Asia category: 8064 books
by Beth Yahp
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
A dazzling memoir from a talented Malaysian writer about family and home, and a searing portrait of the country of her birth.
In this riveting memoir Beth persuades her ageing parents on a road trip around their former home, Malaysia. She intends to retrace their honeymoon of 45 years before,...
by Ann Caddell Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
A concise, information-packed background of the history and culture of Vietnam, including the country's relations with the United States.
Comprehensive and authoritative, this book accurately describes this fascinating country. The author begins with a description of the geographical features...
The Emerald Buddha
- Its History and Chronicles -
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2016
In the Royal Palace of Bangkok is one of the most revered Buddhist images in the entire world. This book is the folklore and actual history of this image. From the time it was sculptured in 43BCE, the amazing journeys through Asia and the strange incidents around this image. From India to the fabled...
Serpentine
The True Story of a Serial Killer's Reign of Terror from Europe to South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
New York Times Bestseller: The nightmare odyssey of a charismatic serial killer and a trail of terror stretching halfway around the world.
There was no pattern to the murders, no common thread other than the fact that the victims were all vacationers, robbed of their possessions and slain in...
South Korea
The Enigmatic Peninsula
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2016
A Bill-Brysonesque romp through this often-overlooked travellers’ gem of East Asia.
For seventeen years, journalist, teacher, and coach Mark Dake has called South Korea home. Now, with his longtime Korean friend Heju, he sets out on a four-month, ten-thousand-kilometre road trip, determined...
The New Great Game
Blood and Oil in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
In the tradition of The Prize, a contemporary look at the history, passion, and politics of oil and gas resources, and the struggle to control them.
Using the concept of the “Great Game” that Rudyard Kipling immortalized in his novel Kim, Kleveman argues that there is now a new Great Game in...
A Short History of Bali: Indonesia's Hindu Realm
Indonesia's Hindu Realm
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
A Short History of Bali covers the entire history of this intriguing and mysterious island from before the Bronze Age to the presidency of Megawati Sukarnoputri and the tragedy of the Kuta bombings on 12 October 2002. It looks at the arrival of Indian culture early European contact the role of anthropologists...
Living House
An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
The Living House is a pioneering work by respected anthropologist Roxana Waterson that has become a classic in its field. It is first book of its kind to present a detailed picture of houses within the complex social and symbolic fabric of indigenous South-East Asian peoples.
The main focus...
Imperial Alchemy
Nationalism and Political Identity in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
The mid-twentieth century marked one of the greatest watersheds of Asian history, when a range of imperial constructs were declared to be nation-states, either by revolution or decolonisation. Nationalism was the great alchemist, turning the base metal of empire into the gold of nations. To achieve...
by William Warren
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Renowned for its natural wealth since ancient times, the southern Thai island of Phuket has acquired a new kind of international celebrity in more recent days as a place of rest and relaxation for over a million foreign visitors a year. Situated off the western coast of the Malay Peninsula, Phuket...
by Henry Scott Stokes
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
In 1941, Imperial Japan rapidly brought an end to the British Empire in Asia. Because a non-white race dared to upset the white colonialists’ status quo in Asia, the British resented the Japanese long after the war. Mr. Henry Scott-Stokes states that he held such a view as well before arriving in...
Year of Fire Dragons
An American Woman's Story of Coming of Age in Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
In 2010, bookish 22-year-old Shannon follows her Eurasian boyfriend to Hong Kong, eager to forge a new love story in his hometown. But when work sends him to London a month later, Shannon embarks on a wide-eyed newcomer's journey through Hong Kong – alone.She teaches in a local school as the only foreigner,...
L'Asia ai miei occhi
Un quarto di secolo di economia, storia e tradizione dal taccuino di una viaggiatrice d’eccezione
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Imprenditrice partenopea giramondo che conobbe per la prima volta l'Asia da giovanissima, Stefania Tucci riavvolge la pellicola di un quarto di secolo di viaggi in alcuni dei luoghi più affascinanti della terra. Il suo taccuino tiene meticolosamente traccia dei profondi cambiamenti che hanno attraversato...
by Gerrie Lim
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2004
Welcome to the very real, largely hidden, and often surreal world of high-class sex for sale in Singapore, where the sexual desires of this tiny island run the gamut from simple missionary zeal to the cracking of the whip. Never before have outsiders been offered such a fascinating look into the weird...