Search Results: Authors starting with A from Asia Bookroom

(Thailand).: (Government of Thailand).. 1982.. Text in Thai and English. Profuse colour and black and white illustrations, unpaginated, 24 x 21cm. Some wear to paperback cover fore-edge and spine, otherwise a very good copy. A history of Thai royal barge processions for the 1982 event. .

Tokyo.: A Citizens' Group to Convey Testimonies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.. Reprint.. 1976.. Black & white photographic plates, 60pp. Wrappers somewhat worn and little foxed, overall a good copy. A collection of first-hand accounts of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, punctuated by a number of striking photos. .

軍委衛生部.[Jun wei wei sheng bu].. 2nd Edition.. 1951.. 55pp, charts, tables, a prior owner's chop upper cover, occasional tears, very good in general. Text translated from Russian into Chinese. 18.2 x 12.8cm. For internal use only, this booklet opens with the organisational structure of military health services. It also compares the difference between the general hospital systems and military hospital systems. .

アアラ自動車組合. [Aara Jidōsha Kumiai].. Circa [1930].. Travel brochure, printed in blue ink, map extending over two panels, all text in Japanese, sheet measures 19.8 x 45 cm, folds down to 19.8 x 13 cm. Light occasional foxing, a very good copy. This brochure, with a map of Oahu by Wright, Harvey and Wright, was issued by Arara (originally Alala in Hawaiian) Automobile Union, a Japanese taxi union which servicing visiting Japanese tourists. This brochure describes three short tours that could be taken by Japanese tourists enroute to mainland USA. Designed specifically for those only in Hawaii for a day or less seeking a tour that could be fitted in between planes, this brochure proposes three sightseeing routes using the Arara Automobile Union taxis. These tours are a tour of the main city and Waikiki, a country side and coral garden tour, and the longest a complete trip around Oahu. The prices for each route, with options of different sized… Read More

Singapore.: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.. 1993.. vii + 45pp, bibliography, notes, paperback, spine sunned, very good copy. This paper focuses on three generations of Indonesian scholars and 'Ulama who have studied in Cairo, and al-Azhar in particular. Four chapters cover topics including: 'Islamic Networks in Colonial Times', 'Religious Officialdom in a Secular State', 'The Generation of Indonesian Students Today: Between Petro-Islam and Rising Fundamentalism'. .

Katmandu.: Agroforestry, Basic Health and Cooperative.. (Circa2000).. 23pp, wrappers little light foxing, a good copy otherwise. .

Sydney.: Pan.. 2006.. Young adult novel. Paperback. "For the past three years Jamie/Jamilah has hidden her Lebanese background from everyone at school. It's only with her email friend John that she can really be herself. But now things are getting complicated: the most popular boy in school is interested in her, but there's no way he would be if he knew the truth. Then there's Timothy, the school loner, who for some reason Jamie just can't stop thinking about. As for John, he seems to have a pretty big secret of his own. To top it all off, Jamie's school formal is coming up. The only way she'll be allowed to attend is by revealing her true identity. Will she risk it all? And does she know who she is... Jamie or Jamilah?" (Publisher's description). .

Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.. 2009.. xxi + 640pp, bibliography, index., a very good paperback copy. "This book traces the beginning of the process of nation-formation, the struggle for independence, the hopeful beginning of the new nation-state of Indonesia only to be followed by hard and difficult ways to remain true to the ideals of independence[...]" (Publisher's description). .

Ithaca.: Cornell Modern Indonesia Project.. 1971.. 257pp, glossary, bibliography, spine little sunned, otherwise a very good paperback copy. 21 x 28cm. .

Jakarta.: Penerbit.. 1974.. 151pp, ex-libris with singular stamp, spine sunned, covers a little worn and rubbed, good paperback copy. 22.5 x 14.7cm. Text in Indonesian. .

Singapore.: Universiti Malaya. 1957-1965.. Volume 1 Number 1: 80pp. Volume 1 Number 2: 160pp. Volume 2 Number 2: 96pp. Volume 2 Number 7: 112pp, a previous owner's signature front free endpaper. : Black and white illustrations, touch of foxing endpapers, covers a little worn, cellotape marks corners of two leaves. Good copies in original wrappers. .

