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	Adventures and Encounters, Europeans in Southeast Asia • J.M. Gullick • ANTHOLOGY • This anthology offers a diverse selection of European accounts of Southeast Asia. The writers range from 16th century explorers and mariners to 19th century naturalists and modern literary travelers. (INS20, $60.00)
	After Sorrow, An American Among the Vietnamese • Lady Borton • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • OUT OF PRINT • In this remarkable book, the author collects the oral histories of Vietnamese women who lived through the war, taking refuge in the hills, smuggling weapons and mourning the dead. A 25-year resident of the country, Borton lived in three villages at the heart of the war. (VNM17, $15.00)
	An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us • James Carroll • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Winner of the National Book Award, this is the tragic story of an American family whose beliefs and familial bonds are shattered by the raging Vietnam war. (VNM38, $15.00)
	Angkor and the Khmer Civilization • Michael Coe • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A concise, illustrated survey of the society, culture and monuments of the Khmer civilization. With 130 well-integrated engravings, maps, tables, site plans and photographs. (CBD39, $22.50)
	Angkor Cities and Temples • Claude Jacques • Michael Freeman • ART & ARCHITECTURE • COMING IN JANUARY • One of the nicest books of its kind, this is a gorgeous, oversized portrait of the monuments, temples and exquisite sculptures of Angkor. Claude Jacques, who directed much of the site excavation, writes with authority about individual temples, inscriptions and Khmer culture. (CBD18, $80.00)
	Angkor Map • Dawn Rooney • Paisarn Piemmettawat • GUIDEBOOK • A site plan and pocket guide to the city of Angkor Wat at a scale of 1:40,000. (CBD16, $12.95)
	Angkor, Celestial Temples of the Khmer Empire • Jon Ortner • Ian Mabbett • John Sanday • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Handsomely produced and packaged in a slipcover by the art publisher Abbeville, this portfolio of 240 striking color photographs includes accompanying essays on the architecture, history and meaning of Angkor. (CBD31, $95.00)
	Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana • Stephanie Elizondo Griest • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The offbeat memoirs of a Texan who spent four years as a volunteer in Moscow, a propaganda officer in Beijing, and a belly dancer in Havana. (RUS242, $14.95)
	The Arts of China • Michael Sullivan • ART & ARCHITECTURE • COMING IN DECEMBER • A comprehensive survey of Chinese visual arts and culture through the ages. It's a lively overview, thoroughly illustrated and accessible, of bronzes, ceramics, painting and architecture, from the Neolithic to the modern era. (CHN16, $39.95)
	Arts of Southeast Asia • Fiona Kerlogue • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A handsome guide to the art, architecture, textiles and crafts of Southeast Asia. (SEA45, $16.95)
	Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress • Sijie Dai • Ina Rilke • LITERATURE • A charming, unexpectedly witty, tale of two teenage boys in China sent off to the countryside during Mao's Cultural Revolution. (CHN159, $12.95)
	Birds of Myanmar • Kyaw Nyunt Lwin • Khin Ma Ma Thwin • Aung Thant • FIELD GUIDE • A slim field guide to 350 birds of Burma, featuring 74 full-color plates, descriptive information, and a comprehensive checklist. (BMA42, $35.00)
	A Bright Shining Lie, John Paul Vann and the Americans in Vietnam • Neil Sheehan • HISTORY • A political history of the war as seen through the story of one of its soldiers, this prize-winning book is a hard-hitting expose on the failure of American foreign policy in Southeast Asia. (VNM27, $18.95)
	Brother Number One, A Political Biography of Pol Pot • David Chandler • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The definitive history of the Pol Pot era by the author of the History of Cambodia. (CBD23, $32.00)
	Buddhist Art and Architecture • Robert Fisher • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A wide-ranging, illustrated survey of Buddhist art, architecture and iconography in the excellent World of Art series. It includes examples from throughout Asia. (ASA30, $18.95)
	The Buddhist Handbook • John Snelling • RELIGION • Subtitled, "The Complete Guide to Buddhist Schools, Teaching, Practice and History, " this even-handed book is a concise primer covering the history, philosophical foundation and practice of Buddhism. (ASA08, $16.95)
