Asia category: 8064 books
by David W Lloyd
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Laos satisfies all the romantic images of southeast Asia: perfumed frangipani trees, saffron-robed monks, rusty old bicycles and golden temples. Footprint’s 7th edition Laos Handbook will guide you from traditionally constructed villages and verdant countryside to the charming colonial city of Vientiane.
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Silk and Tea in the North
Scandinavian Trade and the Market for Asian Goods in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
This book links the trade of the Danish and Swedish East India companies to the British taste for tea, a Scandinavian craving for colourful Chinese silk textiles, import substitutions schemes and natural history in the eighteenth century. It is a global history exploring the exchange of silver for...
Development-Induced Displacement in India and China
A Comparative Look at the Burdens of Growth
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
The world seems to have recently discovered India and China as major players in Asia, and political and economic connections between the two countries are rapidly growing. Beyond the fashionable phenomenon, the two countries have much in common and many shared experiences. Both are developing countries...
Goods from the East, 1600-1800
Trading Eurasia
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Goods from the East focuses on the fine product trade's first Global Age: how products were made, marketed and distributed between Asia and Europe between 1600 and 1800. It brings together established scholars as well as new, to provide a full comparative and connective study of this trade.
by Jay Maclean
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Mostly in Economy Class continues the ups and downs of flights and sights in Europe revealed in—and reveled in—Sometimes in Business Class, but this time in Asia—where adventure, surprise and wonder are around every corner, in incidents and events from the apparently trivial to the exotic to...
by T. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Put in the wider context of British imperial and diplomatic aims in 1941-1945, the book clarifies the importance of Vietnam to Britain's regional objectives in Southeast Asia; concluding that Churchill was willing to sacrifice French colonial interests in Vietnam for his all-important 'special relationship' with the United States.
Reasons for the Success and Failure of Japan’s Mediation for Intra-State Conflicts in Aid Recipient Countries as Their Top ODA Donor
Case Studies of Cambodia (1997-1998) and Sri Lanka (2002-2009)
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Why was Japan able to successfully mediate an intra-State conflict only in Cambodia from 1997 to 1998 and not in Sri Lanka from 2002 to 2009 as their top ODA donor that had been expected to have much influence on these aid recipient countries and thus was highly motivated to mediate efficiently by using its aid?...
by Terrance Zepke
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
Do you dare...
...to swim with humpback whales?
...to embark on a Trans-Siberian Railway adventure?
...to take a Nile River adventure cruise?
...to chase tornados?
...to explore Asia's ancient Silk Road?
More than $263 BILLION is spent annually on adventure...
Japan's Development Aid to China
The Long-Running Foreign Policy of Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Paradoxically, Japan provides massive amounts of development aid to China, despite Japan's clear perception of China as a prime competitor in the Asia-Pacific region.
This clearly written and comprehensive volume provides an overview of the way Japan's aid to China has developed since 1979....
Azan on the Moon
Entangling Modernity along Tajikistan's Pamir Highway
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Azan on the Moon is an in-depth anthropological study of people’s lives along the Pamir Highway in eastern Tajikistan. Constructed in the 1930s in rugged high-altitude terrain, the road fundamentally altered the material and social fabric of this former Soviet outpost on the border with Afghanistan...
Scandalon
Running from Shame & Finding God's Scandalous Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
In this vivid and transparent memoir, Susan takes us on a fascinating journey into the streets and homes of modern China. The travel memoir is interspersed with Susan's personal story of emotional and spiritual sabotage and shame. Running away from scandal, she left the San Francisco Bay Area to teach...
by Trương Thái Du
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
This is the free old version of my new book. The book ISBN 9781370154548 affirms that Nan Jiao 南交 , Jiao Zhi 交阯 , Xiang Jun 象郡 , Jiu Zhen 九真, and Ri Nan 日南 are united concepts related to Chinese Classical Astronomy. On the way of opening the meanings of Nan Jiao, Jiao Zhi, Xiang...
Persian Empire
Illustrated Edition: Conquests in Mesopotamia and Egypt, Wars Against Ancient Greece, The Great Emperors: Cyrus the Great, Darius I and Xerxes I
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
The First Persian Empire was a country of the Achaemenid dynasty, based in Western Asia, founded by Cyrus the Great. Ranging at its greatest extent from the Balkans and Eastern Europe proper in the west to the Indus Valley in the east, it was larger than any previous empire in history. This book describes...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
This important DOD report from May 2013 provides extensive details on the status of the Chinese military. In addition to the new 2013 report, this unique ebook compilation includes seven other DOD annual reports for the years 2006 through 2012. These reports on military and security developments involving...