Area Studies Paperbacks

New and Published Books – Page 1

1. Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia

   Edited by Andrew N. Weintraub

   Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

   Home to approximately one-fifth of the world’s Muslim population, Indonesia and Malaysia are often overlooked or misrepresented in media discourses about Islam. Islam is a religion but there is also a popular culture, or popular cultures of Islam that are mass mediated, commercialized,...

   Published June 5th 2013 by Routledge
2. Al-Ghazali, Averroes and the Interpretation of the Qur'an

   Common Sense and Philosophy in Islam

   By Avital Wohlman

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   This book examines the contrasting interpretations of Islam and the Qur’an by Averroes and Al-Ghazali, as a way of helping us untangle current impasses affecting each Abrahamic faith. This has traditionally been portrayed as a battle between philosophy and theology, but the book shows that Averroes...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. An Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism

   With especial Reference to Chinese and Japanese Phases

   By William McGovern

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   William Montgomery McGovern’s Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism was one of the first books on Mahayana Buddhism written for a Western audience. It predates influential English language overviews of Buddhism by D. T. Suzuki, A. Watts, and W. Rahula. The author was born in New York City in 1897 and...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. An Elementary Grammar of the Japanese Language

   With Easy Progressive Exercises

   By Tatui Baba

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   When originally published in 1873 one of the aims was to protest against an idea that the Japanese language was very imperfect, and therefore it should be exterminated! The second was to give a general idea of the Japanese language as it is spoken. ...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. The Life of the Buddha and the Early History of His Order

   By W. Woodhill Rockhill

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. African Diaspora and the Metropolis

   Reading the African, African American and Caribbean Experience

   Edited by Fassil Demissie

   At the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century, a number of African American and Caribbean intellectuals and immigrants of the African Diaspora with all their apprehensions set out in steamships en route and carried with them a certain presence to the metropoleis of Europe and...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. Health Care and Traditional Medicine in China 1800-1982

   By S. M. Hillier, Tony Jewell

   First published in 1983.Beginning with the period of the early expansion of Western missionary medicine, this account covers the chaotic years of Nationalist rule to the foundations of the People's Republic in 1949. It trances the major influences on health care since then and describes the...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
8. Banking Policy in Japan

   American Efforts at Reform During the Occupation

   By William Tsutsui

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   The unique Japanese banking system has contributed greatly to Japan’s post-war economic advance by investing aggressively in industry and by supporting close government-business relations. The banking sector might not have come to assume such a significant role, however, had American efforts to...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
9. British Factory Japanese Factory

   The Origins of National Diversity in Industrial Relations

   By Ronald Dore

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   The Japanese way of work is notoriously ‘different’. But is it Japan or Britain which is the odd man out? When originally published this was the first book to explore the real differences, through a point-by-point comparison of two Japanese factories with two British ones making similar products....

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
10. Broadcasting in Japan

    Case-studies on Broadcasting Systems

    Edited by Masami Ito

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

    Japan has developed what is arguably the most sophisticated and the most democratic broadcasting system in the world. The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1st September 1923, with its devastation and confusion drove home in its appalling way the importance of being able to broadcast immediate information...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge