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The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives
Author: Christopher Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Two thousand years of Japanese history, told through interconnected portraits of twenty fascinating individuals Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils...
India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765
Author: Richard M. Eaton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A magisterial history of the Indian subcontinent The Indian subcontinent might seem a self-contained world. Protected by vast...
Mao: The Unknown Story
Author: Jon Halliday Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans and her husband Jung...
Barbarians at the Wall: The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of China
Author: John Man Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The untold story of the first nomadic empire and the making of China. 'Man does for the reader that...
The Battle of Long Tan
Author: David W. Cameron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A compelling account of Australia's bloodiest and most significant battle of the Vietnam War, in time for the...
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
Author: Jung Chang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A major new biography from the internationally bestselling author of Wild Swans, Mao and Empress Dowager Cixi- a gripping...
The Mongol Empire: Genghis Khan, his heirs and the founding of modern China
Author: John Man Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The untold story of the world's greatest empire and the creation of modern China Genghis Khan is one of...
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Author: Sujatha Gidla Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Like one in six people in India, Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable. While most untouchables are illiterate, her family was...
Tibet: Turning the Wheel of Life
Author: Francoise Pommaret Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Tibet has come to be synonymous with spirituality. It seems that the many hardships endured by the Tibetans -...
The Book of Tea
Author: Kakuzo Okakura Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 First time in Penguin Classics for this Japanese work dedicated to the art of drinking tea - and much...
Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968
Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Mailer's masterful account of the 1968 presidential conventions, a snapshot of sixties turbulence. Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War...
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel / The Novel as History
Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Mailer's classic account of the 1967 anti-Vietnam War rally in Washington D.C., and one of the best 'nonfiction novels'...
Photo Nomad
Author: David Douglas Duncan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: The legendary photographs of David Douglas Duncan explore the broad range of human nature, from the most quiet notes of life...
On the Margins of Southwest Asia: Cyprus during the 6th to 4th Millennia BC
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Author: Joanne Clarke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 This book examines social change in Cyprus during the 6th to 4th millennia BC; a period that is traditionally viewed as...
Lesser Dragons Minority Peoples of China
Author: Michael Dillon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Lesser Dragons is a timely introduction to the fascinating and complex world of China's `national minorities'. Based on detailed research, including...
Vietnam Diary
Author: Mark Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Leigh and Jason are inseparable. But when Jason is conscripted and sent to fight in Vietnam, they are divided...