Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific by Robert D. Kaplan
$33.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Over the last decade, the center of world power has been quietly shifting from Europe to Asia. With oil reserves of several billion barrels, an estimated nine hundred trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and several centuries' worth of competing territorial claims, the South China Sea in particular is a ...Show more
Indonesia etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation by Elizabeth Pisani
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian
One in 30 of the people on this planet is Indonesian. The 13,000 islands of their homeland, scattered along the equator, stretch the distance from London to Tehran, and the residents of the capital, Jakarta, tweet more than those of any other city on the planet. By any standard, Indonesia is a global hu ...Show more
Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in the Badlands of India by Amana Fontanella-Khan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Asian
Sampat Pal was married at twelve, essentially illiterate. Today she leads a vigilante group fighting for women's rights: the Pink Gang. When Sheelu was arrested for stealing from a powerful politician, she was sure that she would be forced to accept a prison sentence, not least because she alleged that ...Show more
Wish You Happy Forever: What China's Orphans Taught Me about Moving Mountains by Jenny Bowen
$27.99 AUD
Category: Asian
In the summer of 1998, Jenny Bowen looked out her kitchen window onto her garden, and her life changed forever. Her three-year-old daughter Maya, whom she and her husband had adopted months earlier from an orphanage in China, had transformed from a vacant-eyed, sickly little girl into a joyous being thr ...Show more
Demokrasi: Indonesia in the 21st Century by Hamish McDonald
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Indonesia, a nation of thousands of islands and almost 250 million people, straddles the junction of the Pacific and Indian oceans. The world's biggest Muslim nation has long been one of Australia's important strategic partners, and the relationship has become closer - if occasionally fraught - under Pr ...Show more
Genghis Khan - Life, Death and Resurrection by John Man
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Genghis Khan - creator of the greatest empire the world has ever seen - is one of history's immortals. In Central Asia, they still use his name to frighten children. In China, he is honoured as the founder of a dynasty. In Mongolia he is the father of the nation. In the USA, Time magazine, voted Genghis ...Show more
Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival by David Pilling
$39.99 AUD
Category: Asian
This is a pacy, fresh and surprising portrait of Japan and the Japanese - from David Pilling, award-winning writer and Asia Editor of the Financial Times. Despite years of stagnation, Japan remains one of the world's largest economies and a country which exerts a remarkable cultural fascination. David P ...Show more
Games Without Rules: The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan by Tamim Ansary
$22.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The history of modern Afghanistan is an epic drama, a thriller, a tragedy, a surreal farce. Every forty years or so, over the last two centuries, some great global power has attempted to take control of Afghanistan, only to slink away wounded and bewildered. Games without Rules recounts this strange sto ...Show more
Dear Leader: North Korea's Senior Propagandist Exposes Shocking Truths Behind the Regime by Jang Jin-Sung
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
'The General will now enter the room.' Everyone turns to stone. Not moving my head, I direct my eyes to a point halfway up the archway where Kim Jong-il's face will soon appear. As North Korea's State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed life. With food provisions, a travel pass, access to strictl ...Show more
The Contest of the Century - The New Era of Competition with China by Geoff Dyer
$39.99 AUD
Category: Asian
By sea and on the airwaves, by dollar and yuan, a contest has begun that will shape the next century. China's rise has now entered a critical new phase, as it begins to translate its considerable economic heft into a bigger role on the world stage, challenging America's recent supremacy. With its new na ...Show more
The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed by Michael Meyer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Asian
A fascinating, intimate portrait of Beijing through the lens of its oldest neighborhood, facing destruction as the city, and China, relentlessly modernizes. Soon we will be able to say about old Beijing that what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and Communist planners couldn't eradicate, the marke ...Show more
A History of Modern Indonesia by Adrian Vickers
$34.95 AUD
Category: Asian
Since the Bali bombings of 2002 and the rise of political Islam, Indonesia has frequently occupied media headlines. Nevertheless, the history of the fourth largest country on earth remains relatively unknown. Adrian Vickers' book, first published in 2005, traces the history of an island country, compris ...Show more