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In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians: A Story of Suppression, Secrecy and Survival by John Dougill
RRP: €13.08€10.08In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians is a remarkable story of suppression, secrecy and survival in the face of human cruelty and God's apparent silence. Part history, part travelogue, it explores and seeks to explain a clash of civilizations-of East... -
Becoming Kim Jong Un: Understanding North Korea's Young Dictator by Jung H. Pak
RRP: €23.80€18.65'The young dictator comes under close scrutiny in this intelligent account' Sunday Times When Kim Jong Un became the leader of North Korea in 2011, many expected his rule to be short. Years later, he remains the unchallenged dictator of a nuclear... -
Anticipating China: Thinking through the Narratives of Chinese and Western Culture by David L. Hall 9780791424780
€32.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791424780Author David L. HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America, 2n d Edition by W Shan
RRP: €20.22€14.41Foreword by Janet Yellen Weijian Shan's Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China of our time, one with the potential to re-shape how Americans view China, and how the Chinese view life in... -
The Emperor's Feast: 'A tasty portrait of a nation' -Sunday Telegraph Jonathan Clements 9781529332421
RRP: €29.75€20.27'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... -
Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong by Gordon Mathews
RRP: €22.61€22.02There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong's tourist district. A remarkably motley group of people call the building home; Pakistani phone... -
Samurai! by Saburo Sakai
RRP: €22.55€19.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743412834Author Saburo SakaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint ibooks IncPublisher ibooks IncWeight(grams) 564g -
Okinawa: The History of an Island People George Kerr 9784805314791
RRP: €23.79€16.12"The first full-length monograph on the history of the Ryukyu Islands in any Western language...a standard work."-Pacific AffairsOkinawa: The History of an Island People is the definitive book available in English on the history of Okinawa and the Ryukyu... -
Flashing Steel, 25th Anniversary Memorial Edition: Mastering Eishin-Ryu Swordsmanship Masayuki Shimabukuro 9781623175030
RRP: €38.08€24.81Apologies 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. -
Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War by Raghu Karnad
RRP: €13.08€10.14Described 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 Paul M. Handley 9780300228304
RRP: €26.78€23.03Thailand'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... -
Zen in Japanese Culture: A Visual Journey through Art, Design, and Life Gavin Blair 9780789213457
RRP: €29.74€20.98A visual journey through Zen's influence on Japanese life, from calligraphy to the martial arts Formed by a convergence of the Buddha's teachings with Taoism and local tradition, Zen has had a profound impact on the art and culture of Japan. As a... -
The Mountain Poems Of Meng Hao-jan by Hao-Jan Meng
RRP: €15.46€10.51Apologies 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: €41.65€34.21Apologies 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 -
The Leper King and his Heirs: Baldwin IV and the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem by Professor Bernard Hamilton 9780521017473
RRP: €47.59€39.58The reign of King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (1174-85) has traditionally been seen as a period of decline when, because of the king's illness, power came to be held by unsuitable men who made the wrong policy decisions. Notably, they ignored the advice of... -
Samurai: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Wert
RRP: €10.70€7.91The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late seventeenth century, they were heavily featured in literature, art, theater,... -
Six Battles for India: Anglo-Sikh Wars, 1845-46 and 1848-49 by George Bruce 9781800550438
€14.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800550438Author George BruceFormat PaperbackImprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere Books -
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea by JaHyun Kim Haboush 9780520280489
RRP: €32.13€25.54Lady 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... -
Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom by Ramachandra Guha 9780008498764
RRP: €29.75€21.44WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 'A narrative of startling originality ... As discussions of Britain's colonial legacy become increasingly polarised, we are in ever more need of nuanced... -
The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine by Ilza Veith 9780520288263
RRP: €29.75€23.31The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine has become a landmark in the history of Chinese civilization. Written in the form of a dialogue in which the emperor seeks information from his minister Ch'I-Po on questions of health and the art of... -
A Ride To Khiva by Frederick Burnaby
€31.86'He who once enters Khiva abandons all hope, as surely as one who enters Hell. His prison house is girdled with trackless deserts, whose sole inhabitants are the sellers of human flesh.' In the winter of 1875, a young British officer set out across... -
Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink by Wasserstrom Jeffrey
RRP: €14.27€9.79On the frontlines of the battle for democracy in ChinaThe rise of Hong Kong is the story of a miraculous post-War boom, when Chinese refugees flocked to a small British colony, and, in less than fifty years, transformed it into one of the great financial... -
