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Ninja by John Man
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Ninjas today are the stuff of myth and legend in comics, film and electronic games. But once they were real, the medieval equivalent of the SAS: spies, saboteurs, assassins. In their secrecy, under-cover skills and determination to survive, they were... -
Dalit: The Black Untouchables of India by Shetty V.T. Rajshekar 9780932863058
£9.77Apologies 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 -
Vietnam 1972: Quang Tri: The Easter Offensive Strikes the South by Charles D. Melson
RRP: £15.99£11.61During the Cold War, Vietnam showed the limitations of a major power in peripheral conflicts. Even so, the military forces involved (North Vietnamese, South Vietnamese, American, and Allied) demonstrated battlefield consistency in conflict that gave... -
The War on the Uyghurs: China's Campaign Against Xinjiang's Muslims by Sean R. Roberts 9781526147684
RRP: £25.00£18.02The first account of one of the world's most pressing humanitarian catastrophes.This eye-opening book reveals how China has used the US-led Global War on Terror as cover for its increasingly brutal suppression of the Uyghur people. China's actions, it... -
The Us vs China: Asia's New Cold War? by Jude Woodward 9781784993429
RRP: £30.00£26.95This book addresses the most important question in geopolitics today - the future of relations between the US and China. Concerned that the rise of China will challenge the its hegemony in world affairs, the US has decided to reassert its influence in... -
Great Books of China by Frances Wood 9781837930210
RRP: £10.99£7.12Discover - or rediscover - the major achievements of Chinese culture and civilization. Great Books of China offers concise introductions - each of them accompanied by generous quotation (in English) from the book in question - to sixty-six works in... -
Tao Te Ching Illustrated: The Way to Goodness and Power by Lao Tzu
RRP: £29.99£19.92No understanding of Chinese civilization is possible without a grasp of Taoism, the philosophy that has shaped not just Chinese spirituality but also art, science and politics. And it was in the Tao Te Ching, written around 300BC, that the fundamental... -
Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life by Michael M. J. Fischer
RRP: £21.99£19.19In Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life Michael M. J. Fischer calls for a new anthropology of the arts that attends to the materialities and technologies of the world as it exists today. Fischer examines the work of key Southeast and East Asian... -
Geishas and the Floating World: Inside Tokyo's Yoshiwara Pleasure District by Stephen Longstreet 9784805315439
RRP: £12.99£8.60Geishas and the Floating World returns readers to a lost world of sensuality and seduction, rich with hedonism, abandon, and sexual and personal politics."Floating World" refers to Japan's traditional Geisha pleasure districts, but also to the artistic... -
Chinese Symbolism and Art Motifs: A Comprehensive Handbook on Symbolism in Chinese Art Through the Ages by Charles Alfred Speed Williams
RRP: £16.99£10.39In Chinese Symbolism and Art Motifs Fourth Edition, scholar C.A.S. Williams offers concise explanations of the important symbols and motifs relevant to Chinese literature, arts and crafts, and architecture. This reference book has been a standard among... -
The Truth by Amanda Brooke 9780008219123 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£2.65The gripping new novel from the author of The Widows' Club. When a fire destroys the Empress Theatre, a devastating tragedy unfolds. Amelia's mother lost her piece of mind forever when she left her daughter... -
Ten Lessons in Modern Chinese History by Zheng Yangwen
RRP: £19.99£14.52This book is a timely and solid portrait of modern China from the First Opium War to the Xi Jinping era. Unlike the handful of existing textbooks that only provide narratives, this textbook fashions a new and practical way to study modern China. Written... -
The Red Earth: A Vietnamese Memoir of Life on a Colonial Rubber Plantation by Bu Tran Binh
RRP: £12.99£11.77Phu Rieng was one of many French rubber plantations in colonial Vietnam; Tran Tu Binh was one of 17,606 laborers brought to work there in 1927, and his memoir is a straightforward, emotionally searing account of how one Vietnamese youth became involved... -
Life along the Silk Road: Second Edition by Susan Whitfield 9780520280595
RRP: £25.00£19.59In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield broadens her exploration of the Silk Road and expands her rich and varied portrait of life along the great pre-modern trade routes of Eurasia. This new edition is comprehensively updated to support... -
