Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Since the heyday of Mao Zedong, there has never been a more crucial time to understand Maosim.Although to Western eyes it seems that China has long abandoned the utopian turmoil of Maoism in favour of authoritarian capitalism, Mao and his ideas remain central to the People? Republic and the legitimacy o ...Show more
The Future Is Asian: Global Order in the Twenty-First Century by Parag Khanna
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Five billion people, two-thirds of the world's mega-cities, one-third of the global economy, two-thirds of global economic growth, thirty of the Fortune 100, six of the ten largest banks, eight of the ten largest armies, five nuclear powers, massive technological innovation, the newest crop of top-ranke ...Show more
The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present by Jonathan Fenby
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
In 1850, China was the "sick man of Asia." Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth. The Penguin History of Modern China shows how turbulent that journey has been. For 150 years China has endured as victim of oppression, war, and famine. This makes its current position as arguably the m ...Show more
Red Flags - Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy by George Magnus
$45.00 AUD
Category: Asian
A trusted economic commentator provides a penetrating account of the threats to China's continued economic rise Under President Xi Jinping, China has become a large and confident power both at home and abroad, but the country also faces serious challenges. In this critical take on China's future, econom ...Show more
Angkor and the Khmer Civilization by Michael D. Coe
$40.00 AUD
Category: Asian
From a carved mammoth tusk (ca. 40,000 BCE) to Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights (1505-1510) to Duchamp's Fountain (1917), a remarkable lexicon of astonishing imagery has imprinted itself onto the cultural consciousness of the past 40,000 years. Author Kelly Grovier devotes himself to illuminating thes ...Show more
The Vietnam War - An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward; Ken Burns
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
**The New York Times Bestseller****The book of the landmark documentary, The Vietnam War, by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick**The definitive work on the Vietnam War, the conflict that came to define a generation, told from all sides by those who were there.More than forty years after the Vietnam War ended, it ...Show more
Journeys on the Silk Road: A Desert Explorer, Buddha's Secret Library, and the Unearthing of the World's Oldest Printed Book by Joyce Morgan; Conrad Walters
$45.00 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Globe Pequot Ser.
When a Chinese monk broke into a hidden cave in 1900, he uncovered one of the world's great literary secrets: a time capsule from the ancient Silk Road. Inside, scrolls were piled from floor to ceiling, undisturbed for a thousand years. The gem within was the Diamond Sutra of AD 868. This key Buddhist t ...Show more
Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden
$25.00 AUD
Category: Asian
ALos Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in History Winner of the 2018 Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Greene Award for a distinguished work of nonfiction The first battle book from Mark Bowden since his #1New York Times bestsellerBlack Hawk Down,Hue 1968 is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offe ...Show more
The British in India - Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience by David Gilmour
$70.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The British in this book lived in India from shortly after the reign of Elizabeth I until well into the reign of Elizabeth II. Who were they? What drove these men and women to risk their lives on long voyages down the Atlantic and across the Indian Ocean or later via the Suez Canal? And when they got to ...Show more
Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present by Christopher Harding
$60.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Japan Storyis a fascinating, surprising account of Japan's culture, from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid 19th century to the present, through the eyes of people who always had their doubts about modernity - who greeted it not with the confidence and grasping ambition of Japan's familiar moder ...Show more
The Billionaire Raj by James Crabtree
$33.00 AUD
Category: Asian
A colorful and revealing portrait of the rise of India's new billionaire class in a radically unequal society India is the world's largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China's. But the rewards of this growth have been far from evenly shared, and t ...Show more