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Hardcover:
9780375502064 | Random House Inc, April 1, 1999, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Provides an entertaining and incisive look at England's unique place in European cultural history and its potential role in a unified Europe, explaining how England differs from continental Europe, its insular and cosmopolitan dichotomy, and other intriguing questions.
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9780375705366 | Vintage Books, April 1, 2000, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: "Imaginative, original--wittily written.
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9780300117851 | Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 28, 2007, cover price $29.95
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9788483067048, titled "Asesinato en Amsterdam / Murder in Amsterdam: La muerte de Theo Van Gogh y los lÃmites de la tolerancia / The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance" | Italian edition edition (Debate Editorial, March 30, 2007), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: El asesinato del cineasta Theo van Gogh, el 2 de noviembre de 2004, supuso un terremoto para la sociedad holandesa.
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9788498410983 | Siruela, June 30, 2007, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: El cadaver de una mujer aparece en los vestuarios de los estudios de la television israeli.
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9780679457688 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, November 1, 2001), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A study of China as seen from the perspective of its dissidents profiles these opponents of China's official policies, reporting on exiles in California, religious dissidents in Beijing, and contemporary politics.
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9780679781363 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, November 1, 2002), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: An intriguing study of China as seen from the perspective of its dissidents profiles these opponents of the country's official policies, reporting on exiles in California, religious dissidents in Beijing, the clash between cultural traditions and contemporary politics, the role of Taiwan, the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, and more.
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9780452010543 | Reissue edition (New Amer Library, March 1, 1990), cover price $12.00
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9780802116635 | Grove Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $35.00
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9781843549048 | Atlantic Books, November 1, 2008, cover price $26.80 | About this edition: From Shanghai before and during the Second World War to U.
9781594201943 | Penguin Pr, September 18, 2008, cover price $26.95
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9781843545460, titled "The China Lover: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance" | New edition (Atlantic Books, September 1, 2008), cover price $20.05 | About this edition: Ian Buruma returns to his native land to explore the great dilemma of our time through the story of the brutal murder of controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh at the hands of an Islamic extremist.
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9780143116080 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, August 25, 2009), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: From Shanghai before and during the Second World War to U.
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9780375757631 | Random House Inc, January 10, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In a series of intimate dialogues and conversations with the legendary film director, the filmmaker's nephew reveals the stories behind his many films; his experiences directing Dustin Hoffman, Sean Penn, John Voight, and Madonna, among others; his exploits as a gay artist in the 1950s; and growing up Jewish in World War II Europe.
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9788439709978 | Italian edition edition (Grijalbo Mondadori, September 30, 2003), cover price $20.95
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9780300117882 | Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 1, 2006, cover price $65.00
9780123881762, titled "New Trends in Genetic Risk Assessment: Based on the Proceedings of the Fifth International Round Table of the Rhone-Poulenc Sante Foundation, Nice 1" | Academic Pr, November 1, 1989, cover price $116.00 | also contains New Trends in Genetic Risk Assessment: Based on the Proceedings of the Fifth International Round Table of the Rhone-Poulenc Sante Foundation, Nice 1
9780120409075, titled "Advances in Applied Biology" | Academic Pr, March 1, 1983, cover price $100.00 | also contains Advances in Applied Biology
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9781588392008 | Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 30, 2008, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held in New York by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 14, 2006, to February 16, 2007.
Product Description: Investigating the question of what happens to Asian cultures when traditions of the village break down and are replaced by the complexities of the modern world, the author's travels took him from Burma to Japan, via Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Taiwan and South Korea...read more
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9780374164584, titled "God's Dust: A Modern Asian Journey" | 1st edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 1, 1989), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The author relates his impressions of his travels through Burma, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea and Japan
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9780374522353, titled "God's Dust: A Modern Asian Journey" | Reprint edition (Noonday Pr, November 1, 1990), cover price $11.00 | also contains Les Mots Des Derniers Soins: La Demarche Palliative Dans La Medecine Contemporaine | About this edition: Investigating the question of what happens to Asian cultures when traditions of the village break down and are replaced by the complexities of the modern world, the author's travels took him from Burma to Japan, via Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Taiwan and South Korea.
