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Zen in Japanese Culture by Gavin Blair
RRP: $52.48$36.50A visual journey through Zen's influence on Japanese life, from calligraphy to the martial arts Formed by a convergence of the Buddha's teachings with Taoism and local tradition, Zen has had a profound impact on the art and culture of Japan. As a... -
Access to History: Indian Independence 1914-64 Second Edition by Tim Leadbeater
$52.94Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJECLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and... -
Sengoku Jidai. Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Ieyasu: Three Unifiers of Japan by Danny Chaplin 9781983450204
RRP: $83.98$70.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781983450204Author Danny ChaplinFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Japanese Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Alan Tansman
RRP: $18.88$13.55With a history stretching back nearly 1,500 years, Japanese literature is infused from its beginnings with written traditions from around the globe, while ever evolving in its own particular expressive modes and vision. This Very Short Introduction... -
The Cashless Revolution: China's Reinvention of Money and the End of America's Domination of Finance and Technology by Martin Chorzempa
RRP: $52.50$34.31The startling picture of how China's revolution in finance and technology is changing both Wall Street and the way individuals manage their personal finances.The future of finance - the way Wall Street operates and how individuals manage their money - is... -
The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East by Nicholas Morton
RRP: $52.50$35.24'Brain-stretching . . . pulsating . . . irresistable' The Sunday Times'Deeply researched and elegantly written - essential reading' Dan Jones'Erudite, often thrilling and much-needed' Daily TelegraphHow the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the... -
China - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Indre Balcikonyte-Huang 9781787028807
RRP: $20.98$15.83Don't just see the sights get to know the people. For thousands of years, the Chinese believed that they had created a perfect social system, based on Confucian values and tempered by the Mandate of Heaven. Dynasties came and went, but the essence... -
The Life of Mahatma Gandhi by Louis Fischer
RRP: $31.48$23.00'A monumental yet intimate biography, a vivid portrait of the man, the statesman and the saint' The TimesMahatma Gandhi became a legend in his own time. A tireless fighter for human rights and for Indian independence, his strategy of satyagraha, or... -
Burma to Myanmar by Alexandra Green 9780714124957
RRP: $73.50$50.46Reveals the rich and complex histories and cultures of Burma/Myanmar from their early development and powerful imperial expansions to their positions as colonial subjects and then as a war-torn nation. From influential superpower to repressive regime,... -
The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Yang Jisheng 9781800750852
RRP: $31.48$21.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800750852Author Yang JishengFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift Press -
Illustrated Stories of Mermaids by Margarita Kukhtina 9781474989633
RRP: $27.28$15.56Discover the mysterious selkies of the Scottish seas and the haunting Philippine tale of the curse of Sirena. Meet the merman from China whose tears turn to pearls and Hans Christian Anderson's brave little mermaid, pursuing her dream. These nine... -
Crucible of Hell: Okinawa: The Last Great Battle of the Second World War by Saul David
RRP: $27.28$17.81'Excellent' Antony Beevor 'Saul David is a brilliant historian ... In shocking and jaw-dropping detail, he brings a battle that deserves far greater prominence and understanding vividly back to life'... -
Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India by Stanley Wolpert 9780195393941
RRP: $45.13$27.99Britain's precipitous and ill-planned disengagement from India in 1947-condemned as a "shameful flight" by Winston Churchill-had a truly catastrophic effect on South Asia, leaving hundreds of thousands of people dead in its wake and creating a... -
Japanese Inns and Hot Springs: A Guide to Japan's Best Ryokan and Onsen by Rob Goss
RRP: $31.48$21.42*Winner of The North American Travel Journalists Association's Excellence in Travel Journalism Award*Richly illustrated and exhaustively researched, Japanese Inns & Hot Springs is the definitive guide to Japanese spas and hot springs known as ryokans.It... -
China's Urban Transition by John Friedmann 9780816646159
RRP: $31.48$28.16Though China's urban history reaches back over five thousand years, it is only in the last quarter century that urbanization has emerged as a force of widespread social transformation while a massive population shift from country to city has brought... -
Maymyo Days: Forgotten Lives of a Burma Hill Station by Stephen Simmons 9786164510760
RRP: $63.00$41.58To many the words Hill Station are evocative of an exotic and exciting vision when the subjects of the British Colonial Government gloried in the Hill Stations of India and Burma. Beautifully constructed holiday towns built at 3,000 feet or more where... -
A Man Like Him: Portrait of the Burmese Journalist, Journal Kyaw U Chit Maung by Ma Thanegi
RRP: $50.38$43.76The story of eight years in the brief life of Journal Kyaw U Chit Maung, a courageous Burmese journalist and editor. His political analyses helped guide the nation during a turbulent era marked by internal struggles to establish a democracy independent... -
Fashion in Multiple Chinas: Chinese Styles in the Transglobal Landscape by Wessie Ling
$63.34The transformation of China from a major site for clothing manufacture to an intensely fashion consuming society has been widely documented. Less has been written about the making of Chinese fashion. In Fashion in Multiple Chinas, expert authors explore... -
Japanese Architecture: An Exploration of Elements and Forms by Mira Locher 9784805313282
RRP: $52.48$35.24Thick thatched roofs and rough mud plaster walls. An intricately carved wood transom and a precisely woven tatami mat-each element of traditional Japanese architecture tells a story.In Japanese Architecture, author Mira Locher explores how each of these... -
Chinese Power and Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives and Challenges by William C. Hannas
RRP: $77.68$68.31This book provides a comprehensive account of Chinese AI in its various facets, based on primary Chinese-language sources.China's rise as an AI power is an event of importance to the world and a potential challenge to liberal democracies. Filling a gap... -