New York.: Alfred A. Knopf.. First Edition.. 1988.. Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter. 336pp. Edges, pastedowns, boards and dustjacket little foxed, dustjacket lightly browned and trifle shelf worn, overall a good copy. Japanese literature. "A cross between Kafka and Alice in Wonderland." .

Chicago.: The University of Chicago Press. 2002.. Maps, plans, black and white photographic illustrations, xxv + 373pp, index, bibliography, notes, little extremities wear to dustjacket, a very good hardback copy, square quarto. "This text explores the large body of sculpture, paintings and other religious imagery produced for China's common classes from the third to the sixth centuries CE. In contrast to the works made for imperial patrons, illustrious monastics, or other luminaries, these ordinary images - modest in scale, mass-produced, and at times incomplete - were created for those of lesser standing. Because they cannot be related to well-known historical figures or social groups, these images have been considered a largely nebulous, undistinguished mass of works. Situating his study in the gaps between conventional categories such as Buddhism, Daoism and Chinese popular art, Stanley K. Abe examines works (including some of the earliest known examples of Buddha-like images in China) that… Read More

Durham.: Duke University Press. 2009. Map, family tree, xii + 201pp, notes, bibliography, index. Very good paperback copy. The majority of the nearly 28,000 undergraduates at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - including a large population of Korean American students - come from nearby metropolitan Chicago. Among the campus' largest non-white ethnicities, Korean American students come to college hoping to realize the liberal ideals of the modern American university, in which individuals can exit their comfort zones to realize their full potential regardless of race, nation, or religion. However, these ideals are compromised by their experiences of racial segregation and stereotypes, including images of instrumental striving that set Asian Americans apart. In "The Intimate University", Nancy Abelmann explores the tensions between liberal ideals and the particularities of race, family, and community in the contemporary university. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic research with Korean… Read More

Cambridge.: Harvard U.P.. Reprint.. 1997.. 273pp, references, index, paperback. Blue Dreams shows how Korean Americans, variously depicted as immigrant seekers after the American dream or as racist merchants exploiting African Americans, emerged at the crossroads of conflicting social reflections in the aftermath of the 1992 riots. .

Melbourne.: Monash University.. 1985.. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, ii + 129pp, covers little shelf worn with browned spine, a very good paperback copy. 27.3 x 20.8cm. Five lectures presented as the AIA-CSEAS Winter Lecture Series for 1984, at Monash University. .

New Delhi.. 1988.. xi + 559pp, bibliography, index, from the library of Dr Andrew Selth with his name and chop on the front free endpaper, cloth a trifle soiled and small hole in cloth lower edge lower cover, good hardback copy in dustjacket. "This book is a revealing study of British colonial policy in an important region of South-East Asia, i.e. Burma. The period covered is 1840-1886. British territorial expansion and vigorous commercial thrust in Burma began with the two treaties concluded in 1826 at the end of the First Burmese War...The story is taken up at this point [of British residency withdrawal in 1840], and the political-cum-commercial ramifications of British policy are carefully analysed on the basis of unpublished primary sources." Publisher's description. .

Selangor, Malaysia.: Pelanduk Publications.. Second Edition.. 2004.. Numerous black and white as well as coloured photographic plates, xxxii + 436pp, index, appendices, hardback copy in dustjacket, a little wear on dustjacket, still a very good copy. "The author, Mohamed Abid, was raised being a close member of the family, amongst the large extended family of Dato' Onn Ja'far, the man who founded the United Malays National Organisation, the ruling party of Malaysia. As he playfully ran and frolicked through the corridors of power in the late 1940's and early 1950's, a time when UMNO was being formed, the memories from his youth have revealed a facet of history which may only be depicted by someone witnessing events as they unfold." - Publisher's description. .

Kuala Lumpur.: Institut Kajian Sejarah dan Patriotisme Malaysia.. 1996.. xv + 267pp, paperback, very good copy. Text in Malay. History of the role of Malacca in Malaysia's national movements. .

New Delhi.: Munshiram Manoharlal.. Reprint.. 1996.. 268pp, index, neat signature of a prior owner title page, dustjacket faded along spine, very good otherwise. Manasara Series, Vol. II. .