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One Child: Life, Love and Parenthood in Modern China by Mei Fong
RRP: £9.99£7.11Tang Shuxiu and her husband are on an 800-mile train journey from Beijing to Shifang, where they believe their only child has perished in a recent earthquake. Three days after the event, Tang is too dehydrated to cry. Liu Ting becomes a national hero... -
An Illustrated History of the Philippines by Jose Raymund Canoy 9781912081967
RRP: £25.00£18.02Beginning 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... -
Valley of the Shadow: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu by Kevin Boylan
RRP: £14.99£10.95Following the end of World War II, France attempted to reassert control over its colonies in Indochina. In Vietnam, this was resisted by the Viet Minh leading to the First Indochina War. By 1954, the French army was on the defensive and determined to... -
Introducing Einstein's Relativity: A Deeper Understanding by Ray d'Inverno 9780198862031
RRP: £47.99£45.97There is little doubt that Einstein's theory of relativity captures the imagination. Not only has it radically altered the way we view the universe, but the theory also has a considerable number of surprises in store. This is especially so in the three... -
The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World by Anne Gerritsen 9781108499958
RRP: £30.99£26.03We think of blue and white porcelain as the ultimate global commodity: throughout East and Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean including the African coasts, the Americas and Europe, consumers desired Chinese porcelains. Many of these were made in the kilns... -
A Few Planes for China - The Birth of the Flying Tigers by Eugenie Buchan
RRP: £33.00£27.95On December 7, 1941, a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the United States into armed conflict with Japan. In the first three months of the war the Japanese seemed unbeatable as they seized American, British, and European territory across the... -
DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi 9781940696959
RRP: £16.99£11.67WINNER 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... -
Pacific Profiles Volume Eight: IJN Floatplanes in the South Pacific 1942-1944 by Michael Claringbould 9780645246940
RRP: £24.95£22.92Volume Eight of the Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate profiles and histories to date of Imperial Japanese Navy floatplanes which served in the South Pacific theatre, throughout New Guinea and the Solomons. The markings of the six... -
Enlightened Vagabond by Matthieu Ricard
RRP: £26.00£16.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611803303Author Matthieu RicardFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro by Sarah H. Jacoby 9780231147699
RRP: £35.00£28.14Love 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... -
China by Kerry Brown 9781509541485
RRP: £12.99£8.60China is poised to become the world's largest economy in the next decade. But its great struggle to modernise has been one of tragedy, conflict, and challenge. From the first attempts to introduce Western ideas into the country two centuries ago, China's... -
Tibet: An Unfinished Story by Lezlee Brown Halper
RRP: £20.00£18.24Tibet's enduring myth, animated by the tales of Himalayan adventurers, British military expeditions, and the novel, Lost Horizon, remains an inspirational fantasy, a modern morality play about the failure of brutality to subdue the human spirit. Tibet... -
To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino 9781538121788
RRP: £17.99£14.04Drawing 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... -
The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China by Matthew H. Sommer 9780231214131
RRP: £25.00£19.59In 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... -
Secret Drugs of Buddhism: Psychedelic Sacraments and the Origins of the Vajrayana by Michael Crowley 9780907791744
RRP: £16.99£12.07Secret Drugs of Buddhism is the first book to explore the historical evidence for the use of entheogenic plants within the Buddhist tradition. Drawing on scriptural sources, botany, pharmacology, and religious iconography, this book calls attention to... -
Last Children Of The Raj, Volume 1 (1919-1939): British Childhoods in India by Laurence Fleming
RRP: £15.00£9.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903660201Author Mark TullyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Dexter HavenPublisher Dexter HavenWeight(grams) 434gDimensions(mm) 195mm * 130mm * 30mm -
The Lost Samurai School by Antony Cummins
RRP: £23.00£16.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623170875Author Antony CumminsFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Blue Snake BooksPublisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 624gDimensions(mm)... -
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: £12.99£12.41Apologies 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 -
Tin Hats and Rice: A Diary of Life as a Hong Kong Prisoner of War, 1941-1945 by Barbara Anslow
RRP: £13.99£8.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887792741Author Barbara AnslowFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith Books -
Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971 by Yasmin Saikia
RRP: £22.99£21.78Fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan, the war of 1971 led to the creation of Bangladesh, where it is remembered as the War of Liberation. For India, the war represents a triumphant settling of scores with Pakistan. If the war is... -
God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan by Jonathan D. Spence 9780393315561
