Asian Studies

Voices From Vietnam: Interviews, Letters, Vignettes, and Reflections, 1964-1982

Author: 

Norton, Major Bruce H. and Kantrovich, Dr. Harry

Credentials: 

Major Bruce H. “Doc” Norton, USMC (Ret) is a decorated Vietnam War veteran, author, and former oral historian for the Marine Corps. Dr. Harry Kantrovich is a retired Chief of Naval Operations Command Master Chief, playwright, and award-winning director.

Voices From Vietnam began as a stage play but, due to the overwhelming number of contributors, is now published in this companion book. Both the play and the book are a collaborative effort between Major Bruce H. “Doc” Norton, USMC (Ret), a decorated Vietnam War veteran, author, and former oral historian for the Marine Corps, and Dr. Harry Kantrovich, a retired Chief of Naval Operations Command Master Chief, playwright, and award-winning director.

Market: 
History, Social Science, Military Studies, American History, Asian Studies, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Oral History, Cold War
Release Date: 
September 3, 2024
ISBN: 
9781680534344 Hardcover
Price: 
$35
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6x9
Pages: 
200
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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The Poetry of Subramania Bharati: Tradition and Modernity

Author: 

Laxmiprasad, P. V., PhD, Editor

Credentials: 

Editor: P. V. Laxmiprasad, Ph.D., Department of English, Satavahana University (India)

The Poetry of Subramani Bharati combines the work of ten leading Indian scholars assessing Bharati’s life and work as one of their country’s leading poets, a native of Tamil Nadu, a state in South India. Bharati belonged to a generation and century when India was waging its freedom struggle, and he was widely known throughout the country as one of its cultural leaders. As a fervent nationalist, Bharati actively participated in Indian Freedom Struggle. From a humble background, he rose to fame by dint of hard work.

Market: 
Literature, Political Science, History, Asia, India, Literary Criticism, South Asian Literature, Indian Literature, Poetry, Subramani Bharati
Release Date: 
August 19, 2024
ISBN: 
9781680534122 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
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6x9
Pages: 
100
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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Steel Workers in India

Author: 

Mohansundaram, M. Dhanalakshmi, Dr.

Credentials: 

Dr. M. Dhanalakshmi Mohansundaram is Head of the Department Business Administration at K.S.R. College of Arts & Science for Women, Tiruchengode, India.

Steel Workers in India discusses the factors that determine organizational climate and employee job satisfaction in the Salem Steel Plant. In this study, job satisfaction is delineated by twelve distinct dimensions, namely human resources policies and welfare measures, work stress, employee promotion, communication, pay and operations circumstances, nature of work, rewards system, safety measures, appraisal systems. Organizational climate is approach in four dimensions: humanistic climate, autonomous climate, flexible climate, and job dimension climate.

Market: 
Social Science, Asian Studies, Economics, Business, Labor, India, Indian Economics
Release Date: 
March 15, 2024
ISBN: 
9781680533491 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
150
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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Nuclear Agendas in Japan and Taiwan: A Comparative Approach to Science, Technology, and Society

Author: 

Amato, Silvia, Ph.D.

Credentials: 

Silvia Amato, Ph.D., is an international author. Her research, currently based on independent study projects, includes doctoral dissertation research centered on international Asia-Pacific Interdisciplinary Studies, and she received her M.A in International Relations in Taiwan. Her main thematic interests focus on comparative development, regionalism, and environmental dynamics intertwined with local planning designs.

Nuclear Agendas in Japan and Taiwan compares practical management cases regarding nuclear energy in regional neighbouring partners: Japan and Taiwan. An introductory overview of Japan’s nuclear policy leads to the specification of important factors tangible in everyday life. What we perceive as knowledge transfer innovation and renewed industrial assessments shift to a regional territory that develops its own rules and practices within the dimension of nuclear energy innovation technology and post-crisis regulatory agendas.

Market: 
Science, Political Science, Public Policy, Asia, Asian Studies, Far East, East Asia, Energy, Energy Studies, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Power, Japan, Taiwan
Release Date: 
December 29, 2023
ISBN: 
9781680535501 Hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
400
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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Ecofeminism and Indian Women Writing in English

Author: 

Pandey, Sarita, PhD

Credentials: 

Sarita Pandey is Assistant Professor of English at the Jananayak Chandrashekhar University, in Ballia, India. She earned her Ph.D. from University of Allahabad and a degree from English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. Her areas of academic interest include ecofeminism, Indian fiction, gender studies, translation studies, Indic Studies, and theater. She holds a diploma in yoga from Banaras Hindu University.

The theory and praxis of ecofeminism has barely been investigated in an Indian context. Ecofeminism is an inclusive theory and provides an intersectional study of feminism, ecocriticism, and literature. Ecofeminism and Indian Women Writing in English unearths the sensibility of Indian women writings through the lens of ecofeminism. This book gives all the required details about ecofeminism, major movements and ecofeminist theories, in both the Indian as well as Western perspectives.

Market: 
Political Science, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Post-Colonial Studies, South Asian Studies, India, Indian Literature, Feminism, Women’s Literature, Ecology, Ecofeminism
Release Date: 
June 19, 2023
ISBN: 
9781680536317 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
200
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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Homo Eurasicus: New Scholarly Views of Siberia and Inner Asia

Author: 

Okladnikova, Elena A., Ed.

