Asia category: 8064 books
by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
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On the farther side of the great Pacific Ocean are the Philippine Islands. These form one of the many island groups that hang like a fringe or festoon on the skirt of the continent of Asia. Like most of the islands in the Pacific, the Philippines are inhabited...
Bhutan - Kingdom of Bhutan
Duthel Global Travel Books
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Bhutan South Asia Himalayas India Dzongkha Sikkim Assam Fee (feudal tenure) CONTENTS Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal Subtropics Buddhism Hinduism Thimphu Absolute monarchy Constitutional monarchy South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Parliamentary system Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck Jigme...
Packaging Post/Coloniality
The Manufacture of Literary Identity in the Francophone World
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2005
In Packaging Post/Coloniality, Richard Watts breaks from convention and reads Francophone books by their covers, focusing on the package over the content. Watts looks at the ways that the 'paratext'—the covers, illustrations, promotional summaries, epigraphs, dedications, and prefaces or forewords...
Governing Post-Imperial Siberia and Mongolia, 1911-1924
Buddhism, Socialism and Nationalism in State and Autonomy Building
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
The governance arrangements put in place for Siberia and Mongolia after the collapse of the Qing and Russian Empires were highly unusual, experimental and extremely interesting. The Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic established within the Soviet Union in 1923 and the independent Mongolian...
A Short History Of Malaysia:Linking East And West
Linking East and West
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
New in the Short History of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a readable, well-informed and comprehensive history of Malaysia from ancient past to hyper-modern present day. One of the last British colonies to achieve independence, Malaysia has been developed by its leaders as a model...
by Tan Malaka
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
From Jail to Jail is the political autobiography of a central though enigmatic figure of the Indonesian Revolution. Variously labeled a communist, Trotskyite, and nationalist, Tan Malaka managed, during the several decades of his political activity, to run afoul of nearly every political group and...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. National Defense University (NDU), the National Intelligence Council (NIC), and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) held a symposium in November 2015 that brought leading experts together...
A Delicate Relationship
The United States and Burma/Myanmar since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
In 2012, Barack Obama became the first U.S. president ever to visit Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. This official state visit marked a new period in the long and sinuous diplomatic relationship between the United States and Burma/Myanmar, which Kenton Clymer examines in A Delicate Relationship....
Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
No country in Asia in recent years has undergone so massive a political shift in so short a time as Myanmar. Until recently, the former British colony had one of the most secretive, corrupt, and repressive regimes on the planet, a country where Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was held...
Vietnam Rising
Culture and Change in Asia's Tiger Cub
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2008
From Vietnam’s recent acceptance into the World Trade Organization to its post-Vietnam War reform and socialist ideals, this overview concisely examines the cultural, political, and economic changes currently at work in Vietnam within a historical context and then discusses the effects such changes...
Diving Bali
The Underwater Jewel of Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Welltravelled divers all acknowledge that the best diving in the world is found in the warm waters of tropical Bali.
Bali is located in the famous "coral triangle," the center of the world's tropical marine diversity, and the island is blessed with a stunning variety of dive sites-shipwrecks,...
Indonesia Travel Atlas Third Edition
Indonesia's Most Up-to-date Travel Atlas
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
Finding your way around the various regions of Indonesia is a breeze with this handy Tuttle Travel Atlas. Designed for the adventurous traveler and containing all the maps you'll need on your explorations, this atlas includes many views that are available nowhere else.
This atlas is conveniently...
Malaysia Travel Atlas
includes Singapore & Brunei
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Finding your way around Malaysia (and also the island nation of Singapore and the kingdom of Brunei Darussalam) is a breeze with this handy Tuttle Travel Atlas.
The perfect travel guide,designed for adventurous travelers and containing all the maps you'll need on your explorations, this atlas...
by Martin Edge
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
‘The Front of Beyond’ is a collection of travellers’ tales from East Asia, Africa and the Middle East.In the late 1980s and the 1990s I was working as a lecturer. The only perk of this eighty hour a week job was ten weeks holiday a year. So two or three times a year I would leave the...