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Maximum City - Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta
$12.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
Bombay's story is told through the lives, often desperately near the edge, of some of the people who live there. Hitmen, dancing girls, cops, movie stars, poets, beggars and politicians - Suketu looked at the city through their eyes. The complex texture of these extraordinary tales is threaded together ...Show more
The History of Ancient Asia by Meredith Macardle
$16.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: very good
Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World - A Concise History by Rebecca E. Karl
$12.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Throughout this lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong's life and thought, Rebecca E. Karl places the revolutionary leader's personal experiences, social visions and theory, military strategies, and developmental and foreign policies in a dynamic narrative of the Chinese revolution. She sit ...Show more
Petr Petrovich Semenov's Travels in the Tian'-Shan' 1856-1857 by Petr Petrovich Semenov; Colin Thomas (ed.)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 189 | Reading Level: very good
In the mid-nineteenth century the eyes of western European explorers were firmly fixed on advancing inland from former maritime colonies in the Americas, Africa, the Indian sub-continent and Australasia, their motives often being inextricably bound up with concerns of imperial politics and commerce. Sim ...Show more
The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck - His Journey to the Court of the Great Khan Möngke1253-1255 by Peter Jackson (Editor); David Morgan (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 173 | Reading Level: very good
"William of Rubruck was a Franciscan friar who wrote the first great travel book about Asia. In 1253-55 he made the journey from the Holy Land to the court of the Great Khan M ngke at Qaraqorum in Mongolia and back again. . . . William was interested in all that he saw. . . . His account is particularly ...Show more
A History of Chinese Literature by Herbert A Giles
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: good-very good
Village India - Studies in the Little Community by McKim Marriott (Editor)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: good
The Sister -The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jong, the Most Powerful Woman in North Korea by Sung-Yoon Lee
$16.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
Recent years have seen the dramatic rise of a young woman called Kim Yo Jong in North Korea. Stomping the world stage from the shadows of her secretive state, she is creating headlines and fevered speculation about her role and her future. She is the sister of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and, as her murd ...Show more
The Empress Dowager Cixi - The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang
$12.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: good-very good
Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age. At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor's numerous concubines and sexual part ...Show more
Promises and Predicaments - Trade and Entrepreneurship in Colonial and Independent Indonesia in the 19th and 20th Centuries by Alicia Schrikker (Editor); Jeroen Touwen (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: near fine
Indonesia's trajectory towards successful economic growth has been long and capricious. Studies of the process often focus either on the Netherlands Indies or independent Indonesia, suggesting the existence of fundamental discontinuities. The authors of the 17 essays in this book adopt a long-term persp ...Show more
John Darling - An Australian Filmmaker in Bali by Graeme MacRae (Editor); Anton Lucas (Editor)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
Acclaimed filmmaker John Darling lived in Bali through the 1970s and 1980s. During that time, he created the films that established him as the leading foreign filmmaker of Indonesia. This included Lempad of Bali, which celebrated the life and times of the astonishing Balinese artist Gusti Nyoman Lempad. ...Show more