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Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2004. Reprint ed.. Paperback small trade, very good condition, minor edgewear. 316 pp. Boye Lafayette De Mente explains the current and historical nuances of 233 of the most important Japanese code words. The words are arranged alphabetically from ageashi ('tripping on your own tongue') to zenrei ('breaking the molds of the past'). The words offer insights… Read more about this item

London: Bloomsbury, 2019. Reprint ed.. Paperback small trade, very good condition, minor edgewear. 356 pp. British historian Peter Frankopan provides a prescient contemporary history and timely reminder that we live in a interconnected world. He follows the historic Silk Roads eastwards from Europe through to China by way of Russia and the Middle East, and the reverse direction. This… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Scribe Publications , 2017. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white text-photos, maps (including frontispiece), spine little creased, minor edgewear. 330 pp. Howard W. French offers an incisive and influential investigation of China’s ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy. China is now once more on the path to… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Penguin Books Australia, 2019. Paperback small trade, very good plus condition, minor edgewear. 134 pp. Xi Jinping has transformed China at home and abroad with a speed and aggression that few foresaw when he came to power in 2012. Finally, he is meeting resistance, both at home among disgruntled officials and disillusioned technocrats, and abroad from an emerging… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000. Paperback octavo, good condition, edges lightly foxed, corner tip front cover creased, some edgewear. 270 pp. Norman Stockman (sociologist, University of Aberdeen) provides an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the main features of Chinese society. Describes a unique society that has undergone continuous transformation and upheaval throughout history, including the 20th century. Examines China from… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Canto / Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1996. Paperback large trade, very good condition, tables, minor edgewear. 277 pp. Shigeto Tsuru shows how Japanese economic reconstruction after total defeat in the Second World War has been extraordinary. A senior Japanese economist gives a comprehensive account of the recovery process, and a unique interpretation of the post-war Japanese economy, including… Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press, 2002. Reprint ed.. Paperback large octavo, very good condition, frontispiece map, diagrams, top corner front cover creased, corner tips covers little scuffed, minor edgewear. 220 pp. This book will help you settle in Japan for the next year, or fifty years. There are facts on banking, immigration, and insurance, plus daily-life tips on how… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP), 2009. 1st ed.. Paperback large octavo, very good condition, black & white photos, top corner front cover little creased, minor edgewear. 238 pp. Britain’s precipitous and ill-planned disengagement from India in 1947 - condemned as a "shameful flight" by Winston Churchill - had a truly catastrophic effect on South Asia, leaving hundreds of thousands… Read more about this item

Sydney, Summer Hill: The Writer's Press, 1966. Hardback small, no jacket, very good condition, pictorial cover, illustrated endpapers, black & white drawings, spine little faded, corner tip rear cover little rubbed, pages lightly toned, faint foxing covers, minor edgewear. 103 pp. This small collectible book for young adults has a big purpose in a changing world. It is a… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1984. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos & drawings, small dent in first few pages, top edge lightly foxed, minor edgewear. 242 pp. A Japanese Mirror, by Ian Baruma (Jonathan Cape, 1984). A well-informed look at Japanese popular culture and its disturbing fantasies. The Dutch-born author lived in… Read more about this item

London: Penguin Books, 1979. 9th printing ed.. Paperback, very good condition, spine faintly faded, corner tips covers little creased, small tear top spine, pages lightly toned, minor edgewear. 176 pp. In 1964, the Trinadad-born author V. S. Naipaul published his semi-autobiographical account of a year spent living in India. Two visits later he wrote the current followup in which… Read more about this item

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2011. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white photos, corners front cover & near spine little creased, minor edgewear. 338 pp. This book is based on eye-witness accounts, contemporary diaries, letters and interviews. The author has collected the stories of the many levels of devastation suffered on that fateful day. There were… Read more about this item

London: Little, Brown & Company, 1997. 1st p/b ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white drawings, colour photos centre spread, map, spine faintly creased (top little chipped), slight crease front cover, minor edgewear. 267 pp. (The Spice Islands Voyage: In Search of Wallace, by Tim Severin, Little Brown, 1997.) About a journey and a quest: an equatorial… Read more about this item

London: Fourth Estate, 2008. Paperback trade, good plus condition, front cover creased, few page corners faintly creased, pages faintly toned as usual, minor edgewear. 164 pp. An invigorating book about the debates raging within China. We know that China has brought 300 million people from agricultural backwardness into modernity in just 30 years (something that took 200 years in… Read more about this item

London: Pluto Press, 2011. 1st ed.. Paperback trade, very good plus condition, black & white photos, minor edgewear. 257 pp. Jeremy Seabrook and Imran Ahmed Siddiqui look at life in the poor Muslim communities in Kolkata (Calcutta), home to some of the most disadvantaged people in India. The Muslims give their views, values and feelings, which are no different… Read more about this item

Bathurst, NSW: Crawford House, 1998. Reprint ed.. Paperback tall octavo, very good condition, minor edgewear. 261 pp. This book is the first to examine the questions surrounding the fall of President Soeharto of Indonesia. The book analyses the causes of his fall, and suggests some options for future directions in Indonesia. The contributors include many of the best-known analysts… Read more about this item

Melbourne, Collingwood: Black Inc., 2014. Paperback octavo, very good condition, small edge tear top edge few pages, minor edgewear. 312 pp. This book by Hamish McDonald is intended as a quick overview of contemporary Indonesia. The author, an Australian Indonesia expert, returns to the nation he loves, both to tell the story of its past, and to consider the… Read more about this item

London: Profile Books, 2002. 1st p/b ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, top edge little foxed, pages lightly toned as usual, minor edgewear. 412 pp. Gurcharan Das, an Indian journalist and businessman, has written part memoir, part journalism, part history - an insightful guide to the modern development and advance of India since independence from Britain in 1948. … Read more about this item

Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 2011. 1st ed.. Paperback thick octavo, very good condition, black & white & colour photos, few sepia (brown-tinted) photos, top corner front cover creased. 458 pp. Julia Lovell relates the story of modern China, starting with the first conflict with the West (the Opium War), and also is an analysis of China's contemporary self-image.

Bali, Indonesia: Ersania Books, 2002. Reprint ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, few black & white photos at rear, maps, charts, light foxing inside covers, spine ends little rubbed, crease fore-edge front cover, minor edgewear. 240 pp. The author writes with honesty and warmth about the very special moments spent with a Balinese family. He explores the web of… Read more about this item