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Magisterial in vision, sweeping in scope, this monumental work presents a seamless account of Japanese society during the modern era, from 1600 to the present. A distillation of more than fifty years' engagement with Japan and its history, it is the...

Banned in Vietnam until 1986, Dumb Luck-by the controversial and influential Vietnamese writer Vu Trong Phung-is a bitter satire of the rage for modernization in Vietnam during the late colonial era. First published in Hanoi during 1936, it follows the...

Since it was first published in 2005, A History of Thailand has been hailed as an authoritative, lively and readable account of Thailand's political, economic, social and cultural history. From the early settlements in the Chao Phraya basin to today,...

THE FIRST COMPLETE TRANSLATION OF A SAMURAI SCHOOL CURRICULUM, THE BOOK OF SAMURAI SERIES IS A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SAMURAI WARFARE. Book One: Fundamental Teachings reveals to the samurai student the basic traditions of...

Known for their striking full-body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eighty thousand strong - more than four times the size of the American mafia. Despite their criminal nature, the yakuza are accepted by fellow...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553386165Author Rusty BradleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA...

Zen and Japanese Culture is a classic that has influenced generations of readers and played a major role in shaping conceptions of Zen's influence on Japanese traditional arts. In simple and poetic language, Daisetz Suzuki describes Zen and its...

The British campaign in the Sudan in Queen Victoria's reign is an epic tale of adventure more thrilling than any fiction. The story begins with the massacre of the 11,000 strong Hicks Pasha column in 1883. Sent to evacuate the country, British hero...

The Ismaili Assassins were an underground group of political killers who were ready to kill Christians and Muslims alike with complete disregard for their own lives. These devoted murderers were under the powerful control of a grand master who used...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307407160Author Jack WeatherfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm)...

From the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of The Man on Devil's Island, the definitive biography of Vivekananda, the Indian monk who shaped the intellectual and spiritual history of both East and West.Few thinkers have had so enduring an impact on...

In 221 BC, the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative...

"Washington's relationship with Tokyo is generally considered the most important of the United States' 70-odd alliances. In this intimately knowledgeable book, Smith shows how that alliance looks to the Japanese: increasingly unreliable."-Andrew J...

While popular trends, cuisine, and long-standing political tension have made Korea familiar in some ways to a vast English-speaking world, its recorded history of some two millennia remains unfamiliar to most. Korea: A History addresses general readers,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615273365Author Nan RaeFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Nan RaePublisher Nan RaeWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 256mm * 203mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739786540Author Nick HolmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Puttenham Press LtdPublisher Puttenham Press Ltd

The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949 shows that the Western treatment of World War II, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War as separate events misrepresents their overlapping connections and causes. The Chinese Civil War precipitated a long...

The phrase "silk road" evokes vivid images: of merchants leading camel caravans over deserts and steppes to trade exotic goods in the bazaars of glittering Oriental cities, of pilgrims braving bandits and frozen mountain passes to gather scriptures and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789391047344Author Amar FarooquiFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Aleph Book CompanyPublisher Aleph Book CompanyDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 20mm

The year 1543 marked the beginning of a new global consciousness in Japan with the arrival of storm-blown Portuguese merchants in Tanegashima Island in southern Japan. Other Portuguese rapidly followed and Japan became aware of a world beyond India. The...

A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following the U.S-Taliban peace deal of February 2020 - and the U.S's promised withdrawal from Afghanistan - the Taliban began terrorizing Afghan security forces, civilians and the government in Kabul. By August 2021,...

The Raj was, for two hundred years, the jewel in the British imperial crown. Although founded on military expansionism and undoubted exploitation, it developed over the centuries into what has been called 'benign autocracy' - the government of many by...

In Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations, Martin Goodman explores the history of a titanic struggle whose repercussions are still felt today. In 70CE, after four years of Jewish rebellion, Roman legions devastated the great city of...

A decade after the 1971 wars in South Asia, the principal decisionmakers were still uncertain why wars so clearly unwanted had occurred. The authors reconstruct the complex decisionmaking process attending the break-up of Pakistan and the subsequent war...

'Another India' tells the story of the world's biggest religious minority. Weaving together vivid biographical portraits of a wide range of Indian Muslims--elite and subaltern, secular and clerical, activist and apolitical--it brings the experience of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789394407633Author Tilak DevasherFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526775276Author Philip JowettFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Pen & Sword MilitaryPublisher Pen & Sword MilitaryWeight(grams) 191g

A complete history of the tea ceremony and teabowls with beautiful pieces from international potters. The teabowl has become an iconic form in contemporary ceramics. Having travelled from Japan, where it was an inherent part of chanoyu, or tea...

First published in 1982, this text is widely regarded as a leading general history of the country. This new and revised edition brings the story of this fascinating country up to date, incorporating the latest scholarship on every period of Malaysian...

In this major new history of Muslim merchants and their trade links with China, John W. Chaffee uncovers 700 years of history, from the eighth century, when Muslim communities first established themselves in southeastern China, through the fourteenth...

An epic account of how a new world order under Tamerlane was born out of the decline of the Mongol Empire "A masterwork."-William Dalrymple, Financial Times "A landmark publication."-Noel Malcom, The Telegraph By the mid-fourteenth century, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791400777Author Mark E. LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

This book describes the turbulent political history of Afghanistan from the communist upheaval of the 1970s through to the aftermath of the events of 11 September 2001. It reviews the importance of the region to external powers and explains why warfare...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791420621Author Roger T. AmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Exploring Korean history from its ancient roots to the present day, A Brief History of Korea is the story of a people with a rich and united culture that has become two Koreas in modern times-one isolated and secretive and the other among the world's...

'The Book Collectors of Daraya celebrates the political and therapeutic power of the written word . . . defiant and cautiously optimistic' Financial Times'[An] incredible chronicle . . . The book tells the kind of story that often gets buried beneath...

In Central Asia, Muslim shrines have served as community centers for centuries, particularly the large urban shrines that seem, in many cases, to have served as the inspiration as well for a city's architectural development. In Four Central Asian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789391050245Author Professor Swapna M. BanerjeeFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Oxford University Press IndiaPublisher Oxford University Press...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774760475Author Saint AthanasiusFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Engage BooksPublisher Engage BooksWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

In 1980, at the age of ten, Loung Ung escaped a devastated Cambodia and flew to the US as a refugee. She and her eldest brother, with whom she escaped, left behind their three surviving siblings, and her book is alternately heart-wrenching and...