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  • IN THE REALM OF GODS AND KINGS
    IN THE REALM OF GODS AND KINGS
    TOPSFIELD, ANDREW
    Each work is fully illustrated and most of these works have not been previously published. The book also includes short background essays describing aspects of Indian life related to the works. This volume celebrates the wealth and diversity of the arts of India created for the life of courts and temples from 1000 BC to the twentieth century. Paintings, objects and photographs,...
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  • BOLLYWOOD. POPULAR INDIAN CINEMA
    BOLLYWOOD. POPULAR INDIAN CINEMA
    MOHAN, LALIT (ED.)
    Written by Gulzar, Shyam Benegal, Lalit Mohan Joshi, among many other experts on the Industry, Bollywood, Popular Indian Cinema is the ultimate guide to the most popular of Indian cinema. A gripping analysis of the last 100 years is provided by the book’s editor, Lalit Mohan Joshi. It covers the long Indian film history including rarely seen images from film archives together w...
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  • ARMENIA AND KARABAGH. THE STRUGGLE FOR UNITY
    ARMENIA AND KARABAGH. THE STRUGGLE FOR UNITY
    WALKER, CHRISTOPHER J. (ED)
    The focus of this book is an issue crucial to Armenian identity - the disrupted enclave of mountainous(Nagorno) Karabagh in neighbouring Azerbaijan. For centuries a centre of Armenian culture and intellectual life and with an Armenian majority, Karabagh or Artsakh has consistently been denied an Armenian identity by successive Russian, British and Azeri rulers. Since 1920 Armen...
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  • HOW TO STAND UP TO A DICTATOR
    HOW TO STAND UP TO A DICTATOR
    RESSA, MARIA
    How to Stand Up to a Dictator is confronting, even terrifying - but feels vital... This book lays bare how big tech companies are allowing democracy to be eroded through the dissemination of disinformation, and the devastating effects it can have on a nation...Ressa spends her days on bail awaiting her next court hearing. The rest of us should be watching with bated breath. In ...
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  • SACRED MOUNTAINS
    SACRED MOUNTAINS
    PYLE, RYAN
    Join adventurer and renowned photographer, Ryan Pyle, as he spends months exploring and photographing Western China's remote Sacred Mountains in an effort to better understand these most sacred Tibetan regions. ...
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  • AMONG THE TIBETANS
    AMONG THE TIBETANS
    BIRD, ISABELLA
    Isabella Bird was the greatest travel writer of the late nineteenth century and she undertook her journey into western Tibet in the early summer of 1889, when she was already in her late fifties. But she was not the slightest bit fazed at the prospect of discomfort and possible death. And nearly die she did, at least once, before the trip was over. Isabella travelled over sever...
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  • ARUNACHAL
    ARUNACHAL
    VAN HAM, PETER
    The state of Arunachal Pradesh, moulded out of the mountainous margins of Assam, is incomparable to any other place in the world due to its ethnic variety and exuberant natural beauty. In many parts its as yet untouched rainforest shelters 110 different peoples or tribes and their mainly animist cultures influenced at the country’s fringes by Buddhism, both from Tibet and Burma...
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  • I. BEST OF ENEMIES. 1783-1953
    I. BEST OF ENEMIES. 1783-1953
    FILIU, JEAN-PIERRE / B., DAVID
    It was an American who first described the Barbary lands of the Mediterranean basin as "the Middle East" – a region by which America, ever since its own revolutionary foundation, has always measured its power. Acclaimed historian Jean-Pierre Filiu and award-winning artist David B. here tells the story of the blockades, broadsides, and betrayals of this foreign affair – a wary c...
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  • KURDISTAN
    KURDISTAN
    FRYER, JONATHAN
    Kurdistan is one of the Middle East's great recent success stories. The area occupies much of what is now northern and north-eastern Iraq. The Kurds have a distinguished and eventful history; their capital, Erbil, claims to be the oldest continuously inhabited city. Occupying strategically important lands and formidable mineral reserves, the region has from ancient times been a...
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  • TRAVELLERS TO THE MIDDLE EAST FROM BURCKHARDT TO THESIGER
    TRAVELLERS TO THE MIDDLE EAST FROM BURCKHARDT TO THESIGER
    NASH, GEOFFREY (ED.)
    ‘Travellers to the Middle East from Burkhardt to Thesiger’ is a compendious anthology of travellers' writings produced during the high tide of Britain’s involvement in the Middle East. The anthology contains extracts from many of the canonical travel texts of the period, including passages by T. E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell and Robert Byron, as well as many more extracts from bot...
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  • CAMBODIAN DANCE
    CAMBODIAN DANCE
    HEYWOOD, DENISE
    In Cambodia, classical dance is the quintessence of the country's identity. An art form that was religious in origin, its traditions date back more than a thousand years to the great Khmer empire. Dancers performed in temples at Angkor and were the living embodiment of those celestial dancers carved on the temple walls. The history of Cambodian dance, the relationship with Siam...
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  • POLITICS AND VOLUNTEERING IN JAPAN
    POLITICS AND VOLUNTEERING IN JAPAN
    HADDAD, MARY ALICE
    POLITICS AND VOLUNTEERING IN JAPAN ...
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