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Samurai Armour: Volume I: The Japanese Cuirass by Trevor Absolon
RRP: $84.00$64.66For beauty, precision and strength, nothing has ever matched the combination of form and function found in the armour of the samurai. For a samurai, the consummate warrior, his suit of armour was so much more than 'just' protective equipment that could... -
Obama and China's Rise: An Insider's Account of America's Asia Strategy by Jeffrey A. Bader
RRP: $41.98$36.98Apologies 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)... -
Gandhi the Man: How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World by Eknath Easwaran
RRP: $31.48$26.36This is the moving story of a nonviolent hero, illustrated with more than 70 photographs, and told by a highly respected author who grew up in Gandhi's India. Gandhi's life continues to inspire and baffle readers today. How did an unsuccessful young... -
How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology by Zong-qi Cai 9780231139410
RRP: $79.80$65.12In this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. The volume is divided into 6 chronological sections and features more than 140 examples of the best shi, sao, fu, ci,... -
Indo-Pacific Empire: China, America and the Contest for the World's Pivotal Region by Rory Medcalf
RRP: $31.48$23.00The definitive guide to the world's most contested region.The Indo-Pacific is both a place and an idea. It is the region central to global prosperity and security. It is also a metaphor for collective action. If diplomacy fails, it will be the theatre of... -
Voices from the Second Republic of South Vietnam (1967-1975) by K. W. Taylor
RRP: $50.38$43.76The 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... -
Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah 9780582848887
$32.97What'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... -
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
RRP: $37.78$31.23Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important history of the more than six years of American occupation, which affected every level of... -
The Mongol Empire in Global History and Art History by Anne Dunlop 9780674279162
RRP: $79.70$64.07With the rise of projects to create global histories and art histories, the Mongol Empire is now widely taken as a fundamental watershed. In the later thirteenth century, the Mongol states reconfigured the basic zones of Eurasian trade and contact. For... -
Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis by Padma Kaimal
RRP: $63.00$49.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780924304675Author Padma KaimalFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian StudiesWeight(grams)... -
With the Paras in Helmand: A Photographic Diary by Allen, Craig 9781399020886
RRP: $31.48$28.58Craig Allen, a Paratrooper for 29 years, returned to 2 PARA as a reservist and unofficial photographer for the Battlegroups dramatic 2008 Tour in Helmand. As both a respected soldier and photographer he had unrivalled access to the fighting and moved... -
Indian Migration and Empire: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State by Radhika Mongia
RRP: $44.08$38.58How did states come to monopolize control over migration? What do the processes that produced this monopoly tell us about the modern state? In Indian Migration and Empire Radhika Mongia provocatively argues that the formation of colonial migration... -
The Teabowl: East and West by Bonnie Kemske
RRP: $73.50$56.97A complete history of the tea ceremony and teabowls with beautiful pieces from international potters. The teabowl has become an iconic form in contemporary ceramics. Having travelled from Japan, where it was an inherent part of chanoyu, or tea... -
The Battle of Okinawa 1945: The Real Story Behind Hacksaw Ridge by Jon Diamond 9781526726001
RRP: $33.58$25.22The American campaign to capture Okinawa, codename Operation ICEBERG was fought from 1 April to 22 June 1945/. 350 miles from Japan, Okinawa was intended to be the staging area for the Allied invasion of the Japanese mainland. The Japanese Thirty Second... -
The Kwee Family of Ciledug: A Family, Status and Modernity in Colonial Java Visualising the Private Life of the Peranakan Chinese Sugar by Peter Post 9789460224928
RRP: $69.28$44.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789460224928Author Peter PostFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint KIT PublishersPublisher KIT PublishersWeight(grams) 814g -
Investment in Blood: The True Cost of Britain's Afghan War by Frank Ledwidge 9780300205268
RRP: $23.08$19.68In this follow-up to the extremely successful Losing Small Wars, Frank Ledwidge analyses the cost - both financial and human - of Britain's involvement in the Afghanistan war. With the aid of interviews, on-the-ground research and countless Freedom of... -
The Meiji Restoration: Japan as a Global Nation by Robert Hellyer 9781108745475
RRP: $52.48$46.98In world history, the Meiji Restoration of 1868 ranks as a revolutionary watershed, on a par with the American and French Revolutions. In this volume, leading historians from North America, Europe, and Japan employ global history in novel ways to offer... -
Unmaking the East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c. 1813-1858 by Tom Young
RRP: $84.00$70.54Illuminates how new modes of artistic production in colonial India shaped the British state's nationalisation of the East India Company, transforming the relationship between nation and empire This pioneering book explores how art shaped the... -
History of East Asia: A Captivating Guide to the History of China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan by Captivating History 9781647489229
RRP: $48.24$33.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647489229Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 621gDimensions(mm)... -
Nirguna Bhakti in Eastern India: Ideology, Identity and Resistance by Dambarudhar Nath 9789394262256
