Into Thin Air by Pan Macmillan $7.11
This is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended the worst single-season death toll in the peak's history.

The Art of War by Sun Tzu by ezlink $0.99
Sun Tzu The Art of War (Sun-tzu ping-fa in Chinese) was written by Sun Wu more than 2000years ago. It is one of the famous books on the subject of strategy during that time. Thepurpose of The Art of War was for the military training. His principles are timeless andapplicable to our situation today in many areas such as business, marketing and so forth.

Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War by Knopf $30.00
A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China.   The story begins in the early 1850s, the waning years of the Qing...

Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China by Touchstone $16.99
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 the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and...

Gold Fever! How the California Gold Rush Changed the Face of America by Green Pony Press, Inc. $0.99
In the spring of 1849, Henry Sargent Crandall caught gold fever. For a year, rumors of gold in California floated into his Washington County, New York hometown. But when the New York Tribune ran a letter from a young Army lieutenant about the fortune being plucked from the streams, Henry was stirred to action. Quitting his job, he helped form the Washington and California Mining and Trading...

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Belknap Press of Harvard University Press $39.95
Perhaps no one in the twentieth century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar of contemporary East Asian history and culture is better qualified than Ezra Vogel to disentangle the many contradictions embodied in the life and legacy of China’s boldest strategist.Once described by Mao Zedong as a “needle inside a ball of cotton,” Deng was the...

The Analects of Confucius (Illustrated) by Charles River Editors $0.99
*Illustrated with pictures and depictions of Confucius and Ancient China*Includes Table of ContentsWhen asked to name the first influential philosopher who ever lived, many might initially think of Socrates, who mentored Plato all the way back around the end of the 5th century A.D. Indeed, the Ancient Greek philosophers are often among the most remembered and quoted philosophers even today, with...

China. by Henry Kissinger by Allen Lane $56.75
For more than twenty years after the Communist Revolution in 1949, China and most of the western world had no diplomats in each others' capitals and no direct way to communicate. Then, in July 1971, Henry Kissinger arrived secretly in Beijing on a mission which quickly led to the reopening of relations between China and the West and changed the course of post-war history. For the past forty...

The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Harper $27.99
An eye-opening investigation into China's Communist Party and its integral role in the country's rise as a global superpower and rival of the United States China's political and economic growth in the past three decades is one of astonishing, epochal dimensions. The country has undergone a remarkable transformation on a scale similar to that of the Industrial Revolution in the West. The most...

The Travels of Marco Polo (The Broadway Travellers) by Routledge $44.95
First published in 1931. None of the manuscripts which have come down to us represents the original form of Marco Polo's narrative, but it is clear that certain texts are closer to the lost original than others. Entrusted with the task of preparing a new Italian edition of Marco Polo, Benedetto discovered many unknown manuscripts. He carefully edited the most famous of the manuscripts (the...