Credentials: 

Editor: Elena A. Okladnikova is an archaeologist with specialties in cultural history, sociology of spiritual life, rock art, social technologies, social anthropology, and ethnosociology. She has led archaeological expeditions in Siberia and Altai and is the author of over 400 scientific, educational, and methodological works. She is presently Professor in the Departmentof Sociology at the Institute of History and Social Sciences of the Herzen State Pedagogical University, in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Translator: Richard L. Bland, a retired Arctic archaeologist and translator, has translated over 250 articles and books, primarily from Russian and German, into English, including The Peoples of Ancient Siberia: An Archeological History by A. P. Okladnikov and Warfare in the Russian Arctic by A. K. Nefedkin, and the three-volume Russian Colonization of Alaska by A. V. Grinev.

This volume contains five chapters that present highly original research on Siberia’s unique history by five Russian scholars. The volume is edited by Prof. Elena A. Okladnikova, a faculty member of the Herzen State Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg, Russia. The articles include discussions of seafaring along the Siberian coast, ethnolinguistic considerations, the worldview of inner Asian nomads, and ethnocultural understandings of civilization crossroads.

Market: 
History, Social Science, Asian Studies, Anthropology, Archeology, Russia, Russian History, Siberia, Indigenous Studies, Inner Asia, Linguistics
Release Date: 
June 27, 2023
ISBN: 
9781680536355 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
200
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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Ghazipur, The Opium Mint: From 1820 to the Present

Author: 

Kour, Kawal Deep

Credentials: 

Kawal Deep Kour holds a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. A drug abuse prevention specialist, she is currently Director of the South Asian Drugs and Addictions Research Council and a former board member of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP). She is the author of History of Intoxication: Opium in Assam, 1800-1959 and many other publications.

The Opium Factory of Ghazipur has a history all its own. Like most other colonial enterprises, it was developed to further colonial mercantile and imperial interests. Ghazipore, as it was known in British India, was the headquarters of the Benaras opium agency, which included almost the whole of the then-United Provinces. Directed and driven by metropolitan capital, the opium factory’s success signaled the rise of colonial India as a major exporter of raw opium.

Market: 
History, Social Science, Political Science, India, Public Health, Capitalism, Narcotics, Drug Abuse, South Asia, South Asian Studies, Business
Release Date: 
September 15, 2023
ISBN: 
9781680536188 Hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
200
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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Emperor Whisperers: A Comparative History of Ancient Chinese and Western Philosophy

Author: 

Roman, David

Credentials: 

David Roman was born in Madrid in 1973. After a long career as a foreign correspondent with the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News, mostly in the Asia-Pacific region, he started work on Emperor Whisperers, his first non-fiction book. He is married with two children and currently lives in Washington, D.C.

Emperor Whisperers charts a comparative history of the two largest strains of ancient philosophy, from the first millennium BC to around AD 500. The book examines how philosophy arose from atheism in both China and Greece but entered a cul de sac when atheism spread from the elites to the middle classes.

Market: 
Religion, History, Philosophy, Western Philosophy, Classics, Ancient History, Social Science, Asian Studies, Critical Studies, Chinese History, China, Greece
Release Date: 
February 15, 2023
ISBN: 
9781680537321 Hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
210
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Feminist Fiction and the Indian Partition of 1947: New Perspectives

Author: 

Gupta, Priyanka

Credentials: 

Priyanka Gupta is Assistant Professor in the Masters of Business Administration Program at the Model Institute of Engineering and Technology, in Jammu, India.

The Partition of the Indian Subcontinent in 1947 unleashed unprecedented violence. In Feminist Fiction and the Indian Partition of 1947, Indian scholar Priyanka Gupta explores how women were doubly suppressed and victimized before and after the partition. The violence, and the displacement of large populations, made this historical episode of separation more and more significant for women. Novels set during the Partition offer unique viewpoints and perspectives that have not previously been explored.

Market: 
Literature, History, Women’s Studies, Asia, India, Literary Criticism, South Asian Literature, Indian Literature, Feminist Studies
Release Date: 
August 28, 2022
ISBN: 
9781680534511 Hardcover
Price: 
Price: $139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
160
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Perspectives on Mizo Culture: A Critical Study of Laltluangliana Khiangte’s Folktales of Mizoram

Author: 

Laxmiprasad, P. V. Ph.D., Department of English, Satavahana University (India)

Folktales of Mizoram is a translated collection of sixty-six short stories from northeast India taken up for a critical evaluation. The stories depict a typical Mizo culture in spirit and practice. This study focuses on the transformation of oral literature into written narratives. Folk practices, folk medicine, folk narratives, traditional songs, and received wisdom dominate these stories. A more insightful approach into folk narratives and songs emphasizes the world of new hermeneutics.

Market: 
Literature, Asia, India, Literary Criticism, South Asian Literature, Mizoram, Indian Literature, Hermeneutics
Release Date: 
Date: August 28, 2022
ISBN: 
9781680534405 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
100
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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