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In the Name of Honor: A Memoir

March 25, 2015

In June 2002, Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani woman from the impoverished village of Meerwala, was gang raped by a local clan known as the Mastoi — punishment for indiscretions allegedly committed by the woman’s brother. While certainly not the first account of a female body being negotiated for honor in a family, this time the […]
The Royal Selangor Story: Born and Raised in Pewter Dust

March 25, 2015

The story of Royal Selangor is no ordinary corporate history. It?s humble beginnings and complicated evolution are closely entwined with Malaysia?s remarkable social and economic transformation from British colonial days to the modern era. Sale Price:$16.71 9814068551
The ‘Ever-Victorious Army’: A History of the Chinese Campaign under Lt.-Col. C. G. Gordon, C.B. R.E. and of the Suppression of the Tai-ping Rebellion

March 25, 2015

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1868 edition by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. Sale Price:$15.63 1402176821
Sugar and the Origins of Modern Philippine Society

March 25, 2015

The sugar industry has been a vital part of the economic and social life of modern Philippine society. John A. Larkin examines how both the Filipino people and colonizing forces participated in this industry and how two types of society emerged: one based on plantation agriculture, the other on tenant farming.Negros Occidental and Pampanga, the […]
Kinabalu: Summit of Borneo

March 25, 2015

No description available. Sale Price:$89.92 9679994740
K2: Challenging the Sky

March 25, 2015

“An almost perfect cone, incredibly high”, a mountain so breathtakingly beautiful as to leave Colonel Francis Younghusband, the first European to breach the Old Muztag Pass in 1887, quite literally speechless in front of sudden, almost unreal apparition. Over a hundred years later K2, the highest peak in the Karakoram Range, continues to bewitch generations […]
The African Presence in Early Asia

March 25, 2015

The contributors to this volume argue that blacks were a formative civilizing influence on Asian societies. Presenting their case with persuasive eloquence and research, the authors examine cultural forms, art motifs, weapons, scripts, and skeletal evidence to link Asian civilizations to Africa’s Nile Valley. Articles detail both the physical and cultural presence of Africans in […]
Sky Dancer: The Secret Life And Songs Of Lady Yeshe Tsogyel

March 25, 2015

Yeshe Tsogyel, consort of Guru Padmasambhava, is the most famous of the enlightened women of Tibet. Women have a special place in tantra, but except for Sky Dancer there are few writings that present the spiritual practices and evolution of female aspirants. Here women are in an eminent position, and a path of practice is […]
Early Ch’an in China and Tibet (Berkeley Buddhist Studies Series 5)

March 25, 2015

Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism was popularized in the West by writers such as D.T. Suzuki and Alan Watts as a kind of romantic abstraction outside of history. The papers in this volume, originally presented as a unique conference sponsored by UC-Berkeley and the San Francisco Zen Center, go a long way towards revealing the complex historical […]
Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War

March 25, 2015

This ground-breaking book chronicles the 1971 war in South Asia by reconstituting the memories of those on opposing sides of the conflict.1971 was marked by a bitter civil war within Pakistan and war between India and Pakistan, backed respectively by the Soviet Union and the United States. It was fought over the territory of East […]

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