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The Three Kingdoms of Korea: Lost Civilizations Richard D McBride II 9781789148756
RRP: $23.22$16.98Korea's Three Kingdoms period is a genuine 'lost civilization', during which ancient realms vied for supremacy during the first millennium CE. Nobles from this period's feuding states adopted and adapted Buddhism and Confucianism through interactions... -
Canton Days: British Life and Death in China by John M. Carroll 9781538136294
RRP: $46.44$41.03Canton Days offers the first comprehensive history of the British community in China from the mid-1700s to the end of the Opium War in 1842. John Carroll challenges common assumptions about the British presence in China as he traces the lives and times... -
Rooks in Afghanistan: Volume 1 - Sukhoi Su-25 in the Afghanistan War by Andrey Korotkov
RRP: $25.74$18.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510131Author Andrey KorotkovFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Frozen River: Seeking Silence in the Himalaya by James Crowden
RRP: $14.18$9.62'A tour de force of luminous writing.' Mark Cocker, Spectator In 1976 James Crowden left his career in the British army and travelled to Ladakh in the Northern Himalaya, one of the most remote parts of the world. The... -
Old Japan: Secrets from the Shores of the Samurai by Antony Cummins 9780750984423
RRP: $16.76$13.25Japan has often been thought of as a closed country, but before the country was closed in 1635 many travellers from the West were able to experience its unique traditions and culture. Their accounts speak of legends of powerful dragons and devils, tales... -
Soldier Sahibs Charles Allen 9781848547162
RRP: $14.18$9.82This text retells the story of a brotherhood of young men who together laid claim to one of the most notorious frontiers in the world: India's north-west frontier, which in the late 1990s forms the volatile boundary between Pakistan and Afghanistan... -
The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer
RRP: $16.76$11.35Roman Ungern von Sternberg was a Baltic aristocrat, a violent, headstrong youth posted to the wilds of Siberia and Mongolia before the First World War. After the Bolshevik Revolution, the Baron - now in command of a lethally effective rabble of... -
The Vietnam War by Ken Burns
RRP: $58.05$56.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307700254Author Geoffrey C. WardFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 2499gDimensions(mm) 283mm *... -
The East India Company, 1600-1858: A Short History with Documents by Ian Barrow
RRP: $24.50$20.52In existence for 258 years, the English East India Company ran a complex, highly integrated global trading network. It supplied the tea for the Boston Tea Party, the cotton textiles used to purchase slaves in Africa, and the opium for China's... -
An Illustrated History of the Philippines Jose Raymund Canoy 9781912081967
RRP: $32.25$29.39Beginning with a definition of who the people of The Philippines are, this fully illustrated history then tracks back to describe the prehistory of the country through to 1500 AD. The next two chapters chart the colonial experiences under Spain... -
Last Children Of The Raj, Volume 2 (1939-1950): British Childhoods in India by Laurence Fleming
RRP: $19.35$12.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903660218Author Mark TullyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Dexter HavenPublisher Dexter HavenWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 195mm * 130mm * 30mm -
A History of Ayutthaya: Siam in the Early Modern World by Chris Baker
RRP: $34.82$28.55Early European visitors placed Ayutthaya alongside China and India as the great powers of Asia. Yet in 1767 the city was destroyed and its history has been neglected. This book is the first study of Ayutthaya from its emergence in the thirteenth century... -
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution by Jonathan D. Spence 9780140062793
$23.31“A milestone in Western studies of China.” (John K. Fairbank) In this masterful, highly original approach to modern Chinese history, Jonathan D. Spence shows us the Chinese revolution through the eyes of its most articulate participants—the writers,... -
Imagining Afghanistan: The History and Politics of Imperial Knowledge by Nivi Manchanda
RRP: $32.24$28.86Over time and across different genres, Afghanistan has been presented to the world as potential ally, dangerous enemy, gendered space, and mysterious locale. These powerful, if competing, visions seek to make sense of Afghanistan and to render it legible... -
The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia by James Bradley 9780316410670
RRP: $63.21$46.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316410670Author James BradleyFormat HardbackPage Count 608Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Fire Under The Snow: Testimony of a Tibetan Prisoner by Palden Gyatso
RRP: $20.63$15.21In 1992 the Venerable Palden Gyatso was released after thirty-three years of imprisonment by Chinese forces in Tibet. He fled across the Himalayas to India, smuggling with him the instruments of his torture. This powerful text is the story of his life... -
The Defence and Fall of Singapore Brian Farrell 9789814423885
RRP: $16.76$11.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814423885Author Brian FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint monsoonPublisher Monsoon BooksDimensions(mm) 227mm * 152mm * 35mm -
Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War by Michael Sallah 9780316066358
$22.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316066358Author Michael SallahFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm... -
The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia by Bill Hayton
RRP: $18.05$15.80Why the world can't afford to be indifferent to the simmering conflict in the South China Sea"The greatest risk today in U.S.-Chinese relations is the South China Sea, through which passes 40% of world trade. . . . Hayton explains how this all came about... -
For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies by Robert Irwin
RRP: $20.63$14.98Robert Irwin's history of Orientalism leads from Ancient Greece to the present. He shows that, whether making philological comparisons between Arabic and Hebrew, cataloguing the coins of Fatimid Egypt or establishing the basic chronology of Harun... -
Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance: South India through European Eyes, 1250-1625 by Joan-Pau Rubies 9780521526135
RRP: $39.98$37.00This book, first published in 2000, offers a wide-ranging and ambitious analysis of how European travellers in India developed their perceptions of ethnic, political and religious diversity over three hundred years. It analyses the growth of novel... -
Nehru: The Debates that Defined India by Tripurdaman Singh
RRP: $14.18$9.62'An important contribution ... Delving lucidly into the most significant ideological battles of the era, this book deftly outlines the thinking and dialogue that laid the foundations of the Republic - and which remain deeply relevant and contentious... -
For King and Another Country: Indian Soldiers on the Western Front, 1914-18 by Shrabani Basu
RRP: $16.76$12.05Over a million Indian soldiers fought in the First World War, the largest force from the colonies and dominions. Their contribution, however, has been largely forgotten. Many soldiers were illiterate and travelled from remote villages in India to fight... -
The Raj at War: A People's History of India's Second World War by Yasmin Khan
RRP: $19.34$14.13The Second World War was not fought by Britain alone. India produced the largest volunteer army in world history: over 2 million men. But, until now, there has never been a comprehensive account of India's turbulent home front and the nexus between... -
Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Restoration, 1868-2000 by R. Sims 9780312239152
RRP: $64.49$43.85Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Restoration, 1868-2000 explores, through a combination of narrative and analysis, the changes in the political process which lay behind Japan's transformation into a modern nation state; its successive turn... -
Home: My Life in the Universe by Mark Ballabon 9780955948770 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89$3.2814-year-old Leah loves wilderness survival books. In fact, sometimes she wishes she could escape into the wild. Then she could get away from the body image obsession at school and the bullies who pick on her little brother, Aiden. As long as she could... -
The Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise by Scott Rozelle 9780226739526
RRP: $30.96$29.71As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. But as Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell show in Invisible China,... -
DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi 9781940696959
RRP: $21.92$15.05WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY "Don Mee Choi's urgent DMZ Colony captures the migratory latticework of those transformed by war and colonization. Homelands present and past share one sky where birds fly, but 'during the Korean War... -
Japanese Legends and Folklore: Samurai Tales, Ghost Stories, Legends, Fairy Tales and Historical Accounts A. B. Mitford 9784805315019
RRP: $16.76$11.39Japanese Legends and Folklore invites English speakers into the intriguing world of Japanese folktales, ghost stories and historical eyewitness accounts. With a fascinating selection of stories about Japanese culture and history, A.B. Mitford-who lived... -
The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao by Ian Johnson
RRP: $16.76$12.05'Masterfully opens up a little explored realm: how the quest for religion and spirituality drives hundreds of millions of Chinese' Pankaj Mishra'A fascinating odyssey ... a nuanced group portrait of Chinese citizens striving for non-material answers in... -
Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro by Sarah H. Jacoby 9780231147699
RRP: $45.15$36.30Love and Liberation reads the autobiographical and biographical writings of one of the few Tibetan Buddhist women to record the story of her life. Sera Khandro Kunzang Dekyong Chonyi Wangmo (also called Dewe Dorje, 1892-1940) was extraordinary not only... -
Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values and Institutions in Hong Kong by Michael C. Davis 9781952636448
$25.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952636448Author Michael C. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian Studies -
The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China by Matthew H. Sommer 9780231214131
RRP: $32.25$25.27In imperial China, people moved away from the gender they were assigned at birth in different ways and for many reasons. Eunuchs, boy actresses, and clergy left behind normative gender roles defined by family and procreation. "Stone maidens"-women deemed... -
Samurai by John Man
RRP: $14.18$10.31The name 'Samurai' is synonymous with the ultimate warrior. With their elaborate armour, fierce swordsmanship and code of honour, the samurai have become iconic figures whose influence can still be felt today . From Kurosawa's epic Seven Samurai to the... -
The Rape of Nanking: The Nanjing Massacre That Occurred during the Second Sino-Japanese War by Captivating History 9781637163146
RRP: $20.60$13.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637163146Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm)... -
The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters by Megan Walsh
RRP: $15.47$10.62What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics? The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you've never seen before: a vast... -
The First Afghan War 1839-42: Invasion, catastrophe and retreat by Richard Macrory
RRP: $20.63$17.45In 1839 forces of the British East India Company crossed the Indus to invade Afghanistan on the pretext of reinstating a former king Shah Soojah to his rightful throne. The reality was that this was another step in Britain's Great Game - Afghanistan... -
Hannibal's Oath: The Life and Wars of Rome's Greatest Enemy by John Prevas
RRP: $32.25$18.91According 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... -
The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste, the Debate Between B.R. Ambedkar and M.K. Gandhi by Arundhati Roy
RRP: $16.76$16.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608467976Author Arundhati RoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Haymarket BooksPublisher Haymarket Books -
Calcutta Then Kolkata Now by Sunanda K Datta-Ray
RRP: $64.44$46.13Calcutta Then: Calcutta is where it all began. The city symbolised India's transformation from medievalism to modernity. The British created the framework. The prophets and pioneers who operated within it were Indian. Raja Rammohan Roy linked past and...