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Planning A Tragedy: The Americanization of the War in Vietnam

March 22, 2015

“Takes an historically important decision, places it in its immediate stream of policy development, perceptions and events and adds what was missing from the Pentagon Papers.”—Richard E. Neustadt, Harvard University “A thoroughly researched and highly perceptive study of the decisions that turned the tribal struggle in Vietnam into an American war. Berman’s book fully documents […]
Singapore The Encyclopedia

March 22, 2015

Singapore: The Encyclopedia contains over 2,500 alphabetically arranged entries on a vast range of topics ? practically everything the general reader might want to know about Singapore, four decades after the achievement of full independence. Sale Price:$998.79 9814155632
Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerence

March 22, 2015

A revelatory look at what happens when political Islam collides with the secular West Ian Buruma ‘s Murder in Amsterdam is a masterpiece of investigative journalism, a book with the intimacy and narrative control of a crime novel and the analytical brilliance for which Buruma is renowned. On a cold November day in Amsterdam in […]
City Between Worlds: My Hong Kong

March 22, 2015

Hong Kong is perched on the fault line between China and the West, a Special Administrative Region of the PRC. Leo Ou-fan Lee offers an insider’s view of Hong Kong, capturing the history and culture that make his densely packed home city so different from its generic neighbors. The search for an indigenous Hong Kong […]
The Partition of India (New Approaches to Asian History)

March 22, 2015

The British divided and quit India in 1947. The partition of India and the creation of Pakistan uprooted entire communities and left unspeakable violence in its trail. This volume tells the story of partition through the events that led up to it, the terrors that accompanied it, to migration and resettlement. In a new shift […]
Chaos, Violence, Dynasty: Politics and Islam in Central Asia (Central Eurasia in Context)

March 22, 2015

In the post-Soviet era, democracy has made little progress in Central Asia. In Chaos, Violence, Dynasty, Eric McGlinchey presents a compelling comparative study of the divergent political courses taken by Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan in the wake of Soviet rule. McGlinchey examines economics, religion, political legacies, foreign investment, and the ethnicity of these countries to […]
Bangkok in 1892 (First English Translations)

March 22, 2015

This overview covers a great number of aspects of Siamese life, of the common people as well as of royalty and high officialdom. Bangkok’s great celebration and the sordid details of its pollution and body disposal problems as well as politically tainted descriptions of the state of feudalism and slavery in the kingdom are discussed […]
Hong Kong: A Cultural History (Cityscapes)

March 22, 2015

Hong Kong has always been something of an anomaly, and an outpost of empire, whether British or Chinese. Once described as a barren island, the former fishing community has been transformed by its own economic miracle into one of Asia’s World Cities, taking in its stride the territory’s 1997 return to Chinese sovereignty. Beneath the […]
Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Writing

March 22, 2015

A century of Asian American writing has generated a forceful cascade of “bold words.” This anthology covers writings by Asian Americans in all genres, from the early twentieth century to the present. Some sixty authors of Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, South Asian, and Southeast Asian American origin are represented, with an equal split between male […]
Urban Gardening: A Hong Kong Gardener’s Journal

March 22, 2015

Living in a crowded city need not mean uprooting one’s connection with the earth. City gardens are proliferating at a healthy rate, and plants can be enjoyed on a rooftop, balcony, terrace, or a simple window sill. There are, of course, special difficulties to gardening in cities: special solutions are needed to solve these problems. […]

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