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Creative Minds, Charmed Lives: Interviews at Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore

March 25, 2015

This book features interviews of 38 eminent mathematicians and mathematical scientists who were invited to participate in the programs of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore. Originally published in its newsletter Imprints from 2003 to 2009, these interviews give a fascinating and insightful glimpse into the passion driving some of the most […]
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath

March 25, 2015

For the first four months of 1942, American, Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought America’s first major land battle of World War II: the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of Bataan. It ended with the single largest defeat in American military history. This was only the beginning. Until the Japanese surrendered in August 1945, the prisoners […]
Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman’s Journey Through Afghanistan

March 25, 2015

When veteran reporter Fariba Nawa returned home to Afghanistan—the nation she had fled as a child with her family during the Soviet invasion nearly twenty years earlier—she discovered a fractured country transformed by a multibillion-dollar drug trade. In Opium Nation, Nawa deftly illuminates the changes that have overtaken Afghanistan after decades of unbroken war. Sharing […]
A Short History of Bali: Indonesia’s Hindu Realm (A Short History of Asia series)

March 25, 2015

Covering the history of Bali from before the Bronze Age to the presidency of Megawati Sukarnoputri, this examination highlights the ethnic dynamics of the island and its place in modern Indonesia. Included is an analysis of the arrival of Indian culture, early European contact, and the complex legacies of Dutch control. Also explored are the […]
The Funeral Casino: Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand

March 25, 2015

The Funeral Casino is a heretical ethnography of the global age. Setting his book within Thailand’s pro-democracy movement and the street massacres that accompanied it, Alan Klima offers a strikingly original interpretation of mass-mediated violence through a study of funeral gambling and Buddhist meditation on death. The fieldwork for the book began in 1992, when […]
Hour of Redemption: The Heroic WWII Saga of America’s Most Daring POW Rescue

March 25, 2015

This is a gripping narrative chronicle of the US Army Ranger-led raid on the Cabanatuan POW camp in World War II, in which over 500 ragged POWs were liberated and half-led, half-carried to US lines. Sale Price:$35.15 0446679372
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

March 25, 2015

A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Fernea’s two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman. Sale Price:$8.43 0385014856
Becoming the Buddha: The Ritual of Image Consecration in Thailand (Buddhisms: A Princeton University Press Series)

March 25, 2015

Becoming the Buddha is the first book-length study of a key ritual of Buddhist practice in Asia: the consecration of a Buddha image or “new Buddha,” a ceremony by which the Buddha becomes present or alive. Through a richly detailed, accessible exploration of this ritual in northern Thailand, an exploration that stands apart from standard […]
Chinese Society in Thailand: An Analytical History (Acls History E-Book Project)

March 25, 2015

No description available. Sale Price:$43.20 1597406066
Asian Americans: Oral Histories of First to Fourth Generation Americans from China, the Philippines, Japan, India, the Pacific Islands, Vietnam and

March 25, 2015

Since the first three documented Chinese arrived in this country in 1848, more than six million Asians have followed. The huge immigrations of recent years have prompted a surge of interest in the new Asian American experience, about which little writing exists to date. In Asian Americans, these immigrants and their families present their own […]

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