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Standing Ground
Danes, Kay
Book Number: 55819
ISBN: 1741107571
Publisher: Australia New Holland Australia March 1, 2009
8vo softcover 399pp index, b/w illus. very good+. Editorial ReviewsnnAbout the AuthornKay Danes is probably best known for her arrest with her husband, under false charges of jewelry smuggling. Kay spent months in Laos prison with no clean water, torture sessions around them continuously and unfair and cruel treatment of prisoners given convictions without trial. Kay is dedicated to teaching people on human rights.
Price: $12.00

Everything is Broken - The Untold Story of Disaster under Burma's Military Regime
Larkin, Emma
Book Number: 51121
ISBN: 9781847081803
Publisher: Granta 2010
8vo. Softcover. 265pp. near fine. A devasating and eye-opening account of life under the world's most brutal dictatorship. On May 2, 2008, a massive tropical cyclone made landfall in Burma. It wreaked untold havoc, but the ruling generals, in an unfathomable decision of near genocidal proportions, blocked international aid from entering the country and provided little relief themselves. Emaa Larkin, who has been travelling to and secretly reporting on Burma for years, managed to arrange a visa in those frenzied days and arrived to find chaos. Hundreds of thousands of Burmese citizens had no food, drinking water or basic shelter. In this book, Emma not only exposes the extent of the damage and the regime's bungled attempts to cover up the disaster, but also provides a singular portrait of the generals responsible for compounding the tragedy, examining in revealing detail the historical, religious and cultural setting that created Burma's tenacious and brutal dictatorship.
Price: $16.00

Quality of Mercy - Cambodia Holocaust and Modern Concience
Shawcross, William
Book Number: 50438
ISBN: 0006369723
Publisher: Fontana/ Collin 1985
8vo softcover 496pp very good. This edition includes a a specially writtn chapter on the Ethiopian famine.
Price: $14.00

The Lost Executioner: a Story of the Khmer Rouge
Dunlop, Nic
Book Number: 49183
ISBN: 0747580588
Publisher: Bloomsbury January 1, 2005
8vo softcover 352pp very good. In Cambodia between 1975 and 1979 nearly two million people died at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. As head of the Khmer Rouge secred police, Comrade Duch was responsible for the murder of more than 20,000 people considered enemies of the revolution. 20 years later, not one member of the Khmer Rouge had been held accountable for what happened. Like so many others, Duch had disappeared. Obsessed with finding Duch, the author came face to face with him. This book attempts to find out what actually happened in Pol Pot's Cambodia, and why?
Price: $12.00

Good Morning Hanoi: A Year on the Airwaves in the New Vietnam
Finlay, Iain & Clark, Trish
Book Number: 47440
ISBN: 0731812727
Publisher: Simon & Schuster., Sydney, 2006.
Large 8vo. softcover. 392pp. index, colour illus. Very good. Iain and Trish, two of the founders and producers of the international television program Beyond 2000, retuen to a country from which they had reported during the Vietnam War. They find an extraordinary friendly people whose resilience and irrepressible good nature enable them to put the past behind them and move into the future with confidence.
Price: $12.00

A Short History of Modern Korea
Rees, David
Book Number: 34645
ISBN: 0870521543
Publisher: Hippocrene Books 1991
8vo softcover 196pp index, b/w illus. very good.
Price: $8.00

Poverty Reduction in Mongolia
Griffin, Keith (Editor)
Book Number: 46588
ISBN: 0731536959
Publisher: Asia Pacific Press 2003
8vo softcover 161pp very good. This book forms a basis of a strategy to counter the economic decline, the growth of poverty and the increasing reliance on foreign aid in Mongolia.
Price: $15.00

A Persian Quarter Century
Smith, Anthony
Book Number: 3620
ISBN: 0340219130
Publisher: London, Hodder, 1979, 1st ed.
Cloth 191pp. 8to. Illust end maps. Signed by author. A very good signed copy in a a good price clipped d/w with worn edges.
Price: $9.00

Asia's Deadly Triangle
Calder, Kent
Book Number: 21452
ISBN:
Publisher: London, Brealey, 1996
8vo. hardcover. 253pp. index. b/w map. near fine. / very good d/w.
Price: $8.00

Twilight in Djakarta
Mochtar Lubis
Book Number: 62225
ISBN:
Publisher: Hutchinsons 1964
8vo. hardcover. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $12.00

King Bhumibol Adulyadej: Thailand''s Guiding Light
Adulyadej, King Bhumibol
Book Number: 32729
ISBN:
Publisher: The Post Publishing, Bangkok, 1997
Folio. hardcover. 180pp. colour illus. near fine. / near fine d/w.
Price: $75.00

Sihanouk: Prince of Light, Prince of Darkness
OSBORNE, Milton
Book Number: 6251
ISBN:
Publisher: Australia: Allen and Unwin, 1994
Blue boards. Good/Good. First Edition.
Price: $12.00

Sulod Society: A Study in the Kinship System and Social Organization of a Mountain People of Central Panay.
Jocano, F. Landa
Book Number: 37724
ISBN:
Publisher: University of the Philippines Press, Quezon City, 1968.
8vo. hardcover. 303pp. index. Very good, owner's stamp inside front cover. / very good d/w. Monograph series No.2 Institute of Asian studies.
Price: $22.00