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  • Taiwan's Presidential Politics

    Democratization and Cross-strait Relations in the Twenty-first Century

    by Muthiah Alagappa ...
    The March 2000 presidential election was an important milestone in the democratic development of Taiwan, with the Kuomintang turned out of power after five decades of control and replaced by the Democratic Progressive Party. This book address the variety of effects that Taiwan's democratic development and the election will have on domestic policy in the region. Part one looks at trends and changes ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

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    Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed

    by Michael Meyer ...
    Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Brief History of the Middle East

    by Christopher Catherwood ...
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    Western civilization began in the Middle East: Judaism and Christianity, as well as Islam, were born there. For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology and medicine, and were militarily far more powerful. It took another three hundred centuries for the West to catch up, and overtake, the Middle East.Why does it seem different now? Why does Osama bin ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Vietnam, Now

    A Reporter Returns

    by David Lamb ...
    When he left war-ravaged Vietnam some thirty years ago, journalist David Lamb averred "I didn't care if I ever saw the wretched country again." But in 1997, he found himself living in Hanoi, in charge of the Los Angeles Times's first peacetime bureau and in the midst of a country on the move, as it progresses toward a free-market economy and divorces itself from the restrictive, isolationist ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • When God Made Hell

    The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921

    by Charles Townshend ...
    Since 2003, Iraq has rarely left the headlines. But less discussed is the fact that Iraq as we know it was created by the British, in one of the most dramatic interventions in recent history. A cautious strategic invasion by British forces led - within seven years - to imperial expansion on a dizzying scale, with fateful consequences for the Middle East and the world.In When God Made Hell, Charles ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Coxinga and the Fall of the Ming Dynasty

    by Jonathan Clements ...
    This is the fantastic true story of the infamous pirate; Coxinga who became king of Taiwan and was made a god - twice.From humble origins, Coxinga's father became the richest man in China and Admiral of the Emperor's navy during the Ming Dynasty. As his eldest son, Coxinga was given the best education and developed a love of poetry and the study of Confucius. From this unlikely beginning, it took ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949

    by S. C. M. Paine ...
    The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949 shows that the Western treatment of World War II, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War as separate events misrepresents their overlapping connections and causes. The Chinese Civil War precipitated a long regional war between China and Japan that went global in 1941 when the Chinese found themselves fighting a civil war within a regional war within an ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Beyond Beauty

    Hunting the Wild Blue Poppy

    by Bill Terry ...
    Beyond Beauty is the story of a remarkable journey that Bill Terry and his wife, Rosemary, undertook when they joined a party of Dutch and British alpine plant hunters intent on botanizing on the roof of the world. The expedition travelled in a convoy of eight jeeps over roads that were rarely paved and occasionally terrifying. They crossed fifteen passes, some as high as 5,000 metres (16,500 feet ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Our Supreme Leader

    The Making of Kim Jong-un

    by Paul French ...
    Since his accession to power in 2012, Kim Jong-un has come to personify North Korea in the eyes of the outside world. An object of derision as much as fear, he has nevertheless succeeded in strengthening his grip on the country, purging potential rivals and strengthening the personality cult around himself and his predecessors. This process is set to culminate at the Seventh Congress of the Korean ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Banaras

    CITY OF LIGHT

    by Diana L. Eck ...
    The sacred city of Banāras on the River Ganges is one of the oldest living cities in the world—as old as Jerusalem, Athens, and Peking. It is the place where Shiva, the Lord of All, is said to have made his permanent home since the dawn of creation. There are few cities in India as traditionally Hindu and as symbolic of the whole of Hindu culture as Banāras. In this eloquent, finely observed study ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795-1989

    by Bruce A. Elleman ...
    Series series Warfare and History
    Why did the Chinese empire collapse and why did it take so long for a new government to reunite China? Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795-1989 seeks to answer these questions by exploring the most important domestic and international conflicts over the past two hundred years, from the last half of the Qing empire through to modern day China. It reveals how most of China's wars during this period were ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • The Unveiling of Lhasa

    by Edmund Candler ...
    The aim of this record of an individual's impressions of the recent Tibetan expedition is to convey some idea of the life we led in Tibet, the scenes through which we passed, and the strange people we fought and conquered. We killed several thousand of these brave, ill-armed men; and as the story of the fighting is not always pleasant reading, I think it right before describing the punitive side ... Read more

    $2.81 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus