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Free Download English as an International Language in Asia: Implications for Language Education By Andy Kirkpatrick, Roland Sussex (auth.), Andy Kirkpatrick, Roland Sussex (eds.)
2012 | 244 Pages | ISBN: 940074577X | PDF | 3 MB
Even as Anglophone power wanes in Asia, and China and India rise, the role of the English language in the region continues to develop. How are students in Asian nations such as Vietnam, Malaysia and China itself being taught English? This much-needed overview analyzes the differing language education policies of selected countries that also include Indonesia, Japan and Sri Lanka. Noting ASEAN’s adoption of English as its sole working language, it traces the influence of globalization on English language education in Asia: in many systems, it pushes local languages off the curriculum and is taught as a second language after the national one. Informed by a comprehensive review of current research and practice in English teaching in Asia, this volume considers the many different roles English is playing across the region, as well as offering an informed assessment of the prospects of English-and Chinese-being a universal language of communication.

Free Download Economic and Political Change in Asia and Europe: Social Movement Analyses By Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan (auth.), Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan, Frédéric Royall (eds.)
2013 | 306 Pages | ISBN: 9400746520 | PDF | 3 MB
Since the 1973 publication of Alain Peyrefitte’s prophetic When China Awakens, developments in East Asia have outstripped even the wildest predictions. China has undergone the fastest industrialization and urbanization process in history, yet tensions there are rising as some realize how far they have been left behind. This volume explores the applicability of European economic and social models to our analysis of East Asia’s and, in particular, China’s situation. Though millions of Chinese and other Asian people have been lifted out of poverty, inequality is rising nonetheless, and contemporary Europe and Asia are both witnessing collective action against rampant economic neoliberalism in the former and the exclusion of minorities in the latter.It is difficult to overstate the relevance of this assessment, which seeks answers to some central questions: Can events in Europe serve as a model for those in East Asia? Are there similarities or differences between the two regions? To what extent do political, economic or social systems stimulate or inhibit collective action? How culturally equivalent are the collective actions of marginalized/ disadvantaged people in the two locations, or are events in Europe symptomatic of specific cultural attributes? Comparing and contrasting the research tools and dominant paradigms in the social and economic sciences in East Asia and Europe, as this volume does, throws out some revealing results.

Free Download Asia Pacific Business Process Management: First Asia Pacific Conference, AP-BPM 2013, Beijing, China, August 29-30, 2013. Selected Papers By Wil M. P. van der Aalst (auth.), Minseok Song, Moe Thandar Wynn, Jianxun Liu (eds.)
2013 | 121 Pages | ISBN: 3319029215 | PDF | 4 MB
This book constitutes the proceedings of the First Asia Pacific Conference on Business Process Management held in Beijing, China, in August 2013.In all, 19 contributions from seven countries were submitted. Following an extensive review process by an international Program Committee, seven full papers and one short paper were accepted for publication in this book and presentation at the conference. In addition, a keynote by Wil van der Aalst is also included.

Free Download Y K Major General Gera (Retd), "Trade Commerce and Security Challenges in the Asia Pacific Region"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 9382652086 | EPUB | pages: 184 | 1.2 mb
The Asia Pacific region is a dynamic but complex area where much of the history of the 21st Century will be scripted. Although the strategic and economic importance of the region continues to grow, challenges of reconciling national interests with regional and global interests continue. Security architectures during the Cold War were based primarily on military alliances. However the need today is to base these architectures on shared values, interests and challenges. We need not only define but believe in these universal values. This book brings out this important aspect of this region and explains them briefly.

Free Download Kees Rookmaaker, "The Rhinoceros of South Asia "
English | ISBN: 9004544887 | 2024 | 890 pages | PDF | 141 MB
Encyclopaedic in scope – textually, geographically, historically and visually, this is a comprehensive review of the human interactions of the three species of rhinoceros in the South Asian region. Based on over 3000 sources, records of their occurrence from prehistoric times to the present culminate in new maps of their historical distribution areas.

Free Download Sally Cummings, "Symbolism And Power In Central Asia"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0415815975, 0415575672 | EPUB | pages: 268 | 1.1 mb
With the collapse of communism, post-communist societies scrambled to find meaning to their new independence. Central Asia was no exception. Events, relationships, gestures, spatial units and objects produced, conveyed and interpreted meaning. The new power container of the five independent states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan would significantly influence this process of signification. Post-Soviet Central Asia is an intriguing field to examine this transformation: a region which did not see an organised independence movement develop prior to Soviet implosion at the centre, it provokes questions about how symbolisation begins in the absence of a national will to do so.

Free Download Paul Kratoska, "South East Asia Colonial History V2"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 0415215412 | EPUB | pages: 424 | 3.4 mb
The six volumes that make up this set provide an overview of colonialism in South East Asia. The first volume deals with Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch Imperialism before 1800, the second with empire-building during the Nineteenth Century, and the third with the imperial heyday in the early Twentieth Century. The remaining volumes are devoted to the decline of empire, covering nationalism and the Japanese challenge to the Western presence in the region, and the transition to independence. The authors whose works are anthologised include both official participants, and scholars who wrote about events from a more detached perspective. Wherever possible, authors have been chosen who had first-hand experience in the region

Free Download Adil Najam, "South Asia 2060: Envisioning Regional Futures"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0857280740, 1783080353 | EPUB | pages: 338 | 1.1 mb
"South Asia 2060" is a dialogue among 47 experts from a diverse range of expertise and backgrounds, ranging from policymakers to academia to civil society activists and visionaries, on the likely longer-range trajectories of South Asia’s future. The collection explores current regional trends, possible future trajectories, and the key factors that will determine whether these trajectories are positive or negative for the region, as a region. Departing from a purely security-based analysis, the volume considers factors such as development and human well-being to reveal not what will happen but what could happen, as well as the impact present conditions could have on the rest of the world.

Free Download Michael K. Bourdaghs, "Sound Alignments: Popular Music in Asia’s Cold Wars"
English | ISBN: 1478010673 | 2021 | 304 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
In Sound Alignments, a transnational group of scholars explores the myriad forms of popular music that circulated across Asia during the Cold War. Challenging the conventional alignments and periodizations of Western cultural histories of the Cold War, they trace the routes of popular music, examining how it took on new meanings and significance as it traveled across Asia, from India to Indonesia, Hong Kong to South Korea, China to Japan. From studies of how popular musical styles from the Americas and Europe were adapted to meet local exigencies to how socialist-bloc and nonaligned Cold War organizations facilitated the circulation of popular music throughout the region, the contributors outline how music forged and challenged alliances, revolutions, and countercultures. They also show how the Cold War’s legacy shapes contemporary culture, particularly in the ways 1990s and 2000s J-pop and K-pop are rooted in American attempts to foster economic exchange in East Asia in the 1960s.Throughout,

Free Download Nandakumar Janardhanan, "Renewable Energy Transition in Asia: Policies, Markets and Emerging Issues"
English | ISBN: 9811589046 | 2021 | 308 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book covers critical debates on policies, markets and emerging issues that shape renewable energy transition in the Asian region, which is fast becoming an epicenter of the global energy consumption.