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  • A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors

    From the Silent Era to the Present Day

    by Alexander Jacoby ...
    A comprehensive volume on major directors in the history of Japanese film.This important work fills the need for a reasonably priced yet comprehensive volume on major directors in the history of Japanese film. With clear insight and without academic jargon, Jacoby examines the works of over 150 filmmakers to uncover what makes their films worth watching.Included are artistic profiles of everyone ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

    by Jack Weatherford ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The startling true history of how one extraordinary man from a remote corner of the world created an empire that led the world into the modern age—by the author featured in Echoes of the Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan.The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Most Controversial Decision

    Truman, the Atomic Bombs, and the Defeat of Japan

    by Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C. ...
    Series series Cambridge Essential Histories
    This book explores the American use of atomic bombs and the role these weapons played in the defeat of the Japanese Empire in World War II. It focuses on President Harry S. Truman's decision-making regarding this most controversial of all his decisions. The book relies on notable archival research and the best and most recent scholarship on the subject to fashion an incisive overview that is fair ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Mountain of Fame

    Portraits in Chinese History

    by John E. Wills ...
    Through biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities, John Wills displays the five-thousand-year sweep of Chinese history from the legendary sage emperors to the tragedy of Tiananmen Square. This unique introduction to Chinese history and culture uses more than twenty exemplary lives--biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities--including those of statesmen, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Manga and the Representation of Japanese History

    Edited by Roman Rosenbaum ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    This edited collection explores how graphic art and in particular Japanese manga represent Japanese history.The articles explore the representation of history in manga from disciplines that include such diverse fields as literary studies, politics, history, cultural studies, linguistics, narratology, and semiotics. Despite this diversity of approaches all academics from these respective fields of ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia

    Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought

    by Cemil Aydin ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in International and Global History
    In this rich intellectual history, Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in modern Asia is a political and religious reaction to the liberal and democratic values of the West. Nor is anti-Westernism a natural response to Western imperialism. Instead, by focusing on the agency and achievements of non-Western intellectuals, Aydin demonstrates that modern anti-Western discourse grew ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Multicultural China in the Early Middle Ages

    by Sanping Chen ...
    Series series Encounters with Asia
    In contrast to the economic and cultural dominance by the south and the east coast over the past several centuries, influence in China in the early Middle Ages was centered in the north and featured a significantly multicultural society. Many events that were profoundly formative for the future of East Asian civilization occurred during this period, although much of this multiculturalism has long ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Gandhi

    by David Arnold ...
    Series series Profiles In Power
    Gandhi's is an extraordinary and compelling story. Few individuals in history have made so great a mark upon their times. And yet Gandhi never held high political office, commanded no armies and was not even a compelling orator. His 'power' therefore makes a particularly fascinating subject for investigation. David Arnold explains how and why the shy student and affluent lawyer became one of the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol

    An Anthology of Early European Portrayals of the Buddha

    Edited by Donald S. Lopez Jr. ...
    Series series Buddhism and Modernity
    We tend to think that the Buddha has always been seen as the compassionate sage admired around the world today, but until the nineteenth century, Europeans often regarded him as a nefarious figure, an idol worshipped by the pagans of the Orient. Donald S. Lopez Jr. offers here a rich sourcebook of European fantasies about the Buddha drawn from the works of dozens of authors over fifteen hundred ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Genghis Khan: Illustrated

    by Jacob Abbott ...
    Series series Jacob Abbott
    The book "Genghis Khan" by Jacob Abbott nowadays is in the public domain, but a great work has been done by Publisher to this version to make an electronic book that contrasts favorably to the original version. A lot of errors that exist in the free versions have been corrected; proper navigation is available or shortly, the ASCII text has been converted into a proper e-book. And the most ... Read more

    $2.36 USD

  • Women in the Middle East

    Past and Present

    by Nikki R. Keddie ...
    Written by a pioneer in the field of Middle Eastern women's history, Women in the Middle East is a concise, comprehensive, and authoritative history of the lives of the region's women since the rise of Islam. Nikki Keddie shows why hostile or apologetic responses are completely inadequate to the diversity and richness of the lives of Middle Eastern women, and she provides a unique overview of ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • A Far Corner

    Life and Art with the Open Circle Tribe

    by Scott Ezell ...
    In 2002, after living ten years in Asia, American poet and musician Scott Ezell used his advance from a local record company to move to Dulan, on Taiwan’s remote Pacific coast. He fell in with the Open Circle Tribe, a loose confederation of aboriginal woodcarvers, painters, and musicians who lived on the beach and cultivated a living connection with their indigenous heritage. Most members of the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD