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Captured in Miniature: Mughal Lives Through Mughal Art by Suhag Shirodhar 9780944142615
Booksplease Price: $26.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944142615Author Suhag ShirodharFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Grantha CorporationPublisher Grantha CorporationWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 290mm... -
Genghis Khan: And the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $19.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609809648Author Jack WeatherfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 264g -
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $14.39THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER,... -
Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir Kishore Mahbubani 9781541703049
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $18.53In this stirring memoir, a preeminent politician and diplomat traces the transformation of the Republic of Singapore from a poor colony into an Asian powerhouseGrowing up in poverty in the 1950s, Kishore Mahbubani expected to become a common textile... -
A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun by Jonathan Clements
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $16.03This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion.First... -
Shogun: The First Novel of the Asian saga by James Clavell
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.23THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING CLASSIC SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES'Clavell never puts a foot wrong . . . Get it, read it, you'll enjoy it mightily' DAILY MIRRORThis is James Clavell's tour-de-force; an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and... -
The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China Michael Sheridan 9781035413485
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.86'Michael Sheridan is one of the best informed and wisest writers on China' - Chris Patten, last governor of Hong KongThe Red Emperor presents an eye-opening portrait of Xi Jinping, the man who presides over 1.4 billion people and the second largest... -
No Surrender: My Thirty Year War by Hiroo Onoda 9781557506634
RRP: $44.75Booksplease Price: $36.47In the Spring of 1974, 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a thirty-year ordeal. Hunted in turn by American troops, the Philippine army and police, hostile islanders, and... -
The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China by Jonathan Kaufman
RRP: $35.10Booksplease Price: $22.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735224438Author Jonathan KaufmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
The Japanese Myths: A Guide to Gods, Heroes and Spirits by Joshua Frydman
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.03The perfect introduction to the world of Japanese myth and legend. This is a smart and succinct guide to the rich tradition of Japanese mythology, from the earliest recorded legends of Izanagi and Izanami, their divine offspring and the creation of... -
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $21.47The New York Times bestselling account of one of history's most brutal- and forgotten- massacres, when the Japanese army destroyed China's capital city on the eve of World War IIIn December 1937, one of the most horrific atrocities in the long annals of... -
A Brief History of Vietnam: Colonialism, War and Renewal: The Story of a Nation Transformed by Bill Hayton
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.08A comprehensive guide to understanding Vietnam's long and tumultuous historyA Brief History of Vietnam explores the turbulent history of a land that has risen from the ashes of war to become the newest Asian tiger economy. This book expertly examines the... -
Unit 731: The Forgotten Asian Auschwitz by Derek Pua 9781947766044
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $15.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947766044Author Derek PuaFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Pacific Atrocities EducationPublisher Pacific Atrocities EducationWeight(grams)... -
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $22.66In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the twentieth century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the... -
Tokyo Noir: in and out of Japan’s underworld Jake Adelstein 9781915590893
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.13The sequel to bestseller Tokyo Vice, now a major HBO drama, with a second season coming in 2024. It's been a while since Jake Adelstein was the only gaijin crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun. The global economy is in shambles, Jake is off the police... -
Bubishi: The Classic Manual of Combat by Patrick McCarthy
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.03Treasured for centuries by karate's top masters, the Bubishi is a classic Chinese work on philosophy, strategy, medicine, and technique as they relate to the martial arts.Referred to as the "bible of karate" by famous master Chojun Miyagi, for hundreds... -
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World William Dalrymple 9781408864418
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $38.26THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA revolutionary new history of the diffusion of Indian ideas, from the award-winning, bestselling author and co-host of the chart-topping Empire podcast'Richly woven, highly readable ... Written with passion and verve'... -
To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino 9781538121788
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $27.38Drawing on the voices of atomic bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and the aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices, detonated over Japan, changed life on Earth forever. To... -
Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.72WINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR NARRATIVE NONFICTION***THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY 'EMPIRE STATE OF MIND'***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The real remedy is education of the kind that Sanghera has embraced - accepting, not... -
The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy Rahul Bhatia 9781408717899
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.88This is a book of narrative reportage six years in the making. It describes how ideology and technological ambition have reshaped India's nascent democracy and follows a diverse cast of people as they navigate questions of identity and belonging.Book... -
Stranger in the Mask of a Deer by Richard Skelton 9781908058843
