The Modern City in Asia, Paperback - ***

This Element analyzes how concepts and practices associated with the 'modern city' were received, transformed, and contested in Asia over the past ...

A brilliant and utterly engaging novel - Emma set in modern Asia - about a young woman's rise in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore, where old t...

Reducere. DescriptionIn modern, beautiful Green City, the capital of South West Asia, gender selection, war and disease have brought the ratio of women to me...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The Khmer Empire, a...

Reducere. Early European visitors placed Ayutthaya alongside China and India as the great powers of Asia. Yet in 1767 the city was destroyed and its history ...

First published in 1977, C. M. Turnbull's one-volume history of Singapore has been an essential resource for more than forty years. Turnbull's Hist...

Reducere. DescriptionThe book opens with an outline of the history of Almaty, from its nineteenth-century origins as a remote outpost of the Russian empire, ...

Reducere. In 1937 Shanghai--the Paris of Asia--twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Both are beaut...

Fifteen-year-old Grace Ryan is pregnant, which is a great surprise to her because she's still a virgin. She is also experiencing visions of a beaut...

Description Perhaps one of the most commonly referenced verses in the Bible is John 3: 16, in which Jesus says, "For God so loved the world, that h...