	Cambodia • Michael Freeman • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A political and cultural history of Cambodia by writer, photographer and keen observer Michael Freeman. (CBD40, $27.00)
	Cambodia and Laos Map • ITMB • A full color map of Laos and Cambodia for the traveler. (LAO07, $11.95)
	Cambodia Map • Gecko Maps • A full color map of Cambodia (1:750,000), featuring useful inset maps of Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and Angkor on the reverse. (CBD17, $15.95)
	Cambodia's New Deal • William Shawcross • HISTORY • (CBD14, $9.95)
	Cambodia, A Shattered Society • Mark W. Mcleod • Marie Martin • HISTORY • A political and cultural history of post-Pol Pot Cambodia. (CBD22, $65.00)
	Cambodian Culture Since 1975 • May Ebihara • HISTORY • A discussion of the fate of Cambodian culture since the violence of Pol Pot's regime. (CBD21, $22.95)
	CDC's Complete Guide to Health Travel • Kent C. Davis • (TRV01, $14.95)
	Chasing the Panda • Michael Kiefer • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • The spellbinding tale of an unlikely duo and their successful expedition to Wolong in 1936 to recover a panda bear. (CHN166, $24.95)
	Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors • Dith Pran • Ben Kiernan • Kim DePaul • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A series of eyewitness testimonies of the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s. Dith Pran, the photojournalist whose story was told in the film The Killing Fields, compiled 29 accounts, all told by people who were children during Khmer Rouge's reign of terror. (CBD33, $19.50)
	China Map • International Travel Maps • A double-sided, shaded-relief map of China, at a useful scale of 1:3,800,000, indexed with an inset map of central Beijing. (CHN06, $11.95)
	The China Reader, The Reform Era • Orville Schell • David Shambaugh • HISTORY • A comprehensive and well-researched sourcebook on China over the last 25 years. (CHN224, $17.95)
	China, A New History • John Fairbank • Merle Goldman • HISTORY • A sweeping history of China from the Paleolithic to Tiananmen, revised with a new chapter by Merle Goldman. A standard for history buffs. (CHN11, $22.50)
	Chinese Art • Mary Tregear • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A quick, but surprisingly thorough survey of Chinese art, including calligraphy and painting, sculpture and ceramics, as well as garden design, architecture, and various crafts. (CHN153, $18.95)
	The Chinese Kitchen • Eileen Yin-Fei Lo • FOOD • An authoritative compendium of Chinese recipes and food-oriented cultural practices. Eileen Yin-Fei Lo's cookbook doubles as an introduction to China itself. (CHN134, $39.95)
	Chinese Rugs: A Buyer's Guide • Lee Allane • GUIDEBOOK • A guide to the history, techniques and variety of carpets produced throughout China, featuring a helpful buyer's guide. (CHN30, $15.95)
	Collected Short Stories, Volume 4 • W. Somerset Maugham • LITERATURE • Maugham can evoke turn-of-the-century colonial Asia like no other. This collection of stories features many set in Malaysia and other southeast Asian locales, including the well-known tale "The Letter." (SEA01, $17.00)
	Concise Flowers of the Himalaya • Oleg Polunin • Adam Stainton • FIELD GUIDE • OUT OF PRINT • A condensed version of the classic Flowers of the Himalayas featuring the same 700 color photographs and 315 line drawings but with shorter descriptive information. (HML17, $25.00)
	Dispatches • Michael Herr • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Journalist Michael Herr looks back at his time as a war correspondent in Vietnam. More a collection of thoughts, stories and impressions than a straightforward memoir, the book is a visceral account of the experience of war and its effect on the men who fight in it. (VNM03, $13.95)
	Dragon Lady, The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China • Sterling Seagrave • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • (CHN229, $18.95)
	Empress Orchid • Anchee Min • LITERATURE • In this novel of the glorious, decadent last days of 19th-Century Imperial China, Min (Red Azalea, Becoming Madame Mao) combines her tale of a young girl from the provinces who marries an emperor -- and then improbably becomes the Last Empress -- with a lovingly re-created portrait of life in the Forbidden City. (CHN267, $14.00)
