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This beautifully photographed travel pictorial captures the people, art, architecture, food and landscapes of the Philippines. The Philippine Archipelago with its 7,100 islands is culturally diverse and unique in Southeast Asia, and renowned for the splendor of its coastal beaches and terraced...

The authors are outstanding scholars engaged in the study of language varieties spoken in 'convergence areas' in which speakers are multilingual in languages of at least two but sometimes all three language families. Many of the contributions present new data collected in fieldwork. The geographic...

In Volume 3 of the Max Krueger Adventure series, Max Krueger’s girlfriend has disappeared, and the tough ex-mercenary is angry. Very angry. What Max and Manaha’s crafty Chief of Police, Colonel ‘Diablo’ Fernandez, don’t know is that the beautiful woman has fallen into the hands of a fiendish...

In Volume 4 of the Max Krueger Adventure series, Max Krueger, tough ex-British Army officer and former mercenary from the jungles of Africa is once again operating his tugboat from the steamy wharves of Manaha, capital city of the turbulent South East island national of Verubia. Hired to hunt down a...

This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. 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...

The following narrative is a record of my experiences during the late memorable war between China and Japan. Without going into any detailed account of my earlier life, some few facts concerning myself are probably necessary for the better understanding of the circumstances which led up to the events...

Locating Asian Australian Cultures is a timely and challenging interdisciplinary compilation that sets a contemporary benchmark for Asian Australian studies and its future directions. In the dynamic field of diasporic Asian studies, Asian Australian Studies is an emerging and contentious area....

This book from the series ''My Roads'' is about Cambodia which i visited more than 30 times and even resided there for a while.Cambodia, officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia (Khmer: ព្រះរាជាណាចក្រកម្ពុជា, Preăh Réachéanachâk Kâmpŭchéa, , is a...

How India Got Her People The Invasion of Alexander the Great How the Mohammedan Armies Invaded India The Empire of the Moghuls The Light of the World How Europe Found the Sea-Road to India How the Empire of the Moghuls Broke Up Dupleix's Great Plot How Clive Saved the English From the Black Hole to...

For nearly 800 years since his death in 1227 archeologists, treasure hunters, scientists and explorers have been searching for the tomb of Chinggis Qa’an (aka erroneously Ghengis Khan), the 13th century Mongol emperor who conquered and ruled more of the world than anyone before or since. The Hunted...

Malaysia is one of the most intriguing countries in Asia in many respects. It consists of several distinct areas, not only geographically but ethnically as well; along with Malays and related groups, the country has a very large Indian and Chinese population. The spoken languages obviously vary at...

From the author of What Elephants Know, a 2017 ALA Notable Children's Book and the 2017 South Asia Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature award winner, comes this stunning companion novel about the complex relationship between people and nature and the harsh realities of life in the...

Los cambios, los conflictos, las esperanzas de la población femenina en esta compleja región de Asia sometida a continuos avances y retrocesos. Durante treinta años Ángeles Espinosa ha ido dando cuenta de la realidad de sus mujeres a través de las imposiciones religiosas y culturales, los cambios...

The writing is evocative, lively, thought provoking and captivating. The reader is taken on a journey through time, place and imagination and it is a pleasure to follow Matschoss in his travels. The book is a feast of sensory detail which makes the reader feel that she or he is right there with the writer....