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Malaysia & Bengali Doctors 1907-2012 A Personal Perspective

March 25, 2015

Book by Sengupta, Dr. P. R. Sale Price:$21.08 1479757659
Black Hearts: One Platoon’s Descent into Madness in Iraq’s Triangle of Death

March 25, 2015

This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division’s fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment—a unit known as “the Black Heart Brigade.” Deployed in late 2005 to Iraq’s so-called Triangle of Death, a veritable meat grinder just south of Baghdad, the Black Hearts found themselves in arguably the country’s most dangerous […]
The Savage Border: The Story of the North-West Frontier

March 25, 2015

Pakistan’s North West Frontier is portrayed as a land of Wild West lawlessness and Muslim extremism. Certainly, the Pathan tribesmen of the Sunni sect who inhabit this rugged territory do not welcome intruders into their closed society. The frontier has recently captured the attention of all who follow world events through the media. It is […]
Little Manila Is in the Heart: The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California

March 25, 2015

In the early twentieth century—not long after 1898, when the United States claimed the Philippines as an American colony—Filipinas/os became a vital part of the agricultural economy of California’s fertile San Joaquin Delta. In downtown Stockton, they created Little Manila, a vibrant community of hotels, pool halls, dance halls, restaurants, grocery stores, churches, union halls, […]
Tantra in Practice

March 25, 2015

As David White explains in the Introduction to Tantra in Practice, Tantra is an Asian body of beliefs and practices that seeks to channel the divine energy that grounds the universe, in creative and liberating ways. The subsequent chapters reflect the wide geographical and temporal scope of Tantra by examining thirty-six texts from China, India, […]
Malaysian Cinema, Asian Film: Border Crossings and National Cultures

March 25, 2015

This monograph departs from traditional studies of national cinema by accentuating the intercultural and intertextual links between Malaysian films and Asian (as well as European and American) film practices. Using cross-cultural analysis, the author characterizes Malaysia as a pluralist society consisting of a multiplicity of cultural identities. Malaysian film reflects this remarkable heterogeneity, particularly evident […]
A History of Asia (6th Edition)

March 25, 2015

A History of Asia is the only text to cover the area known as “monsoon Asia”–India, China, Southeast Asia, Korea, and Japan–from the earliest of times to the present. Written by leading scholar Rhoads Murphey, the book’s extensive analysis integrates the complex and diverse political, social, intellectual, and economic histories of this area with […]
The Taming of the Demons: Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism

March 25, 2015

Taking two early Tibetan texts as his starting point, Jacob Dalton explores the ways in which violence has been integral to the development of Tibetan Buddhism. Paying particular attention to the so-called age of fragmentation, Tibet’s dark age that spanned from 842 to 986 C.E., he draws on previously unstudied manuscripts discovered in the famous […]
In the Line of Fire: A Memoir

March 25, 2015

According to “Time” magazine, Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf holds “the world’s most dangerous job.” He has twice come within inches of assassination. His forces have caught more than 670 members of al Qaeda in the mountains and cities, yet many others remain at large and active, including Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al Zawahiri. Long […]
Memories of Life in Lhasa Under Chinese Rule

March 25, 2015

Born in 1941, Tubten Khétsun is a nephew of the Gyatso Tashi Khendrung, one of the senior government officials taken prisoner after the Tibetan peoples’ uprising of March 10, 1959. Khétsun himself was arrested while defending the Dalai Lama’s summer palace, and after four years in prisons and labor camps, he spent close to two […]

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