Asia category: 8064 books
by Christopher Evans
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
A thorough guide to the number-one tourist destination in Southeast Asia. The finest hotels, with impeccable service, cost a fraction of what you would pay elsewhere, and shoppers will never tire of the vast selections, from silk scarves and designer gowns to exotic jewelery. Try elephant trekking,...
Kyrgyzstan beyond "Democracy Island" and "Failing State"
Social and Political Changes in a Post-Soviet Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Kyrgyzstan is probably the best known of any central Asian country, the one that has elicited the most academic publications, reports by NGOs or advocacy groups, and op-eds in the media. The country opened up massively to Western influence through development aid for civil society and for economic...
My South Seas Sleeping Beauty
A Tale of Memory and Longing
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
My South Seas Sleeping Beauty is a captivating coming-of-age tale set in the magical jungles of Borneo. Told through the vivid recollections of a Chinese-Malay youth, the novel recounts the life of Su Qi, a troubled, sensitive son of a wealthy family, and exemplifies the imaginative range of one of...
The Dragon Delusions
Confronting the myths and exploring the implications of a rapidly rising China
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
China’s meteoric rise to become the new economic and geopolitical superpower of the 21st century has astonished and baffled Western observers. Despite its ever-growing importance on the world stage there is still so much we don’t know about this great nation. It is a topic that is still very much...
by Marco Polo
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The Travels of Marco Polo Volume1,by Marco Polo.This book is describing Marco Polo's travels through Asia between 1276 and 1291,and his experiences.
Deadly Embrace
Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Pakistan and America have been gripped together in a deadly embrace for decades. For half a century American presidents from both parties pursued narrow short-term interests in Pakistan. This myopia actually backfired in the long term, helping to destabilize the political landscape and radicalizing...
Bizarre Thailand
Tales of Crime, Sex and Black Magic
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Bizarre Thailand takes readers off the well-rutted road of tourist hotspots into the darkest and sexiest hinterlands. Welcome to a twilight zone where travellers become soldiers and cowboys, a black magician courts politicians and film stars, sacred tortoises mate on the streets of a small town, and...
A Short History of Laos
The land in between
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Laos, perhaps the least known country in mainland Southeast Asia, stands at the region's crossroads. This small 'land in between' is surrounded by China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Burma-countries that, in pre-modern times, provided Lao kings with a field for territorial expansion. But more often,...
by Brian Farrell
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Shortly after midnight on 8 December 1941, two divisions of crack troops of the Imperial Japanese Army began a seaborne invasion of southern Thailand and northern Malaya. Their assault developed into a full-blown advance towards Singapore, the main defensive position of the British Empire in the Far...
by Bhavna Dave
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2007
Kazakhstan is emerging as the most dynamic economic and political actor in Central Asia. It is the second largest country of the former Soviet Union, after the Russian Federation, and has rich natural resources, particularly oil, which is being exploited through massive US investment. Kazakhstan has...
Global Families
A History of Asian International Adoption in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
In the last fifty years, transnational adoption—specifically, the adoption of Asian children—has exploded in popularity as an alternative path to family making. Despite the cultural acceptance of this practice, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the factors that allowed Asian international...
by Alexandra David-Neel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
King Gesar, renowned throughout Tibet and Central Asia, represents the ideal warrior—the principle of all-victorious confidence. As the central force of sanity, he conquers all his enemies, the evil forces of the four directions, who turn people's minds away from the true teachings of Buddhism....
by NETLANCERS INC
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Collection Of Asian Traditional People Volume 2
Asia is also the origin of many of the most important and ancient world religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism.
Georgian Folk Tales :- A collection of folk tales from the nation of Georgia.
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by Lawrence Winkler
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
The Final Cartwheel is the story of a young doctor’s return home, after a five-year hitchhiking odyssey around the world. Through East Asia, Indonesia, and around the Antipodes, the circle becomes unbroken.