Asia category: 8064 books
by Carol Clark
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Learn the essentials of Asian gemstones with this useful and portable reference book.
Gemstones, both mythical and real, are deeply embedded in the arts, religions and cultures of Asia. This handy pocket guide provides an excellent introduction to the full range of superb gemstones mined and...
The Search for a New Order
Intellectuals and Fascism in Prewar Japan
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Fletcher explains how three writers--Ryu Shintaro, Royama Masamichi, and Miki Kiyoshi--who were supporters of democratic socialism became ideologues for the East Asian bloc ideal that rationalized Japan's dominance of Asia after 1937, and he demonstrates how and why they designed the New Order movement...
Hong Kong Disneyland 2012
A Planet Explorers Travel Guide for Kids
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Hong Kong Disneyland is Disney's newest theme park. It's the home of clazzic attractions like "it's a small world," Space Mountain and Autopia, as well as the brand new Toy Story Land. The park is surrounded by lush tropical landscaping on reclaimed land at the tip of Lantau Island. It...
by Fiona Fernandes Cleret
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Having backpaked around India and South East Asia, Fiona Cleret definitely knows her way around and with this guide brings to life this unexplored quaint Hindu town. -- Why Get This Guide? -- * Independently researched. * Unbiased reviews on where to eat, sleep. * Everything you need to know about beaches...
Exploring Kyoto, Revised Edition
On Foot in the Ancient Capital
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2018
UPDATED: This book will be updated with current information on transportation, internet use, new locations, and revised maps and trails to reflect modernization and changes.
AUTHORITATIVE: Author is a long-time Kyoto resident who knows first-hand all the best places, hidden passages, and great...
Japan Travel Guide & Map Tuttle Travel Pack
Your Guide to Japan's Best Sights for Every Budget
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
The only resource you need for travel to Japan!
This award-winning guide puts the whole country in the palm of your hand. With a map and tips on all the best sights, travelers can be sure they are seeing the best of Japan without wasting any time!
Explore energetic, ever-changing Tokyo—or...
Tropical Home
Inspirational Design Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This Asian interior design and architecture book showcases the best luxury homes and interior spaces of the Pacific region.
Asia has emerged in the last couple of decades as the global leader in tropical villa design. With innovative indoor/outdoor architecture engineered to facilitate relaxed,...
by Kim Inglis, Pia Marie Molbech
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Tropical Hotels showcases the best boutique hotels and resorts in Bali, Java, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.
Southeast Asia is renowned the world over for its superb standards of resort architecture, hotel service and interior design and this book beautifully traces the development of today's...
Living in Singapore - Business & Career
Fourteenth Edition Reference Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2016
Singapore’s economic freedom score is 87.8, making its economy the second freest in the 2016 Index.
One key factor in its development is its strategic location, in the heart of the Association of Southeast and Asian Nations (ASEAN). Other factors that contribute to Singapore being a favorable...
I Too Have Some Dreams
N.M. Rashed and Modernism in Urdu Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
I Too Have Some Dreams explores the work of N. M. Rashed, Urdu's renowned modernist poet, whose career spans the last years of British India and the early decades of postcolonial South Asia. A. Sean Pue argues that Rashed’s poetry carved out a distinct role for literature in the maintenance of doubt,...
Bali & Lombok Tuttle Travel Pack
Your Guide to Bali & Lombok's Best Sights for Every Budget
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The only guide you'll need for getting around Bali & Lombok. Everything you need is in this one convenient package—including a large pull-out map!
Bali & Lombok Tuttle Travel Pack is your passport to an unforgettable journey to Asia's favorite tropical islands. Author Paul Greenway...
by László Krasznahorkai
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Known for his brilliantly dark fictional visions, László Krasznahorkai is one of the most respected European writers of his generation and the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. Here, he brings us on a journey through China at the dawn of the new millennium. On the precipice of its...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. General Wallace M. Greene was only the fourth Commandant of the Marine Corps to serve as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Upon the start of his tenure in January 1964, he believed he...
The Vietnam War
The Failure of Containment in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Vietnam War in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Vietnam War, a brutal conflict that spanned two decades and resulted in catastrophic human and material losses. After...