$170.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789394262256Author Dambarudhar NathFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Manohar Publishers and DistributorsPublisher Manohar Publishers and... -
The Spectre of Comparison: Politics, Culture and the Nation by Benedict Anderson
RRP: $50.38$46.31"'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... -
Lost Over Laos: A True Story Of Tragedy, Mystery, And Friendship by Horst Faas 9780306812514
RRP: $37.78$32.99In 1971, as American forces hastened their withdrawal from Vietnam, a helicopter was hit by enemy fire over Laos and exploded in a fireball, killing four top combat photographers: Larry Burrows of Life magazine, Henri Huet of Associated Press, Kent... -
Heinemann Advanced History: China, 1900-76 by Geoff Stewart
$68.08Heinemann Advanced History titles focus on periods of great change in countries that are once again taking centre stage in world politics. Affordable and authoritative, Heinemann Advanced History features practice questions as well as advice on planning... -
China's Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy by Kay Ann Johnson
RRP: $33.60$29.06In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children mostly girls have left China through international adoption, including 85,000 to the United States. It's generally assumed that this diaspora is the result of China's... -
Yurei: The Japanese Ghost: The Japanese Ghost by Zack Davisson
RRP: $31.48$23.06"I lived in a haunted apartment." Davisson opens this definitive work on Japan's ghosts, or yurei, with a personal tale about the spirit world. Shifting from anecdotes to deep research to translation of ancient ghost stories, he explores the persistence... -
A Tiger Loose on an Ice Floe: The Ferozepore Brigade on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by David Snape
RRP: $62.90$43.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113696Author David SnapeFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Patriots, Traitors and Empires: The Story of Korea's Struggle for Freedom by Stephen Gowans 9781771861359
RRP: $52.40$32.26Patriots, 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... -
ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age by Andre Gunder Frank
RRP: $60.90$48.17Andre Gunder Frank asks us to re-orient our views away from Eurocentrism - to see the rise of the West as a mere blip in what was, and is again becoming, an Asia-centered world. In a bold challenge to received historiography and social theory he turns on... -
Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism by Shadi Bartsch
RRP: $58.80$45.78The surprising story of how Greek classics are being pressed into use in contemporary China to support the regime's political agendaAs improbable as it may sound, an illuminating way to understand today's China and how it views the West is to look at the... -
The Journey to the West, Books 22, 23 and 24 by Jeff Pepper 9781952601873
RRP: $46.10$38.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952601873Author Jeff PepperFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint Imagin8 LLCPublisher Imagin8 LLCWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 22mm -
To Love and Be Loved: A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa by Jim Towey
RRP: $39.88$33.85From a trusted advisor and devoted friend of Mother Teresa comes a "powerful" (The Washington Free Beacon) firsthand account of the miraculous woman behind the saint and a book that is "rich in reflection on contemporary sanctity" (George Weigel).Mother... -
Did Singapore Have to Fall?: Churchill and the Impregnable Fortress by Kevin Blackburn
RRP: $92.38$80.72This book provides a sophisticated summary of up-to-date knowledge on the Fall of Singapore, including the critical tensions between Churchill and local commanders. A focus on the role of Churchill, and on his understanding of the guns and Singapore's... -
A History of Malaysia by Barbara Watson Andaya 9780230293540
RRP: $69.28$66.47First published in 1982, this text is widely regarded as a leading general history of the country. This new and revised edition brings the story of this fascinating country up to date, incorporating the latest scholarship on every period of Malaysian... -
Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki, Volume IV: Buddhist Studies by Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki
RRP: $105.00$82.15Daisetsu Teitar Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside Japan encountered Buddhism for the first time through his writings and teaching, and for nearly a century his work and legacy have contributed... -
Cambridge Lower Secondary Complete Biology: Workbook (Second Edition) by Ann Fullick 9781382018463
RRP: $24.13$23.56The Cambridge Lower Secondary Complete Biology Workbook, part of the trusted Complete Science series, supports independent practice both inside and outside the classroom to help learners achieve at Lower Secondary level and progress seamlessly to IGCSE... -
Qaum, Mulk, Sultanat: Citizenship and National Belonging in Pakistan by Ali Usman Qasmi 9781503637788
RRP: $62.98$50.69After the trauma of mass violence and massive population movements around the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, both new nation states faced the enormous challenge of creating new national narratives, symbols, and histories, as well as a new... -
Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India by Douglas Ober
RRP: $58.78$45.51Received 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... -
Python for Everyone by Cay S. Horstmann 9781119638292
RRP: $107.08$96.47Python for Everyone, 3rd Edition is an introduction to programming designed to serve a wide range of student interests and abilities, focused on the essentials, and on effective learning. It is suitable for a first course in programming for computer... -
Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire by SherAli Tareen 9780231210317
RRP: $63.00$48.91Friendship-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... -
Makers of Modern India by Ramachandra Guha
RRP: $54.50$43.34Modern 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...