RRP: £19.99£17.37Whether read for its powerful account of the largest uprising in human history, or for its foreshadowing of the terrible convulsions suffered by twentieth-century China, or for the narrative power of a great historian at his best, God's Chinese Son must... -
Red Azalea by Anchee Min 9780747596035
RRP: £9.99£7.11Born into a devoutly Maoist family in 1950s Shanghai and forced to work on a communal farm from the age of seventeen, Anchee Min found herself in an alienating and hostile political climate, where her only friendships were perilous and intense. Both... -
Calcutta Then Kolkata Now by Sunanda K Datta-Ray
RRP: £49.95£35.76Calcutta 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... -
Han Fei Tzu: Basic Writings by Han Fei Tzu 9780231086097
RRP: £22.00£17.36Representative of the Fachia, or Legalist, school of philosophy, the writings of Han Fei Tzu (280?-233 B.C.) confront the issues of preserving and strengthening the state. His lessons remain timely as scholars continue to examine the nature and use of... -
Flashing Steel, 25th Anniversary Memorial Edition: Mastering Eishin-Ryu Swordsmanship by Masayuki Shimabukuro
RRP: £32.00£21.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623175030Author Masayuki ShimabukuroFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen
RRP: £18.95£17.87Finalist, National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist, National Book Award in NonfictionA New York Times Book Review "The Year in Reading" SelectionAll wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author... -
History of Vietnam: A Captivating Guide to Vietnamese History by Captivating History 9781637160541
RRP: £17.97£11.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637160541Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)... -
The Secret Piano: From Mao's Labor Camps to Bach's Goldberg Variations by Zhu Xiao-Mei
£11.18Zhu Xiao-Mei was born to middle-class parents in post-war China, and her musical proficiency became clear at an early age. Taught to play the piano by her mother, she developed quickly into a prodigy, immersing herself in the work of classical masters... -
The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao by Ian Johnson
RRP: £12.99£9.09'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... -
The Mongol Conquests: The Military Operations of Genghis Khan and Sube'Etei by Carl Fredrik Sverdrup 9781913336059
RRP: £25.00£21.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336059Author Carl Fredrik SverdrupFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Camphor Flame: Popular Hinduism and Society in India - Revised and Expanded Edition by C. J. Fuller
RRP: £40.00£33.04Popular Hinduism is shaped, above all, by worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings--a superabundance indicated by the proverbial total of 330 million gods and goddesses. The fluid relationship between these beings and humans is a central theme of... -
India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display by Saloni Mathur 9780520252318
RRP: £30.00£23.29"India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display" maps for the first time a series of historical events - from the Raj in the mid-nineteenth century up to the present day - through which India was made fashionable to Western audiences within the... -
The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta by Kushanava Choudhury
RRP: £14.99£10.95SHORTLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL WRITING PRIZE 'Witty, polished, honest and insightful, The Epic City is likely to become for Calcutta what Suketu Mehta's classic Maximum City is for Mumbai' William... -
The Emperor's Feast: A History of China in Twelve Meals by Jonathan Clements
RRP: £25.00£16.78'A galloping journey through thousands of years of Chinese culinary history . . . a timely reminder that the country's modern cuisine is the delicious fruit of a rich, ancient and perhaps surprisingly multicultural tradition' FUCHSIA DUNLOP, SPECTATOR'A... -
Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War by Raghu Karnad
RRP: £10.99£8.29Described as 'a masterpiece' by critics, this remarkable book tells the story of war through the lives and deaths of a single family. Absolutely unforgettable new writing. If you loved The English Patient or Rohinton Mistry's Fine Balance or... -
The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej by Paul M. Handley
RRP: £22.50£19.35Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej, the only king ever born in the United States, came to the throne of his country in 1946 and at the time of his death, in October 2016, was the world's longest serving monarch. Now out in paperback with a new preface by... -
The Mountain Poems Of Meng Hao-jan by Hao-Jan Meng
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972869232Author Hao-jan MengFormat PaperbackPage Count 81Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 164g -
Ceylon at War, 1939-1945 by Ashley Jackson 9781912390656
RRP: £35.00£28.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390656Author Ashley JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Kongo-Class Battleships: In the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II by Lars Ahlberg
RRP: £22.99£15.05The battleships of the Kongo class were the oldest, smallest, and fastest battleships in the Imperial Japanese Navy during WWII. Initially classified as battle cruisers, the lead ship in the class, Kongo, was built in England just prior to WWI. The... -
The Indian Empire At War: From Jihad to Victory, The Untold Story of the Indian Army in the First World War by George Morton-Jack
RRP: £12.99£7.51'Essential to a proper understanding of the war and of our world of today' Michael Morpurgo1.5 million Indians fought with the British in the First World War - from Flanders to the African bush and the deserts of the Islamic world, they saved the Allies...