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DK Eyewitness Myanmar (Burma) by DK Publishing
RRP: €19.03€13.82The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring this captivating country.Explore gilded pagodas and spectacular archaeological sites, enjoy stunning beaches and... -
Bubishi: Karate & Kobudo Codex by Mark Bishop 9781008909670
RRP: €22.92€20.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008909670Author Mark BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 148g -
Women of Empire: Nineteenth-Century Army Officers' Wives in India and the U.S. West by Verity McInnis 9780806157740
€36.49In his Rules for Wife Behavior, Colonel Joseph Whistler summed up his expectations for his new bride: "You will remember you are not in command of anything except the cook." Although their roles were circumscribed, the wives of army officers... -
Obama and China's Rise: An Insider's Account of America's Asia Strategy by Jeffrey A. Bader
RRP: €23.79€20.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815724469Author Jeffrey A. BaderFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)... -
Japan - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture Paul Norbury 9781857338607
RRP: €9.51€8.71Culture Smart! Japan will guide you through modern Japan's shifting social and cultural maze. It provides invaluable insights into people's attitudes and behavior, and practical tips to help make your visit to this complex, rich, and dynamic society a... -
Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India by Suchitra Vijayan
RRP: €29.75€19.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198583Author Suchitra VijayanFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State by Philip Bowring
RRP: €29.75€23.22"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... -
Voices from the Second Republic of South Vietnam (1967-1975) by K. W. Taylor
RRP: €28.55€24.80The Republic of (South) Vietnam is commonly viewed as a unified entity throughout the two decades (1955-75) during which the United States was its main ally. However, domestic politics during that time followed a dynamic trajectory from authoritarianism... -
Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot
RRP: €26.18€22.17A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intoleranceOver the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism... -
Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan by Elisabeth Leake 9780198846017
RRP: €37.47€26.11A new global history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan - an invasion whose consequences are still felt in Afghanistan and across the wider world. On 24 December 1979, Soviet armed forces entered Afghanistan, beginning an occupation that would last... -
The Mughal World: India's Tainted Paradise Abraham Eraly 9780753823620
RRP: €20.22€13.93Inside the opulent, decadent world of the Mughal emperorsThe Mughal emperors were larger-than-life figures, men written on a supra-human scale who exercised absolute power. The three centuries of their rule, as laid out in Eraly's previous volume, THE... -
The Fate of Empires: Being an Inquiry Into the Stability of Civilization by Arthur John Hubbard 9780359032129
RRP: €10.84€9.84The Fate of Empires asks why many civilizations throughout human history have risen to greatness but later collapse into ruin. Can there be a permanent society, or are all doomed to decline? In the first part of this book, the author constructs several... -
Chinese Cinderella Adeline Mah 9780582848887
€18.68What's the hook? A fascinating and moving autobiographical novel. What are the themes? Different cultures, families/generations, friendship, school life and the individual vs society. Teaching points? Excellent for multicultural work, as it is set... -
Chuang Tzu by David Hinton
RRP: €17.84€10.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619024434Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West by Fran Martin
RRP: €28.55€25.18In Dreams of Flight, Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad. On one hand, unmarried middle-class women in the single-child generations are encouraged to develop themselves as... -
Victorious in Defeat: The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975 by Alexander V. Pantsov
RRP: €35.70€29.57An extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century's most powerful and controversial figures Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years,... -
The Modi Effect: Inside Narendra Modi's campaign to transform India Lance Price 9781473610910
RRP: €13.08€9.06How did a 'chai wallah' who sold tea on trains as a boy become Prime Minister of India? On May 16, 2014, Narendra Modi was declared the winner of the largest election ever conducted anywhere in the world, having fought a campaign unlike any before. ... -
China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy by Minxin Pei
€33.42The rise of China as a great power is one of the most important developments in the twenty-first century. But despite dramatic economic progress, China's prospects remain uncertain. In a book sure to provoke debate, Minxin Pei examines the sustainability... -
Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 by R. F. Foster
RRP: €13.08€9.51R.F. Foster's Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 examines how the country has weathered thirty years of rapid transformation, and what these changes may mean in the long run. From 1970, things were changing in Ireland - the Celtic... -
Rethinking Chinese Politics by Joseph Fewsmith 9781108926607
RRP: €36.88€23.79Understanding Chinese politics has become more important than ever. Some argue that China's political system is 'institutionalized' or that 'win all/lose all' struggles are a thing of the past, but, Joseph Fewsmith argues, as in all Leninist systems,... -
