Asia category: 8064 books
If You Were Me and Lived in... China
A Child's Introduction to Cultures Around the World, #15
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Carole P. Roman's award winning series has traveling again and this time it's to East Asia to visit the People's Republic of China. In this book, younger readers can learn about the wide variety of climate when they read about China's vast size. They will begin their journey in China's ancient capital,...
If You Were Me and Lived in... South Korea
A Child's Introduction to Cultures Around the World, #3
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
Carole P. Roman takes you on a journey this time to Asia, landing in South Korea. Once again, children can learn how life is like for young people on the other side of the globe. From food to famous landmarks, they will learn that's it's easy to find something in common with people in different countries.
Horses Like Lightning
A Story of Passage Through the Himalayas
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
A tender account - by turns cultural exploration and memoir of a young woman's firsthand experience of change and continuity in one of the worlds most remote regions, through the lens of the horse and "horse culture."
At nineteen, Sienna Craig made her first venture deep into Mustang, an ethnically...
Experience Preferred... but not Required
Foreign Teachers in Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Foreign Teachers in Thailand
Dark comedy and a sometimes brutally realistic portrayal of the kinds of dubious characters who infest school staff rooms across Thailand, make this book essential reading for anyone who has ever taught English in Asia, and those who want to know why they do it!
by Janet Arrowood
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
This book is extracted from our much larger guide to Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia, and it focuses on Cambodia primarily. Janet Arrowood is a long-time and frequent visitor to Southeast Asia. Huge lakes, tremendous waterfalls, elephant rides, jungles, wonderful people, fabulous food. The sense of the new...
by Andrew Forbes, David Henley, Colin Hinshelwood
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
For much of the second half of the 20th century Cambodia was racked by war and famine. Considered a sideshow in the Vietnam War, the country was nevertheless invaded by both North and South Vietnam, bombed to smithereens by the United States, and—worst of all—ruled, between 1975 and 1979, by...
Aung San Suu Kyi
Leading the Burmese democracy movement...
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Aung San Suu Kyi
Burma
Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize
Sakharov Prize
Nobel Peace Prize
Jawaharlal Nehru Award
International Simón Bolívar Prize
Wallenberg Medal
Aung San
Yangon
Tatmadaw
British Empire...
by David Rowley
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
WARNING to British readers – This book has NOT been written by a celebrity and so may seem like total gaga.
Join Rowley in his light hearted and self-deprecating antics as he works his way around SE Asia, building communication towers on and off the beaten track. In Borneo he heads up...
Georgia - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Georgia lies between Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Black Sea. This small Caucasian country is used to playing a significant role in global geopolitics, and its strategic location at the crossroads of different civilizations has been a curse as...
by Chami Jotisalikorn, Karina Zabihi
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
With over 180 color photographs and insightful commentary, this Asian design book showcases the most luxurious and cutting edge pools and gardens of the Pacific region.
The new Asian garden is all about structure and sensuality, and the delicate balance of enhancing the architecture and design...
by Christian Pfeiffer
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2005
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject History - Asia, grade: A (= 1,0), Vesalius College Brussels, course: History of the Middle East, 15 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The Middle East of the present-days would look different without the Palestinian Liberation...
Photographic Guide to the Birds of Sri Lanka
Including Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutanh, Bangladesh, & the Maldives
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2002
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Sri Lanka and India is the best, most comprehensive photographic guide to the birds of South Asia.
Because of its vast size and geographical location, the Indian subcontinent has some of the world's most diverse avifauna. It boasts of thousands of species....
by John Man
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
A deeply researched and sweeping history that redefines our understanding of the Amazons and their culture, tracking the ancient legend into the modern world and examining its significance today.
Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive...
by Donna Baird
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Istanbul. Istanbul is Turkey's most populous city, and its cultural and financial center. Located on both sides of the Bosphorus, the narrow strait between the Black Sea and the Marmara Sea, Istanbul bridges Asia and Europe both physically and culturally....