Cultural Region/Southeast Asian
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Rascals in Paradise
$19.00 Add to cartIn a thrilling collection of nonfiction adventure stories, James A. Michener returns to the most dazzling place on Earth: the islands that inspired Tales of the South Pacific. Co-written with A. Grove… [more below]
- Author: Michener, James A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 0812986865
- Language: English
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Forbidden Nation: A History of Taiwan
$33.99 Add to cartFor over 400 years, Taiwan has suffered at the hands of multiple colonial powers, but it has now entered the decade when its independence will be won or lost. At the heart of Taiwan’s story is the cur… [more below]
- Author: Manthorpe, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0230614248
- Language: English
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The Art of Escapism Cooking: A Survival Story, with Intensely Good Flavors
$40.00 Add to cartIn this inventive and intensely personal cookbook, the blogger behind the award-winning ladyandpups.com reveals how she cooked her way out of an untenable living situation, with more than eighty delic
- Author: Lee, Mandy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0062802372
- Language: English
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The Lost Mandate of Heaven: The American Betrayal of Ngo Dinh Diem, President of Vietnam
$18.95 Read moreNgo Dinh Diem, the first president of the Republic of Vietnam, possessed the Confucian “Mandate of Heaven”, a moral and political authority that was widely recognized by all Vietnamese. This devout Ro
- Author: Shaw, Geoffrey D. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1621646130
- Language: English
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The Hand: A Helicopter Pilot’s Story of the Vietnam War
$27.95 Add to cartWe were like the “Lafayette Escadrille” flying our aircraft with precision and cunning like the World War I volunteer pilots, scarves around our necks, looking for a chance to even the score for that … [more below]
- Author: Sain, W. Lewis, Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887516080
- Language: English
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Di Di Mau: A True Story About Tigers, Rock Apes, the Jungle, and War
$28.99 Add to cart“A revealing, sometimes gut-wrenching war memoir that examines virtually every aspect of his tour of duty.” -Marc Leepson, Arts Editor and Senior Writer, The VVA Veteran magazine
In 1969, Darren Walton
- Author: Walton, Darren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: November 10 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988635925
- Language: English
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Tuttle Concise Tagalog Dictionary: Tagalog-English English-Tagalog (Over 20,000 Entries)
$14.95 Add to cartEasy-to-read and extensive, this Tagalog dictionary is an essential language learning and translation tool.
The Tuttle Concise Tagalog Dictionary gives you the most complete and up-to-date translation- Author: Barrios, Joi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 26 2017
- ISBN10: 080483914X
- Language: English
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Pocket Burmese Dictionary
$8.95 Add to cartIt’s never a good idea to be overly-relient on technology while traveling Look up words quickly and easily with this great little Burmese dictionary.
Intended for use by tourists, students, and busin- Series: Periplus Pocket Dictionaries
- Author: Nolan, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0794605737
- Language: English
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Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
$35.00 Add to cartFrom one of America’s most distinguished historians comes this classic analysis of Richard Nixon. By considering some of the president’s opinions, Wills comes to the controversial conclusion that Nixo
- Author: Wills, Garry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 14 2002
- ISBN10: 0618134328
- Language: English
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A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902
$20.00 Add to cartFirst-rate military history, A War of Frontier and Empire retells an often forgotten chapter in America’s past, infusing it with commanding contemporary relevance.
It has been termed an insurgency, a r- Author: Silbey, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0809096617
- Language: English
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Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia
$24.95 Add to cartIn Sideshow, journalist Shawcross presents the first full-scale investigation of the secret and illegal war the United States fought with Cambodia from 1969 to 1973, paving the way for the Khmer Rouge… [more below]
- Author: Shawcross, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 542
- Publish Date: August 14 2002
- ISBN10: 081541224X
- Language: English
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In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War
$16.95 Add to cartWhether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the same uncanny eye for detail, … [more below]
- Author: Wolff, Tobias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 26 1995
- ISBN10: 0679760237
- Language: English
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Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia
$18.00 Add to cartHong Kong and Southeast Asia are home to five hundred million people, yet their economies are dominated by only fifty families whose interests range from banking to real estate, shipping to sugar, gam
- Author: Studwell, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01, 2008
- ISBN10: 0802143911
- Language: English
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The Vietnam War
$29.99 Add to cartA graphically told history of the Vietnam War, interweaving U.S. political and cultural history with the military history of the war.
When Senator Edward Kennedy declared, Iraq is George Bush’s Vietnam- Author: Mactavish
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0809094959
- Language: English
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Year of the Rabbit
$29.95 Read moreOne family’s quest to survive the devastation of the Khmer Rouge
Striking and moving… The comics form allows readers to] understand through chronological progression and a close view how horror can- Author: Veasna, Tian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1770463763
- Language: English
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Guyabano Holiday
$15.95 Read moreA trip to Tokyo’s Asian market district, Ameyokocho, leads the protrag on a trip to hunt down the mysterious guyabano fruit Little does the protrag and their crew know that their curiosity will take … [more below]
- Author: Panpanya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1634429648
- Language: English
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First with Guns
$24.95 Add to cartInspired by Vietnam War classics like Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried and Karl Marlantes’s Matterhorn, First with Guns is a thought-provoking exploration of personal identity set amidst a war an… [more below]
- Author: English, James Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: October 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0875658547
- Language: English
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The Language of Threads
$22.00 Add to cartReaders of Women of the Silk never forgot the moving, powerful story of Pei, brought to work in the silk house as a girl, grown into a quiet but determined young woman whose life is subject to cruel t
- Author: Tsukiyama, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 21 2000
- ISBN10: 0312267568
- Language: English
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The Essential Dick Gregory
$27.99 Read moreA soulful, generation-defining collection of thought-provoking, agitating, and liberating works from Dick Gregory, the activist and author of sixteen books, including the classic bestseller Nigger: An
- Author: Gregory, Dick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0062879200
- Language: English
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Siddhartha: A New Translation
$12.95 Read moreOne America’s Favorite Books, PBS’s The Great American Read
Nobel Prize-winning author: This classic of 20th-century literature chronicles the spiritual evolution of a man living in India at the tim… [more below]- Series: Shambhala Classics
- Author: Hesse, Hermann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 19 2000
- ISBN10: 1570627215
- Language: English
