Search Results: Titles starting with R from Asia Bookroom

Brighton.: Royal Air Force Historical Society.. 1995.. Coloured maps, black and white photographic images, 130pp, notes. Hardback copy in good to very good condition. "The sixth and last of the World War two series of Bracknell Symposia, the RAF and the Far East War 1941-45, was held at the RAF staff college on March 25th, 1995" - Publisher's Description. .

Canberra.: The Association for the Publication of Indonesian and Malaysian Studies.. volume 36, Number 1,2002.. Black and white line illustrations, 124pp, paperback. Contents include: 'Modernity, History and Ethnicity: Indonesian and Acehnese Nationalism in Conflict', Edward Aspinall; 'Plural Identities: Indonesian Women's Redefinition of Democracy in the Post-Reformasi Era', Melani Budianta; 'Gendered Citizens in the New Indonesian Democracy', Krishna Sen; and 'Civil Islam, Democratisation and Violence in Indonesia: A Comment', Robert W. Hefner. .

Canberra.: The Association for the Publication of Indonesian and Malaysian Studies.. Volume 39, Number 1,2005.. 193pp. Paperback. Contents include: Stephen Druce, David Bullbeck and Irfan Mahmud; 'A transitional Islamic Bugis cremation in Bulubangi, South Sulawesi: Its historical and archaeological context'. I.A. Caldwell and M. Nur; Three locally made bronzes from South Sulawesi; Possible evidence of cultural transfer from Java about AD 1000'. Williams Cummings; '"The one who was cast out": Tunipasuluq and changing notions of authority in the Gowa Chronicle'. Brett Baker; 'South Sulawesi in 1544: A Portuguese letter'. Ahmad Fauzi and Abdul Hamid; 'The banning of Darul Arqam in Malaysia'. Ian Proudfoot; 'Brushes with modernity on Batavia's horse tram, 1869-1871. .

Canberra.: The Association for the Publication of Indonesian and Malaysian Studies.. Volume 38, Number 1,2004.. 205pp, paperback. Contains articles on: 'Moh. Sanoesi's Siti Rayati: an Introduction', Wendy Mukherjee; 'Siti Rayati', Moh. Sanoesi; 'The Case of Nyi Anah', Sally White; 'Mocking Without Mockery: Singaporean Malays and Indonesian Domestic Workers', Yasuko Kobayashi; 'Islamic Radicalism in Indonesia: The Global and Historical Contexts', Giora Eliraz; and 'The Risky Future of Youth Politics in Indonesia', Pam Nilan. .

(Bangkok).: State Railway of Thailand.. 1967.. Black and white photographic illustrations, diagrammatical line drawings, 62pp, 16.2 x 10.5cm. Preliminary slip creased, otherwise a very good copy. .

Leiden.: Brill.. 2007.. Yellow illustrated boards, xxx + 858pp, bibliography and 2 pages of publisher's adverts. As new - very good copies. 25 x 16cm. Brill's Tibetan Studies Library: Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region. Volume 5/1 "The Rabhas inhabit the plains on both sides of the Brahmaputra river in Assam, in the North East of India. Their language is Rabha, a member of the Tibeto-Burman language family. This is the first ever comprehensive grammar of the Rongdani dialect of Rabha, as spoken in, a.o., the Rabha heartlands. Based on extensive field work by the author, this work is yet another significant step in the meticulous task of piecing together the jigsaw of Himalayan languages as undertaken by George van Driem and his team. Given the steady decline of the Rabha language in favour of Assamese, all those interested in the language and history of the Himalayas and Northern India will welcome this volume. With a Rabha dictionary/vocabulary, and a series of key Rabha texts shedding light… Read More

Johannesburg.: South African Institute of Race Relations.. 1953.. Black and white photographic plates, 35pp, covers fairly browned and faded, a sound secondhand paperback copy. .

St Lucia.: University of Queensland Press.. 1977.. Map, black and white illustrations, xv + 210pp, hardback with dustjacket in very good condition. "Fiji became a British colony in 1974. Five years later the colonial rulers began recruiting labourers from India to enable economic development to proceed without disrupting Fijian society. Recruiting did not end until 1916. The descendants of these Indian immigrants have long since outnumbered the Fijians and today there is potential for violent racial conflict." Publisher's description. .