Sikh Heritage: A History of Valour and Devotion by Sondeep Shankar 9788193984604
RRP: £29.95£20.38Sikh Heritage, with a foreword by Hardeep Sigh Puri, is a succinct and delightfully photographed glimpse into the community's religion, its ten gurus, its temples, traditional systems of governance, history, architecture, and the famous Golden Temple... -
Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perception by Irfan Habib 9781843310259
RRP: £19.99£19.61This volume brings together, for the first time, several of Professor Habib's essays, representing three decades of scholarship and providing an insightful interpretation of the main currents in Indian history from the standpoint of Marxist... -
Hero and Deity: Tran Hung Dao and the Resurgence of Popular Religion in Vietnam by Pham Quynh Phuong
£22.38Hero and Deity is an eloquent and fascinating journey into the world of the worshippers and the cult of Tran Hung Dao. The legendary fourteenth-century hero and savior of Vietnam has evolved as a key symbol of the nation as well as an efficacious deity... -
The Last Governor: Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong by Jonathan Dimbleby 9781526701831
£19.341 July 1997 marked the end of British rule of Hong Kong, whereby this territory was passed into the hands of the People's Republic of China. In 1992, Chris Patten, former chairman of the Conservative Party, was appointed Hong Kong's last governor, and... -
Living With Civilisations: Reflections On Southeast Asia's Local And National Cultures by Gungwu Wang 9789811285028
RRP: £25.00£21.79Professor Wang Gungwu is the Institute of Policy Studies' 12th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book is an edited collection of his four IPS-Nathan Lectures, delivered from November 2022 to March 2023, and includes highlights of his... -
Silk, Slaves, and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road by Susan Whitfield 9780520281783
RRP: £25.00£19.99Following her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road, Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with a new captivating portrait focusing on material things. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas tells the stories of ten very different... -
Suzuki: The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World by Eri Hotta
RRP: £24.95£20.29A New Yorker Best Book of the YearThe remarkable life of violinist and teacher Shinichi Suzuki, who pioneered an innovative but often-misunderstood philosophy of early childhood education-now known the world over as the Suzuki Method.The name Shinichi... -
Chinese Grammatology: Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916-1958 by Yurou Zhong
RRP: £30.00£23.29Today, Chinese characters are described as a national treasure, the core of the nation's civilizational identity. Yet for nearly half of the twentieth century, reformers waged war on the Chinese script. They declared it an archaic hindrance to... -
Samurai: The Heart of the Prophet by Jean-Francois Di Giorgio 9781782763376
RRP: £22.99£11.75Takeo has finally achieved his dream; he has left behind the darkness of his past and become a Samurai. Yet Imperial Japan is in turmoil; General Akuma, one of the Empire's most powerful men has turned his back on the Emperor, and is planning to betray... -
How the Red Sun Rose: The Origin and Development of the Yanan Rectification Movement, 1930-1945 by Gao Hua 9789629968229
£84.75This work offers the most comprehensive account of the origin and consequences of the Yan'an Rectification Movement from 1942 to 1945. The author argues that this campaign emancipated the Chinese Communist Party from Soviet-infleunced dogmatism and... -
Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation by Arvind Pal S. Mandair
RRP: £28.00£22.20Arguing that intellectual movements, such as deconstruction, postsecular theory, and political theology, have different implications for cultures and societies that live with the debilitating effects of past imperialisms, Arvind Mandair unsettles the... -
The Mughal Empire by John F. Richards
RRP: £26.99£22.06The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralised states in pre-modern world history. It was founded in the early 1500s and by the end of the following century the Mughal emperor ruled almost the entire Indian subcontinent with a population of between... -
Indonesian Sea Nomads: Money, Magic and Fear of the Orang Suku Laut by Cynthia Chou 9781138863484
