Non Fiction > History > Asia
The Unforgettable Army - Slim's XIVth Army in Burma by Michael Hickey
$25.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Reading Level: very good
Imperial Warriors - Britain and the Gurkhas by Tony Gould
$12.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: good-very good
Gurkhas have been recruited into the British and Indian armies since 1814-15 the year the East India Company went to war with Nepal and this study examines the many legends that have grown up around them. It puts the story of the expansion and contraction of Britain's Gurkha force into the context of Ne ...Show more
Rail Across India - A Photographic Journey by Paul C. Pet; Geoffrey Moorhouse; J. B. Hollingsworth
$30.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good-very good
Behind the Beautiful Forevers Life Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
$10.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. As ...Show more
Invented Eden - The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday by Robin Hemley
$18.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
In 1971 Manual Elizalde, a Philippine government minister with a dubious background, discovered a band of twenty-six "Stone Age" rain-forest dwellers living in total isolation. The tribe was soon featured in American newscasts and graced the cover of National Geographic. But after a series of aborted an ...Show more
30 Reflections of China's 30 Years of Reform 1978-2008
$14.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
Vertical Horizon by Romain Jacquet-Lagreze; Nelson Chen
$20.00 NZD
Category: Photography | Reading Level: very good
Aspects of Chinese Music - The art of negotiation - teahouse courtship dialogues (qing-ge) from Guiyang / Transcriptions of vocal polyphony of the Dong, Buyi, Zhuang, Yi, Mulao, Yao and She Minority Nationalities of China by Jack Body; Gong Hong Yu; Nicholas Wheeler
$15.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Asia Pacific Archive 004
Shaonian - Courtship Songs from Northwest China - The Singers, the Songs and the Music by Du Yaxiong; Jack Body
$15.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
From the Ruins of Empire - The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia by Pankaj Mishra
$16.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A surprising, gripping narrative depicting the thinkers whose ideas shaped contemporary China, India, and the Muslim world. A little more than a century ago, as the Japanese navy annihilated the giant Russian one at the Battle of Tsushima, original thinkers across Asia, working independently, sought to ...Show more