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Out Of The Blue: A Pilot With The Chindits
$20.00 AUD
Author: Terence O'BrienBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins London, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling military memoir, Out Of The Blue: A Pilot With The Chindits, chronicles the extraordinary experiences of...
Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years Of Chinese Poetry
$15.00 AUD
Author: Wu-Chi Liu And Irving Yucheng LoBinding: PaperbackPublished: Anchor Press/Doubleday., 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Condition as shown in...
Lion Of The China Sea: A History Of The E & A Line
$20.00 AUD
Author: William OlsonBinding: HardbackPublished: P & O Australia Ltd, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical account chronicles the rise and operations of the influential E & A...
Coming Alive: China After Mao
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Author: Roger GarsideBinding: HardbackPublished: McGraw-Hill, 1981Condition:Book: Good, ex-libraryJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis book chronicles the dramatic societal and political shifts that reshaped...
A China Passage
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Author: John Kenneth GalbraithBinding: HardbackPublished: Andre Deutsch, 1973Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerA seminal work in economic history, A Journey...
Light In The Far East: Archbishop Harold Henry's Forty-Two Years In Korea
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Author: Edward FischerBinding: HardbackPublished: Seabury Press, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling biography chronicles the remarkable life and enduring legacy of...
A Book Of Five Rings
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Author: Miyamoto MusashiBinding: HardbackPublished: The Overlook Press, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA foundational text in strategic thought, A Book Of Five Rings presents the timeless principles of legendary...
Chinese Paintings Of The Ming And Qing Dynasties: 14Th-20Th Centuries
$25.00 AUD
Author: Edmund Capon, Mae Anna PangBinding: HardbackPublished: Art Exhibitions Australia, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsJames Cahill's Chinese Paintings Of The Ming And Qing Dynasties: 14Th-20Th Centuries presents a comprehensive...
China Diary
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Author: Stephen Spender, David HockneyBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames and Hudson, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis collaborative travelogue, China Diary, chronicles the 1981 journey of a celebrated poet and an...
Philby Of Arabia
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Author: Elizabeth MonroeBinding: HardbackPublished: FABER AND FABER LIMITED, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling biography, Philby Of Arabia, chronicles the extraordinary life of H. St. John Philby, a...
Tales From The South China Seas: Images Of The Nation In Southeast Asia In The Twentieth Century
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Author: Charles A. CoppelBinding: HardbackPublished: Singapore University Press, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis historical account, Tales From The South China Seas: Images Of The British In South-East Asia...
Splendours Of The Raj: British Architecture In India, 1660 To 1947
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Author: Philip DaviesBinding: HardbackPublished: JOHN MURRAY, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsSplendours Of The Raj presents a magnificent visual and historical...
The China Navigation Company Limited: A Pictorial History, 1872-1992
$75.00 AUD
Author: Miles SmeetonBinding: HardbackPublished: Butterfield & Swire Hong Kong, 1992Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical account, The China Navigation Company Limited: A Pictorial History, 1872-1992, chronicles the...
The Golden Age Of Indian Art: Vth-Xiiith Century
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Author: P. Rambach V. De GolishBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames And Hudson, 1955Condition:Book: Fair, ex-libraryJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsThe academic work The Golden Age Of Indian...
Victory At High Tide: The Inchon-Seoul Campaign
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Author: Robert Debs Heinl, Jr., Colonel, UsmcBinding: HardbackPublished: Nautical & Aviation Publishing Co. of America, 1997Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis historical account chronicles the pivotal Inchon-Seoul Campaign during...
Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal 1890-1940
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Author: Dipesh ChakrabartyBinding: HardbackPublished: Princeton University Press, 1989Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Good, clean copy. Tight spine.This scholarly work re-evaluates the foundational narratives of labor history...
The Positive Sciences Of The Ancient Hindus
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Author: Brajendranath SealBinding: HardbackPublished: Motilal Banarsidass, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Reading copy with markingsThis scholarly work chronicles the profound scientific achievements of ancient Indian...
In Pursuit Of Lakshmi: The Political Economy Of The Indian State
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Author: Lloyd L. Rudolph And Susanne Hoeber RudolphBinding: PaperbackPublished: The University of Chicago Press, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn In Pursuit Of Lakshmi: The Political Economy Of The Indian...
The Long Revolution
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Author: Edgar SnowBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Half-title page & Title page missing. This seminal work of non-fiction...
Korea: The Commonwealth At War
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Author: Tim CarewBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Some chipping to DJ and foxed page...
Caste, Feudalism And Peasantry: The Social Formation Of Shekhawati
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Author: K.L. SharmaBinding: HardbackPublished: Manohar Publishers & Distributors., 1998Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor bumps to DJ.This scholarly work meticulously chronicles the intricate social structures of a...