China Road: One Man's Journey into the Heart of Modern China by Rob Gifford 9780747593355
RRP: $27.28$19.09Running 3,000 miles from the eat-coast boomtown of Shanghai to the border of Kazakhstan in the north-west, Route 312 - China's 'Route 66' - is a road that Rob Gifford has always wanted to travel. Gifford's journey and his desire to get to the heart of... -
The Struggle for Taiwan: A History by Sulmaan Wasif Khan 9780241674857
RRP: $52.50$37.00A gripping account of the past and future of TaiwanIn the overwhelming chaos across Asia at the end of the Second World War, one relatively minor issue was the future of the Japanese colony of Taiwan, a large island some one hundred miles off the coast... -
A Brief History Of Bali: Piracy, Slavery, Opium and Guns: The Story of an Island Paradise by Willard A. Hanna
RRP: $29.38$19.32This book tells the story of Bali-the "paradise island of the Pacific"-its rulers and its people, and their encounters with the Western world.Bali is a perennially popular tourist destination. It is also home to a fascinating people with a long and... -
Indian Tiles: Architectural Ceramics from Sultanate and Mughal India and Pakistan by Arthur Millner
RRP: $146.98$108.72Historic India, which now encompasses the modern nations of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, is celebrated for the richness of its architectural and decorative arts, but less well known for glazed tiles. Arthur Millner opens up this hitherto neglected... -
Indochina: An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858-1954 by Pierre Brocheux 9780520269743
RRP: $63.00$49.75Combining new approaches with a groundbreaking historical synthesis, this accessible work is the most thorough and up-to-date general history of French Indochina available in English. Unique in its wide-ranging attention to economic, social,... -
Annihilation Of Caste: With A Reply To Mahatma Gandhi by Dr Ambedkar 9789354206337
RRP: $18.90$17.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354206337Author Dr AmbedkarFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 5mm -
The Gate and the Wall: A History of China and Hong Kong by Michael Sheridan
RRP: $52.50$46.60'Impressive ... Fascinating' Sunday Times 'An authoritative history' Financial Times 'Gripping and richly researched' Rana Mitter ... -
Didn't Happen of the Year Awards - The Official Book: Exposing a world of online exaggeration by Harry Barnes 9781915538000 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$6.47With over 420k followers on Twitter, The Didn't Happen of the Year Awards exposes, celebrates and ridicules social media users who, shall we say, are prone to a little lying exaggeration. Whether it's Chris Eubank telling the world that aged 18, he... -
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
RRP: $25.18$17.70Soon to be a major film, co-written and directed by Angelina Jolie PittUntil the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. She was a precocious child who loved the open city markets, fried... -
White Mountain by Robert Twigger
RRP: $23.08$9.89Home to mythical kingdoms, wars and expeditions, and strange and magical beasts, the Himalayas have always loomed tall in our imagination. Overrun at different times by Buddhism, Taoism, shamanism, Islam and Christianity, they are a grand central station... -
Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten by Pamela Hicks
RRP: $20.98$14.28A magical memoir about childhood in India by the daughter of Lord Louis and Edwina Mountbatten; a glimpse into the lives and loves of some of the 20th century's leading figures.Pamela Mountbatten was born at the end of the 1920s into one of Britain's... -
India: A History in Objects by T. Richard Blurton
RRP: $63.00$42.84An authoritative visual history of one of the world's oldest and most vibrant cultures, drawing on South Asian art and artefacts from prehistory to the present. Arranged chronologically, and abundantly illustrated with expertly selected objects, this... -
When China Rules The World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World [Greatly updated and expanded] by Martin Jacques
RRP: $39.88$28.58China will replace the United States as the world's dominant power. In so doing, it will not become more western but the world will become more Chinese. Jacques argues that we cannot understand China in western terms but only through its own history and... -
The Silk Road: A New History by Valerie Hansen
RRP: $38.83$28.73The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track, reaching from China to Rome. The reality was... -
Coalitions of the Weak: Elite Politics in China from Mao's Stratagem to the Rise of Xi by Victor Shih
RRP: $56.68$47.88For the first time since Mao, a Chinese leader may serve a life-time tenure. Xi Jinping may well replicate Mao's successful strategy to maintain power. If so, what are the institutional and policy implications for China? Victor C. Shih investigates how... -
China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival by Rana Mitter
RRP: $31.48$23.00Winner of the Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is 1937, when the 'Marco Polo Bridge Incident' plunged China and... -
Dersu the Trapper by V. K. Arseniev 9780929701493
RRP: $31.50$26.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929701493Author V. K. ArsenievFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S.Publisher McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Seventeen: the new novel from the bestselling Japanese sensation by Hideo Yokoyama
RRP: $23.08$15.54FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SIX FOUR: A TENSE INVESTIGATION IN THE AFTERMATH OF AN AIR DISASTER - FOR FANS OF SPOTLIGHT AND AFTER THE CRASH.'He's a master' New York Times Book Review'Very different . . . to almost anything out there'... -
India: A Wounded Civilization by V. S. Naipaul
RRP: $20.98$15.27The second book in V. S. Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy. In 1964 V. S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness, his semi-autobiographical account of a year in India. Two visits later, prompted by the Emergency of 1975, he came to write India: A Wounded... -
Japonisme: Ikigai, Forest Bathing, Wabi-sabi and more by Erin Niimi Longhurst
RRP: $27.28$17.81A Japanese-inspired guide to living a happier, more fulfilled life. Japonisme explores the Japanese art of findingcontentment and includes practical tips and tricksto live a happier, healthier, more thoughtful life.What is your ikigai...