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Over the past 26 years, Japanese photographer Yasuto Kitahara has made innumerable trips to China to study various aspects of Chinese art and culture. This book presents Kitahara's photographs and memories of a changing China.

Harper Design, 2003; 185 pp.; EN; ills. col; pb

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The globetrotting photographer who has followed Michael Palin to snap images for such books as Pole to Pole, Full Circle, and Inside Sahara a.o., Basil Pao has also extensively toured his native China.

Abbeville, 2007; 384 pp.; EN; ills. b/w & col; hb

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In a tour de force by a long resident of Beijing, journalist Becker brings to life the lives of emperors, eunuchs, courtesans, and warriors, who for centuries ruled from behind the walls of the Forbidden City, and mixes in his own experiences.

Oxford, 2008; 371 pp.; EN; ills. b/w; hb

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This study brings together 4 chapters from Volumes 3, 5, and 7 of The Cambridge History of Latin America to provide for readers and students a concise history of the important island nation Cuba. Contributors trace the political, economic, and social development of Cuba from the middle of the 18th century to the present day.

Cambridge; 172 pp.; EN; index; pb

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An examination of Afghan society in conflict, from the 1978 communist coup to the fall of the last Soviet-installed president in 1992. This revised edition reflects developments since then and includes material on the Taliban and Osama bin Laden.
Rubin puts into context the continuing turmoil in Afghanistan and seeks to offer readers a coherent historical explanation for the country's social and political fragmentation.

Yale, 2002; 378 pp.; EN; index; hb

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Havana shows David Bailey at the height of his powers, producing photographs in colour and b-w that reflect his mastery of the full range of the genres of the medium. From vibrant street reportage to seering portraiture, a quintessential view of Havana.

Steidl, 2006; 176 pp.; FR; ills. b/w & col; hb

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Starting at roughly the same time the three countries -Canada, Mexico, USA- that grew up on the North American continent created their own very different versions of a new world. A journey of discovery from one bookend of North America to the other.

PublicAffairs, 2001; 375 pp.; EN; index; hb

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The more than 300 colour photographs in this book form a striking portrait of a China little seen in the West, captured by a photographer who has been invited into nomad's tent and witnessed ceremonies in Buddhist monasteries. Meniconzi has cycled thousands of miles through the most remote regions of China.

Ullmann, 2008; 288 pp.; EN; ills. col; hb

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Here is a selection of approx. 350 superb photographs taken both on the ground and from the air. It provides a panorama of the Netherlands as a country of water, pastures, windmills, old gabled houses, but also of industry, transport, modern architecture.

Atrium, 2010; 176 pp.; index; ills. col; hb

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Imagining India offers a vibrant new perspective on what's really at stake in the world's largest democracy. Indian software entrepreneur Nandan Nilekani has written the definitive book about modern India.

Penguin, 2009; 511 pp.; EN; index; hb

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The Sahara evokes a horizon of shifting dunes, a rich palette of orange and tawny ocher with pinkish undertones. Impressions of the Sahara explores the cultural heritage of this region with caravan routes across the desert, wall paintings of the women of Mauritania, the colourful towns of the Moroccan oasis towns, exquisite illuminated manuscripts, raw earth mosques of Niger and more. An extraordinary photographic record of the sumptuous colours of the desert and the rich artistic heritage.

Flammarion, 2004; 191 pp.; EN; ills. col; hb

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The vision of flying over Ireland is an ever-changing one of lush green fields, brown hills, silver rivers, blue lakes, yet it is also a landscape worked by humankind for more than 5,000 years. A panoramic album that beautifully captures Ireland.

VBM, 2010; 239 pp.; EN; ills. col; L; hb

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