Asian BorderlandsC. Patterson Giersch provides a groundbreaking challenge to the China centered narrative of the Qing conquest through comparative frontier history and a pioneering use of indigenous sources. He focuses on the Tai domains of China's Yunnan frontier, part of the politically fluid borderlands, where local, indigenous leaders were crucial actors in an arena of imperial rivalry. Patterns of acculturation were multi directional. Both Qing and Tai created a

This is the fourth of Adam Baker's thrillers set in the post-apocalyptic world of OUTPOST

With what this poor woman had been through the sight of her crying tore at my heartstrings

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and its future remains shrouded in uncertainty

The global hit fantasy novel finally coming to print in English

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can give to every reader whatever he is capable of taking from it'

Anantya faces her most personal hell: her ex-boyfriend Neel has come back from the dead and is trying to kill her

Trapped in his grotesque new form

Ahn sees a way to finally unlock her past and understand her lethal magical abilities

his mind was lost to the massive simworld known as Otherland