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PEngUin Group (USA) ASIAN STUDIES BOOKS FOR COURSES 2012 2 TAblE of CoNTENTS gEnERAL ........................................ 3 Philosophy, AFghAniStAn, RELigiOn & MEDiCinE ...............25 PAKiStAn & CEntRAL ASiA ....... 5 Buddha .....................................26 Khaled hosseini .........................6 The Dalai Lama ........................27 WAR in ASiA ................................29 ChinA .............................................. 7 general .....................................29 Cao Xuequin ..............................9 World War ii ............................29 Jonathan D. Spence ................ 10 Korean War ............................. 30 inDiA .............................................. 11 Vietnam War ........................... 30 Sanskrit Classics .......................12 Afghanistan & The Ramayana ..........................13 The War on terror ....................31 R. K. narayan ............................15 REFEREnCE ..................................31 Japan ........................................... 16 Complete idiot’s guides ........32 Murasaki Shikibu ......................17 Travel guides ...........................32 Natsume Soseki ........................18 inDEX ............................................33 KOREA ............................................18 COLLEgE faculty SOUthEast ASiA ....................... 19 inFORMAtiOn serviCE ............37 Burma (Myanmar) ................... 19 indonesia .................................. 19 SChOOL AnD PERSOnAL Laos, thailand & Cambodia ... 19 copiES ORDER FORM ................39 Philippines .............................. 20 examinAtiOn Vietnam .....................................21 copy ORDER FORM .................. 40 tiBEt, Nepal & BhUtAn ...........22 PEngUin ASiAn-AMERiCAn .......................23 SPEAKERS BUREAU .................... 41 Hawaii .......................................23 Amy tan ....................................25 Here is a selection of Penguin Group Penguin India publishes many titles that (USA)’s Asian Studies titles. 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Examination books for course use or for specific subject and personal copy forms are available based booklists, please email: at the back of the catalog. penguin.academics@ For personal service, in.penguingroup.com adoption assistance, and complimentary To view the whole range of Penguin exam copies, sign up for our India’s local publishing please visit the College Faculty Information Service at Penguin India website at http://www.penguin.com/facinfo http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/ For more Asian Studies titles, please see our Literature, History and Sociology catalogs, available for download at us.penguingroup.com/subjectcatalogs GENERAL 3 Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit Pamela Druckerman OCCIDENTALISm LUST IN TRANSLATION GENERAl The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies The Rules of Infidelity “[A] grandly illuminating study of two centuries of from Tokyo to Tennessee anti-Western ideas.”—Foreign Affairs. “Succinct, Druckerman investigated extramarital affairs Jon Lee Anderson elegant, and challenging...help[s] show that the around the world and discovered how different GUERRILLAS divide between the West and its enemies is an old cultures deal with adultery. For example, Japa- Journeys in the Insurgent World one.”—The Economist. nese businessman don’t believe it’s cheating if An extraordinary on-the-ground examination of Penguin • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-303487-2 • $15.00 they pay for sex. “Druckerman’s thoughtful and five significant insurgency groups around the See also: The China Lover, page 7 myth-busting study of infidelity deserves to be world—in Afghanistan, El Salvador, Burma, West- widely translated and read.”—The Economist. ern Sahara, and the Gaza Strip. “A resourceful, even James Canton, Ph.D. Penguin • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-311329-4 • $15.00 intrepid, piece of reportage.”—The Washington Post THE EXTREmE FUTURE Book World. The Top Trends That Will Reshape Niall Ferguson Penguin • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-200497-5 • $17.00 the World in the Next 20 years f CIvilization A warning of the radical changes on the horizon, The West and the Rest Alan Beattie including how the rise of China will bring on a In this history of Western civilization’s rise to f False Economy global power struggle. global dominance, the renowned historian A Surprising Economic History of the World Plume • 384 pp. • 978-0-452-28866-9 • $16.00 explores how six powerful concepts—competi- “Beattie flies in the face of one of the most dearly tion, science, the rule of law, consumerism, mod- held ideas in the social sciences: that today’s eco- Steve Coll ern medicine, and the work ethic—allowed the nomic outcomes—which countries are rich and f ON the Grand Trunk Road West to leap ahead of the Rest. which remain poor—have deep and largely A Journey into South Asia Penguin Press • 400 pp. • 978-1-59420-305-3 • $35.00 immutable roots in history, geography, or cul- Updated Edition THE WAR OF THE WORLD ture. Beattie’s narrative shows that there is plenty Coll’s trek across a socially and politically dam- Twentieth-Century Conflict of room for choices, and that history rewards aged South Asia, including journeys in India, and the Descent of the West those governments that make the correct Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Ferguson tackles a paradox of the modern era— ones.”