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The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The Beautiful and the Damned presents an affecting, incisive portrait of the vast, fascinating, and incongruent country that is globalized India....
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Japan and the Shackles of the Past
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Japan is one of the world's wealthiest and most technologically advanced nations, and its rapid ascent to global power status after 1853 remains ...
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North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /What is life in North Korea really like?This fascinating book by celebrated journalists Daniel Tudor and James Pearson explores that very questio...
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The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Renowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years—from the birth of Christianity through the moder...
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Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
PaperbackOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /2014 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Notable Book Award In Goliath, New York Times bestselling author Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey th...
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Queer Southeast Asia
PaperbackOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Tang and Wijaya present a range of new and established scholarly voices, including local activists directly involved in developments in Southeast...
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Mistaking Africa: Misconceptions and Inventions
PaperbackOriginal price $46.95 - Original price $46.95Original price $46.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /For many in the west, the mention of Africa immediately conjures up images of safaris, ferocious animals, sparsely dressed "tribesmen," and impen...
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Premodern Japan: A Historical Survey / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $62.95 - Original price $62.95Original price $62.95$77.99$77.99 - $77.99Current price $77.99| /Japanese historian Louis Perez brings Mikiso Hane's rich and beloved account of early Japanese history up-to-date in this thoroughly revised Seco...
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International Relations of Asia, Third Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $49.00 - Original price $49.00Original price $49.00$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title This is the most up-to-date and comprehensive volume on the international relations of Asia and th...
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Taiwan, the United States, and the Hidden History of the Cold War in Asia: Divided Allies
PaperbackOriginal price $48.95 - Original price $48.95Original price $48.95$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /This book explores the challenges which faced the United States and Taiwanese alliance during the Cold War, addressing a wide range of events and...
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Cairo Securitized: Reconceiving Urban Justice and Social Resilience
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$96.99$96.99 - $96.99Current price $96.99| /A rich examination of the securitization of the everyday lives of the citizens of Cairo and how to build a more equitable urban orderUntil the ye...
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The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle for Its Inner Soul
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 NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - An urgent, wide-ranging portrait of the divisions among Israelis today, and the external threats to the...
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The Arab-Israeli Conflict: An Introduction and Documentary Reader
PaperbackOriginal price $46.95 - Original price $46.95Original price $46.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /This textbook examines the diplomatic and historical setting within which the Arab-Israeli conflict has developed, and gives students the opportuni...
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Arab-Iranian Relations Since the Arab Uprisings
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /Unlike most writing on Arab-Iran relations, which looks at specific episodes and specific countries, this book, taking a long term view, assesses t...
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The Nasirean Ethics (RLE Iran C)
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The Nasirean Ethics is the best known ethical digest to be composed in medieval Persia, if not in all mediaeval Islam. It appeared initially in 633...
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Voices of the Korean Comfort Women: History Rewritten from Memories
PaperbackOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /An innumerable number of young women were taken from Korea during the Pacific War to provide sexual services to Japanese soldiers. These women, inc...
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Beer in East Asia: A Political Economy
HardcoverOriginal price $160.00 - Original price $160.00Original price $160.00$193.99$193.99 - $193.99Current price $193.99| /Chambers, Nuangjamnong, and their contributors look at how the development of the beer industry in East Asia presents a unique opportunity for unde...
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Ancestral Genealogies in Modern China: A Study of Lineage Organizations in Hong Kong and Mainland China
PaperbackOriginal price $52.95 - Original price $52.95Original price $52.95$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /This book explores the remarkable phenomenon of Chinese lineages - groups of people connected through patrilineal kinship ties, which have existed ...
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Neo-Confucianism and Science in Korea: Humanity and Nature, 1706-1814
PaperbackOriginal price $52.95 - Original price $52.95Original price $52.95$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /Historians of late premodern Korea have tended to regard it as a hermit kingdom, isolated from its neighbours and the wider world. In fact, as Ro a...
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Political Islam and Democracy in Central Asia: The Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /Political Islam and Democracy in Central Asia is a study of moderation of political Islam in Central Asia. It analyses the only Islamic political p...
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Korean Film and History
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /Cinema has become a battleground upon which history is made--a major mass medium of the twentieth century dealing with history. The re-enactments o...
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The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945-1966
HardcoverOriginal price $64.95 - Original price $64.95Original price $64.95$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /In The Ideological Scramble for Africa, Frank Gerits examines how African leaders in the 1950s and 1960s crafted an anticolonial modernization proj...
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The Power of Neo-Slave Fiction and Public History: From Slavery to the Enslaved
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /The central thesis of this book is the belief historical fiction in text and film shape attitudes towards an understanding of history as it moves t...
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Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In this bol...
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