Asia category: 8064 books
by Yukichi Fukuzawa
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2009
Yukichi Fukuzawa rose from low samurai origins to become one of the finest intellectuals and social thinkers of modern Japan. Through his best-selling works, he helped transform an isolated feudal nation into a full-fledged international force.
In Outline of a Theory of Civilization, the author's...
by Johan Elverskog
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
In the contemporary world the meeting of Buddhism and Islam is most often imagined as one of violent confrontation. Indeed, the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 seemed not only to reenact the infamous Muslim destruction of Nalanda monastery in the thirteenth century but also to...
Asian Juggernaut
The Rise of China, India, and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
In Asian Juggernaut, the revelatory and important International Bestseller by Brahma Chellaney, a renowned authority on Asia’s political and economic development offers an incisive and insightful analysis of the region’s pivotal role on the world stage. Examining the rise of China, India, and...
Self and Sovereignty
Individual and Community in South Asian Islam Since 1850
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Self and Sovereignty surveys the role of individual Muslim men and women within India and Pakistan from 1850 through to decolonisation and the partition period.
Commencing in colonial times, this book explores and interprets the historical processes through which the perception of the Muslim individual...
Silk, Slaves, and Stupas
Material Culture of the Silk Road
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Following her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road, Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with a new captivating portrait focusing on material things. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas tells the stories of ten very different objects, considering their interaction with the peoples...
The Road to Oxiana
New edition linked and annotaded
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016
The Road to Oxiana is an account of Robert Byron’s ten-month journey to Iran and Afghanistan in 1933–34 in the company of Christopher Sykes. This travelogue is considered by many modern travel writers to be the first example of great travel writing. Bruce Chatwin has described it as “a sacred...
Istanbul & Ankara Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2015
Istanbul straddles both Asia and Europe and is located on two sides of the Bosphorus River. It is Turkey’s largest city and it was one of the three European Capitals of Culture in 2010. Ankara, in Anatolia province is the capital of Turkey and is the country’s second largest city. Ankara an interesting yet less-travelled place to visit.
by Beth Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2000
What Readers and Reviewers say about Half Baked in Taiwan:
"Entertaining, also very educational." Troy Henley, Columbus, Ohio.
"Half Baked in Taiwan is worth reading. Fowler writes wellshe hits the nail on the head." Mat Matich, Topics, (American Chamber of Commerce...
Memory Manifesto
A Walking Meditation through Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2017
Memory Manifesto’s 35 short chapters reveal Christopher G. Moore’s personal map of the Cambodia labyrinth. Moore worked as journalist, novelist, and essayist which took him through T-3 prison, Khmer Rouge minefields, border refugee camps in the company of activists, artists, film makers, musicians,...
by George N. Curzon
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
This edition is published in 2 volumes sold separately.
Replica of 1892 edition by Longmans, Green, and Co., London and New York.
Elibron Classics.
Oversize maps are available as a free download.
Persia and the Persian Question, written in 1892, has been considered...
A Victorian Holocaust
Iran in the Great Famine of 1869–1873
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
The death by famine of tens of millions of human beings in Asia and Africa during the Victorian era (1837–1901) is “the secret history of the nineteenth century” about which Western history books contain nothing. The Great Famine of 1869–1873 in Iran took 10–12 million lives, or two-thirds...
The Naked Tourist
In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
From the theme resorts of Dubai to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, a disturbing but hilarious tour of the exotic east—and of the tour itself
Sick of producing the bromides of the professional travel writer, Lawrence Osborne decided to explore the psychological underpinnings of tourism itself....
A Short History of Cambodia: From empire to survival
From empire to survival
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
New in the Short History of Asia series edited by Milton Osborne this is a concise and readable history of Cambodia from its rich and powerful past through the era of French protection the Vietnamese conflict the Pol Pot regime and to its present day incarnation as a constitutional monarchy and popular...
by Gerrie Lim
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
In this long-awaited sequel to bestselling “Invisible Trade: High-class sex for sale in Singapore”, Gerrie Lim unravels the secretive double lives led by Singapore’s beautiful, upscale escorts and other sex workers. There’s the girl who works at a public relations agency by day and moonlights...