	The Ends of the Earth, A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy • Robert D. Kaplan • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • An insightful, opinionated odyssey to some of the world's poorer and more troubled nations. (WLD26, $16.00)
	The Explorer's Garden, Rare and Unusual Perennials • Daniel Hinkley • Roy Lancaster • NATURAL HISTORY • Remarkable finds in the Himalayas, Yunnan and other exotic locations around the world. (NAT28, $39.95)
	Farewell My Concubine • Kaige Chen • The moving story of a fifty-year friendship between two men who meet as children in the Peking Opera. (CHN226, $14.99)
	A Field Guide to the Birds of China • John MacKinnon • Karen Phillipps • FIELD GUIDE • A comprehensive field guide to the birds of China, featuring 128 color plates illustrating 1,300 species of birds. Contains introductory chapters on the history of ornithology in China, biogeography, and conservation. (CHN85, $124.00)
	Fire in the Lake • Frances FitzGerald • HISTORY • A classic historical, political and cultural portrait of a nation at war, this powerful book won both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. FitzGerald, a staff writer at the New Yorker and a reporter in Vietnam, presents a vivid image of a revolution. (VNM12, $17.99)
	Fodor's Exploring China • Christopher Knowles • GUIDEBOOK • This excellent guidebook, featuring maps and color photos, brings old and new China to life, with sections on places to visit, a useful language guide and practical information for getting around. (CHN25, $22.00)
	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, $14.95)
	The Gate • Francois Bizot • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Bizot, a French ethnologist married to a Khmer woman, tells of his remarkable, chilling years of living in Cambodia during the rise and terror of the Khmer Rouge. (SEA48, $14.00)
	Giant Pandas in the Wild, Saving an Endangered Species • Lu Zhi • NATURAL HISTORY • A portrait of the giant panda, its habitat in China and international conservation efforts. Includes excellent color photographs by George Schaller and text chronicling the lives of 20 individual pandas. (CHN173, $35.00)
	God Lives in St. Petersburg, and Other Stories • Tom Bissell • LITERATURE • Six fast-paced tales set in Kazakhstan, Afghanistan and the Aral Sea by the author of Chasing the Sea. (CAS117, $13.95)
	The Gods Drink Whiskey, Stumbling Toward Enlightenment in the Land of the Tattered Buddha • Stephen T. Asma • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Asma writes with verve and wit in this eye-opening account of his yearlong stint teaching at the Buddhist Institute in Phnom Phen. His account is both an overview of Theravada Buddhism and a down-to-earth portrait of contemporary Cambodia. (CBD46, $14.95)
	The Golden Days • Cao Xueqin • David Hawkes • LITERATURE • The classic enchanting love story set in 18th-century China which follows the Jia family and the magical stone at the center of the tale. (CHN223, $16.00)
	A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain • Robert Olen Butler • ANTHOLOGY • Winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize, this collection of 15 short stories captures the spirit of Vietnam in a juxtaposition of American and Vietnamese perspectives and settings. (VNM21, $13.00)
	A Guide to Khmer Temples in Thailand and Laos • Michael Freeman • GUIDEBOOK • OUT OF PRINT • A compact guide to Khmer temples throughout the region, both famous and little-visited, featuring color photography, maps, temple plans and diagrams. (TLD20, $19.95)
	A Guide to the Birds of Southeast Asia • Craig Robson • FIELD GUIDE • A comprehensive guide to 1,250 birds found in Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. Features 104 color plates, good descriptive text, range maps and introductory chapters on habitats, conservation and bird watching in the region. (SEA22, $85.00)
	Hindu Art • T. Richard Blurton • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A beautifully large paperback of excellent quality, this book is a good introduction to the complexities of Indian painting, sculpture and sacred architecture. (IDA35, $33.00)
	A History of Cambodia • David Chandler • HISTORY • An excellent, scholarly history from early civilization through the rise of Angkor, French colonial period, Vietnamization of Cambodia, Khmer Rouge and Coup de Force of 1997. (CBD27, $35.00)
