to World War II in the context of... -
Taliban: The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and Beyond by Ahmed Rashid 9780755647101
RRP: $31.18$26.17A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following the U.S-Taliban peace deal of February 2020 - and the U.S's promised withdrawal from Afghanistan - the Taliban began terrorizing Afghan security forces, civilians and the government in Kabul. By August 2021,... -
The Last Tigers of Hong Kong: True Stories of Big Cats That Stalked Britain's Chinese Colony by John Saeki
RRP: $27.28$17.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887554615Author John SaekiFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 284g -
Shrimp to Whale: South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop by Ramon Pacheco Pardo
RRP: $48.75$43.74Charts the incredible rise of South Korea, from colonisation and civil war to today's thriving nation. South Korea has a remarkable history. Born from the ashes of imperial domination, partition and a devastating war, back in the 1950s there were real... -
Risalo by Shah Abdul Latif
RRP: $58.40$46.92The greatest classic of Sindhi literature presented here in an authoritative and vivid modern English translation.Shah Abdul Latif's Risalo is acknowledged across Pakistan and the wider diaspora as the greatest classic of Sindhi literature. In this... -
Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942–1962 by Kalyani Ramnath 9781503636095
RRP: $46.78$40.64For more than century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and seeking work. This all changed with the war and as India, Burma, Ceylon, and... -
Auspicious Animals: The Art of Good Omens by Jun ichi Uchiyama
RRP: $58.48$38.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756254290Author Jun ichi UchiyamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd. -
The First Anglo-Sikh War 1845-46: The betrayal of the Khalsa by David Smith
RRP: $33.13$27.50The First Anglo-Sikh War broke out due to escalating tensions between the Sikh Empire and the British East India Company in the Punjab region of India in the mid-nineteenth century. Political machinations were at the heart of the conflict, with Sikh... -
Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II by Yuki Tanaka 9781538102695
RRP: $78.00$72.07This landmark book documents little-known wartime Japanese atrocities during World War II. Yuki Tanaka's case studies, still remarkably original and significant, include cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced... -
How to Make a Mao Suit: Clothing the People of Communist China, 1949–1976 by Antonia Finnane 9781009359993
RRP: $50.68$42.88When the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949, new clothing protocols for state employees resulted in far-reaching changes in what people wore. In a pioneering history of dress in the Mao years (1949-1976), Antonia Finnane traces the... -
India before Europe by Catherine B. Asher
RRP: $58.48$52.79India is a land of enormous diversity. Cross-cultural influences are everywhere in evidence, in the food people eat, the clothes they wear, and in the places they worship. This was ever the case, and at no time more so than in the India that existed from... -
Indonesia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Graham Saunders
RRP: $21.43$16.03Don't just see the sights get to know the people. Indonesia, stretching across three time zones and situated on one of the world s great maritime trade routes, has a rich and varied culture. Culture Smart! Indonesia describes the many different... -
The Ultimate Guide to Yinyang: An Illustrated Exploration of the Chinese Concept of Opposites by Antony Cummins
RRP: $48.73$33.89The concept of yin yang can be found in some of the oldest writing in the world. It is fundamental to Chinese thought and the route to understanding most Chinese practices, from Traditional Chinese Medicine to Daoism and feng shui. It also offers us ways... -
The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State by Philip Bowring
RRP: $48.75$37.46"Well-researched... a welcome guide." The Spectator "Reliable and lucid." History Today With a fractured geography and complex identity, The Philippines is an eclectic and unique mix of culture, environment, people and politics. Known mostly for... -
Communitarianism and its Critics by Daniel Bell 9780198279228
RRP: $124.78$98.40Many have criticized liberalism for being too individualist, but few have offered an alternative that goes beyond a vague affirmation of the need for community. In this entertaining book, written in dialogue form, Daniel Bell fills this gap, presenting... -
Innovate to Dominate: The Rise of the Chinese Techno-Security State by Tai Ming Cheung
RRP: $74.10$64.88In Innovate to Dominate, Tai Ming Cheung offers insight into why, how, and whether China will overtake the United States to become the world's preeminent technological and security power. This examination of the means and ends of China's quest for... -
The Chinese Army Today: Tradition and Transformation for the 21st Century by Dennis J. Blasko
RRP: $93.58$81.53The Chinese Army Today is a comprehensive study of the Chinese military, examining its ground forces in a level of detail not found in any other contemporary works. This new, revised edition has been fully updated to take account of recent changes in the... -
An Atlas of Impossible Longing by Anuradha Roy
RRP: $19.48$13.26Beginning in 1907 with the founding of a factory in Songarh, a small provincial town where narrow attitudes prevail, the story is of three generations of an Indian family, brilliantly told, in which a sensitive and intelligent foundling boy orphan who is... -
North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors by Daniel Tudor 9780804844581
RRP: $33.13$27.24**Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist** Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors.North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent... -
Mao's Last Revolution by Roderick MacFarquhar
RRP: $50.60$42.20The Cultural Revolution was a watershed event in the history of the People's Republic of China, the defining decade of half a century of communist rule. Before 1966, China was a typical communist state, with a command economy and a powerful party able to... -
Yuan: Chinese Architecture in a Mongol Empire by Nancy Steinhardt 9780691240169
RRP: $120.90$94.03A monumental illustrated survey of the architecture of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century ChinaThe Yuan dynasty endured for a century, leaving behind an architectural legacy without equal, from palaces, temples, and pagodas to pavilions, tombs, and... -
The Palace of Lost Dreams by Charlotte Betts
RRP: $17.53$12.09A sumptuously evocative story set in 18th century India from bestselling author Charlotte Betts, perfect for readers of Dinah Jefferies, Lucinda Riley and Jenny Ashcroft.'Romantic, engaging and hugely satisfying' Katie Fforde on The Apothecary's... -
Coffee Life in Japan by Merry I. White
RRP: $48.75$38.20This fascinating book - part ethnography, part memoir - traces Japan's vibrant cafe society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian... -
Gandhi and Churchill: The Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman
RRP: $29.23$21.35Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister. Born five years and seven thousand miles apart, they became embodiments of the nations they led. Both became living icons, idolized and admired...