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The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam by Christopher Goscha
RRP: $63.00$51.01A multifaceted history of Ho Chi Minh's climactic victory over French colonial might that foreshadowed America's experience in VietnamOn May 7, 1954, when the bullets stopped and the air stilled in Dien Bien Phu, there was no doubt that Vietnam could... -
Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom by Lucia Jang 9780393249224
RRP: $46.18$38.96Born in 1970s North Korea, Lucia Jang grew up in a typical household-her parents worked in the factories and the family scraped by on rationed rice and a small garden. Nightly, she bowed to her photo of Kim Il-Sung. But it was the beginning of a chaotic... -
Stick Fighting: Techniques Of Self-defense by Masaaki Hatsumi
RRP: $35.70$24.23Step-by-step instructions and over 300 photographs allow the trainee to follow and learn the techniques with ease. The ideal weapon for self-defense is a stick. To find a comprehensive system of techniques using the stick, we must turn to the East, for... -
The Old Capital: A Novel of Taipei by Chu T'ien-Hsin 9780231141123
$66.42Chu T'ien-hsin's The Old Capital is a brilliant evocation of Taiwan's literature of nostalgia and remembrance. The novel is centered on the question, "Is it possible that none of your memories count?" and explores the reliability of remembrances and the... -
Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong by Gordon Mathews
$40.01There 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... -
Dubai: Gilded Cage by Syed Ali 9780300152173
RRP: $39.88$38.81In less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure Gulf emirate into a global center for business, tourism, and luxury living. It is a fascinating case study in light-speed urban development, hyperconsumerism, massive immigration, and... -
Photography in Cambodia: 1866 to the Present by Nicholas Coffill
RRP: $73.48$50.46A stunning visual journey through Cambodian culture, history, art, struggle, and modernization.Cambodia has two parallel histories. One is the constant stream of adventurers and diplomats, kings and rebels, archaeologists and artists drawn to the... -
Zen Terror in Prewar Japan: Portrait of an Assassin by Brian Daizen Victoria 9781538131664
RRP: $63.00$50.15Can Buddhism, widely regarded as a religion of peace, also contribute to acts of terrorism? Through an insider's view of right-wing ultranationalism in prewar Japan, this powerful book follows a band of Zen Buddhist-trained adherents who ardently... -
Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India by Benjamin Robert Siegel
RRP: $65.08$56.22This ambitious and engaging new account of independent India's struggle to overcome famine and malnutrition in the twentieth century traces Indian nation-building through the voices of politicians, planners, and citizens. Siegel explains the historical... -
In Good Faith: A History of the Vietnam War Volume 1: 1945–65 by Sergio Miller
RRP: $35.68$25.79In Good Faith is the first of a two-volume, accessible narrative history of America's involvement in Indochina, from the end of World War II to the Fall of Saigon in 1975. The books chart the course of America's engagement with the region, from its... -
America and the China Threat: From the End of History to the End of Empire by Paolo Urio
RRP: $52.50$41.33Apologies 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 -
Beauty Sleep by Kathryn Evans 9781474954877 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.78$4.81Winner of the CrimeFest award for Best Crime Novel for Young AdultsWho am I? What am I? When am I?Laura can't remember who she is. But the rest of the world knows. Because Laura is famous - a dying girl who was frozen until she could be cured. A... -
Destination Peking by Paul French
RRP: $29.38$18.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887963967Author Paul FrenchFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 438g -
Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India by Andrew B. Liu
RRP: $78.75$67.16A history of capitalism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century China and India that explores the competition between their tea industries "Tea War is not only a detailed comparative history of the transformation of tea production in the 19th and early... -
India's Princely States: People, Princes and Colonialism by Waltraud Ernst
RRP: $92.38$80.72This is an invaluable work looking into new areas relating to India's princely states. Based on an abundance of rarely used archival material, the book sheds new light on diversities related to the princely states such as health policies and practices,... -
Japan At War: An Oral History: An Oral History by Haruko Taya Cook 9781565840393
RRP: $37.78$26.67A "deeply moving book" (Studs Terkel) and the first ever oral history to document the experience of ordinary Japanese people during World War II"Hereafter no one will be able to think, write, or teach about the Pacific War without reference to [the... -
Media, Communication, Culture: A Global Approach by James Lull 9780745621913
RRP: $37.78$33.68Media, Communication, Culture offers a bold and comprehensive analysis of developments in the field amidst the effects of postmodernism and globalization. James Lull, one of the leading scholars in the discipline, draws from a wide range of social and... -
The Silk Road in World History by Xinru Liu
RRP: $58.78$43.60The Silk Road was the current name for a complex of ancient trade routes linking East Asia with Central Asia, South Asia, and the Mediterranean world. This network of exchange emerged along the borders between agricultural China and the steppe nomads... -
Japanese Legends and Folklore: Samurai Tales, Ghost Stories, Legends, Fairy Tales, Myths and Historical Accounts by A.B. Mitford
RRP: $27.28$18.06Japanese 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... -
F4F Wildcat: South Pacific 1942–43 by Edward M. Young 9781472854865
RRP: $33.58$24.38This book examines the role of the Grumman F4F Wildcat, the US Navy's standard carrier fighter at the start of the Pacific War, and its clashes against the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force's Mitsubishi A6M Zero-sen. The US Navy went to war in... -
