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Classical Bujutsu by Donn F. Draeger 9780834802339
RRP: $39.88$28.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780834802339Author Donn F. DraegerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Weatherhill IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)... -
A-1 Skyraider in Vietnam: The Spad's Last War by Wayne Mutza 9780764317910
RRP: $96.58$63.25Through its remarkable service during the war in Southeast Asia, the Skyraider became legendary. It served with distinction in the hands of U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, and South Vietnamese Air Force pilots, who took the war to the enemy, often at low... -
Red China's Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development Under the Commune by Joshua Eisenman 9780231186674
RRP: $63.00$48.91China's dismantling of the Mao-era rural commune system and return to individual household farming under Deng Xiaoping has been seen as a successful turn away from a misguided social experiment and a rejection of the disastrous policies that produced... -
The Children of China's Great Migration by Rachel Murphy
RRP: $62.98$57.54In China in 2018 over 200 million rural migrants worked away from their home villages, fuelling the country's rapid economic boom. In the 2010s over sixty-one million rural children had at least one parent who had migrated without them, while nearly half... -
The Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan's Next Generation by Karl Greenfeld 9780060926656
RRP: $35.68$25.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060926656Author Karl GreenfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Philosophy of Philosophy by Timothy Williamson 9781119616672
RRP: $146.90$128.81The Philosophy of Philosophy The Blackwell / Brown Lectures in Philosophy The Philosophy of Philosophy presents an original, unified concept of philosophy as a non-natural science. In this provocative work, distinguished philosopher Timothy Williamson... -
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow 9780345328168
RRP: $48.30$37.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (History) 1990.Book InformationISBN 9780345328168Author Stanley KarnowFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random... -
Chuang-Tzu for Spiritual Transformation: An Analysis of the Inner Chapters by Robert E. Allinson 9780887069697
$54.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887069697Author Robert E. AllinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Retreat from Kabul: The First Anglo-Afghan War, 1839-1842 by George Bruce 9781800550476
RRP: $25.18$21.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800550476Author George BruceFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm -
The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence by Anita Anand 9781501195709
RRP: $63.00$37.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501195709Author Anita AnandFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm)... -
Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China by Tristan G. Brown 9780691246734
RRP: $79.80$63.02A groundbreaking history of fengshui's roles in public life and law during China's last imperial dynastyToday the term fengshui, which literally means "wind and water," is recognized around the world. Yet few know exactly what it means, let alone its... -
The Man City Quirky Quiz Book by Nic Webb 9781906375126
RRP: $14.68$12.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906375126Author Grant WilliamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Pagoda Tree BooksPublisher Broomfield Books Limited -
Mao's Third Front: The Militarization of Cold War China by Covell F. Meyskens
RRP: $73.48$64.03In 1964, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) made a momentous policy decision. In response to rising tensions with the United States and Soviet Union, a top-secret massive military industrial complex in the mountains of inland China was built, which the... -
Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the 116 Days That Changed the World by Chris Wallace
RRP: $63.00$37.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982143343Author Chris WallaceFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Avid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterPublisher Avid Reader Press / Simon &... -
The History of the Mongol Conquests by J. J. Saunders
RRP: $58.78$50.69The Mongol conquests, culminating with the invasion of Europe in the middle of the thirteenth century, were of a scope and range never equaled. These nomadic peoples from central Asia briefly held sway over an empire that stretched across Asia to the... -
After the Korean War: An Intimate History by Heonik Kwon
RRP: $52.48$42.61Following his prizewinning studies of the Vietnam War, renowned anthropologist Heonik Kwon presents this ground-breaking study of the Korean War's enduring legacies seen through the realm of intimate human experience. Kwon boldly reclaims kinship as a... -
The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China by Peter Thilly 9781503634107
RRP: $54.58$43.76From its rise in the 1830s to its pinnacle in the 1930s, the opium trade was a guiding force in the Chinese political economy. Opium money was inextricably bound up in local, national, and imperial finances, and the people who piloted the trade were... -
China in One Village: The History of One Town and the Future of the World by Liang Hong
RRP: $35.68$29.61After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in Beijing, Liang Hong started visiting her rural hometown in landlocked Hebei province. What she found was an extended family torn apart by the... -
The Panthay Rebellion: Islam, Ethnicity and the Dali Sultanate in Southwest China, 1856-1873 by David Atwill
RRP: $52.50$42.63The Panthay Rebellion of 1856-1873 held the armies of the Qing dynasty at bay for nearly two decades. This account by David Atwill offers a remarkable panorama of the cosmopolitan frontier society from which the rebellion sprang.The rebel leader, Du... -
Music in Colonial Punjab: Courtesans, Bards, and Connoisseurs, 1800-1947 by Dr Radha Kapuria 9780192867346
$215.21This book offers the first social history of music in undivided Punjab (1800-1947), beginning at the Lahore court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and concluding at the Patiala royal darbar. It unearths new evidence for the centrality of female performers and... -
