Category: asia

Waltzing With a Dictator: The Marcoses and the Making of American Policy

Price: $32.95

Publisher: NY, Times Books / Random House : 1987

Seller ID: 7-5H009

ISBN-13: 9780812916645

Condition: VERY GOOD+

As new except for slight edgewear to covers. "the startling story of America's twenty-year partnership with the conjugal dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda?the often shocking, always enlightening inside story of the Washington-Marcos alliance." 534 indexed, annotated pages including Bibliography. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup
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India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age

By: Das, Gurcharan

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Anchor

Seller ID: 9780385720748

ISBN-13: 9780385720748

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

India today is a vibrant free-market democracy, a nation well on its way to overcoming decades of widespread poverty. The nation's rise is one of the great international stories of the late twentieth century, and in India Unbound the acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das offers a sweeping economic history of India from independence to the new millennium. Das shows how India's policies after 1947 condemned the nation to a hobbled economy until 1991, when the government instituted sweeping reforms that paved the way for extraordinary growth. Das traces these developments and tells the stories of the...
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Folktales of China

By: Eberhard, Wolfram

Price: $3.45

Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Seller ID: 9780226181936

ISBN-13: 9780226181936

Binding: Trade Paperback

Ho

By: Halberstam, David

Price: $13.50

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Seller ID: 9780742559936

ISBN-13: 9780742559936

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

One of the most influential leaders of the twentieth century, Ho Chi Minh was founder of the Indochina Communist Party and its successor, the Viet-Minh, and was president from 1945 to 1969 of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). In exploring the life and career of Ho Chi Minh, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam provides a window into traditions and culture that influenced the American war in Vietnam, while highlighting the importance of nationalism in determining the war's outcome. As depicted by Halberstam, Ho is first and foremost a nationalist and a patriot. He wa...
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Curzon's Persia

By: King, Peter (ed. & intro.)

Price: $17.95

Publisher: London, UK, Sidgwick & Jackson Limited : 1988

Seller ID: 6-6Y001

ISBN-13: 9780283997426

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: NEAR FINE

Tight, bright, clean with faint curl. Light rubbing to cover edges and faint corner bump to bottom corner. An abridged version of the 2 volume, 1892 book of Curzon's travels on the following route: Ashkabad, Kuchan, Kelat-I-Nadiri, Meshed, Teheran, The Northern Provinces, Teheran, Ishfahan, Shiraz to Bushire.192 pages full of illustrations and with double page detailed map of Persia, Afghanistan & Beluchistan. (dated 1891). 7.5x10" NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup
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Byzantine Art in the Making: Main Lines of Stylistic Development in Mediterranean Art, 3rd-7th Century

By: Kitzinger, Ernst

Price: $6.25

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Seller ID: 9780674089563

ISBN-13: 9780674089563

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Finds a correspondence between the evolution of stylistic forms in Early Christian art and the social, religious, and historical developments of the period.
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City of Joy

By: Lapierre, Dominique

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Doubleday

Seller ID: 9780385189521

ISBN-13: 9780385189521

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Twelve Japanese Screens

By: Meech-Pekarik, Julia (Philippe de Montebello, Introduction)

Price: $16.95

Seller ID: 90Y026

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: NEAR FINE

As new except for faint fading at staple edge. Detailed information on use, history, and background of the scenes depicted on the screens illustrated. 64 pages, with color photos of screens and black and white photos of screen details, 11x8.5" (27.9x21.6cm). NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup
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Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan

By: Milton, Giles

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Penguin Books

Seller ID: 9780142003787

ISBN-13: 9780142003787

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

With all the adventure, derring-do, and bloodcurdling battle scenes of his earlier book, Nathaniel s Nutmeg, acclaimed historian Giles Milton dazzles readers with the true story of William Adams the first Englishman to set foot in Japan (and the inspiration for James Clavell s bestselling novel Shogun). Beginning with Adams s startling letter to the East India Company in 1611 more than a decade after he d arrived in Japan Samurai William chronicles the first foray by the Westinto that mysterious closed-off land. Drawing upon the journals and letters of Adams as well as the other Englishmen who...
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Widows Are Not For Burning: Actions and Attitudes of the Christian Missionaries, the Native Hindus and Lord William Bentinck

By: Ray, Ajit Kumar

Price: $32.95

Publisher: New Delhi, India, ABC Publishing House : 1985

Seller ID: 7-6T037

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: GOOD+

Tight, bright, clean and square. Owner's name and date of purchase in light pencil on first free page and some pages with tiny, lightly penciled notes. Unclipped dust jacket is crisp and clean but has a chip on the front corner, a crease on the front flap and a 1.5" slit on the front (Repaired on back with clear tape). 161 indexed pages including Bibliography. "an attempt to analyze the attitudes actions and achievements of the 3 participants - the Christian missionaries, a group of Hindus...and Lord William Bentinck, who were mainly responsible for termination of the custom. The custom was n...
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Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite - Hong Kong November 1, 2004 -

By: Sotheby's

Price: $39.95

Publisher: Hong Kong, Sotheby's : 2004

Seller ID: 01Y011

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: NEAR FINE

As new except for light shelfwear to edged. Sale catalog . 252 pages of photos with description and expected price range of spectacular jewelry. 10.5x8.25" (26.7x21cm). NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup
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Promenades Asiatiques: Marques D'Empereurs - Paris - 18 December 2008 (#PF8017)

By: Sotheby's

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Paris, France, Sotheby's : 2008

Seller ID: 11Y024

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: FINE

As new - gift quality! Auction catalog. Commentaries on the collection (text in French & English), color photos with description (French), provenance, and expected price range (in euros and dollars) for each item. Sale # PF8017 "TING". Lots 1-12. 90 pages including Dynasty Chronology. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in store pickup
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The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci

By: Spence, Jonathan D.

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Penguin Books

Seller ID: 9780140080988

ISBN-13: 9780140080988

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

From the renowned historian and author of The Death of Woman Wang, a vivid and gripping account of the 16th-century missionary's remarkable sojourn to Ming China In 1577, the Jesuit Priest Matteo Ricci set out from Italy to bring Christian faith and Western thought to Ming dynasty China. To capture the complex emotional and religious drama of Ricci's extraordinary life, Jonathan Spence relates his subject's experiences with several images that Ricci himself created--four images derived from the events in the Bible and others from a book on the art of memory that Ricci wrote in Chinese and circ...
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Japanese Art (World of Art)

By: Stanley-Baker, Joan

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Seller ID: 9780500203262

ISBN-13: 9780500203262

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The uniqueness of Japanese culture rests on the fact that, throughout its history, Japan has continually taken, adapted, and transformed diverse influences from Korea, China, the South Seas, Europe, and the Americas into distinct traditions of its own. Extensively revised, updated, and expanded since its first publication, this authoritative survey of the arts of Japan from the prehistoric period to the present brings together the results of the most recent research on the subject. Profusely illustrated with examples from all the arts painting, calligraphy, the decorative arts, and architectur...
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Her Gold and Her Body

By: Verghese, Jamila

Price: $16.95

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Vikas : 1980

Seller ID: 7-5H018

ISBN-13: 9780706909319

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: VERY GOOD

Tight, bright, clean and square. Age tanning of pages and light age soil to exterior page edges. Unclipped dust jacket spine is slightly faded and worn at top and a crease across the center of the front cover. "a bold and vividly documented examination of the tyranny of this tradition (dowry in India) and an imaginative attempt at shaking society into a consciousness of the continuing evils of this system..." 228 annotated pages
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