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The Thistle And The Jade
$35.00 AUD
Author: Maggie Keswick (ed.)Binding: HardbackPublished: Octopus Books London, 1982Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book celebrates 150 years of Jardine, Matheson & Co., a company with...
The Viceroys Of India
$35.00 AUD
Author: Mark Bence-JonesBinding: HardbackPublished: Constable, London, 1982Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book delves into the history of British rule in India through the lives and tenures...
The Life Of Two Valleys In The Bronze Age: Rock Art In The Altai Mountains Of Mongolia
$60.00 AUD
Author: Esther Jacobson-TepferBinding: SoftbackPublished: Luminare Press, OR, 2019Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book delves into the rock art found in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia,...
No Alternative
$30.00 AUD
Author: D. R. ElstonBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson, 1960Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book, titled "No Alternative: Israel Observed," delves into the compelling narrative of the...
Maybe A Second Spring
$15.00 AUD
Author: Edward FischerBinding: SoftbackPublished: Crossroad, 1983Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book tells the story of the Missionary Sisters of St. Columban in China. It delves into...
A Soaring Spirit: TimeFrame 600-400 BC
$20.00 AUD
Author: Time-Life BooksBinding: HardbackPublished: Time-Life Books, Alexandria, VA, 1988Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores a period of significant cultural and political evolution, focusing on the...
A History Of Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979)
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Author: Khamboly DyBinding: SoftbackPublished: Documentation Center of Cambodia, 2007Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book delves into the history of Democratic Kampuchea, offering a detailed account of...
Australian Tv: The First 25 Years
$25.00 AUD
Author: Peter BeilbyBinding: SoftbackPublished: Thomas Nelson, Australia, 1981Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the history of Australian television during its first 25 years. It delves...
The Plum-Rain Scroll
$80.00 AUD
Author: Ruth ManleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Hodder & Stoughton, Lane Cove, NSW, 1979Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book appears to be a children's story set in a fantastical...
South Asia: A Short History
$20.00 AUD
Author: Hugh TinkerBinding: HardbackPublished: F.W. Cheshire, 1966Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis concise exploration delves into the historical narrative of South Asia, offering insights into its diverse...
Air War Against Japan 1943-1945
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Author: George OdgersBinding: HardbackPublished: Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1957Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis book delves into the strategic and tactical aspects of the air war fought...
Inside Asia
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Author: John GuntherBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton, 1939Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book, authored by the writer of Inside Europe, delves into the intricate tapestry...
The Soldiers' Story The Battle At Xa Long Tan Vietnam, 18 August 1966
$50.00 AUD
Author: Terry BurstallBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Queensland Press, 1986Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book vividly recounts the intense Battle of Xa Long Tan, which took...
Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920
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Author: Thomas C. SmithBinding: HardbackPublished: University of California Press, 1988Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book explores the economic and social transformation of Japan during its industrialization period from...
Unit 731: Japanese Army's Secret of Secrets
$100.00 AUD
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24 Hours in Ancient China: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived
Spend 24 hours with the ancient Chinese. The year is AD 17. The Han dynasty is in power and we are in and around Chang'an, the capital and one of...
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict
Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between the beginning of the Opium...
The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy
The New India is the unforgettable account of the struggle between modern forces and ancient ideas to shape the young country's destiny. It reveals a picture of a nation on...
The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy
The New India is the unforgettable account of the struggle between modern forces and ancient ideas to shape the young country's destiny. It reveals a picture of a nation on...
Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century
A definitive and ambitious new history of the Indian subcontinent - this is Tony Judt's Postwar for South Asia Shadows at Noon is an ambitious synthesis of decades of research...
The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy
This is a book of narrative reportage six years in the making. It describes how ideology and technological ambition have reshaped India's nascent democracy and follows a diverse cast of...
Great State: China and the World
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The Coasts of India
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The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
How the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the balance of world power in the Middle Ages For centuries, the Crusades have been central to the story of the...
Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse: The True Story of a Woman Who Risked Everything to Bring Hope to Afghanistan
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Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar
$22.50 AUD
One of Library Journal 's "Best Arts Books of 2020" The definitive biography of Ravi Shankar, one of the most influential musicians and composers of the twentieth century, told with...
A Brief History of Khubilai Khan
His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of authority, Khubilai snatched the position of Great Khan, becoming...
Nehru: The Debates that Defined India
'An important contribution ... Delving lucidly into the most significant ideological battles of the era, this book deftly outlines the thinking and dialogue that laid the foundations of the Republic...
The Hong Kong Diaries
The diaries of the last British Governor, published on the 25th anniversary of the handover In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to...
Boys in Zinc
Mesmerizing, haunting stories from the Soviet-Afghan War collected by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan...
Wild Grass: China's Revolution from Below
A compelling history of Chinese resistance to state oppression, told through the stories of three remarkable individuals In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize-winning Ian Johnson describes a China caught between the...
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives
Two thousand years of Japanese history, told through interconnected portraits of twenty fascinating individuals Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils Japan's long, complex and fascinating history into the stories...
The Martyr and the Red Kimono: A Fearless Priest's Sacrifice and A New
The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, his sacrifice in Auschwitz, and the two men in war-torn Japan whose lives he changed forever The remarkable true story of Saint...
The Golden Throne: The Curse of a King
An immersive reconstruction of the life of the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century, from the author of The Lion House Istanbul, 1538. The greatest of the...
The Taiwan Story: How a Small Island Will Dictate the Global Future
In this urgent book, we learn why a small island in the East China Sea will be central to the world's future An urgent, indispensable guide to why Taiwan matters...
The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience
A panoramic social history chronicling the lives of hundreds of British people of all classes in the most important territory of the British Empire The British in this book lived...
The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great
The crucial book for understanding modern China, now updated to include the rule of Xi Jinping In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to...
Great Game On: The contest for Central Asia and Global Supremacy
Great Game On is the story of the remaking of the world order. Historically, China has sought its security by building dominant relationships with pliant states that accept its pre-eminence....
Mao: The Unknown Story
The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang and her husband, Jon Halliday. The most authoritative life of Mao ever written,...
Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future
An inspiring testament to China's dissident historians and activists, from the 1940s to the present A documentary filmmaker who uncovered a Mao-era death camp; an independent journalist who gave voice...
On China
The legendary ex-US Secretary of State on the world's foremost emerging superpower In 1971 Henry Kissinger took the historic step of reopening relations between China and the West, and since...
The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon
The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's pre-eminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East' The Sassoons were one of the great business dynasties of...
India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765
A magisterial history of the Indian subcontinent The Indian subcontinent might seem a self-contained world. Protected by vast mountains and seas, it has created its own religions, philosophies and social...
Barbarians at the Wall: The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of
The untold story of the first nomadic empire and the making of China. 'Man does for the reader that most difficult of tasks- he conjures up an ancient people in...
Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East
The untold story of one of WW2's most extraordinary and significant battles which marked the turning of the tide of the war in the jungles of Burma 'A thrilling blow-by-blow...
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking
Viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress, the Victorian period was experienced by Asians as a catastrophe. Pankaj Mishra's provocative account of how China, India and the...
A New Voyage Round the World
A magical, substantially true narrative of piracy, zoology, anthropology, danger and adventure in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, Pacific and East Indies The first great English-language travel book, A New Voyage Round...
Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival
A both definitive and highly enjoyable book on how modern Japan works - now fully updated to 2020 and the new 'Reiwa' Era Despite years of stagnation, Japan remains one...