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This is a concise and user–friendly guide to learning basic Balinese. Everyday Balinese is targeted to anyone who wishes to learn to speak colloquial Balinese. There are 23 lessons in the book, each with a dialogue that centers around the Balinese daily life. The dialogue is presented twice: The first version representing the lumrah or common Balinese; the second the alus or refined Balinese. Both versions are exactly the same grammatically; the...
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This portable, user–friendly Thai language guide and phrasebook is the cheapest and easiest way to learn Thai before and during your trip. If you only want one Thai language book-Essential Thai is the way to go. Part of Tuttle Publishing's Essential Phrasebooks Series, it is a great first introduction and beginner guide to the language of Thailand and is also designed as a great Thai phrasebook, making it the most versatile Thai language learning...
3283) Malaysia
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IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Malaysia is a country spread across two separate land masses that are covered by a tropical rainforest. This title highlights the country's diverse landscape and wildlife, its people and customs, and more! Leveled text and bright photos introduce the country, and special features profile animals, map the landscape, introduce the language, highlight a recipe, and introduce historical events. This engaging title will immerse the reader in Malaysia's...
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This is a carefully structured, practical book for learning colloquial spoken Japanese. Each lesson presents a few of the most common features of the language in sentences which are short, easy, and immediately useful. The first thirteen lessons show you there is a lot that can be said with just a word or two. The later lessons introduce more variety and explain a few of the fine points. The sentences reflect how the Japanese language is really spoken....
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Justice. Courage. Benevolence. Politeness. Sincerity. Honor. Loyalty. These are the seven precepts of bushido- the code of the samurai. Together, these seven values create a system of beliefs that is unique to Japanese culture- and is still alive today. Bushido: The Classic Portrait of Samurai Martial Culture written by Inazo Nitobe, one of Japan's foremost scholars, thoroughly explores each of these values and explains how they differ from their...
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The Yunnanese from southwestern China have for millennia traded throughout upland Southeast Asia. Burma in particular has served as a "back door" to Yunnan, providing a sanctuary for political refugees and economic opportunities for trade explorers. Since the Chinese Communist takeover in 1949 and subsequent political upheavals in China, an unprecedented number of Yunnanese refugees have fled to Burma. Through a personal narrative approach, Beyond...
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Guangxi, a region on China's southern border with Vietnam, has a large population of ethnic minorities and a history of rebellion and intergroup conflict. In the summer of 1968, during the high tide of the Cultural Revolution, it became notorious as the site of the most severe and extensive violence observed anywhere in China during that period of upheaval. Several cities saw urban combat resembling civil war, while waves of mass killings in rural...
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Sayyid Fadl, a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, led a unique life-one that spanned much of the nineteenth century and connected India, Arabia, and the Ottoman Empire. For God or Empire tells his story, part biography and part global history, as his life and legacy afford a singular view on historical shifts of power and sovereignty, religion and politics.
Wilson Chacko Jacob recasts the genealogy of modern sovereignty through the encounter between...
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[Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles of the Indian Mutiny] By 1857, British power in India had been largely undisputed for almost fifty years, however, the armies of the East India Company were largely recruited from the native people of India. But in 1858 the Sepoy soldiers turned against their erstwhile British employers. The events that led up to the Revolt were many and varied, including British highhandedness,...
3290) The Way of the Dragon
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IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
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Adventure meets fantastic historical fiction in this tale of a samurai school set in Japan.
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Essential Japanese Phrase Book & Dictionary teaches you the practical phrases and expressions needed for common, everyday interactions in Japan in a way that's clear, concise, accessible and enjoyable. Key features of this Japanese phrasebook and dictionary include: Over 1,500 practical phrases for everyday use An English to Japanese dictionary with over 2,000 terms and expressions Essential expressions used for meeting people, starting conversations,...
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In war, victory can be held hostage to seemingly insignificant incidents—chance events, opportunities seized or cast aside—that can derail the most brilliant military strategies and change the course of history. What if the Japanese had conquered India and driven out the British? What if the strategic link between the United States and Australia had been severed? What if Vice Admiral Nagumo had launched a third attack on Pearl Harbor? What if...
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Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles of the Indian Mutiny. By 1857, British power in India had been largely undisputed for almost fifty years, however, the armies of the East India Company were largely recruited from the native people of India. This inherent weakness would be exposed during the events of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-1858, as the Sepoy soldiers turned against their erstwhile British employers. The...
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This is a travel sized and easy–to–use Malay phrasebook, dictionary, and beginning Malay language bookBahasa Malaysia (literally "the Malaysian language") is based on Malay which is the mother tongue of the Malays of the Peninsula and the people of central eastern Sumatra. Malay has been the lingua franca of Southeast Asia for centuries. The lessons in this book are prioritized, with more important words and phrases being give first, so that you...
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The Key to Success in Your MEXT Scholarship Application:
Step-by-Step guide to writing a Field of Study and Research Program Plan that will impress your reviewers and secure your scholarship.
The Field of Study and Research Program Plan is the most important document in your MEXT scholarship application that you can control. A researched, clear plan can win your the scholarship, but a poor plan can destroy your chances.
But where do you start?...
3297) Lead, Kindly Light
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In this book, the author of Personal History, Vincent Sheean, demonstrates that Gandhi's life, work and teaching were for the whole world as well as for India. It is suggested that the terrifying weapon of non-violence, having freed India, might be about to free the world.
Though this book is in one sense an attempt to reveal the meaning of Mahatma Gandhi's power and life and teaching, it is, in a more important sense, the author's eloquent testament...
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Finding your way around the various regions of Indonesia is a breeze with this handy Tuttle Travel Atlas. Designed for the adventurous traveler and containing all the maps you'll need on your explorations, this atlas includes many views that are available nowhere else. This Atlas is conveniently divided into the major regions of Indonesia: Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, East Java, Bali, Nusa Tenggara, Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Maluku and Papua....
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This portable, user–friendly Indonesian language guide and phrasebook is the cheapest and easiest way to learn Indonesian before and during your trip. If you only want one Indonesian language book-Essential Indonesian is the way to go. Part of Tuttle Publishing's Essential Phrasebooks Series, it is a great first introduction and beginner guide to the language of Indonesia and is also designed as a great Indonesian phrasebook, making it the most...
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There are only two ways to live our life, according to Albert Einstein: one is as if nothing is a miracle; the other, as if everything is a miracle.
Life of Miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi is a book about how the impossible became possible-about things that happened in China and America to the people Wang Ping grew up with, met, and befriended along her journeys between these two distant rivers. This is also a story about water, alive...
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