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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 Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /2021 Cundill History Prize FinalistA Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Spectator Best Book of the YearA Five Books Best Book of the Year“Out...
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Islamic Metalwork from the Aron Collection
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00Original price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00Current price $47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /An eye-opening cornucopia of Islamic metal craftsmanship from the Middle Ages to the 14th centuryThe Aron Collection was first introduced to the pu...
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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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Bright Eyes: A Kunoichi Tale
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Can one girl stop a killer?The future of Japan hangs in the balance, and it's up to a girl who likes to climb to save the dayTwo armies have descen...
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Bright Eyes: A Kunoichi Tale
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Can one girl stop a killer?The future of Japan hangs in the balance, and it's up to a girl who likes to climb to save the dayTwo armies have descen...
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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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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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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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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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Medieval Indian Armies (2): Indo-Islamic Forces, 7th-Early 16th Centuries
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This illustrated study investigates the Indo-Islamic fighting men of South Asia from the 7th century AD to the Mughal conquest of the 16th century....
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Genghis Khan: The Story of Genghis Khan and His Legendary Rise to Power (His Life, Death Conqueror, Visionary, and Legacy)
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Genghis Khan fascinates us because of his ability to rise from a shunned leader to the most powerful ruler of his time. His intelligence and desire...
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Yuan: Chinese Architecture in a Mongol Empire
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00$95.99$95.99 - $95.99Current price $95.99| /A monumental illustrated survey of the architecture of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century China The Yuan dynasty endured for a century, leaving beh...
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Samurai Sieges: The Long Road to Unification
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Known from his collaboration on the Netflix documentary Age of Samurai, historian William de Lange returns to what he does best: highly anecdotal s...
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Samurai: An Illustrated History
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Samurai: An Illustrated History brings the violent, tumultuous, and, at the same time, elegant world of the medieval Japanese samurai to life. This...
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The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Cundill Prize FinalistA Financial Times Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearA Five Books Book of the Year The Mongols are known for one thi...
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The Cambridge History of Japan
HardcoverOriginal price $104.00 - Original price $104.00Original price $104.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /This volume provides the most comprehensive treatment of the Heian period, the golden age of the Japanese imperial court, in any Western language...
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The Cambridge History of Japan
HardcoverOriginal price $91.99 - Original price $91.99Original price $91.99$109.99$109.99 - $109.99Current price $109.99| /Japan's ancient age was a period of radical and political change during which a Chinese-style empire emerged. This volume of The Cambridge Histor...
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The Cambridge History of Japan
HardcoverOriginal price $91.99 - Original price $91.99Original price $91.99$109.99$109.99 - $109.99Current price $109.99| /This third volume in The Cambridge History of Japan is devoted to the three and a half centuries spanning the final decades of the twelfth centur...
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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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When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the ""Riches of the ""East""
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /While European civilization stagnated in the "Dark Ages," Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together...
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The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This is the first serious study of Tamerlane, the great nomad conqueror who rose to power in 1370 on the ruins of the Mongol Empire and led his a...
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