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  • Tibet

    An Unfinished Story

    by Lezlee Brown Halper, Stefan Halper ...
    Tibet's enduring myth, animated by the tales of Himalayan adventurers, British military expeditions, and the novel, Lost Horizon, remains an inspirational fantasy, a modern morality play about the failure of brutality to subdue the human spirit. Tibet also exercises immense "soft power" as one of the lenses through which the world views China. This book traces the origins and manifestations of the ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • The Impossible State

    North Korea, Past and Future

    by Victor Cha ...
    From a seasoned advisor, "a meaty, fast-paced portrait of North Korean society, economy, politics and foreign policy" ( Foreign Affairs).In The Impossible State, international-policy expert and former Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council Victor Cha pulls back the curtain on this controversial and isolated country, providing the best look yet at North Korea's history, the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Foreign Devils on the Silk Road

    The Search for the Lost Treasures of Central Asia

    by Peter Hopkirk ...
    The Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it travelled precious cargoes of silk, gold and ivory, as well as revolutionary new ideas. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centres of Buddhist art and learning.In time it began to decline. The traffic slowed, the merchants left and finally its towns vanished beneath the desert ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Genghis Khan

    by Jacob Abbott ...
    Genghis Khan was the founder and Great Khan (emperor) of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his demise. He came to power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of northeast Asia. After founding the Mongol Empire and being proclaimed "Genghis Khan," he started the Mongol invasions that resulted in the conquest of most of Eurasia. These included raids or ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Man Who Would Be King

    The First American in Afghanistan

    by Ben Macintyre ...
    The untold story of the nineteenth-century American Quaker who tried to build a kingdom in Afghanistan: "A thrilling real-life yarn." — BooklistIn the year 1838, a young adventurer, surrounded by his native troops and mounted on an elephant, raised the American flag on the summit of the Hindu Kush in the mountainous wilds of Afghanistan. He declared himself Prince of Ghor, Lord of the Hazarahs, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Everything Under the Heavens

    How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power

    by Howard W. French ...
    From the former New York Times Asia correspondent and author of China's Second Continent, an incisive investigation of China's ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy.For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions. That role, reports Howard French, has been set ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Genghis Khan

    The Man Who Conquered the World

    by Frank McLynn ...
    Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East and Russia. So how did an illiterate nomad rise to such colossal power, eclipsing Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Napoleon? Credited by some with paving the way for the Renaissance, condemned by others for being the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Omens and Superstitions of Southern India (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Folklore, Ritual Signs, Taboos, Charms, and Spirit Lore in Colonial South Indian Ethnography

    by Edgar Thurston, Romy Jasperwell ...
    Omens and Superstitions of Southern India is an ethnographic compendium cataloguing beliefs, ritual signs, divinatory practices, taboos, charms, spirit lore, and everyday auspicious or inauspicious customs across the region. Written in the descriptive prose of early twentieth-century anthropology, it combines anecdote, classification, and comparative observation. The book belongs to a colonial ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • India

    A Short History

    by Andrew Robinson ...
    Series series A Short History
    India’s unfolding story, from the ancient Hindu dynasties to the coming of Islam, from the Mughal Empire to the present dayIndia has always been a land of great contradictions. To Alexander the Great, the country was a place of clever naked philosophers and massive armies mounted on elephants – which eventually forced his army to retreat. To ancient Rome, it was a source of luxuries, mainly spices ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Angry Nation

    Turkey since 1989

    by Kerem Öktem ...
    Series series Global History of the Present
    Since its re-emergence as nation-state in 1923, Turkey has often looked like an odd appendix to the West situated in the borderlands of Europe and the Middle East, economically backward, inward looking, marred by political violence, yet a staunch NATO ally, it has been eyed with suspicion by both 'East' and 'West'. The momentous changes in the regional and world order after 1989 have catapulted ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales

    Edited by Haruo Shirane ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Burton Watson and Haruo Shirane, renowned translators and scholars, introduce English-speaking readers to the vivid tradition of early and medieval Japanese anecdotal (setsuwa) literature. These orally narrated and written tales drew on both local folk tradition and continental sources. Taken from seven major anthologies of anecdotal literature compiled between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Old Stories Retold

    Narrative and Vanishing Pasts in Modern China

    by Andrew G. Stuckey ...
    Old Stories Retold explores the ways modern Chinese narratives dramatize and embody the historical sense that links them to the past and to the Chinese literary tradition. Largely guided by Walter Benjamin's discussions of history, G. Andrew Stuckey looks at the ways Chinese narrative engages a historical process that pieces together fragments of the past into new configurations to better serve ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD