Asia category: 8064 books
by Michael J. Cook
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Many aircraft journeys between Western Australia and Singapore, but that’s where the real travel starts. By train and air but mostly train throughout Malaysia and Thailand. Many warmed beds in cheap hotels and backpackers rooms in remote towns in both countries. Travels to cities and towns, many...
Asia, Europe, and the Emergence of Modern Science
Knowledge Crossing Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This volume brings together essays from leading thinkers to examine what role Asian traditions of knowledge played in the rise of modern science in Europe, the implications this has for the epistemology of science, and whether pre-modern Asian traditions can provide resources for advancing scientific knowledge in future.
by Laurence Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Bradt's Kyrgyzstan remains the only English-language guide dedicated solely to this astounding country, described as 'the Switzerland of central Asia' and regarded by many as the most beautiful country in the world. This new, thoroughly updated fourth edition further extends its comprehensive coverage...
TIMELESS ON THE SILK ROAD
An Odyssey From London To Hanoi
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
After riding her motorcycle across Africa, Heather Ellis rides the fabled Silk Roads of antiquity from London to Hanoi. What unfolds is a journey of courage, hardship and immense natural beauty as she rides through Central Asia to Australia. Believing this is her last adventure, her one last search...
Puṣpikā: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions
Contributions to Current Research in Indology Volume 4
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Puṣpikā Volume 4 contains the proceedings of the seventh International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (Leiden 2015). The fourteen papers included here cover a rich variety of topics related to the intellectual traditions of South Asia such as grammar, poetry and philosophy, examined from...
The New Entrepreneurs of Europe and Asia
Patterns of Business Development in Russia, Eastern Europe and China
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
While attention has been focused on high-level struggles over control of giant enterprises in China and the former Soviet bloc, a remarkable but underreported revolution has been occurring at the grass-roots level. This volume examines the profiles of entrepreneurs and the patterns of business development...
Asian Style Hotels
Bali, Java, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
With more than 500 ravishing full-color photographs, Asian Style Hotels brings you to the best hotels in Southeast Asia.
Hotels from Bali, Java, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand are showcased in great detail. The super-deluxe establishments included here are all at the cutting-edge of hotel...
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Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Since the late 1990s, Asian nations have increasingly encouraged, facilitated, or demanded the return of emigrants. In this interdisciplinary collection, distinguished scholars from countries around the world explore the changing relations between nation-states and transnational mobility. Taking into...
by Max Lovell-Hoare, Sophie Ibbotson
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
This new edition of Bradt's Uzbekistan continues to offer more practical detail for independent travelers than any other guidebook to that country, written by expert authors who have lived and worked in Central Asia since 2008. With first-hand descriptions of everything from UNESCO World Heritage...
by Pouyan Shekarloo
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject History - Asia, grade: B+ (2), The American Central University (Department of History), course: Russian Revolutions, language: English, abstract: In the summer of 1927, the government and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union fell victim to an acute...
Transregional Trade and Traders
Situating Gujarat in the Indian Ocean from Early Times to 1900
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Blessed with numerous safe harbours, accessible ports, and a rich hinterland, Gujarat has been central to the history of Indian Ocean maritime exchange that involved not only goods, but also people and ideas. This volume maps the trajectory of the extra-continental interactions of Gujarat and how...
ASEAN's Half Century
A Political History of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
This authoritative book provides a comprehensive political history of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the ten members of which are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Leading scholar Donald E. Weatherbee follows...
by Yang-May Ooi
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Ambitious young lawyer Fei-Li Qwong has steered her major clients to the successful launch of their visionary sanitorium just outside Kuala Lumpur. Piers and Ginny Wyndham claim their Centre for Mental Health and Excellent will revolutionise Asia’s health care practices. Fei is proud to be part of...
The Year I Became a Nomad
A journey through Asia on a quest for freedom, love and happiness
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Out of Office... For Good About to turn forty, Carlos Peñalba quits his senior position at a financial software firm in New York City to travel through Asia for a year. Although his main objective is to explore a continent almost unknown to him, he also intends to use his journey to fulfill...