From Purdah to the People:Memoirs of Padma Shri Rani Laxmi Kumari Chundawat by Lakshmai Kumaarai Cauonodaavata; Frances Taft (Editor)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: good
Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World by Hugh Pope
$14.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: good
A compellingly readable account of Turkey and its people by acclaimed author, Hugh Pope Since the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire following World War I and the subsequent founding of the Turkish Republic by Ataturk, Turkey has played a prominent, albeit dependent, role in international affairs, as a v ...Show more
Turkey Unveiled: Ataturk and After by Nicole and Hugh Pope
$15.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: good
In this work, the authors offer a picture of 20th-century Turkey and its formative past: the strengths and weaknesses of the Ottomans, the Armenian tragedy, the Kurdish struggle, and the controversial legacy of the brilliant but autocratic founder of the Republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. They also examin ...Show more
The Turks Today by Andrew Mango
$14.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
Eighty years have passed since Mustafa Kemal Atatürk founded the Turkish Republic out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire and set it on the path of modernisation. He was determined that his country should be accepted as a member of the family of civilised nations. Today Turkey is a rapidly developing cou ...Show more
Banking on Baghdad: Inside Iraq's 7000-Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict by Edwin Black
$16.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
New York Times and international bestselling author Edwin Black uncovers Iraq's hidden economy and the companies that profit from its upheaval. Big business and global warfare have long been fiery and symbiotic forces in Iraq. Banking on Baghdad tells the dramatic and tragic history of a land along t ...Show more
White Mughals - Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India by William Dalrymple
$12.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad when he met Khair-un-Nissa
Critiques of Confucius in Contemporary China by Kam Louie
$25.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: near fine
Falling Leaves - The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
$8.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
The story of an unwanted Chinese daughter growing up during the Communist Revolution, blamed for her mother's death, ignored by her millionaire father and unwanted by her Eurasian step mother. A story of greed, hatred and jealousy; a domestic dramais played against the extraordinary political events in ...Show more
Wild Swans -Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
$10.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: good
A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener.
Ocean Devil: The Life and Legend of George Hogg by James MacManus
$10.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
The dramatic true-life story of George Hogg, a young Oxford graduate who is caught up in the Japanese invasion of China in 1937 and the Chinese Civil war, and who leads a group of Chinese children hundreds of miles across 15,000-foot mountains to safety -- only to die tragically in early 1945. The autho ...Show more
Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation by Declan Kiberd
$20.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: Convergences: Inventories of the Present Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Just as Ireland has produced many brilliant writers in the past century, so these writers have produced a new Ireland. In a book unprecedented in its scope and approach, Declan Kiberd offers a vivid account of the personalities and texts, English and Irish alike, that reinvented the country after centur ...Show more