Asia category: 8064 books

Finding your way around the various regions of Japan is a breeze with this handy Tuttle Japan Traveler's Atlas. Designed for the adventurous traveler and containing all the maps you'll need on your explorations, this atlas includes many views that are not available anywhere else. The atlas...

In this engrossing cultural history of baseball in Taiwan, Andrew D. Morris traces the game’s social, ethnic, political, and cultural significance since its introduction on the island more than one hundred years ago. Introduced by the Japanese colonial government at the turn of the century, baseball...

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject History - Asia, grade: 1,7, University of Erfurt, course: Globalisation and the Muslim World, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The focus of this paper is the media system of the Arab world, its development, and the local and...

Bangkok, Singapore, Jakarta, Shanghai, Pattaya Crazy Horse returns to Asia with his follow up to A Year in the ‘Kok. “Every dissatisfied man in a western country should read this book.” “Funny and empowering. Reminds me why I moved to Thailand in the first place.” “Don’t visit Bangkok without reading this book first.” “Excellent.”

La Grande Muraglia, nata come Wanli changcheng, consiste in una lunghissima serie di mura situate nell'odierna Cina. È stata dichiarata dall'UNESCO patrimonio dell'umanità nel 1987 e inserita nel 2007 fra le sette meraviglie del mondo moderno. I mini-ebook di Passerino Editore sono guide agili, essenziali e complete, per orientarsi nella storia del mondo.

Singapore has established itself as one of Asia’s leading medical hubs, providing internationally accredited hospitals and specialty centers with highly qualified and well-respected doctors. With its global reputation as a medical convention and training center and its fast-growing basic...

This book explores how issues of ethics in war and warfare have been treated by major ethical traditions of Asia. It opens a discussion about whether there are universal standards in the ideologies of warfare between the major religious traditions of the world. While the chapters are written...

Essay from the year 2008 in the subject History - Asia, grade: 1,3, Muhlenberg College, course: The Modern Middle East, language: English, abstract: Abdülhamid II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (in office from 1876 to 1909), Muhammad Ali, ruler of Egypt (in office from 1805 to 1848), Mustafa Kemal...

Sprawling across several sun-drenched latitudes lies the 7,100 islands of the Philippines whose personality bursts at every natural seam. This most westernized nation in Asia owes much of its character to its turbulent, multicultural, and multilingual history and the Filipinos have maintained their...

34.000 km da percorrere in motocicletta in meno di due mesi. 8 Stati, 10 fusi orari, e poi il ritorno. Il continente più grande, l’Asia, da attraversare per due volte. Una moto con 700.000 km sotto le ruote. Una persona. Un sogno da realizzare. Strade disastrate, burocrazie incomprensibili, spazi...

The stand-off across the Straits of Taiwan continues to be one of the most dangerous confrontations in Asia. The technical superiority of the Taiwanese forces has been a major factor in maintaining balance, but as mainland China's armed forces modernize, Taiwan's advantages are being eroded. In response,...

Can you imagine eating kimchi—a spicy cabbage—for breakfast, lunch and dinner? In South Korea (SoKo), it is quite common to eat this particular dish with rice at any time of day. Nailah learned this and many other things while on her seasonal journey in Eastern Asia. From receiving a roll of toilet...

Rogue Raider is a humorous fictionalized history set in Southeast Asia during the First World War, which centers on a lovable rogue in the form of Captain Julius Lauterbach of the German Imperial Navy and the ship that catapulted the "Flashmanesque" Lauterbach to accidental fame (and infamy), His Imperial...

Between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, a distinct form of Islamic thought and practice developed among Muslim trading communities of the Indian Ocean. Sebastian R. Prange argues that this 'Monsoon Islam' was shaped by merchants not sultans, forged by commercial imperatives rather than in battle,...