Southeast category: 2400 books
Calling in the Soul
Gender and the Cycle of Life in a Hmong Village
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
“Calling in the Soul” (Hu Plig) is the chant the Hmong use to guide the soul of a newborn baby into its body on the third day after birth. Based on extensive original research conducted in the late 1980s in a village in northern Thailand, this ethnographic study examines Hmong cosmological beliefs...
by Chami Jotisalikorn, Karina Zabihi
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
With over 180 photographs Contemporary Asian Living Rooms explores 50 of Southeast Asia's most interesting homes and hotels.
Living room design in Asia has moved away form the classical Asia style to incorporate the new global chic. This Asian design book takes you into the living rooms of...
Tearing Apart the Land
Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Since January 2004, a violent separatist insurgency has raged in southern Thailand, resulting in more than three thousand deaths. Though largely unnoticed outside Southeast Asia, the rebellion in Pattani and neighboring provinces and the Thai government's harsh crackdown have resulted in a full-scale...
Asian Style Hotels
Bali, Java, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
With more than 500 ravishing full-color photographs, Asian Style Hotels brings you to the best hotels in Southeast Asia.
Hotels from Bali, Java, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand are showcased in great detail. The super-deluxe establishments included here are all at the cutting-edge of hotel...
A Chilli too far
Comparing Ideas and Massage Parlours in SE Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
The way in which we understand and appreciate the world will affect our whole approach to life. Over the last century physical science has shown that the cosmos is quite different from what was previously thought. It is far more stimulating and complex. This book describes how, over the centuries,...
ASEAN's Half Century
A Political History of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
This authoritative book provides a comprehensive political history of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the ten members of which are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Leading scholar Donald E. Weatherbee follows...
Theravada Traditions
Buddhist Ritual Cultures in Contemporary Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Theravada Traditions offers a unique comparative approach to understanding Buddhism: it examines popular rituals of central importance in the predominantly Theravada Buddhist cultures of Laos, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia. Instead of focusing on how religious ideas have impacted the...
More Than Words
Transforming Script, Agency, and Collective Life in Bali
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Grounded in ethnographic and archival research on the Indonesian island of Bali, More Than Words challenges conventional understandings of textuality and writing as they pertain to the religious traditions of Southeast Asia. Through a nuanced study of Balinese script as employed in rites of healing,...
by Jay Walken
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
How do you learn important Thai words quickly and understand the Thai system of thought? This humorous and easy-to-read book gives you a few key words (over 200) that could save you many times the price of this book. It also provides an outsider's sometimes ironic insights into Thailand and Thai society....
by P.C. Anders
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Sometimes, they want it, and you don't. Sometimes, you want it, but they don't. You can't always get what you want (and neither can they), but the oldest game in the world--seduction--might sometimes lead to both of you getting what you want. So the author concludes in this short, sexy, experience-filled...
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...
by Adrian Vickers
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
The Island of Bali—a true paradise is explored in this classic travelogue.
From the artists and writers of the 1930s to the Eat, Pray, Love tours so popular today, Bali has drawn hoards of foreign visitors and transplants to its shores. What makes Bali so special, and how has it managed to...
by Parapuram Joseph John
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
I was editor of The Malaya Tribune, a daily newspaper in Singapore, sleepily okaying Page One when 17 Japanese Zero bombers shattered the night. It was December 8, 1941. Having been fed daily stories full of optimism from London, we in Singapore hadn’t an inkling that war with Japan was imminent...
Bones around My Neck
The Life and Exile of a Prince Provocateur
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Prince Prisdang Chumsai (1852–1935) served as Siam’s first diplomat to Europe during the most dramatic moment of Siam’s political history, when its independence was threatened by European imperialism. Despite serving with patriotic zeal, he suffered irreparable social and political ruin based...