	Hong Kong • Jan Morris • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • FAVORITE • A wonderful portrait of Hong Kong by one of our favorite writers. Morris enumerates the many personal pleasures of the city, deftly interweaving reportage, history and culture. (HKG02, $17.00)
	Hong Kong Map • Borch Maps • A laminated, folding map of Hong Kong, at a scale of 1:14,000. (HKG15, $6.95)
	In Exile from the Land of Snows, The Dalai Lama and Tibet Since the Chinese Occupation • John Avedon • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Avedon's masterful, passionate cris de coeur, still the best book on the subject, shows the lives of the Tibetan people at home and in exile since the Chinese takeover in 1950 through the eyes of its leaders, monks and regular people. (TBT04, $16.95)
	In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War • Tobias Wolff • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A vivid memoir of novelist Tobais Wolff's tour of duty in Vietnam. (VNM34, $13.95)
	In Search of Southeast Asia: a Modern History • David P. Chandler • David J. Steinberg • HISTORY • An outstanding scholarly overview of Southeast Asia's social, economic and political history with contributions by seven experts on the region. (SEA18, $30.00)
	Insight Guide Laos & Cambodia • Insight Guides • GUIDEBOOK • This beautiful guide features wonderful photographs and essays prepared by experts on Laos and Cambodia's attractions, history, culture and nature. (SEA44, $23.95)
	Insight Guide Southeast Asia • Insight Guides • GUIDEBOOK • OUT OF PRINT • A profusely illustrated overview of Southeast Asia, featuring concise essays by well regarded authors on history, politics and culture, as well as hundreds of photos and maps and some limited practical information. (SEA51, $22.95)
	Insight Guide Vietnam • Scott Rutherford • GUIDEBOOK • A highly recommended guide to Vietnamese history, culture and popular destinations, featuring essays, informative maps and photographs. (VNM02, $23.95)
	It's Easier Than You Think, The Buddhist Way to Happiness • Sylvia Boorstein • RELIGION • A down-to-earth, warm-hearted introduction to the basic teaching of Buddhism. (GEN264, $13.00)
	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 Killing Fields • Roland Joffe • The true story of Dith Pran, the Cambodian assistant to a New York Times reporter who experienced the horrors of the Khmer Rouge. (CBD42, $19.98)
	Knopf Mapguide Shanghai • Knopf Guides • GUIDEBOOK • Full-color foldout maps make this guidebook a handy and practical way to find information on where to go and what to do in the city. (CHN283, $9.95)
	Land of the Ascending Dragon, Rediscovering Vietnam • Paul Martin • HISTORY • A handsome oversize volume surveying Vietnam's rich history and hopeful future. (VNM25, $32.00)
	The Last Emperor • Bernardo Bertolucci • Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning rendition of the true story of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, the last emperor of China's Ching Dynasty. (CHN225, $14.98)
	The Last Panda • George Schaller • NATURAL HISTORY • Naturalist George Schaller spent almost 5 years in the wild studying the panda in the 1980s. This book is both his description of the great panda in nature, and an eloquent plea for how to save the species. (CHN24, $15.00)
	Lonely Planet Cambodia • Daniel Robinson • Tony Wheeler • Chris Taylor • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive practical guide to Cambodia in the hallmark Lonely Planet style featuring maps, a handful of photographs, and a good overview of culture, history and nature. (CBD04, $21.99)
	Lonely Planet Laos • Joe Cummings • GUIDEBOOK • This practical guide to Laos by Lonely Planet features maps, a 60-page overview of culture, history and nature and plenty of information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing. (LAO02, $21.99)
	Lonely Planet Vietnam • Robert Storey • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive practical guide to Vietnam geared for independent travelers. (VNM14, $23.99)
	Lonely Planet Vietnamese Phrasebook • Nguyen Xuanthu • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A palm-sized guide to pronunciation, grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (VNM20, $8.99)
	Look What Came From China! • Miles Harvey • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8) • An illustrated guide to China, its products and inventions, for children ages 4-8. (CHN155, $6.95)
	Lost Horizon, A Novel • James Hilton • LITERATURE • First published in 1933, this novel (and subsequent movie) introduced the world to the Himalayan paradise of Shangri-La, which a group of Americans and Englishmen discover after a plane crash. (HML73, $12.95)
