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Urban Planning in Singapore: The Transformation of a City (South-East Asian Social Science Monographs)

March 22, 2015

This book details the process of urban planning in Singapore by tracing its early growth on the banks of the Singapore River to its present structure. Sale Price:$761.08 9676530646
After the Taliban: Nation-Building in Afghanistan

March 22, 2015

In October 2001, the Bush administration sent Amb. James F. Dobbins, who had overseen nation-building efforts in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo, to war-torn Afghanistan to help the Afghans assemble a successor government to the Taliban. From warlords to exiled royalty, from turbaned tribal chieftains to elegant émigré intellectuals, Ambassador Dobbins introduces a range of […]
The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature

March 22, 2015

Michael Emmerich thoroughly revises the conventional narrative of the early modern and modern history of The Tale of Genji. Exploring iterations of the work from the 1830s to the 1950s, he demonstrates how translations and the global circulation of discourse they inspired turned The Tale of Genji into a widely read classic, reframing our understanding […]
Playing with Fire: The Looming War with China over Taiwan (Praeger Security International)

March 22, 2015

One of the most pressing issues for China—and the world at large—is the continuing presence of an independence-minded Taiwan off China’s southern coast. Recent modernization efforts within the Chinese military and tough remarks by Chinese officials have alarmed many in Washington, and caused others to question America’s commitments in the region.Copper details events of recent […]
The Essence of Jung’s Psychology and Tibetan Buddhism: Western and Eastern Paths to the Heart

March 22, 2015

The Essence of Jung’s Psychology and Tibetan Buddhism cuts to the heart of two very different yet remarkably similar traditions. The author touches on many of their major ideas: the collective unconscious and karma, archetypes and deities, the analyst and the spiritual friend, and mandalas. Within Tibetan Buddhism she focuses on tantra and relates its […]
The Faithful Scribe: A Story of Islam, Pakistan, Family, and War

March 22, 2015

A journalist explores his family’s history to reveal the hybrid cultural and political landscape of Pakistan, the world’s first Islamic democracy Shahan Mufti’s family history, which he can trace back fourteen hundred years to the inner circle of the prophet Muhammad, offers an enlightened perspective on the mystifying history of Pakistan. Mufti uses the […]
Thank You for Your Service

March 22, 2015

From a MacArthur Fellow and the author of The Good Soldiers, a profound look at life after warThe wars of the past decade have been covered by brave and talented reporters, but none has reckoned with the psychology of these wars as intimately as the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Finkel. For The Good Soldiers, his […]
Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God

March 22, 2015

Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God is the first thorough examination of Hezbollah’s covert activities beyond Lebanon’s borders, including its financial and logistical support networks and its criminal and terrorist operations worldwide. Hezbollah—Lebanon’s “Party of God”—is a multifaceted organization: It is a powerful political party in Lebanon, a Shia Islam religious and […]
Finding Forgotten Cities: How the Indus Civilization was Discovered

March 22, 2015

Just a century ago, scholars believed that civilization in the Indus Valley began three thousand years ago during the Vedic Age. But in the autumn of 1924, John Marshall made an announcement that rocked the understanding of the ancient world and pushed back the boundaries of Indian history by two thousand years more: the discovery […]
Blasphemy: A Memoir: Sentenced to Death Over a Cup of Water

March 22, 2015

In June 2009 a Pakistani mother of five, Asia Bibi, was out picking fruit in the fields. At midday she went to the nearest well, picked up a cup, and took a drink of cool water, and then offered it to another woman. Suddenly, one of her fellow workers cried out that the water belonged […]

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