Written to meet the need of students and teachers of the Thai language for information on the mor...
With its dramatic vistas, its attractive, hospitable people and its rich cultural traditions, the...
The Shu Hua Shuo Ling-a treatise on painting and forgery-was written in the eighteenth century by...
Inspired by Chicago journalist Studs Terkel's accounts of the hopes and dreams of ordinary Americ...
This study comprises an in-depth examination of the anthropology of caste as observed in the Newa...
Returning to Tarang, a remote village in northwestern Nepal, 44 years after conducting his ground...
'Move quietly, hit hard'-a lesson learned as a child vagrant under a bridge in Ha Noi, and one th...
This account of plant-hunter and explorer Frank Kingdon-Ward's 1933 expedition to the southeaster...
Seventy years and at least three generations have passed since the abomination of the Holocaust w...
This thought provoking study of the development of architecture, and the impact of architectural ...
The legendary botanist and explorer records the details of his last expedition, in 1953, to his b...
A detailed first-hand account-and critical analysis-of the impact of the first contingent of Amer...