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Free Download Asian Digital Libraries. Looking Back 10 Years and Forging New Frontiers: 10th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2007, Hanoi, Vietnam, December 10-13, 2007. Proceedings By Clara M. Chu (auth.), Dion Hoe-Lian Goh, Tru Hoang Cao, Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg, Edie Rasmussen (eds.)
2007 | 522 Pages | ISBN: 3540770933 | PDF | 31 MB
The International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL) is one of the leading international conferences in digital libraries research. The conference has come a long way since its inception in 1998 as the First Asia Digital Library Workshop held in Hong Kong. Since then, the conference has traveled across the Asian continent and has been hosted by Taiwan (ICADL 1999), Seoul, Korea (ICADL 2000), Bangalore, India (ICADL 2001), Singapore (ICADL 2002), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (ICADL 2003), Shanghai, China (ICADL 2004), Bangkok, Thailand (ICADL 2005), and Kyoto, Japan (ICADL 2006). The 2007 edition of the conference marks an important milestone in the ICADL series. Into its tenth year, the conference matured into a significant gathering of practitioners, researchers, educators and policy makers from diverse disciplines sharing a common interest in advancing digital libraries research in Asia. ICADL 2007 was held in Hanoi, Vietnam during December 10-13, 2007, with the theme, "Asian Digital Libraries: Looking Back 10 Years and Forging New Frontiers." The theme reflects upon the growth of the digital libraries community and explores new areas that the community could delve into in the coming years.

Free Download Priyankar Upadhyaya, "Peace and Conflict: The South Asian Experience"
English | ISBN: 938299355X | 2014 | 270 pages | PDF | 1018 KB
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Free Download Evonne Lyn Lee, "Asian Pies: A Collection of Pies and Tarts with an Asian Twist"
English | ISBN: 9814751553 | 2017 | 144 pages | EPUB | 21 MB
Seasoned home bakers Evonne Lyn Lee and Sarah FC Lee debut a stunning cookbook that contains 50 unique pie recipes that are set to make the Western staple an Asian favourite! Featuring 50 recipes from potpies and puff pastries to tarts, this collection of unique Asian pies will redefine the limits of pie-baking with exciting sweet and savoury pie fillings that tantalise your taste buds. Evonne and Sarah reveal their secret to making the light, buttery and crisp shortcrust pastry that you have always dreamed of and you can be assured that every recipe in here has been tested for success and comes with advice and tips specifically for that pie. With illustrated step-by-step instructions for basic terms and a comprehensive basics section that offers a variety of piecrust recipes and troubleshooting tips, this book is a complete guide to how easy it can be to make delicious pies to share with family and friends.

Free Download Lowell Dittmer, "New Asian Disorder: Rivalries Embroiling the Pacific Century "
English | ISBN: 9888754025 | 2022 | 288 pages | PDF | 81 MB
Sheds new light on the political disorder of Sino-American geopolitics.

Free Download Natasha Warikoo, "Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools"
English | ISBN: 022663681X | 2022 | 240 pages | PDF | 2 MB
An illuminating, in-depth look at competition in suburban high schools with growing numbers of Asian Americans, where white parents are determined to ensure that their children remain at the head of the class.

Free Download Suisheng Zhao, "China and East Asian Regionalism: Economic and Security Cooperation and Institution-Building"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1138852449 | EPUB | pages: 232 | 0.9 mb
To convey the image of a responsible power willing to contribute to regional stability and cooperation, China has shifted from a single-minded preference for bilateralism to an active participation in East Asian regionalism in the recent decades. This development has inspired discussions over whether a rising China could play a leadership role in building an institutionalized architecture for regional cooperation in East Asia. Nevertheless, this has not happened as East Asian regional cooperation and relevant activities remain mostly ad hoc and informal, especially when compared to regions such as Europe.

Free Download Bernardo Brown, "Asian Migrants and Religious Experience: From Missionary Journeys to Labor Mobility "
English | ISBN: 9462982325 | 2018 | 346 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Typically, scholars approach migrants’ religions as a safeguard of cultural identity, something that connects migrants to their communities of origin. This ethnographic anthology challenges that position by reframing the religious experiences of migrants as a transformative force capable of refashioning narratives of displacement into journeys of spiritual awakening and missionary calling. These essays explore migrants’ motivations in support of an argument that to travel inspires a search for new meaning in religion.

Free Download The "Asian Turn" in Russian Foreign Policy
by Anatoly Torkunov, Dmitry Streltsov
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819753910 | 578 Pages | True PDF | 8.9 MB

Free Download Alf Hiltebeitel, "Hair: Its Power and Meaning in Asian Cultures"
English | ISBN: 0791437418 | | 297 pages | PDF | 38 MB
Hair-whether present or absent, restored or removed, abundant or scarce, long or short, bound or unbound, colored or natural-marks a person as clearly as speech, clothing, and smell. It defines a person’s gender, sexual availability and desirability, age, social status, and even political stance. It may also act as a basis for discrimination in treatment by others. While hair’s high salience as both sign and symbol extends cross-culturally through time, its denotations are far from universal. Hair is an interdisciplinary look at the meanings of hair, hairiness, and hairlessness in Asian cultures, from classical to contemporary contexts.

Free Download Asian Space Race: Rhetoric or Reality? By Ajey Lele (auth.)
2013 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 8132207327 | PDF | 3 MB
This book explores the character and contours of the Asian Space Powers. At present, Asian states like China, Japan and India are found investing in space technologies with analogous social and scientific and probably with divergent military intents. Other Asian states like Israel, South Korea and Malaysia are also making investments in the space arena. States like Iran and North Korea are faulted for using space launches as a demonstrative tool to achieve strategic objectives. This work examines this entire maze of activities to unearth where these states are making these investments to accomplish their state-specific goal or are they also trying to surpass each other by engaging in competition. Explaining why and how these states are making investments towards achieving their socio-economic and strategic mandate this book infers that the possibility of Asian Space Race exists but is presently fairly diminutive.