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A Collector's Journey: Modern Painting In Indonesia
$100.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Very good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Tight and secure. A landmark bilingual volume published in both English and...
China And Inner Asia: From 1368 To The Present Day
$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Faded spine. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact. China and Inner Asia: From 1368 to the Present...
Japan Enemy Or Ally?
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition, some fading. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Binding intact. In the turbulent aftermath...
The Coast Of Incense: Autobiography 1933-1939
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Binding intact, some wear. At a time when few...
Foreign Mud
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed, some moisture stains on block. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Good. In the smoky trading houses of Canton in...
Common Sense Series: Common Sense About Russia; Common Sense About China; Common Sense About Africa; Common Sense About India
$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good/Fair. Jacket: Wear and tear on dust jackets across all four volumes, with some fading and minor edge wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding...
The Lost World Of Irian Jaya
$100.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears, chipping at corners. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good, rubbing on edges. Few places on Earth have retained...
Chinese Encounters
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. At a time when China was only just beginning to open its...
Jades From China
$80.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Very good.. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact. Usual shelf-wear. Few materials in human history have commanded the reverence, artistry, and...
Jades From China
$80.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: very good. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact. Few materials have captivated a civilisation as profoundly as jade has captivated China...
Japońska Broń Pancerna: Japanese Armor Vol. 4
$200.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Paperback Secondhand book: generally 'Very Good' to 'Excellent'. These are books which may have some slight wear and tear or sun fading on the edges. There may be...
Japońska Broń Pancerna / Japanese Armor: Vol. 5
$200.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Paperback Secondhand book: generally 'Very Good' to 'Excellent'. These are books which may have some slight wear and tear or sun fading on the edges. There may be...
The Art And Architecture Of China
$40.00 AUD
Edition: 3rd ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. Slipcase included. Few civilisations have produced an...
Armenian Art Treasures Of Jerusalem
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: good with some shelf wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: unmrkd. Binding condition: Tight and secure. In the heart of Jerusalem, within the ancient walls...
The Art And Architecture Of India: Buddhist · Hindu · Jain
$20.00 AUD
Edition: 3rd pr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: Ex-library with usual markings (library stamp visible on title page). Binding condition: Binding intact. Few...
Lotus Fragrance: 菡萏逸香
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsUnknown
The Soviet Union In Asia
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previous owner annotations.A rigorous work of political and historical analysis, The Soviet Union in Asia examines the USSR's...
Macarthur's Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who
On January 2, 1942, Japanese troops marched into Manila unopposed by U.S. forces commanded by General Douglas MacArthur. Manila was a strategic port, a romantic American outpost and a jewel...
The Great Heist: China's Epic Campaign to Steal America's Secrets
A definitive, headline-making expose of how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has carried out the largest-scale theft of intellectual property, technology, and data in history-reshaping the global balance of power...
Red Flags: Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy
A trusted economic commentator provides a penetrating account of the threats to China's continued economic rise Under President Xi Jinping, China has become a large and confident power both at...
To Sandakan: The Diaries of Charlie Johnstone, Prisoner of War 1942-45
$30.00 AUD
Today little evidence remains of the prisoners of war who once so desperately clung to life at the 8 Mile Camp at Sandakan in North Borneo. To Sandakan is Charlie...
Chinese and Any Other Asian: Exploring East and South East Asian
'Chinese' or 'Any other Asian'. The boxes that people of vastly varied East and South East Asian heritage have to tick when declaring their ethnicity on many forms in the...
The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia
James Bradley introduces us to the prominent Americans--including FDR's grandfather, Warren Delano--who in the 1800s made their fortunes in the China opium trade. Meanwhile, American missionaries sought a myth: noble...
At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China: FINALIST FOR
FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2025 'A brilliant personal account of China's borderlands and peoples' Francis Fukuyama 'Edward Wong is about as knowledgeable a guide to China as a reader...
