Canberra. National Gallery of Australia. 2019. Colour photographic plates, 140pp, striking pictorial covers, hardback with contrasting cloth spine. 29 x 24.cm. As new. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Australia in 2019. Includes six essays Archipelagic Cosmopolitanism: A Prehistory of Contemporary Art in Indonesia; Looking for..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2013. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, ix + 333pp, index, bibliography, glossary, abbreviations, paperback. Books on Southeast Asian nationalist movements make very little - if any - mention of women in their ranks. Biographical studies of politically active women in Southeast Asia are also rare. Women..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2012. 70 illustrations & maps, 658pp, including one folding, glossary of non-geographic terms, currencies, measures and commodities; List of place names and geographic terms, bibliography, index. Hardback in dustjacket. "Admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge, a Director in the Rotterdam chamber of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC)..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. Maps, black and white and colour photographic illustrations, xxviii + 453pp, appendices, glossary, list of place names and geographic terms, bibliography, index, paperback. "Jacques de Coutre was a Flemish gem trader who spent nearly a decade in Southeast Asia at the turn of the 17th century. He..... More
Singapore. Singapore Art Museum. 1998. Colour plates, 72pp, biography, list of works, text in Chinese and English, text and pictorial gilt upper cover and spine, small quarto, paperback. This catalogue published in conjunction with the Fan Chang Tien, His Art and Passion exhibition at the Singapore Art Museum presents ten..... More
Mansfield Center. Martino. 1998. Reprint. 5 volumes in 3. Vol I: vii + 1104. Vol II: 1106 - 2280pp. Vol III: 2282 - 2983 + 309pp. Indices. French text. Important bibliography of over 20,000 items in European languages in all fields on Burma, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand and Assam..... More
Amsterdam. Pepin. 1998. Map, profusely illustrated with colour and black and white plates, 448pp, bibliography, glossary, paperback, 28 x 22cm, edges little foxed otherwise very good condition. Text in French, German, Italian, Spanish and English. When referring to this item please quote stockid 163381. More
Paris. Les Indes Savantes. 2003. Map, 146pp, bibliography, glossary, index, paperback, one corner bent. Text in French. When referring to this item please quote stockid 68549. More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2022. Map, black & white photographic illustrations, xxx + 344pp, glossary, bibliography, index. Paperback. "Wayang, the traditional puppet theater form of Java, fascinates and endures thanks to the many ways it works as a medium - bearing the weight of Javanese culture and tradition as a key..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2019. Maps, descriptive text with colour photographic illustrations throughout, xxi + 785pp, ribbon bookmark, bibliography, indices of seal matrices, seal impressions, names and titles, place names, dates, Qur'an quotations and a concordance. New condition in dustjacket. 31 x 23cm. "Seals make up an important element in the..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2019. 282pp, index, bibliography, paperback. "International politics in Southeast Asia since end of the Cold War in 1990 can be understood within the frames of order and an emerging regionalism embodied in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). But order and regionalism are now under seige..... More
Singapore. National University of Singapore. 2003. viii + 215pp, appencies, index, paperback. Central banks are the primary financial regulators and guardians of national money in Southeast Asia. Financial stability depends on their capacity to manage the demands of banks, politicians and financial markets. But why are some central banks unbending..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2016. 217pp, paperback. Migration in Asia is leading to more marriages across nationalities. New patterns of migration are complicating the picture of women from poorer Asian countries migrating to marry men in more wealthy ones. The contributors to this volume explore the agency of marriage migrants, showing..... More
Singapore. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. 2005. xx + 174pp, index, hardback. In the Southeast Asian context, where the incidence and violence of piracy have been growing and where maritime terrorism is a threat with potentially horrific consequences, there is an urgent need to come up with innovative ways to..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2022. xvii + 263pp, bibliography, index. Paperback. "Exploring the work of established and emerging artists in Indonesia's vibrant art world, this book examines why so many artists in the world's largest archipelagic nation choose to work directly with people in their art practices. While the social dimension..... More
Malaysia: Ridge Books, 2019. Black and white illustrations, 353pp, index, paperback. The most important of Tommy Koh's writings on the Law of the Sea are brought together in Building a New Legal Order for the Oceans. As the president of the third United Nations Conference on the NUS Convention on..... More
Thailand. White Lotus. 1998. Maps, vi +393 pages, biographies, bibliographies, appendices, paperback. This book deals with the competing pressures being placed on land and resources worldwide as the world's population grows. Within states, these pressures are increasingly leading to conflicts over land and associated resources and these conflicts are increasingly..... More
Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2016. 12th edition. Illustrated, 376pp, paperback. The first edition of Southeast Asia - An Introductory History was published in 1979 and immediately filled a need for travellers and students interested in a tantalisingly different part of the world. Subsequent editions (translated into Japanese, Khmer, Korean and..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2013. Black and white illustrations, x + 276 pp, index, bibliography, paperback. This wide-ranging volume is the first to examine the characteristics, dynamics and wider implications of recently emerging regional production, dissemination, marketing and consumption systems of popular culture in East and Southeast Asia. Using tools based..... More
Singapore. Institute of southeast Asian Studies and International Development Research Centre. 2002. xvi + 242pp, bibliography, index, paperback. "This study of ageing and long term care policies in the Asia Pacific Region was prepared by the Ageing Research Network of the Asian Development Research Forum for the year 2002 World..... More
United States. John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2015. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xxv + 450pp, bibliography, index, inscription by the author to prior owner half title, very good paperback copy. "Few places in the world possess greater historical complexity than the culturally diverse region of Southeast Asia. A...... More
Manila and Hong Kong. De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde/ArtAsiaPacific. 2021. 323pp, purple cloth covered hardback, lettered in silver on upper cover and spine. Very good. "The book is the first collection of essays by Roces who has written extensively about craft, art, museology, cultural theory and politics, generating a...... More
Singapore. ISEAS. 2011. Maps, xxii + 363 pages, paperback. "Founded in 1974, Southeast Asian Affairs provides, without fear or favour, informed and in-depth annual analyses of this vibrant region and its component countries. It is the only publication which does this and is in its own class without peers. It..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2021. Maps, black and white illustrations, xv + 537pp, index, bibliography. Paperback. 25.5 x 18cm. "The eastern archipelagos stretch from Mindanao and Sulu in the north to Bali in the southwest and New Guinea in the southeast. Many of their inhabitants are regarded as "people without history"..... More
Singapore. Marshall Cavendish. 2003. Revised edition. x + 229pp, bibliography, index, paperback. This book presents a systematic introduction to the major trends that have taken place in the economic, social and political development of Asian countries since the end of the second world war, and explains the factors which account..... More