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In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia
by Ronald Spector  Publisher Comments The New York Times said of Ronald H. Spector's classic account of the American struggle against the Japanese in World War II, No future book on the Pacific War will be written without paying due tribute to Eagle Against the Sun. Now Spector has returned...
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The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention
by Robert Temple Publisher Comments Revised, full-color illustrated edition of the multi-award-winning, international bestseller that charts the unparalleled and astounding achievement of ancient China - Brings to life one hundred Chinese firsts in the fields of agriculture, astronomy...
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The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
by Rory Stewart Publisher Comments Stewart chronicles his 11 months of negotiating hostage releases, holding elections, and splicing together some semblance of an infrastructure in an impoverished region of southern Iraq....
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The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, & Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient
by Sheridan Prasso Publisher Comments Few Westerners escape the images, expectations and misperceptions that lead us to see Asia as exotic, sensual, decadent, dangerous, and mysterious. Despite — and because of — centuries of East-West interaction, the stereotypes of Western...
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The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East
by Kishore Mahbubani Publisher Comments For centuries, the Asians (Chinese, Indians, Muslims, and others) have been bystanders in world history. Now they are ready to become co-drivers. Asians have finally understood, absorbed, and implemented Western best practices in many areas: from free...
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So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits -- And the President -- Failed on Iraq
by Greg Mitchell Publisher Comments In early 2003, Greg Mitchell was one of the few mainstream journalists to seriously question the stated reasons for invading Iraq. In the years since, he has repeatedly challenged the media to probe the conduct of the war and its toll on our troops. Now,...
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Mirror of the Arab World: Lebanon in Conflict
by Sandra Mackey Publisher Comments How the recent history of Lebanon provides insight into the many trials currently facing the larger Arab community. It is crucial to the interests of the West to grasp the complexities of the Arab world. In this clear, concise volume, Sandra Mackey...
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Revolution, Repression, and Revival: The Soviet Jewish Experience
by Zvi Gitelman and Yaacov Ro'i Publisher Comments Revolution, Repression and Revival The Experience of Jews in the Former Soviet Union enhances our understanding of the Russian Jewish past by bringing together some of the latest thinking by the leading scholars from the former Soviet Union, Israel and...
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In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia
by Ronald H. Spector Publisher Comments The New York Times said of Ronald H. Spector's classic account of the American struggle against the Japanese in World War II, "No future book on the Pacific War will be written without paying due tribute to Eagle Against the Sun." Now Spector has...
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Leaving Beirut
by Mai Ghoussoub Publisher Comments "One of the most poignant testimonies to the Lebanese civil war."-Moris Farhi As an uneasy peace settles over war-torn Beirut, a woman reflects: Events in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Argentina remind her of the tragedies that shaped her life. What has she...
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Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade
by Bill Emmott Publisher Comments The former editor in chief of the Economist returns to the territory of his bestselling book The Sun Also Sets to lay out an entirely fresh analysis of the growing rivalry between China, India, and Japan and what it will mean for America, the global...
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Us-philippines; Strategic Relations: Underpinning Unequal Associations.
by Chintamani Mahapatra Book News Annotation Mahapatra (American studies, Jawaharlal Nehru U., India) conducts a historical analysis of US policy towards the Philippines from the Spanish American war through the early years of formal independence and the end of the Truman administration. In...
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Painting in the Middle East: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East)
by Ann Zwicker Kerr Publisher Comments These delicate watercolors depict the beauty and peace that exist in the region despite violence and unrest....
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Karma Cola (90 Edition)
by Gita Mehta Publisher Comments Beginning in the late '60s, hundreds of thousands of Westerners descended upon India, disciples of a cultural revolution that proclaimed that the magic and mystery missing from their lives was to be found in the East. An Indian writer who has also lived...
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The Great Hill Stations of Asia
by Barbara Crossette Publisher Comments For the European and later the American colonial soldier, the civil administrator and his clerk, the merchant, the missionary, and the families who followed them east of Suez, daily life was less a matter of advancing the glory of God or empire than a...
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Unlikely History: The Changing German-Jewish Symbiosis, 1945-2000
by Leslie Morris And Jack Zipes Publisher Comments Since 1945, the Jewish population in Germany has grown steadily and there has been a flourishing of "Jewish" culture in Germany. Does this development mean that Jews are playing a significant role in German social life or that the German-Jewish...
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Consumer Behavior in Asia
by Hellmut Schutte Publisher Comments Asia currently accounts for a quarter of the world economy and half of the world's population. Few international companies can afford to ignore a market of such size and importance. Yet despite the centrality of Asia as a market, there exists a...
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The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong
by Edward A Gargan Publisher Comments From Tibet to Vietnam, from windswept plateaus to the South China Sea, the Mekong flows for three thousand miles, snaking its way through Southeast Asia. Long fascinated with this part of the world, former New York Times correspondent Edward Gargan...
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The great hill stations of Asia
by Barbara Crossette Publisher Comments For the European and later the American colonial soldier, the civil administrator and his clerk, the merchant, the missionary, and the families who followed them east of Suez, daily life was less a matter of advancing the glory of God or empire than a...
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The Other War: Israelis, Palestinians and the Struggle for Media Supremacy
by Stephanie Gutmann Publisher Comments To understand why Israel is losing the media war, Gutmann returns to Jerusalem and the war zones of the West Bank to document the way that political and military realities are twisted into new and different shapes by the time they reach the TV screens...
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