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Stephen Alter was raised by American missionary parents in the hill station of Mussoorie, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where he and his wife Ameeta, now live. Their idyllic existence was brutally interrupted when four armed intruders invaded their house and viciously attacked them, leaving them for dead. The violent assault and the trauma of almost dying left him questioning assumptions he had lived by since childhood. For the first time, he encountered the face of evil and the terror of the unknown.

What's the dance club of the moment, the best place for a drink, the most romantic choice? You'll find all that information you need in this ultimate Hong Kong nightlife guide based on the recommendations of thousands of local night crawlers.

Hong Kong is the world's most exciting city, at once fascinating and exasperating, a tangle of contradictions. It is a dazzling amalgam of conspicuous consumption and primitive poverty, the most architecturally incongruous yet undeniably beautiful urban panorama of all. Through firsthand...

Don't let your time on the road go to waste—turn it into an opportunity to improve your language skills, and become a confident speaker of Korean. Picture yourself easily communicating with locals, discovering the rich Korean culture, and forming meaningful connections—all while stuck in traffic. Learn Korean in Your Car Like Never Before! makes it possible to turn your daily commute into an immersive language-learning experience, accelerating your progress like never before.

Reap the benefits of cross-cultural expansion when you know how to gracefully navigate Vietnamese culture and etiquette — even if it's your first exposure! Have you ever found yourself bewildered by the labyrinth of Vietnam's fascinating yet equally perplexing customs and traditions? Cannot quite grasp the nuance and subtleties of Vietnamese social norms in both work and marriage?

Greater Than a Tourist—Baguio City, Benguet, Philippines by Denice Hally Salting offers the inside scoop on the City of Pines. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Greater than a Tourist: Astana Kazakstan by Marina Shakirova offers the inside scoop on Astana, Kazakhstan. Most travel audiobooks tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Follow author Robert Whiting (The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, You Gotta Have Wa, Tokyo Underworld) as he watches Tokyo transform during the 1964 Olympics, rubs shoulders with the Yakuza and comes face to face with the city’s dark underbelly, interviews Japan’s baseball elite after publishing his first best-selling book on the subject, and learns how politics and sports collide to produce a cultural landscape unlike any other, even as a new Olympics is postponed and the COVID virus ravages the nation. 

From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life...

With all the narrative power and intellectual authority that have distinguished his earlier books, V.S. Naipaul explores the life, the culture, the ferment inside the nations of Islam–in a book that combines the fascinations of great travel literature with the insights of a uniquely sharp, original and idiosyncratic political mind.

تجاوز صدمة الثقافة وابنِ حياة مستقرة مع هذا الدليل العملي الواقعي للعمل والدراسة في اليابان. حينما تتبدد النشوة الأولى للانتقال إلى الخارج، تبرز الحاجة الملحة...

Ontsnap aan je drukke dag met deze kalmerende slaapverhalen en reis ontspannen door serene, Japanse landschappen. Wanneer je na een lange werkdag in bed ligt en de slaap niet kunt vatten, biedt deze sfeervolle luisterervaring de perfecte overgang naar diepe rust. Laat alle opgebouwde spanning...

Supera el choque cultural y la burocracia con esta guía práctica para dominar tu nueva vida como expatriado en Japón. Ya sea que estés planificando estudiar en el extranjero o busques consolidar tu carrera profesional, aquí encontrarás una perspectiva honesta y sin filtros. Deja atrás las...

Dieser pragmatische Ratgeber zum Auswandern löst Illusionen auf und verwandelt den Kulturschock in meisterbaren Alltag. Ob du vor dem großen Neuanfang als Student stehst oder beruflich ins kalte Wasser springst, hier findest du die nötige Orientierung. Bereite dich beim Pendeln oder...

Entfliehe dem Alltagsstress und finde mit dieser meditativen Einschlafhilfe durch sanfte Naturreisen tiefe innere Ruhe. Wenn die Gedanken am Abend unaufhörlich kreisen, bietet diese atmosphärische Erzählung den perfekten, beruhigenden Rückzugsort zum Abschalten. Spüre, wie sich mentale...

Maîtrisez la fascinante histoire du Japon et décryptez son évolution culturelle, des premiers empereurs à la modernité. Plongez au cœur d'une narration chronologique captivante qui relie les grandes décisions politiques aux paysages grandioses encore visibles aujourd'hui. Que vous...

Maîtrisez votre expatriation nippone sans subir le choc culturel grâce à ce guide honnête et réaliste. Oubliez les fantasmes touristiques et confrontez vos attentes à la réalité concrète d'une installation au long cours. Cette écoute pragmatique vous accompagne pas à pas dans les...

Plongez dans un sommeil profond grâce à ces récits de voyage apaisants qui vous transportent au cœur du Japon serein. Oubliez le stress de la journée en vous laissant bercer par des promenades nocturnes et des paysages d'une douceur absolue. Conçue pour l'heure du coucher, cette évasion...

The Ridiculous Misadventures of a Single Girl gives listeners an intimate look into what Gabrielle went through when she returned home from her grand European adventure, the challenges she faced as she tried to put the pieces back together, the men - new and old - who shook her world, and the epic conclusion to the real-life story so many have become invested in.

Winner of the British Book Awards, TV & Film Book of the Year, 2005.

In his most challenging journey to date, Palin tackles the Himalayas, the greatest mountain range on earth. It is a virtually unbroken wall of rock stretching 1,800 miles from the borders of Afghanistan to south-west China. Penetrated but never conquered, it remains the world's most majestic natural barrier, a magnificent wilderness that shapes the history and politics of Asia to this day.