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Global Studies: India and South Asia

March 22, 2015

Global Studies is a unique series designed to provide comprehensive background information and selected world press articles on the regions and countries of the world. Each Global Studies volume includes an annotated listing of World Wide Web sites and is now supported by an online Instructor’s Resource Guide. Visit our website for more information: www.mhhe.com/globalstudies.com. […]
When Valleys Turned Blood Red: The Ta-pa-ni Incident in Colonial Taiwan

March 22, 2015

“When Valleys Turned Blood Red” tells the story of colonial policies and their tragic impact on local communities. The Ta-pa-ni Incident was the largest single act of Han Chinese armed resistance during the fifty years of Taiwan’s colonial era. More than a thousand villagers and Japanese were killed during the fierce fighting and thousands more […]
Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam – The First Muslim Nobel Scientist

March 22, 2015

This book presents a biography of Abdus Salam, the first Muslim to win a Nobel Prize for Science (Physics 1979), who was nevertheless excommunicated and branded as a heretic in his own country. His achievements are often overlooked, even besmirched. Realizing that the whole world had to be his stage, he pioneered the International Centre […]
A History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (6th Edition)

March 22, 2015

This concise and comprehensive survey presents balanced, impartial, and well-illustrated coverage of the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The authors identify and examine the issues and themes that have characterized and defined the conflict over the past century. The Sixth Edition examines many of the developments that have occurred during the first decade of the 21st century. […]
Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, Abridged Edition (Translations from the Asian Classics)

March 22, 2015

Haruo Shirane’s critically acclaimed Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, contains key examples of both high and low styles of poetry, drama, prose fiction, and essays. For this abridged edition, Shirane retains substantial excerpts from such masterworks as The Tale of Genji, The Tales of the Heike, The Pillow Book, the Man’yoshu, and […]
Chinese Society in Thailand: An Analytical History

March 22, 2015

A history analyzing the relationship between Thais and Chinese immigrants in Thailand. Published in 1957, it includes a contemporary description of Chinese society in Thailand at a time when China was a newly-emerged major Communist power. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book’s (http://www.humanitiesebook.org) online version of the same title. Sale Price:buy at […]
Telling Lives, Telling History: Autobiography and Historical Imagination in Modern Indonesia

March 22, 2015

These two memoirs, superbly rendered into English for the first time, provide unique windows into the Sumatran past, in particular, and the early twentieth-century history of Southeast Asia, in general. Originally published soon after the Indonesian Revolution (1945-1949) liberated the island chain from Dutch control, these unusually insightful narratives recall the authors’ boyhoods in rural […]
Organizations at War in Afghanistan and Beyond

March 22, 2015

“After we had exchanged the requisite formalities over tea in his camp on the southern edge of Kabul’s outer defense perimeter, the Afghan field commander told me that two of his bravest mujahideen were martyred because he did not have a pickup truck to take them to a Peshawar hospital. They had succumbed to their […]
A Sociolinguistic History of Early Identities in Singapore: From Colonialism to Nationalism

March 22, 2015

‘Pulau Panjan’, ‘Po Luo Chung’, ‘Pulau Ujong’, ‘Lung –ya-men’, ‘Temasek’, ‘Singapura’ are all former names of Singapore and belie its colorful history as the El-Dorado and nexus of Southeast Asia. Who were Singapore’s previous multilingual inhabitants? What were the pidgins, creoles and languages that thronged its market places and created its forgotten identities? How did […]
Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers (Global Chinese Culture)

March 22, 2015

“I always compare filmmaking to cooking. Shooting is like buying the groceries. You buy all kinds of ingredients and the better ingredients you get, the better chance you have of making the movie you want.”—Ang Lee, from Speaking in Images Speaking in Images offers an engaging and rare collection of interviews with the directors who […]

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