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.47Stranger in the Mask of a Deer conjures an elemental, dreamlike narrative ranging from the present to the Late-Upper Palaeolithic, when the British peninsula was gradually reoccupied by humans and animals returning from the greater continent after the... -
The Book of Ichigo Ichie: The Art of Making the Most of Every Moment, the Japanese Way by Francesc Miralles
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.03Learn to make every moment a once-in-a-lifetime experience with this definitive guide to the Japanese art of ichigo ichie, from the bestselling authors of Ikigai.'Ikigai urges individuals to simplify their lives by pursuing what sparks joy for them'... -
Other Rivers: A Chinese Education Peter Hessler 9781805462866
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.02'Memorable... One of [China's] most astute and sensitive foreign observers' Financial Times'Compassionate... full of warmth' GuardianMore than twenty years after teaching English to China's first boom generation at a small college in Sichuan Province,... -
Zhou Enlai: A Life by Jian Chen 9780674659582
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $47.58The definitive biography of Zhou Enlai, the first premier and preeminent diplomat of the People's Republic of China, who protected his country against the excesses of his boss-Chairman Mao.Zhou Enlai spent twenty-seven years as premier of the People's... -
Shogun: The Life and Times of Tokugawa Ieyasu: Japan's Greatest Ruler by A. L. Sadler
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $21.47Uncover the true history behind the critically acclaimed FX/Hulu series "SHOGUN" in this epic biography of the man who unified Medieval Japan. For 700 years, Japan was ruled by military commanders who waged war against one another incessantly. Shogun... -
Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten by Pamela Hicks
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.70A 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... -
Ghosts, Monsters and Demons of India by Rakesh Khanna 9781786788078
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $25.62"I was not prepared for how deeply this book captivated me ... Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India is exemplary of what a book can be, how it can operate. It's a bridge across space, time, and language" -Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour... -
Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck 9781324073697
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $37.54On a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of people raised a homemade cotton flag and, on behalf of 68 million compatriots, announced the birth of a new nation. With the fourth largest population in the world, inhabiting islands that span an... -
The Rising Sun by John Toland
RRP: $40.95Booksplease Price: $37.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812968583Author John TolandFormat PaperbackPage Count 976Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 896gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
The Kanji Code: See the Sounds with Phonetic Components and Visual Patterns by Natalie J Hamilton 9780648488606
RRP: $45.71Booksplease Price: $33.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648488606Author Natalie J HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Ocha PressPublisher Ocha PressWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm *... -
China Root: Taoism, Ch’an, and Original Zen by David Hinton
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $23.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611807134Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
China: An Epic Novel by Edward Rutherfurd
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $8.76THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Bravo; this is a big, complex and utterly involving portrait of 19th-century China' THE TIMESThe internationally bestselling author portrays the great clash of East and West in his new epic: China China in the nineteenth... -
History of Cambodia: A Captivating Guide to Cambodian History, Including Events Such as the Rise and Decline of the Khmer Empire, Siege of Angkor, Cambodian-Vietnamese War, and Cambodian Civil War by Captivating History 9781637161944
RRP: $33.09Booksplease Price: $23.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637161944Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm)... -
Quartered Safe Out Here by George MacDonald Fraser
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.98'There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War' John Keegan Life and death in Nine Section, a small group of hard-bitten and (to modern eyes) possibly eccentric Cumbrian borderers... -
Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World by Matt Alt
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $14.96'Amazingly well researched, fabulously informative and an awful lot of fun. If you love Japanese culture or are just curious to know more I can't recommend this book highly enough' Jonathan Ross'A nerd- and generalist-friendly look at how Japan shaped... -
Ataturk Andrew Mango 9780719565922
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $17.30This biography of Ataturk aims to strip away the myth to show the complexities of the man beneath. Born plain Mustafa in Ottoman Salonica in 1881, he trained as an army officer but was virtually unknown until 1919, when he took the lead in thwarting the... -
Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck 9781847927057
Booksplease Price: $51.38A story of staggering scope and drama, Revolusi is the masterful and definitive account of the epic revolution that sparked the decolonisation of the modern world.'Astounding . . . history at its best' Yuval Harari'Utterly compelling' Financial... -
The Art of War by Sun Tzu 9780981162614
Booksplease Price: $10.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981162614Author Sun TzuFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Pax LibrorumPublisher Pax LibrorumWeight(grams) 80gDimensions(mm) 127mm * 203mm * 3mm -
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Collins Modern Classics) by Jung Chang
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.41Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. Few books have had such an... -
I Ching or Book of Changes: Ancient Chinese wisdom to inspire and enlighten by Wilhelm Richard
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.75Find inspiration from one of the most important books in the world's literature . . . __________ The I Ching is a book of oracles containing the whole of human experience. Used for divination, it is a method of exploring the unconscious; through the...