Category - Business & Economics
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Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Hong Kong and Southeast Asia are home to five hundred million people, yet their economies are dominated by only fifty families whose interests ra...
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Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban,...
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The Anarchy
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal and NPR The epic story of how th...
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The Art of War (Chiron Academic Press - The Original Authoritative Edition)
PaperbackOriginal price $7.30 - Original price $7.30Original price $7.30$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /THE ART OF WAR (Chinese: 孫子兵法; pinyin: Sūnzĭ bīngfǎ) is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general...
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The Anarchy
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Finalist for the Cundill History Prize ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street ...
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China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"A blow-by-blow account ... An important corrective to the conventional view of China's rise."--Financial Times From internationally renowned histo...
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China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"An important corrective to the conventional view of China's rise."--Financial TimesFrom internationally renowned historian Frank Dikötter, winner...
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Selling the Future: Community, Hope, and Crisis in the Early History of Japanese Life Insurance
HardcoverOriginal price $57.95 - Original price $57.95Original price $57.95$75.99$75.99 - $75.99Current price $75.99| /In Selling the Future, Ryan Moran explains how the life insurance industry in Japan exploited its association with mutuality and community to com...
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The King's Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /An exciting and richly detailed new history of the Silk Road that tells how it became more important as a route for diplomacy than for trade The Ki...
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The Famine of 1931-1933 in Central Kazakhstan: Collection of Archival Documents and Memoirs
HardcoverOriginal price $139.99 - Original price $139.99Original price $139.99$153.99$153.99 - $153.99Current price $153.99| /The collection contains materials of archival documents and memoirs concerning the famine of 1931-1933 in Central Kazakhstan. Various documents fro...
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India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today
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 provocative new account of how India moved relentlessly from its hope-filled founding in 1947 to the dramatic economic and democratic breakdowns ...
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Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan Before Pearl Harbor
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Award-winning author Edward S. Miller contends in this work that the United States forced Japan into international bankruptcy to deter its aggressi...
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Japan's Engineering Ethics and Western Culture: Social Status, Democracy, and Economic Globalization
PaperbackOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /This book examines the broad historical process of introducing engineering ethics in Japan from the late nineteenth century to the twentieth centur...
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Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Today, "corruption" generally refers to pursuing personal interests at the expense of one's responsibilities, the law, or the common good. It calls...
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Crisis in Sri Lanka and the World: Colonial and Neoliberal Origins: Ecological and Collective Alternatives
HardcoverOriginal price $98.99 - Original price $98.99Original price $98.99$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /This book provides a broad picture of Sri Lanka's on-going political and economic crisis as the culmination of several centuries of colonial and ne...
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Networks of Faith and Profit
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$116.99$116.99 - $116.99Current price $116.99| /Between 839 and 1403 CE, there was a six-century lapse in diplomatic relations between present-day China and Japan. This hiatus in what is known as...
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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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Follow the Money: How China Bought the World
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /While anyone can hop on a plane and fly anywhere in the world for work or a holiday, investigative journalist Michael McCarthy combines the two, us...
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Let There Be Light: How Electricity Made Modern Hong Kong
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The remarkable success of twentieth-century Hong Kong was driven by electricity. The British colony's stunning export-driven economic growth, its s...
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Let There Be Light: How Electricity Made Modern Hong Kong
HardcoverOriginal price $140.00 - Original price $140.00Original price $140.00$170.99$170.99 - $170.99Current price $170.99| /The remarkable success of twentieth-century Hong Kong was driven by electricity. The British colony's stunning export-driven economic growth, its s...
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Decolonisation in the Age of Globalisation: Britain, China, and Hong Kong, 1979-89
HardcoverOriginal price $130.00 - Original price $130.00Original price $130.00$151.99$151.99 - $151.99Current price $151.99| /Drawing extensively on the declassified British archives and Chinese sources, this book explores how Britain and China negotiated for Hong Kong's f...
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A History of Economic Thought in Japan: 1600 - 1945
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /This ground-breaking book provides the first English-language survey of economic thought in modern Japan. Significantly, it offers both a detailed ...
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Steeped: Adventures of a Tea Entrepreneur
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Isolated, broke, and restless in a drafty mountain A-frame with colicky twins, Brook Eddy needed a path out. This is the story of one woman's passi...
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Steeped: Adventures of a Tea Entrepreneur
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Isolated, broke, and restless in a drafty mountain A-frame with colicky twins, Brook Eddy needed a path out. This is the story of one woman's passi...
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