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  • Georgia

    In the Mountains of Poetry

    by Peter Nasmyth ...
    “Elegiac, quirky, readable, deeply knowledgeable . . . The best cultural-historical introduction to that tempestuous land,” the Georgian republic. (Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs)Georgia has been called the world’s most beautiful country, yet little is known about it beyond its borders. This topical and vital book by Peter Nasmyth, the “ideal chronicler” (Literary Review) is the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Tibetan History Reader

    Edited by Gray Tuttle, Kurtis Schaeffer ...
    Covering the social, cultural, and political development of Tibet from the seventh century to the modern period, this resource reproduces essential, hard-to-find essays from the past fifty years of Tibetan studies, along with several new contributions. Beginning with Tibet's emergence as a regional power and concluding with its profound contemporary transformations, the collection is both a ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Mongols: A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Mongols carved out the largest land-based empire in world history, stretching from Korea to Russia in the north and from China to Syria in the south, and unleashing an unprecedented level of violence. But as Morris Rossabi reveals in this Very Short Introduction, within two generations of their bloody conquests, the Mongols evolved from conquerors ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Afghanistan

    A Military History from the Ancient Empires to the Great Game

    Afghanistan: A Military History from the Ancient Empires to the Great Game covers the military history of a region encompassing Afghanistan, Central and South Asia, and West Asia, over some 2,500 years. This is the first comprehensive study in any language published on the millennia-long competition for domination and influence in one of the key regions of the Eurasian continent.Jalali’s work ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Mysteries of the Gobi

    Searching for Wild Camels and Lost Cities in the Heart of Asia

    by John Hare ...
    John Hare is a star author and one of the most well-known explorers of his generation. The Gobi is a perennially fascinating part of the world - a desert that people love to read about. China, the environment/natural world, exploration and discovery: broad and topical appeal.The Gobi is the largest, coldest and driest desert in Asia. Its shifting sands conceal ancient cities, 3,000-year-old ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Great Gamble

    The Soviet War in Afghanistan

    An account of the USSR’s defeat in Afghanistan drawing on many interviews with Soviet veterans: “Fascinating. . . . A highly readable history of the conflict.” —The New York Times Book ReviewIn this groundbreaking account of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, former NPR Moscow correspondent Gregory Feifer vividly depicts the war that contributed greatly to the demise of the USSR, and that offers ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia

    Series Book 8 - New Approaches to Asian History
    Religious ideas and actors have shaped Asian cultural practices for millennia and have played a decisive role in charting the course of its history. In this engaging and informative book, Thomas David DuBois sets out to explain how religion has influenced the political, social, and economic transformation of Asia from the fourteenth century to the present. Crossing a broad terrain from Tokyo to ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Vietnam Wars 1945-1990

    by Marilyn Young ...
    The first book to give equal weight to the Vietnamese and American sides of the Vietnam war. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • When The War Was Over

    Cambodia And The Khmer Rouge Revolution

    Award-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker started covering Cambodia in 1973 for The Washington Post, when the country was perceived as little more than a footnote to the Vietnam War. Then, with the rise of the Khmer Rouge in 1975 came the closing of the border and a systematic reorganization of Cambodian society. Everyone was sent from the towns and cities to the countryside, where they were ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Caucasus

    A History

    by James Forsyth ...
    A fascinating new survey of the Caucasus which provides a unified narrative history of this complex and turbulent region at the borderlands of Europe, Asia and the Middle East, from prehistory to the present. For thousands of years the Caucasus has formed a hub of intersecting routes of migration, invasion, trade and culture and a geographical bridge between Europe and Asia, subject to recurring ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Historia de Bali: Una guía fascinante sobre la historia de Bali y el impacto que esta isla ha tenido en la historia de Indonesia y del sudeste asiático

    Descubra la magia de la isla indonesia de Bali en este fascinante libro sobre su historia, desde los orígenes de la formación geológica de Bali hasta los tiempos modernos.Bali es conocida como "la Isla de los Dioses", con sus decenas de miles de templos y santuarios que se remontan a más de un milenio de los exóticos imperios indios de Java que influyeron enormemente en Bali. Aunque fue testigo de ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sovietistan

    by Erika Fatland ...
    Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the Soviet Union in 1991. But though they are new to modern statehood, this is a region rich in ancient history, culture, and landscapes unlike anywhere else in the world. Traveling alone, Erika Fatland is a true adventurer in every sense. In Sovietistan, she takes the reader on a compassionate and insightful journey ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Wish Lanterns

