The Province of East Timor :Development in progress

The glory of the Sriwijaya and Majapahit Kingdoms in the eighth and fourteenth centuries respectively, can not be denied. Indonesia from the port of Sabang on the northwesternmost point of Sumatra to the town of Merauke in Irian Jaya on the southwesternmost border, has been a territorial unity for many hundreds of years.

Japan today :People, places, power

Japan continues to be a subject of compelling fascination for American journalists and scholars, not simply as an object of cultural curiosity, but because popular understanding of the Japanese phenomenon has become essential to the public support of an effective foreign policy

Obituaries from the times 1961-1970

This volume, which will be followed by further volumes, contains the obituaries from The Times between 1961 and 1970.

The middle east and north Africa 1975-77

DURING the past year the Middle East has maintained its position at the centre of world news. Civil war in the Lebanon has recently threatened to involve the whole Middle Eastern area in renewed large-scale conflict. The price of oil has continued to be an important factor in inflation. The oil States themselves have to some extent been experiencing the recession, with reduced demand for their …

Introduction to Indonesia

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368 pages

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915.98 Dal i

Golden guide to Hongkong and Macao

The Golden Guide to Hongkong and Macao is the only complete guide to these twin centres of attraction for ever growing numbers of visitors. All the basic tourist information is here - about immigration and customs formalities, transport and accommodation, currency, climate and many other topics. Hongkong's world- famous shopping opportunities are describ- ed in detail; so are its restaurants an…

Crossroards land and life in Southwest Asia

THIS BOOK HAS BEEN WRITTEN around three principal ideas-the crossroads char- acter of Southwest Asia, the role of water in its economy, and the way in which man is changing the landscape.rnrnA major asset of the area is its centrality, and the chief justification for any use of the term Middle East lies in Southwest Asia's strategic position between Europe, Africa, and the bulk of Asia. Since t…

Barbarians & Mandarins :Thirteen centuries of western travelers in China

FIRST AND FOREMOST, this is a book about people, about travelers and their motives and their adventures and about their reluc- tant hosts at journey's end. Diplomatic and political histories, filled as they are with broad sweeps and heavy laden with grand signifi- cances, often seem to lose sight of the fact that history is made by people and, when written, must be read by people, that but for …

Kyoto :A contemplative guide

IN PRESENTING this book I hope to fill a gap that exists in the present body of literature about Kyoto, between superficial trav- el pamphlets and scholarly, annotated reference works. I found when I went to Kyoto myself that there was no single book be- tween these areas which answered my questions about the tem- ples and other historic buildings I saw; nor was there a book to help me select w…

Chinese shadows

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0670219185

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220 pages

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