Central Asia
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Beyond the Outpost: An Army Cavalry Officer’s War Diary on the Frontlines of Afghanistan, 2003 – 2007
$29.95 Add to cart“With compelling and candid prose, Berkoff takes us to the front lines as life-or-death decisions are made involving living and breathing characters. You must read this to understand what the war was … [more below]
- Author: Berkoff, Ross A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1611217628
- Language: English
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Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and Its Struggle for Survival
$30.00 Read moreChris Horton is a freelance reporter in Taiwan, having covered cross-strait politics, domestic politics, the economy, culture and breaking news in Taiwan for The New York Times, Bloomberg, The Atlant… [more below]
- Author: Horton, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1035034026
- Language: English
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Rock Art and Its Legacy in Myth and Art: Petroglyphs from Eurasia, Arabia and Northern Africa
$40.00 Add to cartRock art is mankind’s oldest artistic expression. The first creation of rock carvings (petroglyphs) and rock paintings (pictographs) by Homo sapiens represented on multiple counts a quantum leap in me
- Author: Baumer, Christoph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0755650441
- Language: English
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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
$21.99 Add to cart“A must read for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the Islamic world” (San Francisco Chronicle)
We in the West share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omi… [more below]- Author: Ansary, Tamim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 154170620X
- Language: English
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The Stateless Central Asian Merchant: The Life of Haim Aghajan Abraham Based on his Journal 1897-1986
$18.99 Add to cartHaim Abraham, born in 1897 in Turkmenistan, wrote out his memoir in a spiral-bound notebook covering a period of ninety years. After he passed away in 1999, the journal was discovered in his home, wri
- Author: Abraham-Klein, Dahlia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 15 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218677282
- Language: English
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The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan
$19.99 Add to cart“Fascinating….A highly readable history of the conflict.” —New York Times Book Review
In The Great Gamble, a groundbreaking account of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, former NPR Moscow correspo
- Author: Feifer, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0061143197
- Language: English
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The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China
$23.00 Add to cartA stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach but may hold the key to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century
“Engaging . .- Author: Kaplan, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0593242815
- Language: English
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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
$25.00 Add to cartA Best Book of the Year: The Economist, Slate, Kirkus Reviews
In 1839, nearly 20,000 British troops poured through the mountain passes into Afghanistan and installed the exiled Shah Shuja on the thron- Author: Dalrymple, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0307948536
- Language: English
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Hydraulic Societies: Water, Power, and Control in East and Central Asian History
$39.95 Read moreHydraulic Societies explores the linked themes of water, power, state-building, and hydraulic control. Bringing together a range of ecological, geographical, chronological, and methodological perspect
- Author: Breyfogle, Nicholas B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0870712373
- Language: English
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Empire of Horses: The First Nomadic Civilization and the Making of China
$17.95 Read moreAn authoritative and rich history of the remarkable Xiongnu culture–a lost empire which preceded the Mongols and even China itself.
The author of landmark histories such as Genghis Khan, Attila, and- Author: Man, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1643136917
- Language: English
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In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony
$15.99 Read moreHow China used a network of surveillance to intern over a million people and produce a system of control previously unknown in human history
Novel forms of state violence and colonization have been u- Author: Byler, Darren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1735913626
- Language: English
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The White Mosque: A Memoir
$27.00 Read moreWinner of the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography & Memoir (Midland Authors Book Award)
Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award A historical tapestry of border-crossing travelers, of students, w- Author: Samatar, Sofia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1646220978
- Language: English
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The Changing Geopolitics of Central Asia and the Caucasus
$21.95 Add to cartThe geopolitical environment surrounding Central Asia and the Caucasus has changed dramatically over the past decade, with important implications for American and European interests. Regional and grea
- Author: Cornell, Svante E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1956450785
- Language: English
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Charlie Wilson’s War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History
$20.00 Add to cartCharlie Wilson’s War was a publishing sensation and a New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times bestseller. In the early 1980s, a Houston socialite turned the attention of maverick Texas … [more below]
- Author: Crile, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 22 2004
- ISBN10: 0802141242
- Language: English
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Games Without Rules: The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan
$18.99 Add to cartBy the author of Destiny Disrupted: An enlightening, lively, accessible, history of Afghanistan from 1840 to today, from the Afghan point of view, that illuminates how Great Power conflicts have inte… [more below]
- Author: Ansary, Tamim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1610393198
- Language: English
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The New Secularism in the Muslim World: Religion and the State in Central Asia and Azerbaijan
$21.95 Add to cartAcross the Muslim world, religion and politics have become increasingly mixed in the past century, with devastating consequences. But there are signs that the ascendancy of political Islam may be comi
- Author: Cornell, Svante E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: March 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1956450629
- Language: English
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Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
$22.95 Add to cartAn epic account of the rise and fall of the Silk Road empires
The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental ret- Author: Beckwith, Christopher I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0691150346
- Language: English
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The Bookseller of Kabul
$17.99 Add to cartThis phenomenal international bestseller is “an admirable, revealing portrait of daily life in a country that Washington claims to have liberated but does not begin to understand” (Washington Post).
T- Author: Seierstad, Åsne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 26 2004
- ISBN10: 0316159417
- Language: English
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Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present
$29.95 Add to cartA major history of Central Asia and how it has been shaped by modern world events
Central Asia is often seen as a remote and inaccessible land on the peripheries of modern history. Encompassing Uzbeki- Author: Khalid, Adeeb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0691235198
- Language: English
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The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
$37.43 Add to cart2021 Cundill History Prize Finalist
“Outstanding, original, and revolutionary. Favereau subjec
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
A Spectator Best Book of the Year
A Five Books Best Book of the Year- Author: Favereau, Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0674244214
- Language: English
