New Arrivals
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Powells.com Staff Pick
Nelson Mandela once said, "Education is the most powerful weapon you can use
to change the world." Mortenson and Relin's Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
is a
powerful contribution to that arsenal. If there...
( read more)
List Price $15.00
Your Price $8.00
Used - Trade Paper
Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man
by Jonathan D. Spence
Publisher Comments
A renowned historian captures a critical moment in Chinese history.
Zhang Dai is recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of China's Ming dynasty. When he was born into a wealthy family in 1597, the Ming dynasty had been in place for...
( read more)
Your Price $24.95
(New - Hardcover)
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
by Suketu Mehta
Publisher Comments
A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs; following the life of a bar dancer...
( read more)
Your Price $16.95
(Used - Trade Paper)
Wild Swans Three Daughters of China
by Jung Chang
Publisher Comments
Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, Wild Swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more than ten million copies sold. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China, it is an...
( read more)
Your Price $7.95
Used - Trade Paper
Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times
by George Crile
Publisher Comments
A gripping and vibrant book soon to be released as a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts and directed by Mike Nichols, Charlie Wilson’s War was a New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times best seller when it was...
( read more)
Your Price $7.98
Sale - Trade Paper
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
by Paul Theroux
Publisher Comments
An unmitigated treat for the hundreds of thousands of fans of the first Bazaar.
In The New Railway Bazaar, Theroux recreates an epic journey he took thirty years ago, a giant loop by train (mostly) through Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus...
( read more)
Your Price $28.00
New - Hardcover
Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China (P.S.)
by Peter Hessler
Publisher Comments
A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the human side of China's transformation, viewing modern-day China...
( read more)
Your Price $10.95
Used - Trade Paper
The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
by Simon Winchester
Powells.com Staff Pick
A truly fascinating book. Winchester captures the mood of China during the chaos of WWII and shows just how enormous an endeavor Joseph Needham undertook in writing his scientific history "for an audience already highly prejudiced against China and the...
( read more)
Your Price $27.95
New - Hardcover
The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama
by Thomas Laird
Publisher Comments
The Story of Tibet is a work of monumental importance, a fascinating journey through the land and history of Tibet, with His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama as guide. Over the course of three years, journalist Thomas Laird spent more than sixty hours...
( read more)
Your Price $12.98
Sale - Hardcover
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
by Haruki Murakami
Publisher Comments
From Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, a work of literary journalism that is as fascinating as it is necessary, as provocative as it is profound.
In March of 1995, agents of a Japanese...
( read more)
List Price $14.95
Your Price $8.00
Used - Trade Paper
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by Simon Winchester
Publisher Comments
Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The...
( read more)
Your Price $3.95
Used - Trade Paper
The Lost Heart of Asia
by Colin Thubron
Publisher Comments
A land of enormous proportions, countless secrets, and incredible history, Central Asia--the heart of the great Mongol empire of Tamerlane, site of the legendary Silk Route and scene of Stalin's cruelest deportations--is a remote and fascinating region...
( read more)
Your Price $6.95
Sale - Trade Paper
|
Don't Miss