Asia-Pacific Between Conflict and Reconciliation
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This third volume in the RIPAR series seeks to translate the Western concept of reconciliation into a universal and thus non-Western idiom. It unmasks some of the long-held and unresolved...
War Crimes Trials in the Wake of Decolonization and Cold War in Asia,
This book investigates the political context and intentions behind the trialling of Japanese war criminals in the wake of World War Two. After the Second World War in Asia, the...
Kitchen Classics: Asian Flavours
"Enjoy the flavours of Asia with the wide range of traditional and modern recipes offered in Kitchen Classics: Asian Flavours. From small bites, such stuffed prawns in crispy won ton...
South by Java Head
The 50th anniversary edition of this classic World War 2 adventure set in south-east Asia. February, 1942: Singapore lies burning and shattered, defenceless before the conquering hordes of the Japanese...
House of Snow: An Anthology of the Greatest Writing About Nepal
A ground-breaking collection of stories, poems and articles about Nepal covering the length and breadth of this enchanting nation and its people. 'If you want a book in English that...
Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and
Hello, Shadowlands is the story of Southeast Asia's anarchic enclaves and their hidden connections to the West. There is no better place to observe the clash between old codes and...
The Kamikaze Hunters: Fighting for the Pacific, 1945
In May 1945, with victory in Europe established, the war was all but over. But on the other side of the world, the Allies were still engaged in a bitter...
Of Metal and Wishes
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This love story for the ages, set in a reimagined industrial Asia, is a little dark, a bit breathless, and completely compelling. Sixteen-year-old Wen assists her father in his medical...
The Tunnels of Cu Chi: A Harrowing Account of America's Tunnel Rats in
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At the height of the Vietnam conflict, a complex system of secret underground tunnels sprawled from Cu Chi Province to the edge of Saigon. In these burrows, the Viet Cong...
Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia
Lion City tells the extraordinary story of Singapore - the world's most successful city state. In 1965, Singapore's GDP per capita was on a par with Jordan. Now it has...
All Mixed Up
Some secrets should never be kept -- a candid and heartfelt memoir about authenticity, difference, resilience, hope and love by an exciting new Australian voice My family may have been...
Islam in Pakistan: A History
The first book to explore the modern history of Islam in South AsiaThe first modern state to be founded in the name of Islam, Pakistan was the largest Muslim country...
War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005
Japan has long wrestled with the memories and legacies of World War II. In the aftermath of defeat, war memory developed as an integral part of particular and divergent approaches...
Asian Theatre Puppets: Creativity, Culture and Craftsmanship: From the
Asian puppet theatre is a treasure house of Asian grassroots religion, culture, history, ethics and entertainment. But with the rise of mass entertainment, puppet theatre has been banished to the...
Great Chinese Revolution (1800-1985)
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Examines the transformation of Imperial China to Communist China, discusses the social and cultural changes that have occurred, and looks at modern economic development in China.
Megatrends Asia: The Eight Asian Megatrends That are Changing the
Drawing on more than three decades of first-hand observations and interviews with politicians, entrepreneurs, and business leaders, Naisbitt identifies eight principal trends that are shaping Asia into a new network...
The Importance of Living: The Noble Art of Leaving Things Undone
A tremendous bestseller when it was first published in 1937, The Importance of Living has been a classic for over sixty years. Intended as an antidote to the dizzying pace...
Gays and Lesbians in Asia and the Pacific: Social and Human Services
The knowledge that people in other places share the same experiences physically, emotionally, and socially is liberating and offers the opportunity to share practical information. This holds especially true for...
The Sister: North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the Most Dangerous Woman in the
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This first book on Kim Jong Un's increasingly powerful sister, tapped to be his successor, offers jaw-dropping insights into the latest generation of North Korea's secretive and murderous dynasty. The...
Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan
With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan First time in paperback, with a new Introduction and final chapter World affairs expert and intrepid travel journalist Robert D. Kaplan braved the...
The Untouchables: Subordination, Poverty and the State in Modern India
In a sensitive and compelling account of the lives of those at the very bottom of Indian society, Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany explore the construction of the Untouchables as...
South Asia
This collection of readings provides an interpretation of the development of contemporary South Asia and covers India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The approach taken is concerned particularly with ways...
The Concept of Race in South Asia
$120.00 AUD
South Asia has always played a part in the European imagining of race, but has not been much considered in the scholarly literature of the present generation. Nor, recently, have...
From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays on Gender, Religion, and
Providing a unique and intimate view of Hindu marriage, the essays in this collection explore points at which the margins of marriage are traversed or transgressed. Rather than focus on...
India's Struggle for Independence 1857-1947
This is a study of India's independence movement, from an abortive revolt against the British in 1857 through the times which eventually lead to Indian Independence in 1947 seen from...
Fierceland
The globe-spanning epic of power and family secrets from the Miles Franklin listed author. 'An impressive, urgent novel by a talented and courageous writer.' - Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit...