Asia category: 8064 books
Where China Meets India
Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Thant Myint-U's Where China Meets India is a vivid, searching, timely book about the remote region that is suddenly a geopolitical center of the world.
From their very beginnings, China and India have been walled off from each other: by the towering summits of the Himalayas, by a vast and impenetrable...
by James Heitzman
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2008
The macro-region of South Asia – including Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka – today supports one of the world’s greatest concentrations of cities, but as James Heitzman argues in the first comprehensive treatment of urban South Asia, this has been the case for at least 5,000...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2004
This book examines the institutional changes taking place in, and challenges facing, the region since 1997. It also describes various differences in the reform process between countries in the region. Sjöholm and Tongzon argue that the economies of southeast Asia need to reform their institutions...
The Mongols and the Islamic World
From Conquest to Conversion
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
An epic historical consideration of the Mongol conquest of Western Asia and the spread of Islam during the years of non-Muslim rule The Mongol conquest of the Islamic world began in the early thirteenth century when Genghis Khan and his warriors overran Central Asia and devastated much of Iran. Distinguished...
Black Dragon River
A Journey Down the Amur River Between Russia and China
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Black Dragon River is a personal journey down one of Asia’s great rivers that reveals the region’s essential history and culture. The world’s ninth largest river, the Amur serves as a large part of the border between Russia and China. As a crossroads for the great empires of Asia, this area...
Thailand Old Hand
Thirty years around the bars and backstreets of Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Peter Jaggs has the unerring ability of being able to blunder into a good story wherever he travels in Asia.
Whether perusing the bars and brothels of Pattaya and Angeles City, meeting up with an archaic spirit doctor in the wilds of the Isaan countryside, losing his way in the war-time tunnels of...
Confucius
And the World He Created
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Confucius is perhaps the most important philosopher in history. Today, his teachings shape the daily lives of more than 1.6 billion people. Throughout East Asia, Confucius's influence can be seen in everything from business practices and family relationships to educational standards and government...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Nationalism appears to be rising in a renascent Asia and stoking tensions, aspirations, and identity politics while amplifying grievances and raising questions about prospects in what is touted as the Asian century. This book provides a broad overview and introduction to nationalism in Asia. Leading...
Marine Fishes of South-East Asia
A Field Guide for Anglers and Divers
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 1999
This beautifully illustrated marine fish guide encompasses the singularly diverse and rich oceans from southeast Asia to Australia
Marine Fishes of Southeast Asia contains nearly 2,000 hand-painted illustrations featuring 1,635 individual species. The paintings were completed over a 3-year...
Visiting the Neighbours
Australians in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
A million Australians went to Bali last year, following the millions of others who have made their way across Asia over the past century. Many travelers returned thinking they knew Asia and their personal experiences helped shape popular attitudes. This absorbing book unpacks their experiences, showing...
So Long! I'll Be Back In 30 Years
Three decades of life-changing encounters and events across Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
In "So Long! I'll Be Back in 30 Years", author Margo McCutcheon takes readers on a 30-year journey through Asia and an array of unique characters, adventures, disasters and life-changing encounters. Open the book randomly and step into the life of a Filipino girl living and thriving in a...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Competition Policy in East Asia clarifies the key issues and provides a framework for understanding competition policy, looking in-depth at a number of regulated sectors for additional perspectives.
Until two or three decades ago, competition and consumer protection policies were the preserve...
by Steven A. Leibo
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Updated annually, East & Southeast Asia provides just enough historical background on the evolution of Modern East & Southeast Asia to help students gain a thorough understanding—in one semester—of contemporary developments in this vital region. Broad introductory regional and comparative...
The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia
Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2007
In this rich intellectual history, Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in modern Asia is a political and religious reaction to the liberal and democratic values of the West. Nor is anti-Westernism a natural response to Western imperialism. Instead, by focusing on the agency and...