Legend Of Asia

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Tara Austen Weaver
Tulips: A Little Book of Flowers (Little Book of Natural Wonders)
This fascinating celebration of the tulip reads like a “very smart love letter to cultivating beauty” and features 40+ vintage-inspired full-color botanical illustrations ( Seattle Times ). “Delightful…Next time you are lucky enough to be someone’s houseguest, consider arriving with a bo...
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Hamid Ismailov
Manaschi
Finalist, Prix Jan Michalski de Littérature 2023 Shortlisted, EBRD Literature Prize 2022 In his latest tragicomedy Hamid Ismailov interrogates the interaction between tradition and modernity, myth and reality.   A radio presenter interprets one of his dreams as an initiation by the world of sp...
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William Warren
Jim Thompson: The Thai Silk Sketchbook
When the renowned American businessman, Jim Thompson, disappeared on Easter Sunday 1967 in mysterious circumstances, the legend of this extraordinarily gifted designer and entrepreneur began. During a period of two decades, he had developed silk making from being a static village craft into a dynami...
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Matthew Gabriele
The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe
"The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come…. The Bright Ages  is a rare thing—a nuanced historical work that almost anyone can enjoy reading.”— Slate "Incandescent ...
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Richard Powers
Operation Wandering Soul: A Novel
In the pediatrics ward of a public hospital in the heart of Angel City, a group of sick children is gathering. An Asian boat girl, a freakishly aging boy, a child born with no face: they share nothing but their desperation and the journey they know lies ahead of them. The surrogate parents of this b...
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Perin E. Gürel
Türkiye, Iran, and the Politics of Comparison (LSE International Studies)
In a 1962 meeting at the White House, Iran's last monarch, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, complained to US President John F. Kennedy 'America treats Turkey as a wife, and Iran as a concubine.' Taking this protest as a critical starting point, this book examines the transnational history of comparisons betwe...
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Marc Eliot
Michael Douglas: A Biography
A groundbreaking portrait of one of Hollywood’s most successful stars, from critically acclaimed  and bestselling biographer Marc Eliot   Through determination, inventiveness, and charisma, Michael Douglas emerged from the long shadow cast by his movie-legend father, Kirk Douglas, to become ...
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Lee Murray
Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror
From hungry ghosts, vampiric babies, and shapeshifting fox spirits to the avenging White Lady of urban legend, for generations, Asian women’s roles have been shaped and defined through myth and story. In Unquiet Spirits, Asian writers of horror reflect on the impact of superstition, spirits, and t...
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CIFIBIFUN
4 Panels Large Size Wall Scroll Hanging Paper Painting Reproduction Beauty Asian Art, for Feminism Bedroom Room Decor Ancient Oriental (
Large Size : Each 14.2x49Inches Total size : 56.8x49Inches Chinese Women with Japanese Art Style: 4 Ancient Beauty of All China History ，Diao Chan's strategic intrigue, Wang Zhaojun's diplomacy, Xi Shi's legend, and Yang Yuhuan's imperial grace – each of these women represents an era, a story, a...
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Sidney K. Torbert
THE POLYNESIANS: How DNA Evidence Solved the Pacific’s Greatest Ancestral Mystery
They conquered the largest ocean on Earth without maps, metal, or modern tools. What they carried instead was memory, courage, and the stars themselves. The Polynesians: How DNA Evidence Solved the Pacific’s Greatest Ancestral Mystery unravels one of the most astonishing human stories ever told,...
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Sandra Bingham
Carthage (Archaeological Histories)
This book traces the formation of the archaeological site of Carthage and how it re-emerged in the minds of European antiquarians and travellers in the early modern world. For almost 1,600 years the ancient city sat on the north coast of Africa, dominating the central Mediterranean until its fall in...
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Juan Calle
Good Dream, Bad Dream: The World's Heroes Save the Night!
Heroes and heroines have always helped kids make their dreams good. Multicultural and mythological, this tale features comic book art and a bilingual Spanish translation. From time immemorial, children like Julio have had bad dreams! But at Julio's bedside, his dad comforts him: anyone can summ...
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Joshua Kurlantzick
The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War
How the West's greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of war—and the steep price he paid for failing Jim Thompson landed in Thailand at the end of World War II, a former American society dilettante who became an Asian legend as a spy and silk magnate with access to Thai worlds out...
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Sundeep Misra
Gunned Down: Murder of an Olympic Champion
About the Book He was called "The King of Short Corner" - a fearsome drag-flicker, a national hero, and a man both revered and feared on the hockey field. But behind the medals and headlines lay a story of power, politics, and betrayal. Gunned Down - Murder of An Olympic Champion traces the ext...
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Ken Albala
Beans: A History
This is the story of the bean, the staple food cultivated by humans for over 10,000 years. From the lentil to the soybean, every civilization on the planet has cultivated its own species of bean. The humble bean has always attracted attention - from Pythagoras' notion that the bean hosted a human so...
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Captivating History
Ancient Near East: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Civilizations of the Middle East, Including Regions Such as Mesopotamia, Ancient Iran, Egypt,
If you want to discover the captivating history of the ancient Near East, then keep reading... Where did the first signs of civilization appear in the ancient world? When did people start to transition from the nomadic life of hunters and gatherers to living in the first urbanized settlements? Who w...
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Mrs Harriette Augusta Curtiss
The Key to The Universe: A Spiritual Interpretation of Numbers, Symbols and The Tarot (Teachings of The Order of Christian Mystics)
The Teachings of The Order of Christian Mystics Explain the Mysteries of Life and Renews Faith through Knowledge.THE KEY TO THE UNIVERSEOr a Spiritual Interpretation of Numbers & SymbolsThis work is not only the most comprehensive and authoritative book on the significance and spiritual interpretati...
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Peter E. Davies
US Navy F-4 Phantom II Units of the Vietnam War 1964-68 (Combat Aircraft, 116)
The F-4 Phantom II is perhaps the most famous postwar fighter. Primarily used as a land-based fighter-bomber and reconnaissance platform, its legend is owed to its naval origins and the immense contribution its original carrier-based versions made to the U.S. war effort in Vietnam. This title exa...
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Matt Riley
Kit and Community: Football's Shirts and the Stories they Tell
Kit and Community digs beneath the surface of inspirational and meaningful designs to reveal the incredible causes that use football shirts to spread their message. Starting with Stanno's Shirt, we meet Gig and Roger, the parents of Exeter City legend Adam Stansfield, who was cut down by cancer at ...
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Dr. Randolph Preston Shaffner
Highlands (Images of America: North Carolina)
Discover the rich past of Highlands, North Carolina in this pictorial history told through the lens of over 200 vintage images. Perched on the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains and founded in 1875 as a health and summer resort, the town of Highlands in Western North Carolina enjoys a northern clima...
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