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1688: A Global Historyby John E. WillsISBN 0393322785 (0-393-32278-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Arabian Nightsby Husain Haddawy, Muhsin MahdiISBN 0393313670 (0-393-31367-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arabian Nights'Book summary:Readers for more than three centuries have delighted in The Arabian Nights--a world wherein magic is woven into the fabric of everyday life; a touching, exhilarating mixture of flamboyance, pathos, beauty, and humor. This first serious English translation fully exploits the Middle-Eastern storyteller's art and the variety of levels at which the stories move. [via]
Awakening of Intelligenceby J. KaishnhmurtiISBN 0380004623 (0-380-00462-3)
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The Big Waveby Pearl S. BuckISBN 0381999238 (0-381-99923-8)
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The Bombby Theodore TaylorISBN 0380727234 (0-380-72723-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bomb'Book summary:Shortly after the first atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, World War II came to and, and the terrible reality of the atomic age began . . .
Sixteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu has lived on the Bikini Atoll in the western Pacific all his life. Now the United States government wants to use his home as a site for atomic weapons tests. The islanders are told that they must leave weapon tests. The islanders are told that they must leave the island in the interest of world peace but can return when the island in the interest of world peace but can return when the land is safe again. Sorry doesnt believe the story. He is sure that radioactive fallout will poison the warm blue waters and beautiful white sand beaches, and Bikini Atoll will be lost to its people forever. Sorry knows that he has no choice but stop this disaster before it starts -- even if it means standing alone against the U.S. military, and risking his own life to save his ancestral land.
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A Bridge Between Usby Julie ShigekuniISBN 0385482272 (0-385-48227-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Bridge Between Us : A Novel'Book summary:Four generations of Japanese American women make their home in a large house in San Francisco, united by the obligations of family and tradition and, perhaps, by love. In alternating chapters, the four women--Reiko, Rio, Tomoe, and Nomi Hito--speak with unflinching honesty about their lives, the secrets that have separated mother and daughter, and the fierce ties of intimacy that form an inextricable bridge between them.With the touch and power of a master storyteller, Julie Shigekuni gracefully interweaves four distinctive voices to shape a moving story of love and the courage it requires. In baring the heart of one family, she illuminates the truths about families, real and imagined, we all create.
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The Cartoon History of the Universe II: From the Springtime of China to the Fall of Rome/Volumes 8-13by Larry GonickISBN 0385420935 (0-385-42093-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissanceby Larry GonickISBN 0393324036 (0-393-32403-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Larry Gonick's celebrated series The Cartoon History of the Universe is a unique fusion of world history and the comics medium, a work of serious scholarship and a masterpiece of popular literature. Praised by historians as a narrative and interpretive tour de force, Gonick's clever illustrations deliver important information with a deceptively light tone, teaching us about the people and events that have shaped our world.
This long-awaited new volume covers the Middle Ages around the globe, including the origin and spread of Islam; West Africa and the cross-Saharan trade; Central Asia and the Byzantine Empire; the European Dark Ages and the Crusades; the Mongol conquests; the Black Death; the Ottoman Empire; the Italian Renaissance; and the rise of Spain, leading up to Columbus's departure for the New World. Highlighting key events and retrieving oft-neglected historical connections, Gonick offers an historical survey that is at once multicultural, humanistic, skeptical, and laugh-out-loud funny. [via]
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The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Mindsby Jonathan D. SpenceISBN 039331989X (0-393-31989-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds'Book summary:Distinguished Yale historian Jonathan D. Spence examines the influence that China has long exercised on the Western imagination. Drawing on literary, historical, and travel writing from the 14th century to the present, he shows how the fabulations of medieval writers such as Marco Polo gave way to more factually minded reports from business travelers and diplomats. This then turned again to the exoticism of poets such as Ezra Pound and Charles Baudelaire, and in our time, returned to the realism of writers such as Pearl S. Buck and Edgar Snow. Spence's tour of these various ways of perceiving China yields a vigorous and interesting book that is of a piece with his many other studies of Chinese history. --Gregory MacNamee [via]
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Chinaby D. Merton, Shio-Yun KanISBN 0382242424 (0-382-24242-4)
Hardcover, Silver Burdett Pr
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China, Radicalism to Revisionism, 1962-1979. Continues the Author's China, Liberation and Transformation, 1942-1962by Bill BruggerISBN 0389200875 (0-389-20087-5)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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The City of Joyby Dominique LapierreISBN 0385189524 (0-385-18952-4)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Colors of the Mountainby Da ChenISBN 0385720602 (0-385-72060-2)
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Cryptonomiconby Neal StephensonISBN 0380788624 (0-380-78862-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cryptonomicon'Book summary:Neal Stephenson enjoys cult status among science fiction fans and techie types thanks to Snow Crash, which so completely redefined conventional notions of the high-tech future that it became a self-fulfilling prophecy. But if his cyberpunk classic was big, Cryptonomicon is huge... gargantuan... massive, not just in size (a hefty 918 pages including appendices) but in scope and appeal. It's the hip, readable heir to Gravity's Rainbow and the Illuminatus trilogy. And it's only the first of a proposed series--for more information, read our interview with Stephenson.
Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods--World War II and the present. Our 1940s heroes are the brilliant mathematician Lawrence Waterhouse, cryptanalyst extraordinaire, and gung ho, morphine-addicted marine Bobby Shaftoe. They're part of Detachment 2702, an Allied group trying to break Axis communication codes while simultaneously preventing the enemy from figuring out that their codes have been broken. Their job boils down to layer upon layer of deception. Dr. Alan Turing is also a member of 2702, and he explains the unit's strange workings to Waterhouse. "When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first.... Of course, to observe is not its real duty--we already know exactly where the convoy is. Its real duty is to be observed.... Then, when we come round and sink them, the Germans will not find it suspicious."
All of this secrecy resonates in the present-day story line, in which the grandchildren of the WWII heroes--inimitable programming geek Randy Waterhouse and the lovely and powerful Amy Shaftoe--team up to help create an offshore data haven in Southeast Asia and maybe uncover some gold once destined for Nazi coffers. To top off the paranoiac tone of the book, the mysterious Enoch Root, key member of Detachment 2702 and the Societas Eruditorum, pops up with an unbreakable encryption scheme left over from WWII to befuddle the 1990s protagonists with conspiratorial ties.
Cryptonomicon is vintage Stephenson from start to finish: short on plot, but long on detail so precise it's exhausting. Every page has a math problem, a quotable in-joke, an amazing idea, or a bit of sharp prose. Cryptonomicon is also packed with truly weird characters, funky tech, and crypto--all the crypto you'll ever need, in fact, not to mention all the computer jargon of the moment. A word to the wise: if you read this book in one sitting, you may die of information overload (and starvation). --Therese Littleton [via]
A Cup of Lightby Nicole MonesISBN 0385319452 (0-385-31945-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Cup of Light'Book summary:Hailed as luminous by The New York Times Book Review, Nicole Mones' bestselling debut novel, Lost in Translation, dazzled critics with a sensuous tale of adventure and awakening set in modern China.
A Cup of Light returns to that rich, exotic landscape in an enthralling saga of precious works of artand the human lives illuminated by them. Written with exquisite grace, A Cup of Light is an intoxicating blend of romance and intrigue, complete with a heroine whose voice is irresistible to the last page.
As an appraiser of fine Chinese porcelain, Lia Frank holds fragile beauty in her hands, examines priceless treasure with a magnifying lens. But when Lia looks in the mirror, she sees the flaws in herself, a woman wary of love, cut off from the world around her. Still, when she is sent to Beijing to authenticate a collection of rare pieces, Lia will find herself changing in surprising ways. . .coming alive in the shadow of an astounding mystery. . .drawn into an unfolding saga of artists and thieves, intrigue and longing.
Lia was told the collection was impressivetwenty spectacular pots. Instead, in a vast room in a gated home in Beijing, Lia finds herself surrounded by the impossible: forty crates and eight hundred works of astounding beauty, with pieces reaching back centuries and perhaps even into the royal residence of the Forbidden City. Now Lia must evaluate each fragile pot, pairing each brushstroke and each nearly invisible imperfection with the database in her mind. Her job is to answer questions that will reverberate through dozens of lives: Where did these works of art come from? Are they truly authentic? Or are they impossibly beautiful forgeriespart of the perilous underworld of Chinese art?