	The Lover • Marguerite Duras • LITERATURE • A haunting tale of coming-of-age in Indochina during the 1930s, beautifully evoking its setting and the complex emotions of a young girl, her family and her wealthy Chinese lover. (CBD09, $11.00)
	Mantles of Merit: Chin Textiles from Myanmar, India and Bangladesh • David Fraser • Barbara Fraser • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An abundantly illustrated study of the textiles of the Chin peoples of southern and eastern Asia. With more than 600 color illustrations. (ASA46, $60.00)
	Mao, The Unknown Story • Jung Chang • John Halliday • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • In this extraordinary biography Chang (Wild Swans) and her historian husband reveal Mao as a brutal, power-hungry monster with close ties to Joseph Stalin. (CHN301, $18.95)
	Ming Furniture in the Light of Chinese Architecture • Sarah Handler • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A beautifully illustrated overview of Ming furniture and its architectural setting. (CHN318, $50.00)
	Moon Handbook Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos • Michael Buckley • GUIDEBOOK • This guidebook, mostly focused on Vietnam, features a thorough introduction to the land, history and culture, as well as astonishing practical detail on getting around, where to go and where to stay. (SEA09, $21.95)
	Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha • Dorothy Gilman • MYSTERY • Grandma Pollifax, the CIA agent, is at it again, hot on the trail of jewel thieves, drug dealers and murderers in the city of Hong Kong. Part of the popular series, this mystery is great fun. (HKG17, $6.99)
	The Naked Tourist, In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall • Lawrence Osborne • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • NEW • 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)
	National Geographic Traveler China • Damian Harper • GUIDEBOOK • A generously illustrated guide to China with the usual National Geographic attention to maps and photographs. With a 50-page appendix of practical travel information. (CHN163, $27.95)
	Novel without a Name • Thu Huong Duong • LITERATURE • From celebrated dissident author Duong Thu Huong, this lyrical novel tells the story of a North Vietnamese solider who clings to memories of his childhood in the hard times of war. (VNM23, $15.00)
	Odyssey Guide Angkor, Cambodia's Wondrous Khmer Temples • Dawn Rooney • GUIDEBOOK • An indispensable guidebook encompassing Khmer culture and history, detailed descriptions of monuments, temple plan, color photographs and practical information about Siem Reap. This revised edition includes 10 new temple sites, 86 new photographs and 180 pages of new information. (CBD05, $27.95)
	Odyssey Guide Guizhou Province • Gina Corrigan • GUIDEBOOK • An in-depth guide to the history, culture and peoples of the subtropical Guizhou province in Southwest China, covering the textile arts and costume, jewelry, music and festivals in detail. With photographs and maps. (CHN321, $23.95)
	Odyssey Guide Three Gorges of the Yangtze River • Raynor Shaw • GUIDEBOOK • NEW • Compact, illustrated and up-to-date, this detailed guide focuses on the 120-mile-long Three Gorges section of the Yangtzi, including Chongsing, Yichang and Wuhan. With 12 color maps and diagrams. (CHN368, $21.95)
	Odyssey Guide Yunnan • Jim Goodman • GUIDEBOOK • COMING IN MARCH • This comprehensive introduction to the history, culture and attractions of the Yunnan Province features 200 color photographs nad 29 maps. (CHN44, $29.95)
	Oracle Bones, A Journey Between China's Past and Present • Peter Hessler • HISTORY • NEW • In this fine portrait of tumult and tradition, Hessler (River Town) finds clues to modern China's realities in the personal stories of peasants, scholars, day laborers and activists. (CHN316, $15.95)
	The Other Side of Heaven, Postwar Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers • Truong Vu • Le M. Khue • Wayne Karlin • ANTHOLOGY • An anthology of fiction, with contributions from both sides of the experience of the Vietnam War. (VNM42, $17.95)
	Passage to Vietnam, Through the Eyes of Seventy Photographers • Rick Smolan • Jennifer Erwit • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Great photography combined with insightful commentary on modern Vietnam. (VNM15, $70.00)
