Inspired by Chicago journalist Studs Terkel’s accounts of the hopes and dreams of ordinary Americ...

The Gentleman in the Parlour is Maugham's tale of travel through Burma, Indochina and Siam in the...

The Peacock's Children records the struggle for independence, democracy and freedom in Burma from...

A systematic study of the Tibetan charms and amulets, mantras and cakras that have afforded their...

The present volume provides an edited and corrected transcription the original Tibetan textual au...

Captain Robinson, completing a posting as a young British administrator in remote northern Burma,...

This account of plant-hunter and explorer Frank Kingdon-Ward’s 1933 expedition to the southeaster...

This book, a revised edition of one of this renowned scholar's primary early works, describes the...

The old world of traditional Tibet had its few windows to the outside world slammed shut when Chi...

History has moved very swiftly in some parts of Asia, and the personal recollections of Miangul J...

A new edition of a classic on Malay weaponry and war, originally published in 1936 in an extremel...

Seventy years and at least three generations have passed since the abomination of the Holocaust w...