Search Results: Asia and Asian Studies from The Brooklyn Bookman

DENNIS, Denise Liotta: Classical Feng Shui for Romance, Sex & Relationships. Woodbury,MN., Llewellyn Publications, 2015. FIRST EDITION/UNCORRECTED PROOF. Softcover, 318 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Eastern Philosophy / Geomancy. Condition: Very Good. Small bump or two at the book corners. No other apparent defects; a copy in near fine condition. Pages white and clean. Well written exposition on the ancient art of harmonizing people with their living spaces and surrounding environments. Recommended. ISBN: 9780738741888

BURUMA, Ian: God's Dust: A Modern Asian Journey. London, Phoenix, 2000. (Originally published in the UK in 1989 by Jonathan Cape, Ltd.) Softcover, 267 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Travel-Asia / Asian Studies. Condition: Very Good. Covers gently worn with lightly-toned pages but all unmarked and clean. "What happens to Asian cultures when traditions of the village break down and are replaced by the complexities of the modern world? [The author's] quest to answer this has taken him to eight countries, starting with Burma...and ending with Japan...Along the way, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea are revealed as never before – searching for their national identities and for meaning in the clash of cultures." ISBN: 0753810891

LEE, Helie: Still Life With Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life and Legacy of Her Korean Grandmother. New York, Touchstone, 1997. Originally published in 1996. Softcover, 320 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Asian-American Studies / Biography. Condition: Very Good Minus. Creasing along the spine with a corner crease at the upper right hand corner of the front cover. Pages clean and unmarked. Moving and introspective biography of the Asian-American Experience. ISBN: 9780684827117

GORDON, Stewart: When Asia Was The World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created The "Riches of the East." N.P., Da Capo Press, 2009. Originally published: 2008. Stated First Paperback Edition. Softcover, 228 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / History / Asia-Civilization, Description & Travel / Travelers-Asia-History. Condition: Very Good. Covers display a curve-like appearance. All pages clean, unmarked and almost new. A copy in near first-rate condition. "While European civilization stagnated in the "Dark Ages," Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of spiritual, commercial, and intellectual connections, the distant regions of Asia's vast civilization, from Arabia to China, hummed with trade, international diplomacy, and the exchange of ideas." A compelling and unique look at Asia from the eighth to the sixteenth centuries-a time when Asia was the world-by relating the personal journeys of Asia's many travelers. ISBN: 9780306817397

GUIDI, Chen & CHUNTAO, Wu: Will The Boat Sink The Water? The Life of China's Peasants. New York, PublicAffairs, 2006. Translated from the Chinese by Zhu Hong. FIRST U.S. EDITION. Hardcover with dust jacket, 229 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Peasantry-China / China-Rural Conditions / Rural Development-China. Book and jacket condition: Very Good Plus. Light edgewear to the top extremity of dust wrapper. Otherwise a copy in first-rate condition will all pages clean. An important work of reportage regarding rural conditions in today's China – and banned by the Chinese government as the work was critical of its policies. The book challenges the notion of China's so-called "economic miracle" and how it has left behind the country's impovrished peasantry. ISBN: 1586483587