Tag: Asia

Free Download Shirzad Azad, "East Asia and Iran Sanctions: Assistance, Abandonment, and Everything in Between"
English | ISBN: 303097426X | 2022 | 273 pages | EPUB, PDF | 464 KB + 3 MB
This book explores how international sanctions on Iran reshaped the contours of East Asia’s interactions with the Middle Eastern state. Almost all East Asian political entities, from the industrialized and developed nations of Japan and South Korea, to the communist and developing countries of China and North Korea, have become major international partners of Iran over the past several decades. In addition, East Asian states were, by and large, thought to be among leading foreign beneficiaries of Iran sanctions, and the overall impacts of sanctions in transforming both the scope and size of their rather multifaceted connections to the Middle Eastern country have been consequential.

Free Download Pintu Kumar, "Buddhist Learning in South Asia: Education, Religion, and Culture at the Ancient Sri Nalanda Mahavihara"
English | ISBN: 149855492X | 2018 | 338 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
This interdisciplinary study is the first book to provide a complete survey of Śrī Nālandā Mahāvihāra from the perspective of its educational curricula as well as its religious influence. It provides detailed descriptions of the origin, growth, management, and academic and cultural life of Nālandā, with particular attention to its pedagogy, curriculum, teachers, and students. It also presents an alternative interpretation of nationalist and popular notions about Śrī Nālandā as an international university and proves that it was, at its core, a Buddhist monastery and an institution of Buddhist learning focused on the study and promotion of Buddhism.

Free Download Agricultural Heritage Systems in Europe, Asia, Africa, Central and South America by Mauro Agnoletti , Antonio Santoro , Beatrice Fiore , Francesco Piras , Federica Romano , Alessandra Bazzurro
English | EPUB (True) | 2023 | 380 Pages | ISBN : 3031448804 | 86.7 MB
Agriculture is often considered as one of the main threats to ecosystems. Unsustainable farming practices often result in habitat loss, inefficient use of water, soil degradation, pollution, genetic erosion, among other negative impacts on human life, including hunger, low food quality, reduced access to food resources, as well as the abandonment of rural areas. Nevertheless, when agriculture is practiced in a sustainable way, it can contribute to the preservation of many habitats, to the protection of watersheds, to the preservation and improvement of soil health.

Free Download Lisa Law, "Sex Work in Southeast Asia"
English | 2003 | pages: 159 | ISBN: 0415246695, 0415218055 | PDF | 13,1 mb
Southeast Asian sex workers are stereotypically understood as passive victims of the political economy, and submissive to western men. The advent of HIV/AIDS only compounds this image. Sex Work in Southeast Asia is a cultural critique of HIV/AIDS prevention programmes targetting sex tourism industries in Southeast Asia.

Free Download Proceedings of the 6th Asia Pacific Conference on Manufacturing Systems and 4th International Manufacturing Engineering Conference: APCOMS-IMEC 2022, Surakarta, Indonesia by Cucuk Nur Rosyidi, Pringgo Widyo Laksono, Wakhid Ahmad Jauhari, Muhammad Hisjam
English | PDF (True) | 2023 | 653 Pages | ISBN : 981991244X | 21.75 MB
This book presents the proceedings of the 4th Asia Pacific Conference on Manufacturing Systems and International Manufacturing Engineering Conference (APCOMS-IMEC 2022), held in Surakarta, Indonesia, on 27 October 2022. The book presented selected papers covering scientific research in the field of manufacturing engineering, with focuses on industrial engineering, materials, and processes. The book appeals to researchers, academics, scientists, students, engineers, and practitioners who are interested in the latest developments and applications related to manufacturing engineering.

Free Download Benny Teh Cheng Guan, "Human Security: Securing East Asia’s Future"
English | 2012 | pages: 265 | ISBN: 9401782822, 9400717989 | PDF | 2,0 mb
Human security is becoming increasingly pronounced in recent years due to changes in the security landscape of world politics. Yet, inter-state relations have continued to dominate security concerns in East Asia. This has, unfortunately, eluded the broader understanding of issues and challenges facing the peoples of East Asia.

Free Download Marie Lall, Edward Vickers, "Education as a Political Tool in Asia"
English | 2008 | pages: 263 | ISBN: 0415595363, 0415452597 | PDF | 1,8 mb
This book offers a fresh and comparative approach in questioning what education is being used for and what the effects of the politicisation of education are on Asian societies in the era of globalisation. Education has been used as a political tool throughout the ages and across the whole world to define national identity and underlie the political rationale of regimes. In the contemporary, globalising world there are particularly interesting examples of this throughout Asia, ranging from the new definition of Indian national identity as a Hindu identity (to contrast with Pakistan’s Islamic identity), to particular versions of nationalism in China, Japan, Singapore and Vietnam. In Asia education systems have their origins in processes of state formation aimed either at bolstering ‘self-strengthening’ resistance to the encroachments of Western and/or Asian imperialism, or at furthering projects of post-colonial nation-building. State elites have sought to popularise powerful visions of nationhood, to equip these visions with a historical ‘back-story’, and to endow them with the maximum sentimental charge. This book explores all of these developments, emphasising that education is seen by nations across Asia, as elsewhere, as more than simply a tool for economic development, and that issues of national identity and the tolerance – or lack of it – of ethnic, cultural or religious diversity can be at least as important as issues of literacy and access. Interdisciplinary and unique in its analysis, this book will be of interest to scholars of political science, research in education and Asian Studies.

Free Download Asia Arbitration Guide
by Andreas Respondek
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3111067041 | 314 pages | True PDF EPUB | 5.35 MB
Concise summary of the key arbitration regulations and arbitration environment in 20 important Asian jurisdictions. The book shows the legal framework conditions for arbitration in each country and gives insights into the practice of arbitration. In the 8th edition each country report has been completely revised and updated.

Free Download Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B00FTWM4U8 | 2013 | 25 hours and 16 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 698 MB
Author: S. Frederick Starr
Narrator: Kevin Stillwell
In this rich and sweeping history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia’s medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds – remarkable figures who built a bridge to the modern world. Because nearly all of these figures wrote in Arabic, they were long assumed to have been Arabs. In fact, they were from Central Asia – drawn from the Persianate and Turkic peoples of a region that today extends from Kazakhstan southward through Afghanistan, and from the easternmost province of Iran through Xinjiang, China. Lost Enlightenment recounts how, between the years 800 and 1200, Central Asia led the world in trade and economic development, the size and sophistication of its cities, the refinement of its arts, and, above all, in the advancement of knowledge in many fields.