Southeast category: 2400 books
The Site of the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus in Singapore
Entwined Histories of a Colonial Convent and a Nation, 1854–2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
The Site of the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus in Singapore: Entwined Histories of a Colonial Convent and a Nation, 1854–2015 explores key issues and developments in colonial and postcolonial Singapore by examining one particular site in central Singapore: the former Convent of the Holy Infant...
Majulah!
50 Years of Malay/Muslim Community in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
The Malay/Muslim community, comprising approximately 13% of Singapore's population, is an integral part of modern Singapore's formative years. The community has come a long way and accomplished plenty. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong lauded the communit
by Cheng Lian Pang
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Singapore's success story is essentially a "people" story. Singaporeans have good reason to celebrate the nation's golden jubilee with pride. In the short space of five decades the country has moved from Third World to First, and its real GDP has grown by 40 times! For this phenomenal progress,...
by Harriette Rinaldi
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The name of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot evokes memories of utter horror, eerily reminiscent of the nightmare of the Holocaust and presaging other genocidal regimes that continue into the 21st century. Witnessing the rise of the Khmer Rouge from different perspectives, the four fictional narrators of...
by Yajna Raj Satyal
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2004
This book is an attempt to provide a complete and straightforward analysis of international tourism in relation to tourism in Nepal, explaining all the elements that contribute to a complete understanding of the techniques of tourism.Tourism, as we all know, is an international phenomenon and its activity...
by Terence Lee
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
This book explores this inherent contradiction present in most facets of Singaporean media, cultural and political discourses, and identifies the key regulatory strategies and technologies that the ruling People Action Party (PAP) employs to regulate Singapore media and culture, and thus govern the...
The Roots of Terrorism in Indonesia
From Darul Islam to Jem'ah Islamiyah
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Available for the first time in English, this groundbreaking book is an in-depth investigation of the development of jihadism from the earliest years of Indonesian independence in the late 1940s to the terrorist bombings of the past decade. The Indonesian journalist Solahudin shows with rare clarity...
Those Were the Days: Funny, Crazy & Weird
50 Malaysian Short Stories and Photos of the 1950s to The1970s
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Those Were The Days: on Funny, Crazy & Weird 50 Malaysian Short Stories and Photos of the 1950s to the1970s The book covers three decades of Malaysian social history based on actual persons, true events and genuine stories. Those were the days filled with joy, laughter and good memories... This...
The Lao Isan Smile/s
Secrets of the Sticky Rice Lao Isan Folks
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Secrets of the Sticky Rice Lao Isan Folks
Many smiles have been examined but what of the famous Lao Isan Smile/s? It turns out they are less problematic, more good-hearted and less agenda-heavy than some smiles one might get. In fact, the Lao Isan people are what keep Thailand bubbling along with...
Imperial Bandits
Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Black Flags raided their way from southern China into northern Vietnam, competing during the second half of the nineteenth century against other armed migrants and uplands communities for the control of commerce, specifically opium, and natural resources, such as copper. At the edges of three...
Another Asia
Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2006
The book weaves through an intricate tapestry of ideas relating to pan-Asianism, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and friendship, and positions the early modernist tensions of the period within—and against—the spectre of a unified Asia that concealed considerable political differences. The book draws...
A Thailand Diary & Thailand Take Two
Boxed Sets, #1
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
A Thailand Diary takes you into the lives of ordinary Thais through its 365 entries
Thailand Take Two is a comprehensive analysis of Thai lifestyle and culture
by Barry Pomeroy
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2016
Going Back to Bangkok tells the story of traveling with my girlfriend in South East Asia. In many ways it follows from the more than six months I spent in South East Asia five years earlier which I detail in How to Get to Bangkok. She and I traveled up and down the country of Thailand and into Laos,...
A Thailand Diary: Volume 2
A Thailand Diary, #2
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
With real people and real events, take a virtual tour of everyday life in the Land of Smiles buy browsing this selectopm of Diary Entries.
Meet some interesting characters (only names have been changed) and I suspect you'll be surprised at some of their stories.
Thailand wil never cease...