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The Real North Korea
Oxford University Press, USA 2013; US$ 20.99Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career, using his fluency in Korean and personal contacts to build a rich, nuanced understanding. In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis... more...
Escape from Camp 14
Pan Macmillan 2012; US$ 8.95Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. Located about 55 miles north of Pyongyang, the labor camp is a 'complete control district,' a no-exit prison where the only sentence is life. Inmates work 12 to 15-hour days in the camp ? mining coal, building dams,... more...
Embers of War
Random House Publishing Group 2012; US$ 40.00WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR ? A GLOBE AND MAIL ?BEST READS? SELECTION ? LONGLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE The struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the history of the twentieth century. Fought over a period of three decades,... more...
A History of the Modern Middle East
Westview Press 2012; US$ 52.00This definitive history of the modern Middle East includes significant new material covering major transformative developments over the past four years. more...
The 1967 Arab-Israeli War
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 24.00Two veteran scholars of the Middle East bring together experts in their fields to reassess the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war. more...
If I Die in a Combat Zone
Crown Publishing Group 2011; US$ 13.99Before writing his award-winning Going After Cacciato , Tim O'Brien gave us this intensely personal account of his year as a foot soldier in Vietnam. The author takes us with him to experience combat from behind an infantryman's rifle, to walk the minefields of My Lai, to crawl into the ghostly tunnels, and to explore the ambiguities of manhood and... more...
The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 79.00A comparative and interdisciplinary study arguing for a more sophisticated appreciation of the rise of the Hunnic Empire. more...
China's Policy Towards Territorial Disputes
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 195.00Since 1949 and the founding of the People's Republic, China has been involved in more than one territorial dispute with its neighbours. Currently the most unstable and dangerous dispute is the one over the Paracel and Spratly islands in the South China Sea. With their potentially rich and accessible petroleum resources, these islands have become the... more...
Korea
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99In the late 1980s, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester set out on foot to discover the Republic of Korea -- from its southern tip to the North Korean border -- in order to set the record straight about this enigmatic and elusive land. Fascinating for its vivid presentation of historical and geographic detail, Korea is that rare... more...