London.: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner.. 1928.. Folding map, vi + 234pp, index, notes, appendix, endpapers foxed, foxing throughout, cloth flecked, lower cover bumped along one edge. Trubner's Oriental Series. "The subject of this study is the progress of the relations of the Indian Aryas with the other peoples of differing culture whom they met with in the course of their settlement and expansion over India." Taken from the introduction. .

Princeton.: Princeton University Press.. 1991.. Black and white illustrations, xii + 271pp, appendices, bibliography, index, very good copy in dustjacket. Explores the emergence of the new religious tradition, Radhasoami, based on the teachings of medieval Hindu saints, that is expanding across North India and throughout the world. .

Honolulu.: University of Hawai'i Press.. 1977.. Black and white photographic illustrations, x + 340pp, notes, index, dustjacket has a non-obvious damp stain and sunned spine, slight foxing on edge otherwise very good hardback copy. Remainder mark upper edge. .

London.: The British Museum.. 1970.. With a biographical note by Douglas Barrett. Colour and black and white illustrations, 32pp, covers little rubbed and soiled, small abrasion upper cover, still a good paperback copy. 21.5 x 21.5cm. Written by William Buller Fagg CMG, a British curator and anthropologist .

Garden City. New York.: Doubleday & Co.. 1946.. Endpaper maps, black and white plates, 587pp, notes, bibliography, index, inscription half-title, hardback, chipped dustjacket with two tape repairs on reverse, a good copy. "Hahn has taken the blueprint of Raffles' life in Malacca, Java, Sumatra, and finally Singapore and turned it into a brilliant and important biography which throws light on all British colonial policy." From the blurb. .

Singapore.: Graham Brash.. 1982.. 216pp, bibliography, index, slightly worn paperback copy, cover a little faded, but generally good. The life of Thomas Stamford Raffles. .

Singapore.: Kookyu Press.. 1985.. Black and white illustrations, 40 unnumbered pages, bibliography, a very good paperback copy. .

London.: Saqi Books.. 2006.. Map, colour plates, 239pp, bibliography, index, dustjacket. "On Valentine's Day 2005 self-made billionaire Rafiq Hariri, Lebanon's former prime minister, was assassinated in Beirut by a massive bomb that destroyed his motorcade. The Lebanese people subsequently took to the streets, and the United Nations Security Council responded by declaring the assassination an international terrorist act with severe regional and international ramifications. An International Independent Investigation Commission was formed by the Security Council to uncover the perpetrators. Mourned as a Lebanese martyr, Hariri's death triggered the protests that led to the withdrawal of Syrian forces in April 2005. From his humble beginnings as a fruit picker, Hariri achieved fame and fortune as a construction magnate in Saudi Arabia. As Prime Minister of Lebanon for ten years, 1992-98 and 2000-04, he was widely credited for its rebirth after years of civil war, overseeing the rebuilding of 90 percent… Read More

New York.: Paragon.. 1988.. Trans. Frontis, xiii + 194pp, glossary, index, protected dustjacket, very nice copy. A study of the burgeoning of traditional Muslim faith, especially the fundamentalist branch with Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini as its most visible exponent. .

Nimbus Records.. CD. 2 tracks, 62:39mins. .

United States.: Princeton University Press.. Reprint.. 2003. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xxii + 296pp, index, notes, references, glossary, a very good paperback copy. "What are the limits of national belonging? Focusing on Biak, a group of islands off the coast of western New Guinea, in the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya, Danilyn Rutherford's analysis calls for a rethinking of the nature of national identity. With the resurgence of separatism in the province, Irian Jaya has become the focus of fears that the Indonesian nation is falling apart. Yet in the early 1990s, the fieldwork for this book was made possible by the government's belief that Biaks were finally beginning to see themselves as Indonesians." (Publisher's description). .

Melbourne.: Government Printer.. 1885. 1pp, small tears to edges, no loss, minor marking. These statistics pertaining to Australian railways were presented to both houses of Parliament. Compiled by Henry Heylyn Hayter, Government Statist, they provide a view of each Australian state's open railways throughout the year, their length and the costs and expenditures - also includes New Zealand railways. .