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  • The Confucian Creation of Heaven: Philosophy and the Defense of Ritual Mastery by Robert Eno 9780791401910

    The Confucian Creation of Heaven: Philosophy and the Defense of Ritual Mastery by Robert Eno 9780791401910

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791401910Author Robert EnoFormat PaperbackPage Count 349Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...
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  • The Book Collectors of Daraya: A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library, and the Stories that Carried Them Through a War by Delphine Minoui

    The Book Collectors of Daraya: A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library, and the Stories that Carried Them Through a War by Delphine Minoui

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    '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...
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  • Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom by Sanjeev Sanyal

    Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom by Sanjeev Sanyal

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356295940Author Sanjeev SanyalFormat HardbackPage Count 364Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 220mm...
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  • Mountains and Lowlands: Ancient Iran and Mesopotamia by Paul Collins 9781910807088

    Mountains and Lowlands: Ancient Iran and Mesopotamia by Paul Collins 9781910807088

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    Ancient Mesopotamia and Iran are usually treated separately or as part of a much broader 'Ancient Near East'. However, the developments that lie at the root of our own world - farming, cities, writing, organised religion, warfare - were forged in the...
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  • Red Star Versus Rising Sun: Volume 1: The Conquest of Manchuria 1931-1938 by Adrien Fontanellaz

    Red Star Versus Rising Sun: Volume 1: The Conquest of Manchuria 1931-1938 by Adrien Fontanellaz

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914377808Author Adrien FontanellazFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company
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  • A Modern History of Hong Kong: 1841-1997 by Steve Tsang

    A Modern History of Hong Kong: 1841-1997 by Steve Tsang

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    This major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. The story began in 1842 with the founding of the Crown Colony after the First Anglo-Chinese war - the original 'Opium...
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  • The Tatas, Freddie Mercury & Other Bawas: An Intimate History of the Parsis by Coomi Kapoor 9780143459811

    The Tatas, Freddie Mercury & Other Bawas: An Intimate History of the Parsis by Coomi Kapoor 9780143459811

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143459811Author Coomi KapoorFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Penguin Random House IndiaPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm *...
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  • Kublai Khan by John Man 9780553817188

    Kublai Khan by John Man 9780553817188

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    In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure dome decreeKublai Khan lives on in the popular imagination thanks to these two lines of poetry by Coleridge. But the true story behind this legend is even more fantastic than the poem would have us believe. He...
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  • A Compendium of Medieval World Sovereigns by Timothy Venning

    A Compendium of Medieval World Sovereigns by Timothy Venning

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    The Compendium of World Sovereigns series contains three volumes: Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern. These volumes provide students with easy-to-access 'who's who' with details on the identities and dates, ages and wives, where known, of heads of...
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  • Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison by David P. Chandler

    Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison by David P. Chandler

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    The horrific torture and execution of hundreds of thousands of Cambodians by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge during the 1970s is one of the century's major human disasters. David Chandler, a world-renowned historian of Cambodia, examines the Khmer Rouge phenomenon...
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  • Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World's Largest Dictatorship by Stephen Vines

    Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World's Largest Dictatorship by Stephen Vines

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    'Defying the Dragon' tells a remarkable story of audacity: of how the people of Hong Kong challenged the PRC's authority, just as its president reached the height of his powers. Is Xi's China as unshakeable as it seems? What are its real interests in...
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  • The Incredible History of the Indian Ocean by Sanyal, Sanjeev 9780143446019

    The Incredible History of the Indian Ocean by Sanyal, Sanjeev 9780143446019

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    An adaptation of The Ocean of Churn for young readersWhen did the first humans arrive in India and how did they get here?What are Roman artefacts from hundreds of years ago doing in a town near Puducherry?How did merchants from Arabia end up near...
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  • Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India by Lata Mani

    Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India by Lata Mani

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    "Contentious Traditions" analyzes the debate on sati, or widow burning, in colonial India. Though the prohibition of widow burning in 1829 was heralded as a key step forward for women's emancipation in modern India, Lata Mani argues that the women who...
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  • The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar's Hidden Genocide by Azeem Ibrahim 9781849049733

    The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar's Hidden Genocide by Azeem Ibrahim 9781849049733

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    According to the United Nations, Myanmar's Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Only now has the media turned its attention to their plight at the hands of a country led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Yet the...
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  • Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld by David E. Kaplan 9780520274907

    Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld by David E. Kaplan 9780520274907

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    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...
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  • Malaya and Singapore 1941-42: The fall of Britain's empire in the East by Mark Stille

    Malaya and Singapore 1941-42: The fall of Britain's empire in the East by Mark Stille

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    For the British Empire it was a military disaster, but for Imperial Japan the conquest of Malaya was one of the pivotal campaigns of World War II. Giving birth to the myth of the Imperial Japanese Army's invincibility, the victory left both Burma and...
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  • The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine by Ilza Veith 9780520288263

    The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine by Ilza Veith 9780520288263

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    The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine has become a landmark in the history of Chinese civilization. Written in the form of a dialogue in which the emperor seeks information from his minister Ch'I-Po on questions of health and the art of...
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  • How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding by Nile Green

    How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding by Nile Green

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    A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world's largest continent "Mr. Green has written a book of rigorous-and refreshing-honesty."-Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street Journal A Foreign Affairs...
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  • Japan's Asian Allies 1941-45 by Philip Jowett

    Japan's Asian Allies 1941-45 by Philip Jowett

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    During the Japanese occupation of large parts of Asia and the Pacific in 1941-45, Japan raised significant numbers of troops to fight alongside them, as well as militias to guard their conquests. The total number of these soldiers is estimated at no...
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  • How to Read Buddhist Art by Kurt A. Behrendt 9781588396730

    How to Read Buddhist Art by Kurt A. Behrendt 9781588396730

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    An indispensable introduction to the evolution of Buddhist imagery from its origins in India through its spread to China, Japan, and South Asia For more than 2,000 years, sublime works of art have been created to embody essential aspects of Buddhist...
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  • The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives by Carole Hillenbrand

    The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives by Carole Hillenbrand

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    At the 900th anniversary of the Crusader capture of Jerusalem, it is timely to reflect on how the phenomenon of the Crusades influenced the Muslim world, then and now, militarily, culturally and psychologically. This book discusses a group of themes...
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  • A History of East Asia: From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century by Charles Holcombe

    A History of East Asia: From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century by Charles Holcombe

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    Charles Holcombe begins by asking the question 'what is East Asia?' In the modern age, many of the features that made the region - now defined as including China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam - distinct have been submerged by the effects of revolution,...
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  • Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations by Martin Goodman

    Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations by Martin Goodman

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    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...
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  • A Fistful of Kung Fu: Hong Kong Movie Wargame Rules by Andrea Sfiligoi

    A Fistful of Kung Fu: Hong Kong Movie Wargame Rules by Andrea Sfiligoi

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    A Fistful of Kung Fu brings the hyper-kinetic, bullet-spraying, demon-slaying, kung-fu-fighting action of Hong Kong movies and Asian cinema to the wargames tabletop. In a modern world walking a precarious line between the advances of next-generation...
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  • The Eurasian Steppe by Warwick Ball

    The Eurasian Steppe by Warwick Ball

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    From nomadic peoples to conquering empires, from tales of Amazon women to art nouveau, and from golden grave goods to the formation of countries that still exist today, Ball shows how the steppe has continually shaped Europe's destiny.About the...
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  • Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Stathis Kalyvas

    Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Stathis Kalyvas

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    Just a few years ago, Greece appeared to be a politically secure nation with a healthy economy. Today, Greece can be found at the center of the economic maelstrom in Europe. Beginning in late 2008, the Greek economy entered a nosedive that would...
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  • Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire by Prashant Kidambi 9780198843139

    Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire by Prashant Kidambi 9780198843139

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    Cricket is an Indian game accidentally invented by the English, it has famously been said. Today, the Indian cricket team is a powerful national symbol, a unifying force in a country riven by conflicts. But India was represented by a cricket team long...
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  • Another India: The Making of the World's Largest Muslim Minority, 1947–77 by Pratinav Anil

    Another India: The Making of the World's Largest Muslim Minority, 1947–77 by Pratinav Anil

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    '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...
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  • The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War by S. C. M. Paine 9781107676169

    The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War by S. C. M. Paine 9781107676169

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    The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shattering fall of a great power. As Japan modernized and became the one non-European great power, its leaders...
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  • Central Asia in World History by Peter B. Golden 9780195338195

    Central Asia in World History by Peter B. Golden 9780195338195

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    A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the "pivot of history," a land where nomadic invaders and Silk Road traders changed the destinies of states that ringed...
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  • Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: An extraordinary diary of courage from the Vietnam War by Dang Thuy Tram

    Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: An extraordinary diary of courage from the Vietnam War by Dang Thuy Tram

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    'THE VIETNAMESE ANNE FRANK'Last Night I Dreamed of Peace is the moving diary kept by a 27-year-old Vietnamese doctor who was killed by the Americans during the Vietnam War, while trying to defend her patients. Not only is it an important slice of...
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  • Structure of the Seraglio: European Fantasies of Asiatic Despotism by Alain Grosrichard

    Structure of the Seraglio: European Fantasies of Asiatic Despotism by Alain Grosrichard

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    Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) has justly attracted great respect and attention for its account of Western perceptions and representations of the Orient, but the English-speaking world has for too long been unaware of another classic in the same field...
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  • Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization by Kuan-Hsing Chen

    Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization by Kuan-Hsing Chen

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    Centering his analysis in the dynamic forces of modern East Asian history, Kuan-Hsing Chen recasts cultural studies as a politically urgent global endeavor. He argues that the intellectual and subjective work of decolonization begun across East Asia...
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  • Coffee Life in Japan by Merry I. White

    Coffee Life in Japan by Merry I. White

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    This fascinating book - part ethnography, part memoir - traces Japan's vibrant cafe society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian...
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  • Ramesses: Egypt's Greatest Pharaoh by Joyce Tyldesley

    Ramesses: Egypt's Greatest Pharaoh by Joyce Tyldesley

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    Everyone has heard of Ramesses the Great - but what is the truth behind the legend? Joyce Tyldesley's lively book explores the life and times of Egypt's greatest king. Ramesses II was the archetypal Egyptian pharoah: a mighty warrior, an extravagant...
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  • Finger Bone by Hiroki Takahashi

    Finger Bone by Hiroki Takahashi

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739822590Author Hiroki TakahashiFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Honford StarPublisher Honford Star
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  • Taliban: The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and Beyond by Ahmed Rashid 9780755647101

    Taliban: The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and Beyond by Ahmed Rashid 9780755647101

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    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,...
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  • Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923 by Gennifer Weisenfeld 9780520271951

    Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923 by Gennifer Weisenfeld 9780520271951

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    Focusing on one landmark catastrophic event in the history of an emerging modern nation - the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas in 1923 - this fascinating volume examines the history of the visual production of the...
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  • Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia by Jeevan Vasagar 9781408713600

    Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia by Jeevan Vasagar 9781408713600

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    Lion City tells the extraordinary story of Singapore - the world's most successful city state.In 1965, Singapore's GDP per capita was on a par with Jordan. Now it has outstripped Japan. After the Second World War and a sudden rupture with newly formed...
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  • Mao's Last Revolution by Roderick MacFarquhar

    Mao's Last Revolution by Roderick MacFarquhar

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    The Cultural Revolution was a watershed event in the history of the People's Republic of China, the defining decade of half a century of communist rule. Before 1966, China was a typical communist state, with a command economy and a powerful party able to...
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