As Lia examines her treasure, a breathtaking mystery unravels around her. A smuggler will risk his life for a chance to spirit these imperial antiquities out of China. A dealer in Hong Kong awaits, while a buyer in America is driven by a longing no possession will ever fulfill. And with political intrigue intruding on her world of provenance and beauty, Lia is drawn into another, more personal dramaa love affair that could alter the course of her life... [via]-
A Dictionary of Maqiaoby Han Shaogong, Julia LovellISBN 0385339356 (0-385-33935-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dictionary of Maqiao'Book summary:From the daring imagination of one of Chinas greatest living novelists comes a work of startling power and originalitythe story of a young man displaced to a small village in rural China during the 1960s. Told in the format of a dictionary, with a series of vignettes disguised as entries, A Dictionary of Maqiao is a novel of bold inventionand a fascinating, comic, deeply moving journey through the dark heart of the Cultural Revolution.
Entries trace the wisdom and absurdities of Maqiao: the petty squabbles, family grudges, poverty, infidelities, fantasies, lunatics, bullies, superstitions, and especially the odd logic in their use of languagewhere the word for beginning is the same as the word for end ; little big brother means older sister; to be scientific means to be lazy; and streetsickness is a disease afflicting villagers visiting urban areas. Filled with colorful charactersfrom a weeping ox to a man so poisonous that snakes die when they bite himA Dictionary of Maqiao is both an important work of Chinese literature and a probing inquiry into the extraordinary power of language. [via]More editions of A Dictionary of Maqiao:
Do They Hear You When You Cryby Fauziya Kassindja, Layli Miller BashirISBN 0385319940 (0-385-31994-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Exploring Africa and Asiaby Paul Hamilton, Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley, Nathalie EttingerISBN 0385043503 (0-385-04350-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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The Fourth Treasureby Todd A. ShimodaISBN 0385503520 (0-385-50352-0)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fourth Treasure'Book summary:Illustrated throughout with beautiful calligraphy, The Fourth Treasure is an original, surprising novel that weaves a suspenseful love story across and through two very different countries, cultures, and generations.
Tina Suzuki has just begun her first year of graduate study at the UC Berkeley Institute for Brain and Behavior Studies. Born and raised in San Francisco by her Japanese immigrant mother, Tina knows nothing about the rest of her family, and very little about her cultural heritage. But when her boyfriends Japanese calligraphy teacher suffers a stroke and loses his ability to communicate but continues to create magnificent calligraphic art, Tina knows she has stumbled across an ideal research subject.
However, getting the sensei to participate in her study poses a series of uncomfortable obstacles for Tina: the jealous opposition of her boyfriend, the political and (romantic) minefield of dealing with her professors and fellow students, and the willful reticence of her ailing mother. It seems that the blank personal history her mother had always presented is in fact a tightly wound scroll full of scandalous secrets. In ways she could have never expected, Tinas studies will inevitably lead to revelations about her own family.
Juxtaposed with Tinas story is that of the stricken sensei as a younger man, in Kyoto, and the history of the ancient inkstone he carries with him. The inkstones history, and the senseis art, reach back hundreds of years into a Japanese culture that no longer exists but that continues to reverberate on both sides of the Pacific.
As the dual narratives unfold, they are enhanced by intriguing marginalia that illuminate both the senseis Japanese calligraphy and Tinas studies of the brain.
The result is a unique, unusually satisfying literary experience. [via]More editions of The Fourth Treasure:
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Gretchen Holbrook GerzinaISBN 0393926354 (0-393-92635-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:Frances Hodgson Burnett was the highest paid and most widely read woman writer of her time, publishing more than fifty novels and thirteen plays.
Born in England and transplanted to New York toward the end of the Civil War, Burnett made her home in both countries, and today both countries claim her as their own. The Secret Garden, her best-known work, became an instant modern classic and world-wide bestseller upon its publication in 1911. The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on the first edition and is accompanied by explanatory annotations.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" and "Letters" illuminate important aspects of Burnetts life and work and include her own writings on gardens and their spiritual healing. Four illustrations point to Burnetts prominence in popular culture.
