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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
(Paperback - Jan 30, 2007)

Author: Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin

ISBN-10: 0143038257 ISBN-13: 9780143038252

The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard

Anyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous ...


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Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
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Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
(Hardcover. - Jun 12, 2007)

Author: Marcus Luttrell

ISBN-10: 0316067598 ISBN-13: 9780316067591

On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less then twenty-four hours later, only one of those Navy SEALs ...

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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
(Paperback - Apr 23, 1989)

Author: Maxine Hong Kingston

ISBN-10: 0679721886 ISBN-13: 9780679721888

A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity.

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Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China
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Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China
(Paperback - Aug 12, 2003)

Author: Jung Chang

ISBN-10: 0743246985 ISBN-13: 9780743246989

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 engrossing record of Mao's impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in ...


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Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China (P.S.)
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Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China (P.S.)
(Paperback - May 1, 2007)

Author: Peter Hessler

ISBN-10: 0060826592 ISBN-13: 9780060826598

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 and its growing links to the Western world through the lives of a handful of ordinary people. ...


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Hiroshima
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Hiroshima
(Mass Market Paperback - Mar 4, 1989)

Author: John Hersey

ISBN-10: 0679721037 ISBN-13: 9780679721031

On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city. This book tells what happened on that day, told through the memoirs of survivors.

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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
(Paperback - Dec 28, 2004)

Author: Steve Coll

ISBN-10: 0143034669 ISBN-13: 9780143034667

To what extent did America’s best intelligence analysts grasp the rising threat of Islamist radicalism? Who tried to stop bin Laden and why did they fail? Comprehensively and for the first time, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Steve Coll recounts the history of the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and sowed the seeds of ...

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The Bookseller of Kabul
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The Bookseller of Kabul
(Paperback - Oct 26, 2004)

Author: Asne Seierstad

ISBN-10: 0316159417 ISBN-13: 9780316159418

This mesmerizing portrait of a proud man who, through three decades and successive repressive regimes, heroically braved persecution to bring books to the people of Kabul has elicited extraordinary praise throughout the world and become a phenomenal international bestseller. The Bookseller of Kabul is startling in its intimacy and its ...

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The Web That Has No Weaver : Understanding Chinese Medicine
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The Web That Has No Weaver : Understanding Chinese Medicine
(Paperback - Apr 11, 2000)

Author: Ted Kaptchuk


Condition: Used - Good

Some wear to the cover and pages. Has some highlighting.

ISBN-10: 0809228408 ISBN-13: 9780809228409 SKU: GC04-4497

Completely and thoroughly revised, The Web That Has No Weaver is the classic, comprehensive guide on the theory and practice of Chinese medicine. This accessible and invaluable resource has earned its place as the foremost authority in the synthesizing of Western and Eastern healing practices.

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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
(Paperback. - Aug 27, 1996)

Author: Lisa See

ISBN-10: 0679768521 ISBN-13: 9780679768524

Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has constructed this sweeping chronicle of her Chinese-American family, a work that takes in stories of racism and romance, entrepreneurial genius and domestic heartache, secret marriages and sibling rivalries, in a powerful history of two cultures meeting ...

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