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How Asia Can Shape the World
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2010; US$ 74.90Asia will redraw the map of economic progress over the next twenty-five years. Growth is necessary to solve economic and social problems, but harder to achieve as the age of plenty gives way to the age of scarcities. The challenge opens the doors for an Asian economic model based on shifting of productivity for the individual to groups, ecological... more...
Eviction from the Chagos Islands
BRILL 2011; US$ 107.00This book examines the history and contemporary living conditions of Chagossians who were evicted from the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean to make way for a strategic U.S. military base. Initially part of colonial Mauritius, Chagos was integrated into a new colony named the British Indian Ocean Territory in 1965. In 1966, Great Britain transferred... more...
After the Asian Crisis
Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 148.00This book provides a comprehensive knowledge of the Asian crisis from an economic, political and social point of view, and suggests possible scenarios which could take place in the future. The analysis is divided into two parts. The first includes area studies of the main Asian countries during the crisis, beginning with China, Japan and Southeast... more...
The Ornament of Histories: A History of the Eastern Islamic Lands AD 650-1041
I.B.Tauris 2011; US$ 85.00Abu Sa'id 'Abd al-Hayy Gardizi was an author and historian living in the mid-eleventh century at the height of the Turkish Ghazvanid dynasty. His only known work, "The Ornament of Histories" ("Zayn al-akhbir"), is a hugely ambitious history of the Eastern Islamic lands AD 650-1041, spanning what is now Eastern Iran, Afghanistan... more...
Religion, Terror, and Error: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Challenge of Spiritual Engagement
ABC-CLIO 2011; US$ 50.00This book describes how the United States can integrate religious considerations into its foreign policy, moving towards a new leadership paradigm that effectively counters the challenge of Islamist extremism. more...
The Political and Moral Imperatives of the Bandung Conference of 1955
BRILL 2007; US$ 105.00Now fifty years on, with significantly more primary references available,Kweku Ampiah?s study provides a much-needed in-depth re-evaluation of the conference as a whole, focusing in particular on the external influences and preoccupations impacting on the participants seen through three case studies involving the US, UK and Japan. more...
Recentring Asia
BRILL 2011; US$ 114.00Recentring Asia forces the reader to rethink the centre not as a single site towards which all is oriented, but as a zone of encounter, exchange and contestation. more...
Timewaster Letters
Michael O' Mara Books 2011; US$ 7.99The hilariously surreal correspondence of Robin Cooper, frustrated children's author,fairy-spotter and fancy-spoon collector, in the bestselling tradition of the Henry Root letters - but with an entirely fresh perspective. more...
The Security of the Persian Gulf (RLE Iran A)
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 130.00The Persian Gulf, important because of its vast energy resources, emerged into the limelight of geopolitics at the time of the British Labour government?s policy of withdrawal from East of Suez in 1968. Before 1968 it had been recognised that the Gulf lay in the legitimate sphere of influence of Britain, while the United States exerted its influence... more...
Iran (RLE Iran A)
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 115.00The sudden increase of oil prices in 1973 meant that the foreign revenues of Iran quadrupled in just over two months. As the first OPEC member to begin disbursing this extra revenue on a significant scale, Iran offers the first complete example of the social, economic and political problems this caused. This book examines the cycle of the boom and... more...









