A decisive account of the dramatic Gallipoli campaign of World War I, with a devastating assessment of its pointless losses The Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 was an ill-fated Allied attempt to...

Harp of Burma is Japan's classic novel of pathos and compassion in the midst of senseless warfare.Winner of the prestigious Mainichi Shuppan Bunkasho prize and the basis for the critically acclaimed...

When Turkey unexpectedly sided with Germany in World War I, Winston Churchill, as Sea Lord for the British, conceived a plan: smash through the Dardanelles, reopen the Straits to Russia, and...

Uncovering the secrets behind the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam, this is "a brutal, cautionary tale that serves as a painful reminder of the worst that can happen in war."—Chicago Tribune.

When he left war-ravaged Vietnam some thirty years ago, journalist David Lamb averred "I didn't care if I ever saw the wretched country again." But in 1997, he found himself living in Hanoi, in...

An eye-opening investigation into China's Communist Party and its integral role in the country's rise as a global superpower and rival of the United States.

Any shortlist of the most impactful political leaders of the twentieth century must include Gandhi, and once we eliminate the tyrants--Mao, Stalin, and Hitler--Gandhi stands virtually alone. He...

"As expansionist empires, socialist superpowers, and authoritarian regimes, China and Russia have much in common. While many in the West fear the formation of an authoritarian alliance between these...

A poignant return to Korea's forgotten "Asian Spring"--a moment ripe with possibility denied by the postwar US military occupation. When Japanese imperial rule ended in August 1945, the Korean...

How do specific secular and religious ideologies--such as nationalism, neoliberalism, atheism, Pentecostalism, Tablighi Islam, and shamanism--gain popularity and when do they lose traction? To answer...

A pioneering study of kinship, patronage, and politics in Central Asia, Blood Ties and the Native Sontells the story of the rise and fall of a man called Rahim, an influential and powerful patron in...

A Sleeping Tiger is a rare book-length treatment of urbanization among Dayaks and also offers a fresh perspective on ethnicity, class, and the context in which they function to the benefit of some...

A collection of important essays by a pioneering interpreter of Indian art, philosophy, and mythology“Brilliant.”—Joseph Campbell, author of The Hero with a Thousand FacesAnanda K. Coomaraswamy...

A visually stunning, meticulously researched field guide to all the major habitats of Australia, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands When visitors think of Australia, they expect strange...

An interconnected, nuanced, and nonlinear view of Chinese family life since 1949 With Embedded Generations, Liu Jieyu offers a comprehensive examination of Chinese family life since the Chinese...

Fiction set in the spring of 1857 and is about life for the British at Krishnapur, India and what occurs when there is a mutiny.

Born during the Great Famine of the early 1960's, Hong Ying, or Little Six as she was known, grew up in a slum on the hilly Yangtze bank, a neighbourhood permanently veiled in fog and steeped in...

Comprises 11 major essays by Joseph Needham, one of the pre-eminent scholars in the study of the history of science in Chinese civilization and critic of the dominating role of science in Western...