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Over sixteen extraordinary days in October and November 1956, the twin crises of Suez and Hungary pushed the world to the brink of a nuclear conflict and what many at...

"China Witness" is an extraordinary work of oral history that illuminates the diverse ways in which the Chinese perceive and understand their own history. Xinran, the acclaimed author of "The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew artistic traditions rival the breathtaking elegance and philosophical depth of Japan's visual heritage, and Japanese Art: 110 Full Colour Illustrations presents a stunning...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the twelfth century, a Jewish merchant from the town of Tudela in northern Spain embarked on one of the most extraordinary journeys of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the vast, sun-scorched deserts of Central Asia, a vanished city holds the secrets of an entire civilisation...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the crossroads of faith, culture, and spiritual inquiry stands Along the Indian Road, a profound testament to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn a twentieth century defined by political upheaval and ideological warfare, few lives stand as a more extraordinary testament to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the sliding screens and lacquered thresholds of the traditional Japanese household lies a world of intricate ritual and layered meaning — Ceremony and...

Edition: 2nd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the heart of Theravāda Buddhist scholarship lies the Abhidhammattha Sangaha, an eleventh-century compendium by Ācariya Anuruddha that systematically maps...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodSet against the turbulent backdrop of 1862 feudal Japan, Gai-Jin — meaning foreigner or outsider in Japanese — plunges readers into a world of...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn postwar Japan, where the relentless march of modernity has buried the gentler world of the past, When...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when satire and surrealism collide in the shadow of totalitarianism? The Adventures of Sumiyakist Q is...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: pages can have notes and/or underlining in grey lead; In the shadowy nexus where political power and public money collide,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the first French gunboats that shelled Da Nang in 1847 to the grinding quagmire of American military...

Edition: 1st aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the trembling aftermath of Mao Zedong's death, a nation of nearly one billion people stood at a crossroads — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the crossroads of empire and identity, Separate and Unequal: India and the Indians in the British Commonwealth 1920-1950 presents a meticulously...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew Western writers have penetrated the soul of Japan as deeply, or as tenderly, as Lafcadio...

Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it, then, that today the former British colonial trading post is a thriving...

In this newly revised edition of their classic work, Mason and Caiger trace the enthralling evolution of modern Japan from its early pre-history through the post-Cold War period to the...

This Pulitzer-prize-winning and National Book Critics Circle award-winning rich and powerful biography is now given fresh relevance with a new introduction by the author that explores how Hirohito's legacy persists...

Internationally renowned samurai expert Dr Stephen Turnbull delves into a pivotal era of Japanese history in this highly illustrated account of The Gempei War, a conflict that defined the age...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: fep clipped Few business stories rival the audacity and vision behind Sony's rise from the rubble of postwar Japan to become one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew artistic traditions carry the weight of centuries with such grace and discipline as Japanese painting, and Kenji...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of history's most transformative figures speaks in his own voice in An Autobiography: or The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the rain-slicked streets and serene temple gardens of modern Japan, Superintendent Tetsuo Otani of the Hyogo Prefectural Police finds himself entangled...

Inglorious Empire tells the real story of the British in India - from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj - and reveals how...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFew accounts in the history of world literature have fired the imagination quite like The Travels of Marco Polo, the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the meditative caves of India to the mystical courts of ancient China, Oriental Mystics and Magicians transports readers into the hidden world of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the harrowing theatre of the Pacific War, one Australian soldier's story stands as a testament...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of the Cold War, when the ideological machinery of the Chinese Communist Party...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA cornerstone of Southeast Asian linguistic scholarship, An Indonesian-English Dictionary by John M. Echols and Hassan Shadily stands as the...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhen the Empire of Japan cast its shadow across the Pacific, Australia found itself on the front line...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the elegant, ceremonious world of contemporary Japan, where tradition and modernity exist in uneasy tension, Superintendent Tetsuo Otani of the Hyogo...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; faded spine; creased cornersBehind the bamboo curtain, a nation of one billion souls struggles beneath the weight...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedThere is a moment in every season — a heron poised above still water, frost tracing the edge of a fallen leaf, moonlight dissolving...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the smoldering ruins of the 1948 War of Independence to the thunderous tank battles of the Yom Kippur War, Arab-Israeli Wars presents a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSoaring high above ancient temples and modern city squares alike, the art of kite-making stands as one of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA treasure trove for collectors, scholars, and enthusiasts alike, Asian Art presents the distinguished holdings of one of...

This illustrated study investigates the Indo-Islamic fighting men of South Asia from the 7th century AD to the Mughal conquest of the 16th century. From 1206, much of what is...

North Korea is perhaps the most intriguing, infamous and enigmatic nation of our modern world. Yet how many of us know its full history, and how it came to be?...

Despite communist incursions and tribal insurrection, Norman Lewis describes a land of breath-taking natural beauty peopled by the gentle Burmese. This is a country where Buddhist beliefs spare even the...

An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Truth...

' John Keay is the master storyteller and historian. This grand narrative of Himalaya is as epic as the mountains and peoples he describes' Dan Snow 'Adds the human element...

On 14-15 May 1905, in the Tsushima Straits near Japan, an entire Russian fleet was annihilated, its ships sunk, scattered, or captured by the Japanese. It was among the top...

China's rise to superpower is seemingly a modern phenomenon, but it has a long history. This book follows China's geopolitical transformation on the world stage, from struggling to defend herself...

The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China...