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Teach Yourself Tagalog. Revised edition. Paperback

Cora Castle

384 pages, with 60 illustrations, glossary, index. 2004. Intended to supply the beginner with a well-selected stock of words, this book includes lessons on how to speak, understand, read and write Tagalog. The 20 units are graded in complexity and arranged thematically. Each contains a dialogue, vocabulary list, exercises and cultural tips.

Major Languages of East and South-East Asia. Paperback

Edited by Bernard Comrie 

x11, 234 pages, with linguistic maps and diagrams. 1990. Based on Bernard Comrie's much praised The World's Major Languages, this is the first guide in paperback to an important language family. The areas covered include Chinese, Japanese and Sino-Tibetan languages.

Southeast Asia: From Prehistory to History

Editors: Peter Bellwood, Ian Glover

384 pages, 40 line drawings, 111 photos, 32 maps, 1 plate section, 3 tables. 2006. This book traces the cultural history of Southeast Asia from prehistoric times through to the major Hindu and Buddhist civilizations, to around AD 1300.

Mekong Diaries. Viet Cong Drawings and Stories, 1964-1975. Cloth. 8-3/4x9

Sherry Buchanan

264 pages, 230 color plates. 2008. In May 1965, vice president Hubert Humphrey declared that “the Viet Cong has committed the most unbelievable acts of terrorism the world has ever known.” And throughout the long conflict in Vietnam, Americans similarly demonized the enemy fighters as reds, gooks, and fanatical killers. Offering a radically different view of these supposedly savage soldiers, Mekong Diaries presents never-before-published drawings, poems, letters, and oral histories by ten of the most celebrated Viet Cong war artists.

Cambodian - English / English - Cambodian Dictionary. Cloth. Indian publication

Board of Scholars

355 pages. 1993

Cambridge History of Southeast Asia. 4-Volume-set. Paperbacks

by Nicholas Tarling

for description: see the single volumes

Cambridge History of Southeast Asia. Volume 1-1: From early times to c. 1500. Paperback

by Nicholas Tarling. 384 pages, index. 2000

Cambridge History of Southeast Asia. Volume 1-2: From c. 1500 to c. 1800. Paperback

by Nicholas Tarling

320 pages, index. 2000

Cambridge History of Southeast Asia. Volume 2-1: From c.1800 to the 1930s. Paperback

by Nicholas Tarling

362 pages, 6 maps, index. 2000

Cambridge History of Southeast Asia. Volume 2-2: From World War II to the Present. Paperback

by Nicholas Tarling

384 pages, index. 2000

Thai Puppets and Khon Masks. ca. 25x21.5 cm. Cloth

by Chandavij & Pramualratana

164 pages, over 200 colour illustrations, appendices, index. 1999

History of Cambodia. Paperback
by David P. Chandler. xiv, 365 pages. 2007

Angkor and the Khmer Civilization. New edition. Paperback

by Michael D. Coe

240 pages, with 22 colour and 108 black-white illustrations. 2003. The Classic-period kings ruled over the Khmer empire from 802AD for more than five centuries, and this volume examines the massive architectural achievements of this period, including the huge capital city of Angkor, with the awe-inspiring Angkor Wat, the world's largest religious structure.

Angkor: Heart of an Asian Empire. Paperback

Bruno Dagens

192 pages, numerous black-white and colour illustrations. 1995. For over five centuries, Angkor, ancient seat of the Buddhist god-kings, was the capital of the Khmer empire. Abandoned in the 15th century, this city was swallowed up by the jungle and almost forgotten. This book tells of its rediscovery

Record of Cambodia: The Land and Its People. Paperback

by Daguan, Zhou / Harris, Peter (TRN) / Chandler, David (FRW)

xv, 150 pages, with 26 colour illustrations, maps. 2007

Sources of Vietnamese Tradition.

Dutton, Werner & Whitmore 2012

Paperback, 664 pages, 229 x 152 mm

English Vietnamese and Vietnamese English Dictionary. Cloth. i/p

Gian Huu Can.

826 pages (1 page slightly damaged, no other available, reduced price)

Thai Art and Culture. Hardback, 29x26cm

Henry Ginsburg

138 pages, 80 colour, 30 sepia illustrations. 2000. A well illustrated study of the development of Thai artistic style from western collection manuscripts, looking at their social and historical content through original documents of the period including maps, royal speeches, trading documents, official letters and period photographs.

Stupa. Psychokosmisches Lebens- und Todessymbol. Gebunden

Lama Anagarika Govinda

109 Seiten, mit 32 Abbildungen, 4 Photos und 1 Tabelle. 1978

Angkor and Cambodia in the Sixteenth Century: According to Portuguese and Spanish Sources, Hardcover
by B-P Groslier. Michael Smithies (Translation)

x, 186 pages. 2006

Aspects of Western Subanon Formal Speech. Paperback

William C. Hall

Archaeology of Mainland Southeast Asia: From 10,000 B.C. to the Fall of Angkor. Paperback

by Charles Higham. 404 pages. This important new synthesis focuses on the social world of early mainland Southeast Asia.

Armies of Angkor : Military Structure and Weaponry of the Khmers. Hardcover

 Michel Jacq-Hergoualc'h

xiii, 178 pages, 4 folded leaves of plates. 2007

Angkor: Cities and Temples. Hardback

by Claude Jacques

368 pages, 360 colour and 9 black-white illustrations. 1997. This pictorial record celebrates the cities and temples of Angkor in Southeast Asia. The buildings, dating from the 9th to the 13th century, include the temples of Ta Prohm and Preah Kahn, and the Angkor Wat itself. A discussion of Khmer society, kingship, religion and culture is also included.