	Passions of the Cut Sleeve, The Male Homosexual Tradition in China • Bret Hinsch • LITERATURE • A well-written, scholarly survey of the traditions of same-sex male love in Chinese literature. (CHN167, $21.95)
	Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China • Stevan Harrell • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • This is a compendium of scholarly articles about the Yi people. (CHN169, $24.95)
	Phase Line Green, The Battle for Hue, 1968 • Nicholas Warr • HISTORY • A powerful and personal account of a U.S. soldier's experience in the Battle of Hue. (VNM36, $19.00)
	Photographic Guide to Birds of the Himalayas • B. Grewal • FIELD GUIDE • A pocket guide to 250 birds found from the foothills up to high elevations ranging from the Hindu Kush and Kashmir to Arunachal Pradesh in the Eastern Himalayas. With brief descriptive information, maps and 260 full-color illustrations. (HML31, $15.95)
	A Pilgrimage to Angkor • Pierre Loti • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • This classic turn-of-the-century account by the French novelist and traveler exudes fascination with the temples, relief carvings and culture of Angkor. (CBD35, $17.95)
	Pimsleur Quick & Simple Chinese (Cantonese) • Pimsleur Language Method • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • An audio CD with eight 30-minute lessons in basic Cantonese, covering elementary vocabulary and phrases used in travel and everyday situations. (CHN279, $19.95)
	Pimsleur Quick & Simple Chinese (Mandarin) • Pimsleur Language Method • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • Four audio CDs with eight 30-minute lessons in basic Mandarin, covering elementary vocabulary and phrases used in travel and everyday situations. (CHN280, $19.95)
	The Plant Hunters • Tyler Whittle • EXPLORATION • OUT OF PRINT • Tales of the botanist-explorers who enriched our gardens, including adventures in the Himalayas. (NAT29, $16.95)
	The Politics of Heroin, CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade • Alfred McCoy • HISTORY • An expanded version of McCoy's groundbreaking "The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia." (LAO09, $32.95)
	Religions of China, The World as a Living System • David L. Overmyer • RELIGION • A brief primer on the religions of China. (CHN154, $11.50)
	Religions of Tibet in Practice • Donald S. Lopez, Jr. • RELIGION • A collection of 36 essays and translated texts by scholars of Tibetan Buddhism, including selections on prayers, pilgrimages, death and ritual. (TBT16, $37.95)
	The Retreat of the Elephants, An Environmental History of China • Mark Elvin • NATURAL HISTORY • A thorough examination of the damage that has been done to China's environment through war, modernization and new farming developments. (CHN221, $24.00)
	River Road to China, The Search for the Source of the Mekong, 1866-73 • Milton Osborne • EXPLORATION • An excellent modern account of a 19th-century French expedition 4,000 miles from Vietnam and Cambodia into unknown regions of China in search of the source of the Mekong. (SEA29, $16.00)
	Rough Guide Cambodia • Beverley Palmer • GUIDEBOOK • A practical, comprehensive travel guide to Cambodia in the British series. (CBD34, $29.99)
	Ruins of Angkor Cambodia in 1909 • P. Dieulefils • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A handsomely produced facsimile edition of a rare 1909 publication featuring 140 magnificent sepia-toned illustrations of the site and surrounding area. (CBD37, $39.95)
	The Selected Poems of T'ao Ch'ien • David Hinton • LITERATURE • A portrait of the mountains and landscapes of peasant China and the pleasures of rural life by the great poet. (CHN315, $11.00)
	Shadows and Wind • Robert Templer • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A British journalist based in Vietnam, Templer cuts through myth and legend to offer a lively, opinionated portrait of contemporary Vietnam. (VNM43, $16.00)
	Sihanouk: Prince of Light, Prince of Darkness • Milton Osborne • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A critical biography of one of Southeast Asia's most important and intriguing leaders of the 20th century. (CBD20, $17.95)
	Sky Burial, An Epic Love Story of Tibet • Xinran • LITERATURE • In 1958, notified that her young husband, a doctor in the Chinese army has been killed in action in Tibet, Shu Wen joins the army, determined to go to Tibet to uncover the truth, only to find herself alone in Tibet, embarking on a thirty-year nomadic odyssey that brings her back to a new China, transformed by the Cultural Revolution. (CHN282, $18.95)
