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“dashu qin”

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  • Ancient Silk Trade Routes: Selected Works From Symposium On Cross Cultural Exchanges And Their Legacies In Asia

    by Dashu Qin, Jian Yuan ...
    As key nodes that connected ancient silk routes traversing China, Japan and India, trading hubs, towns and cities in Java and Sumatra and other places in Asia were key destination points for merchants, monks and other itinerants plying these routes.Recent archaeological excavations in countries bordering the South China Sea and around the Indian Ocean unveiled remarkable similarities in artifacts ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

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  • The Airmen and the Headhunters

    A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II

    by Judith M. Heimann ...
    A true story of downed B-24s in Japanese-occupied Borneo and a native tribe that "makes us—like the airmen—rethink our definitions of civilized and savage" ( Entertainment Weekly).November 1944: Their B-24 bomber shot down on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast, a scattered crew of Army airmen cut themselves loose from their parachutes—only to be met by loincloth-wearing ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Khe Sanh: Siege in the Clouds

    by Eric Hammel ...
    KHE SANH: Siege in the Clouds, An Oral History by Eric Hammel From critcally acclaimed military historian Eric Hammel comes a vivid oral history account of the Tet 1968 siege of the Khe Sanh Combat Base. The words of American fighting men caught up in the grueling, deadly seventy-seven-day ordeal create a harrowing tapestry of tragedy and triumph. = As two North Vietnamese Army divisions move to ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Midnight's Furies

    The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition

    by Nisid Hajari ...
    A "fast-moving and highly readable account" of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 and its lasting legacy in today's geopolitical tensions ( The New York Times).An NPR and Seattle Times Best Book of the YearNobody expected the events of 1947 in Southeast Asia to be so bloody. The liberation of India and the birth of Pakistan were supposed to realize the dreams of Muslims and Hindus who had been ruled ... Read more

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  • Force Benedict

    by Eric Carter, Anthony Loveless ...
    Series Book 2 - Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two
    Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not under Nazi occupation. If Murmansk fell, Soviet resistance against the Nazis would be hard to sustain and Hitler would be able to turn all his forces on ... Read more

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  • The Tiger That Lost Its Roar

    by Tony Pua ...
    The book tells the tale of Malaysia's political economy, on how politics is deeply intertwined with the economy. The author backs his thesis that corruption, cronyism and abuse of power is crippling Malaysia's ability to compete in the global economy with facts and figures. His insights tells of how Malaysians can fulfill the country's potential and make a difference for the future generations. ... Read more

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  • A History of the Vietnamese

    by K. W. Taylor ...
    The history of Vietnam prior to the nineteenth century is rarely examined in any detail. In this groundbreaking work, K. W. Taylor takes up this challenge, addressing a wide array of topics from the earliest times to the present day - including language, literature, religion, and warfare - and themes - including Sino-Vietnamese relations, the interactions of the peoples of different regions within ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • On the Irrawaddy, A Story of the First Burmese War

    by G. A. Henty ...
    Series series Svenska Ljud Classica
    As the first Anglo-Burmese War is raging, a young man, Stanley, finds himself involved. Set in early nineteenth century India and Burma, "On the Irrawaddy, A Story of the First Burmese War" is an exciting adventure, loaded with historical detail. ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905

    by Geoffrey Jukes ...
    Series series Guide to...
    The Russo-Japanese war saw the first defeat of a major European imperialist power by an Asian country.When Japanese and Russian expansionist interests collided over Manchuria and Korea, the Tsar assumed Japan would never dare to fight. However, after years of planning, Japan launched a surprise attack on the Russian Port Arthur, on the Liaoyang Peninsula in 1904 and the war that followed saw Japan ... Read more

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  • Ghostly Desires

    Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema

    by Arnika Fuhrmann ...
    Through an examination of post-1997 Thai cinema and video art Arnika Fuhrmann shows how vernacular Buddhist tenets, stories, and images combine with sexual politics in figuring current struggles over notions of personhood, sexuality, and collective life. The drama, horror, heritage, and experimental art films she analyzes draw on Buddhist-informed conceptions of impermanence and prominently ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The OSS in Burma

    Jungle War against the Japanese

    by Troy J. Sacquety ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    “One could not choose a worse place for fighting the Japanese,” said Winston Churchill of North Burma, deeming it “the most forbidding fighting country imaginable.” But it was here that the fledgling Office of Strategic Services conducted its most successful combat operations of World War II. Troy Sacquety takes readers into Burma’s steaming jungles in the first book to fully cover the exploits ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Education-at-large: Student Life And Activities In Singapore 1945-1965

    by Siao See Teng, Cheow Thia Chan, Huay Leng Lee ...
    The first part of the book contains documentation of a groundbreaking exhibition held in 2007 on student activities and societal engagements during post-war Singapore 1945-1965 and transcripts of forums held in conjunction with it. The second half centres on oral history accounts of mostly former Chinese school students who shared about their social, cultural and political activities in complex ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD