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American Engineer in Afghanistan
University of Minnesota Press 1948; US$ 72.00An American Engineer in Afghanistan was first published in 1948. The legend of Afghanistan as "The Forbidden Country" grew chiefly from a warning of the British Indian Government which once guarded the Afghan frontier north of the Khyber Pass -- "It is absolutely forbidden to cross this border into Afghanistan." A glance at the... more...
Can Asians Think?
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Ptd Ltd 2010; US$ 5.00In this volume of essays Kishore Mahbubani has sought to address the historical divide between the civilizations of East and West and the notion that Western civilization is universal. more...
Asia
Wiley 2011; US$ 29.95From one of the world's leading historians?a comprehensive narrative of the 3,000 years that have formed Asia's people, culture, and global destiny Tracing its origins in Mesopotamia to its modern role on the global geopolitical stage, historian Arthur Cotterell offers a compelling, lively, and readable account of one of the most culturally diverse,... more...
"Vernebelt, verdunkelt sind alle Hirne"
Wallstein Verlag 2011; US$ 51.76Hauptbeschreibung Der Laubacher Justizinspektor Friedrich Kellner wollte der Nachwelt ein Zeugnis ablegen von der gedankenlosen Unterwürfigkeit seiner Zeitgenossen und den hohlen nationalsozialistischen Propagandaphrasen. Von 1939 bis 1945 schrieb er beinahe täglich seine Kritik am NS-Regime nieder und dokumentierte die vielen kleinen und großen... more...
Life on the watershed
Sidestone Press 2009; US$ 37.75The scarcity of water is a major problem in many parts of the Near East today and has been so in the past. To survive in such a region people should be able to structurally attain more water than rainfall alone can supply. The archaeology of this area should not only identify when people inhabited such a region and what the character of this habitation... more...
Connections and Complexity
Left Coast Press 2013; US$ 89.00This compilation of original research articles highlight the important cross-regional, cross-chronological, and comparative approaches to political and economic landscapes in ancient South Asia and its neighbors. Focusing on the Indus Valley period and Iron Age India, this volume incorporates new research in South Asia within the broader universe... more...
Excavations at Tall Jawa, Jordan. Volume 1, The Iron Age town
BRILL 2003; US$ 303.00Located in a strategic position on the southern flank of the Ammonite hill country, the earliest settlement at Tall Jawa dates to the Iron I period (1100-900 BC). This volume presents the final report of six seasons of excavations at Tall Jawa in central Jordan. more...
Comprehensive security in Asia
BRILL 2000; US$ 195.00This is an examination of "Comprehensive Security" as a policy that goes beyond the requirements of military defence against a particular "enemy" to stress the need to take into account other aspects vital to national stability: food, energy, environment, communication and social security. more...
Conflict in Afghanistan
ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 85.00This work is a comprehensive A-Z study of the history of conflict in Afghanistan from 1747 to the 21st century. It considers the origins and root causes of conflict in Afghanistan, the country's cultural and ethnic structure, and the important subjects of geography and climate. more...
Islam
Brookings Institution Press 2004; US$ 18.95After World War II, leading western powers focused their attention on fighting the ?Red Menace,? Communism. Today, as terrorist activity is increasingly linked to militant Islamism, some politicians and scholars fear a ?Green Menace,? a Pan-Islamic totalitarian movement fueled by monolithic religious ideology. Such fears have no foundation in history,... more...









