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Pakistan’s Foreign Policy: A Reappraisal (Oxford Pakistan Paperbacks)

March 22, 2015

Pakistan’s Foreign Policy is a penetrating analysis of Pakistan’s foreign policy from the time of Independence in 1947 until the beginning of the new millennium. The formulation of Pakistan’s foreign policy has been discussed from a fresh perspective. Shahid Amin has tried to pragmatically examine the structural failures of Pakistan’s foreign policy-making process and calls […]
Respected Citizens: The History of Armenians in Singapore and Malaysia

March 22, 2015

No description available. Sale Price:$45.08 0975108204
A sinister twilight;: The fall of Singapore, 1942

March 22, 2015

1 HARDCOVER BOOK Sale Price:$0.65 B0006BUOFY
The Ideological Struggle for Pakistan (Hoover Institution Press Publication)

March 22, 2015

Since its inception in 1947, the idea of Pakistan has been a contested one. Today, Pakistan faces a militant Islamist threat that its elected government is trying to combat in fractious collaboration with the army. As the country finds itself on the defensive against an array of groups claiming to wave the banner of Islam, […]
Hong Kong Cinema Since 1997: The Post-Nostalgic Imagination

March 22, 2015

Taking as its point of departure the three recurrent themes of nostalgia, memory and local histories, this book is an attempt to map out a new poetics — the post-nostalgic imagination — in Hong Kong cinema in the first decade of Chinese rule. Sale Price:$87.61 0230221432
Visayan Vignettes: Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island (Morality and Society)

March 22, 2015

To read the book is to appreciate the highly contingent, provisional, oblique, open-ended way in which people try to make sense” of another culture” Resil B. Mojares, Philippine Graphic “This book is an interestingly complex ethnography that approaches the self-critical dialectical ethnography called for two decades ago . . . It is a welcome contribution […]
The Tibetan History Reader

March 22, 2015

Answering a critical need for an accurate, in-depth history of Tibet, this single-volume resource reproduces essential, hard-to-find essays from the past fifty years of Tibetan studies. Covering the social, cultural, and political development of Tibet from the seventh century to the modern period, the volume is organized chronologically and regionally to complement courses in Asian […]
Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad

March 22, 2015

Pakistan and the United States have been locked in a deadly embrace for decades. Successive American presidents from both parties have pursued narrow short-term interests in the South Asian nation, and many of the resulting policies proved counterproductive in the long term, contributing to political instability and a radicalized public. This background has helped set […]
The Cabanatuan Prison Raid – The Philippines 1945

March 22, 2015

On January 27, 1945, the 6th Ranger Battalion and the 6th Army Special Reconnaissance Unit (the Alamo Scouts) began the most dangerous and important mission of their careers to rescue 500 American, British and Dutch prisoners-of-war held at a camp near Cabanatuan. This daring plan was fraught with difficulties – the rangers had to struggle […]
Sindh Revisited: A Journey in the Footsteps of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton

March 22, 2015

Sindh Revisited is the remarkable story of the author’s fascination with the early life of Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890). It is the story of an incredible journey, too – deep into the heart of British India, and the India and Sindh of today. The very name of Sir Richard Burton conjures up images of […]

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