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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
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In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an... ( read more)
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Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
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Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders
by Emmanuel Guibert
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In 1986, Afghanistan was torn apart by a war with the Soviet Union. This graphic novel/photo-journal is a record of one reporters arduous and dangerous journey through Afghanistan, accompanying the Doctors Without Borders. Didier Lefevres... ( read more)
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China Road: a Journey Into the Future of a Rising Power (07 Edition)
by Rob Gifford
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Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The... ( read more)
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Hiroshima
by John Hersey
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On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and... ( read more)
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Seeds of Terror: How Heroin Is Bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda
by Gretchen Peters
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Most Americans think of the Taliban and al Qaeda as a bunch of bearded fanatics fighting an Islamic crusade from caves in Afghanistan. But that doesn't explain their astonishing comeback along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Why is it eight years after... ( read more)
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The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia
by James Palmer
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In the history of the modern world, there have been few characters more sadistic, sinister, and deeply demented as Baron Ungern-Sternberg. An anti-Semitic fanatic with a penchant for Eastern mysticism and a hatred of communists, Baron Ungern-Sternberg... ( read more)
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Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai
by Katsu Kokichi
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Katsu Kokichi was a low ranking samurai who lived during the last decades of the Tokugawa period of Japan. Upon his retirement he wrote an autobiography that offers modern readers a richly detailed account of daily life in Edo during the early nineteenth... ( read more)
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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
by Paul Theroux
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Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work The Great Railway Bazaar, the worlds most acclaimed travel writer re-creates his 25,000-mile journey through eastern Europe, central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, China, Japan, and... ( read more)
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Travelers of a Hundred Ages: the Japanese As Revealed Through 1,000 Years of Diaries
by Donald Keene
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At once an intimate account of the diarists' lives and a testimony to the greater struggles and advances of Japanese culture, this book illuminates the hidden and largely unknown worlds of imperial courts, Buddhist monasteries, country inns, and... ( read more)
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The Places In Between
by Rory Stewart
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In January 2002, Rory Stewart survived a walk across Afghanistan by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. In this memoir, he writes about heroes and rogues, tribal elders and teenage soldiers... ( read more)
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Review-a-Day | June 29, 2009
By Review-a-Day
Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang by Ziyang Zhao
Reviewed by Jonathan Mirsky
New York Review of Books
Prisoner of the State is the secretly recorded memoir of Zhao Ziyang, once holder of China's two highest Party and state positions and the architect of the economic reforms that have brought the country to the edge of great-power status.
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Powell's Q&A, Q&A | May 28, 2009
By Lisa See
Describe your latest project.
Shanghai Girls opens in 1937 in Shanghai — the Paris of Asia, home to millionaires and beggars, gangsters and...
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