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  • In Search of God’s Power in Broken Bodies

    A Theology of Maum

    by H. Chong ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Interweaving feminist theological ideas, Asian spirituality, and the witnesses of World War II sex slaves, this book offers a new theology of body. It examines the multi-layered meaning of the broken body of Christ from Christological, sacramental, and ecclesiological perspectives, while exploring the centrality of body in theological discourse. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Mao

    The Unknown Story

    by Jung Chang, Jon Halliday ...
    The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao’s close circle in China who have never talked before — and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Indian Mutiny

    by Julian Spilsbury ...
    An epic true story of treachery, revenge and courageThe Indian Mutiny is a real page-turner, an epic story with surprising modern parallels. Fomer army officer-turned-TV scriptwriter, Julian Spilsbury is the ideal author to take us back to the desperate summer of 1857 when thousands of Indian soldiers mutinied. They murdered their officers, hunted down the women and children and burned and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Battle For China's Past

    Mao and the Cultural Revolution

    by Mobo Gao ...
    --Shows that the Mao era was benficial for most Chinese citizens--"A powerful mixture of political passion and original research, a brave polemic against the fashionable view on China. ... Aims a knockout blow at Jung Chang’s recent book on Mao, which Bush and the conservatives rave-reviewed." Gregor Benton, Professor of Chinese History, University of Cardiff"This important book opens a much ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Disciples of All Nations:Pillars of World Christianity

    Pillars of World Christianity

    by Lamin O. Sanneh ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in World Christianity
    Long the dominant religion of the West, Christianity is now rapidly becoming the principal faith in much of the postcolonial world--a development that marks a momentous shift in the religion's very center of gravity. In this eye-opening book, Lamin Sanneh examines the roots of this "post-Western awakening" and the unparalleled richness and diversity, as well as the tension and conflict, it has ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Strange Parallels: Volume 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands

    Southeast Asia in Global Context, c.800–1830

    by Victor Lieberman ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative World History
    Blending fine-grained case studies with overarching theory, this book seeks both to integrate Southeast Asia into world history and to rethink much of Eurasia's premodern past. It argues that Southeast Asia, Europe, Japan, China, and South Asia all embodied idiosyncratic versions of a Eurasian-wide pattern whereby local isolates cohered to form ever larger, more stable, more complex political and ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • The Archaeology of Japan

    From the Earliest Rice Farming Villages to the Rise of the State

    by Koji Mizoguchi ...
    Series series Cambridge World Archaeology
    This is the first book-length study of the Yayoi and Kofun periods of Japan (c.600 BC–AD 700), in which the introduction of rice paddy-field farming from the Korean peninsula ignited the rapid development of social complexity and hierarchy that culminated with the formation of the ancient Japanese state. The author traces the historical trajectory of the Yayoi and Kofun periods by employing ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Homer's Turk

    by Jerry Toner ...
    Spanning the Crusades, the Indian Raj, and the postwar decline of the British Empire, Homer’s Turk illuminates how English writers of all eras have relied on Greek and Roman literature to help them understand the world once called “the Orient.” Even today, the Classics frame the West’s relationship with the Islamic world, India, and China. ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • A Short History of Iraq

    by Thabit Abdullah ...
    This accessible guide has been fully updated to take into account the Iraq War and subsequent developments, whilst retaining its character as a non-partisan and approachable text for students and interested readers alike.The twentieth century witnessed the transformation of the area known currently as Iraq from a backward region of the Ottoman Empire, to one of the most important and dynamic ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Partition of Bengal and Assam, 1932-1947

    Contour of Freedom

    by Bidyut Chakrabarty ...
    The fragmentation of Bengal and Assam in 1947 was a crucial moment in India's socio-political history as a nation state. Both the British Indian provinces were divided as much through the actions of the Muslim League as by those of Congress and the British colonial power. Attributing partition largely to Hindu communalists is, therefore, historically inaccurate and factually misleading. The ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Public Health in Asia and the Pacific

    Historical and Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Milton J. Lewis, Kerrie L. MacPherson ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies
    The Asia-Pacific region has not only the greatest concentration of population but is, arguably, the future economic centre of the world. Epidemiological transition in the region is occurring much faster than it did in the West and many countries face the emerging problem of chronic diseases at the same time as they continue to grapple with communicable diseases.This book explores how disease ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Surviving the Dragon

    A Tibetan Lama's Account of 40 Years under Chinese Rule

    by Arjia Rinpoche ...
    On a peaceful summer day in 1952, ten monks on horseback arrived at a traditional nomad tent in northeastern Tibet where they offered the parents of a precocious toddler their white handloomed scarves and congratulations for having given birth to a holy child—and future spiritual leader.Surviving the Dragon is the remarkable life story of Arjia Rinpoche, who was ordained as a reincarnate lama at ... Read more

    $6.99 USD