Ian Buruma

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1.		Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerence from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $10.20 Customer Review: This book, by a Dutch ex-patriot, does a good job of pretending to be fair-minded and even-handed in trashing all the parties involved. But it won't stand up to careful examination. Most importantly, none of the assertions and allegations made in this book are even documented, let alone... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.		Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $11.90 Customer Review: This is an appealing and timely subject, especially with Islamic fundamentalists running around and setting off bombs. Buruma and Margalit argue that this Western anti-Western feelings originated in Europe itself and spread through to Russia and China, and then the Middle East. This is a short book,... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.		Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance from Penguin Press HC, The Price: $16.47 Customer Review: Buruma looks at the issues of religious tolerance through the lens of the Theo van Gogh murder in Amsterdam. It's a fascinating look at the limits of liberal thought in regards to embracing a foreign culture which may be antithetical -- or perhaps ambivalent -- to democratic thought, progressive... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

4.		Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications) from Metropolitan Museum of Art Price: $50.96 Customer Review: This is a nice book an the subject. Nice large plates, a must for any good art book. That's it--if you like paintings from this genre buy it.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

5.		Inventing Japan: 1853-1964 (Modern Library Chronicles) from Modern Library Price: $11.01 Customer Review: I agree whole-heartedly with Hitoshi's previous comments. While Baruma's book was a very interesting introduction it suffers from the monolithic painting of the Japanese nation and people that mark many deficient history lessons. The standards that Baruma appears to demand of the Japanese (but... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.		Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan from Plume Customer Review: As much as many people would like to wash away the past, it comes back to haunt us. Germany, through its efforts to confront its past has made peace with its neighbors, while Japan trying to avoid any blame has tried to wash it away with denials and subterfuge, leaving bitterness and confrontation.... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

7.		Rene Leys (New York Review Books) from NYRB Classics Price: $14.00 Customer Review: It is 1911. After thousands of years, the rule of the Chinese emperors is about to come to an end. It is the Beijing of Bernardo Bertolucci's THE LAST EMPEROR. The 5-year-old Pu-Yi is emperor; and political power is in the hands of a Regent. A character named Victor Segalen engages two tutors... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.		God's Dust from Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) Customer Review: In a few pages, Ian Buruma sketches the essential characteristics, problems, myths and `soul' of 8 Asian countries. Burma still hangs in the iron fist of a military dictatorship. This potential rich country is strangulated by national socialism. Its population survives through a black market,... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.	[no image]	Behind the Mask from Plume Customer Review: Buruma serves up a wealth of observations based on his own unique perspective and remarkable insights. Focusing primarily on cultural mores, he delves into subject matter that is by nature impossible to review objectively. Buruma's gift is his ability to write candidly and artfully about cultural... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.		The Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and West from Vintage Price: $14.00 Customer Review: Buruma has the key to a door I, a newbie Nipponophile, use: cinema. His own personality leaks tastefully into his blend of experience and academics. Just the levels I like! Some of the articles are a little outside my area of interest, but he managed to hook me into finishing them.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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