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Yoga as Embodied Resistance illuminates the essential—but often unseen—relationships between caste and gender in yoga. Bridging scholarship, history, and cultural analysis, yoga educator and practitioner Anjali Rao exposes how caste oppression, patriarchy, colonization, and the right-wing Hindutva movement impact contemporary practice and offers listeners radical ways to re-envision a yoga grounded in liberation, inquiry, discernment, and even dissent.

Overturning familiar scripts, Splendid Liberators is the first work of narrative nonfiction to look at this far-flung war through American, Cuban, and Filipino eyes, and to gauge the consequences and costs of America's first major imperial adventure.

In 10 Unforgettable Facts About the Vietnam War, Korey Blathewick distils the chaos, courage, and catastrophe of the conflict into ten powerful, revealing chapters that explore what really happened—and why it still matters.

In this insightful book, the author examines the exploitation that Korea endured during the period of Japanese colonial rule between 1910 and 1945. The book sheds light on economic, resource, and labor exploitation, highlighting the lasting impact of Japan's control on Korea. It also explores the resistance movements that emerged in response to this exploitation and the subsequent efforts to rebuild Korea after liberation.

Reog Ponorogo erat kaitannya dengan cerita perjuangan Raja Bantarangin (Raja Kelana Sewandana) untuk meminang Putri Songgolangit dari Kerajaan Kediri. Namun, proses peminangan tersebut penuh dengan tantangan, terutama karena permintaan dari Putri Songgolangit yang cukup sulit. Sang putri meminta Raja Kelana Sewandana menghadirkan arak-arakan yang megah dan belum pernah ada sebelumnya sebagai syarat pernikahan.

The Vietnam War cast a shadow over the American psyche from the moment it began. In its time it sparked budget deficits, campus protests, and an erosion of US influence around the world. Long after the last helicopter evacuated Saigon, Americans have continued to battle over whether it was ever a winnable war.

Orígenes y Fundación del Reino de Siam: Explora los orígenes de Tailandia, desde las primeras civilizaciones hasta la fundación del Reino de Siam, que sentó las bases de la identidad nacional tailandesa. El Legado de las Pagodas y la Arquitectura Sagrada: Descubre la rica tradición arquitectónica de Tailandia, con sus icónicas pagodas y templos budistas, que reflejan la profunda espiritualidad y el arte del país.

Days before he was drafted in 1962, Dennis Foley volunteered to join the army in the hopes of someday getting into West Point. He was only eighteen years old. At basic training in Fort Dix, New Jersey, a presentation by two impressive, self-confident special forces sergeants made an indelible impression on him. His career would come full circle. In 1972, wearing a green beret, Foley would be given command of his own A-Team.

A nation is exiled from itself to prison; a nation is re-awakened through the storytelling of its origins; understand Indonesia through Pramoedya’s books.

In 1945 the United States and Japan fought the largest and most devastating land battle of their war in the Pacific, a month-long struggle for the city of Manila. It was a key piece of the campaign to retake control of the Philippine Islands, which itself signified the culmination of the war, breaking the back of Japanese strategic power and sealing its outcome. In The Battle of Manila, Nicholas Sarantakes offers the first in-depth account of this crucial campaign from the American, Japanese, and, significantly, Filipino perspective.

Nous vous ferons parler l’indonésien en un rien de temps ! La méthode audio d'apprentissage des langues de Lingo Jump facilite l'apprentissage de l’indonésien à votre guise. Que vous vous détendiez ou que vous soyez en déplacement, nos leçons audio simples, claires et ludiques vous aident à apprendre en imitant nos conférenciers. Plongez-vous dans la langue indonésienne en toute confiance - nous sommes là pour vous aider à parler indonésien en utilisant des phrases que vous apprendrez facilement grâce à l'audio en parallèle.

Despite its ubiquity and popularity, Mala Xiang Guo's history and origins are unknown. Search results on Google or Baidu throw up approximately 9 million recipes but not a single reliable account of how the MLXG was invented, or by whom. Find out how this spicy dish arrived on the sunny shores...

Spend some time exploring Singapore and you are bound to stumble upon a tree shrine. They are not always the largest trees or the most exotic, but you know them when you see them. White Styrofoam packets surround their gnarly trunks, and you might notice the distinct odour of incense, rising...

Sometimes the biggest story of your life happens before you’re even born… and sometimes, you get to discover it. One email is all it takes to turn Mala’s life upside down… an email from a stranger 10,000 miles away. Now, as memories from her childhood swirl up in familiarity, she sees them in a different light, as though they’re puzzle pieces that have a new way to fit together. Everything is the same, yet everything is different… The story she thought she knew is true, but there’s been another truth running beneath it the whole time.

On April 30, 1975, the Communist capture of the city of Saigon brought an end to more than 20 years of war in Vietnam. The end of the war reunified a divided nation—and changed the course of global politics, military strategy, and international relations for decades to come. In the six lectures of The Fall of Saigon: The Vietnam War 50 Years in Review, historian Edward G. Lengel takes you back to the final years of the long and complex conflict that ravaged the small Southeast Asian nation of Vietnam and bled disastrously into surrounding countries, altering the region forever.

No hotel is as inseparably linked to its city than Raffles Hotel, writes Pico Iyer, arguably the world's greatest travel writer alive. Drawing upon numerous stays in Raffles over 35 years and the fast-ascending city all around it, Iyer—a lifelong global soul—reflects on the "Grand Old...

Singapore has evolved from a developing country to a developed one, in only a few short decades. Its gross domestic product per capita has soared from just US$517 (S$697) in 1965, to US$64,582 (S$87,128) in 2018. Impressed, visiting university students from Mexico and the United States, in...

'Chinese' or 'Any other Asian'. The boxes that people of vastly varied East and South East Asian heritage have to tick when declaring their ethnicity on many forms in the UK. For the first time, author Anna Sulan Masing addresses these issues in a comprehensive way. She explores what it means to be East and South East Asian in Britain today, and celebrates the multiple elements and varied experiences that make up ESEA identity. Powerful, moving and illuminating, this will be a must-read for anyone interested in exploring the make-up of our multicultural society.

Singapore is often known as a ‘clean’ country and its citizens ‘law-abiding’. However, every once in a while, the island has been shocked by an incident or a crime so unexpected and shocking, it grabs headlines and piques the interest of locals and international press alike. Spanning across all kinds of crimes, this collection has one thing in common–shock value.

Nepal may be a small country, but it has a very rich and exciting history. This audiobook takes you on a journey from the early days of Nepal’s first settlers to modern times, where kings have been replaced by democratic institutions.