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  • Medieval Chinese Warfare 300-900

    by David Graff ...
    Series series Warfare and History
    Shortly after 300 AD, barbarian invaders from Inner Asia toppled China's Western Jin dynasty, leaving the country divided and at war for several centuries. Despite this, the empire gradually formed a unified imperial order. Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900 explores the military strategies, institutions and wars that reconstructed the Chinese empire that has survived into modern times.Drawing on ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Hampi - The Forgotten Empire

    by Harpreet Kaur Kapoor ...
    Hampi is a world heritage site and holds some of the most unique remains from the great empire of Vijayanagar. The site has an ongoing archaeological dig that has been on since the past 20 years now. With world famous historians and archaeologists having worked on it. The government may have reduced the dig allowance but the enthusiasm has not reduced.There is still so much to know. ... Read more

    $2.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Conquest

    How Societies Overwhelm Others

    by David Day ...
    In this bold, sweeping book, David Day surveys the ways in which one nation or society has supplanted another, and then sought to justify its occupation - for example, the English in Australia and North America, the Normans in England, the Spanish in Mexico, the Japanese in Korea, the Chinese in Tibet. Human history has been marked by territorial aggression and expanion, an endless cycle of ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • China's Security State

    Philosophy, Evolution, and Politics

    by Xuezhi Guo ...
    China's Security State describes the creation, evolution, and development of Chinese security and intelligence agencies as well as their role in influencing Chinese Communist Party politics throughout the party's history. Xuezhi Guo investigates patterns of leadership politics from the vantage point of security and intelligence organization and operation by providing new evidence and offering ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Origins and Formation of Kazakhs’ Jeweler’s Art

    National Kazakh jewellery

    by Shaizada Tokhtabayeva ...
    The book contains a lot of coloured illustrations, reflecting the exotic grandeur of the national Kazakh jewellery art of the eighteenth and twentieth centuries from the fund of RK State Museum 0f Arts named after A. Kasteev. It sets out the origins, symbolism and artistic features of jewellery, which has been studied by the author for the last 20 years. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A History of Modern Libya

    by Dirk Vandewalle ...
    Libya is coming in from the cold, but for most of the three decades following the 1969 revolution, the country was labelled a pariah state by the West. Dirk Vandewalle, one of only a handful of western scholars to visit during the time, is intimately acquainted with the country. This history - based on original research and his interviews with Libya's political elite - offers a lucid account of ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West 450-900

    by Guy Halsall ...
    Series series Warfare and History
    Guy Halsall relates warfare to many aspects of medieval life, economy, society and politics.This book recovers its distinctiveness, looking at warfare in a rounded context in the British Isles and Western Europe between the end of the Roman Empire and the break-up of the Carolingian Empire.Examining the raising and organization of early medieval armies and looks at the conduct of campaigns, the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • A Letter to a Hindu

    by Leo Tolstoy ...

    $5.99 USD

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  • Faith, Unity, Discipline

    The Inter-Service-Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan

    by Hein Kiessling ...
    Established in the wake of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-8 by the Australian army officer Major-General Walter Cawthorne, then Deputy Chief of Staff in the Pakistan Army, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for years remained an under-developed and obscure agency. In 1979, the organisation's growing importance was felt during the Soviet war in Afghanistan , as it worked hand in glove ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • City Versus Countryside in Mao's China

    Negotiating the Divide

    by Jeremy Brown ...
    The gap between those living in the city and those in the countryside remains one of China's most intractable problems. As this powerful work of grassroots history argues, the origins of China's rural-urban divide can be traced back to the Mao Zedong era. While Mao pledged to remove the gap between the city worker and the peasant, his revolutionary policies misfired and ended up provoking still ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • State versus Gentry in Early Qing Dynasty China, 1644-1699

    by H. Miller ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Continuing the argument developed in the author's previous book, this exhaustively researched study describes the humiliation of the Chinese gentry at the hands of the statist Oboi regents in the 1660s and the Kangxi emperor's self-declared Confucian sagehood in the 1670s, which effectively trumped the gentry's claim to sovereignty. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD