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Roberts Ridge: A Story of Courage and Sacrifice on Takur Ghar Mountain, Afghanistan Best Price: $57.88 I have been non-recommending this book as much as possible to everyone I know. I was interviewed...	Burma Siam Railway: The Secret Diary of Dr Robert Hardie 1942-45	Wild India: Wildlife and Scenery of India and Nepal Published in association with the World Wide Fund for Nature, Wild India is a valuable current...	History of Hong Kong Best Price: $29.99 In 1842 a "barren island" was reluctantly ceded by China to an unenthusiastic Britain....	The Thorn of Lion City: A Memoir



Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi	Hellfire Best Price: $20.36	The Black Hole of Calcutta (A Collier classic) A bare, low-ceilinged dungeon with two barred air-holes, the cell known as the Black Hole...	The Chinese: Their History and Culture Latourette's 1964 edition (his 3rd revision and published just 4 years before his death) is...	Vietnam, The Decisive Battles Best Price: $24.99 This pictorial-narrative book accurately reflects the way it was and will be meaningful for...



Khyber, British India's north west frontier: The story of an imperial migraine Best Price: $110.46 When you read this book, you will suddenly begin to understand what any foreign power is up...	Cultures and Civilizations (Silk and Spice Routes) Discusses the opening of trade routes between Europe and Asia and explores the impact of the...	Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 Best Price: $103.64 Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 examines how American society responded...	Stay Alive, My Son Best Price: $75.21 This is a great book. It describes the slow descent of humanity into an abyss.	China and the Taiwan Issue

A Thousand Pieces of Gold: Growing Up Through China's Proverbs Best Price: $5.90 Bad points: 1. This book had some bizarre indexing. When I looked for relevant information...	Burning Tigris, The: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response Best Price: $1.95 . Ethocide, as coined by Ergün Kirlikovali, involves the extermination of ethics. Peter...	Corregidor Told in the voices of the soldiers, doctors, and nurses who were the untested but valiant...	The Battle of Long Tan FOR THOSE, PARTICULARLY NON-AUSTRALIANS LOOKING FOR THE ESSENCE OF THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY'S...	Revolution and Its Past: Identities and Change in Modern Chinese History Best Price: $13.44 If you are studying Modern Chinese History (and where else is events in the 1600;s considered...

A New History of India Best Price: $11.92 A lot of dramatic archaeological discoveries make the early chapters of the book totally...	The Rise of Modern China This new edition of the classic history of modern China since the seventeenth century has been...	Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa: A Biography from the Tibetan Best Price: $17.50 This is the second book in the Tibetan series from W.Y.Evans-Wentz. If you really want to begin...	The Sound of the Ancestral Ship: Highland Music of West Java Best Price: $25.00 This book examines the ways in which the urban aristocratic Sundanese of West Java recall the...	Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India Best Price: $51.67 Under all the din of Shivadharma, something the good American Professor of Religious Studies...

Music in Bali: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture Includes CD (Global Music) Best Price: $20.26 Music in Bali is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking...	Music in Bali: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture Includes CD (Global Music) Best Price: $42.18 Music in Bali is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking...	Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America Best Price: $23.79 To read Azuma's Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America...	Two Men and Music: Nationalism in the Making of an Indian Classical Tradition Best Price: $22.63 A provocative account of the development of modern national culture in India using classical...	America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon Best Price: $43.36 I cannot in good conscience recommend Mr. Lytle's "America's Uncivil Wars" due...

Will They Ever Trust Us Again Best Price: $5.29 I read this a little at a time--when I have a few minutes after reading something else. It's...	On China Best Price: $26.45 Unabridged, 9 CDs, 11 hours Read by TBA Drawing on forty years of intimate acquaintance...	The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar This book comes across as a partisan "whitewash" of two Liberal(Chretien and Martin)...	Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura 1922-1992 Best Price: $82.61 Taking Gandhi's statements about civil disobedience to heart, in February 1922 residents...	Penguin 1857 Reader Best Price: $7.42

Penguin Companion to the Ramayana (Penguin Reference) Once again, Amazon has attached information to the wrong title! "Product description"...	Shah of Shahs Best Price: $174.31 I enjoyed reading Shah of Shahs. It's written in a compelling format; a frame story about a...	The Chinese Empire (An Original harbinger book)	Burma, a Country Study (Area Handbook Series) Best Price: $24.50	Strategic Command: General Sir John Wilton and Australia's Asian Wars (Australian Army History) This book tells the story of Australia's most important military officer since World War II....

Heir Apparent: An Autobiography Best Price: $32.75	Subaltern Studies: Writings on South Asian History and Society, Vol. 3 (v. 3) These essays unearth and analyze the nature of subaltern consciousness and dissent across a...	Radhakrishnan: The Centenary Volume This volume celebrates the centenary of the birth of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, India's...	Ancient Bangladesh: A Study of the Archaeological Sources Although the modern nation state of Bangladesh has long been known to possess rich...	Imperial Designs and Indian Realities: The Planning of Bombay City 1845-1875 This work analyzes the development of Bombay from a small port-town into an important colonial...

Separatism among Indian Muslims: The Politics of the United Provinces' Muslims 1860-1923 (Oxford India Paperbacks) Best Price: $311.36 I have read may be three books by Francis Robinson and this one again proves that he has a keen...	Subaltern Studies: Writings on South Asian History and Society, Vol. 8: Essays in Honour of Ranajit Guha (v. 8) Best Price: $20.06 These essays take up themes from the writings of Ranajit Guha. They link subaltern experience...	The Politics of the British Annexation of India 1757-1857 (Oxford in India Readings - Themes in Indian History) Best Price: $14.95 In the hundred years between 1757 and 1857 the British annexed 60 per cent of the Indian...	A Carnival for Science: Essays on Science, Technology and Development Shiv Visvanathan is a brilliant writer and an original thinker. His interpretation of science is...	India & Ceylon

The Paradox of Change: American Women in the 20th Century Best Price: $0.98 When William Chafe's The American Woman was published in 1972, it was hailed as a...	Death of a Generation: How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War Best Price: $13.00 This book has great chapter titles, and 80 pages of notes. There are a lot of questions in this...	The Rise of Modern China Best Price: $182.54 The Rise of Modern China vividly describes China's extraordinary metamorphosis from a...	Computers and Human Language Best Price: $19.99 This is a text designed for use in introductory courses in computational linguistics taught in...	Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War Best Price: $15.00 In November of 1964, as Lyndon Johnson celebrated his landslide victory over Barry Goldwater,...

The Unpredictable Past: Explorations in American Cultural History Best Price: $14.40 "The future is certain," according to an old Soviet joke, "it is only the past...	The Rise of Modern China [5th Edition] Best Price: $54.77 While Spence's "The Search for Modern China" may be currently the most popular...	The Young Turks in Opposition (Studies in Middle Eastern History) Best Price: $96.00 Hanioglu, an associate professor at Princeton University, has opened up a virtually new topic...	Jacques Delors and European Integration (Europe and the International Order) Best Price: $29.11 THIS BOOK gives a fascinating picture of the European Union's strategy for creating a single...	Oxford School Shakespeare: 13 Volume Set (Oxford School Shakespeare Series) Best Price: $647.38

Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Asia (Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in the Global South) Best Price: $11.48 Although a minority of the Asian population, Protestants in Asia are a fast-growing group. What...	The Silk Road in World History (New Oxford World History) Best Price: $11.33 For several years I have been interested in the early developement of Mahayana Buddhism and...	Southeast Asia in World History (New Oxford World History) Best Price: $11.33 Here is a brief, well-written, and lively survey of the history of Southeast Asia from ancient...	Pilgrimage and Power: The Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, 1765-1954 Best Price: $11.48 Today the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India, is a major Hindu religious pilgrimage and the largest...	Reliving Karbala: Martyrdom in South Asian Memory Best Price: $23.00 In 680 C.E., a small band of the Prophet Muhammads family and their followers, led by his...

