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Letters from Burma

March 25, 2015

Letters from Burma – an unforgettable collection from the Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi In these astonishing letters, Aung San Suu Kyi reaches out beyond Burma’s borders to paint for her readers a vivid and poignant picture of her native land. Here she celebrates the courageous army officers, academics, actors and everyday […]
The Modern Middle East: A History

March 25, 2015

Newly revised and updated for the second decade of the twenty-first century, the third edition of The Modern Middle East: A History explores how the forces associated with global modernity have shaped the social, economic, cultural, and political life in the region over the course of the past 500 years. Beginning with the first glimmerings […]
Very Thai: Everyday Popular Culture

March 25, 2015

A pioneering insight into contemporary Thai culture, revised and updated. Sale Price:$16.92 6167339376
Afghanistan: The Bear Trap: The Defeat of a Superpower

March 25, 2015

How did the horrendous situation in Afghanistan, with all its implications for recent events and the present time, come to pass? What was the role of the CIA and Pakistani intelligence in the creation of what became the Taliban? What are the implications for the future and lessons from the past for American forces today?This […]
Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore: Gender, Religion, Medicine and Money (Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series)

March 25, 2015

The volume collects the published articles of Dr Marjorie Topley, who was a pioneer in the field of social anthropology in the postwar period and also the first president of the revived Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Sale Price:$60.00 9888028146
The Epic of Gesar of Ling: Gesar’s Magical Birth, Early Years, and Coronation as King

March 25, 2015

The Gesar of Ling epic is the Tibetan equivalent of The Arabian Nights. For hundreds of years, versions of it have been known in oral and written form in Tibet, China, Central Asia, and across the eastern Silk Route. King Gesar, renowned throughout these areas, represents the ideal warrior. As a leader with his people’s […]
China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia

March 25, 2015

Throughout the past three decades East Asia has seen more peace and stability than at any time since the Opium Wars of 1839-1841. During this period China has rapidly emerged as a major regional power, averaging over nine percent economic growth per year since the introduction of its market reforms in 1978. Foreign businesses have […]
Desert Places

March 25, 2015

The Rebari are a nomadic tribe in India’s Thar Desert. Like nomads everywhere, the Rebari are being forced into accepting a more sedentary life. Their traditional trading and pilgrimage routes have been transected by borders and canals or blocked by atomic bomb testing sites and irrigated farm lands. But once a year, they arrive in […]
Jews in Thailand

March 25, 2015

The first book published on the history of the Jewish community in ThailandTraces the presence of Jews in Thailand from the early 17th century to the presentDiscusses the role that Thailand played in the 1930s and World War II as a place of refuge for Jews fleeing Nazi GermanyDocuments the formation of the Jewish Association […]
Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding

March 25, 2015

The relationship between America and Pakistan is based on mutual incomprehension and always has been. Pakistanto American eyeshas gone from being a quirky irrelevance, to a stabilizing friend, to an essential military ally, to a seedbed of terror. Americato Pakistani eyeshas been a guarantee of security, a coldly distant scold, an enthusiastic military enabler, and […]

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