Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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Journey Through Indonesia: An Unforgettable Journey from Sumatra to Papua
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Whether readers are planning a trip to Bali or just fantasizing about one, Journey Through Indonesia makes for an unforgettable Indonesia travel ...
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Super Cheap Hokkaido: The Ultimate Budget Travel Guide to Sapporo and the Hokkaido Prefecture
PaperbackOriginal price $11.99 - Original price $11.99Original price $11.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Super Cheap Hokkaido is the perfect companion for a budget holiday to Sapporo and the surrounding Hokkaido prefecture. A follow-up to the bestsel...
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Trash Origami: 25 Paper Folding Projects Reusing Everyday Materials: Origami Book with 25 Fun Projects and Instructional DVD
PaperbackOriginal price $7.99 - Original price $7.99Original price $7.99$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /Make fun and functional origami out of your spare paper with this easy origami book. Don't dump your wastepaper into the garbage—it's time to fo...
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The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals
PaperbackOriginal price $36.99Original price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Between 1453 and 1526 Muslims founded three major states in the Mediterranean, Iran and South Asia: respectively the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal...
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The United States, Southeast Asia, and Historical Memory
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Exposes the horrifying criminality of United States policy in Indochina during the Vietnam war. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781608463237 Media Type:...
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Japan: Your Ultimate Guide to Travel, Culture, History, Food and More!: Experience Everything Travel Guide CollectionTM
PaperbackOriginal price $7.99 - Original price $7.99Original price $7.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Japan: Your Ultimate Guide to Travel, Culture, History, Food and More! Experience Everything Travel Guide Collection(TM) Thank you for purchasing...
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Coast Guard Action in Vietnam: Stories of Those Who Served
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A well-crafted and engaging history of the Coast Guar&dgrave;s unusual and dangerous involvement in Vietnam. From the haunting account of the...
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Sumo: A History of the Sport
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Sumo is the official national sport of Japan, as recognized by the country's government. It is built around the simple concept of two nigh-naked ...
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Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /"Splendid…[Darnton gives] us vivid, hard-won detail, illuminating narrative, and subtle, original insight." —Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review ...
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Mumbai Fables
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A sweeping cultural history of India’s largest cityA place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just ...
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Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction and the Formation of Atomic Narratives
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /In Resurrecting Nagasaki, Chad R. Diehl explores the genesis of narratives surrounding the atomic bombing of August 9, 1945, by following the ind...
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Secrets of Bali: Fresh Light on the Morning of the World
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /With its dramatic vistas, its attractive, hospitable people and its rich cultural traditions, the magical isle of Bali has captured the hearts an...
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Central Asia in World History
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the "pivot ...
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Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the 21st Century
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In the late eighteenth century, the political economist Adam Smith predicted an eventual equalization of power between the West and the territori...
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Chinese Characteristics
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Arthur Smith was one of the top Sinologists of the late 19th century and early 20th century, and Chinese Characteristics is the book which best s...
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India: A Wounded Civilization
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a masterpiece of astonishing insight and candor about a society traumatized by centuries of foreign con...
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The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The definitive account of one of the twentieth century's most brutal, yet least examined, episodes of genocide and detention The Killing Season ...
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The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /This is an age of deception. Con men ply the roadways. Bogus alchemists pretend to turn one piece of silver into three. Devious nuns entice young...
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Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of War from North Vietnam / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Even the Women Must Fight"Karen Turner and Phan Thanh Hao have brought scholarship and compassion to a long-neglected aspect of the Vietnam War—t...
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The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /"Like everything else written by Jonathan Spence, The Chan's Great Continent is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in China. Spence is o...
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The Secret Army: Chiang Kai-shek and the Drug Warlords of the Golden Triangle
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The incredible story of how Chiang Kai-shek's defeated army came to dominate the Asian drug trade After their defeat in China's civil war, remnan...
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When the Korean World in Hawaii Was Young, 1903-1940
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /When the Korean World in Hawaii Was Young tells the stories of some "1.5" and second-generation Koreans who experienced life in Hawaii or on the ...
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Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Over the course of the twentieth century, Bombay’s population grew twentyfold as the city became increasingly industrialized and cosmopolitan. Ye...
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The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /China is unique in modern world history. No other rising power has experienced China's turbulent history in its relations with neighbors and West...
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