Brown, Holly
Summary: East and Southeast Asia has long been a powerful player in the world trading system. Whether it's spices like pepper, textiles, rubber, or microprocessors, this region has much to offer the world, including its amazing cultures. Home to many ethnic groups and some of the world's biggest and smallest countries, the region has produced a unique array of cultural traditions. This book's accessible...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 951 BROPaluch, Gabrielle
Summary: "Opium Queen is the true story of the widely mythologized genderqueer Burmese opium-pioneer of noble Chinese descent, Olive Yang, who secretly ran an anti-communist rebel army supported by the CIA in the 1950s heyday of the Golden Triangle"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 YANG, OLIVE PALJohansen, Iris
Summary: Eve Duncan accompanies archeologist Riley Smith when they search a remote island and uncover an archeological treasure. But can they escape the island and survive long enough to reveal it to the world?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHMachajewski, Sarah
Summary: The Great Wall of China is the longest structure ever built by humans, crossing mountains and rivers. It is a lasting symbol of the ways the human and physical geographic features of East and Southeast Asia come together. From the bustling city of Hong Kong to the island nations of Singapore and Malaysia, readers will discover how people have impacted the land, and how the land has affected the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 950 MACSummary: As a compassionate American Ambassador to the strife-torn Southeast Asian nation of Sarkhan, Brando tries to keep Communists in the North from overrunning the weakened democracy in the South by making sure a vital road into the country's inaccessible interior goes through.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA UGLHarris, Tim
Summary: "Describes various animals in Australia and Southeast Asia that are endangered and at risk of becoming extinct. Data Sheet sidebars and maps accompany the text"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brown Bear Books Ltd 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.68 HARPunyaratabandhu, Leela
Summary: "60 vibrant recipes proving that Asian roadside barbecue is just as easy, delicious, and crowd-pleasing as American-style backyard grilling. Sharing beloved barbecue dishes from the Southeast Asian countries of Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, and Indonesia, experienced author and expert on Asian cooking Leela Punyaratabandhu inspires readers with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5784 PUNAbley, Mark
Summary: "A poet and journalist looks back on a remarkable journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978, when the region was on the brink of massive transformation. In the spring of 1978, at age twenty-two, Mark Abley put aside his studies at Oxford and set off with a friend on a three-month trek across the celebrated Hippie Trail -- a sprawling route between Europe and South Asia, peppered with Western...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anansi 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ABLEY, MARK ABLTerzani, Tiziano.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.04 TERSummary: The gigantic Angkor temple complex in Cambodia is a testament in stone to the Khmer-miles of inscriptions that only Professor Thomas Maxwell and a handful of other experts can decipher. But time is running out as erosion and the ever-increasing influx of tourists take their toll on the carvings at this UNESCO World Heritage Site. Using Maxwell's research into the ceremonial eye-opening ritual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This program follows in the footsteps of the traders who introduced Islam into Southeast Asia. From the Thai, Cambodian, and Vietnamese mainland to the islands of Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, the program acquaints viewers with Islamic culture, representative architecture, historical monuments, and the Muslim way of life in the region.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: How far will one man go to protect the ones he cares about most in the world? An intense international thriller, centers on an American businessman as he and his family settle into their new home in Southeast Asia. Suddenly finding themselves in the middle of a violent political uprising, they must frantically look for a safe escape as rebels mercilessly attack the city.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVd NoJohansen, Iris
Summary: Traveling to Palanan Island in Southeast Asia, archaeologist Riley Smith is aware of the threat from treasure hunters who have no qualms about killing to get what they want. When she successfully evades them and finds the perfectly preserved body of a female warrior, it is just what she needs to entice Eve Duncan to join her. As they seek answers to the questions the body has raised, their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHSummary: The year 2000 marked the 25th anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam. In this classic NewsHour program, Gwen Ifill and Terence Smith sit down with renowned historians and correspondents to ask them to address some of the lingering issues associated with that war. Episodes include. * Vietnam's Legacy-Historian's View: Gwen Ifill is joined by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Michael Beschloss,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: On April 30, 1975, advancing North Vietnamese Army tanks rolled into Saigon, paving the way for the South Vietnamese surrender and the end of the Vietnam War-a war which claimed nearly four million lives in the name of freedom, communism, or democracy. It depends who is telling the story. This program documents the story from the beginning, in 1941, when the only harassment of occupying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: For 24 years, Jose Ramos Horta, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, campaigned to secure independence for East Timor, a Portuguese colony invaded by Indonesia in 1975. This program takes up Ramos Horta's story in the final dramatic stages of his journey, including the fall of President Suharto, the referendum to determine East Timor's future, the overwhelming vote for independence, the carnage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Aw, Tash
Summary: Ah Hock is an ordinary man of simple means. Born and raised in a Malaysian fishing village, he favors stability above all, a preference at odds with his rapidly modernizing surroundings. So what brings him to kill a man?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AWSummary: The assassination of Ninoy Aquino marked the beginning of the end for Ferdinand Marcos. In this program, Corazon Aquino explains how she entered into politics to continue the fight that her slain husband had begun-and in the process toppled a dictator and restored democracy in the Philippines. Discussion of key moments in her odyssey vividly evoke the time when a housewife with no political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: From 1914 through much of the 1920s, Albert Kahn's photographic team was hard at work in Asia, amassing culturally and historically vital images for the Archive of the Planet. This program recounts journeys through Indochina and greater Asia in which the Kahn team opened up a world most Europeans had never dreamed of. Viewers discover Vietnam through its beggars, Tet celebrants, and elegantly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Abandoned by Cambodia's Khmer rulers in the fourteenth century, Angkor is a sprawling expanse of medieval temples-with the awe-inspiring Angkor Wat as its crowning feature. This program takes viewers inside the structure, which, in addition to its rich historical significance, forms a fascinating record of astronomical knowledge and Hindu cosmology. Students will learn the story of Henri...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This multi-part NewsHour program provides a powerful retrospective on the Vietnam War and its ongoing influence, from both the American and Vietnamese points of view. Special attention is given to the war's long-term impact on the U.S. military, the news media, American protest movements, and the inhabitants of Vietnam. Long-time journalists Morley Safer and Haynes Johnson; Representative Bobby...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Johansen, Iris
Summary: Unearthing the perfectly preserved body of a female warrior in Southeast Asia, archeologist Riley Smith and Eve Duncan seek answers about this extraordinary past life, leading Riley to make a discovery that will change history--if she can survive long enough to share it with the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOHCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHNardo, Don
Summary: "Southeast Asian Cultures in Perspective is an in-depth look at the different regional cultures of Southeast Asia with an emphasis on current culture. The young reader is presented with an overview of a variety of regional cultures that developed historically and analyzes how the cultural history shapes the Southeast Asian region's current culture. The book is written in a lively and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Place Cult NardoGoscha, Christopher E.
Summary: "Vietnam's role in one of the Cold War's longest-running conflicts has meant that its past has been endlessly abused. Popular accounts have cherry-picked from the Vietnamese past to tell politicized, American-centered stories--either reducing the story of Vietnam and the Vietnamese to a noble tradition of anticolonial resistance embodied by the communist leader Ho Chi Minh, or alternatively...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2016