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  • The Contract Advantage

    by CHARLES PARKS ...
    The Contract Advantage shows you how to transition from daily survival to stable, recurring revenue through strategic contract relationships. Learn directly from over 30 years of proven success navigating commercial contracts, institutional relationships, and long-term moving operations.Inside, you'll learn:Why organizations prefer contract moversHow to prepare your business for institutional ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Techno-Orientalism

    Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media

    by David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta A. Niu, Kenneth Hough, Jason Crum, Victor Bascara, Warren Liu, Seo-Young Chu0, Abigail De Kosnik1, Jinny Huh2, Steve Choe3, Se Young Kim4, Dylan Yeats5, Julie Ha Tran6, Kathryn Allan7, Aimee Bahng8, Douglas S. Ishii9, Tzarina T. Prater0, Catherine Fung1, Charles Park2 ...
    Series series Asian American Studies Today
    What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalism investigates the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hypo- or hyper-technological terms in ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

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    Genghis Khan was the founder and Great Khan (emperor) of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his demise. He came to power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of northeast Asia. After founding the Mongol Empire and being proclaimed "Genghis Khan," he started the Mongol invasions that resulted in the conquest of most of Eurasia. These included raids or ... Read more

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  • The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by James A. Millward ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The phrase "silk road" evokes vivid scenes of merchants leading camel caravans across vast stretches to trade exotic goods in glittering Oriental bazaars, of pilgrims braving bandits and frozen mountain passes to spread their faith across Asia. Looking at the reality behind these images, this Very Short Introduction illuminates the historical background against which the silk road flourished, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Victor Two

    Inside Iraq: the Crucial SAS Mission

    by Peter Crossland ...
    The Israeli government was persuaded at the last minute not to enter the Gulf War when they were told that it was the SAS who were hunting for Scud missiles and disrupting Iraqi communications. The SAS forces inside Iraq comprised two half-squadrons (30 men each with vehicles) and three much smaller foot patrols, one of which had the call sign, "Bravo Two Zero".;Corporal Terence Clayton, known as ... Read more

    $6.09 USD

  • The Epic of Gesar of Ling

    Gesar's Magical Birth, Early Years, and Coronation as King

    The epic of Gesar has been the national treasure of Tibet for almost a thousand years. An open canon of tales about a superhuman warrior-king, the epic is still a living oral tradition, included on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This book is a translation of the beginning portion of this enormous corpus, covering all the events from Gesar’s divine ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Janissaries

    by Godfrey Goodwin ...
    Series Book 4 - Saqi Essentials
    From the fifteenth to the sixteenth century, the janissaries were the scourge of Europe. With their martial music, their muskets and their drilled march, it seemed that no one could withstand them. Their loyalty to their corps was infinite as the Ottomans conquered the Balkans as far as the Danube, and Syria, Egypt and Iraq. They set up semi-independent states along the North African coast and ... Read more

    $14.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of China

    Sixty Years of The People's Republic of China

    Edited by Roderick MacFarquhar ...
    Thirty years ago, China was emerging from one of the most traumatic periods in its history. The Chinese people had been ravaged by long years of domestic struggle, terrible famine and economic and political isolation. Today, China has the world's second largest economy and is a major player in global diplomacy. This volume, written by some of the leading experts in the field, tracks China's ... Read more

    $52.49 USD

  • Rethinking the Asian American Movement

    by Daryl Maeda ...
    Series series American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century
    Although it is one of the least-known social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the Asian American movement drew upon some of the most powerful currents of the era, and had a wide-ranging impact on the political landscape of Asian America, and more generally, the United States. Using the racial discourse of the black power and other movements, as well as antiwar activist and the global ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Modern Japan: All That Matters

    by Jonathan Clements ...
    Series series All That Matters
    How has Japan become a global superpower and what does the future look like for it? There was a time in the 1980s when, if the media were to be believed, the Japanese were set to become the masters of the world and owners of all our companies and intellectual properties. Today, Japan's rapid ascendancy now seems dwarfed by the metoric rise of its neighbour, China.Here, Jonathan Clements charts the ... Read more

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  • Let's Explore India (Most Famous Attractions in India)

    India Travel Guide

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Explore the World Books
    With picture books, a child can see, feel, hear and even smell India. Picture books are multi-sensory experiences that challenge your child's senses. They tackle the part of the brain that is responsible for logic. Make learning fun and easy to remember with the use of this picture book. Grab a copy today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Chop Suey, USA

    The Story of Chinese Food in America

    by Yong Chen ...
    Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
    American diners began to flock to Chinese restaurants more than a century ago, making Chinese food the first mass-consumed cuisine in the United States. By 1980, it had become the country's most popular ethnic cuisine. Chop Suey, USA offers the first comprehensive interpretation of the rise of Chinese food, revealing the forces that made it ubiquitous in the American gastronomic landscape and ... Read more

    $24.69 USD