Korea : Where the American Century Began by Michael Pembroke
$33.00 AUD
Category: Asian
This lucid book should be compulsory reading for anyone who wonders how the situation on the Korean peninsula has deteriorated to the point it is today. It demonstrates the truth of the axiom that unless you know the history, you cannot see the future. The failed invasion of North Korea by US-led forces ...Show more
The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea by Bandi
$20.00 AUD
Category: Asian
'A must-read! The first book of fiction to come out of North Korea. (Smuggled.) Fascinating and chilling. Heartfelt and heartbreaking.' - Margaret Atwood In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung's t ...Show more
The Road to Sleeping Dragon: Learning China from the Ground Up by Michael Meyer
$49.99 AUD
Category: Asian
From the highly praised author of The Last Days of Old Beijing, a brilliant portrait of China today and a memoir of coming of age in a country in transition. In 1995, at the age of twenty-three, Michael Meyer joined the Peace Corps and, after rejecting offers to go to seven other countries, was sent t ...Show more
China : A History in Objects by Jessica Harrison-Hall
$55.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The history of China-- brilliantly told and brought vividly to life through more than 6,000 years of artifacts and treasures
Power of Good People: Surviving the Sri Lankan Civil War by Para Paheer
$24.95 AUD
Category: Asian
In May 2009 Sri Lanka's long and dreadful civil war was finally brought to an horrific end. Ruthlessly driven to a small strip of land on the tip of the island's north-east coast, tens of thousands of innocent civilians died, smashed by artillery, killed by snipers, denied medical treatment and starved ...Show more
Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple
$23.00 AUD
Category: Asian
A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet - then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve herself to death. Nine peopl ...Show more
Chasing the Chinese Dream : Stories from Modern China by Nick Holdstock
$45.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Voyage of Rediscovery: A Cultural Odyssey Through Polynesia by Ben R. Finney
$82.00 AUD
Category: Asian
In the summer of 1985, a mostly Hawaiian crew set out aboard Hokule'a, a reconstructed ancient double canoe, to demonstrate what skeptics had steadfastly denied: that their ancestors, sailing in such canoes and navigating solely by reading stars, ocean swells, and other natural signs, could intentional ...Show more
The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power by Jennifer Rudolph
$54.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Many books offer information about China, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. The questions addressed in this unique volume provide a window onto the challenges China faces today and the uncertainties its meteoric ascent on the global horizon has provoked.In only a few decades, the most populo ...Show more
The Trouble with the Tigers by Victor Mallet
$25.95 AUD
Category: Asian
In this lively study of the turmoil in modern south-east Asia, Victor Mallet argues that governments made the mistake of crowing about Asian values when they should have been doing more to manage the fastest industrial revolution the world has yet seen. Far from avoiding pitfalls of corruption, family d ...Show more
A Short History of India : From the Earliest Civilisations and Myriad Kingdoms, to Today's Economic Powerhouse by Gordon Kerr
$17.99 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Short History
The world's largest democracy and second most populous country, 21st century India is a dynamic nation with a thriving economy, made up of a variety of beliefs and peoples united under one flag. Its history is a unique story of ancient empires and civilisations, some dating back to humankind's earliest ...Show more
Asia's Reckoning - The Struggle for Global Dominance by Richard McGregor
$50.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The dramatic story of the relationship between the world's three largest economies, one that is shaping the future of us all, by one of the foremost experts on east Asia For more than half a century, American power in the Pacific has successfully kept the peace. But it has also cemented the tensions in ...Show more