2015 | Asian History Books

Jim Thompson:The Unsolved Myst

March 22, 2015

Jim Thompson was already a legend for the James H.W. Thompson Silk Company that he founded, when he disappeared in the Cameron highlands in Malaysia in 1967. Sale Price:buy at discount B0091GTW3K
Killing the Cranes: A Reporter’s Journey through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan

March 22, 2015

Few reporters have covered Afghanistan as intrepidly and humanely as Edward Girardet. Now, in a gripping, personal account, Girardet delivers a story of that nation’s resistance fighters, foreign invaders, mercenaries, spies, aid workers, Islamic extremists, and others who have defined Afghanistan’s last thirty years of war, chaos, and strife.As a young foreign correspondent, Girardet arrived […]
Halsey’s Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue

March 22, 2015

Halsey’s Typhoon is the story of World War II’s most unexpected disaster at sea. In the final days of 1944, Admiral William “Bull” Halsey is the Pacific theater’s most popular and colorful naval hero. After a string of victories, the “Fighting Admiral” and his thirty-thousand-man Third Fleet are charged with protecting General MacArthur’s flank during […]
Mission to Tibet: The Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Account of Father Ippolito Desideri S. J.

March 22, 2015

Mission to Tibet recounts the fascinating eighteenth-century journey of the Jesuit priest ippolito Desideri (1684 – 1733) to the Tibetan plateau. The italian missionary was most notably the first european to learn about Buddhism directly with Tibetan schol ars and monks – and from a profound study of its primary texts. while there, Desideri was […]
DREAM OF JUJUBE TREES – RECOLLECTION OF SINGAPORE AND PLANTATION IN MALAYA DURING WORLD WAR 2 (ENGLISH VERSION)

March 22, 2015

DREAM OF JUJUBE TREES – RECOLLECTION OF SINGAPORE & PLANTATION IN MALAYA DURING WORLD WAR 2 – “What did Dad Experience on his New Mission during the War?” In August, 1944, Harutaro left Kobe with a fleet of steamships to Singapore to work as agricultural expert and advisor to the Malay Plantation Project. Though the […]
Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan

March 22, 2015

Soon after the bombs stopped falling on Kabul, award-winning journalist and women’s rights activist Ann Jones set out for the shattered city. This is her trenchant report from the city where she spent the next four winters working in humanitarian aid. Investigating the city’s prison for women, retraining Kabul’s long-silenced English teachers, Jones enters the […]
Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground

March 22, 2015

This excellent book is a painfully honest account of successive unwinnable wars. It is the text book Mr. Obama and others will need if Afghanistan is ever to be left to find its own peace and prosperity.” Jon Snow, Channel 4 News (UK)Jonathan Steele, an award-winning journalist and commentator, has covered the country since his […]
Where There Are Asians, There Are Rice Cookers: How "National" Went Global via Hong Kong

March 22, 2015

This is the first English-language book to focus on the electric rice cooker and the impact it has had on the lives of Asian people. This account of the rice cooker’s globalization aims to move away from Japan-centric perspectives on how “Made in Japan” products made it big in the global marketplace, instead choosing to […]
Southeast Asia in World History (The New Oxford World History)

March 22, 2015

Here is a brief, well-written, and lively survey of the history of Southeast Asia from ancient times to the present, paying particular attention to the region’s role in world history and the distinctive societies that arose in lands shaped by green fields and forests, blue rivers and seas. Craig Lockard shows how for several millennia […]
Emptiness: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought, Volume 5

March 22, 2015

In Emptiness, the fifth volume in The Foundation of Buddhist Thought series, Geshe Tashi Tsering provides readers with an incredibly welcoming presentation of the central philosophical teaching of Mahayana Buddhism. Emptiness does not imply a nihilistic worldview, but rather the idea that a permanent entity does not exist in any single phenomenon or being. Everything […]

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