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Indonesia's Small Entrepreneurs
Trading on the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
In the context of Makassar, on the eastern Indonesian island of Sulawesi, the book explores the socioeconomic and cultural relationships that make life for small entrepreneurs in Makassar so distinctive. Using a new framework for the study of small enterprises - the 'small enterprise integrative framework'...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
Shamans throughout much of Asia are regarded as having the power to control and coerce spirits. Many Asians today still turn to shamans to communicate with the world of the dead, heal the sick, and explain enigmatic events. To understand Asian religions, therefore, a knowledge of shamanism is essential.
Shamans...
China and the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Dispute
Escalation and De-escalation
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This book examines the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands dispute from a foreign policy perspective, focusing on three key stakeholders: China, Japan and the United States.
The Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands dispute is a prominent territorial dispute between China and Japan. This book critically assesses that...
Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled
A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christian and His Conflicted Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Born into a low-level literati family in the port city of Ningbo, the seventeenth-century Chinese Christian convert Zhu Zongyuan likely never left his home province. Yet Zhu nonetheless led a remarkably globally connected life. His relations with the outside world, ranging from scholarly activities...
by Murli Melwani
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
The genre referred to as the Indian short story in English is more expansive and faithful to the nuances of a multicultural, diverse nation like India than the Indian novel in English. This genre has produced abundant creative variety but limited critical appraisal.The Indian Short Story in English,...
Edible Excellence, Part 2: Cuisines Of The World
Edible Excellence, #9
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2016
The series of eBooks "Edible Excellence" combines the author's exclusive advice guides on dieting, and also cookbooks in which she shares her personal favorite recipes, discovered in the many places of the world she lived or visited.
This box set includes the following eBooks:
BEST...
Vegetarian Sushi Secrets
101 Healthy and Delicious Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Everybody loves sushi. Now vegetarians can fully enjoy it too!
American sushi expert Marisa Baggett has been working passionately for years to perfect sushi recipes that take full advantage of the freshest garden vegetables, herbs, tofu, mushrooms and spices available at your local farmer's...
East Asia in the World
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to East Asia. After a brief introduction to the study of East Asia, the early chapters of the book survey the essentials of East Asian history; important historical narratives;...
The Food of Malaysia
62 Easy-to-follow and Delicious Recipes from the Crossroads of Asia
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2005
Create flavorful and visually stunning dishes with this easy-to-follow Malaysian cookbook.
The Food of Malaysia presents over 62 easy-to-follow recipes with detailed descriptions of Malaysian cooking methods and ingredients, enabling you to reproduce the exotic flavors of Malaysia in your own...
The 30-Minute Vegan's Taste of the East
150 Asian-Inspired Recipes--from Soba Noodles to Summer Rolls
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Noted vegans and vegetarians love Mark Reinfeld and Jennifer Murray's food. Food Network host and author Ellie Krieger lauds their recipes as delicious, exciting, healthful, [and] accessible for everyone,” while Deborah Madison notes their appealing recipes, good information about food and cooking...
Persian Authorship and Canonicity in Late Mughal Delhi
Building an Ark
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Writing in the eighteenth century, the Persian-language litterateurs of late Mughal Delhi were aware that they could no longer take for granted the relations of Persian with Islamic imperial power, relations that had enabled Persian literary life to flourish in India since the tenth century C.E.
Persian...
Rice and Baguette
A History of Food in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
The once-obscure cuisine of Vietnam is, today, a favorite for many people from East to West. Adapted and modified over thousands of years, it is probably best known as a particularly delicious result of combining traditional southeast Asian cookery with visible outside influences—notably, the crunchy...
Koreans In Iran
Missiles, Markets and Myths
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Iran and Korea are both at the top of the headlines these days. Do they have anything to do with each other?
As tensions rise again, few of us are aware that the two Koreas and Iran are engaging in many ways, and have been for more than fifty years. Despite the nations’ seeming dissimilarities,...
Shakespeare and Indian Cinemas
"Local Habitations"
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
This book is the first to explore the rich archive of Shakespeare in Indian cinemas, including less familiar, Indian language cinemas to contribute to the assessment of the expanding repertoire of Shakespeare films worldwide. Essays cover mainstream and regional Indian cinemas such as the better known...