Search Results: Authors starting with H from Asia Bookroom

Gütersloh.: Bertelsmann Sachbuchverlag.. 1969.. Attractive colour and black and white photographic plates, 173pp. 28 x 23.5cm. .

New York.: Studio.. 1978.. Profusely illustrated in colour throughout, 159pp, foxing preliminaries and endpapers, dustjacket extremities little worn, a good copy. 35 x 24cm. .

Armonk.: Sharpe.. 1996.. Map of Chinese universities, black and white photographic illustrations, xiii + 345pp, index, sources, notes, glossary of Manuscript citations, very good hardback copy with scratches on lower cover boards. .

London.: W.H. Allen.. 1973.. Translated by Anthony Vivis. 287pp, index, hardback, dustjacket worn with sunned spine and markings, edges foxed, title page marked in pen, a sound secondhand copy. .

Adelaide.: Australian Association for the Study of Religions.. 1979.. Map, black and white line illustrations, vi + 234pp, notes, glossary, spine sunned and worn at head and tail, lightly foxed edges, good paperback copy. .

Philadelphia.: Lippincott.. 1857.. 29 full page black and white engravings, including Bathing Scene in Japan and an engraved title page, 507pp, title page little creased and soiled, upper hinge starting, occasional light spotting, professionally rebound in modern maroon cloth. The author Lieutenant A.W. Habersham of the US Navy was an officer on the North Pacific Surveying and Exploring Expedition. This account of the expedition is a fascinating and pleasing read and full of detail of the people, their customs and the sights seen. Includes chapters on Cape Town, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai (including an encounter with pirates), Japan, Kamtschatka and the northern Russian shores. .

Columbia.: Readers International.. 1989.. xx + 169pp, very good copy in dustjacket with sunned spine. Collection of short stories written by a leading Palestinian journalist and writer living in Israel. .

Singapore.: NUS Press.. 2010.. Maps, colour and black and white photographic illustrations, xiv + 458 pages, index, bibliography, paperback. Once a centre for international trade and finance, Singapore is now a "global city." Singapore from Temasek to the 21st Century: Reinventing the Global City examines its evolution from trading port to city-state, showing how Singapore has repeatedly reinvented itself by creating or re-asserting qualities that helped attract capital, talent and trade. In the 14th century, the island’s prosperity rested on regulating the regional carrying trade passing through the Straits of Melaka. In 1819, after a long period of decline, the British East India Company revived the island’s fortunes by making Singapore a "free" port, and trade sustained the city until the Japanese occupation and the postwar collapse of colonial rule. After independence, Singapore resumed its role as a major centre for trade and finance, but added facilities to make the island a regional… Read More

Edgecliff.: Impact Press.. 2017.. Colour and black and white illustrations, 65pp, paperback, 20 x 12.5cm. Shanghai's Nanjing Road is internationally famous for its iconic art deco department stores. These stores are not just about shopping. They are not just about selling modern goods from around the world. They are about entertainment and they are about pleasure! But if you were to ask who established these stores, there would be very few people who would know the answer. Even fewer would know the names of the Chinese-Australian merchants who were key-players. It is no exaggeration to say that the department stores of China and Hong Kong were built on the back of Sydney's Haymarket banana trade. .

New York.: Dover Publications.. Republication of the 1924 edition.. 1973.. Translated by Miss L Arnold. Black and white illustrations, xii + 78pp, index, lower cover slightly marked, otherwise a very good paperback copy. "In addition to offering a highly informative study of the designs themselves, accompanied by drawings and by plates in colour and black and white, the book presents valuable essays on the development of carpet weaving, the colours of Chinese carpets, and the weaving process. ... the Chinese carpet has a very special charm, not only because of its great antiquity but also because of its unique characteristics, retained through centuries and making of each carpet surviving evidence of a historical past". (From the Publishers description). .

Tubingen.: J. C. B. Mohr. (Paul Siebeck).. 1906.. Text in old German, original wrappers, lacks the rear wrapper, front wrapper loose, 80pp and 2 pages of adverts, edges a little chipped. decorated chapter headings. 20.5 x 14cm from a series: Religionsgeschichtliche Volksbücher für die Deutsche christliche Gegenwart., III. Reihe, Allgemeine Religionsgeschichte., Religionsvergleichung ; Heft 7. .