The Spectre of Comparison: Politics, Culture and the Nation by Benedict Anderson
RRP: €28.55€26.85"'Come, let us build a Third Kingdom, and in this Third Reich, hey, sisters, you will live happily; hey, brothers, you will live happily; hey, kids, you will live happily; hey, you German patriots, you will see Germany sitting enthroned above all the... -
China's Civilian Army: The Inside Story of China's Quest for Global Power by Peter Martin
RRP: €30.33€21.82The untold story of China's rise as a global superpower, chronicled through the diplomatic shock troops that connect Beijing to the world. China's Civilian Army charts China's transformation from an isolated and impoverished communist state to a... -
The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds by Jonathan D. Spence 9780393319897
RRP: €23.80€20.12China has transfixed the West since the earliest contacts between these civilizations. With his characteristic elegance and insight, Jonathan Spence explores how the West has understood China over seven centuries. Ranging from Marco Polo's own depiction... -
The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World by Anne Gerritsen 9781108499958
RRP: €36.88€30.58We 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... -
India before Europe by Catherine B. Asher
RRP: €35.69€32.21India 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... -
International Departures: Art in India After Independence by Devika Singh 9781789147988
RRP: €35.70€34.88In this captivating and richly illustrated account, Devika Singh presents together for the first time the work of Indian and foreign artists active in India after independence in 1947. The book engages with the many creators, critics and patrons of the... -
When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order by Martin Jacques
RRP: €27.37€17.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118008Author Martin JacquesFormat PaperbackPage Count 848Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 139mm... -
America and the China Threat: From the End of History to the End of Empire by Paolo Urio
RRP: €29.75€23.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949762501Author Paolo UrioFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press -
The Emperor's Feast by Jonathan Clements
RRP: €13.08€9.06'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... -
Asia after Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century by Sugata Bose 9780674423497
RRP: €35.64€29.07A concise new history of a century of struggles to define Asian identity and express alternatives to European forms of universalism.The balance of global power changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century, above all with the economic and... -
My Hong Kong by Malcolm Jack 9781398457133
RRP: €10.70€7.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398457133Author Malcolm JackFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Ganesh: Remover of Obstacles by James H. Bae
RRP: €11.89€8.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683839330Author Mandala PublishingFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Mandala Publishing GroupPublisher Mandala Publishing Group -
The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World by Vijay Prashad
RRP: €17.84€15.99The landmark alternative history of the Cold War from the perspective of the Global South, reissued in paperback with a new introduction by the authorIn this award-winning investigation into the overlooked history of the Third World-with a new preface by... -
Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present by Christopher I. Beckwith 9780691150345
RRP: €21.41€17.52The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking of the origins, history, and significance of this major world region. Christopher Beckwith describes the... -
Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire by SherAli Tareen 9780231210317
RRP: €35.70€27.72Friendship-particularly interreligious friendship-offers both promise and peril. After the end of Muslim political sovereignty in South Asia, how did Muslim scholars grapple with the possibilities and dangers of Hindu-Muslim friendship? How did they... -
The Mongol Conquests: The Military Operations of Genghis Khan and Sube'Etei by Carl Fredrik Sverdrup 9781913336059
RRP: €29.75€25.76Apologies 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 -
Makers of Modern India by Ramachandra Guha
€32.00Modern India is the world's largest democracy, a sprawling, polyglot nation containing one-sixth of all humankind. The existence of such a complex and distinctive democratic regime qualifies as one of the world's bona fide political miracles... -
The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family by Mai Elliott
RRP: €22.00€17.10A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow illuminates recent Vietnamese history by weaving together the stories of the lives of four generations of her family. Beginning with her great-grandfather, who rose from rural... -
India under Colonial Rule: 1700-1885 by Douglas M. Peers 9780582317383
RRP: €44.02€42.53Between 1700 and 1885 the British became the paramount power on the Indian subcontinent, their authority extending from Sri Lankain the south to the Himalayasin the north. It was a massive empire, inspiring both pride and anxiety amongst the British, and... -
The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence 9780393934519
€69.63This text, the classic introduction to modern China for students and general readers, emerged from Spence's highly successful introductory course at Yale, in which he traced the beginnings of modern China to internal developments beginning in the early...