Buddhist Warfare.

Jerryson, Michael K., Juergensmeyer, Mark

Paperback, 270 pages, 7 black and white halftones, 3 line illustrations, 232 x 155 mm

Art and Architecture of Cambodia. Paperback

Helen Ibbitson Jessup

224 pages, with 195 illustrations, (96 in colour). 2004. This is an introduction to the culture, history and monuments of Cambodia, a country which is increasing in popularity as a tourist destination for the more adventurous traveller

Modern Anthropology of South East Asia: An Introduction

448 pages, 51 illustrations, maps, bibliography. 2002. It provides an overview of the major theoretical issues and themes which have emerged from the engagement of anthropologists with South-East Asian communities; a succinct historical survey and analysis of the peoples and cultures of the region.

Funeral Casino: Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange With the Dead in Thailand. Paperback

Alan Klima

336 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. 2002

Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom. Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism. Paperback

Jeffrey J. Kripal

412 pages. 2002. Addresses the 20th-century study of mysticism as a kind of mystical tradition in its own right, with its own unique histories, discourses, sociological dynamics, and rhetorics of secrecy.

Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge. Paperback

edited by Charles Leslie and Allen Young

ix, 296 pages. 1992

Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800–1830. Volume 1: Integration on the Mainland. Paperback

Victor Lieberman

508 pages, 8 line diagrams, 7 maps. 2003. This ambitious work has two novel goals: to overcome the extreme fragmentation of early Southeast Asian historiography, and to connect Southeast Asian to world history.

Lonely Planet Burmese Phrasebook. Third edition

Lonely Planet Vietnamese Phrasebook. Third edition

Xuan Thu Nguyen

288 pages. 2000. Featuring extensive vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation sections, this text includes script throughout for both Hindi and Urdu, allows the user to point to words and phrases. Conversation topics together with essential language are included, as are cultural tips and information

Padaeng Chronical and the Jengtung State Chronical Translated. Paperback

by Sao Saimong Mangrai

xx1, 301 pages, with 19 figures. 2003

By Steve McCurry

110 pages, 80 colour photographs. 2002. The award-winning photographer offers photographic portraits of the temples of Angkor and their visitors. The extensive network of ancient temples of Angkor in Cambodia - a magical world of carved gods, weathered masonry, tangled vegetation and orange-robed monks, so long off-limits to Western visitors - are evocatively presented here in Steve McCurry's unique style

Queen Victoria's Enemies (4): Asia, Australasia and the Americas. Men-at-Arms 224

by Ian Knight

This fascinating volume by Ian Knight exposes the variety of the 'small wars' and of the qualities of the disparate peoples who took to the field to oppose the spread of the British Empire. List of contents: China, Bhutan and Tibet, Burma, The East Indies, New Zealand, Australia, The Americas

Mon-Khmer Studies: A Journal of Southeast Asian Languages. Special volume dedicated to Professor André-Georges Haudricourt. Paperback

268 pages. 1996. Mon-Khmer Studies XXV

Colloquial Vietnamese. Book and 2 cd's

John Moore, Tuan Duc Vuong 

First edition, 2007. Colloquial Vietnamese is easy to use and completely up to date! The course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Vietnamese. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Complete - including answer key and reference section.

Making of Modern Burma. Paperback

Thant Myint-U

291 pages. 2001. Burma has often been portrayed as a timeless place, a country of egalitarian Buddhist villages, ruled successively by autocratic kings, British colonialists and, most recently, a military dictatorship. Many aspects of Burmese society today are largely the creations of the nineteenth century away from the Ava-based polity of early modern times, and towards the ‘British Burma’ of the 1900s.

Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia: A New History. Paperback

edited by Norman G. Owen, David Chandler, and William R. Roff

576 pages, 75 illustrations, 6 maps. 2005 

Pararaton. A Study of Southeast Asian Chronicle. Clot

translated from the original Kawi text by Dr. I. Gusti Putu Phalgunadi

148 pages

ca. 20 x 28 cm

Yao: The Mien and Mun Yao in China, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. Paperback

Jess G. Pourret

300 pages, 550 colour illustrations. 2002. The Yao are a society based on 12 clans with strong traditions and no country of their own, and no greater social borders than the village. They are Taoists with distinctive dress and exquisite silver jewellery. This book covers all aspects of Yao culture

Sacred Angkor: The Carved Reliefs of Angkor Wat. Paperback

by Vittorio Roveda

290 pages. 2007

Vietnam. Ein "Terra Magica" Grossbildband in Farbe. Gebunden. ca. 24x31cm

Saitner

200 Seiten, davon 110 Farbbildseiten ( 202 Farbphotos, 12 historische sw Abbildungen, Karte)

Southeast Asia. A Concise History. Cloth

Mary Somers Heidhues

192 pages, glossary, bibliography, index, 131 illustrations, 11 maps. 2000. Southeast Asia is an important global crossroads. A melting pot of cultures, religions and peoples, it has seen the rise and fall of many mighty empires. This book guides the reader through the history of the region, from the earliest prehistoric peoples to the late 20th-century.

Southeast Asia. A Concise History. Paperback

Somers Heidhues

192 pages, glossary, bibliography and index, 131 illustrations, 11 maps. 2001. Southeast Asia is an important global crossroads. A melting pot of cultures, religions and peoples, it has seen the rise and fall of many mighty empires. This book guides the reader through the history of the region, from the earliest prehistoric peoples to the late 20th-century.