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Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior

March 25, 2015

Rorke Denver trains the men who become Navy SEALs–the most creative problem solvers on the modern battlefield, ideal warriors for the kinds of wars America is fighting now. With his years of action-packed mission experience and a top training role, Lieutenant Commander Denver understands exactly how tomorrow’s soldiers are recruited, sculpted, motivated, and deployed.Now, Denver […]
A Century of Thai Cinema (River Books)

March 25, 2015

Thais began shooting films in 1900; cinema soon became a very popular form of entertainment, which had its “golden age” in the 1930s. This book provides both a history of Thai cinema and a visual record of all the associated memorabilia, including movie posters. Sale Price:$29.69 0500976031
Kings of the Forest: The Cultural Resilience of Himalayan Hunter-Gatherers

March 25, 2015

In today’s world hunter-gatherer societies struggle with seemingly insurmountable problems: deforestation and encroachment, language loss, political domination by surrounding communities. Will they manage to survive? This book is about one such society living in the monsoon rainforests of western Nepal: the Raute. “Kings of the Forest” explores how this elusive ethnic group, the last hunter-gatherers […]
Face Off: China, the United States, and Taiwan’s Democratization

March 25, 2015

Taiwan’s first presidential election, in 1996, sparked a Sino-U.S. military showdown that resulted in the biggest show of U.S. naval force in East Asia since the Vietnam War. This book is the first to explore the origins and triangular dynamics of that historic confrontation. Analyzing the key decisions and misperceptions that led to the Taiwan […]
It Was Like This

March 25, 2015

Book by Redwood, Mabel Winifred Sale Price:$29.99 0753198096
FROM SHANGHAI TO CORREGIDOR: Marines in the Defense of the Philippines

March 25, 2015

An illustrated history of the valiant defense of the Philippines at the beginning of WWII; from the withdrawal of Marines from China to the Bataan Death March. Sale Price:buy at discount B00DP85EXW
Under Solomon’s Throne: Uzbek Visions of Renewal in Osh (Central Eurasia in Context)

March 25, 2015

Winner of the 2014 Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award in the Social Sciences.Under Solomon’s Throne provides a rare ground-level analysis of post-Soviet Central Asia’s social and political paradoxes by focusing on an urban ethnic community: the Uzbeks in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, who have maintained visions of societal renewal throughout economic upheaval, political discrimination, and massive […]
Interpreting the Asian Past

March 25, 2015

Book by JIN HAILSTORK QIU Sale Price:$78.75 0757590128
Discipline and Development: Middle Classes and Prosperity in East Asia and Latin America

March 25, 2015

Revealing that the key to successful economic development in late industrializers rests in the state’s capacity to discipline capitalists, this study sheds light on why certain countries (South Korea and Taiwan) have the capacity to discipline capitalists, while others (Mexico and Argentina) find themselves at the receiving end of industrialists’ political and economic power. Closer […]
Lee’s Law: How Singapore Crushes Dissent

March 25, 2015

The perils of dissent in Singapore are at the heart of this poignant story of the country’s most prominent opposition politician, J. B. Jeyaretnam. Following the career of this ambitious lawyer, prosecutor, and judge, the book traces his subsequent disenchantment with the system, his stunning political breakthrough at Anson in l981, and the devastating consequences […]

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