Search Results: Authors starting with G from Asia Bookroom

Honolulu.: University of Hawai'i Press.. 2004.. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, xii + 348pp, notes, bibliography, index, dustjacket trifle shelf worn, a very good hardback copy. "The last decade has seen widespread Islamic religious revitalization in Southeast Asia, a region with a Muslim population almost as large as that of the entire Arabic-speaking Middle East. One such movement in 1990s Indonesia promoted engagement with the Qur'an through memorization, reading, skilled performance, and popular competitions in recitation. This movement drew on longstanding structures of Islamic education and piety, social interests, Southeast Asian patterns of performance and aesthetics, and unique features of the Qur'an itself. Based on fieldwork in South Sulawesi and elsewhere in Indonesia, 'Perfection Makes Practice' vividly portrays Indonesian Muslims' committed practice of perfecting their own (and others') Qur'anic piety." (Publisher's description). .

London.: Geoffrey Cumberlege.. Reprint.. 1950.. xxiii + 317pp, appendix, index, edges browned, a good copy in little worn and bumped cloth covered boards. First published in 1924, this work covers the economic transition from agriculture to industrialisation in India from the late 1800's to the end of WWI. .

Bombay.: Government Central Press.. 1934. Black and white photographic illustrations, folding black and white diagram, 20pp + 5 plates, an ex-library copy with the usual stamps, annotations and label, endpapers and edges browned, wrappers patchily browned and worn, corner lower cover bent over, torn with little loss tail of spine. Department of Agriculture, Bombay. Bulletin No. 175 of 1934. .

Yogyakarta.: Gadjah Mada University Press.. 1992.. Charts and tables, x + 223pp, paperback. Good secondhand copy. Analysis of voting preferences in Javanese villages. .

北京.[Beijing].: 北京圖書館出版社.[Beijing tu shu guan chu ban she].. 1st Edition, 1st Printing.. 2004.. Complete two volume set, facsimile of a Qing Dynasty illustrated edition of Chinese classic fiction "Dream of The Red Chamber". Includes 50 black and white figure paintings by Qing Dynasty painter Gai Qi accompanied by more than 70 poetic inscriptions by various renowned Qing Dynasty poets and scholars. The two handsome volumes are presented in a cloth covered folder with toggle ties with silk title label on upper cover. Bound in Chinese traditional style four-hole stab binding in cloth covered wrappers, silk title labels laid down on upper covers trifle worn, unpaginated. Very good condition, text in traditional Chinese. 33 x 21.9cm. .

No place of publication.: No details of publisher.. 1950- 1953.. Text in Japanese, English and other languages. Endpapers lightly browned. This collection of reports is presented between boards tied with leather ties. The spine and upper board are titled in Japanese. Occasional wear and marking boards, two leaves torn with considerable loss in Taiwanese report, otherwise good. A collection of transcribed documents (including letters, memoranda and budgets) pertaining to trade agreements between Japan and various countries, including Pakistan, Ceylon, Indonesia, Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Egypt. The documents are generally dated between 1950 and 1954. .

New York.: Oxford University Press.. 1998.. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, index, xxii + 368pp.. Chapters include ones on Syntax; Deixis, Anaphora and Agreement; Change, Grammaticization and Linguistic Area and Diglossia. .

Bethesda.: Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, National Institutes of Health.. Reprint.. 1967.. 145pp, covers light wear and browning to edges, a good copy in spiral binding. 22 x 28cm. Journals of medical expeditions. .

Maryland.: National Institutes of Health.. Revised edition.. 1969.. 165pp, index, a good copy in little worn and browned stapled wrappers, quarto. .

Bethesda.: Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, National Institutes of Health.. 1963.. 165pp, covers light wear and browning to edges, a good copy in spiral binding. 22 x 28cm. Journals of medical expeditions. .

London.: Jonathan Cape.. 1928.. Black and white illustrations, 221pp, note, endpapers and edges a little browned, light creasing upper endpapers, spine dull, a good in copy in attractive patterned cloth boards. .

