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Book Frog Under a Coconut Shell

Download or read book Frog Under a Coconut Shell written by Josephine Chia and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Frog in a Coconut Shell

Download or read book Frog in a Coconut Shell written by Sylvia Sherry and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Frog Under a Coconut Shell

Download or read book Frog Under a Coconut Shell written by Josephine Chia and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the true story of the author, of how her own mother struggled for her right to educate her daughters despite her own parochial experience in a small kampong. This highly nostalgic and evocative book pays tribute to her mother's courageous journey from the bloom of youth to her affliction with Alzheimer's disease in old age.

Book The Edge of Bali and Other Writings

Download or read book The Edge of Bali and Other Writings written by Inez Baranay and published by Transit Lounge . This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three people travel to Bali for very different reasons. Marla is well read in Bali’s culture; she distrusts false ideologies, orientalism and tourism. To her surprise she finds the echoes of a golden age and a passionate lover. Nelson, a young woman from Sydney returns in the hope of reuniting with her Balinese boyfriend, but encounters the unexpected. Tyler, a New Yorker searching for a lost friend, enters a world of mystery and intrigue. All three are on the edge, unsure of whether they should stay in Bali any longer, but are increasingly drawn into the heart of this complex and alluring island. Through subtle storytelling and compelling characters, Inez Baranay unravels the exotic, ways of knowing and the culture of tourism, in one of the world’s favourite destinations.

Book The Secret World of the Frog in the Coconut Shell

Download or read book The Secret World of the Frog in the Coconut Shell written by Reb J. Rebbeck and published by Reb's Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Life Beyond Boundaries

Download or read book A Life Beyond Boundaries written by Benedict Anderson and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities Born in China, Benedict Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was educated in England and finally found a home at Cornell University, where he immersed himself in the growing field of Southeast Asian studies. He was expelled from Suharto’s Indonesia after revealing the military to be behind the attempted coup of 1965, an event which prompted reprisals that killed up to a million communists and their supporters. Banned from the country for thirty-five years, he continued his research in Thailand and the Philippines, producing a very fine study of the Filipino novelist and patriot José Rizal in The Age of Globalization. In A Life Beyond Boundaries, Anderson recounts a life spent open to the world. Here he reveals the joys of learning languages, the importance of fieldwork, the pleasures of translation, the influence of the New Left on global thinking, the satisfactions of teaching, and a love of world literature. He discusses the ideas and inspirations behind his best-known work, Imagined Communities (1983), whose complexities changed the study of nationalism. Benedict Anderson died in Java in December 2015, soon after he had finished correcting the proofs of this book. The tributes that poured in from Asia alone suggest that his work will continue to inspire and stimulate minds young and old.

Book The Frog s Mission to Fly

Download or read book The Frog s Mission to Fly written by Khadijah Hashim and published by ITBM. This book was released on 2012 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indonesian Idioms and Expressions

Download or read book Indonesian Idioms and Expressions written by Christopher Torchia and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indonesian Idioms and Expressions is a collection of Indonesian expressions, including proverbs, slang, quotations and acronyms, that offers a commentary on their origins, as well as insights into Indonesian culture, customs, and history. The book is an informal compendium designed to be both educational and easy to read. There are four parts in the book, and the chapters hit on various linguistic themes, among them wisdom, characters, animals, food, slang, family affairs, and politics. Entries include the expression in Bahasa Indonesia, a translation, an equivalent expression in English, and an explanation if necessary. The idea is to learn about Indonesian through the texture and content of its language, rather than the headlines—often bad ones—that tend to dominate perceptions of the vast country.

Book When A Flower Dies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Josephine Chia
  • Publisher : Ethos Books
  • Release : 2023-08-02
  • ISBN : 9811432570
  • Pages : 301 pages

Download or read book When A Flower Dies written by Josephine Chia and published by Ethos Books. This book was released on 2023-08-02 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can we recover after a life passes on? A novel about love, forgetting and remembering. Pansy Lim, a Peranakan girl, was brought up in a seaside village in colonial Singapore in the 1940s. She inherits her mother’s love for flowers, nature, the sea, and their healing qualities. Educated by English nuns, she learns and grows to love English, literature and poetry. We see her at the start of the novel, aged, forgetful, and desperately clinging to memories of her recently deceased husband. Through her recollections, she remembers George Chan, the village life that they shared, and the communal past left behind by a nation always on the move. “When I pick up one of Josephine Chia’s books on Singapore’s past, I always know that I’m in for a treat. Josephine brings her readers back to the Singapore of the 1950s and 60s that she grew up in and, in her simple, accessible prose she realistically evokes its sights and sounds and smells. In doing so, she helps us to re-live and re-imagine those days and, in singing her song, she helps us to sing ours.” −Angeline Yap, poet and author of “Closing My Eyes to Listen”