"Criticism" includes fourteen contemporary reviews and nine recent critical views of The Secret Garden, including Jerry Phillipss sociopolitical interpretation and Phyllis Bixlers comparative analysis of the Broadway musical adaptation of the novel.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden:
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Frugal Gourmet Cooks 3 Ancient Cuisinesby Jeff SmithISBN 0380712172 (0-380-71217-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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The Frugal Gourmet Cooks With Wineby Jeff SmithISBN 0380706717 (0-380-70671-7)
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The Frugal Gourmet on Our Immigrant Ancestors: Recipes You Should Have Gotten from Your Grandmotherby Jeff SmithISBN 0380717085 (0-380-71708-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Gangesby Gina DouglasISBN 0382062051 (0-382-06205-1)
Hardcover, Silver Burdett Pr
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War Ii's Greatest Rescue Missionby Hampton SidesISBN 038549565X (0-385-49565-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War Ii's Greatest Rescue Mission'Book summary:The Bataan Death March was just the beginning of the woes American soldiers captured by the Japanese army in the Philippines had to endure. The survivors of the march faced not only their captors' regular brutality (having surrendered, they were considered to be less than honorable foes), but also a host of illnesses such as dysentery and malaria. For three years these "ghost soldiers" lived in misery, suffering terrible losses.
When Army Rangers among Douglas MacArthur's forces arrived in the Philippines, they hatched a daring plan to liberate their captured comrades, a mission that, if successful, would prove to be a tremendous morale booster at the front and at home. Led by a young officer named Henry Mucci (called "Little MacArthur" for his constant pipe as well as his brilliance as a strategist), a combined Ranger and Filipino guerrilla force penetrated far behind enemy lines, attacked Japanese forces guarding Allied prisoners at a jungle outpost called Cabanatuan, and shepherded hundreds of prisoners to safety, with an angry Japanese army in hot pursuit. Amazingly, they suffered only light casualties.
In Ghost Soldiers, journalist Hampton Sides recounts that daring rescue, once known to every American schoolchild but now long forgotten. A gifted storyteller, Sides packs his narrative with detailed descriptions of the principal actors on both sides of the struggle and with moments of danger and exhilaration. Thrilling from start to finish, his book celebrates the heroism of hundreds of warriors and brings renewed attention to one of the Rangers' finest hours. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War Ii's Most Dramatic Missionby Hampton SidesISBN 0385495641 (0-385-49564-1)
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When Army Rangers among Douglas MacArthur's forces arrived in the Philippines, they hatched a daring plan to liberate their captured comrades, a mission that, if successful, would prove to be a tremendous morale booster at the front and at home. Led by a young officer named Henry Mucci (called "Little MacArthur" for his constant pipe as well as his brilliance as a strategist), a combined Ranger and Filipino guerrilla force penetrated far behind enemy lines, attacked Japanese forces guarding Allied prisoners at a jungle outpost called Cabanatuan, and shepherded hundreds of prisoners to safety, with an angry Japanese army in hot pursuit. Amazingly, they suffered only light casualties.
In Ghost Soldiers, journalist Hampton Sides recounts that daring rescue, once known to every American schoolchild but now long forgotten. A gifted storyteller, Sides packs his narrative with detailed descriptions of the principal actors on both sides of the struggle and with moments of danger and exhilaration. Thrilling from start to finish, his book celebrates the heroism of hundreds of warriors and brings renewed attention to one of the Rangers' finest hours. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Governing China: From Revolution Through Reformby Kenneth LieberthalISBN 0393924920 (0-393-92492-0)
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The Haiku Anthologyby Cor Van Den HeuvelISBN 0393321185 (0-393-32118-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Haiku Anthology: Haiku and Senryu in Englishby Cor Van Den HeuvelISBN 0393047431 (0-393-04743-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Half of Man Is Womanby Zhang Xianliang, Martha AveryISBN 0393025861 (0-393-02586-1)
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The Heart of Chinese Poetryby Greg WhincupISBN 038523967X (0-385-23967-X)
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Herodotus: The Histories New Translation, Selections, Backgrounds, Commentariesby Herodotus, Walter Blanco, Jennifer Tolbert RobertsISBN 0393959465 (0-393-95946-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Herodotus: The Histories New Translation, Selections, Backgrounds, Commentaries'Book summary:This Norton Critical Edition offers an introduction to Herodotus for students approaching the history of Western Civilization or classical Greece for the first time. It features a new translation and selection of Herodotuss The Histories by Walter Blanco, supplemented by critical works chosen by Jennifer Roberts.
