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Author: Nisha ParmarFormat: Hardback, 173mm x 247mm, 830g, 208 pagesPublished: Quadrille Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024'Nisha's food is so exciting and clever and takes me on an unexpected journey every...
The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805-1905

The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805-1905

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Thailand

Thailand

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Author: Pisit Charoenwongsa & Subhadradis Diskulbinding: HardbackPublished: Nagel, 1978Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book provides a comprehensive overview of Thailand, highlighting its culture, history,...
Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas

Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas

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Author: Romila Thaparbinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1963, reprinted from corrected sheets from the first impressionCondition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis authoritative work is based...
Thai Painting

Thai Painting

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Author: Boisselier, Jeanbinding: HardbackPublished: Kodansha International, 1976Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book offers a comprehensive look at the intricacies of Thai painting, showcasing its...
Asia: Traditions and Treasures

Asia: Traditions and Treasures

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Author: Walter Ashlin Fairservisbinding: HardbackPublished: Harry N. Abrams In Collaboration With The American Museum Of Natural History, 1981Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book explores...
Worm-Eaten Hinges: Tensions and Turmoil in Shanghai, 1988-9

Worm-Eaten Hinges: Tensions and Turmoil in Shanghai, 1988-9

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Author: Joan Grantbinding: SoftbackPublished: Hyland House, 1991Condition: book: Good, jacket: No dust jacket, page: Yellowed, markings: Signed with inscriptionThis book explores the political and social tensions in Shanghai during a...
Carrying Your Enemies on Your Shoulder: Indian Folk Wisdom from Tibet

Carrying Your Enemies on Your Shoulder: Indian Folk Wisdom from Tibet

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Author: Flickbinding: HardbackPublished: Indian Book Centre, 1996Condition: book: Fair, jacket: Wear and tear, page: Aging or marking, markings: No markingsThis book explores the rich tapestry of Indian folk wisdom, particularly...
A Witch-Hunt in an Indian Village

A Witch-Hunt in an Indian Village

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Author: Baileybinding: HardbackPublished: Delhi Oxford University Press, 1997Condition: book: Good, jacket: Wear and tear, page: Yellowed, markings: No markingsThis book explores the harrowing practice of witch-hunting in rural India, focusing...
The Great Reclamation: 'Every page pulses with mud and magic' Miranda Cowley Heller

The Great Reclamation: 'Every page pulses with mud and magic' Miranda Cowley Heller

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Author: Rachel Heng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 'Extraordinary . . . Every page pulses with mud and magic' Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace 'Alive to...
A History of India: v. 2

A History of India: v. 2

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The Economy of Modern India: From 1860 to the Twenty-First Century

The Economy of Modern India: From 1860 to the Twenty-First Century

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24 Hours in Ancient China: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There

24 Hours in Ancient China: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There

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Author: Yijie Zhuang Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Spend 24 hours with the ancient Chinese. Travel back to AD 17, during the fourth year of the reign of Wang...
Mr Selden's Map of China: The spice trade, a lost chart & the South China Sea

Mr Selden's Map of China: The spice trade, a lost chart & the South China Sea

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Author: Timothy Brook Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden,...
Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future

Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future

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Author: Chun Han Wong Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 'Compelling and informative... a useful gateway into [Xi Jinping's] mind' Rana Mitter, Literary Review From one of the most admired...
Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future

Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future

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Author: Chun Han Wong Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 'Compelling and informative... a useful gateway into [Xi Jinping's] mind' Rana Mitter, Literary Review From one of the most admired...
The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

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Author: Michiko Kakutani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic...
The Emperor's Feast: 'A tasty portrait of a nation' -Sunday Telegraph

The Emperor's Feast: 'A tasty portrait of a nation' -Sunday Telegraph

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Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A galloping journey through thousands of years of Chinese culinary history . . . a timely reminder that the country's modern...
The Making of the Indian Princes

The Making of the Indian Princes

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Naval Surgeon Revolt in Japan

