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Dog Soldiers
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Dog Soldiers

By Robert Stone ,

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A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East
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A Fortune-Teller Told Me

By Tiziano Terzani ,

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Song of Survival: Women Interned
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Song of Survival

By Helen Colijn ,

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Thai Home Cooking from Kamolmal's Kitchen
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Thai Home Cooking from Kamolmal's Kitchen

By William Crawford , Kamolmal Pootaraksa ,

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Simple Art of Vietnamese Cooking
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Simple Art of Vietnamese Cooking

By Binh Duong , Marcia Kiesel ,

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Cold War Monks: Buddhism and America's Secret Strategy in Southeast Asia
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Cold War Monks

By Eugene Ford ,

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Three Came Home
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Three Came Home

By Agnes Keith ,

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Viet Nam: A History from Earliest Times to the Present
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Viet Nam

By Ben Kiernan ,

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Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia
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Rivers of Iron

By David M. Lampton , Selina Ho , Cheng-Chwee Kuik

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South Southeast
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South Southeast

By Steve McCurry ,

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A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos & Vietnam
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A Dragon Apparent

By Norman Lewis ,

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Eden in the East: The Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia
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Eden in the East

By Stephen Oppenheimer ,

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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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Slavery as an Industrial System: Ethnological Researches
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Slavery as an Industrial System

By H.J. Nieboer ,

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Slavery, Bondage, and Dependency in Southeast Asia
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Slavery, Bondage, and Dependency in Southeast Asia

By Anthony Reid (editor) , Jennifer Brewster (editor) ,

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Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia
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Aid Imperium

By Salvador Santino Fulo Regilme ,

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River Monsters: True Stories of the Ones That Didn't Get Away
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River Monsters

By Jeremy Wade ,

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The Origins of Islamic Reformism in Southeast Asia: Networks of Malay-Indonesian and Middle Eastern 'Ulama' in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
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The Origins of Islamic Reformism in Southeast Asia

By Azyumardi Azra ,

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The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean
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The Graves of Tarim

By Engseng Ho ,

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Siamese White
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Siamese White

By Maurice Collis ,

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Teak-Wallah: The Adventures of a Young Englishman in Thailand in the 1920s
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Teak-Wallah

By Reginald Campbell ,

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Social Inequality in Vietnam and the Challenges to Reform
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Social Inequality in Vietnam and the Challenges to Reform

By Philip Taylor (editor) ,

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The World Imagined: Collective Beliefs and Political Order in the Sinocentric, Islamic and Southeast Asian International Societies
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The World Imagined

By Hendrik Spruyt ,

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Dispatches from the South China Sea: Navigating to Common Ground
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Dispatches from the South China Sea

By James Borton ,

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Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia
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Islam Translated

By Ronit Ricci ,

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

By James C. Scott ,

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The Eurasian Core and Its Edges: Dialogues with Wang Gungwu on the History of the World
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The Eurasian Core and Its Edges

By Ooi Kee Beng ,

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Oil Palm
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Oil Palm

By Jonathan E. Robins ,

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