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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The startling true history of how one extraordinary man from a remote corner of the world created an empire that led ...
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The Mongols: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Mongols carved out the largest land-based empire in world history, stretching from Korea to Russi...
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Tales of Times Now Past: Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Tales of Times Now Past is a translation of 62 outstanding tales freshly selected from Konjaku monogatari shu, a Japanese anthology dating from t...
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Genghis Khan: Life, Death, and Resurrection
PaperbackOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals, alive in memory as a scourge, hero, military genius and demi-god. To Muslims, Russians and westerners, ...
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The First Samurai: The Life and Legend of the Warrior Rebel, Taira Masakado
HardcoverOriginal price $35.95Original price $35.95 - Original price $35.95Original price $35.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A portrait of Japan's first significant samurai leader and his world Was samurai warrior Taira Masakado a quixotic megalomaniac or a hero swept up ...
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Tea and Empire: James Taylor in Victorian Ceylon
HardcoverOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /This book brings to life for the first time the remarkable story of James Taylor, 'father of the Ceylon tea enterprise' in the nineteenth century, ...
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Chinese Dreams in Romantic England: The Life and Times of Thomas Manning
HardcoverOriginal price $36.95Original price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A polymath and participant in the 'first wave' of British Romanticism, Manning was one of the first Englishmen to study Chinese language and cultur...
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The First Samurai: The Life and Legend of the Warrior Rebel, Taira Masakado
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A portrait of Japan's first significant samurai leader and his world Was samurai warrior Taira Masakado a quixotic megalomaniac or a hero swept up ...
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Voices of Two Americans: Overseas in the 1920s, Work and Adventures
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Herein are the voices of two Americans who traveled abroad in the 1920s to help make the world a better place and to have adventures.Harvey, in his...
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The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“A fascinating romp through the feminine side of the infamous Khan clan” (Booklist) by the author featured in Echoes of the Empire: Beyond Genghi...
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Insight Guides Explore Vietnam (Travel Guide with Free eBook)
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Insight Guides Explore Vietnam Travel made easy. Ask local experts. Focused travel guide featuring the very best routes and itineraries, now wi...
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The Travels
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A sparkling new translation of the most famous travel book ever writtenMarco Polo’s voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China. Afterward, he se...
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Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong
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 timely, well-researched, and "illuminating" (The New York Times Book Review) new history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the dive...
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Genghis Khan and the Quest for God: How the World's Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /A landmark biography by the New York Times bestselling author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World that reveals how Genghis harness...
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Human-Animal Relations and the Hunt in Korea and Northeast Asia
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$140.99$140.99 - $140.99Current price $140.99| /This book focuses on the transitional period in late Koryŏ and early Chosŏn dynasty Korea from the 1270s until 1506, situating the Korean peninsula...
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Forged in America: How Irish-Jewish Encounters Shaped a Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Examines how Irish and Jewish Americans defined their place in a complex society. The story of America is the story of the unlikely groups of immig...
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Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /The expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement across the globe for both the colonizers and the colonized. Waiting on Empire focuses on a...
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The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A fascinating history of China's relations with the West--told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translators The 1793 British embassy to ...
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The Impact of Coincidence in Modern American, British, and Asian History: Twenty-One Unusual Historical Events
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /In 21 case studies, this short book examines the distinctive coincidental history of America, Britain, and various Asian countries during the twent...
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A Capybara for Christmas: European Travel, Japanese Adventure, Maximum Mayhem: European
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /One family.Nine countries.And a search for a giant mouse.When the Prior family dash through Europe and Japan on the trail of a capybara, they've no...
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The Building of Chinese Ethnicity in Rome: Networks Without Borders
PaperbackOriginal price $109.99 - Original price $109.99Original price $109.99$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /This book presents the history of Chinese migrations to Europe within a "transcalar glocal" perspective. That is, it moves between international, n...
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Royals and Rebels: The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /In late-eighteenth-century India, the glory of the Mughal emperors was fading, and ambitious newcomers seized power, changing the political map for...
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Civilizations of the Silk Road
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /This book describes the interactions between various civilizations and societies along the Silk Road between 500 BCE and 1500 CE, the period from t...
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Vanishing Trade Space: Assessing the Prospects for Great Power Cooperation in an Era of Competition-A Project Overview
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /To what extent can the United States still cooperate with China and Russia in certain areas even in this era of strategic competition? On which iss...
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