In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun: The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist by Raicho Hiratsuka 9780231138130
$70.56"In the beginning, woman was truly the sun. An authentic person. Now she is the moon, a wan and sickly moon, dependent on another, reflecting another's brilliance."-Hiratsuku Raicho Raicho Hiratsuka (1886-1971) was the most influential figure in the... -
The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire by Ashwin Desai 9780804797177
RRP: $44.08$39.42In 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... -
Gendering Modern Japanese History by Barbara Molony 9780674028166
RRP: $62.90$50.53In the past quarter-century, gender has emerged as a lively area of inquiry for historians and other scholars, and gender analysis has suggested important revisions of the "master narratives" of national histories-the dominant, often celebratory tales of... -
Mughal India: Splendours of the Peacock Throne by Valerie Berinstain
RRP: $16.70$11.72The Mughal empire dominated India for three centuries, rivalling the greatest rulers of Europe and the East in its power and splendour.Under such enlightened patrons as Akbar the Great in the 16th century and Jahangir and Shah Jahan in the 17th century,... -
The Best of Indian Mythology Box Set by Devdutt Pattanaik
RRP: $188.98$179.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143458562Author Devdutt PattanaikFormat PaperbackPage Count 1604Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House India -
Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China by Laurence Coderre
RRP: $46.18$40.30Contemporary China is seen as a place of widespread commodification and consumerism, while the preceeding Maoist Cultural Revolution is typically understood as a time when goods were scarce and the state criticized what little consumption was possible... -
Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945: The Age of the Gods and Emperor Jinmu by John S. Brownlee 9780774806442
RRP: $62.98$56.49Ancient tales tell of Japan's creation in the Age of the Gods, and of Jinmu, a direct descendant of the Sun Goddess and first emperor of the imperial line. These founding myths went unchallenged until Confucian scholars in the Tokugawa period initiated a... -
Ho Chi Minh: A Life by William J Duiker 9780786863877
$63.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lukas Prize Project (Lynton History Prize) 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780786863877Author William J DuikerFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint... -
A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel: Murder, Money, and an Epic Power Struggle in China by Pin Ho 9781610392730
RRP: $58.80$42.04The downfall of Bo Xilai in China was more than a darkly thrilling mystery. It revealed a cataclysmic internal power struggle between Communist Party factions, one that reached all the way to China's new president Xi Jinping.The scandalous story of the... -
Empire of the Winds by Philip Bowring
RRP: $84.00$64.64Winner of the Penang Book Prize 2019 Nusantaria - often referred to as 'Maritime Southeast Asia' - is the world's largest archipelago and has, for centuries, been a vital cultural and trading hub. Nusantara, a Sanskrit, then Malay, word referring to... -
Shinto: A History by Helen Hardacre
RRP: $83.98$78.60From time immemorial, the Japanese people have worshipped Kami--spirits that inhabit or represent a particular place, or embody natural forces like the wind, rivers, and mountains. Whenever a new settlement was founded a shrine would be erected for the... -
Flying Tiger Ace: The story of Bill Reed, China's Shining Mark by Carl Molesworth
RRP: $52.50$40.49The moving biography of Lt Col William Norman Reed, a World War II fighter ace who fought with the Flying Tigers and died in defence of the two nations he loved. Bill Reed had it all - brains, looks, athleticism, courage and a talent for leadership... -
Power of Freedom: Hu Shih's Political Writings by Carlos Lin 9780472055265
$85.13Dr. Hu Shih (1891-1962) was one of China's top scholars and diplomats and served as the Republic of China's ambassador to the United States during World War II. As early as 1941, Hu Shih warned of the fundamental ideological conflict between dictatorial... -
The Sovereign and the Pirate: Ordering Maritime Subjects in India's Western Littoral by Lakshmi Subramanian
$65.58The book focuses on the phenomenon of predation during the closing decades of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century in Indias western littoral. It attempts a material history of piracy, locating its antecedents, its social context, and its... -
The Crown and the Capitalists: The Ethnic Chinese and the Founding of the Thai Nation by Wasana Wongsurawat
RRP: $52.48$45.51Despite competing with much larger imperialist neighbors in Southeast Asia, the Kingdom of Thailand-or Siam, as it was formerly known-has succeeded in transforming itself into a rival modern nation-state over the last two centuries. Recent historiography... -
Viceroys: The Creation of the British by Christopher Lee 9781472124753
RRP: $63.00$14.55Between 1858 and 1947, twenty British men ruled millions of some of the most remarkable people of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.From the Indian Mutiny to the cruel religious partition of India and the newly formed and named Pakistan, the Viceroy... -
The Mongols by Timothy May
$37.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641890946Author Timothy MayFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press -
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest by Karen Tei Yamashita 9781566894852
RRP: $27.28$26.52"Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." New York Times Book Review "Dazzling . . . a seamless mixture of magic realism, satire and futuristic fiction." San Francisco Chronicle "Impressive . . . a flight of fancy through a dreamlike Brazil." ... -
A History of the Pakistan Army: Wars and Insurrections by Brian Cloughley
$105.48The scope of this study of the Pakistan Army must be wide and in-depth, as the army has played a major part in the country's history. The author describes Pakistan's violent internal politics and erratic international relations with a deep knowledge... -
The Amritsar Massacre: The Untold Story of One Fateful Day by Nick Lloyd
$104.79On 13 April 1919, a fateful event took place which was to define the last decades of the British Raj in India. At 5:10pm on that day, Brigadier-General 'Rex' Dyer led a small party of soldiers through the centre of Amritsar into a walled garden known as...