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Hiroshima
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Hiroshima

By John Hersey ,

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War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
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War Without Mercy

By John W. Dower ,

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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

By Le Ly Hayslip , Jay Wurts ,

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Farewell to Manzanar
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Farewell to Manzanar

By Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston , James D. Houston (illustrator) ,

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Among the Russians
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Among the Russians

By Colin Thubron ,

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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
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A Bright Shining Lie

By Neil Sheehan ,

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I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World
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I Am Malala

By Malala Yousafzai , Patricia McCormick ,

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Survival in the Killing Fields
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Survival in the Killing Fields

By Haing Ngor , Roger Warner ,

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Empire of Signs
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Empire of Signs

By Roland Barthes , Richard Howard (translator) ,

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Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai
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Musui's Story

By Katsu Kokichi , Teruko Craig (translator) ,

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Japanese Woodworking Tools: Their Tradition, Spirit and Use
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Japanese Woodworking Tools

By Toshio Odate ,

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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

By Ronald Himler , Eleanor Coerr ,

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The Origins of the Korean War, Volume I: Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes, 1945-1947
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The Origins of the Korean War, Volume I

By Bruce Cumings ,

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The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan
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The Nobility of Failure

By Ivan Morris ,

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City of Broken Promises
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City of Broken Promises

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Pirates of the South China Coast, 1790-1810
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Pirates of the South China Coast, 1790-1810

By Dian Murray ,

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Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic
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Mao's China and After

By Maurice Meisner ,

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Sanctioned Violence in Early China
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Sanctioned Violence in Early China

By Mark Edward Lewis ,

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The Dynamics of Chinese Politics
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The Dynamics of Chinese Politics

By Lucian Pye ,

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The White Rajahs of Sarawak
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The White Rajahs of Sarawak

By Robert Payne ,

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Visions of China: Photographs, 1957-1980
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Visions of China

By Marc Riboud ,

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China after Mao: Seek Truth From Facts
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China after Mao

By Liu Heung Shing ,

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Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake, 1867-1923
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Low City, High City

By Edward G. Seidensticker ,

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The Origins of the Boxer Uprising
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The Origins of the Boxer Uprising

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Sino-Russian Relations
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Sino-Russian Relations

By Rosemary Ouested ,

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Devil's Guard
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Devil's Guard

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Vietnam at War: The History: 1946-1975
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Vietnam at War

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The Sulu Zone, 1768-1898: The Dynamics of External Trade, Slavery and Ethnicity in the Transformation of a Southeast Asian Maritime State
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The Sulu Zone, 1768-1898

By James F. Warren ,

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Taj Mahal: The Illumined Tomb- An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Mughal and European Documentary Sources
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Taj Mahal

By W.E. Begley (editor) , Z.A. Desai (translator) ,

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Measure and Construction of the Japanese House
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Measure and Construction of the Japanese House

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Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
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Autobiography

By Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ,

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Subaltern Studies: Writings on South Asian History and Society, Vol. 3
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Subaltern Studies

By Ranajit Guha ,

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China Men
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China Men

By Maxine Hong Kingston ,

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Rickshaw Beijing: City People & Politics in the 1920s
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Rickshaw Beijing

By David Strand ,

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The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution
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The Gate of Heavenly Peace

By Jonathan D. Spence ,

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Vietnam: A History in Documents
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Vietnam

By Gareth Porter (editor) ,

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Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet
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Trespassers on the Roof of the World

By Peter Hopkirk ,

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Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family
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Desert Exile

By Yoshiko Uchida ,

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Black Rain
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Black Rain

By Masuji Ibuse , John Bester (translator) ,

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Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India
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Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India

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The Perilous Frontier: Nomadic Empires and China, 221 BC to AD 1757
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The Perilous Frontier

By Thomas Barfield ,

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Memories of Silk and Straw: A Self-Portrait of Small-Town Japan
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Memories of Silk and Straw

By Junichi Saga , Susumu Saga (illustrator) , Garry Evans (translator)

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The Musical Mind: The Cognitive Psychology of Music
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The Musical Mind

By John A. Sloboda ,

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Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us Into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did
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Backfire

By Loren Baritz ,

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The Tunnels of Cu Chi
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The Tunnels of Cu Chi

By John Penycate , Tom Mangold ,

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