China: A New History, Second Enlarged Edition by John King Fairbank 9780674018280
RRP: €33.26€27.25John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. It remains a masterwork without parallel. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings... -
The Great Enterprise: Sovereignty and Historiography in Modern Korea by Henry H. Em
RRP: €26.17€23.31In The Great Enterprise, Henry H. Em examines how the project of national sovereignty shaped the work of Korean historians and their representations of Korea's past. The goal of Korea attaining validity and equal standing among sovereign nations, Em... -
Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary by Gao Wenqian
€25.75When Gao Wenqian first published this ground-breaking, provocative biography in Hong Kong, it was immediately banned in the People's Republic. Using classified documents spirited out of the China, he offers an objective human portrait of the real Zhou... -
The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire by Ashwin Desai 9780804797177
RRP: €24.98€22.68In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere more significant than in South Africa. "India gave us a Mohandas, we gave them a Mahatma," goes a popular... -
A Brief History Of Bali: Piracy, Slavery, Opium and Guns: The Story of an Island Paradise Willard A. Hanna 9780804847315
RRP: €16.65€11.23This book tells the story of Bali-the "paradise island of the Pacific"-its rulers and its people, and their encounters with the Western world.Bali is a perennially popular tourist destination. It is also home to a fascinating people with a long and... -
Enlightened Vagabond: The Life and Teachings of Patrul Rinpoche Matthieu Ricard 9781611803303
RRP: €30.94€20.52Apologies 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)... -
Nemesis: A brand-new historical epic from the Master of Adventure by Wilbur Smith 9781804182284
RRP: €20.22€13.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorWilbur Smith (Author) Wilbur Smith was born in Central Africa in 1933. He became a full-time writer in 1964 following the success of When the Lion Feeds, and has... -
Coming Home Sue Gee 9781472207128
RRP: €13.08€9.06Spring, 1947. In a few months' time the British flag will be lowered all over India, and with Independence thousands of those who made their lives there - as planters, civil servants, or in the Indian army - will be returning to England. Among those... -
China’s Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism by Rana Mitter 9780674984264
RRP: €28.50€21.87A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearChinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation's brutal experience during World War II. Now they celebrate the "victory"-a key foundation of China's rising nationalism... -
Patriots, Traitors and Empires: The Story of Korea's Struggle for Freedom by Stephen Gowans 9781771861359
RRP: €29.69€18.58Patriots, Traitors and Empires is an account of modern Korean history, written from the point of view of those who fought to free their country from the domination of foreign empires. It traces the history of Korea's struggle for freedom from opposition... -
Dalit: The Black Untouchables of India by Shetty V.T. Rajshekar 9780932863058
€11.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932863058Author Shetty V.T. RajshekarFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press -
Japanese Ink Painting: Lessons in Suiboku Technique (Designed for the Beginner) Ryukyu Saito 9780804832601
RRP: €17.84€11.96Japanese Ink Painting: Lessons in Suiboku Technique teaches beginners the fundamental techniques of suiboku, a form of Japanese ink painting.Suiboku is considered to be a type of Japanese painting known as sumi-e. It adds water to emphasize the shading... -
Chinese Arms and Armour by Natasha Bennett 9780948092893
RRP: €15.46€10.98The fabled treasures of China span thousands of years of history. From the exotic Silk Road to the mysterious Great Wall, China's allure is as vast as the country itself. Here, Natasha Bennett introduces the fascinating world of Chinese arms and armour... -
Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India by Douglas Ober
RRP: €29.74€26.19Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the land of its birth, between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, long forgotten until British colonial scholars re-discovered it in the early 1800s. Its full-fledged revival, so the... -
Amazons: The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World by John Man
RRP: €13.08€9.51Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting, horse-riding female warriors. Equal to men in battle, legends claimed they cut off their right breasts to improve their archery... -
The History of Central Asia: The Age of the Steppe Warriors (Volume 1) by Christoph Baumer 9781780760605
RRP: €101.15€92.23The epic plains and arid deserts of Central Asia have witnessed some of the greatest migrations, as well as many of the most transformative developments, in the history of civilization. Christoph Baumer's ambitious four-volume treatment of the region... -
A Hero Born: Legends of the Condor Heroes Vol. 1 by Jin Yong
€29.67THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME.THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES - 300 MILLION COPIES SOLD..ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST FANTASY NOVELS OF ALL TIME."Jin Yong's work, in the... -
Twilight Over Burma: My Life as a Shan Princess by Inge Sargent 9780824816285
RRP: €23.74€14.68Just married and returning to live in her new husband's native land, a young Austrian woman arrived with her Burmese husband by passenger ship in Rangoon in 1953. They were met at dockside by hundreds of well-wishers displaying colorful banners, playing...