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International Cooking  Food of Japan
Shirley Booth
A Japanese culinary revolution has taken place in the US: witness the explosion in the number of sushi bars, as well as the popularity of noodles, rice, and other Japanese foods, and their appearance in supermarkets everywhere. Japanese cuisine is be...
$18.95
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 One World Vegetarian Cookbook
Troth Wells
An information-packed gastronomic tour of the world and the ultimate resource for global vegetarian recipes
One World Vegetarian Cookbook starts in your backyard-buying produce at your local farmers' market or perh...
$35.00
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 Paris Neighborhood Cookbook, The
Danyel Couet’s Guide to the City’s Ethnic Cuisines
Danyel Couet; photography by David Loftus
Independent Publisher Book Award 2009, Silver Medal Winner-Cookbooks
ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award -Gold 2008, Cooking
Chef Danyel Couet's life-long love affair with simple French f...
$35.00
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 Spice Kitchen, The
Flavorful Recipes from Around the World
Michal Haines; photography byJacqui Blanchard
A cookbook that will undoubtedly inspire new directions in your culinary repertoire
Since the days of the Silk Road and the Spice Trail, adventurers have traversed uncharted territories purely to get their hands on spices—th...
$29.95
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 Spices of Life, The
Piquant Recipes from Africa, Asia & Latin America
Troth Wells
Love potions, cures for toothache or flatulence, tasty flavoring - spices have been a pungent presence down the ages. Long before Peter Piper picked his peck of pickled pepper, the Queen of Sheba sent spices to King Solomon and Emperor Nero burned Ro...
$17.95
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 Warm Bread and Honey Cake
Home Baking from Around the World
Gaitri Pagrach-Chandra; photography by Vanessa Courtier
UK Guild of Food Writers Award Winner COOKERY BOOK OF THE YEAR
Baking is one of life’s pleasures—few can resist the comforting smell of freshly baked bread, the warmth of spices, sticky cak...
$35.00
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Biography & Memoirs  At the Edge of Empire
The Life of Thomas Blake Glover
Michael Gardiner
Using material which has only recently become available, Michael Gardiner’s highly readable and informative biography of this remarkable man offers a balanced view of his legacy. From a historical perspective, Gardiner discusses his centrality...
$32.95
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The Business Traveller's Handbooks  China
The Business Traveller’s Handbook
Bernard Dennis
From the tropical South to the sub-arctic North, China covers over 3.7 million square miles and has a current population of 1.3 billion. Despite a history ranging between Civil War, mass starvation and reigns of terror, the country today is thrivi...
$20.00
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 China (2nd edition)
The Business Traveller’s Handbook
Navjot Singh
From the tropical south to the sub-Arctic north, China covers over 3.7 million square miles and has a population of some 1.6 billion. Despite a history ranging between civil war, mass starvation and reigns of oppression, the country today is thriving...
$20.00
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 Japan
The Business Traveller’s Handbook
Ian de Stains
Ian de Stains has been executive director of the British Chamber of Commerce in Japan (BCCJ) since 1987. He was appointed OBE in 1993 for commercial and community service.
About the series: Catering for the needs of the discerning busines...
$20.00
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Current Affairs  Survival
Saving Endangered Migratory Species
Stanley Johnson and Robert Vagg
Produced in conjunction with a UN agency, this book is both an informative warning against the threat facing many species and a stunning celebration of their beauty
Our ruthless exploitation of the natural world has already driven...
$50.00
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Fiction  Chutney Power
Willi Chen
There is no other writer in the Caribbean like Willi Chen. He is that rare breed, a West Indian writer of Chinese origin, yet the Chinese in his fiction and plays tend to be secondary characters. Most of his stories, whether comical or darker in tone...
$9.95
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 House of the Winds
Mia Yun
At night, brother and I often stretched out on the veranda floor like two star fish and picked out Scorpion and Orion and the Big Dipper from the night sky, densely pricked with chipped pieces of diamond. If we fixed our eyes on the sky long enough,...
$22.95
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General History & Politics  Nomonhan
John Colvin
The Battle of Nomonhan in 1939 ended Japanese ambitions to control Siberia and led to the collapse of the British, French, Dutch and American empires in Asia. It is one of the most important battles in modern history. Taking place only weeks before t...
$25.00
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 Slaves of the Cool Mountains
Travels Among Head-Hunters and Slave Owners in South-West China
Alan Winnington
Beijing, 1956: foreign correspondent Alan Winnington heard reports of slaves being freed in the mountains of south-west China. The following year he travelled to Yunnan province and spent several months with the head-hunting Wa and the slave-owning N...
$17.95
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Illustrated Gift Books  Green China
Heather Angel
China is one of the most diverse countries on Earth, whose habitats range from the vast deserts of the northwest and the Tibetan Plateau, through forested mountain slopes, to a myriad of rivers and lakes and the steamy tropical forests of the far...
$29.95
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 Pavilions in the Air
Chinese Proverbs and their English Equivalents
Frances Wood & Christopher Arnander, illustrated by Kathryn Lamb
Gathered here are gems galore, which, while revealing much as to the Chinese national psyche, highlight particular traits and characteristics that span the globe.
We all know Deng Xiaoping’s famous ‘It doesn’t matter wh...
$15.00
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Survival
Saving Endangered Migratory Species
Stanley Johnson and Robert Vagg
Produced in conjunction with a UN agency, this book is both an informative warning against the threat facing many species and a stunning celebration of their beauty
Our ruthless exploitation of the natural world has already driven...
$50.00
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Interlink Illustrated Histories  Mao and the Chinese Revolution
Yves Chevrier; translated by David Stryker
It has been more than a century since the birth of Mao Zedong. From the collapse of the old Chinese Empire in 1912 to the foundation of the People’s Republic in 1949, his history is linked with that of contemporary China, and beyond national bo...
$15.00
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Interlink World Fiction House of the Winds
Mia Yun
At night, brother and I often stretched out on the veranda floor like two star fish and picked out Scorpion and Orion and the Big Dipper from the night sky, densely pricked with chipped pieces of diamond. If we fixed our eyes on the sky long enough,...
$22.95
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