The Great Empires of Asia: How Asia's Mighty Empires Challenged the World by Jim Masselos
$65.00 AUD
Category: Asian
In this highly illustrated book, a team of internationally renowned scholars surveys the greatest of Asia's empires from 800 AD to the mid-20th century, from the Far East to the fringes of Europe. "The Great Empires of Asia" shows how those seven empires played a key role in forming todays global civili ...Show more
The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh
$19.95 AUD
Category: Asian
Kien's job is to search the Jungle of Screaming Souls for corpses. He knows the area well - this was where, in the dry season of 1969, his battalion was obliterated by American napalm and helicopter gunfire. Kien was one of only ten survivors.
In Spite Of The Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian
India remains a mystery to many Americans, even as it is poised to become the world’s third largest economy within a generation, outstripping Japan. It will surpass China in population by 2032 and will have more English speakers than the United States by 2050. In In Spite of the Gods, Edward Luce, a jou ...Show more
NAGASAKI : THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENT AND UNKNOWING by Craig Collie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Asian
Using contemporary diaries and letters, mainly translated from Japanese, we follow a group of Nagasaki residents from the early morning of the day of the bombing of Hiroshima to midnight on the day of the second bombing in Nagasaki In a compelling narrative based on eyewitness accounts, contemporary di ...Show more
Journeys on the Silk Road by Joyce Morgan & Conrad Walters
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
The remarkable story of the world's oldest printed book begins in a meditation cave on the edge of the Gobi Desert. In 1900, a monk who guarded the sacred Caves of the Thousand Buddhas in western China discovered a hidden library that had been sealed for more than a thousand years. When explorer Aurel S ...Show more