    Young Lives in New China

    by Alec Ash ...
    “Ash’s book paints a telling portrait of this most restless generation raised in a system that has provided them with unprecedented personal opportunities while denying them political ones . . . A gifted observer.”—Washington PostIf China will rule the world one day, who will rule China? There are more than 320 million Chinese between the ages of sixteen and thirty. Children of the one-child ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Middle Imperial China, 900–1350

    A New History

    by Linda Walton ...
    Series series New Approaches to Asian History
    In this highly readable and engaging work, Linda Walton presents a dynamic survey of China's history from the tenth through the mid-fourteenth centuries from the founding of the Song dynasty through the Mongol conquest when Song China became part of the Mongol Empire and Marco Polo made his famous journey to the court of the Great Khan. Adopting a thematic approach, she highlights the political, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Journeys on the Silk Road

    A Desert Explorer, Buddha's Secret Library, and the Unearthing of the World's Oldest Printed Book

    When a Chinese monk broke into a hidden cave in 1900, he uncovered one of the world’s great literary secrets: a time capsule from the ancient Silk Road. Inside, scrolls were piled from floor to ceiling, undisturbed for a thousand years. The gem within was the Diamond Sutra of AD 868. This key Buddhist teaching, made 500 years before Gutenberg inked his press, is the world’s oldest printed book.The ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Eccentric Explorers

    Eccentric Explorers was Winner of the Biographycategory at the 2009 Indie Excellence Book Awards, California, USA. In this extensively researched book, the rich culture and history of Tibet are viewed through a rather special lens--through the eyes of ten wild and wacky adventurers, each bent on unlocking the strange riddles and secrets of Tibet. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Horde

    How the Mongols Changed the World

    Cundill Prize FinalistA Financial Times Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearA Five Books Book of the YearThe Mongols are known for one thing: conquest. But in this first comprehensive history of the Horde, the western portion of the Mongol empire that arose after the death of Chinggis Khan, Marie Favereau takes us inside one of the most powerful engines of economic integration in world ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Japan: A Documentary History

    A Documentary History

    by David J. Lu ...
    An updated edition of David Lu's acclaimed "Sources of Japanese History", this book presents in a student-friendly format original Japanese documents from Japan's mythological beginnings through 1995. Covering the full spectrum of political, economic, diplomatic as well as cultural and intellectual history, this classroom resource offers insight not only into the past but also into Japan's ... Read more

    $230.99 USD

  • Chop Suey, USA

    The Story of Chinese Food in America

    by Yong Chen ...
    Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
    American diners began to flock to Chinese restaurants more than a century ago, making Chinese food the first mass-consumed cuisine in the United States. By 1980, it had become the country's most popular ethnic cuisine. Chop Suey, USA offers the first comprehensive interpretation of the rise of Chinese food, revealing the forces that made it ubiquitous in the American gastronomic landscape and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Searching for the Amazons

    by John Man ...
    Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting, horse-riding female warriors. Equal to men in battle, legends claimed they cut off their right breasts to improve their archery skills and routinely killed their male children to purify their ranks.For centuries people believed in their existence and attempted to trace their ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War: July 1937-May 1942

    “A sweeping epic.… Promises to do for the war in the Pacific what Rick Atkinson did for Europe.” —James M. Scott, author of RampageIn 1937, the swath of the globe east from India to the Pacific Ocean encompassed half the world’s population. Japan’s onslaught into China that year unleashed a tidal wave of events that fundamentally transformed this region and killed about twenty-five million people. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Mongols and the Islamic World

    From Conquest to Conversion

    by Peter Jackson ...
    An epic historical consideration of the Mongol conquest of Western Asia and the spread of Islam during the years of non-Muslim rule The Mongol conquest of the Islamic world began in the early thirteenth century when Genghis Khan and his warriors overran Central Asia and devastated much of Iran. Distinguished historian Peter Jackson offers a fresh and fascinating consideration of the years of ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Was Dropping the Atomic Bombs a Crime Against Humanity?

    Insights from Harry S. Truman and Franklin D. Roosevelt

    by Ryuho Okawa ...
    Was there any true justification for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? To answer to this question, Master Ryuho Okawa conducted spiritual interviews with Harry S. Truman and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the two presidents who presided over the United States’ participation in World War II. Could anything justify the use of nuclear weapons on civilians? Was Pearl Harbor really a sneak attack, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Social History of Agriculture

    From the Origins to the Current Crisis

    This innovative text provides a compelling narrative world history through the lens of food and farmers. Tracing the history of agriculture from earliest times to the present, Christopher Isett and Stephen Millerargue that people, rather than markets, have been the primary agents of agricultural change. Exploring the actions taken by individuals and groups over time and analyzing their activities ... Read more

    $50.99 USD