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	Central Asia: 130 years of Russian Dominance • Edward Allworth • HISTORY • A scholarly overview of foreign influence in the region. (CAS26, $27.95)
	The Central Asian States, Discovering Independence • Gregory Gleason • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A timely analysis of the emergent independent republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. With maps and illustrations. (CAS27, $38.00)
	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)
	Eastward to Tartary • Robert D. Kaplan • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A glimpse into the people and history that color the countries of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, the Caucasus and finally Central Asia, in a loosely organized travelogue by the author of the acclaimed Balkan Ghosts. (CAS45, $14.95)
	The Empire of the Steppes, A History of Central Asia • Rene Grousset • HISTORY • The classic history of the region, originally published in 1939 and translated from the French. (CAS43, $29.95)
	Eric Shipton, The Six Mountain Travel Books • Eric Shipton • EXPLORATION • Shipton's extraordinary adventures in the mountains of the Himalayas, East Africa, Central Asia and Patagonia. (EXP12, $38.00)
	The Golden Peaches of Samarkand, A Study of T'ang Exotics • Edward Schafer • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A marvelous study of the court of T'ang Dynasty China, and the many splendid works of art that were given in tribute. (CAS53, $29.95)
	A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia: Volume I: Inner Eurasia from Prehistory to the Mongol Empire • David Christian • HISTORY • COMING IN JULY • A comprehensive history of the region from the Stone Age to the 13th-century Mongol Empire. This book will appeal to the traveler with a serious interest in the cultural origins of the region. (CAS35, $62.95)
	Islamic Art and Architecture • Robert Hillenbrand • ART & ARCHITECTURE • Covering one thousand years and the geographic scope of Islam, this book is a wide-ranging guide to the arts of Islam, including architecture, calligraphy, ceramics, and textiles. (CAS17, $18.95)
	Islamic Arts • Jonathan Bloom • Sheila Blair • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A comprehensive survey of 1,000 years of Islamic architecture, design and decoration. Illustrated throughout with color photographs, maps and site plans. (ISL01, $24.95)
	The Mongols (Peoples of Europe) • David Morgan • HISTORY • A short, readable treatment of the medieval Mongols, their administration, military, religion and economy. Includes chapters on the predecessors of the Mongols in Central Asia, Chinghiz Khan's rise to power, and the Mongols in China, Russia and Persia. (MGL15, $34.95)
	The Mummies of Urumchi • Elizabeth Wayland Barber • ARCHAEOLOGY • An overview of the culture of ancient people of the Silk Road based on the extraordinarily well preserved Caucasoid mummies unearthed in Urumchi in the Tarim Basin of Central Asia. (CAS34, $18.95)
	Setting the East Ablaze, Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia • Peter Hopkirk • HISTORY • Another volume in the grand Hopkirk tradition of intrigue, treachery, executions and skullduggery. (CAS25, $15.95)
	Sir Aurel Stein, Archaeological Explorer • Jeanette Mirsky • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Mirsky captures the excitement, derring-do, fortunes and controversy surrounding Stein's discovery of tombs, temples and monasteries and other ancient treasures of the Silk Road. (CAS61, $20.00)
	Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia • Ahmed Rashid • HISTORY • An eye-opening political and social history of Afghanistan and its Islamic fundamentalist movement. (CAS49, $14.95)
	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)

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