Asia - General
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The Vanishing Sea: The Tale of How the Aral Sea Became the Aral Desert
$18.99 Add to cartThis artful and thought-provoking picture book shares the little-known story of the disappearance of the Aral Sea–and the loss of livelihood and biodiversity as fishing villages and ships were left s… [more below]
- Author: Mirtalipova, Dinara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 179722459X
- Language: English
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Genghis Khan and the Quest for God: How the World’s Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom
$24.00 Add to cartThe conquests of the Mongols were arguably the most important event of the last millennium in Eurasia. Yet Genghis Khan has remained an opaque and enigmatic figure, a symbol of cruelty and little else… [more below]
- Author: Weatherford, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0735221170
- Language: English
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The Angry Skies: A Physicians Journey Into Cambodia’s Heart Of Darkness
$21.95 Add to cart- Author: Kerr, Blake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: April 17 2025
- ISBN10: 9798987326695
- Language: English
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The International Jew The World’s Foremost Problem
$23.32 Add to cartThis Book “The International Jew The World’s Foremost Problem” has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preserva… [more below]
- Author: Ford, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 9356576106
- Language: English
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Rebel Island: The Incredible History of Taiwan
$20.00 Read moreThe gripping history of Taiwan, from the flood myths of indigenous legend to its Asian Tiger economic miracle–and the renewed threat of invasion by China.
Once dismissed by the Kangxi Emperor as noth
- Author: Clements, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1957363746
- Language: English
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History of the Caucasus: Volume 1: At the Crossroads of Empires
$40.00 Add to cart“Magnificent [and] wondrous.” The Spectator
“Rich and illuminating.” Literary Review
“Phenomenally accurate.” History Today
“Stunning.” The Morning Star
“Sweeping.” The New European
“A wonderful book.” C- Author: Baumer, Christoph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: August 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1788310071
- Language: English
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Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell
$39.99 Add to cartIn this vivid and highly original reading of recent Chinese history, Xuelei Huang documents the eclectic array of smells that permeated Chinese life from the High Qing through to the Mao period. Utili… [more below]
- Author: Huang, Xuelei
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 309
- Publish Date: August 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1009207040
- Language: English
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The Cargo Rebellion: Those Who Chose Freedom
$16.95 Add to cartThe Cargo Rebellion tells a true story of mutiny on the high seas in which four hundred indentured Chinese men overthrew their captor, the Connecticut businessman and slave trader Leslie Bryson, takin
- Author: Chang, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1629639648
- Language: English
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The Clash of Cultures: The Dark Path to Genocide
$18.99 Add to cartIn 1984, the Sikh community – a minority amidst the Hindu majority that dominates the Indian nation-state – faced the most traumatizing of events for any group – complete annihilation. Since its incep
- Author: Singh, Gursimran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: August 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1631321730
- Language: English
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The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World
$40.00 Add to cartWe think of blue and white porcelain as the ultimate global commodity: throughout East and Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean including the African coasts, the Americas and Europe, consumers desired Chi… [more below]
- Author: Gerritsen, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: May 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1108499953
- Language: English
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Being So Gentle: The Frontier Love Story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson
$35.99 Add to cartThe forty-year love affair between Rachel and Andrew Jackson parallels a tumultuous period in American history. Andrew Jackson was at the forefront of the American revolution–but he never could have
- Author: Brady, Patricia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0230609503
- Language: English
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When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the Riches of the East
$17.99 Add to cartWhile European civilization stagnated in the “Dark Ages,” Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of spiritual, commercial, and intellectual co… [more below]
- Author: Gordon, Stewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 030681739X
- Language: English
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After the Korean War: An Intimate History
$37.00 Add to cartFollowing his prizewinning studies of the Vietnam War, renowned anthropologist Heonik Kwon presents this ground-breaking study of the Korean War’s enduring legacies seen through the realm of intimate … [more below]
- Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
- Author: Kwon, Heonik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: April 16 2020
- ISBN10: 1108487920
- Language: English
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The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe phrase “silk road” evokes vivid scenes of merchants leading camel caravans across vast stretches to trade exotic goods in glittering Oriental bazaars, of pilgrims braving bandits and frozen mounta… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Millward, James A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0199782865
- Language: English
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A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955
$21.95 Read moreThe end of World War II led to the United States’ emergence as a global superpower. For war-ravaged Western Europe it marked the beginning of decades of unprecedented cooperation and prosperity that o
- Author: Spector, Ronald H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064447
- Language: English
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Islam’s Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora
$22.00 Add to cartA comprehensive study of the Eastern slave trade by an eminent British scholar
A companion volume to The Black Diaspora, this groundbreaking work tells the fascinating and horrifying story of the Islam
- Author: Segal, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 273
- Publish Date: October 05 2006
- ISBN10: 0374527970
- Language: English
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The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
$20.00 Add to cart“A fascinating romp through the feminine side of the infamous Khan clan” (Booklist) by the author featured in Echoes of the Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan
“Enticing . . . hard to put down.”–Associated P- Author: Weatherford, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0307407160
- Language: English
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History of the Caucasus: Volume 2: In the Shadow of Great Powers
$50.00 Add to cartIn the Shadow of Great Powers is the second volume of Christoph Baumer’s History of the Caucasus. It covers the period from the Seljuk domination of the Southern Caucasus around 1050 CE to the present
- Author: Baumer, Christoph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0755636287
- Language: English
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Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans Au Of…
$21.99 Add to cartA powerful and moving history of Asian Americans that spans centuries, from the acclaimed author of A Different Mirror.
In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, and ora- Author: Takaki, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 23 1998
- ISBN10: 0316831301
- Language: English
