Southeast category: 2400 books
Spirit of Wood
The Art of Malay Woodcarving
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
With dozens of beautiful photographs and extensive text, this Malaysian art book is a testament to the skill and spirituality of Malaysia's traditional woodcarvers.
Wood has always played a significant role in the Malay world, including the Malay Peninsula, as a means of shelter, livelihood,...
The Promise of the Foreign
Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2005
In The Promise of the Foreign, Vicente L. Rafael argues that translation was key to the emergence of Filipino nationalism in the nineteenth century. Acts of translation entailed technics from which issued the promise of nationhood. Such a promise consisted of revising the heterogeneous and violent...
Indonesian Flash Cards
(Downloadable Audio Included)
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Indonesian Flash Cards is an excellent new Indonesian language learning resource for beginning students of Indonesian.
Before heading out to Bali, the best way to learn Indonesian is to start practicing with these flashcards and give a boost to your Indonesian language skills. Since Indonesian...
Writers Editors Critics (WEC)
Vol. 6, No. 2 (Sep. 2016)
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Writers Editors Critics (WEC) An International Biannual Refereed Journal of English Language and Literature
Volume 6 Number 2 (September 2016)
ISSN: 2231-198X
Special Issue: a tribute to Indian poet Mahasweta Devi (14 January 1926 - 28 July 2016)
A Poetic Tribute to Mahasweta Devi - K....
Writers Editors Critics (WEC)
Vol. 7, No. 1 (March 2017)
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Writers Editors Critics (WEC) An International Biannual Refereed Journal of English Language and Literature
Volume 7 Number 1 (March 2017)
ISSN: 2231 - 198X
RESEARCH PAPERS
The Confessional Voice and Rebellious Cry of Kamala Das as Visualized in her Poetical Works: A Brief Analysis -...
Stealing with the Eyes
Imaginings and Incantations in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
The Tanimbar Islands of Indonesia are remote and largely neglected by outsiders. Will Buckingham went there, as an anthropologist in training, with a mission. He hoped to meet three remarkable sculptors: the crippled Matias Fatruan, the buffalo hunter Abraham Amelwatin, and Damianus Masele, who was...
by Spalding Gray, James Leverett
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
“It took courage to do what Spalding did—courage to make theatre so naked and unadorned, to expose himself in this way and fight the demons in public. In doing so, he entered our hearts—my heart—because he made his struggle my struggle. His life became my life.”—Eric Bogosian“Virtuosic....
by Ananya S Guha
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Enjoy this poem collection.“The fifty-two new poems in this collection are primarily driven by Ananya S Guha’s raw emotion — that of anger, disappointment, and sometimes helplessness at the political state of affairs. These are words of protest, dissonance and dissent that speak out loud against...
Unsettling Partition
Literature, Gender, Memory
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2006
The Partition of India in 1947 marked the birth of two modern nation-states and the end of British colonialism in South Asia. The move towards the 'two nation solution' was accompanied by an unprecedented mass migration (over twelve million people) to and from areas that would become India and Pakistan.
Diverse...
by Bun T. Lim
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2007
This is a true story about one of many family's life and death in Cambodia during The Khmer Rouge Regime. What we did to survive, to escape to a better place and hope for a better life. We've lost many family members during the bloodshed of The Khmer Rouge.
The four of us were very fortunate...
Adventures in Indonesia
Tales of Folly, Friendship, and Fear During Two Years Spent in the World's Most Populous Muslim Country
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2003
For Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, the years 2000-2002 were characterized by a painful and rocky transition to democracy, as well as by the difficult aftermath of 9/11. For Marta Hoilman, living in Jakarta during this time not only meant dealing with the ramifications of such...
Destination Cambodia
Adventures in the Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
The ancient and mysterious ruins of Cambodia have long captured the imagination of visitors, more so now than ever before. In Destination Cambodia, Walter Mason charts an affectionate, intimate and deeply personal look at a Kingdom that has drawn him back again and again since his youth.
Whether...
My Singapore Lover
A Novel of Passion, Beauty and The Secrets of Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Young, Western and single, Sara arrives in Singapore on a magazine assignment to detail the long-held attraction between Western men and Asian women. She soon becomes swept up in the exotic city, mesmerized by its glitter and glamour and seduced by promises of a career, wealth and success. However, a...
The Crescent Moon and Other Stories
By The Nobel Prize Winning Author
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
Rabindranath Tagore was an IndianBengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to...