Southeast category: 2400 books
Everyday Malay
Phrase Book and Dictiionary
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
This is a travel sized and easytouse Malay phrasebook, dictionary, and beginning Malay language book
Bahasa Malaysia (literally "the Malaysian language") is based on Malay which is the mother tongue of the Malays of the Peninsula and the people of central eastern Sumatra. Malay...
Vientiane
Transformations of a Lao landscape
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2006
Providing insights into this neglected Southeast Asian city, this interesting book interprets Vientiane’s landscape - physical as well as imagined - as a reflection of key aspects of Lao geo-political history, the nature of Lao urbanism, and its critical relation to constructions of Lao identity...
A Geek in Indonesia
Discover the Land of Balinese Healers, Komodo Dragons and Dangdut
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
For anyone wanting to move beyond tired travel guide cliches, A Geek in Indonesia is a hip, irreverent and streetwise introduction to Southeast Asia's biggest country.
Jump from the beaches of Bali to a tour bus circuit of the fascinating island of Java and come face to face with the reality...
by Martin Stuart-Fox
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2008
Laos is the smallest state in terms of population, the weakest militarily, and the least developed economically in mainland Southeast Asia. Yet a glance at the map shows how strategically it is positioned, between Thailand and Vietnam and between Cambodia and China. As in the past Laos was a crossroads...
The Longest Journey
Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
The pilgrimage to Mecca, or Hajj, has been a yearly phenomenon of great importance in Muslim lands for well over one thousand years. Each year, millions of pilgrims from throughout the Dar al-Islam, or Islamic world, stretching from Morocco east to Indonesia, make the trip to Mecca as one of the five...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2018
This report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
The competition for power and influence between China and the United States in Southeast Asia has presented strategic uncertainties in the region. Vietnam, like the rest of Southeast Asia, has...
by Wendy Khadijah Moore
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
Featuring beautiful photographs of Malaysia along with insightful historical commentary, this visual guide to Malaysia is a wonderful exploration of Asia's tropical peninsula.
Lying at the heart of Southeast Asia, Malaysia offers a panoply of Asian colors, impressions, smells, noises, tastes...
Photographic Guide to the Birds of Thailand
Including Southeast Asia & the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Tuttle is proud to present the very first comprehensive photographic guide to the birds of mainland Southeast Asia, the Philippines and Borneo. Included are the birds of Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand and Indochina, as well as those found in South China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
This book covers...
The Limits of Alignment
Southeast Asia and the Great Powers since 1975
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
The Limits of Alignment is an engaging and accessible study that explores how small states and middle powers of Southeast Asia ensure their security in a world where they are overshadowed by greater powers. John D. Ciorciari challenges a central concept in international relations theory—that states...
Malay Kingship in Kedah
Religion, Trade, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
The book probes and examines traditional sources of royal power and control, as well as indigenous socio-political systems in the Malay world. It is focused on the north-western Malaysian Sultanate of Kedah which is acknowledged as the oldest unbroken independent kingship line in the ‘Malay and...
Social Policy in East and Southeast Asia
Education, Health, Housing and Income Maintenance
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Social Policy in East and South East Asia provides the first systematic comparison of the policy sectors of income maintenance, health, housing and education in Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. It focuses particularly on the provision and financing arrangements of these four Asian newly...
Look East, Cross Black Waters
India's Interest in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
India’s core goals for Southeast Asia are in basic harmony with those of the United States, including regional stability, peaceful settlement of territorial disputes, and containment of radicalism Still, America should not expect India to enter any sort of alliance, nor join any coalition to balance...
Race and British Colonialism in Southeast Asia, 1770-1870
John Crawfurd and the Politics of Equality
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
The idea of "race" played an increasing role in nineteenth-century British colonial thought. For most of the nineteenth century, John Crawfurd towered over British colonial policy in South-East Asia, being not only a colonial administrator, journalist and professional lobbyist, but also...
by Ellen Boccuzzi
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
With the acceleration of global migration, literature by migrant writers has emerged as a powerful medium for describing the ways in which global forces are experienced at the personal level. Migrant literature offers a compelling counter‐narrative to abstract visions of globalization, grounding...