Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Why some of Asia’s authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer—and why others haven’tOver the past century, Asia has been t...
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Azadi: Fascism, Fiction, and Freedom in the Time of the Virus (Expanded Second Edition)
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Winner of the European Essay Prize 2023 The chant of "Azadi!"--Urdu for "Freedom!"--is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what K...
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Extraordinary Valor: The Fight for Charlie Hill in Vietnam
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A Congressional Medal of Honor AccountExtraordinary Valor is the story of Special Forces Major John Duffy's Medal of Honor gallantry at Firebase Ch...
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Plant-Based Himalaya: Vegan Recipes from Nepal
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 art of healthy cooking is all about loving yourself and spreading that love to those around you. It's even better when you can cook a delicious...
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DK Eyewitness Top 10 Singapore
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Home to the lush Singapore Botanic Gardens, ornate historic architecture andtowering skyscrapers, Singapore embraces the new and the old, all with ...
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Grandfather Gandhi
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Mahatma Gandhi's grandson tells the story of how his grandfather taught him to turn darkness into light in this uniquely personal and vibrantly ill...
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Black Ghosts: Encounters with the Africans Changing China
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The travel memoir of a Nigerian woman in China exploring the intersections and divides between the two cultures and the lives of African economic...
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Nintendo
Library BindingOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Some of the world's most well-known video game characters were created by Nintendo! In this engaging title, readers are introduced to the iconic ga...
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Vietnam
Library BindingOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /More than 100 languages are spoken in Vietnam! In this title, emergent readers will explore the wonders of Vietnam with leveled text and vibrant, c...
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Türkiye
PaperbackOriginal price $7.99 - Original price $7.99Original price $7.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /In this book, readers will learn about the unique and defining features of T, rkiye (Turkey). Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text...
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On Saving Face: A Brief History of Western Appropriation
HardcoverOriginal price $64.00 - Original price $64.00Original price $64.00$82.99$82.99 - $82.99Current price $82.99| /An examination of the Western colloquial appropriation of the Chinese concept of "face." The colloquial concept of "losing face" and "saving face"...
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The Epic of RAM
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The authoritative new translation of the epic Ramayana, as retold by the sixteenth-century poet Tulsidas and cherished by millions to this day. The...
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Kunqu: A Classical Opera of Twenty-First-Century China
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /In Kunqu: A Classical Opera of Twenty-First-Century China, Joseph S. C. Lam offers a holistic and interdisciplinary view on kunqu, a 600-year-old g...
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The Ultimate I Ching: An Illustrated Step-By-Step Guide to the Book of Changes
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /All you need to know to start working with the I-Ching straightaway. Uniquely accessible, with simple step-by-step lessons and striking red-and-bla...
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Eight Hundred Heroes: China's Lost Battalion and the Fall of Shanghai
HardcoverOriginal price $35.99Original price $35.99 - Original price $35.99Original price $35.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Acclaimed historian Stephen Robinson brings to life a legendary last stand in a revelatory new account of the Defense of Sihang Warehouse.Shanghai ...
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Neon Lights in Tokyo: An Insider's Guide to the Best Places to Eat, Drink and Explore
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /An insider's guide to the best places to eat, drink and explore. Tokyo is a city of almost 40 million people. A metropolis so densely packed with c...
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Bollywood Superstars: A Short Story of Indian Cinema
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /An innovative visual history of Indian cinema's history, actors, directors, influences and graphic styleIn India, the power of an icon or a holy pe...
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Akizuki-Class Destroyers: In the Imperial Japanese Navy During World War II
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The destroyers of the Akizuki "Autumn Moon" class were very different from the standard fleet type of Imperial Japanese Navy destroyers inaugurated...
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A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /A revisionist history of the idea of progress reveals an unknown story about European engagement with Chinese science. The Enlightenment gave rise...
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Sex, Sexuality, and the Constitution: Enshrining the Right to Sexual Autonomy in Japan
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /A rigorously detailed argument for sexual autonomy as a constitutional right, a position with far-reaching implications for government policies. As...
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A War of Empires: Japan, India, Burma & Britain: 1941-45
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /SHORTLISTED FOR THE RUSI DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2022 'This is a superb book.' - James Holland In 1941 and 1942 the British a...
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The Ghost in the City: Luo Ping and the Craft of Painting in Eighteenth-Century China
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$76.99$76.99 - $76.99Current price $76.99| /In 1771 the artist Luo Ping (1733-99) left his native Yangzhou to relocate to the burgeoning hub of Beijing's Southern City. Over two decades, he b...
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Nine Lives of the Flying Tiger: Volume 1 - America's Secret Air Wars in Asia, 1945-1950
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"Grandolini and Koelich look back in time with an excellent collection of photographs, profile drawings of aircraft, and maps in a magazine-sized b...
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Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India Volume 7
PaperbackOriginal price $47.95 - Original price $47.95Original price $47.95$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /At present India is a leading producer, distributor, and consumer of generic medicines globally. Disparate Remedies traces the genealogy of this de...
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