Secrets of the Samurai by Westbrook, Adele
$29.99 AUD
Category: Asian
Secrets of the Samurai is the definitive study of the martial arts of feudal Japan-explaining in detail the weapons, techniques, strategies, and principles of combat that made the Japanese warrior a formidable foe. Beginning with a panoramic survey of the tumultuous early struggles of warlords contendin ...Show more
Five Women Who Loved Love: Amorous Tales from 17th-Century Japan by Ihara Saikaku
$19.99 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: Tuttle Classics
"Five charming novellas which have astonishing freshness, color, and warmth." The New Yorker First published in 1686, this collection of five novellas was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy world that was Genroku Japan, and the book's popularity has increased with age, making it today a literary class ...Show more
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives by Christopher Harding
$29.99 AUD
Category: Asian
From the acclaimed author of Japan Story, this is the history of Japan, distilled into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. The vivid and entertaining portraits in Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the life ...Show more
The Shortest History of China by Linda Jaivin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Asian
A pacy history of China that can be read in an afternoon, but will transform your perspective for a lifetime. From kung-fu to tofu, tea to trade routes, sages to silk, China has influenced cuisine, commerce, military strategy, aesthetics and philosophy across the world for thousands of years. Chinese hi ...Show more
Angkor and the Khmer Civilization by Michael D. Coe
$39.99 AUD
Category: Asian
From a carved mammoth tusk (ca. 40,000 BCE) to Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights (1505-1510) to Duchamp's Fountain (1917), a remarkable lexicon of astonishing imagery has imprinted itself onto the cultural consciousness of the past 40,000 years. Author Kelly Grovier devotes himself to illuminating thes ...Show more
The British in India - Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience by David Gilmour
$69.99 AUD
Category: Asian
The British in this book lived in India from shortly after the reign of Elizabeth I until well into the reign of Elizabeth II. Who were they? What drove these men and women to risk their lives on long voyages down the Atlantic and across the Indian Ocean or later via the Suez Canal? And when they got to ...Show more
Vietnam: An Epic History of a Tragic War by Max Hastings
$24.99 AUD
Category: Asian
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'His masterpiece' Antony Beevor, Spectator'A masterful performance' Sunday Times'By far the best book on the Vietnam War' Gerald Degroot, The Times, Book of the Year Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for ...Show more
Barbarians at the Wall: The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of China by John Man
$19.99 AUD
Category: Asian | Reading Level: very good
'Man does for the reader that most difficult of tasks: he conjures up an ancient people in an alien landscape in such a way as to make them live.' Guardian____________________ The people of the first nomadic empire left no written records, but from 200 BC they dominated the heart of Asia for 400 years. ...Show more
The Shanghai Factor by Charles McCarry
$51.00 AUD
Category: Asian
An American spy in China. Name: Unknown. Status: Sleeper. He's meant to be laying low, polishing his Mandarin and awaiting further instructions from Washington. But Shandhai is a difficult city to sleep in, especially when his nights are taken over by the seductive but enigmatic Mei - a woman with secre ...Show more
Golden Age of China: Qianlong Emperor, 1736-1795 by Ding and Pang
$29.95 AUD
Category: Asian
India: A Short History by Andrew Robinson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Asian
India's unfolding story, from the ancient Hindu dynasties to the coming of Islam, from the Mughal Empire to the present day India has always been a land of great contradictions. To Alexander the Great, the country was a place of clever naked philosophers and massive armies mounted on elephants - whi ...Show more