Walter Blanco's translation manages both to remain true to the spirit and letter of the original Greek and to be readily understandable to American students.
The selections from The Histories show Herodotus as ethnographer and as narrative historian, including his rich descriptions of Egyptian civilization and its contributions to Greek culture and his dramatic account of the Persian wars
"Backgrounds and Commentaries" provide students with a context for understanding Herodotuss place at the genesis of the historical narrative tradition. Great classical accounts by Aeschylus, Thucydides, Aristotle, and Plutarch serve as comparative pieces in early historical narrative while critical commentaries by modern scholarsincluding Hume, Mill, Macaulay, Collingwood, Momigliano, Ferrill, and othersengage students in the debate over Herodotuss historical authority.
A master Map, Chronology of Events, Glossary of names, places, and terms, and explanatory footnotes facilitate the students understanding of this work. A Bibliography directs readers to resources for further study. [via]More editions of Herodotus: The Histories New Translation, Selections, Backgrounds, Commentaries:
Hokkaido Popsicleby Isaac AdamsonISBN 0380812924 (0-380-81292-4)
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In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern Indiaby Edward LuceISBN 0385514743 (0-385-51474-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Inheritanceby Lan Samantha ChangISBN 0393327116 (0-393-32711-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Japanby John W. HallISBN 0385284780 (0-385-28478-0)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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The Jewel in the Crownby Paul ScottISBN 0380404109 (0-380-40410-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jewel in the Crown'Book summary:"Ah no, waste no pity on young Kumar. Whatever he got while in the hands of the police he deserved. And waste no pity on her either. She also got what she deserved."
August 1942. World War II is reaching its apex, with the conflict consuming almost all of Asia and Europe. In Southeast Asia, the Japanese have driven the British army out of Burma and are threatening India, where Britain's beleaguered forces find themselves facing an increasingly hostile Indian populace tired of decades of unfulfilled promises of freedom. On a dark monsoonal night in the town of Mayapore, amid an outbreak of anti-British rioting, a gang of Indian men rape a young British woman. Through this rape, we are introduced to a cast of characters engulfed and subsequently carried away by the storm of events. Paul Scott's The Jewel in the Crown is part historical novel, part mystery, part love story, part allegory. But to reduce it to any of these elements is to miss its irony, poignancy, and beauty. Full of complex characters and rich in atmosphere and symbolism, this is a novel that works on many different levels.
The events unfold through the eyes of a varied cast of characters--both British and Indian--united by their inability to escape the straightjacket of race and social roles, no matter their class, education, or political views. This is particularly excruciating for the rape victim and the young Indian man accused of the crime. These two are drawn to each other by their alienation from the roles they are expected to play. Englishwoman Daphne Manners finds herself increasingly estranged from her countrymen, while Hari Kumar, an Indian who has lived in Britain for all but two years of his life and is so anglicized that he doesn't even speak Hindi, can't abide his native land. Their struggle with the identities and constraints that society imposes on them and the manifestations of their conflict form the core of the novel, providing the timelessness and richness that make it one of the great novels of the 20th century.
