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Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival

March 25, 2015

THE BASIS FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE ROSEWATER, DIRECTED BY JON STEWARTWhen Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran’s presidential election, he assured his pregnant fiancée, Paola, that he’d be back in just a few days, a week at most. Little did he know, as he kissed her good-bye, that he would […]
A Peaceful Realm : The Rise And Fall of the Indus Civilization

March 25, 2015

Some 5000 years ago, civilized societies emerged in the valleys of four great rivers: the Nile, the Euphrates, the Yellow, and the Indus. Of these primary Old World civilizations, that of the Indus remains the least known and the most enigmatic, though, paradoxically, it has left perhaps the most lasting influence on the societies that […]
Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia: Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands

March 25, 2015

Nation-building and the construction of citizenship, so often conducted—or coerced—from the center, are all too commonly studied from the center as well. This book moves the view of cultural citizenship to the periphery—specifically to the perspective of hinterland groups in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Sarawak, East Malaysia—to show that notions of nationhood and citizenship are […]
My Faraway Home: An American Family’s WWII Tale of Adventure and Survival in the Jungles of the Philippines

March 25, 2015

A beautifully written, courageous memoir of a wartime childhood behind enemy lines. (SEE QUOTES. Use #2 if not too long.) Sale Price:$3.49 1585747238
Seven Pillars of Wisdom [Illustrated with Working TOC]

March 25, 2015

T. E. Lawrence, also known as “Lawrence of Arabia,” was a British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916–18. The extraordinary breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, have earned him international fame as […]
In the Name of Honor: A Memoir

March 25, 2015

In June 2002, Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani woman from the impoverished village of Meerwala, was gang raped by a local clan known as the Mastoi — punishment for indiscretions allegedly committed by the woman’s brother. While certainly not the first account of a female body being negotiated for honor in a family, this time the […]
The Royal Selangor Story: Born and Raised in Pewter Dust

March 25, 2015

The story of Royal Selangor is no ordinary corporate history. It?s humble beginnings and complicated evolution are closely entwined with Malaysia?s remarkable social and economic transformation from British colonial days to the modern era. Sale Price:$16.71 9814068551
The ‘Ever-Victorious Army’: A History of the Chinese Campaign under Lt.-Col. C. G. Gordon, C.B. R.E. and of the Suppression of the Tai-ping Rebellion

March 25, 2015

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1868 edition by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. Sale Price:$15.63 1402176821
Sugar and the Origins of Modern Philippine Society

March 25, 2015

The sugar industry has been a vital part of the economic and social life of modern Philippine society. John A. Larkin examines how both the Filipino people and colonizing forces participated in this industry and how two types of society emerged: one based on plantation agriculture, the other on tenant farming.Negros Occidental and Pampanga, the […]
Kinabalu: Summit of Borneo

March 25, 2015

No description available. Sale Price:$89.92 9679994740

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