Just Enough: Lessons from Japan for Sustainable Living, Architecture, and Design by Azby Brown
RRP: $46.18$31.14How the mindset of traditional Japanese society can guide our own efforts to lead a green lifestyle today.If we want to live sustainably, how should we feel about nature? About waste? About our forests and rivers? About food? Just Enough is a book of... -
Terriers in India: British Territorials 1914-19 by Peter Stanley
RRP: $62.90$43.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510513Author Peter StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India by Suchitra Vijayan
RRP: $52.50$34.40Apologies 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 -
Over Singapore 50 Years Ago: An Aerial View in the 1950s by Brenda Yeoh 9789814610131
RRP: $52.50$42.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814610131Author Brenda YeohFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Editions Didier MilletPublisher Editions Didier MilletWeight(grams) 1175g -
The Battle For China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution by Mobo Gao 9780745327808
RRP: $62.98$48.34--Shows that the Mao era was benficial for most Chinese citizens-- "A powerful mixture of political passion and original research, a brave polemic against the fashionable view on China. ... Aims a knockout blow at Jung Chang's recent book on Mao,... -
Great State: China and the World by Timothy Brook 9781781258286
RRP: $52.50$46.60China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty to the next, it has maintained them for the eight... -
The Eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty by Shih-Shan Henry Tsai 9780791426883
$54.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791426883Author Shih-Shan Henry TsaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
China's Great Wall of Debt: Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans and the End of the Chinese Miracle by Dinny McMahon
RRP: $42.00$24.47The world has long considered China a juggernaut of economic strength, but since the global financial crisis, the country's economy has ballooned in size, complexity, and risk. Once dominated by four state-owned banks, the nation's financial system is a... -
Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse by Shelley Rigger 9781442204805
RRP: $73.50$65.00Now in an updated paperback edition, Why Taiwan Matters offers a comprehensive but compact introduction to a country that exercises a role in the world far greater than its tiny size would indicate. Leading expert Shelley Rigger explains how Taiwan... -
The Marathas 1600-1818 by Stewart Gordon 9780521033169
RRP: $48.28$41.08In this book, Dr Stewart Gordon presents a comprehensive history of one of the most colourful and least-understood kingdoms of India: the Maratha Empire. The empire was founded by Shivaji in the mid-seventeenth century, spread across most of India during... -
The Culture of Japanese Fascism by Alan Tansman 9780822344681
RRP: $54.58$48.07This bold collection of essays demonstrates the necessity of understanding fascism in cultural terms rather than only or even primarily in terms of political structures and events. Contributors from history, literature, film, art history, and... -
Pure Land: History, Tradition, and Practice by Charles B Jones
RRP: $33.58$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611808902Author Charles JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Zhou Enlai: The Enigma Behind Chairman Mao by Michael Dillon
$56.66Enigmatic, Eminence grise, the 'power behind the throne' - these phrases sum up Zhou Enlai's long and varied, but always pivotal, political career in the Chinese Communist Party from the 1920s to 1970s. Born in 1898, Zhou witnessed several of the... -
China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II by E. B. Sledge
RRP: $35.68$26.04Hailed as "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war" by acclaimed author Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed remains the most powerful and moving account of the U.S. Marines in World War II. Now, with his long-awaited sequel, China Marine, E. B... -
North Korea, Tricontinentalism, and the Latin American Revolution, 1959–1970 by Moe Taylor 9781009305242
RRP: $178.50$160.86In this deftly argued book, Moe Taylor examines the flourishing relationship between North Korea, Cuba, and the Latin American Left through the 1960s. Beginning with the Cuban Revolution, which represented North Korea's first phase of major engagement... -
A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA by Joshua Kurlantzick 9781451667882
RRP: $27.28$25.12The untold story of how America's secret war in Laos in the 1960s transformed the CIA from a loose collection of spies into a military operation and a key player in American foreign policy.January, 1961: Laos, a tiny nation few Americans have heard of,... -
Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895-1945 by Mark Driscoll
RRP: $50.38$43.76In this major reassessment of Japanese imperialism in Asia, Mark Driscoll foregrounds the role of human life and labor. Drawing on subaltern postcolonial studies and Marxism, he directs critical attention to the peripheries, where figures including... -
Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang by James Millward
RRP: $35.68$32.15"Eurasian Crossroads" is the first comprehensive history of Xinjiang, the vast central Eurasian region bordering India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Mongolia. Forming one-sixth of the People's Republic of China... -
Making Hong Kong China: The Rollback of Human Rights and the Rule of Law by Michael C Davis
RRP: $31.48$25.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952636134Author Michael C. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian StudiesWeight(grams)... -
Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road by Rob Schmitz
RRP: $23.08$15.54'Enjoyable and illuminating . . . Rob Schmitz writes with great affection' GuardianShanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad torrent of capital, ideas and opportunity. Rob Schmitz is one of...