The Jewel in the Crown, originally published in 1966, is the first of the Raj Quartet, the sweeping epic that looks at the collapse in the 1940s of British rule in India. It was followed by The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence, and A Division of Spoils. --Jonathan King [via]
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The Journeyerby Gary JenningsISBN 0380696096 (0-380-69609-6)
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Kiplingby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0385042450 (0-385-04245-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kipling'Book summary:A Selection of Kipling's Stories and Poems by John Beecroft illustrated by Richard M. powers. Contents: Kim, The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Brothers, Hungtin-Song of the Seeonee Pack, Kaa's Hungtin, Road-Song of the Bandar-Log, How Fear Came, The Law of the Jungle, Tiger! Tiger!, Mowgli's Song, Letting in the Jungle, Mowgli's Song against People, The King's Ankus, The Song of the Little Hunter, Red Dog, Chil's Song, The Spring Running, The Outsong Just So Stories... Puck of Pook's Hill... [via]
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The Lily Theatreby Lulu WangISBN 0385489862 (0-385-48986-2)
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The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogyby Anthony BurgessISBN 0393309436 (0-393-30943-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Lost in Translationby Nicole MonesISBN 0385319444 (0-385-31944-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The key to the novel's success is Mones's in-depth knowledge of China's culture, history, and politics. The question of cultural identity is at the core of her tale, and she skillfully weaves various aspects of Chinese life--from ancestor worship to the Cultural Revolution--into the personal relationships of her characters. By novel's end, readers have discovered a great deal about archeology, China, and most especially about the unmapped territories of memory, desire, and identity. Lost in Translation is a fine first novel, the first salvo of a promising literary career. [via]
Malay Fishermen: Their Peasant Economyby Raymond William FirthISBN 0393007758 (0-393-00775-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Milleniumby Felipe Ferrandez-ArmestoISBN 0385255454 (0-385-25545-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday Canada, Limited
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Milleniumby Fernandez-ArmestoISBN 0385256124 (0-385-25612-4)
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The Mistress of Spicesby Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniISBN 0385482388 (0-385-48238-8)
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Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangleby Dorothy GilmanISBN 0385237103 (0-385-23710-3)
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Although Mrs. Pollifax is determined to give up spying for good, she can't help but agree to carry a small object to an agent in Thailand, and get one in return. The moment she lands, however, Mrs. Pollifax is horrified to find her contact dead and her husband kidnapped. The next thing she knows, she's tramping through the ominous Thai countryside, led by a curious fellow who may be trying to help her find her husband. Or he may have other, more sinister plans....
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Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddhaby Dorothy GilmanISBN 0385199597 (0-385-19959-7)
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Mrs. Pollifax on the China Stationby Dorothy GilmanISBN 038514525X (0-385-14525-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Once again, Mrs. Pollifax, the cheerful little woman with the flyaway white hair and a penchant for old hats is plunged headfirst into another hair-raising CIA mission. Posing as a tourist in China, Emily Pollifax meets the sinister challenges of the Orient to safeguard a treasure for the CIA...and all but loses her life in the bargain. [via]More editions of Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station:
New Emperors: China...by Harrison SalisburyISBN 0380720256 (0-380-72025-6)
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Out of the East: Transition and Tradition in Asiaby Hiroji KubotaISBN 0393040887 (0-393-04088-7)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Queen of Dreamsby Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniISBN 0385506821 (0-385-50682-1)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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A River Sutraby Gita MehtaISBN 038547007X (0-385-47007-X)
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Roger Ebert's Book of Film : From Tolstoy to Tarantino - the Finest Writing from a Century of Filmby Roger EbertISBN 0393040003 (0-393-04000-3)
Hardcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby Edward Fitzgerald, Edmund Dulac, John FitzgeraldISBN 0385001460 (0-385-00146-0)
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Running in the Familyby Michael OndaatjeISBN 0393016374 (0-393-01637-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Running in the Family'Book summary:Picture The Great Gatsby with heat, tea plantations, and even more gin and you've got part of Michael Ondaatje's 1982 Running in the Family. Set in Ondaatje's native Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Running begins with the champagne shenanigans of competitively romantic upper-class youths swept up in that first global trend, the Jazz Age: "They all went swimming again with just the modesty of the night. An arm touched a face. A foot touched a stomach. They could have almost drowned or fallen in love." The main characters to emerge from this frolicking set of dancers and drinkers are Ondaatje's parents, and it is upon them that the book turns from moonlit serenades to financial and emotional ruin.
Part travelogue, part family memoir (complete with photographs), part collection of poems, Running is also a poignant autobiography/biography that reimagines the alcoholism of Ondaatje's father Mervyn and the eventual (inevitable?) divorce of his parents. In telling these tall tales, Ondaatje is affectionate and insightful toward a father who was clearly difficult to accommodate in life. Driving intoxicated over a rickety wooden bridge no one else would trust in any condition, Mervyn turns to young Michael to wink and claim, "God loves a drunk."