—Dani Rodrik, Harvard University. Afghanistan—available for the first time in why unprecendented progress coincided with Riverhead • 368 pp. • 978-1-59448-444-5 • $16.00 paperback. unprecedented violence and why the seeming Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-311519-9 • $16.00 See also Ghost Wars, page 5 triumph of the West bore the seeds of its undo- Ian Bremmer ing. “A hugely ambitious panorama and moral f The End of the Free Market analysis of the military-industrial slaughter of Jared Diamond Who Wins the War the 20th century.”—The New York Times Book Between States and Corporations? f COLLAPSE Review. How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed An expert on the intersection between econom- Penguin • 880 pp. • 978-0-14-311239-6 • $20.00 Revised Edition ics and politics illustrates the rise of state capi- A New York Times Book of the year talism and the threats it poses to the global New Afterword by the author economy. “An essential guide to the future of Considers the factors that caused some of the Charles Fishman the world economy.”—David Smick, author of great civilizations of the past to collapse into f THE WAL-mART EFFECT The World Is Curved. ruin. Includes chapters on China, Japan and the How the World’s most Powerful Polynesians on Easter Island. Also includes an Portfolio • 244 pp. • 978-1-59184-440-2 • $16.00 Company Really Works—and How It’s additional chapter featuring Diamond’s latest Transforming the American Economy John S. Burnett research. “Extraordinary in erudition and origi- Updated Edition DANGEROUS WATERS nality.”—The New York Times Book Review. New Introduction by the author modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas Penguin • 608 pp. • 978-0-14-311700-1 • $18.00 A New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles “A must-read if one is even to begin understanding “[Burnett] hitches rides on two ships, a British Times, and Economist Book of the year the global dominance of Wal-Mart.”—The Wash- carrier transporting crude oil from the Middle ington Post. Also includes a discussion guide. East to Western and Asian refineries, and a Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-303878-8 • $16.00 tanker carrying jet fuel and diesel oil to Viet- An Economist Book of the year nam...and shares his research along the way.”— Publishers Weekly. Plume • 368 pp. • 978-0-452-28413-5 • $15.00 f denotes new or forthcoming title ASIAN STUDIES 2012 • PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 4 GENERAL Elizabeth Gilbert Alan MacFarlane and Iris MacFarlane Samantha Power EAT, PRAy, LOvE THE EmPIRE OF TEA CHASING THE FLAmE One Woman’s Search for Everything The Remarkable History of the One man’s Fight to Save the World Across Italy, India and Indonesia Plant That Took Over the World The Harvard professor and Pulitzer Prize-winner Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-303841-2 • $15.00 From Darjeeling to Lapsang Souchon, from India recounts the career of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the to Japan this is a concise, world-encompassing Brazilian humanitarian and U. N. diplomat who Doc Hendley exploration of how tea has shaped politics, cul- was killed in Iraq in 2003. “As a study of leader- f WINE TO WATER ture, and the environment throughout history. ship, it ranks with the very best. As an analysis of A Bartender’s Quest to Overlook • 320 pp. • 978-1-59020-175-6 $14.95 how to respond to the struggles of the new era in Bring Clean Water to the World which we find ourselves, it is the defining work for A preacher’s son turned activist by way of bar- Mark Malloch-Brown our generation.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin. tending founded Wine to Water, a charity to f The Unfinished Global REvolution Penguin • 640 pp. • 978-0-14-311485-7 • $17.00 help stricken people repair and maintain water- The Road to International Cooperation A New York Times Book of the year containment systems in places like Darfur, The former United Nations deputy secretary gen- Cambodia, Uganda, and Haiti—braving tribal eral offers a new vision for international coopera- Carne Ross warfare and natural disasters. tion. “Demonstrates that [Malloch-Brown] is one f THE LEADERLESS REvOLUTION Avery • 304 pp. • 978-1-58333-462-1