Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
by George Crile


Publisher Comments
Charlie Wilson's War was a publishing sensation and a New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times bestseller. In the early 1980s, a Houston socialite turned the attention of maverick Texas congressman Charlie Wilson to the ragged band of... (read more)

Your Price $6.98
(Sale - Trade Paper)

add to wish list

The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet's Lost Paradise
by Ian Baker


Publisher Comments
One of the most captivating stories of exploration and discovery in recent memory, "The Heart of the World" is an extraordinary journey to one of the wildest and most inaccessible places on Earth--and a pilgrimage to the heart of the Tibetan Buddhist... (read more)

Your Price $7.98
(Sale - Trade Paper)

add to wish list

1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
by Gavin Menzies


Publisher Comments
The New York Times bestselling author of 1421 offers another stunning reappraisal of history, presenting compelling new evidence that traces the roots of the European Renaissance to Chinese exploration in the fifteenth century The brilliance of the... (read more)

Your Price $22.00
(Sale - Hardcover)

add to wish list

Catfish & Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
by Andrew X Pham




Publisher Comments
Winner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Whiting Writers' Award A Seattle Post-Intelligencer Best Book of the Year Catfish and Mandala is the story of an American odyssey—a solo bicycle... (read more)

List Price $15.00
Your Price $7.98
(Sale - Trade Paper)

add to wish list

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (P.S.)
by Simon Winchester


Publisher Comments
Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The... (read more)

List Price $13.95
Your Price $6.98
(Sale - Trade Paper)

add to wish list

The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place
by Ian Baker




Publisher Comments
The myth of Shangri-la originates in Tibetan Buddhist beliefs in beyul, or hidden lands, sacred sanctuaries that reveal themselves to devout pilgrims and in times of crisis. The more remote and inaccessible the beyul, the vaster its reputed qualities.... (read more)

Your Price $9.98
(Sale - Hardcover)

add to wish list

My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
by Alexandra David-Neel


Publisher Comments
An exemplary travelogue of danger and achievement by the Frenchwoman Madame Alexandra David–Neel of her 1923 expedition to Tibet, the fifth in her series of Asian travels, and her personal recounting of her journey to Lhasa, Tibet's forbidden city.... (read more)

List Price $14.95
Your Price $7.98
(Sale - Trade Paper)

add to wish list

The Great Wall: China Against the World, 1000 BC - AD 2000
by Julia Lovell


Publisher Comments
A new and important history of the epic story of the Great Wall of China thatguides the reader through the conquests and cataclysms of the Chinese empire, from the second millennium BC the present day.... (read more)

Your Price $10.98
(Sale - Hardcover)

add to wish list

The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan
by Christina Lamb


Publisher Comments
Twenty-one-year-old Christina Lamb left suburban England for Peshawar on the frontier of the Afghan war. Captivated, she spent two years tracking the final stages of the mujaheddin victory over the Soviets, as Afghan friends smuggled her in and out of... (read more)

Your Price $6.98
(Sale - Trade Paper)

add to wish list

Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid
by J Maarten Troost




Powells.com Staff Pick
Lost on Planet China is a must-read. The book, like its subject matter, contains multitudes. It's a travel-history-political-business-humor book. Roll Bill Bryson, Daniel Boorstin, and Thomas Friedman together and you get an idea of the scope of Troost's... (read more)

List Price $22.95
Your Price $16.06
(Sale - Hardcover)

add to wish list

China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World
by Ted C Fishman


Publisher Comments
China today is visible everywhere -- in the news, in the economic pressures battering the globe, in our workplaces, and in every trip to the store. Provocative, timely, and essential -- and updated with new statistics and information -- this dramatic... (read more)

List Price $16.00
Your Price $7.98
(Sale - Trade Paper)

add to wish list

The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
by Simon Winchester




Powells.com Staff Pick
A truly fascinating book. Winchester captures the mood of China during the chaos of WWII and shows just how enormous an endeavor Joseph Needham undertook in writing his scientific history "for an audience already highly prejudiced against China and the... (read more)

Your Price $23.00
(Sale - Hardcover)

add to wish list

Wild Swans Three Daughters of China
by Jung Chang


Publisher Comments
Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, Wild Swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more than ten million copies sold. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China, it is an... (read more)

Your Price $7.98
(Sale - Trade Paper)

add to wish list

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by Jack Weatherford


Publisher Comments
The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback leading a ruthless band of nomadic warriors in the looting of the civilized world. But the surprising truth is that Genghis Khan was a visionary leader... (read more)

Your Price $10.98
(Sale - Hardcover)

add to wish list

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by Loung Ung




Publisher Comments
From a childhood survivor of Cambodia's brutal Pol Pot regime comes an unforgettable narrative of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her family, and their triumph of spirit. Until the age of five, Lounge Ung... (read more)

Your Price $5.98
(Sale - Trade Paper)

add to wish list

Discoveries: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire
by Jean Paul Roux


Publisher Comments
This in-depth survey by historian Roux gives readers a clear vision of this incomparable leader and the achievements of his mighty empire. 130 illustrations, 113 in full color.... (read more)

List Price $12.95
Your Price $5.98
(Sale - Trade Paper)

add to wish list

Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima (P.S.)
by Stephen Walker


Publisher Comments
A British filmmaker and documentary director tells the story of the bombing of Hiroshima in a new and dramatic way: a minute-by-minute account told from multiple perspectives, including American soldiers, Los Alamos scientists, and Japanese survivors. 16-... (read more)

Your Price $7.98
(Sale - Trade Paper)

add to wish list

Raj the Making & Unmaking of British Ind
by Lawrence James


Publisher Comments
Lawrence James explores the two hundred years the British were in India. An association that ended in 1947, when the British departed, leaving a divided country. "This is a wonderful book about the British presence in India... it will remain unsurpassed... (read more)

Your Price $10.98
(Sale - Trade Paper)

add to wish list