Running marks the commencement of Ondaatje's growing interest in migration (does running run in the family?). The expatriate characters of Ondaatje's later novels are here presaged by a generation of Ceylonese steaming off to England for education and an enduring love of cricket. Salman Rushdie knows that "the past is a country from which we are all migrants." In Running in the Family, Ondaatje reaches back, inwards, and abroad to map that most treasured and troubled of places, the human heart. --Darryl Whetter [via]
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Selected Stories of Lu Hsunby Lu Hsun, Hsun LuISBN 0393008487 (0-393-00848-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Stories of Lu Hsun'Book summary:"Some of these stories, I am sure, will be read as long as the Chinese language exists."Ha Jin
"When I was young I, too, had many dreams. Most of them came to be forgotten, but I see nothing in this to regret. For although recalling the past may make you happy, it may sometimes also make you lonely, and there is no point in clinging in spirit to lonely bygone days. However, my trouble is that I cannot forget completely, and these stories have resulted from what I have been unable to erase from memory."Lu Hsun
Living during a time of dramatic change in China, Lu Hsun had a career that was as varied as his writing. As a young man he studied medicine in Japan but left it for the life of an activist intellectual, eventually returning to China to teach. Though he supported the aims of the Communist revolution, he did not become a member of the party nor did he live to see the Communists take control of China. Ambitious to reach a large Chinese audience, Lu Hsun wrote his first published story, "A Madman's Diary," in the vernacular, a pioneering move in Chinese literature at the time. "The True Story of Ah Q," a biting portrait of feudal China, gained him popularity in the West. This collection of eighteen stories shows the variety of his style and subjects throughout his career.
In a new introduction, Ha Jin, the author of Waiting (National Book Award winner), The Bridegroom, and other works, places Lu Hsun's life and work in the context of Chinese history and literature. [via]More editions of Selected Stories of Lu Hsun:
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumphby T. E. LawrenceISBN 0385418957 (0-385-41895-7)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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The Shadow and the Starby Laura KinsaleISBN 0380761319 (0-380-76131-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Sister of My Heartby Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniISBN 038548951X (0-385-48951-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister of My Heart'Book summary:From the award-winning author of Mistress of Spices, the bestselling novel about the extraordinary bond between two women, and the family secrets and romantic jealousies that threaten to tear them apart.Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Her cousin Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of that same family. Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is not. Despite those differences, since the day on which the two girls were born, the same day their fathers died--mysteriously and violently--Sudha and Anju have been sisters of the heart. Bonded in ways even their mothers cannot comprehend, the two girls grow into womanhood as if their fates as well as their hearts were merged. But, when Sudha learns a dark family secret, that connection is shattered. For the first time in their lives, the girls know what it is to feel suspicion and distrust. Urged into arranged marriages, Sudha and Anju's lives take opposite turns. Sudha becomes the dutiful daughter-in-law of a rigid small-town household. Anju goes to America with her new husband and learns to live her own life of secrets. When tragedy strikes each of them, however, they discover that despite distance and marriage, they have only each other to turn to. Set in the two worlds of San Francisco and India, this exceptionally moving novel tells a story at once familiar and exotic, seducing readers from the first page with the lush prose we have come to expect from Divakaruni. Sister of My Heart is a novel destined to become as widely beloved as it is acclaimed. [via]
Sparring with Charlie : Motorbiking down the Ho Chi Minh Trailby Christopher HuntISBN 0385481284 (0-385-48128-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Spirit and Struggle in Southern Asiaby Barbara H. ChaseISBN 0377001570 (0-377-00157-0)
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The Swallows of Kabul : A Novelby Yasmina Khadra, John CullenISBN 0385510012 (0-385-51001-2)
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Ten Thousand Sorrowsby Elizabeth KimISBN 0385502117 (0-385-50211-7)
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Ten Thousand Sorrows : The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphanby Elizabeth KimISBN 0385496338 (0-385-49633-8)
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Things Chineseby Rita AeroISBN 0385156731 (0-385-15673-1)
Softcover, Dolphin Books
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Tokyo Suckerpunch: A Billy Chaka Adventureby Isaac AdamsonISBN 0380812916 (0-380-81291-6)
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Tuva or Bust: Richard Feynman's Last Journeyby Ralph LeightonISBN 0393320693 (0-393-32069-3)
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Always adventurous, Feynman was also a careful planner, recounts his friend and fellow drummer Ralph Leighton in this affectionate memoir. When a chance remark happened to dislodge a long-dormant memory of a faraway Siberian land called Tannu-Tuva, Feynman and Leighton set about scheming to get there--a programme that included learning the little-described Tuvan language, picking up the rudiments of throat singing, and reading the scattered, hard-to-find literature concerning a place that, in Feynman's fond view, was as close to paradise as the earth contained. It also involved corresponding with scholars in what was still the Soviet Union, wrangling with bureaucrats to secure the necessary papers--and all for the sake of seeing a country that had to be interesting, Feynman insisted, just because its capital, Kyzyl, had such an odd spelling.