Book Alterities in Asia

Download or read book Alterities in Asia written by Leong Yew and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the politics of identity in Asia and explores how different groups of people inside and outside Asia have attempted to relate to the alterity of the places and cultures in the region through various modes (literary and filmic representation, scholarly knowledge, and so on) and at different points in time. Although coming from different perspectives like literary criticism, film studies, geography, cultural history, and political science, the contributors collectively argue that Asian otherness is more than the dialectical interplay between the Western self and one of its many others, and more than just the Orientalist discourse writ large. Rather, they demonstrate the existence of multiple levels of inter-Asian and intercultural contact and consciousness that both subvert as much as they consolidate the dominant ‘Western Core-Asian periphery’ framework that structures what the mainstream assumes to be knowledge of Asia. With chapters covering a wealth of topics from Korea and its Cold War history, to Australia's Asian identity crisis, this book will be of huge interest to anyone interested in critical Asian studies, Asian ethnicity, postcolonialism and Asia cultural studies. Leong Yew is an Assistant Professor in the University Scholars Programme, National University of Singapore. He is the author of The Disjunctive Empire of International Relations (2003).

Book Decolonizing International Health

Download or read book Decolonizing International Health written by S. Amrith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-10-10 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a history of international public health spanning the colonial and post-colonial eras. The volume focuses on India and the transnational networks connecting developments in India with Southeast Asia, and the wider world and contributes to debates on nationalism, internationalism and science in an age of decolonization.

Book The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes written by Andy Kirkpatrick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes constitutes a comprehensive introduction to the study of World Englishes. Split into six sections with 40 contributions, this Handbook discusses how English is operating in a wide range of fields from business to popular culture and from education to new literatures in English and its increasing role as an international lingua franca. Bringing together more than 40 of the world’s leading scholars in World Englishes, the sections cover historical perspectives, regional varieties of English from across the world, recent and emerging trends and the pedagogical implications and the future of Englishes. The Handbook provides a thorough and updated overview of the field, taking into account the new directions in which the discipline is heading. This second edition includes up-to-date descriptions of a wide range of varieties of English and how these reflect the cultures of their new users, including new chapters on varieties in Bangladesh, Uganda, the Maldives and South Africa, as well as covering hot topics such as translanguaging and English after Brexit. With a new substantial introduction from the editor, the Handbook is an ideal resource for students of applied linguistics, as well as those in related degrees such as applied English language and TESOL/TEFL.

Book Storms of Yesterday

Download or read book Storms of Yesterday written by Khadijah Hashim and published by ITBM. This book was released on 2009 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Developing the Global Organization

Download or read book Developing the Global Organization written by William G. Stripp,J.D. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With expanding world markets and increased international business competition comes a corresponding demand for organizations and individuals who are prepared to operate in these new arenas of global commerce. As a human resource professional, it is your job to ensure your team keeps pace with the current rush into these arenas. Developing the Global Organization gives you the strategies and insights to stay ahead of the pack. · Do you know the difference between a global and multinational corporation? · Are you familiar with "economies of scope?" · Would your corporation benefit from "partnership marketing?" · Which cross-cultural training strategies would best benefit your company's personnel? · How do you "globalize" your organization? Today's HRD specialists now have answers to these and many similar questions that loom on the horizon of a growing era of organizational and corporate globalization. This book helps human resource professionals fulfill bottom-line responsibilities of preparing their organization's personnel for global interaction and competition. Within this text the reader will discover various cross-cultural training and education strategies aimed at developing global organizations and managers who are able to conduct business successfully in world markets. Developing the Global Organization combines a theoretical foundation with practical information and suggestions that show you how to become an agent of change in creating a high-performance work force that is ready to capitalize on all international and intercultural opportunities that arise.

Book Hikmah   Unfolding Mysteries of the Universe

Download or read book Hikmah Unfolding Mysteries of the Universe written by Rosalam Sarbatly and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIKMAH, unfolding mysteries of the universe, is symbolic of knowing the best of things through the best of sciences, history and experiences, and guided by words of God. Society builds culture, and culture makes morals shape ethics. Start from the only One that creates pairing concept and Kun Faya Kun up to the eternal realm. The book discusses the beliefs, the universe’s formation, light space-time, the evolution of life, we are brothers, women’s axiology, technological innovations, detrimental cultures, and Malaya and Borneo. The laws of logic and reasoning guided by words of the Almighty form the basis in elucidating the essential questions that humanity wants to know as the caliph of God on earth.

Book Compassionate and Free

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marianne Katoppo
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2000-08-23
  • ISBN : 157910522X
  • Pages : 97 pages

Download or read book Compassionate and Free written by Marianne Katoppo and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2000-08-23 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the challenge of being a Christian woman in Asia. Katoppo explains why Asian Christian women like herself seek the right to be different, to be the Other, rather than having to accept identities borrowed from men and other cultures.

Book Family Law and Customary Law in Asia

Download or read book Family Law and Customary Law in Asia written by David C. Buxbaum and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: