Cultural Region/Asian
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I Love Yous Are for White People: A Memoir
$14.99 Add to cart“The riveting opening sets the stage as the family raced to a rickety boat to escape their homeland, dodging communist gunfire as they ran . . . Su offers a compelling narrative of immigrant life, cul
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Su, Lac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 12 2009
- ISBN10: 0061543667
- Language: English
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Great State: China and the World
$20.00 Read moreNow in paperback
“A dizzying and exhilarating journey. . . . Understanding how China sees itself and how it justifies its actions is critical to understanding today’s world. Great State offers some com
- Author: Brook, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0063143445
- Language: English
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Stray Birds
$5.99 Add to cartStray Birds (1916) is a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore. Translated into English by Tagore after he received the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, Stray Birds is a powerful collection of shor
- Series: Mint Editions (Voices from Api)
- Author: Tagore, Rabindranath
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1513215892
- Language: English
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Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea
$36.99 Add to cartHistory didn’t end. Democracy didn’t triumph. America’s leading role in the world is no longer assured. Instead, autocrats and populist strongmen are on the rise, and the global order established afte… [more below]
- Author: Stallard, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0197575358
- Language: English
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Fabulous Paper Flowers: Make 43 Beautiful Asian Flowers – From Irises to Cherry Blossoms to Peonies (with 270 Tracing Templates)
$16.99 Add to cartExquisite paper flowers that never wilt
In this book, Japanese paper crafting expert Emiko Yamamoto reveals her secrets for making realistic blossoms, leaves and stems from inexpensive colored paper- Author: Yamamoto, Emiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0804854092
- Language: English
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Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy
$58.33 Add to cartA riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world’s largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intolerance
Over the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationa- Author: Jaffrelot, Christophe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0691206805
- 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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Wanderlust Himalaya: Hiking on Top of the World
$65.00 Read moreFrom precariously perched monasteries to
characterful villages to the earth’s longest non-polar glacial system,
Wanderlust Himalaya showcases a varied collection of trails from the world’s
highest mount… [more below]- Author: Gestalten
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 396704002X
- Language: English
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Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.
$22.95 Read moreWinner of the European Essay Prize 2023
The chant of “Azadi!”–Urdu for “Freedom!”–is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. Ironically, it- Author: Roy, Arundhati
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1642592609
- Language: English
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I’ll Be the One
$17.99 Read moreDiverse book recommended by The Today Show * A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year * Bank Street Best Book of the Year * YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults * ALA’s Rainbow Book List Top 10 for Teen
- Author: Lee, Lyla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 16 2020
- ISBN10: 0062936921
- Language: English
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The Wisdom of Buddha: A Photographic Pilgrimage Into the Traditional World of Buddhism
$50.00 Read moreThe Wisdom of Buddha is a stunning visual journey through the countries of India, Bhutan, Tibet, China, Cambodia, and Myanmar. The soul-touching photographs are paired with carefully selected quotes m… [more below]
- Author: Baron-Schrier, Paige Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1943532907
- Language: English
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David Tung Can’t Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College
$18.95 Read more“A beautifully observed, hilariously truthful, uplifting coming-of-age story that captures the heart and humanity of a Chinese American male teenager.” -David Henry Hwang
Shortlisted for CLMP Firecrack
- Author: Lin, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: October 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1885030622
- Language: English
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The Saffron Tales: Recipes from the Persian Kitchen
$37.00 Add to cartWinner of the M.F.K Fisher Award for Excellence in Culinary Writing from Les Dames d’Escoffier
New York Times Best Cookbooks of the Year
Wall Street Journal Best Cookbooks of the Year
BBC Food Programme- Author: Khan, Yasmin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 1632867109
- Language: English
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Signs of the Unseen: The Discourses of Jalaluddin Rumi
$24.95 Add to cartSigns of the Unseen is a collection of Rumi’s lectures, discourses, conversations, and comments on various and sundry topics. Even in conversation Rumi expresses his spiritual insights in a style rich… [more below]
- Author: Thackston, Wheeler M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 19 1999
- ISBN10: 1570625328
- Language: English
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Artists in Korea
$49.99 Add to cartPixiv has built the world’s largest creation platform, with over 80 million users and over 3 billion page views monthly. Their mission is to build an exciting space for everyone to enjoy and learn var… [more below]
- Author: Various
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1951038827
- Language: English
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China Incorporated: The Politics of a World Where China Is Number One
$28.00 Read moreIs the West prepared for a world where power is shared with China? A world in which China asserts the same level of global leadership that the USA currently assumes? And can we learn to embrace Chines
- Author: Brown, Kerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1350267244
- Language: English
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Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell
$63.75 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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Invocation to Daughters: City Lights Spotlight No. 16
$15.95 Add to cart- Barbara Jane Reyes is the winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and her work has been reviewed by the National Book Critics Circle.
- These are poems, prayers, psalms, a
- Series: City Lights Spotlight #16
- Author: Reyes, Barbara Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 0872867471
- Language: English
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The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11
$24.99 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind takes you deep inside America’s real battles with violent, unrelenting terrorists–a game of kill-or-be-killed, from the Oval Offic… [more below]
- Author: Suskind, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0743271106
- Language: English
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Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
$20.99 Add to cartOne of the few survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising, Holocaust scholar Gutman draws on diaries, personal letters, and underground press reports in this compelling, authoritative account of a l
- Author: Gutman, Israel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0395901308
- Language: English
