Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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Last Days of the Mighty Mekong
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Celebrated for its natural beauty and its abundance of wildlife, the Mekong river runs thousands of miles through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand,...
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Betting on the Farm: Institutional Change in Japanese Agriculture
HardcoverOriginal price $59.95 - Original price $59.95Original price $59.95$78.99$78.99 - $78.99Current price $78.99| /Japan Agricultural Cooperatives (JA), a nationwide network of farm cooperatives, is under increasing pressure to expand farmer incomes by adaptin...
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Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology / Edition 1
HardcoverOriginal price $63.00 - Original price $63.00Original price $63.00$81.99$81.99 - $81.99Current price $81.99| /Tokyo: destroyed by the earthquake of 1923 and again by the firebombing of World War II. Does anything remain of the old city?The internationally...
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Belonging in a House Divided: The Violence of the North Korean Resettlement Process
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Belonging in a House Divided chronicles the everyday lives of resettled North Korean refugees in South Korea and their experiences of violence, pos...
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Leveraging Benefits of Regional Economic Integration: The Lao People's Democratic Republic and the Greater Mekong Subregion
PaperbackOriginal price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /This report shows how the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) can leverage its regional position to boost trade, increase agriculture, and h...
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Facilitating Power Trade in the Greater Mekong Subregion: Establishing and Implementing a Regional Grid Code
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /This report explains the complex challenges facing the six countries in the renewables-rich Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) as they work to implemen...
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Robots Won't Save Japan: An Ethnography of Eldercare Automation
HardcoverOriginal price $46.95 - Original price $46.95Original price $46.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /Robots Won't Save Japan addresses the Japanese government's efforts to develop care robots in response to the challenges of an aging population, ri...
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Outsourcing the Polity: Non-State Welfare, Inequality, and Resistance in Myanmar
PaperbackOriginal price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Outsourcing the Polity offers a new account of social outsourcing in post-independence Myanmar, demonstrating how the bankrupt post-socialist junta...
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Return of the Junta: Why Myanmar's Military Must Go Back to the Barracks
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /On the first day of February 2021, Myanmar's military grabbed power in a coup d'etat, ending a decade of reforms that were supposed to break the sh...
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Uniquely Urban: Case Studies in Innovative Urban Development
PaperbackOriginal price $33.00 - Original price $33.00Original price $33.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /This report presents case studies that highlight how ADB's teams are working together to design innovative urban projects across the Asia and Pacif...
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Deadly Quiet City: True Stories from Wuhan
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From one of China's most celebrated--and silenced--literary authors, riveting portraits of eight Wuhan residents at the dawn of the pandemic When a...
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When China Attacks: A Warning to America
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /When China Attacks is a fire bell in the night--a warning about a war that we are already losing. It offers a frightening, and well-founded, blow-b...
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Healthy Ageing in Singapore: Opportunities, Challenges and the Way Forward
HardcoverOriginal price $44.99 - Original price $44.99Original price $44.99$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Singapore is the world's second-fastest ageing society and will become a super- aged society by 2030. This book fills an important research gap by ...
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Asian Military Evolutions: Civil-Military Relations in Asia
HardcoverOriginal price $150.00 - Original price $150.00Original price $150.00$172.99$172.99 - $172.99Current price $172.99| /This book explores civil-military relations in Asia. With chapters on individual countries in the region, it provides a comprehensive account of th...
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Review and Assessment of the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle Economic Corridors: Indonesia Country Report
PaperbackOriginal price $39.00 - Original price $39.00Original price $39.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Focusing on Indonesia's economy, this report assesses five economic corridors within the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT) and e...
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Rata Sabhawa of Nuwarakalaviya: Judicature in a Princely Province: And Ethnographical and Historical Reading
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Rata Sabhāwa, an unwritten rural judicial tradition formulated by oral history, culture, feudal, and caste customs, was the collective lex terrae, ...
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Managing the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Korea: Policy Learning Perspectives
HardcoverOriginal price $64.95 - Original price $64.95Original price $64.95$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /This book examines the importance of accumulated disaster management experience and risk awareness of civil society by analyzing Korea's COVID-19 r...
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Antinuclear Citizens: Sustainability Policy and Grassroots Activism in Post-Fukushima Japan
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$80.99$80.99 - $80.99Current price $80.99| /Following the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, tsunamis engulfed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant located on Japan's Pacific...
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Working Together for Development Results: Lessons from Adb and Civil Society Organization Engagement in South Asia
PaperbackOriginal price $31.00 - Original price $31.00Original price $31.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /This publication shows how ADB continues to explore new ways to deepen its relationship with civil society organizations (CSOs) and increase the im...
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Carbon Pricing for Energy Transition and Decarbonization
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /This report shows how efficient carbon pricing instruments can enable countries in Asia and the Pacific region to accelerate their transition to af...
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Transforming the Politics of Mobility and Migration in Aotearoa New Zealand
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Transforming the Politics of Mobility and Migration in Aotearoa New Zealand is a future-focused book that formulates alternative paradigms timely a...
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The Rise and Fall of the East: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The long history of China's relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balan...
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A Spark in the Smokestacks: Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Environmental organizing in Beijing emerged in an unlikely place in the 2000s: new gated residential communities. After rapid population growth and...
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Beyond Othering: A Gandhian Approach to Conflict Resolution in India and Pakistan
HardcoverOriginal price $85.00 - Original price $85.00Original price $85.00$106.99$106.99 - $106.99Current price $106.99| /Mohandas K. Gandhi opposed the 1947 partition of British India that created two independent states of India and Pakistan, as he believed that parti...
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