Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

By: Aung San Suu Kyi

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Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, July 14, 2010:

Seller ID: BB0245129

ISBN: 0141039493

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Aung San Suu Kyi's collected writings--edited by her late husband, who the ruling military junta prevented from visiting Burma as he was dying of cancer--reflects her greatest hopes and fears for her fellow Burmese people, and her concern about the need for international cooperation in the continuing fight for Burma's freedom. Bringing together her most powerful speeches, letters and interviews, this remarkable collection gives a voice to Burma's "woman of destiny," whose fate remained in the hands of her enemies for fifteen years, before her release from house arrest in 2010. View more info

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

By: Bix, Herbert P.

Price: $8.50

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2000:

Seller ID: BB0245156

ISBN: 006019314X

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Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure been revealed with such clarity and vividness. Bix shows what it was like to be trained from birth for a lone position at the apex of the nation's political hierarchy and as a revered symbol of divine status. Influenced by an unusual combination of the Japanese imperial tradition and a modern... View more info

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

By: Bix, Herbert P.

Price: $8.50

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2000:

Seller ID: BB0248336

ISBN: 006019314X

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Remainder mark on top edge. View more info

Mr. China: A Memoir

By: Clissold, Tim

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Collins:

Seller ID: BB0256299

ISBN: 0060761407

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Mr. China tells the rollicking story of a young man who goes to China with the misguided notion that he will help bring the Chinese into the modern world, only to be schooled by the most resourceful and creative operators he would ever meet. Part memoir, part parable, Mr. China is one man's coming-of-age story where he learns to respect and admire the nation he sought to conquer. View more info

Gandhi, the man

By: Easwaran, Eknath

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Tomales, Calif. : Nilgiri Press, 1997.:

Edition: 3

Seller ID: BB0233240

ISBN: 0915132966

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In 1892 Mohandas K. Gandhi was 23 years old, a shy, tongue-tied man whose past was full of failure; 30 years later he was the acknowledged leader of 400 million Indians in their struggle for independence through nonviolent revolution. Gandhi, the Man does what no other book has: it describes the astonishing inner revolution by which M. K. Gandhi became the Mahatma who brought about India's independence after 300 years of foreign rule.When growing up in Gandhi's India, author Eknath Easwaran sought and came face to face with the personal power of Gandhi. It is that power that is revealed her... View more info

China Airborne

By: Fallows, James M.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Pantheon:

Seller ID: BB0213937

ISBN: 0375422110

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A nice clean copy. View more info

Inside Central Asia: Understanding the Post-Soviet Republics of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikstan: Understanding the Post-Soviet Republics of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan,

By: Hiro, Dilip

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Overlook Press, The, June 2009:

Seller ID: BB0252904

ISBN: 159020221X

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From a critically acclaimed author-a comprehensive history of the part of the world currently making headlines The former Soviet republics of Central Asia comprise a sprawling, politically pivotal, densely populated, and richly cultured area of the world that is nonetheless poorly represented in libraries and mainstream media. Since their political incorporation in Stalin's Soviet era, these countries have gone through a flash of political and economical evolution. But despite these rapid changes, the growth of oil wealth and U.S. jockeying, and the opening of the region to tourists and b... View more info

Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Modern Japan

By: Kerr, Alex

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Hill & Wang, 2002:

Seller ID: BB0248455

ISBN: 0809039435

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Light shelf-wear. View more info

Children of Kali: Through India in Search of Bandits, the Thug Cult, and the British Raj

By: Kevin Rushby

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Walker & Company, 2003:

Seller ID: BB0252814

ISBN: 0802714188

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In the early 1800s, the greatest criminal gang in history operated throughout India. Its members were inspired by religious fanatics and came from many faiths, yet they worshiped one goddess, Kali. In her name, they murdered more than one million Indian travelers--all without spilling a drop of blood. Their weapon was the handkerchief, their sacrament sugar, and the gang was supposedly eradicated by the British in the 1830s. Today, a modern-day bandit named Veerappan is India's most-wanted man and most notorious criminal, responsible for more than one hundred murders. Some say he is a free... View more info

Orphans of the Cold War: America and the Tibetan Struggle for Survival

By: Kraus, John Kenneth

Price: $8.00

Publisher: PublicAffairs, April 2000:

Seller ID: BB0252912

ISBN: 1891620851

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"For decades, the United States ran covert operations into Tibet in an attempt to help Tibetan exiles take back their country from the Chinese. These operations have never been disclosed--until now." View more info

Great Soul

By: Lelyveld, Joseph

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Knopf:

Seller ID: BB0240892

ISBN: 0307269582

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A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments--his success in seizing India's imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of social justice for the country's minorities, outcasts, and rural poor. Pulitzer Prize-winner Joseph Lelyveld shows in vivid, unmatched detail how Gandhi's sense of mission, social values, and philosophy of nonviolent resistance were shaped on another subcontinent--during ... View more info

Singapore A Pictorial History 1819-2000

By: Liu, Gretchen

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Archipelago Pr, Singapore, 2002:

Seller ID: BB0252983

ISBN: 981301881X

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In less than two centuries, Singapore has transformed itself from a small coastal kampong into a modern metropolis. After the arrival of Sir Stamford Raffles. Singapore grew from a humble village into a thriving colony, then was designated a Straits Settlement, and in 1965 became an independent nation state. Over 1,200 images--photographs, paintings, lithographs and engravings--and accompanying text, tell the story of Singapore. Many of the images have never been published before. View more info

Women of the Raj

By: MacMillan, Margaret Olwen

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007.:

Seller ID: BB0242986

ISBN: 0812976398

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In the nineteenth century, at the height of colonialism, the British ruled India under a government known as the Raj. British men and women left their homes and traveled to this mysterious, beautiful country-where they attempted to replicate their own society. In this fascinating portrait, Margaret MacMillan examines the hidden lives of the women who supported their husbands' conquests-and in turn supported the Raj, often behind the scenes and out of the history books. Enduring heartbreaking separations from their families, these women had no choice but to adapt to their strange new home, wher... View more info

Samurai William

By: Milton, Giles

Price: $5.00

Publisher: London : Hodder and Stoughton, 2003.:

Seller ID: BB0243109

ISBN: 0340794682

Condition: Used

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A bright clean copy. Looks new. View more info

Office Ladies and Salaried Men

By: Ogasawara, Yuko

Price: $6.00

Publisher: University of California Press, 1998:

Seller ID: BB0253456

ISBN: 0520210441

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In large corporations in Japan, much of the clerical work is carried out by young women known as "office ladies" (OLs) or "flowers of the workplace." Largely nameless, OLs serve tea to the men and type and file their reports. They are exempt from the traditional lifetime employment and have few opportunities for promotion. In this engaging ethnography, Yuko Ogasawara exposes the ways that these women resist men's power, and why the men, despite their exclusive command of authority, often subject themselves to the women's control. Ogasawara, a Japanese sociologist trained in the United States, ... View more info