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	1942, The Year That Tried Men's Souls • Winston Groom • HISTORY • Groom (Forrest Gump, A Storm in Flanders) brings to life the heroism, tragedy and trials of America's entry into the Pacific theater, including the brutal fight for Guadalcanal, in this popular, page-turning history. (WAR122, $15.00)
	Arts of Southeast Asia • Fiona Kerlogue • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A handsome guide to the art, architecture, textiles and crafts of Southeast Asia. (SEA45, $16.95)
	Berlitz Filipino Tagalog Phrase Book & CD • Berlitz Multimedia • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A 224-page phrase book and audio CD, this handy language primer focuses on food, people, fun and the basic phrases for getting around in another language. Compatible with iPod and MPS devices, this bestselling series is geared for travelers. (PLP31, $14.95)
	The Diver's Handbook • Alan Mountain • GUIDEBOOK • Designed for beginning divers, this illustrated handbook covers everything from equipment and health to conservation. (DIV26, $24.95)
	Extreme Cuisine, The Weird & Wonderful Foods That People Eat • Jerry Hopkins • Michael Freeman • FOOD • An illustrated (!) compendium of the (strange) things people, mostly rural and mostly in developing nations, eat. With recipes. (TVL84, $21.95)
	Footprint Diving the World • Beth Tierney • Shaun Tierney • GUIDEBOOK • This beautifully illustrated guide covers 220 favorite dive sites in Australia and the Pacific, Central America, the Red Sea, East Africa, Thailand, Indonesia and the South Pacific. (OCE102, $29.95)
	A Fortune-Teller Told Me, Earthbound Travels in the Far East • Tizanio Terzani • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A peripatetic journalist sets off to Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Thailand, Mongolia, China, Japan and other far-flung destinations in this warm, anecdotal account. (SEA35, $16.00)
	Give Us This Day • Sidney Stewart • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Captured in Bataan in 1942, Stewart endured three years in captivity, recounted in this harrowing, now-classic tale of human will. (SEA19, $14.95)
	The Great Hill Stations of Asia • Barbara Crossette • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A modern tour of the mountain enclaves of colonial Asia -- appreciative, magnificently researched and engaging. (ASA13, $16.00)
	Rough Guide Philippines • David Dalton • GUIDEBOOK • This practical guide in the excellent British series includes a good historical and cultural overview. (PLP29, $26.99)
	Jewelry of Southeast Asia • Anne Richter • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An analysis of Southeast Asia's jewelry tradition, spanning from the Neolithic and Bronze Age to the present. (SEA25, $75.00)
	The Naked Tourist, In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall • Lawrence Osborne • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Osborne is not just interested in travel, but also in the reasons why we travel, layering his own entertaining adventures on the road from Dubai to India, Bangkok, Bali and beyond with ruminations on Shangri-La, The Grand Tour and our conceptions of the exotic and primitive. (SEA50, $14.00)
	A Natural History of Shells • Geerat Vermeij • NATURAL HISTORY • A beautifully illustrated look at the biology of shells. (CRB14, $24.95)
	A Naturalist's Guide to the Tropics • Marco Lambertini • John Venerella • NATURAL HISTORY • A compact, illustrated guide to the natural history of the tropical latitudes. (CON17, $28.00)
	Sea Change, A Message of the Oceans • Sylvia Earle • NATURAL HISTORY • A tribute to our watery planet -- and real-life adventure story by Sylvia Earle, a World Wildlife Fund national council member and diving pioneer. (OCE01, $13.95)
	Southeast Asia, A Concise History • Mary Somers Heidhues • HISTORY • A highly readable, illustrated history of Southeast Asia, covering politics, economics, society and culture. With 131 black-and-white illustrations and 11 maps. (SEA26, $19.95)
	Vulcan's Fury, Man Against the Volcano • Alwyn Scarth • NATURAL HISTORY • Eyewitness acounts, science, sociology and folklore result in a page-turning account of 15 dramatic volcanic events from Vesuvius to Krakatau, Mt. St. Helens and Pinatubo. (GEO10, $29.00)
	War Letters, Stories of Courage, Longing and Sacrifice • Robert Kenner • HISTORY • A dramatic presentation of letters home, produced by PBS. (WAR77, $19.98)
	A Woman's Asia • Marybeth Bond • ANTHOLOGY • These thirty-five personal, often hilarious accounts of women's adventures from China to Sri Lanka to Turkey to Bhutan, not only illuminating the everyday, oft-overlooked cultural practices of Asia, but also giving a glimpse into the thoughts and feelings of the female traveller. (ASA49, $17.95)

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