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Nathaniel's Nutmeg: Or, the True and Incredible Adventure of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History
by Giles Milton  
Publisher Comments A true tale of high adventure in the South Seas. The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the Indonesian archipelago. Just two miles long and half a mile wide, it is remote, tranquil, and, these days, largely ignored. Yet 370 years ago, Run's...
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The...
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by Simon Winchester
Powells.com Staff Pick Krakatoa is the eloquent narrative of the cataclysmic destruction in 1883 of the volcanic island of the same name. Killing nearly 40,000 people (mostly from the resultant tsunamis), this violent eruption was "the most violent explosion ever...
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Indonesian Destinies
by Theodore Friend Publisher Comments �How can such a gentle people as we are be so murderous?� a prominent Indonesian asks. That question�and the mysteries of the archipelago�s vast contradictions�haunt Theodore Friend�s remarkable work, a narrative of...
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (P.S.)
by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The...
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East Timor's Unfinished Struggle: Inside the Timorese Resistance
by Constancio Pinto Synopsis The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the principal international spokesperson for the Timorese independence movement, Jose Ramos-Horta and to Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo, the spiritual leader of most of the people of East Timor. The Nobel citation honored...
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Managing Turbulent Hearts: A Balinese Formula for Living
by Unni Wikan Publisher Comments How do Balinese manage to present to the world the clear, bright face, the grace and poise, that they regard as crucial to self-respect and social esteem? How can the anthropologist pass behind the conventions of such a complex culture to recognize what...
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Krakatoa
by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments On 27th August 1883 the most terrifying volcanic eruption occurred on the island of Krakatoa, five miles off the western tip of Java. The island was destroyed and almost 40,000 people were killed. The impact was truly global: ships sailing in the Red Sea...
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Media & Nation Bulding How the Iban Beca
by John Postill Book News Annotation Malaysia was formed from the British colonies Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and Sabah in 1963 in that era's wave of state formation in Africa and Asia. Singapore seceded about two years later, but the rest remained united, despite a deeply divided...
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Exile: Conversations with Pramoedya Ananta Toer
by Nagesh Rao Publisher Comments "Fascinating... endlessly sad."-Noam Chomsky In these remarkable interviews with Andr Vltchek and Rossie Indira, edited by Nagesh Rao, Indonesia's most celebrated writer speaks out against tyranny and injustice in a young and troubled nation. Toer here...
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Indonesia : Peoples and Histories (03 Edition)
by Jean Gelman Taylor Publisher Comments Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim nation, is now in the midst of dramatic upheaval. This history of Indonesia provides an overview from the prehistoric period to the present and explores the connections between the nation’s many...
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History of Modern Indonesia (06 Edition)
by Vickers Publisher Comments Although Indonesia has the fourth largest population in the world, its history is still relatively unknown. Adrian Vickers takes the reader on a journey across the social and political landscape of modern Indonesia, starting with the country's origins...
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Revolt in Paradise (Griffin Paperback)
by Ktut Tantri Synopsis Here is the stunning account of K'tut Tantri's life in Java as a young artist and later as a resistance fighter for Indonesian independence. 8-page black-and-white photo insert....
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From Rebellion to Riots: Collective Violence on Indonesian Borneo (New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies)
by Jamie Seth Davidson Publisher Comments From Rebellion to Riots is a critical analysis of the roots of contemporary violence in one of Indonesia’s most ethnically heterogeneous provinces, West Kalimantan. Since the late 1960s, this province has suffered periodic outbreaks of ethnic...
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The Politics of Indonesia:
by Damien Kingsbury Publisher Comments Completly revised and updated, this new edition of The Politics of Indonesia is an engaging and accessible account of the main political issues and challenges confronting Indonesia as it moves along in the twenty-first century....
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Indonesia (Countries of the World)
by Pietro Tarallo Publisher Comments These extraordinary color images invite the reader to explore these fascinating countries....
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Singapore Re Engineering Success
by Institute Of Policy Book News Annotation Commissioned by Singapore's Institute of Policy Studies, 18 contributions from academics and practitioners in government and business consider the republic's future. Some of the issues discussed include the constraints of land resources, the government's...
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Phantasmatic Indochina: French Colonial Ideology in Architecture, Film, and Literature (Asia-Pacific)
by Panivong Norindr Publisher Comments This reflection on colonial culture argues for an examination of Indochina as a fictive and mythic construct, a phantasmatic legacy of French colonialism in Southeast Asia. Panivong Norindr uses postcolonial theory to demonstrate how French imperialism...
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Telling Lives, Telling History
by Susan Rodgers Synopsis These two memoirs, superbly rendered into English for the first time, provide unique windows into the Sumatran past, in particular, and the early twentieth-century history of Southeast Asia, in general. Originally published soon after the Indonesian...
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Shared Hopes, Seperate Fears: Fifty Years of U.S.-Inodnesian Relations
by Paul F Gardner Publisher Comments This book traces the often tumultuous history of U.S-Indonesian relations as experienced by those who witnessed it in the making. Incorporating the perspectives of participants from both nations, Paul Gardner focuses on a number of key phases in the...
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