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by Nona Lema
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
‘My Filipino Kitchen’ is a collection of everyday Filipino dishes with a short history and its recipe.
Filipino food is a mixture of Asian, Mexican and Spanish flavors brought about by the Philippines’ colonial history and ancient cultural interaction with other Asian neighbors. The dishes featured in this book reflect all these interesting culinary influences.
by Javed Majeed
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
This book is the first detailed examination of George Abraham Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India, one of the most complete sources on South Asian languages. It shows that the Survey was characterised by a composite and collaborative mode of producing knowledge, which undermines any clear distinctions...
by Javed Majeed
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
George Abraham Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India is one of the most complete sources on South Asian languages. This book is the first detailed examination of the Survey. It shows how the Survey collaborated with Indian activists to consolidate the regional languages in India. By focusing on...
Witnessing Partition
Memory, History, Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2019
This book interrogates representations – fiction, literary motifs and narratives – of the Partition of India. Delving into the writings of Khushwant Singh, Balachandra Rajan, Attia Hosain, Abdullah Hussein, Rahi Masoom Raza and Anita Desai, among many others, it highlights the modes of ‘fictive’...
Langues et littératures de l’Inde
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Dans le sous-continent indien aux côtés du bloc dravidien, des groupes munda et tibéto-birman, le groupe linguistique de loin le plus important est le groupe indo-aryen. Les langues indo-aryennes forment la branche indienne de la famille indo-européenne.
Asian Cooking
Fresh and Home-Made, #1
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Based on the recipes by artisanal spices maker Laurie Stewart, a collection of 5 recipes for spice mixtures and 24 recipes for dishes using those spices. Includes Szechuan, Vietnamese, Korean and Thai recipes. All from fresh ingredients, and totally home-made, no processed foods. Includes a list of where to get hard to find regional ingredients.
Visions of Ryukyu
Identity and Ideology in Early-Modern Thought and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Between 1609 and 1879, the geographical, political, and ideological status of the Kingdom of Ryukyu (modern Okinawa) was characterized by its ambiguity. It was subordinate to its larger neighbors, China and Japan, yet an integral part of neither. A Japanese invasion force from Satsuma had conquered...
Hawker Fare
Stories & Recipes from a Refugee Chef’s Isan Thai & Lao Roots
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
From chef James Syhabout of two–Michelin-star restaurant Commis, an Asian-American cookbook like no other—simple recipes for cooking home-style Thai and Lao dishes
James Syhabout’s hugely popular Hawker Fare restaurant in San Francisco is the product of his unique family history and diverse...
Chefs Collective
Recipes, Tips and Secrets From 50 of the World's Greatest Chef
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Around the world, Asian chefs are making their mark in the culinary arena with their innovative menus and forward-looking dishes. Chefs Collective is an exciting book that sees more than 50 of these rising and renowned chefs with Asian roots come together to share their award-winning recipes through...
Singapore, My Country
Biography of M Bala Subramanion
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
When after three decades of research Singapore could produce its own water, the little city-state was said to have lost its vulnerability. No longer would every policy have to bend at the knees for water survival. It was finally time to celebrate liberty!
When did the same moment come in Bala's...
The Battle for Pusan
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“A great read [that] has frozen the events in print that molded great men who stood alone on the mainland of Asia against the first Asian Communist Army to engage the West.”
–From the Foreword by Brig. Gen. Robert L. Scott, Jr., USAF (Ret.), author of God Is My Co-Pilot
The rapid-fire...
A Rift in the Earth
Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
A Distinguished and Bestselling Historian and Army Veteran Revisits the Culture War that Raged around the Selection of Maya Lin's Design for the Vietnam Memorial
A Rift in the Earth tells the remarkable story of the ferocious “art war” that raged between 1979 and 1984 over what kind of memorial...
Narrow Road to the Interior
And Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
A beautiful translation of one of the most-loved classics of Japanese literature.
Bashō (1644–1694)—a great luminary of Asian literature who elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beauty—is renowned in the West as the author of Narrow Road to the...
毛澤東：真實的故事
Mao: The Real Story
Language: Chinese
Release Date: May 4, 2015
**全球獨家一刀未剪中文版
最具權威性毛澤東傳記！
披露首次解密的蘇聯檔案，撥開神化與醜化的迷霧
再現毛澤東作為革命者的激情與權謀，
作為獨裁者的殘暴與盲目，
以及身為丈夫與父親的複雜人性
從青年重視農民運動的革命者，到老年將全中國捲入鬥爭的掌權者
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