Southeast Asia
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
$21.00 Add to cartThe bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the ear
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 05 2005
- ISBN10: 60838590
- Language: English
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Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
$22.00 Add to cartFinalist, National Book Critics Circle Award
All wars are fought twice, the first time on the bat
Finalist, National Book Award in Nonfiction
A New York Times Book Review “The Year in Reading” Selection- Author: Nguyen, Viet Thanh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 20 2017
- ISBN10: 0674979842
- Language: English
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Dispatches
$19.00 Add to cart“The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War” (The New York Times Book Review); an instant classic straight from the front lines.
From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent w- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Herr, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 06 1991
- ISBN10: 0679735259
- Language: English
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Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese Family
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1968 Nguyen Qui Duc was nine years old, his father was a high-ranking civil servant in the South Vietnamese government, and his mother was a school principal. Then the Viet Cong launched their Tet … [more below]
- Author: Nguyen, Qui Duc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0803226985
- Language: English
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Vietnam: A New History
$24.99 Add to cart“The best one-volume history of modern Vietnam in English” (Wall Street Journal)
In Vietnam, Christopher Goscha tells the full history of Vietnam, from antiquity to the present day. Generations of em- Author: Goscha, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603656
- Language: English
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Paradise of the Blind
$14.99 Add to cartParadise of the Blind is an exquisite portrait of three Vietnamese women struggling to survive in a society where subservience to men is expected and Communist corruption crushes every dream. Through
- Author: Duong, Thu Huong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 20 2002
- ISBN10: 0060505591
- Language: English
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Living Theravada: Demystifying the People, Places, and Practices of a Buddhist Tradition
$24.95 Read moreAn illuminating introduction to the contemporary world of Theravada Buddhism and its rich culture and practices in modern mainland Southeast Asia.
Theravada translates as “the way of the Elders,” indi- Author: Schedneck, Brooke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 1611809711
- Language: English
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
$24.99 Add to cartAn absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.
Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, p
- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: October 15, 2019
- ISBN10: 0062405675
- Language: English
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When We Had Wings
$27.99 Add to cartFrom three bestselling authors comes an interwoven tale about a trio of World War II nurses stationed in the South Pacific who wage their own battle for freedom and survival.
The Philippines, 1941. Whe
- Author: Lawhon, Ariel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0785253343
- Language: English
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Happy Stories, Mostly
$16.95 Read moreIn their stunning fiction debut, queer Indonesian writer Norman Erikson Pasaribu blends together speculative fiction and dark absurdism, drawing from Batak and Christian cultural elements.
Longlisted f
- Author: Pasaribu, Norman Erikson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: 6-Jun-23
- ISBN10: 1952177057
- Language: English
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The Pentagon Papers: The Secret History of the Vietnam War
$24.99 Add to cart“The WikiLeaks of its day” (Time) is as relevant today in the time of Trump as it was a in the time of Richard Nixon. “The most significant leaks of classified material in American history.” –Washingt… [more below]
- Author: Sheehan, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: December 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1631582925
- Language: English
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Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
$29.00 Add to cartA haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot’s genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mothe… [more below]
- Author: Nguon, Chantha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: 20-Feb-24
- ISBN10: 1643753495
- Language: English
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Twilight Territory
$27.99 Add to cartThe peak of the hot season, 1942: The wars in Europe and Asia and the Japanese occupation have upset the uneasy balance of French Indochina. In the Vietnamese fishing village of Phan Thiet, Tuyet ekes
- Author: Pham, Andrew X.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 23, 2024
- ISBN10: 1324064846
- Language: English
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Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy
$30.00 Read moreThrough the eyes of two frontline journalists comes a gripping narrative history of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement centered around a cast of four core activists, culminating in the 2019 mass pro
- Author: Mahtani, Shibani
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 0306830361
- Language: English
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The Survivor
$29.00 Read moreEve Duncan and Riley Smith must solve their most exciting puzzle since A Face to Die For when asked to uncover the mysterious secret hidden on a remote island.
When archeologist Riley Smith comes to- Series: Eve Duncan #30
- Author: Johansen, Iris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1538726378
- Language: English
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The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World
$19.99 Add to cartNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2020 BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter — in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world — backed by the United States. In- Author: Bevins, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 27, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541724003
- Language: English
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Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
$32.00 Add to cartTIME‘S #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR – A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – A “riveting” (The Atlantic) account of the Philippines’ state-sanctioned killings of its citizens un
- Author: Evangelista, Patricia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593133137
- Language: English
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When We Had Wings
$18.99 Add to cartNow available in paperback at a lower price! From three bestselling authors comes an interwoven tale about a trio of World War II nurses stationed in the South Pacific who wage their own battle for fr… [more below]
- Author: Lawhon, Ariel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0785253041
- Language: English
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Acceptable Loss: An Infantry Soldier’s Perspective
$8.99 Read moreIn just ten months in Vietnam, he was overrun, shot up, but not underworked–he survived fifty-four missions as point man. He has one hell of a story to tell.
You didn’t get into the Rangers without v- Author: Jorgenson, Kregg P.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 23 1991
- ISBN10: 0804107920
- Language: English
