Asian category: 13860 books
Japanese Animation
East Asian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Japanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives makes available for the first time to English readership a selection of viewpoints from media practitioners, designers, educators, and scholars working in the East Asian Pacific. This collection not only engages a multidisciplinary approach in understanding...
Human Rights in Asia
A Comparative Legal Study of Twelve Asian Jurisdictions, France and the USA
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Human Rights in Asia considers how human rights are viewed and implemented in Asia. It covers not just civil and political rights, but also social, economic and cultural rights.
This study discusses the problems arising from the fact that ideas of human rights have evolved in Western liberal...
Femininity in Asian Women Artists' Work from China, Korea and USA
If the Shoe Fits
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Patricia Karetzky discusses the metaphor of the shoe and how it is present in different women artists' work in China, Korea and USA. The artists discussed are: Peng Wei, Nina Kuo, Yin Xuizhen, Cai Jin, Xin Song, Il Sun Hong, Betty YaQuin Chou and Mimi Kim. Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky is O. Munsterberg...
K.V. Dominic Essential Readings
Poems about Social Justice, Women's Rights, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
K. V. Dominic Essential Readings gathers for the first time the three most important works of poetry from this shining new light of contemporary Indian verse in English: Winged Reason, Write Son, Write and Multicultural Symphony. A fourth collection of 22 previously unpublished poems round out a complete...
by Gordon Ramsay
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
On the second leg of his Great Escapes series, Gordon Ramsay sets out to discover the flavours of Asia, on a remarkable journey that leads him through Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia and Vietnam. 100 new recipes are inspired by the tastes and experiences he encounters along the way. In this book to accompany...
The Filipino-American Kitchen
Traditional Recipes, Contemporary Flavors
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
**Selected as a semifinalist in the 2007 IACP Cookbook Awards**
"In the current jumble of pan-Asian and Nuevo-Latino fusion, Aranas's sensible, solid home cooking stands out." —Food & Wine
In The Filipino-American Kitchen, Chicago-based chef and teacher Jennifer Aranas...
by Janet Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Designed as a guidebook to Asian Cuisine, From Brunei and Beyond takes readers through a tour of east and southeast Asia - provided a handy introduction to each country's vocabulary and signature dishes.
Wok Cooking Made Easy
Delicious Meals in Minutes
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Prepare delicious wok dishes from China, Thailand, India and all across Asia with this easy-to-follow wok cookbook.
Mention "wok cooking," and one immediately visualizes a huge wok being wielded above a mighty flame. One also thinks Asian "comfort food"—with accompanying...
Nation Work
Asian Elites and National Identities
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
As increasing attention is drawn to globalization, questions arise about the fate of "the nation," a political and social unit that for centuries has seemed the common-sense way to organize the world. In Nation Work, Timothy Brook and André Schmid draw together eight essays that use historical...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
For centuries, travelers have made Central Asia known to the wider world through their writings. In this volume, scholars employ these little-known texts in a wide range of Asian and European languages to trace how Central Asia was gradually absorbed into global affairs. The representations of the...
Strategic Coupling
East Asian Industrial Transformation in the New Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
In Strategic Coupling, Henry Wai-chung Yeung examines economic development and state-firm relations in East Asia, focusing in particular on South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore. As a result of the massive changes of the last twenty-five years, new explanations must be found for the economic success...
by NETLANCERS INC
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Collection Of Asian Traditional People Volume 3
Asia is also the origin of many of the most important and ancient world religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism.
Tales of Yukaghir, Lamut, and Russianized Natives of Eastern Siberia :- A collection of folklore...
Touch of Tropical Spice
From Chilli Crab to Laksa 75 Fabulous Recipes from Monsoon Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
The foods of Bali and Singapore come alive in A Touch of Tropical Spice, your chef-inspired guide to fresh, stylish and modern Asian cooking. Wendy Hutton, longtime author and ambassador of Southeast Asian cuisine developed this compilation cookbook alongside the masterful chefs at the Four Seasons...
Sacred Objects in Secular Spaces
Exhibiting Asian Religions in Museums
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
We have long recognized that many objects in museums were originally on display in temples, shrines, or monasteries, and were religiously significant to the communities that created and used them. How, though, are such objects to be understood, described, exhibited, and handled now that they are in...