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MiG-17/19 Aces of the Vietnam War(2016) TOPERCZER, ISTVAN (AUTHOR)The story of the pilots of the MiG-17/19 fighter jets of the Vietnam People's Airforce, featuring information new to the west, fresh from Vietnamese archives.Vezava: Mehka26,24 € -
Suicide of Miss Xi(2021) GOODMAN, BRYNAWhen a young woman killed herself in the office she shared with her employer in 1920s Shanghai, the city reeled in shock. Xi Shangzhen became a symbol of the failures of the Chinese Republic as well as the broken promises of citizens’ rights, gender equalVezava: Trda64,07 € -
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Charles Masson: Collections from Begram and Kabul Bazaar, Afghanistan 1833–1838(2021) ERRINGTON, ELIZABETHThe book discusses and catalogues Charles Masson’s 1833–8 collections from the urban site of Begram and Kabul bazaar now in the British Museum, supplemented by illustrated coins recorded in Masson's archival manuscripts and in H.H. Wilson, but no longer iVezava: Mehka63,87 € -
Asian American Spies(2021) HAYASHI, BRIAN MASARU (PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, KENT STATE UNIVERSITY)This history of Asian Americans in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II reveals the inner workings of this spy agency and how Euroamerican leaders' conceptions of "race" and "loyalty" shaped US wartime intelligence.Vezava: Trda55,11 € -
Thief Who Stole My Heart(2021) DEHEJIA, VIDYAThe first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India's Chola dynasty in social contextFrom the ninth through the thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical perfVezava: Trda107,10 € -
Turkey, Egypt, and Syria(2019) NUMANI, SHIBLIVividly captures the experiences of prominent Indian intellectual and scholar Shibli¯ Nu‘ma¯ni¯ (1857-1914) as he journeyed across the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in 1892. A professor of Arabic and Persian, Nu‘ma¯ni¯ took a six-month leave from teaching to tVezava: Trda105,00 € -
Turkey, Egypt, and Syria(2020) NUMANI, SHIBLIVividly captures the experiences of prominent Indian intellectual and scholar Shibli¯ Nu‘ma¯ni¯ (1857-1914) as he journeyed across the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in 1892. A professor of Arabic and Persian, Nu‘ma¯ni¯ took a six-month leave from teaching to tVezava: Mehka58,93 € -
Sacred Willow(2017) ELLIOTT, MAITied in to Ken Burns' forthcoming (2017) TV series on Vietnam, to which the author is a major contributor, the reissue of a Pulitzer finalist memoir of a Vietnamese family in the 20th centuryVezava: Mehka27,32 € -
Renewal of Buddhism in China(2021) YU, CHUN-FANG (EMERITA PROFESSOR OF RELIGION AND EALAC)First published in 1981, Chün-fang Yü’s The Renewal of Buddhism in China challenged the conventional view that Buddhism had reached its height under the Tang dynasty (618–907) and steadily declined afterward. This fortieth anniversary edition features anVezava: Mehka40,39 €
