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The enigmatic Philippines defy easy description. This archepelago of 7,000 odd islands sometimes seems to be floating in the wrong waters. Here is a land whose geography has placed it in Southeast Asia, but whose religion is predominantly Roman Catholic, whose colonists were Spanish and American, whose cuisine seems sedaste compared to the spicy chileies and curries of its mainland neighbors.
- Edition
- Cet.1, 1987
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- p.334: 23 cm
- Series Title
- Insight Guides
- Call Number
- R 910.2 HOE p
Lexicon of Foreign Artists Who Visualized Indonesia (1600 - 1950)
With the ever growing interst in art related to Indonesia, Dutch art dealers Leo Haks and Guus Maris recognized the need for a guide to the foreign srtists who produceed such work. During three years of intensice research including nearly 3,000 artists: Haks and Maris Lexicon of Foreign Artists who Visualilzed Indonesia 1600 - 1950. This includes biographies for wach artist identified, lists th…
- Edition
- Cet.1, 1995
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9813018070
- Collation
- p. 530: 30 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- R 927 HAK l
TORAJA : Indonesia's Mountain Eden
Tucked away amidst the rugged peaks and fertile plateaus of South Sulawesi, the southwestern peninsula of Indonesia's fourth largest island. Tana Toraja has remained pretty much in isolation untul the beginning of the 20th century. Today this spectacular mountain paradise deaws tourists and writers who are intrigued by its unique culture that is found nowhere wlse in the world. Living in houses…
- Edition
- Cet.1, 1988
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9812040161
- Collation
- p. 160: 30 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- R 910 PAR t
Architecture : Indonesia Heritage Volume 6
The architecture of indonesia reflects both the cultural diversity of the region and its rich historical inheritance. The wide range of vernacular styles is the legancy of an austronesia architectural tradition characterised by wooden pile dwelings, high pitched roofs and extended roof ridges. The great Hindu - Buddist temples of Java, on the other hand, share an indian ancestry, though indigen…
- Edition
- Cet. 1 1999
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9813018585
- Collation
- p. 146; 29, 5cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- R 720.1 TJA a
Visual Art: Indonesia Heritage Volume 7
Indonesian art has an unbroken tradition reaching back 5,000 years. Beginning with prehistoric art, this volume goes on to trace the emergence of traditional folk art, and the gradual progression into contemporary representation. We find examples of cave and rock art , ancient bronzes and megalithic sculptures, and examine how many of these early motifs find expression in later artistic forms. …
- Edition
- Cet. 1, 1999
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9813018585
- Collation
- p. 148; 29,5cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- R 700 SOE v
Performing Arts: Indonesian Heritage Volume 8
Indonesia’s vast cultural diversity is exemplified in the endless variety of its performing arts, from entertaining processions and village mask dances to the wayang shadow puppet theatre of Java with stories taken from the Indian epics and the local Panji cycle, from traditional musical accompaniments by the full slendro and pelogtuned gamelan and smaller local ensembles to the wayang wong a…
- Edition
- Cet. 1, 1999
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9813018585
- Collation
- p. 148; 29,5cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- R 790.2 SED p
Secret Corner of the World
For many of us, the glimpse of faraway places came in the pages of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC : and this book continues the Society's tradition of portraying lands and peoples off the beaten tracks of the world.rnIn one instance, it records a land on the eve of calamity; northern Afghanistan, for centuries a crossroads of trade and thus of civilization, now closed to travelers while Soviet forces conf…
- Edition
- Cet.1, 1982
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- p. 202: 27 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- R 910 NGS s
Guide to British Education Volume II 2001/2002
Where you choose to study will shape your future - your career and your life. Choosing a wolrd - class education in the United Kingdom will help you become the best you can be. This guide will help you make the right choice from the huge rang of UK study opportunities.rnAll institutions profiled in this Guide and in the Directory of British Universities, Colleges and Schools are members of the …
- Edition
- Cet.1, 2001
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- p. 832: 21 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- R 052 COU g
Encyclopedia of Human Rights & Social Justice
Human rights have been violated since time immemorial. Women have been consistently subjugated and repressed as the 'weaker' sex. Children have been exploited and abused sustematicallu by family as well as strangers. In India the record of both these areas is quite dismal. Statutory bodies such as the National Human Rights Commission and their State counterparts have been doing thankless job an…
- Edition
- Cet.1, 2006
- ISBN/ISSN
- 8178883595
- Collation
- p. 442: 22 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- R 341.481 KAN e
RIVER OF GEMS a Borneo Journal
Borneo! I can still remember how the name alone would fire my childhood imagination, lifting me from drab post-war Britain into a vibrant world of pirates and princesses, tattooed headhunters and while rajas; a savage, steamy land of wold rapids, impenetrable jungles and haunting forests, the last sanctuary of many strange tribes and creatures living on a Frontier of Myth. ........
- Edition
- Cet.1, 1991
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- p. 242: 33 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- R 305.8 BLA r
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