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9780679640851 | Modern Library, February 4, 2003, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of Japan from the country's nineteenth-century feudal isolation, to its rise to military power and defeat during World War II, to its rebirth as a global economic and working democracy in the postwar era.
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9780812972863, titled "Inventing Japan: 1853-1964" | Reprint edition (Modern Library, November 1, 2004), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan's history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known.
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9780375502224 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, August 1, 2000), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Essays ranging from portraits of Benazir Bhutto and Imelda Marcos to narratives of the Seoul Olympics and the last days of Hong Kong reveal the culture of the East and debunk the myths held by Western and Eastern societies.
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9780375705373 | Vintage Books, August 14, 2001, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Essays ranging from portraits of Benazir Bhutto and Imelda Marcos to narratives of the Seoul Olympics and the last days of Hong Kong reveal the culture of the East and debunk the myths held by Western and Eastern societies.
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9780143112365 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, August 28, 2007), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Traces the murder of the controversial Dutch filmmaker and great-grandnephew of Vincent van Gogh by an angry Muslim immigrant's son who promptly committed ritual suicide, describing how the event sent shock waves throughout Europe and tested the boundaries of the secular West's tolerance of other cultures.
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9781594201080 | Penguin USA, September 7, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: On a cold November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man, the son of Moroccan immigrants, killed celebrated and controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, great-grandnephew of Vincent and iconic European provocateur, for making a movie that 'blasphemed' Islam.
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9781590176313 | New York Review of Books, June 4, 2013, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: For the past fifty years, The New York Review of Books has covered virtually every international revolution and movement of consequence by dispatching the worldâs most brilliant writers to write eyewitness accounts.
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9781594200083 | Penguin Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Looks at the stereotypes and misunderstandings about the Western world that ignite anti-Western political movements, tracing the roots and evolution and examining why they have found a ready host in the Islamic world.
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9780143034872 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, March 29, 2005), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Provides a thought-provoking analysis of the stereotypes and misunderstandings about the Western world that ignite anti-Western political movements, tracing the roots and evolution of such phenomena and examining why they have found a ready host in the Islamic world.
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9780374234522 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1, 1991, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: The narrator travels to India to learn about the life of a legendary cricket player, Ranji, who was part English and part Indian
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9780374526337 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 1, 1991, cover price $20.00
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9780691134895 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 21, 2010, cover price $19.95
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9780691156057 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 6, 2012, cover price $14.95
Miscellaneous:
9781400834204 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 28, 2010, cover price $19.95
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9781590177778 | New York Review of Books, September 16, 2014, cover price $29.95
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9781410488602 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, April 6, 2016), cover price $32.99
9781594204388 | Penguin Pr, January 19, 2016, cover price $27.00
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9780143109952 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, January 17, 2017), cover price $17.00
CD/Spoken Word:
9781504642125 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 19, 2016), cover price $34.95
9781504642118 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 19, 2016), cover price $29.95
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9781504642101 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 19, 2016), cover price $76.00 | About this edition: A family history of surpassing beauty and power, "Their Promised Land" is Ian Buruma s account of his grandparents enduring love through the terror and separation of two world wars.
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9780374285951 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1994, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The author of Playing the Game explores the diverse ways in which Germany and Japan have dealt with the legacy of World War II, explaining how which East and West Germany have come to terms with the Holocaust, and the impact of the atomic bomb on Japan.
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9781590178584 | Reprint edition (New York Review of Books, September 1, 2015), cover price $18.95
9780452011564 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, June 1, 1995), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Offering a uniquely new perspective on the pscyhes of Germany and Japan after World War II, an expert on those two countries' politics and history explores how each country dealt with its past and their legacies of guilt in light of the atrocities which were committed during the war.
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