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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern Worldby Jack Weatherford
Three Rivers Press 2005; US$ 11.99The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback leading a ruthless band of nomadic warriors in the looting of the civilized world. But the surprising truth is that Genghis Khan was a visionary leader whose conquests joined backward Europe with the flourishing cultures of Asia to trigger a global awakening, an unprecedented explosion of technologies, trade, and ideas. In Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World , Jack Weatherford, the only Western scholar ever to be allowed into the Mongols’ “Great Taboo”—Genghis Khan’s homeland and forbidden burial site—tracks the astonishing story of Genghis Khan and his descendants, and their conquest and transformation... more...
Crony Capitalismby David C. Kang; Peter Lange; Robert H. Bates; Ellen Comisso; Peter Hall; Joel Migdal; Helen Milner
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 29.00This book addresses the issue of money politics in Korea. It asks whether we can reconcile the view of an efficient developmental state in Korea before 1997 with reports of massive corruption and inefficiency in that same country in 1998 and 1999. more...
Sacred Signsby Penelope Wilson
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 12.99Hieroglyphs were far more than a language. In this study, Penelope Wilson explores the cultural significance of the script with an emphasis on previously neglected areas such as cryptography, the continuing decipherment post-Champollion, and the powerful fascination hieroglyphs still hold for us today. more...
The Making of the "Rape of Nanking"by Takashi Yoshida
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 21.95Examines how the views of the so-called Rape of Nanking, or the Nanking Massacre, have evolved in history writing and public memory in Japan, China, and the United States, from 1937. more...
Japan's Foreign Policy, 1945-2003by Kazuhiko Togo
BRILL 2005; US$ 52.00This is a fascinating insider account of postwar Japanese foreign policy written by a former senior Japanese diplomat. The author examines Japanese foreign policy as it approaches a crucial reorientation towards a more proactive policy stance. The book is exceptionally clear, accessible and interesting for anyone interested in modern Japan. more...
Japan's Reluctant Realismby Michael J. Green
Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 70.00This text examines Japan's foreign policy in the decade since the end of the Cold War. Michael J. Green uses case studies from various countries and institutions in order to consider Japanese objectives and the heart of Japanese foreign policy initiatives. more...
Perfect Spyby Larry Berman
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 10.99During the Vietnam War, Time reporter Pham Xuan An befriended everyone who was anyone in Saigon, including American journalists such as David Halberstam and Neil Sheehan, the CIA's William Colby, and the legendary Colonel Edward Lansdalenot to mention the most influential members of the South Vietnamese government and army. None of them ever guessed that he was also providing strategic intelligence to Hanoi, smuggling invisible ink messages into the jungle inside egg rolls. His early reports were so accurate that General Giap joked, "We are now in the U.S. war room." For more than twenty years, An lived a dangerous lieand no one knew it because he was a master of both his jobs. After the war, An was named a Hero of the... more...
Hamburger Hillby Samuel Zaffiri
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 11.99The battle for Ap Bia Mountain (Hill 937), was one of the fiercest of the entire Vietnam War. more...
Decision-Making in Medieval Agricultureby David Stone
Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 140.00David Stone reconstructs the mental world of medieval farmers and reveals that agricultural decision-making was as rational in 1300 as in modern times. Arguing that man's impact on agriculture has been significantly underestimated, he challenges the view that the medieval period was devastated by ecological and economic crises. - ;This fascinating and important book uses a wealth of contemporary sources to reconstruct the mental world of medieval farmers and, by doing so, argues that these key figures in the Middle Ages have been unfairly stereotyped. David Stone overturns the traditional view of medieval countrymen as economically backward and instead reveals that agricultural decision-making was as rational in the fouteenth century as... more...
The Partyby Richard McGregor
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 14.99An eye-opening investigation into China's Communist Party and its integral role in the country's rise as a global superpower and rival of the United States China's political and economic growth in the past three decades is one of astonishing, epochal dimensions. The country has undergone a remarkable transformation on a scale similar to that of the Industrial Revolution in the West. The most remarkable part of this transformation, however, has been left largely untoldthe central role of the Chinese Communist Party. As an organization alone, the Party is a phenomenon of unique scale and power. Its membership surpasses seventy-three million, and it does more than just rule a country. The Party not only has a grip on every... more...









