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Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad

March 22, 2015

Pakistan and America have been gripped together in a deadly embrace for decades. For half a century American presidents from both parties pursued narrow short-term interests in Pakistan. This myopia actually backfired in the long term, helping to destabilize the political landscape and radicalizing the population, setting the stage for the global jihad we face […]
The Complete Princess Trilogy: Princess; Princess Sultana’s Daughters; and Princess Sultana’s Circle

March 22, 2015

For the first time, the New York Times bestselling PRINCESS books are available in one ebook. IT ALL BEGAN WITH PRINCESS, called “Absolutely riveting…” by People Magazine. The first book in this nonfiction trilogy describes the true life of Princess Sultana, a princess in the royal house of Saudi Arabia where she lives in a […]
The Quintessence Tantras of Tibetan Medicine

March 22, 2015

The Quintessence Tantras of Tibetan Medicine is a thorough, detailed, and systematic analysis of the characteristics of healthy and diseased bodies. Discussed are the diagnostic techniques of pulse and urine analysis, principles of right diet, right lifestyle, and behavioral factors—and a treasury of knowledge about the beneficial applications of herbs, plants, spices, minerals, gems, etc. […]
Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas, 1919-1949

March 22, 2015

Brings together some of the best and most historically significant works of short fiction written in China in this century -including such important figures in the development of Chinese modernism as Lu Hsün, Mao Tun, Ting Ling, and Shen Ts’ ung-wen. The companion volume to the highly acclaimed (Columbia, 1978), this new volume presents modernist […]
Global Media Spectacle: News War Over Hong Kong

March 22, 2015

of contestation and alliance, themes and variations, and convergence and divergence between and within various blocs of nations. Sale Price:$16.09 079145472X
The Times When Men Must Die: The Story of the Destruction of the Philippine Army During the Early Months of World War II in the Pacific, December 1941-may 1942

March 22, 2015

In The Times When Men Must Die, Marconi Dioso revisits Bataan and Corregidor and revives the questions that until now most historians and self-proclaimed experts have grappled with themselves: Why did Japanese military reinforcements arrive to finally allow Homma to bring the Philippines to its knees, while Washington set its military priorities elsewhere, in the […]
The Ruling Elite of Singapore: Networks of Power and Influence

March 22, 2015

Michael Barr explores the complex and covert networks of power at work in one of the world’s most prosperous countries – the city-state of Singapore. He argues that the contemporary networks of power are a deliberate project initiated and managed by Lee Kuan Yew – former prime minister and Singapore’s “”founding father”” – designed to […]
The Philippines and the Far East

March 22, 2015

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) […]
Barack Obama in Hawai’i and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President

March 22, 2015

The first 18 years of President Obama’s life, from his birth in 1961 to his departure for college in 1979, were spent in Hawai‘i and Indonesia. These years fundamentally shaped the traits for which the adult Obama is noted—his protean identity, his nuanced appreciation of multiple views of the same object, his cosmopolitan breadth of […]
Tibet’s Great Yogi Milarepa: A Biography from the Tibetan

March 22, 2015

This life story of Milarepa–the important Tibetan religious leader who lived over 800 years ago–is part of a remarkable four-volume series on Tibetan Buddhism produced by the late W.Y. Evans-Wentz, all four of which are being published by Oxford in new editions. While there are many parochial differences among the several sects of Tibetan Buddhism, […]

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