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Persians(2010) KATOUZIAN, HOMAIran has gained attention mostly for negative reasons but there is much more to the story of this ancient land than can be gleaned from the news. This comprehensive history of Iran covers the history of the area from the foundation of the ancient PersianVezava: Mehka38,00 € -
River of Lost Footsteps(2008) MYINT-U, THANTBurma is ruled by a harsh dictatorship unmoved by Western activists and sanctions. Drawing on his own family's stories and his years of hands-on political experience working with the UN, the author has written an illuminating account of how Burma's rich pVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Sri Lanka Reader(2011)Fifty-four images and more than ninety classic and contemporary texts introduce Sri Lanka s recorded history of more than two and a half millennia.Vezava: Mehka46,56 € -
Born Red(1987) GAO, YUANThis is a personal account of the Cultural Revolution. As a student, the author was caught up in dramatic events as, with jeers and chants, students-turned-Red Guards held mass rallies. The interplay between the perceptions of father and son offer an addiVezava: Mehka46,56 € -
Constantinople(2006) MANSEL, PHILIP'Without question one of the best books ever written by an Englishman on the Turks' William DalrympleVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Trojan War(2008) STRAUSS, BARRYThe Trojan War may have been the inevitable consequence of expanding Greek maritime commerce. Written by a leading expert on ancient military history, the true story of the most famous battle in history is every bit as compelling as Homer's epic accountVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road(2006) HOPKIRK, PETER'Difficult to put down ... irresistible' Daily TelegraphVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
In Search of Kazakhstan(2008) ROBBINS, CHRISTOPHERKazakhstan is the most surprising country on earth, and certainly one of the most tolerant. The only thing most people know about Kazakhstan is that it is homeland to Borat - and he isn't even real.Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Story of India(2008) WOOD, MICHAELWeaves a narrative out of the 10,000-year history of the subcontinent. This book is a mixture of history and travelogue, and a portrait of India.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Setting the East Ablaze(2006) HOPKIRK, PETER'A gripping account of the terrible, confused struggle for mastery of Central Asia that followed the Russian Revolution' Evening StandardVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Rome and Jerusalem(2008) GOODMAN, MARTINIn 70CE, after four years of Jewish rebellion, Roman legions devastated the great city of Jerusalem. Sixty years later, its ruin was completed when Emperor Hadrian built a new city on top of it that Jews were forbidden even to enter. This title explores tVezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Pakistan(2012) KHAN, IMRANBorn only five years after Pakistan was created in 1947, the author has lived his country's history. This title provides an insider's view of a country unfamiliar to a western audience.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
In Search Of The Trojan War(2005) WOOD, MICHAELDetailing the rediscovery in Moscow of the so-called jewels of Helen and the re-excavation of the site of Troy begun in 1988, which continues to yield new evidence about the historical city, In Search of the Trojan War takes a fresh look at some of the moVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Tibet(2013) VAN SCHAIK, SAMA timely and illuminating history of Tibet, from the seventh century to what it means to be Tibetan todayVezava: Mehka28,50 € -
China Witness(2009) XINRANIncludes grandparents and great-grandparents who sum up in their own words the vast changes that have overtaken China's people over a century. This book is also at once a journey by the author through time and place, and a memorial to those who have livedVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
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Sources of Chinese Tradition(2000)A collection of primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of China, this text provides a resource for scholars and students and an introduction for general readers.Vezava: Mehka62,48 € -
In The Time Of Madness(2006) PARRY, RICHARD LLOYD** Richard Lloyd Parry is the winner of the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize **In the last years of the twentieth century, Richard Lloyd Parry found himself in the vast island nation of Indonesia, one of the most alluring, mysterious and violent countries in thVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Cambodia's Curse(2012) BRINKLEY, JOELA Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist "cuts a clear narrative path through the bewildering, cynical politics and violent social life of one of the world's most brutalized and hard-up countries." (Foreign Affairs)Vezava: Mehka27,08 €