Pakistan Studies Best Price: $26.34 This text covers the syllabi prescribed by the major public sector universities in Pakistan. The...	Ruttie Jinnah Best Price: $15.99 Ruttie Jinnah was the only woman to capture the heart of Quaid -i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the...	The Lost World of Irian Jaya	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961-1963, Vol. 4: Vietnam, August-December 1963 (Department of State Publication, No. 9857) Best Price: $178.78 The nature of a book like this is that it reads in somewhat of a hum-drum fashion, as it merely...	By Sea, Air, and Land: An Illustrated History of the U.S. Navy and the War in Southeast Asia Best Price: $168.18

Environmental Aftermath of the Gulf War: A Report (S. Prt., 102-84)	Public Affairs: The Military and the Media, 1968-1973 (Paperbound) (United States Army in Vietnam) Best Price: $25.00 United States Army in Vietnam. Describes the efforts of the United States Military...	Minerals Yearbook, 2004, V. 3, Area Reports, International, Asia and the Pacific Best Price: $32.00	Early Art of the Northern Far East: The Stone Age Best Price: $46.00	An Englishwoman in India: The Memoirs of Harriet Tytler 1828-1858 Best Price: $278.26 Harriet Tytler was the only woman present at the siege of Delhi in 1957, the most crucial...

Hunted through Central Asia: On the Run from Lenin's Secret Police Best Price: $14.10 Paul Nazaroff was a Russian geologist, naturalist and sportsman living in Tashkent at the time...	Great Game Pb Best Price: $88.96 The "Great Game" was an imperial, political, diplomatic, and military enterprise in...	The Lives of the Jain Elders (World's Classics) Best Price: $56.14 The Lives of the Jain Elders is the standard synthesis of source material for the early history...	African Americans: A Concise History, Volume II (Chapters 13-24) (2nd Edition) Best Price: $49.99 Incorporating the basic features and narrative from The African-American Odyssey , this concise...	African Americans: A Concise History, Volume I (Chapters 1-13) (2nd Edition) Best Price: $10.00 book was really used but they refunded my shipping upon my return of the book which is excellent...

Faces of Hong Kong	Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles Best Price: $4.21 In the late 1980s, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester set out on foot to...	Pakistan: The Modern in Historical Perspective (Modern Nations)	A History of India: Volume 2 (Pelican) (v. 2) Covers the period from Mughal rule, through the years of British control, to the government of...	Istanbul: The Imperial City Best Price: $8.95 I guess, the best saying about Istanbul is from Petrus Gyllius, -a French humanist and diplomat-...

Hong Kong: Epilogue to an Empire	Diary of Lady Murasaki (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.48 This penguin volume is the paperback and easily accessed translation of the 'Diary of...	The State of China Atlas (Penguin Reference) Best Price: $11.88 The latest addition to the acclaimed series, this one-of-a-kind visual survey captures the...	Strategic Command: General Sir John Wilton and Australia's Asian Wars (Australian Army History) This book tells the story of Australia's most important military officer since World War II....	Heir Apparent: An Autobiography Best Price: $32.75

Subaltern Studies: Writings on South Asian History and Society, Vol. 3 (v. 3) These essays unearth and analyze the nature of subaltern consciousness and dissent across a...	Radhakrishnan: The Centenary Volume This volume celebrates the centenary of the birth of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, India's...	Ancient Bangladesh: A Study of the Archaeological Sources Although the modern nation state of Bangladesh has long been known to possess rich...	Imperial Designs and Indian Realities: The Planning of Bombay City 1845-1875 This work analyzes the development of Bombay from a small port-town into an important colonial...	Separatism among Indian Muslims: The Politics of the United Provinces' Muslims 1860-1923 (Oxford India Paperbacks) Best Price: $311.36 I have read may be three books by Francis Robinson and this one again proves that he has a keen...

Subaltern Studies: Writings on South Asian History and Society, Vol. 8: Essays in Honour of Ranajit Guha (v. 8) Best Price: $20.06 These essays take up themes from the writings of Ranajit Guha. They link subaltern experience...	The Politics of the British Annexation of India 1757-1857 (Oxford in India Readings - Themes in Indian History) Best Price: $14.95 In the hundred years between 1757 and 1857 the British annexed 60 per cent of the Indian...	A Carnival for Science: Essays on Science, Technology and Development Shiv Visvanathan is a brilliant writer and an original thinker. His interpretation of science is...

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