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  • Brief History of Japan

    Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun

    Series series Brief History of Asia Series
    This 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 revealed to Westerners in the chronicles of Marco Polo, Japan was a legendary faraway land defended by a fearsome Kamikaze storm and ruled by a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Between Two Fires

    Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia

    by Joshua Yaffa ...
    WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • “Unforgettable . . . a book about Putin’s Russia that is unlike any other.”—Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain**From a Moscow correspondent for The New Yorker, a groundbreaking portrait of modern Russia and the inner struggles of the people who sustain Vladimir Putin’s ruleONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—NPR, Kirkus ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 老派少女購物路線

    by 洪愛珠 ...
    Series Book 366 - Taiwan Style
    ★ 「台北文學獎」散文首獎得主洪愛珠首部著作。★ 備受矚目、眾人垂涎敲碗的飲食書寫新聲音。★ 舒國治、馬世芳、蔡珠兒、古碧玲、詹宏志、韓良憶、簡媜重量級推薦。∣ 她的老派,是養成,是本性,也是鄉愁 ∣她自小看著有頭家娘風範的外婆與母親,進出廚房,起灶架鍋,張羅數十家人員工日常吃食,宴請東南亞與中東等地賓客,哄嚷熱烈,直到滷肉飯、蒸冬瓜肉餅、芋棗甚至一碗煲粥,俱成為她日後的念想。她曾與外婆、母親,三代女子,穿行在大稻埕與永樂市場,買鮑參翅肚、麵龜椪餅、胡椒肉桂蠶豆,見識老鋪的講究,練就一套對古早物什的擇選標準。她熟稔蘆洲湧蓮寺周邊,在旺鋪裡食切仔麵黑白切與米苔目,飲青草涼茶,更向在地攤商習得剁雞的技巧,與若干習俗規矩。如此種種,養出她一雙識貨的眼睛,一根敏銳的舌頭,一個老派的靈魂;更化作筆下時而雍容深情、時而輕俏意趣的篇章段落。</... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Russia

    Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921

    by Antony Beevor ...
    **“Riveting . . . There is a wealth of new information here that adds considerable texture and nuance to his story and helps to set Russia apart from previous works.”—The Wall Street JournalAn epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of the twentieth century.**Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD $6.99 USD

  • We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young

    Ia Drang—The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam

    New York Times Bestseller: A “powerful and epic story . . . the best account of infantry combat I have ever read” (Col. David Hackworth, author of About Face).In November 1965, some 450 men of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Harold Moore, were dropped into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Valmiki's Ramayana

    by Arshia Sattar ...
    One of India’s greatest epics, the Ramayana pervades the country’s moral and cultural consciousness. For generations it has served as a bedtime story for Indian children, while at the same time engaging the interest of philosophers and theologians. Believed to have been composed by Valmiki sometime between the eighth and sixth centuries BCE, the Ramayana tells the tragic and magical story of Rama, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • বাঙালির মিডিয়োক্রিটির সন্ধানে - Bangalir Mediocrityr Shondhane

    Like so many of his neighbours and fellow citizens, Faham Abdus Salam came to Australia to study and ended up making its small-town-capital his home. The last words of his bio in the book reads Shehvaar’s father —and that identity is the one that underpins his book Bangali’r Mediocrity’r Shondhane (In Search of the Bengali Mediocrity). He writes for his daughter, knowingly and explicitly in the ... Read more

    $5.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Air Force Way of War

    U.S. Tactics and Training after Vietnam

    “Laslie chronicles how the Air Force worked its way from the catastrophe of Vietnam through the triumph of the Gulf War, and beyond.” —Robert M. Farley, author of GroundedThe U.S. Air Force’s poor performance in Operation Linebacker II and other missions during Vietnam was partly due to the fact that they had trained their pilots according to methods devised during World War II and the Korean War, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

    **An NPR 2023 "Books We Love" Pick • A Food & Wine Best Food of 2023 • A Financial Times Best Food and Drink Book of 2023 • One of Smithsonian's Ten Best Books About Food of 2023The world’s most sophisticated gastronomic culture, brilliantly presented through a banquet of thirty Chinese dishes.**Chinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese laborers began to settle abroad, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Midnight in Chernobyl

    The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

    A New York Times Best Book of the YearA Time Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence WinnerOne of NPR’s Best Books of 2019Journalist Adam Higginbotham’s definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster—and a powerful in... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD $3.99 USD

  • Sonic Overload

    Alfred Schnittke, Valentin Silvestrov, and Polystylism in the Late USSR

    Sonic Overload offers a new, music-centered cultural history of the late Soviet Union. It focuses on polystylism in music as a response to the information overload swamping listeners in the Soviet Union during its final decades. It traces the ways in which leading composers Alfred Schnittke and Valentin Silvestrov initially embraced popular sources before ultimately rejecting them. Polystylism ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Producing Guanxi

    Sentiment, Self, and Subculture in a North China Village

    Throughout China the formation of guanxi, or social connections, involves friends, families, colleagues, and acquaintances in complex networks of social support and sentimental attachment. Focusing on this process in one rural north China village, Fengjia, Andrew Kipnis shows what guanxi production reveals about the evolution of village political economy, kinship and gender, and local patterns of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Smoke and Ashes

    Opium's Hidden Histories

    by Amitav Ghosh ...
    Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Foreign Policy, Literary Hub, and The MillionsGhosh unravels the impact of the opium trade on global history and in his own family―the climax of a yearslong project.When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to learn how the lives of the nineteenth-century sailors and soldiers he wrote about ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War

    by Zhuqing Li ...
    **A BookBrowse Best Nonfiction for Book Clubs in 2024“Exceptional…[A] gripping narrative of one family divided by the ‘bamboo curtain.’” —Deirdre Mask, New York Times Book ReviewSisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation, and their own independence.**Jun and Hong were scions of a once great southern Chinese family. Each other’s best friend, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD $13.99 USD

  • Chinese Empresses

    Series series Asian Voices
    Chinese Empresses highlights the stories of Chinese imperial women and how male authorities attempted to curb their power. It disputes the notion that Chinese empresses were simply hapless or powerless victims of the male-dominated political system.This book is not a compendium of biographies of Chinese empress. The objective is more fundamental. By analyzing details from the lives of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Birth of the Geopolitical Age

    Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China

    From the 1850s until the mid-twentieth century, a period marked by global conflicts and anxiety about dwindling resources and closing opportunities after decades of expansion, the frontier became a mirror for historically and geographically specific hopes and fears. From Asia to Europe and the Americas, countries around the world engaged with new interpretations of empire and the deployment of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Gulag

    A History

    PULITZER PRIZE **WINNER • This magisterial and acclaimed history offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost.“A tragic testimony to how evil ideologically inspired dictatorships can be.” –The New York Times**The Gulag—a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Dead Mountain

    The True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

    by Donnie Eichar ...
    In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident—unexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open and fled the tent without proper clothing or shoes, a strange final photograph taken by one of the hikers, and elevated levels of radiation found on some of their clothes ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Collapse

    The Fall of the Soviet Union

    A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to its demiseIn 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four-million strong, five-thousand nuclear-tipped missiles, and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world. But soon afterward the union sank into an economic ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Class Theory and History

    Capitalism and Communism in the USSR

    Class Theory and History takes an ambitious and ground-breaking look at the entire history of the Soviet Union and presents a new kind of analysis of the history of the USSR: examining its birth, evolution, and death in class terms. Utilizing the class analytics they have developed over the last three decades, resnick and Wolff formulate the most fully developed economic theory of communism now ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991

    On 26 December, 1991, the hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin for the last time. Yet, just six years earlier, when Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and chose Eduard Shevardnadze as his foreign minister, the Cold War seemed like a permanent fixture in world politics. Until its denouement, no Western or Soviet politician foresaw ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Lenin's Tomb

    The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by David Remnick ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeOne of the Best Books of the Year: The New York TimesFrom the editor of The New Yorker: a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become the standard book on the subject. Lenin’s Tomb combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism. Remnick takes us through the tumultuous 75-year period of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • History of the Philippines

    From Indios Bravos to Filipinos

    The story of this nation of over seven thousand islands, f****rom ancient Malay settlements to Spanish colonization, the American occupation, and beyond.A History of the Philippines recasts various Philippine narratives with an eye for the layers of colonial and post-colonial history that have created this diverse and fascinating population. It begins with the pre-Westernized Philippines in the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Spy Who Knew Too Much

    An Ex-CIA Officer's Quest Through a Legacy of Betrayal

    by Howard Blum ...
    “Howard Blum writes history books that read like thrillers.”—New York TimesA retired spy gets back into the game to solve a perplexing case—and reconcile with his daughter, a CIA officer who married into the very family that derailed his own CIA career—in this compulsive true-life tale of vindication and redemption, filled with drama, intrigue, and mystery from the New York Times bestselling ... Read more

    $15.99 USD