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  • In the Ruins of Empire

    The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia

    by Ronald Spector ...
    The New York Times said of Ronald H. Spector’s classic account of the American struggle against the Japanese in World War II, “No future book on the Pacific War will be written without paying due tribute to Eagle Against the Sun.” Now Spector has returned with a book that is even more revealing. In the Ruins of Empire chronicles the startling aftermath of this crucial twentieth-century conflict ... Read more

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  • Closing the Ring

    by Winston S. Churchill ...
    Series Book 5 - Winston S. Churchill The Second World Wa
    The Allies take the fight to the enemy in this vivid historical account by the British prime minister and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.In this fifth volume of his magnificent history of World War II, Winston Churchill recounts the story of the Allied forces going on the offensive. Mussolini falls, Hitler is besieged on three sides, and the Japanese find it near impossible to maintain ... Read more

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  • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

    by William L. Shirer ...
    National Book Award Winner: The definitive account of Nazi Germany and "one of the most important works of history of our time" ( The New York Times).When the Third Reich fell, it fell swiftly. The Nazis had little time to destroy their memos, their letters, or their diaries. William L. Shirer's sweeping account of the Third Reich uses these unique sources, combined with his experience living in ... Read more

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  • The Gathering Storm

    by Winston S. Churchill ...
    Series Book 1 - Winston S. Churchill The Second World Wa
    "It is our immense good fortune that a man who presided over this crisis in history is able to turn the action he lived through into enduring literature." — The New York TimesThis book is the first in Winston Churchill's monumental six-volume account of the struggle between the Allied Powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis during World War II. Told from the unique viewpoint of a British ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of the Middle East

    by Christopher Catherwood ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    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

    $3.99 USD

  • A History of Modern Indonesia

    by Adrian Vickers ...
    Since the Bali bombings of 2002 and the rise of political Islam, Indonesia has frequently occupied media headlines. Nevertheless, the history of the fourth largest country on earth remains relatively unknown. Adrian Vickers' book, first published in 2005, traces the history of an island country, comprising some 240 million people, from the colonial period through revolution and independence to the ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Gempei War 1180–85

    The Great Samurai Civil War

    by Dr Stephen Turnbull ...
    Series Book 297 - Campaign
    Internationally renowned samurai expert Dr Stephen Turnbull delves into a pivotal era of Japanese history in this highly illustrated account of The Gempei War, a conflict that defined the age and the ethos of the samurai.Never before had there been a large-scale clash between two rival samurai families, the Taira and the Minamoto, and never again would the result of a war in Japan be quite so ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Guilty of Indigence

    The Urban Poor in China, 1900-1953

    by Janet Y. Chen ...
    In the early twentieth century, a time of political fragmentation and social upheaval in China, poverty became the focus of an anguished national conversation about the future of the country. Investigating the lives of the urban poor in China during this critical era, Guilty of Indigence examines the solutions implemented by a nation attempting to deal with "society's most fundamental problem." ... Read more

    Was $56.89 USD Now $25.99 USD

  • Networks of Empire

    Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company

    by Kerry Ward ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative World History
    This book argues that the Dutch East India Company empire manifested itself through multiple networks that amalgamated spatially and over time into an imperial web whose sovereignty was effectively created and maintained but always partial and contingent. Networks of Empire proposes that early modern empires were comprised of durable networks of trade, administration, settlement, legality, and ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Notion of Ditthi in Theravada Buddhism

    The Point of View

    by Paul Fuller ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
    The notion of 'view' or 'opinion' (ditthi) as an obstacle to 'seeing things as they are' is a central concept in Buddhist thought. This book considers the two ways in which the notion of views are usually understood. Are we to understand right-view as a correction of wrong-views (the opposition understanding) or is the aim of the Buddhist path the overcoming of all views, even right-view (the no ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Art Education in a Postmodern World

    Collected Essays

    by Tom Hardy ...
    Series series Readings in Art and Design Education
    Many of the essays pinpoint the stagnancy of teaching methods today and discuss the reductive parameters enforced by the current curriculum. The radical tone that echoes through the entire series of papers is unmistakable. Throughout the book, postmodern theory informs the polemical debate concerning new directions in educative practice. Contributors shed new light on a postmodern view of art in ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Confucian China and its Modern Fate

    Volume Two: The Problem of Monarchical Decay

    by Joseph R. Levenson ...
    First published in 1964These volumes analyze modern Chinese history and its inner process, from the pre-western plateau of Confucianism to the communist triumph, in the context of many themes: science, art, philosophy, religion and economic, political, and social change. Volume Two includes:The Republic: Confucianism and Monarchism interwovenConfucianism and Monarchy: The basic confrontationThe ... Read more

    $68.99 USD