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Chris Aslan
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A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road
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2010
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Unravelling the Silk Road: Travels and Textiles in Central Asia
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Alabaster: What is Most Precious is Also Most Fragile
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2016
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4 editions
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Mosaic: Life in Pieces
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2021
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2 editions
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Manacle: Some bonds can't be broken
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Alabaster
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James, what's your angle here? You comment about AI to every positive review of this book. That's despite, as Holly points out, completely ignoring th
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Wow, James, you're really out to diss a book I'm guessing you haven't read, given the context in which AI was used, which is one paragraph and deliber
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James, have you actually read the one section - which is supposed to be written by AI as part of the plot - which actually was?
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Chris Aslan
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Sajith Kumar's review
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Unravelling the Silk Road: Travels and Textiles in Central Asia:
"In its strictest historical sense, globalization is not a new or even modern concept at all. Exchange of products and services coupled with transfer of wealth across administrative frontiers is what we call globalization now. It does not need ships, "
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LindaJ^'s review
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Unravelling the Silk Road: Travels and Textiles in Central Asia:
"I enjoyed this book. I read it after returning from a trip to Uzbekistan and reading the author's first book about the carpet making shop he established. The title of this book is a bit misleading. The book is divided into three parts -- Cotton Road,"
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Chris Aslan
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Isla McDougall's review
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Unravelling the Silk Road: Travels and Textiles in Central Asia:
"Fantastic read. I loved how the author weaved together history with personal anecdotes and accounts of others. I learnt so much reading this book and found it very thought provoking, especially on the topic of fast fashion and the cotton industry. "
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