These picaresque armchair adventures make up the bulk of Tuva or Bust, an unconventional mix of travelogue and scientific biography that's a pleasure to read at every turn. The book yields a memorable picture of Richard Feynman--who did not live to see Tuva, but whose memory is honoured there today, thanks to Leighton's refusal to abandon their shared dream. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Tuva or Bust: Richard Feynman's Last Journey/33 1/3 Recordby Ralph LeightonISBN 0393029530 (0-393-02953-0)
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Always adventurous, Feynman was also a careful planner, recounts his friend and fellow drummer Ralph Leighton in this affectionate memoir. When a chance remark happened to dislodge a long-dormant memory of a faraway Siberian land called Tannu-Tuva, Feynman and Leighton set about scheming to get there--a programme that included learning the little-described Tuvan language, picking up the rudiments of throat singing, and reading the scattered, hard-to-find literature concerning a place that, in Feynman's fond view, was as close to paradise as the earth contained. It also involved corresponding with scholars in what was still the Soviet Union, wrangling with bureaucrats to secure the necessary papers--and all for the sake of seeing a country that had to be interesting, Feynman insisted, just because its capital, Kyzyl, had such an odd spelling.
These picaresque armchair adventures make up the bulk of Tuva or Bust, an unconventional mix of travelogue and scientific biography that's a pleasure to read at every turn. The book yields a memorable picture of Richard Feynman--who did not live to see Tuva, but whose memory is honoured there today, thanks to Leighton's refusal to abandon their shared dream. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Under Western Eyes: Personal Essays from Asian Americaby Garrett K. HongoISBN 0385472390 (0-385-47239-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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A Vanished Worldby Wilfred ThesigerISBN 0393050866 (0-393-05086-6)
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The Vine of Desireby Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniISBN 038549730X (0-385-49730-X)
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The Voyage of the Beagleby Charles DarwinISBN 0385027672 (0-385-02767-2)
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places : A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peaceby Le Ly Hayslip, Jay WurtsISBN 0385247583 (0-385-24758-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The White Mountainby David WingroveISBN 0385298757 (0-385-29875-7)
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Who Will Feed China?: Wake-Up Call for a Small Planetby Lester R. BrownISBN 039331409X (0-393-31409-X)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Why Moths Hate Thomas Edison: And Other Urgent Inquiries into the Odd Nature of Natureby Hampton Sides, Jason SchneiderISBN 0393321509 (0-393-32150-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why Moths Hate Thomas Edison: And Other Urgent Inquiries into the Odd Nature of Nature'Book summary:Join longtime Outside editor and contributor Hampton Sides as he rollicks through the fascinating, quirky questions readers ask about the world around them.
Do beavers ever get squashed by the trees they're gnawing down? Why are there so many worms writhing on the sidewalk after a storm? What good are goosebumps? Why do llamas spit? What is the oldest living creature on earth? Focusing on natural history and outdoor lore, this collection ranges from the gothic to the comic to the cosmic. It includes the sorts of questions that most of us stopped asking (at least out loud) when we were eight years old. "The Wild File" is what question-and-answer columns should be but seldom are: an often surprising, sometimes zany, always insightful and informative back-and-forth between a devoted readership and its publication. The result is an enchanting and enriching collection of answers that open windows to more questions.
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Why the Allies Wonby R. J. OveryISBN 039331619X (0-393-31619-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why the Allies Won'Book summary:In 1942, Germany controlled almost the entire resources of continental Europe and was poised to move into the Middle East. Japan had wiped out the Western colonial presence in East Asia and was threatening northern India and Australia. The Allied victory in 1945 has since come to seem inevitable. In Overy's incisive analysis, readers see exactly how the Allies regained military superiority and why they were able to do it. [via]
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