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Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History

March 25, 2015

Through a lyrical narrative of her journey to Tibet in 2007, activist Canyon Sam contemplates modern history from the perspective of Tibetan women. Traveling on China’s new “Sky Train,” she celebrates Tibetan New Year with the Lhasa family whom she’d befriended decades earlier and concludes an oral-history project with women elders.As she uncovers stories of […]
Architecture of Thailand: A Guide to Tradition and Contemporary Forms

March 25, 2015

This book focuses on the multitude of elements and forms that go into Thai architecture. It is a guide to aesthetics that also explores the underlying meanings of forms. All the important features of Thai culture—its agrarian roots, its religion and monarchy, its rich mix of foreign influences—are embodied in buildings. As a result, this […]
Bataan Death March: A Survivor’s Account

March 25, 2015

The hopeless yet determined resistance of American and Filipino forces against the Japanese invasion has made Bataan and Corregidor symbols of pride, but Bataan has a notorious darker side. After the U.S.-Filipino remnants surrendered to a far stronger force, they unwittingly placed themselves at the mercy of a foe who considered itself unimpaired by the […]
Record of Miraculous Events in Japan: The Nihon ryoiki (Translations from the Asian Classics)

March 25, 2015

The Nihon ryoiki, a collection of setsuwa, or “anecdotal” tales, compiled by a monk in late-eighth- or early-ninth-century Japan, records the spread of Buddhist ideas in Japan and the ways in which Buddhism’s principles were adapted to the conditions of Japanese society. Beginning in the time before Buddhism was introduced to Japan, the text captures […]
Ambush on the Road to Baghdad – A True Short Story

March 25, 2015

Ambush on the Road to Baghdad is the personal experience of a contractor working convoys in Iraq. The book highlights what coalition forces have to face on a daily basis and what they have to go through to survive. This is the second book about the war on Iraq by the U.S bestselling author Simon […]
Pedra Branca: The Road to the World Court

March 25, 2015

This book is about the territorial dispute between Malaysia and Singapore over Pedra Branca, a small but strategically located island near the entrance to the Straits of Malacca. It describes how the two countries managed the dispute over three decades until final resolution by the International Court of Justice in May 2008. The two authors, […]
The Battle for Leyte Gulf: The Incredible Story of World War II’s Largest Naval Battle

March 25, 2015

Pulitzer-Prize-winner and bestselling author C. Vann Woodward recreates the gripping account of the battle for Leyte Gulf—the greatest naval battle of World War II and the largest engagement ever fought on the high seas. For the Japanese, it represented their supreme effort; they committed to action virtually every operational fighting ship on the lists of […]
Biography of the Early Malay Doctors 1900-1957 Malaya and Singapore

March 25, 2015

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Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West

March 25, 2015

Prisoners of Shangri-La is a provocative analysis of the romance of Tibet, a romance that, even as it is invoked by Tibetan lamas living in exile, ultimately imprisons those who seek the goal of Tibetan independence from Chinese occupation.”Lopez lifts the veil on America’s romantic vision of Tibet to reveal a country and a spiritual […]
Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace

March 25, 2015

In 2002, nuclear-armed adversaries India and Pakistan mobilized for war over the long-disputed territory of Kashmir, sparking panic around the world. Drawing on extensive firsthand experience in the contested region, Sumantra Bose reveals how the conflict became a grave threat to South Asia and the world and suggests feasible steps toward peace. Though the roots […]

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