Asia category: 8064 books
Russian Culture in Uzbekistan
One Language in the Middle of Nowhere
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Recent political changes in Central Asia, where the United States is replacing Russia as the dominant power, are having a profound effect on Russian speakers in the region. These people, formerly perceived as progressive and engaging with Europe, are now confronted by the erasure of their literary,...
Asian American Fiction, History and Life Writing
International Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The last ten years have witnessed an enormous growth in American interest in Asia and Asian/American history. In particular, a set of key Asian historical moments have recently become the subject of intense American cultural scrutiny, namely China’s Cultural Revolution and its aftermath; the Korean...
by Gill Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Both torn from their homes in Laos, a boy and a moon bear cub form a deep bond in this “moving and memorable” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) tale of impossible odds and resilient hope, based on true and tragic conditions in Eastern Asia.
Twelve-year-old Tam, on a dare, ventures into a...
by Nicholas Fellows, Richard MacFarlane, Andrew Holland
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Exam board: OCR
Level: A Level
Subject: History
First teaching: September 2015
First exams: AS: Summer 2016, A Level: Summer 2017
An OCR endorsed resource
Successfully cover Unit Group 2 with the right amount of depth and pace. This bespoke series from the leading History publisher follows...
Azerbaijan - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
For Westerners, the modern state of Azerbaijan may be hard to pinpoint. This small, oil-rich country in the southern Caucasus, on the southwestern shore of the Caspian Sea, only made its way on to the contemporary world map after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. As the world shrinks and...
Mysteries of the Gobi
Searching for Wild Camels and Lost Cities in the Heart of Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
The Gobi is the largest, coldest and driest desert in Asia. Its shifting sands conceal ancient cities, 3,000-year-old mummies, dinosaur bones and areas where no man has set foot. It is also the last place on earth where the wild Bactrian camel clings to survival, its fragile habitat threatened by...
by
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
This anthology provides a lively and stimulating view of the lives of ordinary citizens in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. For the second edition of this popular textbook, readings have been updated and new essays added. The result is a timely collection that explores key themes...
The Heart of a Continent.
A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, Across the Gobi Desert, through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral, 1884-1894.
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Replica of 1896 edition by John Murray, London.
Elibron Classics. Oversize maps are available as a free download.
John Frederick Baddeley (July 1854 – Oxford, 16 February 1940) was a British traveller, scholar and journalist,
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband,...
The War That Never Ends
New Perspectives on the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
More than three decades after the final withdrawal of American troops from Southeast Asia, the legacy of the Vietnam War continues to influence political, military, and cultural discourse. Journalists, politicians, scholars, pundits, and others have used the conflict to analyze each of America's subsequent...
Douglas MacArthur
Statecraft and Stagecraft in America's East Asian Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
Buhite offers a trenchant evaluation of Douglas MacArthur's career in east Asia and his role in some of the most important military and diplomatic issues of the twentieth century. Concise and highly readable, this biography considers diplomatic fact in light of psychological insight, and asks us to...
The Remains of War
Bodies, Politics, and the Search for American Soldiers Unaccounted For in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2005
The ongoing effort of the United States to account for its missing Vietnam War soldiers is unique. The United States requires the repatriation and positive identification of soldiers’ bodies to remove their names from the list of the missing. This quest for certainty in the form of the material,...
by Artemio R. Guillermo
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Asia is one of the most rapidly developing regions in the world, and knowledge of the individual countries is crucial for our understanding of the area. The Republic of the Philippines, composed of a chain of islands in Southeast Asia, became a Spanish colony during the 16th century and was then ceded...
Worse Than a Monolith
Alliance Politics and Problems of Coercive Diplomacy in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
In brute-force struggles for survival, such as the two World Wars, disorganization and divisions within an enemy alliance are to one's own advantage. However, most international security politics involve coercive diplomacy and negotiations short of all-out war. Worse Than a Monolith demonstrates that...
Participation without Democracy
Containing Conflict in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Over the past quarter century new ideologies of participation and representation have proliferated across democratic and non-democratic regimes. In Participation without Democracy, Garry Rodan breaks new conceptual ground in examining the social forces that underpin the emergence of these innovations...