On that day, Pin Yathay was a qualified engineer in the Ministry of Public Works. Successful and highly educated, he had been critical of the corrupt Lon Nol regime and hoped that the Khmer Rouge would be the patriotic saviors of Cambodia.In Stay Alive, My Son, Pin Yathay provides an unforgettable testament of the horror that ensued and a gripping account of personal courage, sacrifice and survival. Documenting the 27 months from the arrival of the Khmer Rouge in Phnom Penh to his escape into Thailand, Pin Yathay is a powerful and haunting memoir of Cambodia's killing fields.With seventeen members of his family, Pin Yathay were evacuated by the Khmer Rouge from Phnom Penh, taking with them whatever they might need for the three days before they would be allowed to return to their home. Instead, they were moved on from camp to camp, their possessions confiscated or abandoned. As days became weeks and weeks became months, they became the New People, displaced urban dwellers compelled to live and work as peasants, their days were filled with forced manual labor and their survival dependent on ever more meager communal rations. The body count mounted, first as malnutrition bred rampant disease and then as the Khmer Rouge singled out the dissidents for sudden death in the darkness.Eventually, Pin Yathay's family was reduced to just himself, his wife, and their one remaining son, Nawath. Wracked with pain and disease, robbed of all they had owned, living on the very edge of dying, they faced a future of escalating horror. With Nawath too ill to travel, Pin Yathay and his wife, Any, had to make the heart-breaking decision whether to leave him to the care of a Cambodian hospital in order to make a desperate break for freedom. Stay alive, my son, he tells Nawath before embarking on a nightmarish escape to the Thai border.First published in 1987, the Cornell edition of Stay Alive, My Son includes an updated preface and epilogue by Pin Yathay and a new foreword by David Chandler, a world-renowned historian of Cambodia, who attests to the continuing value and urgency of Pin Yathay's message.

    'The impact of its peaceful message will reverberate long after the last page is read.' --H. Outstanding Children's Books of 1987 (NYT)Best Illustrated Children's Books of 1987 (NYT)Notable 1987 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)1988 Choices (Association of Booksellers for Children)1987 Choices: The Year's Best Books (Publishers Weekly)1987 Children's Books (NY Public Library)

    Voted Best Book of the Year by Japan's foreign press, a collective autobiography based on interviews taped by a provincial doctor.

    Originally published against government wishes in Vietnam because of its non-heroic, non-ideological tone, The Sorrow of War has won worldwide acclaim and become an international bestseller

    His most recent volumes of poetry are Rooms Are Never Finished and The Country Without a Post Office. He is also the editor of Ravishing Disunities: Real Ghazals in English.

    From this unlikely alliance will come Hosokawa-Napier Limited-a vast business dynasty built on the weaving of the finest silk.A FORBIDDEN LOVE THAT WILL NEVER DIE1936...Now as the world lunges toward war, fate challenges the fortunes of two noble families-threatening to lay bare their deepest secrets. Now, Douglas Napier will risk his empire for the love of the Japanese woman who has been his secret mistress for twenty years. Now, the outcast child of that union will dare to claim his birthright. And now, during the last sunlit summer of peace, young Max Napier and Shizue Hosokawa-beautiful, graceful and already promised to the son of a powerful family-will pedge their forbidden love...AN EPIC STORY OF THE GENERATIONS OF TWO FAMILIESFrom the lush green hills of Kyushu, family seat of the Hosokawa clan, to the blood-drenched China prostrate before the advancing armies of the Rising Sun; from Hitler's Berlin to Harvard Yark, San Francisco and the Pacific battlefields beyond; and finally to the nightmare that was Nagasaki, Omamori sweeps us into the lives of men and women bound by unforgiving codes of honor, divided by the inescapable passions.

    At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle. Now Max Hastings, preeminent military historian, takes us back to the bloody, bitter, struggle to restore South Korean independence after the Communist invasion of June 1950. Using personal accounts from interviews with more than 200 vets - including the Chinese - Hasting follows real officers and soldiers through the battles. He brilliantly captures the Cold War crisis at home - the strategies and politics of Truman, Acheson, Marshall, MacArthur, Ridgeway, and Bradley - and shows what we should have learned in the war that was the prelude to Vietnam.

    What Thubron reveals is an astonishing diversity, a land whose still unmeasured resources strain to meet an awesome demand, and an ancient people still reeling from the devastation of the Cultural Revolution.

    Special features of this edition include direct word-for-word translations showing the range of meaning in each Chinese character, the Chinese pronunciations, as well as biographical and historical commentary following each poem.

    — For a brave and noble samurai warrior like Sadayori, this confrontation between East and West means making a choice between the old and the new, and fighting to the death for it. — For a daring seaman like Jinsuke, it means entering the camp of the intruders to learn their ways, and being torn between the beautiful Japanese girl he has loved and left, and the American woman he connot resist.Here is the most magnificent saga since Shogun-an epic of the clas of cultures, alive with breathtaking adventure and riveting romance.

    8 pages of photos, 1 map.