	The Sorrow of War, A Novel of North Vietnam • Bao Ninh • LITERATURE • A powerful novel by a former North Vietnamese soldier, this short book captures the appalling conditions of war, alternating vivid scenes from the front lines with flashbacks from the protagonist's rural youth. (VNM07, $14.00)
	Soul of the Tiger, Searching for Nature's Answers in Southeast Asia • Jeffrey A. McNeely • Paul Spencer Sochaczewski • NATURAL HISTORY • A meditation on the role of animals and nature in the societies of Southeast Asia. With dark humor, the authors wax philosophical about conservation issues throughout the region. (SEA02, $18.95)
	Southeast Asia in the New International Era • Clark Neher • HISTORY • A good general history of the entire region and its place in the world. (SEA17, $38.00)
	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)
	Stay Alive, My Son • Pin Yathay • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A harrowing account of life in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge and particularly the evacuations of Phnom Penh, written by an engineer for the Ministry of Public works. (CBD44, $21.95)
	Street Without Joy • Bernard B. Fall • HISTORY • A vivid account of the French defeat in Vietnam. (VNM18, $24.95)
	Streetlife China • Michael Dutton • ANTHOLOGY • A scholarly collection of essays about the realities of living in modern-day China, by a variety of contributors. (CHN222, $32.99)
	The Tale of Kieu, Bilingual Edition • Huynh Thong • LITERATURE • A cornerstone of Vietnamese literature, this much-loved epic poem was written in the early 19th-century by a Vietnamese ambassador to the Chinese court. (VNM22, $21.00)
	The Things They Carried • Tim O'Brien • LITERATURE • O'Brien captures the daily life of a soldier in Vietnam. (VNM32, $13.95)
	Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China • Arthur Waley • RELIGION • An elegantly written, classic introduction to traditional Chinese philosophy. (CHN164, $17.95)
	The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Liberation from Understanding the In Between • Robert Thurman • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A key text as presented by Robert Thurman for a western audience. This is the Tibetan guidebook to dying or "the between," written in the 8th or 9th century by Padma Sambhava. (TBT06, $18.00)
	To Live • Yimou Zhang • Zhang Yimou's moving film follows one family from the 1940s through the 1960s in China. (CHN227, $19.98)
	Tragedy of Cambodian History: Politics, War and Revolution since 1945 • David Chandler • HISTORY • A scholarly history of Cambodian politics and A scholarly history of Cambodian politics and society from World War II to the late 1970s. The author draws from his own experiences as a foreign service officer in Phnom Penh. (CBD45, $28.00)
	Travelers' Tales China • James O'Reilly • Larry Habegger • Sean O'Reilly • ANTHOLOGY • This eclectic compendium reveals China's history and culture as told by its mostly modern travelers. Contributors include Peter Hessler, Mark Salzman, Gretel Ehrlich and Ji-Li Jiang. (CHN217, $18.95)
	Travelers' Tales Hong Kong • Travelers' Tales • ANTHOLOGY • A diverse collection of excellent stories and essays. The selection includes Jan Morris, Simon Winchester, and other greats. It's a highly readable introduction to the cultural heritage, politics and people of Hong Kong. (HKG08, $17.95)
	The Travels of Marco Polo • Marco Polo • Ronald Lantham • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • The memories of a 13th-century journey to China along the Silk Road, among the most famous travel accounts ever. Describing exotic plants, birds, precious gems, silks, and spices with a merchant's eye, this superb geographer recounts his 20 years of travel. (CAS05, $13.95)
	The Treasures of Angkor • Marilia Albanese • GUIDEBOOK • A compact, illustrated guide to the history, art and architecture of Angkor. With suggested itineraries, site plans and notes on visiting individual temples. (CBD48, $24.95)
	Understanding China, A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Politics • John Bryan Starr • HISTORY • John Bryan Starr, a professor of history and former director of the China Association, brings his classroom experience to this admirably brief, clearheaded introduction to contemporary China. (CHN196, $16.00)
	Understanding Vietnam • Neil Jamieson • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Jamieson's ambitious primer addresses politics, social history, village life, structural renewal, literature and the arts, illuminating the Vietnamese worldview with insight and depth. It's the single best introduction to Vietnam. (VNM01, $25.95)
	Vanishing Histories, 100 Endangered Sites from the World Monuments Fund • Colin Amery • ART & ARCHITECTURE • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE • A stunning portrait of 100 threatened archaeological and cultural monuments around the world from Angkor, Pompeii and Mesa Verde to lesser known buildings and sites, all listed by the World Monuments Fund. (GEN219, $60.00)
	A Viet Cong Memoir • Truang Nhu Tang • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A candid, revealing story of a revolutionary life, wonderfully free of cant. This telling memoir by the former Viet Cong Minister of Justice, now living in exile in Paris, gives a detailed report from the inside of the Viet Cong. (VNM11, $15.95)
	Vietnam Map • ITMB • A detailed travel map of Vietnam at a scale of 1:1,000,000. (VNM05, $10.95)
	Vietnam, A Book of Changes • Mitch Epstein • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 80 marvelous photographs that capture the people and culture of Vietnam. (VNM06, $35.00)
	Vietnam, A History • Stanley Karnow • HISTORY • This blockbuster book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author is history at its best: masterfully researched, well written and comprehensive. (VNM10, $21.00)
	Vietnam, A Traveler's Literary Companion • John Balaban • Nguyen Qui Duc • ANTHOLOGY • These 17 stories from Vietnam's finest modern writers explore the country's landscapes, mythology and changing traditions. (VNM04, $14.95)
	Waiting • Ha Jin • LITERATURE • A spare, haunting story of a military doctor who tries for 18 years to divorce his peasant wife so he can marry a more sophisticated nurse at his hospital. Greatly evocative of quotidian life in China during the Cultural Revolution and after. (CHN80, $14.95)
	Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China • Stevan Harrell • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A scholarly ethnography of the peoples of Southwest China, including the Nuosu (Yi), Prmi, Naze, and Han. With detailed case studies. (CHN271, $22.50)
	When Broken Glass Floats, Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge • Chanrithy Him • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Chanrithy Him, who as a girl lost her parents and five siblings to the Khmer Rouge, explains that she wrote this moving account in an effort to "be worthy of the suffering" that she and her family endured. (CBD32, $14.95)
	When Heaven and Earth Changed Places • Jay Wurts • Le Ly Hayslip • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A moving account of life in a Viet Cong village and the horrors of the war, struggling to survive in the Saigon black market and adjustment to life in the United States with her American husband. Hayslip founded the East Meets West Foundation. (VNM41, $16.00)
	Wild Swans, Three Daughters of China • Jung Chang • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • FAVORITE • A riveting tale of three generations, spanning the end of Old China, Mao's regime and the Japanese occupation. Chang chronicles the enormous changes in China since 1929 through her family's story, which includes arrest during the Cultural Revolution, exile to the Sichuan wilderness and coming to terms with the bewildering state of China today. (CHN04, $16.00)
	Wild West China, The Taming of Xinjiang • Christian Tyler • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A portrait of the changing face of the Xinjiang region in northwest China. (CHN231, $27.95)
	The Wisdom of the Buddha • Jean Boisselier • RELIGION • A pocket-size primer of Buddhism, this book is an illustrated history of the sixth-century Indian prince and his quest for enlightenment. With 207 illustrations, 160 in full color. (IDA55, $12.95)
	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)
	World Religions: Eastern Traditions • Willard G. Oxtoby • RELIGION • A clear and insightful introduction to Eastern religions by a team of scholars, covering Hindu, Jain, Sikh, Buddhist and East Asian traditions. Scholarly, but still rewarding for the general reader. (ASA07, $64.95)
	Yangzi River Map • Richard Perry Hayman • A full-color, comprehensive map of the Yangzi River and Three Gorges for the traveler, at a scale of 1:1,000,000. Features 10 maps, color photos, and shows the river from the Himalayas to the East China Sea. (CHN177, $14.95)

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