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A Democracy Is Born: An Insider's Account of the Battle Against Terrorism in Afghanistan
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00$89.99$89.99 - $89.99Current price $89.99| /In October 2004, more than eight million citizens of Afghanistan turned out to vote in the first democratic election in the turbulent, 5,000-year h...
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Afghan Napoleon: The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The first biography in a decade of Afghan resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud. When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the forces of resist...
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Afghanistan 1979-88: Soviet Air Power Against the Mujahideen
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The first English-language book to examine the crucial part air power played in the Soviet-Afghan War. The Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan w...
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Afghanistan: A Military History from the Ancient Empires to the Great Game
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Afghanistan: A Military History from the Ancient Empires to the Great Game covers the military history of a region encompassing Afghanistan, Cent...
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Assessing the Prospects for Great Power Cooperation in Europe and the Middle East
PaperbackOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /This report, part of a four-part series, describes the potential for U.S. cooperation with China or Russia in Europe and the Middle East on seven i...
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Assessing the Prospects for Great Power Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific
PaperbackOriginal price $41.00 - Original price $41.00Original price $41.00$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /This report, part of a four-part series, describes the potential for U.S. cooperation with China or Russia in the Indo-Pacific on seven issues: sec...
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Because I Have to: The Path to Survival, the Uyghur Struggle
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /When Jewher Ilham's father, Ilham Tohti, an internationally known advocate for peaceful dialogue between his Uyghur people and Han Chinese, was det...
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Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A 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 t...
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Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A major history of Central Asia and how it has been shaped by modern world eventsCentral Asia is often seen as a remote and inaccessible land on ...
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Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe m...
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Comparing Taliban Social Media Usage by Language: Who's Speaking and What's Being Said
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /By examining Taliban leadership use of Twitter in various regional languages and in English, the authors sought to clarify messaging broadcast via ...
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Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
PaperbackOriginal price $20.95Original price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /An epic account of the rise and fall of the Silk Road empiresThe first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day,...
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Envisioning a Tibetan Luminary: The Life of a Modern Bönpo Saint
PaperbackOriginal price $45.99 - Original price $45.99Original price $45.99$59.99$59.99 - $59.99Current price $59.99| /Envisioning a Tibetan Luminary examines the religious biography of Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen (1859-1934), the most significant modern figure represent...
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Games without Rules: The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /By the author of Destiny Disrupted: An enlightening, lively, accessible, history of Afghanistan from 1840 to today, from the Afghan point of view...
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction• A New York Times bestseller“The CIA itself would be hard put to beat his grasp of global events . . ...
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Have the Mountains Fallen?: Two Journeys of Loss and Redemption in the Cold War
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /After surviving the blitzkrieg of World War II and escaping from two Nazi prison camps, Soviet soldier Azamat Altay was banished as a traitor from ...
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Hydraulic Societies: Water, Power, and Control in East and Central Asian History
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Hydraulic Societies explores the linked themes of water, power, state-building, and hydraulic control. Bringing together a range of ecological, geo...
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Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia
HardcoverOriginal price $54.95 - Original price $54.95Original price $54.95$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples examines the racialization of identities and its impact on mixed couples and families in Soviet Central...
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Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The forgotten story of Central Asia's enlightenment—its rise, fall, and enduring legacyIn this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Freder...
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Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman's Journey Through Afghanistan
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“Nawa deftly sketches the geopolitical nightmare that is today’s Afghanistan, but the book’s real strength is her detailed, sensitive reporting o...
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Proxy Warfare in Strategic Competition: State Motivations and Future Trends
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /The authors used both quantitative analysis and case studies of China, Iran, and Russia to examine the causes and likely future trends in proxy war...
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Religions of the Hindukush: The Pre-Islamic Heritage of Eastern Afghanistan and Northern Pakistan
HardcoverOriginal price $85.00 - Original price $85.00Original price $85.00$87.99$87.99 - $87.99Current price $87.99| /The traditional religions of the remote tribes along the northern borderlands between Afghanistan and Pakistan, with their complex cosmology of god...
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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A Best Book of the Year: The Economist, Slate, Kirkus ReviewsIn 1839, nearly 20,000 British troops poured through the mountain passes into Afghan...
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Staying the Unfavorable Course: National Security Council Decisionmaking and the Inertia of U.S. Afghanistan Policy, 2001-2016
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /From 2001 to 2021, despite deteriorating conditions and no apparent hope of military victory, the United States pursued an unchanging policy object...
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