History:

Shadow War
The Untold Story of Jihad in Kashmir
Written by Arif Jamal

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $26.95

A definitive history of the Kashmiri conflict by one of Pakistan's leading reporters

For nearly sixty years, India and Pakistan have battled over the territory of Kashmir. The two nuclear-armed states have fought three bloody wars in the region, but the countries have also fought in the shadows.

Having interviewed a thousand militants... Read more >

Footprints in the Snow
The Autobiography of a Chinese Buddhist Monk
Written by Master Chan Sheng Yen

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $24.95

In this landmark memoir, a renowned Buddhist master traces his spiritual journey against the panoramic story of China from the pre-Communist era to the present.

Master Sheng Yen has devoted much of his life to spreading the teachings of Chinese Buddhism—a practice that antedates the more familiar Japanese and Tibetan traditions—throughout the...

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Footprints in the Snow
The Autobiography of a Chinese Buddhist Monk
Written by Master Chan Sheng Yen

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $24.95

In this landmark memoir, a renowned Buddhist master traces his spiritual journey against the panoramic story of China from the pre-Communist era to the present.

Master Sheng Yen has devoted much of his life to spreading the teachings of Chinese Buddhism—a practice that antedates the more familiar Japanese and Tibetan traditions—throughout the... Read more >

In the Ruins of Empire
The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia
Written by Ronald Spector

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $16.00

The New York Times said of Ronald H. Spector’s classic account of the American struggle against the Japanese in World War II, “No future book on the Pacific War will be written without paying due tribute to Eagle Against the Sun.” Now Spector has returned with a book that is even... Read more >

In the Ruins of Empire
The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia
Written by Ronald Spector

Format: eBook
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $16.00

The New York Times said of Ronald H. Spector’s classic account of the American struggle against the Japanese in World War II, “No future book on the Pacific War will be written without paying due tribute to Eagle Against the Sun.” Now Spector has returned with a book that is even... Read more >

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Written by Jack Weatherford

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2005
Price: $15.00

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-?ve years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or... Read more >

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Written by Jack Weatherford

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2005
Price: $15.00

The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback leading a ruthless band of nomadic warriors in the looting of the civilized world. But the surprising truth is that Genghis Khan was a visionary leader whose conquests joined backward Europe with the flourishing cultures of... Read more >

Tibet, Tibet

Written by Patrick French

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $14.95

At different times in its history Tibet has been renowned for pacifism and martial prowess, enlightenment and cruelty. The Dalai Lama may be the only religious leader who can inspire the devotion of agnostics. Patrick French has been fascinated by Tibet since he was a teenager. He has read its history... Read more >

Grand Centaur Station
Unruly Living With the New Nomads of Central Asia
Written by Larry Frolick

Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
On Sale: March 23, 2004
Price: $18.95

With the grim determination of an unrepentant rocker, Larry Frolick sets off on a 12,000-mile trek across Central Asia, brooding over the fate of its lost civilizations. From Kiev, Crimean Tartary, and Moscow, through the nomadic homelands of Uzbekistan, Kyrgizstan, Tien-Shan, and finally into distant Mongolia and Siberia, he explores a... Read more >

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Written by Jack Weatherford

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2004
Price: $25.95

The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback leading a ruthless band of nomadic warriors in the looting of the civilized world. But the surprising truth is that Genghis Khan was a visionary leader whose conquests joined backward Europe with the flourishing cultures of... Read more >

The Travels of Marco Polo

Written by Marco Polo
Edited by Manuel Komroff
Translated by William Marsden
Introduction by Jason Goodwin

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2001
Price: $13.95

Marco Polo’s account of his journey throughout the East in the thirteenth century was one of the earliest European travel narratives, and it remains the most important. The merchant-traveler from Venice, the first to cross the entire continent of Asia, provided us with accurate descriptions of life in China, Tibet, India... Read more >

Afghanistan
A Russian Soldier's Story
Written by Vladislav Tamarov

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2001
Price: $19.95

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