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A History of Taiwan

March 22, 2015

Book by Hung, Chien-chao Sale Price:$62.46 888658380X
Photographic Guide to Birds of China Including Hong Kong

March 22, 2015

Handy, pocket-sized field guide to 252 species of birds found in China and Hong Kong. Provides short descriptive accounts, color photographs and color range maps for each species, as well as brief comments on abundance, calls and/or feeding behavior. Full-color photographs and range maps. Sale Price:$24.50 1859749690
The Great Raid on Cabanatuan: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor

March 22, 2015

From the critically acclaimed author whom The Wall Street Journal called “a first-class historian,” here is a riveting account of one of the most spectacular rescue operations in history. On January 30, 1945, American troops staged a successful raid on Cabanatuan, a notorious Japanese POW camp where thousands of prisoners had been tortured and died. […]
Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants

March 22, 2015

The Indian Ocean was global long before the Atlantic, and today the countries bordering the Bay of Bengal–India, Bangladesh, Burma, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Malaysia–are home to one in four people on Earth. Crossing the Bay of Bengal places this region at the heart of world history for the first time. Integrating human and environmental […]
Foundations of Dharmakirti’s Philosophy (Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism)

March 22, 2015

Throughout the history of Buddhism, few philosophers have attained the stature of Dharmakirti, the “Lord of Reason” who has influenced virtually every systematic Buddhist thinker since his time. Dharmakirti’s renowned works, written in India during the philosophically rich seventh century, argue that the true test of knowledge is its efficacy, and likewise that only the […]
Bread and Rice: An American Woman’s Fight to Survive in the Jungles and Prison Camps of the WWII Philippines

March 22, 2015

A gripping story of heroism, fortitude, and the ability to survive against all odds. Sale Price:$8.92 1592284132
The Chaldean Account Of Genesis (Illustrated)

March 22, 2015

Fully illustrated. Published in 1876, this book contains the description of creation, the fall of man, the deluge, the tower of Babel, Babylonian fables and legends of the Gods. It also has chapters on Babylonian and Assyrian literature, general mythology, the Izdubar legends, the adventures of Ishtar and fragments of miscellaneous texts. Sale Price:buy at […]
Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence

March 22, 2015

The partition of India, 1947, some call it vivisection as Gandhi had, has without doubt been the most wounding trauma of the twentieth century. It has seared the psyche of four plus generations of this subcontinent. Why did this partition take place at all? Who was/is responsible — Jinnah? The Congress party? Or the British? […]
Freedom In Bondage

March 22, 2015

Adeu Rinpoche’s story is not about the horrors he endured under the Communist takeover of Tibet–he himself notes that many other people underwent much worse hardships, not to mention all those that died–but rather the way in which he told his tale. While describing what happened to him and many others, how he survived and […]
Director in Action: Johnnie To and the Hong Kong Action Film

March 22, 2015

The book provides a comprehensive overview of To’s career as a director of action films. Sale Price:$17.05 9622098401

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