Bali: A Paradise Created by Adrian Vickers
$20.00 AUD
Category: Asian
"Bali: A Paradise Created" bridges the gap between scholarly works and the more popular travel accounts readily available today. It offers an accessible history of this fascinating island and an anthropological study not only of the Balinese, but of the paradise-seekers from all parts of the world who h ...Show more
Portraits and Caftans of the Ottoman Sultans by Nurhan Atasoy
$180.00 AUD
Category: Asian
From the founding of the Ottoman dynasty by Osman Gazi to Suleyman the Magnificent's legendary territorial conquests, the legacy of the 36 Ottoman sultans has undeniably left its mark throughout the course of history. Featuring exquisite portraits and lavishly decorated caftans, this large-format volume ...Show more
Pax Indica by Shashi Tharoor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Asian
"Indian diplomacy," a veteran told Shashi Tharoor many years ago, "is like the love-making of an elephant: it is conducted at a very high level, accompanied by much bellowing, and the results are not known for two years." In this lively, informative and insightful work, the award-winning author and parl ...Show more
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor
$25.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Richard McGregor's "The Party" has been established as the book on China and its political leadership. It is indispensable to understanding what may soon become the most powerful country on earth, and here is it is newly updated to include material on the once-in-a-decade leadership changes taking place ...Show more
The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D Spence
$42.95 AUD
Category: Asian
In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. Praised as "a miracle of readability and scholarly authority," (Jonathan Mirsky) The Search for Modern China offers a matchless introduction to China's history.
The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future by Victor Cha
$34.95 AUD
Category: Asian
Much discussed and often maligned, precious little is known or understood about North Korea, the world's most controversial and isolated country. Victor Cha pulls back the curtain, providing an unprecedented insight into North Korea's history, the rise of the Kim family dynasty, and the obsessive person ...Show more
Shanghai Fury by Peter Thompson
$34.95 AUD
Category: Asian
Shanghai is a city defined by war. The city and its armed struggles were central to the relationship between China and Australia from the fall of the Manchus in 1912 to the Communist victory in 1949. Yet with the notable exception of George 'Chinese' Morrison, the Australian contribution has been largel ...Show more
Winner Take All by Moyo Dambisa
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian
We all know the world's resources the commodities that underpin our daily lives and economies are scarce. But how many of us know what that really means for the global economy today? In Winner Take All Dambisa Moyo uncovers the realities behind the numbers. By looking at the developing trends in our ...Show more
Midnight in Peking by Paul French
$19.95 AUD
Category: Asian
January, 1937: Peking is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, lavish cocktail bars and opium dens, warlords and corruption, rumours and superstition - and the clock is ticking down on all of it. In the exclusive Legation Quarter, the foreign residents wait nervously for the axe to fall. Japanese troops ...Show more
A Short History of Bali: Indonesia's Hindu realm by Robert Pringle
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
A highly accessible, beautifully illustrated short history of Bali from the Bronze Age to the 2002 bombing. Two million tourists visit Bali every year. Many want to know more about the island, its often turbulent past, and the forces that have shaped its universally appealing culture. This lively an ...Show more
Tiger Head, Snake Tails: China Today, How it Got There and Where it is Heading by Jonathan Fenby
$39.99 AUD
Category: Asian
There have been a plethora of books on China in recent years. Authors have forecast the coming collapse of the People's Republic or looked to the day when it will rule the world. So why another book on the most heavily populated country on earth which has emerged in the last three decades to occupy a ce ...Show more
The Death of Mao: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Birth of the New China by James Palmer
$45.00 AUD
Category: Asian
In the summer of 1976, Mao lay dying, and China was struck by a great natural disaster. The earthquake that struck Tangshan was one of the worst in recorded history, killing half a million people. But the Chinese Communist rulers in Beijing were distracted, paralysed by in-fighting over who would take c ...Show more