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The Idea of India: 20th Anniversary Edition

The Idea of India: 20th Anniversary Edition

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Author: Sunil Khilnani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A classic since it was first published in 1997, The Idea of India is a magisterial historical study that...
The Things They Carried

The Things They Carried

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Author: Tim O'Brien Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. 'The...
Barbarians at the Wall: The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of China

Barbarians at the Wall: The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of China

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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 Book of Tea

The Book of Tea

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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...
The Little Book of Zen: Sayings, Parables, Meditations & Haiku

The Little Book of Zen: Sayings, Parables, Meditations & Haiku

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Author: David Schiller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 372 Updated, revised, with a new cover, new trim size, and illustrations throughout, the national bestseller The Little Zen Companion,...
Empire of the Indus

Empire of the Indus

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Author: Alice Albinia Format: Paperback Number of Pages:   One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains, flows west across northern India and...
The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan

The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan

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Author: Elliot Ackerman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 A Times Political Book of the Year 2022 A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in...
Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front

Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front

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Author: Mary Jennings Hegar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 On July 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary Jennings 'MJ' Hegar was shot down while on a...
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

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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...
Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist

Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist

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The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present, Third Edition

The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present, Third Edition

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Author: Jonathan Fenby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 The crucial book for understanding modern China, now updated to include the rule of Xi Jinping. In 1850, China...
Ground Truth: 3 Para Return to Afghanistan

Ground Truth: 3 Para Return to Afghanistan

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The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel / The Novel as History

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel / The Novel as History

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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'...
Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968

Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968

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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...
From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East

From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East

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Author: Bernard Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 Bernard Lewis has charted the great centuries of Islamic power and civilisation but also, in his recent books WHAT WENT WRONG?...
Enlightenment and the Gasping City: Mongolian Buddhism at a Time of Environmental Disarray

Enlightenment and the Gasping City: Mongolian Buddhism at a Time of Environmental Disarray

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Author: Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 252 With air pollution now intimately affecting every resident of Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko seeks to understand...
No Easy Day: The Only First-hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden

No Easy Day: The Only First-hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden

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Ridding the Devils

Ridding the Devils

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Railways and The Raj: How the Age of Steam Transformed India

Railways and The Raj: How the Age of Steam Transformed India

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Author: Christian Wolmar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 India was the jewel in the crown of the British Empire, an Empire that needed a rail network to facilitate its...
Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia

Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia

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Author: Jeevan Vasagar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Lion City tells the extraordinary story of Singapore - the world's most successful city state. In 1965, Singapore's GDP per capita...
The Invitation-Only Zone: The Extraordinary Story of North Korea's Abduction Project

The Invitation-Only Zone: The Extraordinary Story of North Korea's Abduction Project

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Author: Robert S. Boynton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 During the 1970s and early 80s, dozens - perhaps hundreds - of Japanese civilians were kidnapped by North Korean commandos...
From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East

From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East

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Author: Bernard Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 Bernard Lewis has charted the great centuries of Islamic power and civilisation but also, in his recent books WHAT WENT WRONG?...
Frontline Pakistan: The Path to Catastrophe and the Killing of Benazir Bhutto

Frontline Pakistan: The Path to Catastrophe and the Killing of Benazir Bhutto

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House of Kwa

House of Kwa

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Author: Mimi Kwa Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Wild Swans meets Educated in this riveting true story spanning four generations 'Revelatory and remarkable' - TRENT DALTON 'Memorable and vivid'...
Buy Me the Sky: The remarkable truth of China's one-child generations

Buy Me the Sky: The remarkable truth of China's one-child generations

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A Lazy Man in China

A Lazy Man in China

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The Afghans

The Afghans

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The Reporter and the Warlords: An Australian at large in China's republican revolution

The Reporter and the Warlords: An Australian at large in China's republican revolution

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Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi

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Single Tear

Single Tear

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Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan

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A History of China

A History of China

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The Cage

The Cage

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Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples

Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples

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Living within: Yoga Approach to Psychological Health and Growth, Selections from the Works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

Living within: Yoga Approach to Psychological Health and Growth, Selections from the Works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

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Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom

Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom

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Author: Ramachandra Guha Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 'A narrative of startling originality ... As discussions of Britain's colonial legacy...
India: A Short History

India: A Short History

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In Spite Of The Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India

In Spite Of The Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India

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Tales By Japanese Soldiers

Tales By Japanese Soldiers

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Author: Kazuo Tamayama Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Here are straightforward accounts, sometimes moving, often shocking, of what it was like to fight a war in a strange country,...
Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. VOLUME 15, 1975

Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. VOLUME 15, 1975

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The Night of the New Moon

The Night of the New Moon

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Unceasing Worship

Unceasing Worship

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A Soldier Returns: A Long Tan Veteran Discovers the Other Side of Vietnam

A Soldier Returns: A Long Tan Veteran Discovers the Other Side of Vietnam

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Eastern Phoenix: Japan Since 1945

Eastern Phoenix: Japan Since 1945

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The Vietnam Days

The Vietnam Days

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Pakistan: Fifty Years Of Nationhood, Third Edition

Pakistan: Fifty Years Of Nationhood, Third Edition

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China's Dilemma: Economic Growth, the Environment and Climate Change

China's Dilemma: Economic Growth, the Environment and Climate Change

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