Snapshots of Asia

Snapshots of Asia
Author: Richard Ledger
Publisher: Curriculum Press
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2004
Genre: Asia
ISBN: 9781863665704

This set of three big books offers an excellent way to develop literacy and introduce knowledge and appreciation of our Asian neighbours to the classroom. The books focus on Malaysia, India and the Phillipines. They include colour photographs, fact files, board games, and stories of daily life.

Vanishing Asia

Vanishing Asia
Author: Kevin Kelly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1080
Release: 2021-11-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781940689067

This is a 3-volume set of oversize books that span the continent of Asia. Ancient and beautiful traditions in Asia that are rapidly disappearing are recorded here in 9,000 images on 1,000 pages. The author has visited 35 countries in Asia and has travelled to the end of the road in its most remote places to capture the costumes, architecture, festivals, and lifestyles that are vanishing. The diverse cultures range from Turkey in the west to Japan in the east, from Siberia in the north to Indonesia in the south, and everything in between. Volume 1 covers West Asia, Volume 2 Central Asia, and Volume 3 East Asia. Every one of its 1,000 pages is uniquely designed, and every one of its 9,000 images is captioned. This is an ambitious and extreme passion project that the author/photographer has worked on for 49 years. Many of the scenes depicted in the book are now gone from the world, and others are becoming rarer by the day. There is no other book like it.

Entrepreneurship Snapshots 2010

Entrepreneurship Snapshots 2010
Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2010-11-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821386379

The 2010 World Bank Entrepreneurship Snapshots (WBGES) provide a unique indicator of business creation around the world and facilitate the investigation of the factors that foster dynamic private sector growth. Now in its fourth year, the WBGES measure entrepreneurial activity in 115 developing and industrial countries over the six year period 2004-2009. Importantly, the data offer a distinctive and timely snapshot of the impact of the 2008-2009 financial crisis on entrepreneurial activity. There is wide variation in new business creation across countries: On average, about four new firms register every year for every 1,000 working age individuals in industrialized countries, while there is less than one new firm registered in low and low middle income countries. The data show that dynamic business creation occurs in countries that provide entrepreneurs with good governance, a strong legal and regulatory environment, and reduced red tape. The data also show that nearly all countries experienced a sharp drop in business entry during the crisis. However, industrialized countries experienced the crisis more quickly and more severely than other income groups. In addition, the degree to which the crisis impacted new firm creation is correlated with measures of crisis severity. Finally, we find that countries in which financial markets play a larger role in the domestic economy experienced sharper declines in new business registrations as a result of the crisis that paralyzed financial markets. These results can guide effective policymaking and deliver new capabilities for identifying the impact of reforms.

Biblio Asia

Biblio Asia
Author: National Library (Singapore)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2007
Genre: Public libraries
ISBN:

HWM

HWM
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2004-01
Genre:
ISBN:

Singapore's leading tech magazine gives its readers the power to decide with its informative articles and in-depth reviews.

Snapshots of Asia

Snapshots of Asia
Author: Richard Ledger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 28
Release: 1998
Genre: Asia
ISBN:

This one title in a set of six books that offers an excellent way to develop literacy and introduce knowledge and appreciation of our Asian neighbours to the classroom. The books focus on China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam. They include colour photographs, fact files, board games, and stories of daily life.

Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity

Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity
Author: Joshua Barker
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2013-07-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0824837797

We live in a world populated not just by individuals but by figures, those larger-than-life people who in some way express and challenge our conventional understandings of social types. This innovative and collaborative work takes up the wide range of figures that populate the social and cultural imaginaries of contemporary Southeast Asia—some familiar only in specific places, others recognizable across the region and even globally. It puts forward a series of ethnographic portraits of figures that represent and give voice to something larger than themselves, offering a view into social life that is at once highly particular and general. They include the Muslim Television Preacher in Indonesia, Miss Beer Lao, the Rural DJ in Thailand, the Korean Soap Opera Junkie in Burma, the Filipino Seaman, and the Photo Retoucher in Vietnam. Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity brings together the fieldwork of over eighty scholars and covers the nine major countries of the region: Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. An introduction outlines important social transformations in Southeast Asia and key theoretical and methodological innovations that result from ethnographic attention to the study of key figures. Each section begins with an introduction by a country editor followed by short essays offering vivid and intimate portraits set against the background of contemporary Southeast Asia. The result is a volume that combines scholarly rigor with a meaningful, up-to-date portrayal of a region of the world undergoing rapid change. A reference bibliography offers suggestions for further reading. Figures of Southeast Asia Modernity is an ideal teaching tool for introductory classes to Southeast Asia studies, anthropology, and geography.

Asian Designs

Asian Designs
Author: Saadia M. Pekkanen
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2016-09-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1501706764

Asian nations are no longer "rising" powers in the world order; they have risen. How will they conduct themselves in world politics? How will they deploy their considerable and growing power individually and collectively? These questions are critical for global governance. Conventional wisdom claims that, lacking in institutions that accumulate and coordinate the massive economic and growing military strength of Asian nations, the Asian region will continue to punch below its weight in world politics; thin and patchy institutionalization results in political weakness. In Asian Designs, Saadia M. Pekkanen and her collaborators question and provide evidence on these core assumptions of Western scholarship. The book advances a new framework for debate and sophisticated examinations of institutional arrangements for several major issue areas in the world order—security, trade, environment, and public health.