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The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

March 25, 2015

The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge—a renowned historian who writes with “maximum vividness” (Joan Acocella, The New Yorker)—covers the years 1095 to 1291 in this big, ambitious, readable account of one of the most fascinating periods in history. From […]
Fortress Monasteries of the Himalayas: Tibet, Ladakh, Nepal and Bhutan

March 25, 2015

Buddhism has been influential in the mountain kingdoms of the Himalayas since the 7th century AD, most notably in the kingdom of Tibet where it permeated all aspects and levels of society until the 20th century. From the 9th-century AD onwards, the secular rulers of Tibet sought to extend their influence, and that of Buddhism, […]
Manual Of Standard Tibetan: Language And Civilization

March 25, 2015

The Manual of Standard Tibetan presents the everyday speech of Lhasa as it is currently used in Tibet and among the Tibetan diaspora. It not only places the language in its natural context but also highlights along the way key aspects of Tibetan civilization and Vajrayana Buddhism. The Manual, which consists of forty-one lessons, is […]
War in the Blood: Sex, Politics and AIDS in Southeast Asia

March 25, 2015

This engaging and vivid book investigates the course of the HIV epidemic in seven countries of South East Asia: Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Vietnam and China’s Yunnan Province. Emphasising the impact of the cultural and political landscapes of these countries on the progress of the disease, the book is the product of both working […]
Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes: Tome 10 (French Edition)

March 25, 2015

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1782 edition by Jean-Leonard Pellet, Genève. Sale Price:$20.27 142123081X
The Philippine War, 1899-1902 (Modern War Studies)

March 25, 2015

This year begins the centennial of the Philippine War, one of the most controversial and poorly understood events in American history. The war thrust the U.S. into the center of Pacific and Asian politics, with important and sometimes tragic consequences. It kept the Filipinos under colonial overlordship for another five decades and subjected them to […]
Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat

March 25, 2015

Action-packed and breathtakingly authentic, Viper Pilot is the electrifying memoir of one of the most decorated F-16 pilots in American history: U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Dan Hampton, who served for twenty years, flying missions in the Iraq War, the Kosovo conflict, and the first Gulf War.Both a rare look into the elite world of […]
The Challenge of K2: A History of the Savage Mountain

March 25, 2015

K2 is a legend – one of the most demanding mountaineering challenges in the world and one of the most treacherous. Extreme, unpredictable weather and the acutely difficult climbing conditions test the technique, endurance and psychological strength of the most experienced mountaineers to the limit – and often beyond. Many of the men and women […]
History of the Mongol Conquests

March 25, 2015

The Mongol conquests, culminating with the invasion of Europe in the middle of the thirteenth century, were of a scope and range never equaled. These nomadic peoples from central Asia briefly held sway over an empire that stretched across Asia to the frontiers of Germany and the shores of the Adriatic. Surprisingly little has been […]
The U.S. Army and Counterinsurgency in the Philippine War, 1899-1902

March 25, 2015

After defeating the Philippine Republic’s conventional forces in 1899, the U.S. Army was broken up into small garrisons to prepare Luzon for colonial rule. The Filipino nationalists transformed their resistance into a guerrilla warfare that varied so greatly from region to region in its organization, strategy, and tactics that early American attempts at centralization and […]

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