Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
Shadows in the Jungle
The Alamo Scouts Behind Japanese Lines in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
From the New York Times bestselling coauthor of A Higher Call, an up-close-and-personal account of the Alamo Scouts in World War II.
Determined to retake the Philippines ever since his ignominious flight from the islands in 1942, General Douglas MacArthur needed a first-rate intelligence-gathering...
by John Coast
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
"If you know where to look, you can still discover and recognize what it was that intoxicating John Coast fifty years ago." -Sir David Attenborough
This book is one of the great classics about Bali, now with dozens of illustrations and photographs.
Dancing out of Bali is a...
by Tan Siok Sun
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Dr Goh Keng Swee's public career spanned two eventful decades. He was a founding and key member of Singapore's ruling political party, and played a significant role in creating and shaping the destiny of Singapore today. His areas of responsibility were wide-ranging, including finance, defence and...
by Gopinath Pillai, K Kesavapany
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
From Tamils to Malayalees, from Bengalis to Punjabis, the diverse Indian community in Singapore has played a large part in building the country. To understand the Indian community, one must know certain basic facts about them.
First is their love for culture which transcends religious and linguistic...
by Rena Pederson
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Aung San Suu Kyi—Burma's "woman of destiny” and one of the most admired voices for freedom in the world today—comes alive through this brilliant rendering of Burma's tumultuous history
Award-winning journalist and former State Department speechwriter Rena Pederson brings to light...
Hô Chi Minh
Vers l'indépendance de la nation vietnamienne
Language: French
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Hô Chi Minh et l’indépendance du Viêt Nam en moins d’une heure !
Adulé dans son pays, Hô Chi Minh occupe une place à part dans l’histoire vietnamienne. Poussé par un ardent désir de voir son pays indépendant et unifié, celui que...
by Alice Pung
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Winner, 2011 Western Australian Book Awards
At twenty-something, Alice is eager for the milestones of adulthood: leaving home, choosing a career, finding friendship and love on her own terms. But with each step she takes she feels the sharp tug of invisible threads: the love and worry of her...
by Tony Pua
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
The book tells the tale of Malaysia's political economy, on how politics is deeply intertwined with the economy. The author backs his thesis that corruption, cronyism and abuse of power is crippling Malaysia's ability to compete in the global economy with facts and figures. His insights tells of how...
Translating Time
Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
Under modernity, time is regarded as linear and measurable by clocks and calendars. Despite the historicity of clock-time itself, the modern concept of time is considered universal and culturally neutral. What Walter Benjamin called “homogeneous, empty time” founds the modern notions of progress...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
While Confucius failed in his lifetime to rescue a crumbling civilization with his teachings, he was to become the most influential sage in human history. His thought, still remarkably current and even innovative after 2500 years, survives here in The Analects - a collection of brief aphoristic...
The Lady
Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Laureate and Burma's Prisoner
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2002
Now in eBook, the first full account of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's role in the struggle against Burma's military junta. Included is a new afterword by the author, which covers events from the time of the original publication in 1998 to Aung San Suu Kyi's release from house arrest in May 2002.
The Airmen and the Headhunters
A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
A true story of downed B-24s in Japanese-occupied Borneo and a native tribe that “makes us—like the airmen—rethink our definitions of civilized and savage” (Entertainment Weekly).
November 1944: Their B-24 bomber shot down on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast,...
Bali Chronicles
Fascinating People and Events in Balinese History
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2012
This book tells the story of Bali-the "paradise island of the Pacific"-its rulers and its people, and their encounters with the Western world.
Balinese history tells a fascinating story. For a thousand years, the peculiar splendor of BalineseHindu culture came very close to satisfying...
A Brief History Of Bali
Piracy, Slavery, Opium and Guns: The Story of a Pacific Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
This book tells the story of Bali—the "paradise island of the Pacific"—its rulers and its people, and their encounters with the Western world.
Bali is a perennially popular tourist destination. It is also home to a fascinating people with a long and dramatic history of interactions...