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African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"A readable, compassionate account of an extraordinary life.” —The Washington PostThe remarkable life of history’s first foreign-born samurai, an...
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Things I'll Never forget: Memories of a Marine in Viet Nam
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Things I'll never forget is the story of a young high school graduate in 1965 who faces being drafted into the Army or volunteering for the Marine ...
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Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From ornately decorative to excruciatingly stringent, Japanese rope bondage is an art which has developed over centuries of martial and erotic pr...
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Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India
PaperbackOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In less that one hundred years, the British made themselves the masters of India. They ruled for another hundred, leaving behind the independent ...
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Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Zhou Enlai, the premier of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until his death in 1976, is the last Communist political leader to be revered...
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Great Pacific War: A History of the American-Japanese Campaign of 1931-33
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /This blow-by-blow fictional account of a war between the United States and Japan was a forerunner of actual events, written 16 years before the J...
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People's War People's Army: The Viet Cong Insurrection Manual for Underdeveloped Countries / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780898753714 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: University Press of the Pacific Publication Date: 06-01-2001 Pages: 232 Prod...
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A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies, Third Edition / Edition 3
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Continuously in demand since its first, prize-winning edition was published in 1975, this is the classic history of the development of the Americ...
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The Lotus Sutra
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Since its appearance in China in the third century, The Lotus Sutra has been regarded as one of the most illustrious scriptures in the Mahayana B...
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Ancient Wisdom, Modern Kitchen: Recipes from the East for Health, Healing, and Long Life
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Award-Winner in the Cookbooks: International category of the 2010 International Book Awards Ancient Wisdom, Modern Kitchen reveals how easy it i...
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The Lazarus Heist: From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea's Global Cyber War
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The jaw-dropping story behind North Korea's dangerous cyber-criminals, the Lazarus Group, who hacked Hollywood and the world Meet the Lazarus Gro...
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For the Love of Wine: My Odyssey through the World's Most Ancient Wine Culture
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /In 2011 when Alice Feiring first arrived in Georgia, she felt as if she'd emerged from the magic wardrobe into a world filled with mythical chara...
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Okinawa: The History of an Island People
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /"The first full-length monograph on the history of the Ryukyu Islands in any Western language…a standard work."—Pacific Affairs Okinawa: The Hist...
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Finding George Orwell in Burma
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A fascinating political travelogue that traces the life and work of George Orwell, author of 1984 and ANIMAL FARM, in Southeast Asia Over the yea...
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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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Tuttle Practical Cambodian Dictionary: English-Cambodian Cambodian-English
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /This is a compact and travel-friendly Cambodian-English, and English-Cambodian dictionary The Tuttle Practical Cambodian Dictionary answers the n...
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Easy Tagalog Phrase Book: Over 1500 Common Phrases For Everyday Use And Travel
PaperbackOriginal price $9.90 - Original price $9.90Original price $9.90$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /What is the hardest challenge you've faced as a student of the Tagalog language? You can work hard on your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation...
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The Great Wall Of China
PaperbackOriginal price $7.99 - Original price $7.99Original price $7.99$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /The Great Wall of China is Angela Fisher's brief history of the Great Wall.Angela FIsher's The Great Wall is an "awe-inspiring, impressive, blac...
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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Winner of the Lionel Gelber PrizeNational Book Critics Circle Award FinalistAn Economist Best Book of the Year | A Financial Times Book of the Ye...
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Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the World
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /This global history as the Chinese would write it gives brilliant and unconventional insights for understanding China's role in the world, especi...
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Formosa Betrayed
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Formosa Betrayed is a detailed, impassioned account of Chinese Nationalist (KMT) misrule that remains the most important English-language book ev...
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Nicholas I: Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /The Indiana U. Press edition (1978) is cited in BCL3 . A scholarly biography that provides a view of Russian autocracy. Annotation copyright Book...
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The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreig...
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Saigon 2013: Guide to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Including Hanoi, Hue, Hoi An, Nha Trang, ...
PaperbackOriginal price $13.99 - Original price $13.99Original price $13.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /This book will bring you to most interesting parts of Ho Chi Minh City, as well as to other parts of the country. Do not worry if you think I am ...
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