Harmondsworth.: Pelican.. 1942.. 128pp, bibliography, 18 x 11.3cm. Pages evenly browned throughout, endpapers separated from staple binding, original wrappers browned and worn, tail of spine chipped with little loss, overall a fair copy. "China's four years' resistance to aggression has surprised friends and enemies alike, and Japan's alliance with the Axis Powers makes China now a potential ally of the democracies. This book looks into the values of Chinese civilization as it has persisted through five thousand years among four hundred million people. It finds that the New China that is being built up in the West follows a pattern of life that is partly old and partly new. If China can emerge from this struggle a united democratic nation based on ideals not unlike those of the Anglo-Saxon people, there is hope of a world order of freedom and peace." (Publisher's description). .

London.: Edinburgh House Press.. 1933.. Black & white frontispiece and three photographic illustrations in the text. Pictorial wrappers, some foxing throughout, spine chipped at the head and old tape-mark at the foot, 64pp. Prior owner ex-libris label on the front free endpaper but a good firm copy. 18.5 x 12.4cm. .

London.: Andre Deutsch.. 1973.. Endpaper maps, black and white photographic plates, xiii + 143pp, index, prior owner's signature front free endpaper, dustjacket little shelf worn, a good hardback copy. "In the autumn of 1972, John Kenneth Galbraith was invited to visit China to view the Chinese economy. This is his personal account of the day-to-day life he experienced while he as there." (Publisher's description). .

Deutsch.. 1973.. Endpaper maps, photographs by Marc Riboud, xiii + 143pp, index, a very good copy in dustjacket. In the autumn of 1972, John Kenneth Galbraith was invited to visit China to view the Chinese economy. This is his personal account of the day-to-day life he experienced while he as there. .

London.: George Allen & Unwin.. 1955.. v + 166pp. Endpapers slightly foxed, dustjacket little worn, overall a good copy. "Mr. Gale accompanied the delegation of the British Labour Party to China and was one of the first half-dozen journalists to see the new China. He travelled over most of the length, if not the breadth of China and saw the streets cleared of flies and disease. He also saw the slave-labour prisons, the bright new factories and the huge physical reconstruction of China. Nor could he avoid noting the mental reconstruction of China - the brain-washing of six hundred million people. China he concludes is the better for its present good governance and the worse for the Orwell-esque features of that governance. There are no flies in China and, for that matter, neither are there any on the present Chinese Government, as far as the people of China are concerned." (Publisher's description). .

(Paris).: Service hydrographique et océanographique de la marine. 1883, but1894.. Engraved hydrographical chart on watermarked double sheet, 99 x 63 cm, soundings in metres, lighthouses picked out in yellow and red, inset map of the port and town of Tenedos, central fold, a few very slight edge tears (to the generous margins), light spotting and surface soiling, but in very good condition. Fine and impressive large naval chart of this strategically important strait, then still under the control of the Ottoman Empire. From a private collection; "Lord John Fitzroy, Royal Yacht Squadron" in manuscript on the verso. .

Honolulu.: University of Hawai'i Press.. First Edition.. 1995.. Colour and black and white illustrations, 128pp, appendices, notes, bibliography, very good paperback copy. 24.4 x 25cm. Text in English and Indonesian. This catalogue, from an exhibition held at the British Library celebrating the 50th anniversary of Indonesian's declaration of independence, reflects on the long-standing links between Indonesia and the United Kingdom. .

London.: Probsthain, Arthur.. 1951.. x + 400pp. Blue cloth-covered boards lettered in gilt on the spine, a prior owner's details on the front free endpaper, cloth on the upper board slightly crinkled, else a near fine copy. 19 x 12.5cm. Probsthain's Oriental Series Vol. xxviii. .

Stanford.: Stanford University Press.. 1968.. Map, black and white photographic plates, xxiii + 472pp, glossary, index, dustjacket fairly shelf worn, otherwise a good hardback copy. .