Tuttle Publishing: 1830 books
by M. Sivaram
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1994
Although the peaceful struggles of Mahatma Gandhi are well known in the West, the armed resistance of many Indians during World War II is far less understood; this epic drama ads an important layer to the history of India and the British Empire.
The east Asian battlefronts serve as the backgrounds...
Chinese Fables
"The Dragon Slayer" and Other Timeless Tales of Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
**Winner of the 2014 Aesop Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature**
**Winner of the 2013 Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award for Fables, Folklore & Fairytales**
**2014 Creative Child Magazine Book of the Year Award Winner**
For thousands of years, Chinese storytellers...
by Phuoc Thi Minh Tran
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
****Winner of Creative Child Magazine 2015 Book of the Year Award**
**Winner of Moonbeam Children's Book Awards 2015 Gold Medal**
This colorfully illustrated multicultural children's book presents Vietnamese fairy tales and other folk stories—providing insight into a rich literary culture.**
Vietnamese...
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Indonesia
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Indonesia is the best, most comprehensive photographic guide to the birds of Indonesia.
Because of its vast size and geographical location, Indonesia has the world's most diverse avifauna. It boasts of more than 1,600 species—of which 235 rare birds are...
by George C. Munro
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Birds of Hawaii is a concise guide to Hawaiian birdwatching.
The book is divided into three sections: "Native Birds", "Stray Variants to the Hawaiian Islands" and "Imported Birds." Each bird is identified by its scientific name, its common name(or names), and in...
Birds of Southwest Pacific
A Field Guide to the Birds of the Area between Samoar New Caledonia, and Micronesia
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Perfect for birdwatching enthusiasts travelling to Indonesia, this concise guide is full of interesting information.
This practical handbook, by an acknowledged authority, intended primarily for the field student, tells him how to identify and name the birds of Indonesia which he encounters,...
How Not to Get Hit
The Art of Fighting Without Fighting
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
The average person isn't looking to be in a situation where fists are going to fly, but many of us have found ourselves there anyway. At that moment, it's probably too late to do anything about it. But how do we change circumstances, so those situations don't happen?
How Not to Get Hit is a...
Japanese Throwing Weapons
Mastering Shuriken Throwing Techniques (Downloadable Media Included)
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Master the Japanese art of shuriken throwing with this illustrated martial arts guide.
Japanese Throwing Weapons: Mastering Shuriken Throwing Techniques is a detailed instruction manual for learning authentic shuriken throwing techniques as practiced in Japan, known as shuriken-jutsu. Daniel...
Knife & Tomahawk Throwing
The Art of the Experts
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
"Knife & Tomahawk Throwing helps keep alive these traditional arts of the old West. In these pages, you will learn about the fundamentals of the sport and gain insight into some of the greatest professional knife throwers–the men who paved the way for the modern day thrower." — Bobby...
by Lily Gamboa O'Boyle, Elizabeth Reyes
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Full of stunning landscape photographs, this tropical gardening book is a delight for anyone interested in the lavish gardens of the Philippines.
Aimed at gardening enthusiasts, Tropical Gardens of the Philippines contains a rare glimpse into some of the most beautiful tropical gardens in the...
by James Jackson Jarves
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
First published in 1876, when many considered Japanese art a mere curiosity, A Glimpse at the Art of Japan presents Jarves remarkable examination of the problems of Japanese aesthetics, offering a penetrating analysis of the historical, religious, and social influences on the development of art in...
Little Songs of Geisha
Traditional Japanese Ko-Uta
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
A fascinating look into the world of the Geisha through the 400-year-old art of Ko-Uta, the traditional song form sung to three-stringed shamisen music. It is a vivid evocation of the romanticism of feudal Japan.
Traditional Japanese kouta are the musical embodiment of the geisha in the intoxicating...
by William Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The Journal of William Ellis is a classic of Pacific literature, ranking with the journals of Captain Cook and his men as a record of life and customs of the traditional Hawaiians.
No other book rivals it as an account of the life of the Hawaiians in the early 19th century. For readers not...
Kwaidan
Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
This collection of Japanese supernatural stories is a classic work in the field of Japanese horror.
Known primarily as an early interpreter of Japanese culture and customs, the famous writer Lafcadio Hearn also wrote ghost stories—"delicate, transparent, ghostly sketches"—about...