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Raid of No Return: A World War II Tale of the Doolittle Raid (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales Series #7)
HardcoverOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /New York Times Bestselling Series!“These books are, quite simply, brilliant. . . . Thrilling, bloody, action-packed stories from American history...
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Heart of Buddha, Heart of China: The Life of Tanxu, a Twentieth Century Monk
PaperbackOriginal price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The Buddhist monk Tanxu surmounted extraordinary obstacles--poverty, wars, famine, and foreign occupation--to become one of the most prominent monk...
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Return to Saigon: From High School in Saigon to his return there as a wounded Naval Aviator, Vietnam shaped his life
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The author ejects from his burning Navy jet onto a karst ridge near Hanoi, and what follows is one of the most implausible and heroic rescues of t...
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Return to Saigon: From high school in Saigon to his return there as a wounded Naval Aviator, Vietnam shaped his life
PaperbackOriginal price $16.97 - Original price $16.97Original price $16.97$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The author ejects from his burning Navy jet onto a karst ridge near Hanoi, and what follows is one of the most implausible and heroic rescues of t...
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Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Changed Japanese Baseball
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Wally Yonamine was both the first Japanese American to play for an NFL franchise and the first American to play professional baseball in Japan afte...
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Mashi: The Unfulfilled Baseball Dreams of Masanori Murakami, the First Japanese Major Leaguer
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In the spring of 1964, the Nankai Hawks of Japan's Pacific League sent nineteen-year-old Masanori Murakami to the Class A Fresno Giants to improve ...
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Hindutva and Violence: V. D. Savarkar and the Politics of History
PaperbackOriginal price $37.95 - Original price $37.95Original price $37.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Examines the place of history in the political thought of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, one of the key architects of modern Hindu nationalism.Product D...
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Hindutva and Violence
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /Hindutva and Violence explores the place of history in the political thought of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883-1966), the most controversial Indian...
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Mashi: The Unfulfilled Baseball Dreams of Masanori Murakami, the First Japanese Major Leaguer
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In the spring of 1964, the Nankai Hawks of Japan's Pacific League sent nineteen-year-old Masanori Murakami to the Class A Fresno Giants to improve ...
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Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India's Most Controversial King
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /This brief, accessible biography sheds new light on one of India's most controversial and misunderstood figures, arguing that the Mughal emperor Au...
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From Jerusalem to Kashmir: The Secret Life of Jesus in India
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Is the tomb of Jesus Christ really in Israel? Could Jesus have worked in India and Kashmir? In his novel, Jozef Ban s once again undermines the est...
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We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Deftly upends the compliant narrative with impeccably documented stories of resistance and rebellion ... Made urgent yet again, the trio's courage...
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India: A History. Revised and Updated
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Fully revised with forty thousand new words that take the reader up to present-day India, John Keay’s India: A History spans five millennia in a ...
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The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The thrilling true story of train-robbing revolutionaries and passengers who got more than they paid for in this Murder on the Orient Express-style...
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The Boy from Clearwater: Book 1
HardcoverOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /For fans of Persepolis; An incredible true story in graphic novel form, that lays bare the tortured and triumphant history of Taiwan, an island cla...
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The Boy from Clearwater: Book 1
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /For fans of Persepolis; An incredible true story in graphic novel form, that lays bare the tortured and triumphant history of Taiwan, an island cla...
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The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India
HardcoverOriginal price $33.00 - Original price $33.00Original price $33.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /The definitive biography of the eldest son of Emperor Shah Jahan, whose death at the hands of his younger brother Aurangzeb changed the course of S...
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Singing with the Mountains: The Language of God in the Afghan Highlands
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /An illuminating story of a Sufi community that sought the revelation of God. In the Afghan highlands of the sixteenth century, the messianic commun...
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The Kaleidoscopic City: Hong Kong, Mission, and the Evolution of Global Pentecostalism
HardcoverOriginal price $59.99 - Original price $59.99Original price $59.99$78.99$78.99 - $78.99Current price $78.99| /The Kaleidoscopic City explores the development of Pentecostalism in Hong Kong between 1907 and 1942. Focusing primarily on Pentecostal missionari...
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Harmony Express: Travels by Train Through China
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Thomas Bird found himself in southern China free from any serious commitments. His rock band had just split up, he'd left his job as the editor of ...
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The Buddha: A Storied Life
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Retellings of the Buddha's life story have animated and sustained Buddhist thought and practice through some 2,500 years of history. To this day, B...
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Cambodian Evangelicalism: Cosmological Hope and Diasporic Resilience
HardcoverOriginal price $104.95 - Original price $104.95Original price $104.95$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /The Cambodian Civil War and genocide of the late 1960s and '70s left the country and its diaspora with long-lasting trauma that continues to reverb...
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No Birds of Passage: A History of Gujarati Muslim Business Communities, 1800-1975
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /A sweeping account of three Gujarati Muslim trading communities, whose commercial success over nearly two centuries sheds new light on the history ...
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Introduction to Buddhist East Asia
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Robert H. Scott is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Georgia. His previous books include The Significance of Indetermina...
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