Naval Surgeon Revolt in Japan

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Life In Hanoi

Life In Hanoi

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The Search for Ancient China

The Search for Ancient China

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Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent

Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent

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Author: Wendy Law-Yone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 POLITICIAN * PRISONER * PARENT A portrait of one of the most charismatic, but unknown, world leaders Aung San Suu Kyi,...
The Emperor's Feast: 'A tasty portrait of a nation' -Sunday Telegraph

The Emperor's Feast: 'A tasty portrait of a nation' -Sunday Telegraph

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Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A galloping journey through thousands of years of Chinese culinary history . . . a timely reminder that the country's modern...
The Emperor's Feast: 'A tasty portrait of a nation' -Sunday Telegraph

The Emperor's Feast: 'A tasty portrait of a nation' -Sunday Telegraph

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Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A galloping journey through thousands of years of Chinese culinary history . . . a timely reminder that the country's modern...
Up Top: The Royal Australian Navy and Southeast Asian Conflicts 1955-1972

Up Top: The Royal Australian Navy and Southeast Asian Conflicts 1955-1972

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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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Author: Amy Stanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A groundbreaking new history of Edo, now modern-day Tokyo, that will change our understanding of Japanese history, placing women's lives back...
Savage Beasts

Savage Beasts

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Author: Rani Selvarajah Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'A beautiful and unique retelling of Medea. I loved it!' Sunday Times bestselling author Sophie Irwin 'Absorbing and thoughtful...full of page-turning...
Rebel Land: Among Turkey's Forgotten Peoples

Rebel Land: Among Turkey's Forgotten Peoples

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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

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Shinto: The Kami Spirit World of Japan

Shinto: The Kami Spirit World of Japan

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Author: Sokyo OnoFormat: Paperback, 130mm x 203mm, 144 pagesPublished: Tuttle Publishing, United States, 2024Japanese Shinto is the simple belief that the divine dwells in all things around us!Shinto: The Japanese...
Photorealistic Colored Pencil Drawing Techniques: Step-by-Step Lessons for Vibrant, Realistic Drawings! (With Over 700 illustrations)

Photorealistic Colored Pencil Drawing Techniques: Step-by-Step Lessons for Vibrant, Realistic Drawings! (With Over 700 illustrations)

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Author: Cocomaru Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Learn how to create photorealistic colored pencil drawings that are convincing enough to fool the eye! This book shows you how to...
Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: The Definitive Collector's Edition (Woodblock Prints)

Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: The Definitive Collector's Edition (Woodblock Prints)

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Author: Andreas Marks Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A landmark book presenting the early 'deluxe' versions of Hiroshige's Edo prints for the first time! Utagawa Hiroshige's unique landscape series...
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought

Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought

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How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and...
The Yellow River: Five Thousand Year Journey Through China

The Yellow River: Five Thousand Year Journey Through China

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The House of Confucius

The House of Confucius

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Crescent Moon: Islamic Art & Civilisation in Southeast Asia

Crescent Moon: Islamic Art & Civilisation in Southeast Asia

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Asia and Western Dominance

Asia and Western Dominance

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The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China

The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China

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Author: Kevin Rudd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The relationship between the US and China, the world's two superpowers, is peculiarly volatile. It rests on a seismic fault-of cultural...
The First Emperor: China's Entombed Warriors

The First Emperor: China's Entombed Warriors

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Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath

Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath

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Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong

Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong

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Author: Vaudine England Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A timely, well-researched, and vibrant new history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have...
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

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The Chinese Bronzes of Yunnan - The Bowater Library of Chinese Civilization

The Chinese Bronzes of Yunnan - The Bowater Library of Chinese Civilization

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The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China

The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China

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Author: James M. Zimmerman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In May 1923, when Shanghai publisher and reporter John Benjamin Powell bought a first-class ticket for the Peking Express, he...
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict

The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict

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Author: Lawrence James Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Lawrence James is the doyen of Empire historians' The Spectator 'James' writing is always full of energy and animation; he has...
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: Hardback 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...
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?...