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The Pax Britannica Trilogy by James Morris
$25.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
War in the Tenasserim - The Japanese Invasion of Southern Burma, 1942 by Alastair Shephard
$45.00 NZD
Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: new
"The entry of Japan into the Second World War with its attack on Pearl Harbour found the British defense of Burma very much unprepared. No invasion threat from the east had been envisaged. The British deemed the jungle and precipitous mountain ranges surrounding three sides of Burma to be impassable by ...Show more
Southeast Asia: An Introductory History by Milton Osborne
$16.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: near fine
The first edition of Southeast Asia: An introductory history was published in 1979 and immediately filled a need for travellers and students interested in a tantalisingly different part of the world. Subsequent editions (translated into Japanese, Khmer, Korean and Thai) have continued to document with g ...Show more
North Korea: State of Paranoia by Paul French
$15.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Series: Asian Arguments Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Secretive, mysterious, and almost certainly dangerous, North Korea is an object of endless fascination--and worry--for the rest of the world. The world's most inaccessible nuclear power, it retains Gulag-style prison camps, completely blocks Internet access, and forbids citizens to talk to foreigners wi ...Show more
Survival in the Killing Fields by Haing Ngor
$10.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
Best known for his academy award-winning role as Dith Pran in The Killing Fields, for Haing Ngor his greatest performance was not in Hollywood but in the rice paddies and labour camps of war-torn Cambodia. Here, in his memoir of life under the Khmer Rouge, is a searing account of a country's descent int ...Show more
India: A History by John Keay
$20.00 NZD
Category: Asia
Fully revised with forty thousand new words that take the reader up to present-day India, John Keay's "India: A History" spans five millennia in a sweeping narrative that tells the story of the peoples of the subcontinent, from their ancient beginnings in the valley of the Indus to the events in the reg ...Show more
Plain Tales from the Raj by Charles Allen (ed.)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
East by South: China in the Australasian Imagination by Paul Millar
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
At a time when China is being seen as the next superpower, both sweatshop and powerhouse for the global economy, political courtship on the part of interested governments is accompanied by grassroots hostility. Such ambivalence is not new. These essays ÃÂÃÂ discuss ways in which people of Chinese d ...Show more
A History of Cambodia by David P. Chandler
$14.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
This clear and concise volume provides a timely overview of Cambodia, a small but increasingly visible Southeast Asian nation. Hailed by the Journal of Asian Studies as an "original contribution, superior to any other existing work," the first edition ended in 1953 with Cambodia's independence from Fran ...Show more
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die -- from starvation, or disease, or even execution.In Order to Live is the ...Show more
Behind the Beautiful Forevers : Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo
$12.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport, in the shadow of shining new luxury hotels. Its residents are garbage recyclers, construction workers and economic migrants, all of them living in the hope that a small part of India's booming future will eventually be theirs. But when a crime rocks the ...Show more
The Qin Dynasty Terra-Cotta Army of Dreams by Zhang Lin
$15.00 NZD
Category: Art | Reading Level: very good