    Emily Eden, Charlotte Canning, Edith Lytton and Mary Curzon were well-born, cultivated women who experienced the extremes of decadence in a country gripped by poverty. Emily Eden imagined an India of dazzling splendor but found a land of dark secrets. Charlotte Canning painted delicate watercolors while the carnage of the Great Mutiny raged. Edith Lytton feared the moral laxity and adultery of India but indulged her husband rather than restraining him. Mary Curzon, an insecure American heiress in thrall to her husband unwittingly was almost crushed by him.Marian Fowler, “both scholarly and tart,” recounts their adventures in this classic work of colonial and women’s history.

    Stalking the world of the wealthy and the powerful, he sells death to the highest bidder. And now he works for "the Empress", the ruthless shadow ruler of a Japanese conglomerate.

    He is also the author of "Arabian Sands", "The Marsh Arabs" and "The Life of My Choice". His achievement as a travel photographer is equally impressive. This book is a collection of those photographs which most satisfy Thesiger. Rarely seen images from his Asian travels, a mixture of familiar and unknown pictures of the Arab world in which he found himself most, and most memorably at home, and images of Africa where he has now lived for almost 25 years.

    Benoit, unfolding his ideas in a simple and clear way, which is the result of his long-standing commitment to metaphysical tradition. Although man is the only being on Earth capable of Inner Realization, he is still subject to a series of inherited, biological, and environmental laws that determine every moment of his course. Man wants to escape the inner slavery in which he lives, he must sacrifice his false ego for the sake of the true Self, he must seek, along with theoretical knowledge, True Understanding. (FROM PRESENTATION TO THE BOOK RETURN)

    Presents selections by nine leading women writers from Japan, spanning twenty-five years of change and emerging feminist consciousness in that country.

    Providentially, while on assignment in Cambodia, she met Phat Mohm, a child refugee. Sheehy circumvented the bureaucracy and brought Mohm to New York to be a part of her busy life there. The book serves as a cathartic record of Mohm's struggle to deal with the memories of the past, as well as her difficult adjustment to a new culture. Along with Mohm's testimony, the book offers a well documented description of the Khmer Rouge regime and insights into Cambodian mythology and culture. Sheehy also explores the larger issue of human evil and the ability of personality to transcend it. This is a well written biography of a heroic teenager who has survived the most brutish physical and emotional abuse through the healing power of love. --School Library Journal

    In the early 1980's Burke traveled to Thailand and Viet Nam, as well as Cambodia where he documented the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime. The book will be produced using the original plates, and will feature the same layout and scale as the first edition.

    "A wonderful inner journey in the outer light and color of a remote coast, uncommonly well written."--Peter Matthiessen

    One hundred million Dalits in India, the twentieth century's largest, most repressed minority, cry out for the ear of the world.

    Professor Iriye examines the origins of the 1941 conflict against this broad background to answer the key question: why did Japan, which had not been able to defeat the isolated and divided forces of China, decide to go to war against so formidable a combination of powers?While Professor Iriye necessarily focusses on Japan herself, he also discusses the policies of China, the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, Germany and other countries - for these latter, too, played an important role in creating an environment in Asia in which the Japanese perceived themselves to be 'encircled', and believed themselves to be justified in going to war for 'national survival'.The forty years and more which have elapsed since the end of the war have given historians access to a vast amount of source material. This book sums up the work of many scholars who have examined it; but professor Iriye's overall interpretative framework is unique in setting the Asian-Pacific war in so wide a perspective of international history. His book will be widely welcomed by all those interested in Japanese foreign policy, and Japanese-US relations; and by anyone who wants a better understanding of the region today (and especially the growth of regional self-consciousness within it and its economic development) since in so many ways its crucial points of departure can be traced back into the history of the 1930s.Above all, it presents to readers a balanced and perceptive account of the coming of the war - a subject still sensitive and disputed, as the "textbook controversy" of the Japanese government's alleged attempt to rewrite history, and the storm of denunciation it provoked throughout Asia, has recently shown. Professor Iriye is an authoritative guide; and he illuminates, clearly and convincingly, the disastrous process by which Japan steadily became alienated from, and ultimately turned against, the international community of which she had hitherto been an established and responsible member.

    The king knew that there was only one thing to do--find a Hallowed Horse. Full-color illustrations.

    book has over 220 pages of information and recipes

    In that time an abortive uprising, the escape of the Dalai Lama, a border war with India and the Cultural Revolution have done nothing to quell people's religious instincts or to improve their economic lot. Uniform concrete apartment blocks have replaced thousands of Buddhist monasteries, which once housed a fifth of the male population, but to Elaine Brook, travelling alone in the country in 1982, Tibetans expressed more anger about the hunger, while food was being whisked away to China, than about the violence and suppression that had overtaken their lives.

    But despite the pervasiveness of this phenomenon and its geopolitical significance, our understanding of the contemporary Islamic world has remained astonishingly limited. More than half of the world's 800 million Muslims live in Asia, and yet most people continue to think of Islam as an essentially Arab phenomenon. This wide-ranging volume brings together previously unpublished writings by leading authorities on Islamic affairs to provide the fullest picture of the diverse roles played by Islam in Asian public life today. Central topics include how Islam is presented in the public life--government, national ideology, law, and political parties--of Asian Muslims, and the ways in which Islam influences both the domestic politics and foreign policies of Muslim countries today.

    The author, a Vietnam veteran, shares his impressions of the country ten years after the end of the war.

    

    16 pages of photographs.