Central Asia

The explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan....

The Greater Middle East, which Robert D. Kaplan defines as the vast region between the Mediterranean and China, encompassing much of the Arab world, parts of northern Africa, and Asia, existed for millennia as the crossroads of empire....

Until about 1800, the West and the Islamic realm were like two adjacent, parallel universes, each assuming itself to be the center of the world while ignoring the other....

Charlie Wilson's War is the untold story behind the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam....

Lost Enlightenment chronicles this forgotten age of achievement, seeks to explain its rise, and explores the competing theories about the cause of its eventual demise....

Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the 16th century to the Taliban resurgence today....

During the peak of the Afghanistan War, a group of soldiers is dropped by helicopter into the remote mountains outside of Kandahar City. Mismanaged and overlooked by command, the squad must rely on each other to survive....

An epic account of how a new world order under Tamerlane was born out of the decline of the Mongol Empire.

Adeeb Khalid provides the first comprehensive history of Central Asia from the mid-18th century to today, shedding light on the historical forces that have shaped the region under imperial and Communist rule....

This audiobook is the story of combat from the guerrilla’s perspective and surviving against the overwhelming firepower and technology of a superpower....

This audiobook narrated by Jim Lee provides a rich, discovery-filled account of how a forgotten empire transformed the ancient world....

Colin Thubron undertakes a journey along the greatest land route on earth: the Silk Road....

While there are many books that explore China’s history, public knowledge is still lacking....

A powerful, emotional memoir and an extraordinary portrait of three generations of Tibetan women....

Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism.....

There's a Sheep in My Bathtub chronicles the adventures of the Hogan family as they try to follow God's leading into one of the world's most remote and mysterious enclaves....

A character-driven history that describes the alliance between America and Pakistan, written by a uniquely insightful participant: Pakistan's former ambassador to the US....

According to the ancient sources, Hannibal was nine years old when his father led him to the temple at Carthage and dipped the young boy's hands in the blood of the sacrificial victim....

In the history of the modern world, there have been few characters more sadistic, sinister, and deeply demented as Baron Ungern-Sternberg....

In the late nineteenth century, a group of German-speaking Mennonites traveled from Russia into Central Asia, where their charismatic leader predicted Christ would return. Over a century later, Sofia Samatar joins a tour following their path....

The Mongol Empire, founded by Genghis Khan and continued by his heirs, was one of the largest and most powerful the world has ever seen. Modern China was created from the remnants of the Mongol Empire, and at its peak, this empire controlled one-sixth of the total landmass of the world....

This is a delightful short biography of an eccentric Hungarian scholar who became one of the fathers of Western studies of the Tibetan language and culture....

Unforgiving Destiny follows the true story of the 37-year pursuit by authorities on five continents to imprison and execute David McMillan as he travelled as an independent smuggler. Dogged by an obsessed DEA agent, he evades the death penalty in Thailand by escaping prison....

Автор книги — Дмитрий Иванцов — действительный член Русского Географического общества, руководитель отдела экотуризма Сочинского Географического общества, автор статей по географии и туризму Западного Кавказа и Непала, горный гид, экскурсовод. "Мне выпала уникальная возможность побыть в определенной мере придверником, открывающим дверь русскоязычному читателю и провожающим его для знакомства с удивительной страной, чьи города рассыпаны по Гималаям. Желание поделиться своими впечатлениями от встреч с Непалом и определенной толикой интереснейшей информации было настолько сильным, что я не удержался. Тому свидетельство эта книга".

How China used a network of surveillance to intern over a million people and produce a system of control previously unknown in human history....