Asia category: 8064 books
Artist's Journey to Bali
The Island of Art, Magic and Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
An Artist's Journey to Bali is much more than your usual travel guide to the beautiful and mysterious Indonesian island of Bali.
Written and illustrated by renowned artist Betty Reynolds, this Bali travel guide contains the author's original watercolor art depicting the wonderful island whose...
Foundations of Chinese Civilization
The Yellow Emperor to the Han Dynasty (2697 BCE - 220 CE)
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
This is the only comic or graphic novel of its kind that addresses Chinese history both accessibly and accurately for all age levels.
Taps into librarians, educators, and parents who are looking for ways to get students and children reading about China, and who are often looking for such resources...
It's All Chinese To Me
An Overview of Chinese Culture, Travel & Etiquette (Fully Revised and Expanded)
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
It's All Chinese to Me is a fun and authentic introduction to Chinese culture that allows readers, tourists, and business travelers to experience what ultimately makes China so unique—its people.
Learn about Chinese customs, proper etiquette for all types of situations, and how to interact...
THE GREAT SUCCESSOR: KIM JONG-UN - A POLITICAL CARTOON
An epic comic of the Dark Kingdom and the passing of power to a third Kim
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
THE GREAT SUCCESSOR
KIM JONG-UN – A POLITICAL CARTOON
An epic comic of the Dark Kingdom and the passing of power to a third Kim.
WHERE THERE IS TYRANNY THERE IS RESISTANCE!
THE 3RD GENERATION SUCCESSOR WILL NOT ESCAPE THE RESISTANCE OF HIS PEOPLE!
THE GREAT SUCCESSOR details the realities...
Tokyo on Foot
Travels in the City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
This prize-winning book is both an illustrated tour of a Tokyo rarely seen in Japan travel guides and an artist's warm, funny, visually rich, and always entertaining graphic memoir.
Florent Chavouet, a young graphic artist, spent six months exploring Tokyo while his girlfriend interned at a...
by Lim SK, Chan Kok Sing, Chen JY
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
With illustrations depicting modern-day context, this book attests to the classic's insight and practicality, rendering it a must-read that promises the essentials of all human relationships.
Japanese Cooking with Manga
The Gourmand Gohan Cookbook - 59 Easy Recipes Your Friends will Love!
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Three friends walk you through their best Japanese recipes—in expressive, humorous illustrations!
Cooking should be fun, and this highly entertaining Japanese cookbook for beginners is packed full of humor and whimsical illustrations. Japanese Cooking with Manga started out as "Gourmand...
by Lesley-Anne, Monica Lim
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Danger Dan and Gadget Girl are back together for another time-travelling adventure, involving riots, a musician, spicy noodles and a flood! Say what? In Danger Dan Tackles the Majulah Mayhem, it’s up to Danny and Melody, to save the composer of the national anthem from giving up on music. But the...
A Monsoon Feast: Short stories to celebrate the cultures of Kerala and Singapore
Short stories to celebrate the cultures of Kerala and Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Across the seas, the winds blow between two lands, whispering back and forth what is seen, heard, tasted, smelt, felt in each place: the green trees, the tropical heat, the lush rain, the peoples of enterprise and culture, the aromas of different flavours and more. A Monsoon Feast is the point at which...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This edition combines the 1901 translation by William Muss Arnolt and the 1920 An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic on the Basis of Recently Discovered Texts by Jastrow and Clay. According to Wikipedia: "The Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem from Mesopotamia, is amongst the earliest surviving...
Memories from India
1, #1
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
A collection of Travel in south India to lesser known beautiful, historical locales. Locales where buddhism had spread thousands of years ago and refound and restiored.
Short stories about Indian black magic and life in India
by Jessica Hagedorn
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Dramatic version of Dogeaters *New book being published by Viking/Penguin in 2003
by John Pilger
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Throughout his distinguished career as a journalist and film-maker, John Pilger has looked behind the 'official' versions of events to report the real stories of our time.
The centrepiece of this new, expanded edition of his bestselling Distant Voices is Pilger's reporting from East Timor,...
by Lafcadio Hearn
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
First published in 1904, just after his death, this analysis of Japanese culture includes chapters on Strangeness and Charm, The Communal Cult, Developments of Shinto, Worship and Purification, The Rule of the Dead, and more. According to Wikipedia: "Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (27 June 1850 26 September...