Never Plan Tomorrow: The Saga of the Bataan Death March and Battle of
$50.00 AUD
The book titled Never Plan Tomorrow: The Saga of the Bataan Death March and Battle of by the author Joseph A Petak. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us...
The Interrogators: Task Force 500 and America's Secret War Against Al
$12.00 AUD
An unprecedented look at the front line of the war against terror: the inside story of five American interrogators, thousands of prisoners, and the race for the truth. More than...
The Ottomans
The author teases out those qualities which were uniquely Ottoman - not Turkish, not Middle Eastern or even a shadowy echo of the West, they were born warriors from the...
The Memorial Feast for Koekoetoey Khan: A Kirghiz Epic Poem in the
An ancient Central Asian epic, passed down through generations, carries the reader into a world of nomads, warriors and horselords 'Manas the brave is arriving! One flash of rage by...
Six Records of a Floating Life
A beautiful, intimate memoir from the time of the Ch'ing Dynasty in China Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social...
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams is a unique autobiography in which the anonymous writer known as Lady Sarashina intersperses personal reflections, anecdotes and lyrical poems with accounts of...
Sandakan: A Conspiracy of Silence
$40.00 AUD
The story of the Sandakan prisoner of war camp during the closing years of World War II. Of the 1793 Australian and 641 British servicemen held in the North Borneo...
Timor 1942: Australian Commandos at War with the Japanese
The book titled Timor 1942: Australian Commandos at War with the Japanese by the author Christopher C.H. Wray. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence (The Official V&A
The Great Moghuls presents for the first time the opulent, internationalist culture of Moghul Hindustan in the age of its greatest emperors: Akbar (r. 1556-1605), Jahangir (r. 1605-1627) and Shah...
Never Surrender: Dramatic Escapes From Japanese Prison Camps
While there have been many fine books covering escapes from German POW camps (The Wooden Horse, Great Escape, Colditz etc), the exploits of those POWs in Japanese captivity have been...
China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower
'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times 'A pulsating account' Peter Frankopan *A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR* How did the People's Republic of China transform from a backwater...
Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
' Riveting. This highly readable and entertaining book ... finally sets the record straight on the history of the Koh-i-Noor ' Tarquin Hall, Sunday Times ' Dynamic, original and supremely...
Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 'Beautifully written, ridiculously erudite, warm and open-hearted' The Times 'Compelling and poignant' Guardian 'This is travel writing at its best' Observer Internationally bestselling William...
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR...
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976
Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing' , this is the final volume of 'The People's Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winning Mao's Great Famine. After the...
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating
WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'A gripping and masterful portrait of the brutal court of Mao, based on new research but also written with great narrative verve' Simon Sebag...
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution
In 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City. Instead of liberating the country, the communists destroyed the old order and replaced it with a repressive system...
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2013 'As taut and richly embroidered as a great novel . . . a masterpiece' Sunday Telegraph 'Dazzling' Sunday Times | 'Magnificent' Guardian |...
The Last Mughal: The Fall of Delhi, 1857
On a dark evening in November 1862, a cheap coffin is buried in eerie silence. There are no lamentations or panegyrics, for the British Commissioner in charge has insisted, 'No...
Making a Moral Society: Ethics and the State in Meiji Japan
This innovative study of ethics in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) explores the intense struggle to define a common morality for the emerging nation-state. In the Social Darwinist atmosphere of the time,...
Indira Gandhi and the Years that Transformed India
The gripping story of Indira Gandhi's premiership-and the profound influence she had on India Indira Gandhi's ascent as prime minister of India in 1966 was entirely unforeseen. But she soon...
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan
A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan "Eloquently discusses the making of India and Pakistan after British rule on the subcontinent...
December 7th, 1941: Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor
The book titled December 7th, 1941: Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor by the author Gordon W. Prange. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
China's Philological Turn: Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the
In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. Its practitioners were preoccupied with the reliability of sources as evidence for restoring ancient texts...