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Dangerous Wives and Sacred Sisters - Social and Symbolic Roles of Women in Nepal by Lynn Bennett
$25.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: good-very good
Negara - The Theatre State in 19th Century Bali by Clifford Geertz
$16.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
Combining great learning, interpretative originality, analytical sensitivity, and a charismatic prose style, Clifford Geertz has produced a lasting body of work with influence throughout the humanities and social sciences, and remains the foremost anthropologist in America. His 1980 book Negara analyze ...Show more
Sinan - An Interpretation by Hans G Egli
$15.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good
Chinese Popular Culture and Ming Chantefables by Anne E. McLaren
$120.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Series: Sinica Leidensia Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In 1967 a body of Chinese texts was discovered in a tomb outside Shanghai. It contained a set of unique examples of an oral genre favoured by unlearned classes in the late imperial period (15th century), best called 'chantefables', appearing at the beginning of a profound historical shift which resulted ...Show more
Heart Voyage III by Kwek Leng Joo
$30.00 NZD
Category: Photography | Reading Level: very good
Photographs of Singapore
Southeast Asia and New Zealand: A History of Regional and Bilateral Relations by Anthony L. Smith (ed.)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
Published in association with the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore and the NZ Institute of International Affairs. Drawing together the most prominent scholars of New Zealand's relations with Southeast Asia, this study is divided into chapters that examine the overall military, multilatera ...Show more
The Raj - An Eye-Witness History of the British in India by Roger Hudson (ed.)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
The Suicide Club: A Virgin Tea Planter's Journey by Herman Gunaratne
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Midnight in Broad Daylight - A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds by Pamela Rotner Sakamoto
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Meticulously researched and beautifully written, the true story of a Japanese American family that found itself on opposite sides during World War II-an epic tale of family, separation, divided loyalties, love, reconciliation, loss, and redemption-this is a riveting chronicle of U.S.-Japan relations and ...Show more
The Great Wall by Julia Lovell
$16.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
FROM THE INTRODUCTION:This book looks behind the modern mythology of the Great Wall to uncover a 3000-year history far more fragmented and far less straightforwardly illustrious than its crowds of visitors imagine.The story of the Wall winds through that of the Chinese state and of the frontier policy t ...Show more
The Great War For Civilisation: The Conquest Of The Middle East by Robert Fisk
$14.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. During the thirty years that award-winning journalist Robert Fisk has been reporting on the Middle East, he has covered every major event in the region, from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution, from the American hostage crisis in Beirut (as one of only two Western journalists i ...Show more
The Real War - The Classic Reporting on the Vietnam War with a New Essay by Jonathan Schell
$10.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
Jonathan Schell's extraordinary on-the-scene writing about Vietnam has stood the test of time in our continuing attempt to understand how and why the United States went to war-and how and why it lost. In "The Village of Ben Suc" written "with skill that many a veteran reporter will envy" (New York Times ...Show more