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Slim, Master of War: Burma, 1942-5 by Robert Lyman
RRP: £10.99£7.05'Elegantly written and beautifully produced' TLSHow 'Uncle Bill' won the war in BurmaDefeated and demoralised, British units in the Far East had virtually been ejected from Burma when, in 1943, General W. J. Slim organised, trained and then deployed his... -
ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age by Andre Gunder Frank
RRP: £29.00£22.48Andre Gunder Frank asks us to re-orient our views away from Eurocentrism - to see the rise of the West as a mere blip in what was, and is again becoming, an Asia-centered world. In a bold challenge to received historiography and social theory he turns on... -
A Short History of the Mughal Empire by Michael Fisher
RRP: £14.99£14.34The Mughal Empire dominated India politically, culturally, socially, economically and environmentally, from its foundation by Babur, a Central Asian adventurer, in 1526 to the final trial and exile of the last emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar at the hands of... -
Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race by Michael A. Cremo 9780892132942
£41.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892132942Author Michael A. CremoFormat HardbackPage Count 914Imprint Bhaktivedanta Book TrustPublisher Bhaktivedanta Book TrustWeight(grams) 1545g -
Hong Kong by Jan Morris 9780679776482
RRP: £16.99£12.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679776482Author Jan MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm... -
Strategy and the Second World War: How the War was Won, and Lost by Jeremy Black
RRP: £14.99£9.32A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost..In 1941, the Second World War became global, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union; Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor; and... -
Zen and Japanese Culture by Daisetz T. Suzuki 9780691182964
RRP: £22.00£18.76Zen 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... -
British Social Life in India, 1608-1937 by Dennis Kincaid
£16.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788129137487Author Dennis KincaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. -
A History of Malaysia by Barbara Watson Andaya 9780230293540
RRP: £32.99£31.65First 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... -
Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda by Ruth Harris
RRP: £33.95£26.89From 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... -
The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives by Timothy Cheek 9781108822619
RRP: £19.99£16.42Ten engaging personal histories introduce readers to what it was like to live in and with the most powerful political machine ever created: the Chinese Communist Party. Detailing the life of ten people who led or engaged with the Chinese Communist Party,... -
Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain's Lost Love of the Orient by Fatima Manji
RRP: £10.99£7.77A fresh perspective on British history from award-winning broadcaster Fatima ManjiWhy was there a Turkish mosque adorning Britain's most famous botanic garden in the eighteenth century? How did a pair of Persian-inscribed cannon end up in rural Wales?... -
A Concise History of Hong Kong by John M. Carroll 9780742534223
RRP: £36.00£33.51When the British occupied the tiny island of Hong Kong during the First Opium War, the Chinese empire was well into its decline, while Great Britain was already in the second decade of its legendary "Imperial Century." From this collision of empires... -
The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 by Richard Maxwell Eaton
RRP: £29.00£22.48In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith. This area today is home to the world's second-largest Muslim ethnic population. How and why did such a large Muslim population emerge there? And how does... -
Works: v. 5: Jewish Antiquities, Bks.I-III by Flavius Josephus
RRP: £24.95£22.92Greco-Roman antiquity's premier Jewish historian.Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in... -
Last Children Of The Raj, Volume 2 (1939-1950): British Childhoods in India by Laurence Fleming
RRP: £15.00£10.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903660218Author Mark TullyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Dexter HavenPublisher Dexter HavenWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 195mm * 130mm * 30mm -
Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia by Jeevan Vasagar
RRP: £10.99£7.05Lion 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... -
Gurkha Odyssey: Campaigning for the Crown by Peter Duffell 9781399021920
RRP: £14.99£10.95"A compelling journey through Gurkha history -written with grace and style - it is indeed a wonderful read" - Field Marshal Lord Bramall KG GCB OBE MC It is 1814 and the Bengal Army of the Honourable East India Company is at war with a marauding Nepal... -
Obama and China's Rise: An Insider's Account of America's Asia Strategy by Jeffrey A. Bader
RRP: £18.99£18.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815724469Author Jeffrey A. BaderFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)... -
The Mongol Empire in Global History and Art History by Anne Dunlop 9780674279162
RRP: £37.95£29.94With the rise of projects to create global histories and art histories, the Mongol Empire is now widely taken as a fundamental watershed. In the later thirteenth century, the Mongol states reconfigured the basic zones of Eurasian trade and contact. For... -
The Teabowl: East and West by Bonnie Kemske
RRP: £35.00£26.62A 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... -
With the Paras in Helmand: A Photographic Diary by Allen, Craig 9781399020886
RRP: £14.99£13.61Craig Allen, a Paratrooper for 29 years, returned to 2 PARA as a reservist and unofficial photographer for the Battlegroups dramatic 2008 Tour in Helmand. As both a respected soldier and photographer he had unrivalled access to the fighting and moved... -
Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Buruma
RRP: £14.99£9.80Many books have been written, and continue to be written, about the Second World War: military histories, histories of the Holocaust, the war in Asia, or collaboration and resistance in Europe. Few books have taken a close look at the immediate aftermath... -
Global Islam: A Very Short Introduction by Nile Green
RRP: £10.49£7.44This book presents the first comprehensive survey of the multiple versions of Islam propagated across geographical, political, and cultural boundaries during the era of modern globalization. Showing how Islam was transformed through these globalizing... -
Nirguna Bhakti in Eastern India: Ideology, Identity and Resistance by Dambarudhar Nath 9789394262256
£89.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789394262256Author Dambarudhar NathFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Manohar Publishers and DistributorsPublisher Manohar Publishers and... -
The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation by Alex Dehgan
RRP: £22.00£13.83Post-war Afghanistan is fragile, volatile, and perilous. It is also a place of extraordinary beauty. Evolutionary biologist Alex Deghan came to Afghanistan and created a startup, Conservation X Labs, to save Afghanistan's unique and extraordinary... -
Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India by Douglas Ober
RRP: £27.99£23.66Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the land of its birth, between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, long forgotten until British colonial scholars re-discovered it in the early 1800s. Its full-fledged revival, so the... -
Destination Peking by Paul French
RRP: £13.99£8.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887963967Author Paul FrenchFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 438g -
Hunted Through Central Asia: On the Run from Lenin's Secret Police by Paul Nazaroff
£28.50'My position was uncomfortable. Here was I, in an absolutely exposed place, with Red Guards and commissars on every side. I had very little money left and no means of transport at all.' Paul Nazaroff was the ringleader of a desperate plot to overthrow... -
Photography in Cambodia: 1866 to the Present by Nicholas Coffill
RRP: £34.99£23.31A stunning visual journey through Cambodian culture, history, art, struggle, and modernization.Cambodia has two parallel histories. One is the constant stream of adventurers and diplomats, kings and rebels, archaeologists and artists drawn to the... -
The Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories by Sumathi Ramaswamy 9780520244405
RRP: £27.00£20.63During the nineteenth century, Lemuria was imagined as a land that once bridged India and Africa but disappeared into the ocean millennia ago, much like Atlantis. A sustained meditation on a lost place from a lost time, this elegantly written book is the... -
The Collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China's Civil War by Parks M. Coble
RRP: £30.00£25.95When World War II ended Chiang Kai-shek seemed at the height of his power-the leader of Nationalist China, one of the victorious Allied Powers in 1945 and with the financial backing of the US. Yet less than four years later, he lost the China's civil war... -
Terriers in India: British Territorials 1914-19 by Peter Stanley
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510513Author Peter StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power by Noam Chomsky
RRP: £17.99£12.30Two of our most celebrated intellectuals grapple with the uncertain aftermath of the American collapse in Afghanistan "Through the structure of a deeply engaging conversation between two of our most important contemporary public intellectuals, we are... -
Pure Land: History, Tradition, and Practice by Charles B Jones
RRP: £15.99£10.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611808902Author Charles JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Zhou Enlai: The Enigma Behind Chairman Mao by Michael Dillon
RRP: £24.99£23.26Enigmatic, Eminence grise, the 'power behind the throne' - these phrases sum up Zhou Enlai's long and varied, but always pivotal, political career in the Chinese Communist Party from the 1920s to 1970s. Born in 1898, Zhou witnessed several of the... -
Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power by Sheila A. Smith 9780674293953
RRP: £20.95£16.52"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... -
Making Hong Kong China: The Rollback of Human Rights and the Rule of Law by Michael C Davis
RRP: £14.99£11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952636134Author Michael C. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian StudiesWeight(grams)... -
Kanji Pict-o-Graphix: Over 1,000 Japanese Kanji and Kana Mnemonics by Michael Rowley 9780962813702
RRP: £14.99£14.26"Kanji Pict-o-Graphix offers an engaging way to learn and memorize Kanji."-Rocky Mountain Region Japan Project "A fun book for studying kanji. The illustration reveals more of its contents and method than any description ever could."-Japan Times "It is... -
The Rise and Demise of the Myth of the Rus' Land by Charles J. Halperin
£79.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802700114Author Charles J. HalperinFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press