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The Modern History of Japan

W G Beasley

History

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civi

asia, japan

Islamic Fundamentalism

Dilip Hiro

Non-fiction

Islamic Fundamentalism is subject to a myriad of interpretations but, whatever ones position, there can be no d

asia, islam, middleeast

Kublai Khan

From Xanadu to Superpower

John Man

Biography

Kublai Khan lives on in the popular imagination thanks to these two lines of poetry by Coleridge. But the true

asia, china, history, mongolia

Red Star Over China

Edgar Snow

Non-fiction

The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with t

asia, china, civilwar, longmarch, mao, marxism

Jerusalem

The Biography

Simon Sebag Montefiore

History

Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of emp

asia, bestseller

The Art of War

Complete Texts and Commentaries

Sun Tzu

Philosophy

Twenty-Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chinese warfare an

asia, china, chinese, commentary, daoist

A History of the Crusades

2 The Kingdom of Jerusalem

Steven Runciman

History

Sir Steven Runcimans three volume A History of the Crusades, one of the great classics of English historical wr

asia, christian, church, crusades, islam, middleages

A History of the Crusades

3 The Kingdom of Acre

Steven Runciman

History

Sir Steven Runcimans three volume A History of the Crusades, one of the great classics of English historical wr

asia, christian, church, crusades, islam, middleages

The Arabs: A History

Eugene Rogan

History

To American observers, the Arab world often seems little more than a distant battleground characterized by reli

asia, islam, middleeast

The Penguin History of Modern Russia

From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century

Robert Service

History

Russias recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is s

asia, perestroika, putin, russia, soviet, tsar

The Legacy of Egypt

Stephen Ranulph Glanville

History

This is a collection of essays by leading Egyptologists on life in ancient Egypt. It demonstrates the propositi

asia, middleeast

Defenders of the Faith

Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe

James Reston

History

In his Warriors of God and Dogs of God, James Reston, limned two epochal conflicts between Islam and Christendo

asia, christianity, europe, islam