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Free Download Handbook of Asian Education: A Cultural Perspective By Yong Zhao (editor), Jing Lei (editor), Guofang Li (editor), Ming Fang He (editor), Kaori Okano (editor), Nagwa Megahed (editor), David Gamage (editor), Hema Ramanathan (editor)
2010 | 584 Pages | ISBN: 0805864458 | PDF | 3 MB
Comprehensive and authoritative, this Handbook provides a nuanced description and analysis of educational systems, practices, and policies in Asian countries and explains and interprets these practices from cultural, social, historical, and economic perspectives. Using a culture-based framework, the volume is organized in five sections, each devoted to educational practices in one civilization in Asia: Sinic, Japanese, Islamic, Buddhist, and Hindu. Culture and culture identities essentially are civilization identities; the major differences among civilizations are rooted in their different cultures. This framework offers a novel approach to capturing the essence of the diverse educational systems and practices in Asia. Uniquely combining description and interpretation of educational practices in Asia, this Handbook is a must-have resource for education researchers and graduate students in international and comparative education, globalization and education, multicultural education, sociocultural foundations of education, and Asian studies, and for educational administrators and education policy makers.

Free Download Experiencing Grandparenthood: An Asian Perspective By Kalyani K. Mehta, Leng Leng Thang (auth.), Kalyani K. Mehta, Leng Leng Thang (eds.)
2012 | 166 Pages | ISBN: 9400723024 | PDF | 2 MB
Within the context of an ageing Asia, the growing numbers of grandparents and the important roles they play within the family propel the need for a book devoted to their experiences. This book, with its focus on the Asian perspective, is pertinent and timely as Asia has undergone socio-cultural, economic and family transformations as a result of modernization, urbanization and demographic aging in the last century. In filling a gap in the current literature, the volume seeks to answer the following questions, what is the state of grandparenting in the Asian context today? How do the roles and functions of grandparents differ depending on rural-urban differences, their relations with daughters and daughter-in-laws, and changing health of the grandparents? The book is a multidisciplinary, cross-national and inter-generational publication, lending voice to the aging grandparents in six countries i.e. China, Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. The volume’s strength lies precisely in its rich body of qualitative, three-generational data, including grandparents, link parents and grandchildren. Gerontologists, social researchers, anthropologists, social workers, policy makers, professionals working with aging families and family caregivers form the target audience of this rich Asian volume.

Free Download Asian Perspectives and Evidence on Health Promotion and Education By Toshiyuki Takizawa (auth.), Takashi Muto M.D., Ph.D., Toshitaka Nakahara M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., Eun Woo Nam (eds.)
2011 | 445 Pages | ISBN: 4431538887 | PDF | 7 MB
Globalization and information technology have caused many health problems: mental health issues like depression, and lifestyle-related disease like diabetes and obesity. To cope with these health issues, health promotion and education are desperately needed. Convincing policy decision makers to invest in health promotion and education programs, it is needed to show its effectiveness. Health promotion and education professionals are expected to construct evidence of health promotion and education. Most of such evidence has been produced in the US and European countries. Because socio-economic conditions differ between the Asia and Western countries, we cannot depend on such evidence to implement adequate health promotion and education in our region. We must produce and accumulate our own evidence based on Asian perspectives.

Free Download Asian Paleoanthropology: From Africa to China and Beyond By Christopher J. Norton, David R. Braun (auth.), Christopher J. Norton, David R. Braun (eds.)
2011 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 9048190932 | PDF | 8 MB
This volume brings together a group of authors that address the question of the first out of Africa into Asia c. 2 Ma. The scope of the book is comprehensive as it covers almost every major region of Asia. The primary goal of this volume is to provide an updated synthesis of the current state of the Asian paleoanthropological and paleoenvironmental records. Papers include detailed studies of the theoretical constructs underlying the move out of Africa, including detailed reconstructions of the paleoenvironment and possible migration routes. Other papers detail the Plio-Pleistocene archaeological and hominin fossil records of particular regions.

Free Download Jungyun Gill Assistant Professor, "Unequal Motherhoods and the Adoption of Asian Children: Birth, Foster, and Adoptive Mothers"
English | ISBN: 1498509622 | 2016 | 170 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book explores a deeply personal aspect of globalization: the adoption of Asian children by white Americans. It is based on dozens of interviews with adoptive mothers and adoption social workers, nearly two hundred letters and essays written by Korean birth mothers who put their children up for adoption, and field work at an adoption agency in South Korea. It also includes analyses and explanations of U.S. and South Korean governments’ social characteristics and policies regarding adoptions and how relations between nations have affected international adoption. The book focuses on whether the commonly held notion that adoptions are to serve children’s welfare and their best interests has tended to render gendered aspects of international adoptions invisible. Factors such as gender inequality, social control of women’s reproductive power, patriarchic family structure, and social beliefs concerning womanhood and motherhood that affect international adoptions are revealed in this book. The multiple ways in which adoptive, birth, and foster mothers experience gender oppression from their different social positions of class, race, and nationality are explored and the interdependencies and inequalities of the motherhoods of these three groups of women are brought to light.

Free Download The Nourishing Asian Kitchen: Nutrient-Dense Recipes for Health and Healing by Sophia Nguyen Eng
English | December 9th, 2023 | ISBN: 1645022161 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 89.29 MB
"[These recipes] are designed to be nourishing as well as delicious… Whether you are a seasoned home cook or a novice in the kitchen, The Nourishing Asian Kitchen is perfect for anyone looking to explore traditional Asian cooking."-Sally Fallon, author of Nourishing Traditions

Free Download Michael C. Brannigan, "Striking a Balance: A Primer in Traditional Asian Values"
English | ISBN: 0739138456 | 2009 | 238 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Striking a Balance: A Primer in Traditional Asian Values offers a lucid, thoughtful, and thoroughly engaging review of the major ethical teachings in the dominant Asian traditions. Michael C. Brannigan applies his extensive background and scholarship to craft a concise yet comprehensive introduction to Asian ethics covering the long-standing traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. He does this through the skillful use of narratives from classical and contemporary Asian literature. Moreover, he demonstrates that, despite differences, these traditions share a unifying theme in their principal ethical teachings – cultivating balance is the fundamental building block for inner harmony, moral activity, and a just society.

Free Download Smithsonian Asian Pacific American History, Art, and Culture in 101 Objects by Theodore S. Gonzalves
English | December 19th, 2023 | ISBN: 1588347516 | 264 pages | True EPUB | 140.24 MB
A rich and compelling introduction to the history of Asian Pacific American communities as told through 101 objects, from a fortune cookie baking mold to the debut Ms. Marvel comic featuring Kamala Khan

Free Download Have You Eaten?: Deliciously Simple Asian Cooking for Every Mood by Verna Gao
English | October 24th, 2023 | ISBN: 0744084458 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 94.17 MB
A beautifully personal cookbook of more than 70 easy and inspiring Chinese and East Asian recipes for every occasion.

Free Download Guns and Ledgers: China and the East Asian World in the Age of Early Economic Globalization by Bozhong Li
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 382 Pages | ISBN : N/A | 11.4 MB
This book seeks to reconcile the dual forces of war and economic globalization in tracing China’s early modernity. For late imperial China, there were two forms of encounter with the West; the guns of invading Europeans, and the ledgers by which trade between China and the West was measured and regulated. Even today, China’s reactions to the West oscillate between business-driven openness and military paranoia. In this intellectual tour de force, Bozhong Li, one of China’s preeminent intellectual and economic historians, traces the unprecedented transition that led China into the modern world; the book will be of value for economists, historians, and sinophiles alike.