Search Results: Titles starting with B from Asia Bookroom

Jakarta.: CV. Inti Surya.. Fourth Edition.. 1998.. Four colour plates, black and white photographic illustrations, xvii + 290pp, ribbon bookmark, dustjacket shelf worn with small closed tear upper cover, upper corner bumped, good hardback copy. .

Petaling Jaya.: Democratic Action Party.. 1983.. iii + 18pp, very good in wrappers. The author is the leader of the Democratic Action Party in Malaysia. This publication presents his views on the Bumiptura Malaysia Finance loans scandal .

Jakarta.: Badan Pemeriksa Keuangan.. 2009.. Colour illustrations, x + 170pp, very good hardback copy. 25 x 19cm. Text in Indonesian. On the historical development of the Indonesian Supreme Audit Board. .

[Beijing].: 中央芭蕾舞团.[Zhong yang ba lei wu tuan].. (circa1990).. [6pp], as new in wrappers, text in Chinese. 26.1 x 18.7cm. The program list shows the names of the ballet dancers and staff from the National Ballet of China, and gives synopses of three ballet works (Raymonda, Red Detachment of Women, and Blessing). .

London.: Pavillion.. 1995.. Colour line illustrations by the author, xx + 211pp, inscription front free endpaper, very good copy in dustjacket, 22.5 x 22.5cm. "An illustrated odyssey of the fourth of seven children in the House of Yang, a prominent Manchurian family, whose experience of the Japanese occupation, the Russian onslaught upon northeastern China, and the ensuing Chinese civil war makes for a spellbinding tale." (Publisher's description). .

Yogyakarta.: Bentang Budaya.. 1995.. Map, ix + 337pp, fold out appendices, spine and covers little sunned, a very good paperback copy. Text in Indonesian. .

The Hague.: Martinus Nijhoff.. 1972.. xv + 269pp, index, bibliography, register of names, covers patchily faded and a trifle worn, some light wear upper cover, prior owner's name and address half titlepage, few in text pencil annotations, a sound secondhand paperback copy. .

Kuala Lumpur.: MBRAS.. 1981.. Folding and intext maps, colour plates, frontispiece, lxxiii + 343pp, glossary, bibliography, index, notes, prior owner's name title page, covers little worn and creased, a good paperback copy. The Surakarta court version of the Babad Dipanagara with translations into English and Indonesian Malay. Despite the existence of a large body of Javanese historical (babad) literature on Dipanagara (1785-1855) and the period of the Java War (1825-30), very few texts have been published or made available in any form. The following edition and translation in English and Indonesian Malay of Codex Orientalis 2114 (Babad Dipanagara) of the Leiden University Library is thus intended to partially fill this gap in modern Javanese historiography. .

Kuala Lumpur.: MBRAS.. 1981.. Folding and intext maps, colour plates, frontispiece, lxxiii + 343pp, glossary, bibliography, index, notes, paperback, covers slightly worn with creased spine, edges little foxed, a good paperback copy. "The Surakarta court version of the Babad Dipanagara with translations into English and Indonesian Malay. Despite the existence of a large body of Javanese historical (babad) literature on Dipanagara (1785-1855) and the period of the Java War (1825-30), very few texts have been published or made available in any form. The following edition and translation in English and Indonesian Malay of Codex Orientalis 2114 (Babad Dipanagara) of the Leiden University Library is thus intended to partially fill this gap in modern Javanese historiography." (Publisher's description). .

Jakarta.: Lembaga Penelitian Perancis Untuk Timur Jauh.. 1980.. Map, black and white illustrations, lxxxviii + unpaginated plates + 393pp, prior owner's details front free endpaper, spine lightly creased, upper corners bumped, small mark and some light fading in sections on wrappers, good paperback copy. 29 x 21cm. Volume 1 of Naskah dan dokumen Nusantara. Text in Indonesian. .

Sydney.: Macmillan.. 2004.. Map, colour photographic illustrations, 240pp. Paperback in good condition. 23.2 x 15.3cm. "When novelist and former editor Bunty Avieson's husband found his work led him to India and the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, Bunty decided to take her young baby and travel with him. This resulting travel narrative outlines the joys and horrors of travelling in the developing world with a small child." (Publisher's description). .

Kuala Lumpur.: Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia.. 1975.. Colour illustrations, 60pp, a good copy in little rubbed and worn wrappers. 31 lessons consisting of a reading passage and comprehension questions. .

Carlisle.: Piquant.. 2004.. Maps, black and white photographic plates, xiv + 177pp, covers trifle worn, otherwise a very good paperback copy. .

Kunming.: Yunnan Education Publishing House.. 1995.. Colour photographic illustrations, 36pp, small octavo, very good copy in paperback. Women's Culture Series: Nationalities in Yunnan. .

London.: Schocken Books.. First Schoken Paperback Edition.. 1966.. Black and white illustrations, xxii + 209pp, index, list of authorities, paperback, light and browning wear covers, slightly browned on edges, a good paperback copy. "The ambition of this volume is to provide a brief account of the setting in which Chinese painting must be studied, and of the various influences that helped to shape the Chinese Tradition of Painting." Taken from the dustjacket. .

London.: Harrap.. 1985.. Black & white photographic plates, 267pp, notes, bibliography, index. Edges somewhat foxed, boards trifle worn, otherwise a very good copy. .

Durham.: Duke University Press.. 2010.. 290pp, list of Chinese characters, filmography, bibliography, index. As new paperback copy. .

Berkeley.: UCP.. 1977.. xvii + 237pp, index, paperback, verso lower cover little browned and creased, occasional marking, otherwise a good copy. Looks at the transitional period of the Chinese Revolution, 1911-1919, with a particular focus on the identification of causes of the intellectual's rejection of liberalism and the rise of a peasant-based revolution. .

New York.: Random House.. (c.2001).. xxv + 367pp, index, notes, glossary of names, dustjacket, a very good hardback copy. "What does it mean to be Chinese? Few questions in history have been as fateful. 'Bad Elements' is the result of Ian Buruma's five years of travels throughout the Chinese-speaking world observing the varying groups competing for a right to define its answer. From the diaspora of exiles in the West, to Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, to factions within the People's Republic itself, Buruma comes to terms with the range of dissident communities competing to shape China's future in their own image." (Publisher's description). .

Graz.: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt.. Reprint.. 1972.. Black and white maps, xiii + 255pp, 28 x 19cm, few spots of foxing endpapers, very good hardback in dustjacket. .