Southeast Asia
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Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare
$38.99 Add to cart“The text sparkles with shrewdly plausible inferences mortared into a compelling narrative . . . [Short] is excellent at coining pithy summations of political motives that ring humanly true.”–The New
- Author: Short, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0805080066
- Language: English
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The Dog Meows, the Cat Barks
$14.95 Add to cartSato Reang enjoys an idyllic childhood of soccer, fighting crickets, and mischief in his Indonesian village–until the day he must be circumcised, and his observant father forces him into a life of Is
- Author: Kurniawan, Eka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0811239764
- Language: English
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Tales from Manila Ave.
$21.95 Add to cartTales from Manila Ave. traces the joys and struggles of Filipino immigrants as they navigate life and ponder identity outside their motherland. Through touching reflections on community and memory, Pa
- Author: Caoile, Patrick Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1951979842
- Language: English
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The Robe and the Sword: How Buddhist Extremism Is Shaping Modern Asia
$18.00 Add to cartWhen the robe becomes a weapon, who can stop the violence?
We think of Buddhism as a faith of peace–rooted in compassion, patience, and nonviolence. But across South and Southeast Asia today, the rob- Author: Faleiro, Sonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1967190003
- Language: English
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From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey
$19.99 Add to cart“A page-turner…deeply moving, beautifully written, and most inspiring. When I reached the last page, my heart was filled with joy and gratitude.” — Nien Chang, author of Life and Death in Shanghai
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- Author: Thwe, Pascal Khoo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 02 2003
- ISBN10: 0060505230
- Language: English
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The Sad Part Was
$16.95 Add to cart‘Evocative, erudite, and often very funny stories of Bangkok life.’— The Guardian
A ‘Book to Look Out For’ by The Guardian and BuzzFeed, The Sad Part Was offers an oblique reflection of contemporary B
- Author: Yoon, Prabda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1911284061
- Language: English
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Spice: The 16th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World
$20.00 Add to cartThe story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific
Spices drove the early modern world econo- Author: Crowley, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0300281129
- Language: English
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Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
$22.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist
As the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos was on the ground in China for years, witness
Winner of the National Book Award in nonfiction- Author: Osnos, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535272
- Language: English
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Yoga as Embodied Resistance: A Feminist Lens on Caste, Gender, and Sacred Resilience in Yoga History
$20.95 Add to cartWhat does yoga have to do with caste, gender, and power?
This groundbreaking work explores how yoga can be a vital path to resistance, agency, and collective liberation. Yoga as Embodied Resistance- Author: Rao, Anjali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 9798889842774
- Language: English
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Splendid Liberators: Heroism, Betrayal, Resistance, and the Birth of American Empire
$39.00 Add to cartThis immersive epic reveals the origins of the American empire and the lives of those who promoted it and those who resisted it.
In 1898, the United States won an empire, and–many allege–lost its so- Author: Jackson, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0374191905
- Language: English
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The Colors of April: Fiction on the Vietnam War’s Legacy 50 Years Later
$20.00 Add to cartFifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, literary voices of the Vietnamese-American diaspora as well as Vietnam-based authors speak to the experience of those who left and those who stayed in THE
- Author: Ha, Quan Manh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 195310357X
- Language: English
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Saving Face
$18.99 Add to cartThe founder of a skincare line teeters on career-defining success when a bullish journalist sets out to write her inaugural profile, threatening to unearth her darkest secret–that she’s not the wealt… [more below]
- Author: Shah, Mansi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0778368408
- Language: English
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Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History
$35.00 Add to cartIn this “forensic, unflinching, devastating work of historical recovery” (Sathnam Sanghera), Bud Dajo–an American atrocity bigger than Wounded Knee or My Lai, yet today largely forgotten–is revealed… [more below]
- Author: Wagner, Kim A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1541701496
- Language: English
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Burma ’44: The Battle That Turned World War II in the East
$30.00 Add to cartCelebrated historian of World War II James Holland chronicles the astonishing Allied victory at the Battle of the Admin Box in Burma (now Myanmar), a turning point of the war in the Far East
In Februar
- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0802160581
- Language: English
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My Vietnam, Your Vietnam: A Father Flees. a Daughter Returns. a Dual Memoir.
$18.00 Add to cart“Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2024” —Ms. Magazine
A chronicle of the divergent journeys of a Vietnamese father, who fled his home country in desperation, and his American-born daughter, who vent
- Author: Vo, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1953103464
- Language: English
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Skies of Thunder: The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World
$32.00 Add to cartA New York Times Editors’ Choice
“Riveting.” —The New York Times From the New York Times bestselling author, a breathtaking account of combat and survival in one of the most brutally challenging and- Author: Alexander, Caroline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1984879235
- Language: English
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The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War Pow’s Story of Courage and Resilience in the Hanoi Hilton
$32.95 Add to cartThis is the incredible tale of the youngest and lowest-ranking American POW captured in North Vietnam. Doug Hegdahl convinced his captors he was stupid, then spent the next two years memorizing the na… [more below]
- Author: Leepson, Marc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0811772926
- Language: English
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The Vietnam War: The Definitive Illustrated History
$45.00 Add to cartThis revised and updated guide to the Vietnam War charts the unforgettable story of America’s longest and most controversial conflict, 50 years on from its end.
Hundreds of insightful images and a co- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0593963474
- Language: English
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The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II
$20.99 Add to cartAs the Imperial Japanese Army swept across China and South Asia at World War II’s outset, closing all of China’s seaports, more than 200,000 Chinese laborers embarked on a seemingly impossible task: t
- Author: Webster, Donovan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: September 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0060746386
- Language: English
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Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
$21.99 Add to cartOn a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of people raised a homemade cotton flag and, on behalf of 68 million compatriots, announced the birth of a new nation. With the fourth largest popul
- Author: Van Reybrouck, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110449
- Language: English