RRP: £47.99£41.81The Orang Suku Laut consider themselves indigenous Malays. Yet their interaction with others who call themselves Malays is characterised on both sides by fear of harmful magic and witchcraft. The nomadic Orang Suku Laut believe that the Qur'an contains... -
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 by Margot Finn 9781787350281
RRP: £50.00£44.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787350281Author Margot FinnFormat HardbackPage Count 538Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1180g -
Records of the Three Kingdoms in Plain Language by Wilt L. Idema 9781624665233
RRP: £18.99£15.67The saga of the Three Kingdoms-which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (ca. 180-220 CE) that divided the old Han Empire into the Shu, Wei, and Wu states-remains as popular as ever in China, having served as the basis of not only traditional... -
The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180 by Paul Magdalino
RRP: £37.99£34.83The reign of Manuel I (1143-1180) marked the high point of the revival of the Byzantine empire under the Comnenian dynasty. It was, however, followed by a rapid decline, leading to the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204. This book, the... -
Essays in Indian History - Towards a Marxist Perception by Irfan Habib
RRP: £22.00£19.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381693Author Irfan HabibFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 144mm * 22mm -
North Korea in a Nutshell: A Contemporary Overview by Kongdan Oh 9781538151389
RRP: £30.00£26.68This deeply knowledgeable book provides a concise introduction to North Korea. Two leading experts, Kongdan Oh and Ralph Hassig, trace the country's history from its founding in 1948 and describe the many facets of its political, economic, social, and... -
Corner of a Foreign Field :: The British Cemetery at Kathmandu by Mark F. Watson Andrew R. Hall
£36.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789937624145Author Mark F. WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vajra BooksPublisher Vajra BooksWeight(grams) 801gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 170mm * 20mm -
Imagining Afghanistan: The History and Politics of Imperial Knowledge by Nivi Manchanda
RRP: £24.99£22.37Over time and across different genres, Afghanistan has been presented to the world as potential ally, dangerous enemy, gendered space, and mysterious locale. These powerful, if competing, visions seek to make sense of Afghanistan and to render it legible... -
The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Yang Jisheng
RRP: £35.00£23.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800750586Author Yang JishengFormat HardbackPage Count 768Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift Press -
Cambridge IGCSE (TM) Global Perspectives Student's Book (Collins Cambridge IGCSE (TM)) by Ana Carolina Gonzalez 9780008547509
RRP: £28.99£27.59The Collins Cambridge IGCSE (TM) Global Perspectives series offers a skills-building approach to the Cambridge IGCSE and O Level Global Perspectives syllabuses (0457/2069) for examination from 2025. The resources support learners to develop skills and... -
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Or the After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering by W. Y. Evans-Wentz
RRP: £14.99£11.35The Tibetan Book of the Dead is one of the texts that, according to legend, Padma-Sambhava was compelled to hide during his visit to Tibet in the late 8th century. The guru hid his books in stones, lakes, and pillars because the Tibetans of that day and... -
Spying for the People: Mao's Secret Agents, 1949-1967 by Michael Schoenhals
RRP: £22.99£16.18Since the end of the Cold War, the operations of secret police informers have come under the media spotlight and it is now common knowledge that vast internal networks of spies in the Soviet Union and East Germany were directed by the Communist Party. By... -
When the Shooting Stopped: August 1945 by Barrett Tillman
RRP: £25.00£18.02"Highly recommended as a sobering but enlightening account." Richard B. Frank, author of Downfall: The End of the Japanese Empire In the 44 months between December 1941 and August 1945, the Pacific Theater absorbed the attention of the American nation... -
Tamil Tigress: My Story as a Child Soldier in Sri Lanka's Bloody Civil War by Niromi de Soyza
RRP: £10.99£7.32How was it that this well-educated, mixed-race, middle-class girl from a respectable family came to be fighting with the Tamil Tigers? Two days before Christmas in 1987, at the age of seventeen, Niromi de Soyza found herself in an ambush as part of a...