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Gendering Modern Japanese History

In the past quarter-century, gender has emerged as a lively area of inquiry for historians and other scholars, and gender analysis has suggested important revisions of the master narratives of natio...

Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization

The alluvial lowlands of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southern Mesopotamia are widely known as the cradle of civilization, owing to the scale of the processes of urbanization that took place in...

The Korean Economy

South Korea has been held out as an economic miracle-as a country that successfully completed the transition from underdeveloped to developed country status-and as an example of how a middle-income co...

New Asian Hemisphere

For two centuries Asians have been bystanders in world history, reacting defenselessly to the surges of Western commerce, thought, and power. That era is over. Asia is returning to the center stage it...

Self-determination in East Timor

This unique inside account traces events in East Timor from the negotiations that led to the May 1999 agreements among Indonesia, Portugal, and the United Nations to the mandating of international int...

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana

For fans of "Three Cups of Tea, The Dressmaker of Khair Khana," written by a former reporter for ABC News, tells the story of a fearless young entrepreneur who brought hope to the lives of dozens of w...

Secrets of the Samurai

The People vs. Democracy – Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It

"We can no longer assume that liberal democracy is the wave of the future... This splendid book is an invaluable contribution to the debate about what ails democracy, and what can be done about it." -...

The Deepest Human Life

Sometimes it seems like you need a PhD just to open a book of philosophy. We leave philosophical matters to the philosophers in the same way that we leave science to scientists. Scott Samuelson thinks...

Marcus Aurelius in Love

In 1815 a manuscript containing one of the long-lost treasures of antiquity was discovered-the letters of Marcus Cornelius Fronto, reputed to have been one of the greatest Roman orators. But this find...

The Positive Case for Negative Campaigning

Turn on the television or sign in to social media during election season and chances are you'll see plenty of negative campaigning. For decades, conventional wisdom has held that Americans hate negati...