Asia category: 8064 books
Theravada Traditions
Buddhist Ritual Cultures in Contemporary Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Theravada Traditions offers a unique comparative approach to understanding Buddhism: it examines popular rituals of central importance in the predominantly Theravada Buddhist cultures of Laos, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia. Instead of focusing on how religious ideas have impacted the...
More Than Words
Transforming Script, Agency, and Collective Life in Bali
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Grounded in ethnographic and archival research on the Indonesian island of Bali, More Than Words challenges conventional understandings of textuality and writing as they pertain to the religious traditions of Southeast Asia. Through a nuanced study of Balinese script as employed in rites of healing,...
Post-war Japan as a Sea Power
Imperial Legacy, Wartime Experience and the Making of a Navy
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
In Post-war Japan as a Sea Power, Alessio Patalano incorporates new, exclusive source material to develop an innovative approach to the study of post-war Japan as a military power. This archival-based history of Asia's most advanced navy, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF), looks beyond...
Taiwan
Volete scoprire l'Asia, la cultura cinese, i templi, la gastronomia e passare di sorpresa in sorpresa?
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 24, 2018
Volete scoprire l'Asia, la cultura cinese, i templi, la gastronomia e passare di sorpresa in sorpresa??
Allora ... Benvenuti a Taiwan, una destinazione conveniente con fascino esotico!
Leggete a vostro ritmo e sfogliate in base alle foto, ai siti o agli interessi
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eGuía Viaje: Phuket
Perla de Asia, con sus hermosas playas, paisajes impresionantes, gente amable y naturaleza salvaje
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Le damos la bienvenida a su nueva "eGuía Viaje ciudad: Phuket y su región" que esperamos le ayudará a descubrir una parte de este hermoso país, la Perla de Asia, con sus hermosas playas, paisajes impresionantes, gente amable y naturaleza salvaje. Una mezcla de la cultura, la naturaleza...
by Cloé Drieu
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Between the founding of Soviet Uzbekistan in 1924 and the Stalinist Terror of the late 1930s, a nationalist cinema emerged in Uzbekistan giving rise to the first wave of national film production and an Uzbek cinematographic elite. In Cinema, Nation, and Empire in Uzbekistan Cloé Drieu uses Uzbek...
by Cristina Rebiere
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 23, 2019
¿Quiere descubrir el futuro?
Entonces, bienvenido a Singapur, ¡un destino que le encantará!
¿Quiere descubrir Asia en su mejor momento, el de un futuro que combine ecología y tecnología?
Por lo tanto, ¡Singapur es para usted!
Esperamos que nuestro eGuide demuestre que este viaje...
by Giorgio Manganelli
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 11, 2014
«Andare in Asia, eh? So già cosa vi immaginate. Qui sarà tutta una luminaria di illuminazioni, una visione di visioni, una rivelazione di cose che, altrove, non si rivelano. Credete? Mandate a girar per l'Asia un professore nevrotico, diventato poi pensionato, poi gazzettiere, e il risultato sarà...
by Franco Mazzei, Vittorio Volpi
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Cina, Giappone, India: gli autori illustrano e spiegano le specificità delle potenze asiatiche con un approccio attento alla geopolitica, agli effetti dell’interdipendenza economica prodotta (o imposta) dalla globalizzazione e soprattutto alle peculiarità culturali come fattori essenziali dell’identità...
by Adrian Vickers
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
The Island of Bali—a true paradise is explored in this classic travelogue.
From the artists and writers of the 1930s to the Eat, Pray, Love tours so popular today, Bali has drawn hoards of foreign visitors and transplants to its shores. What makes Bali so special, and how has it managed to...
by Parapuram Joseph John
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
I was editor of The Malaya Tribune, a daily newspaper in Singapore, sleepily okaying Page One when 17 Japanese Zero bombers shattered the night. It was December 8, 1941. Having been fed daily stories full of optimism from London, we in Singapore hadn’t an inkling that war with Japan was imminent...
Genghis Khan (Illustrated)
Makers of History
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
The word khan is not a name, but a title. It means chieftain or king. It is a word used in various forms by the different tribes and nations that from time immemorial have inhabited Central Asia, and has been applied to a great number of potentates and rulers that have from time to time arisen among...
Bones around My Neck
The Life and Exile of a Prince Provocateur
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Prince Prisdang Chumsai (1852–1935) served as Siam’s first diplomat to Europe during the most dramatic moment of Siam’s political history, when its independence was threatened by European imperialism. Despite serving with patriotic zeal, he suffered irreparable social and political ruin based...
Shenzhen
A Travelogue from China
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Shenzhen is entertainingly compact with Guy Delisle’s observations of life in urban southern China, sealed off from the rest of the country by electric fences and armed guards. With a dry wit and a clean line, Delisle makes the most of his time spent in Asia overseeing outsourced production for a...