London.: Watts & Co.. Abridged Edition.. 1932.. Maps, black & white illustrations, xii + 244pp, index. Endpapers and edges foxed, dustjacket worn and marked with little loss and spine browned, now protected, overall a good copy. Thinker's Library, No. 26. Chapter headings include: The Murray Islands; Work and Play in the Murray Island; The Malu Ceremonies; A Trip Down the Papuan Coast; Sarawak; A Trip Into the Interior of Borneo; The Cult of Skulls in Sarawak. .

Jakarta.: Equinox Publishing.. 2005.. xxi + 281pp, index, glossary, very good paperback copy. "The premise of Social Science and Power in Indonesia is that the role and development of social sciences in Indonesia over the past fifty years are inextricably related to the shifting requirements of power. What is researched and what is not, which frameworks achieve paradigmatic status while other are marginalized, and which kinds of social scientists become influential while other are ignored are all matters of power." Publisher's description. .

Indonesia.: Travel Indonesia.. 1991.. Colour illustrations, black and white photographic illustrations, 42pp, upper corner lightly creased, good paperback copy. 28 x 21cm. Travel Indonesia. Volume 13. .

Tucson.: U Arizona P Tucson 1975. 1975.. 264pp, glossary and index, inscription half title, clear contact on paperback covers. .

Southern Court.: Garnet Publishing.. New Edition.. 1993.. 300pp, covers trifle faded, a very good paperback copy. Volume 5 Only. .

Boulder.: Paradigm. 2007. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xvii + 236pp, bibliography, index, paperback copy in very good condition. "Community in the Balance presents a fresh perspective on some classic social science issues. It examines the conflicts and tensions that permeate day-to-day interactions of a people in a remote region of the eastern Indonesian province of Maluku. The Maneo openly tout the pleasures of living alone in the forests of Seram away from the demands of kith and kin and the scrutiny that comes from life in villages in close proximity. The option is real. Yet while the incessant social demands and low-level enmities they attribute to village life are also felt, most acutely in the peril of sorcery, the accounts of strife are exaggerated to help establish the mutuality of the terms on which people do associate - as a collective sacrifice and virtue." (Publisher's description.) .

Ithaca.: Cornell University Press.. 1993.. 334pp, index, a very good paperback copy. Historically, developing countries have been deeply involved in the allocation of financial resources. Yet despite the growing interest in the role of finance in economic development, relatively little attention has been paid to the political dimensions of credit allocation. This collection of ten original essays explores the politics of finance in eight East Asian and Latin American countries: Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Chile, Mexico, and Brazil. The essays examine the political and institutional factors that influence the initiation and efficiency of preferential credit policies, as well as the politics of financial market liberalization. The book has implications not only for finance, but for the political economy of growth in East Asia and Latin America and the prospects for effective industrial policies. .

Canberra.: ANU Press.. 1980.. Translated by Peter G. Sack and Dymphna Clark. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xxii + 164 pages, index, bibliography, dustjacket little faded and marked, de-acquisitioned ex-library copy with usual stamps and markings, a sound secondhand hardback copy. Edited and translated by Peter G. Sack and Dymphna Clark. Dr Albert Hahl was vice-governor and later governor of German New Guinea between 1896 and 1914 .

Seoul.: Hollym.. 1967.. vii + 249pp, index, bibliography, dustjacket worn and chipped with few small closed tears, edges little browned, a good copy. Royal Asiatic Society monograph. An insightful and vigorous study of a profound problem: how to apply cherished Western ideals of law to the Korean situation, where political values and institutions have been consciously modelled after those of ancient China. What is the function of law and social justice in 'late developing' Asian countries? In view of Korea's socio-economic tradition, can these abstract Western principles find meaningful application in the practical sphere - in such problems as abortion, usury, property rights, penitentiaries, and the treatment of the insane? Publisher's description. .