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Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan

By Greg Mortenson

Something in India

By Fraser Noble

Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's China

By Desmond Shum

The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives

By Christopher Harding

The Land Beyond: A Thousand Miles on Foot through the Heart of the Middle East

By Leon McCarron

The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism

By Hamid Dabashi

Burma: The Longest War, 1941-45

By Louis Allen

Ottoman Turkey

By Godfrey Goodwin

The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

By James C. Scott

Ghandi

By James Brown

Caucasus: A Journey in the Crucible of Civilisation

By Nicholas Griffin

Hiroshima Notes

By Oe, Kenzaburo, Swain, David L., Yonezawa, Toshi

The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds

By Jonathan D. Spence

Falling Blossom

By Peter Pagnamenta, Momoko Williams

Through the Palace Keyhole

By Ann Sawalha

Crusaders, Samurai and Aztecs

By Anne Millard, Robyn Gee, Jenny Tyler, Joseph McEwan

Studies in Thai History

By David K. Wyatt (Cornell University, USA)

Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq, Updated Edition

By Kanan Makiya

The War on Truth

By Neil Mackay

An Anthropologist Among the Historians and Other Essays

By Bernard S. Cohn (Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago)

African Women: A Modern History

By Beth Raps, Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch

A Brutal Friendship: West and the Arab Elite

By Said K. Aburish

Hundred Day War: Cultural Revolution at Tsinghua University

By William Hinton

Exit the Colonel

By Ethan Chorin

The Almohads: The Rise of an Islamic Empire

By Allen J. Fromherz

The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and Its Arabs

By Andrew Hussey

Between the State and Islam

By Charles E. Butterworth (University of Maryland, College Park), I. William Zartman (The Johns Hopkins University)

The Chatham House Version and Other Middle Eastern Studies

By Elie Kedourie

Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science

By Jim Al-Khalili

The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance

By Jim Al-Khalili