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Pferde in Asien: Geschichte, Handel und Kultur. Horses in Asia: History, Trade and Culture
edited by Bert G. Fragner, Ralph Kauz, Roderich Ptak, and Angela Schottenhammer
Horses, horse-breeding and horse-keeping, as well as the trade in these animals, played an important role in the history of Asia's pre- and early modern civilisations. However, horses were unequally distributed over the Asian continent and their acquisition was usually associated with different expectations. When the knowledge spread that horses could be profitably used in warfare as well as for overland transportation and for agriculture, this ...
Paperback. Price US$87.00

Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan II: Letters and Buddist Texts
by Nicholas Sims-Williams
The second volume of Bactrian documets from Afghanistan of the 2nd to 9th cents AD.Bactrian, the ancient language of Afghanistan, which was used for administrative purposes by a succession of dynasties from the 2nd to the 9th century CE, was virtually unknown until the discovery during the 1990s of more than 150 documents written on leather, wood and cloth. In these two volumes, Nicholas Sims-Williams has for the first time deciphered and ...
Hardback. Price US$46.00

Expanding and Merging Horizons: Contributions to South Asian and Cross-Cultural Studies in Commemoration of Wilhelm Halbfass
edited by Karin Preisendanz
This volume is dedicated to the memory of the Indologist and philosopher Wilhelm Halbfass (19402000), a thinker who mediated in a singular manner between the Indian and European intellectual worlds. It pays tribute to his contribution to a philosophically differentiated and methodically reflected understanding of the history of Indian thought, especially the history of philosophy and the history of the intellectual meeting of India and Europe. ...
Paperback. Price US$143.00

The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor volume 2: The Excavation of Noen U-Loke and Non Muang Kao
by Charles F.W. Higham, A. Kijngam, and S. Talbot
Noen U-Loke and Non Muang Kao are two large, moated prehistoric settlements in Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Northeast Thailand. Excavations in 1997-8 revealed a cultural sequence that began in the late Bronze Age, followed by four mortuary phases covering the Iron Age. This report describes the palaeoenvironment, excavation, chronology and material culture, human remains and social structure of the prehistoric inhabitants of these two sites. It is ...
Hardback. Price US$150.00

Die Vermarktung der Taiga: Die Politische Ökologie der Nutzung von Nicht-Holz-Waldprodukten und Bodenschätzen in der Mongolei
by Jürgen Hartwig
On the example of the use and commercial exploitation of natural resources not connected to lumbering, this study traces the history of human-environment relations in Mongolia. From the time of Chengiz Khan through the Manchurian empire and socialism to the present day, this analysis covers a time span of over 800 years. German text. 436p (Franz Steiner 2007, Erdkundliches Wissen. Schriftenreihe für Forschung und Praxis 143)
Hardback. Price US$84.00

Early Riders: Beginnings of Mounted Warfare
by Robert Drews
In this wide-ranging and often controversial book, Robert Drews examines the question of the origins of man's relations with the horse. He questions the belief that on the Eurasian steppe men were riding in battle as early as 4000 BC, and suggests that it was not until around 900 BC that men anywhere - whether in the Near East and the Aegean or on the steppes of Asia - were proficient enough to handle a bow, sword or spear while on horseback. ...
Hardback. Price US$105.00

Piri Reis and Turkish Mapmaking after Columbus: The Khalili Portolan Atlas
by Svat Soucek
A detailed analysis of the Khalili Portolan Atlas.
194p. (Studies in the Khalili Collections 2, 1996)
Hardback. Price US$46.00

Traditional Recipes of Laos
by Phia Sing
Phia Sing was the Master of Ceremonies and Chef at the royal palace of Luang Prabang. He died in 1967. Phia Sing's notebooks containing these recipes were loaned to Alan Davidson, British ambassador in Vientiane in the early l970s, by the Crown Prince of Laos. Alan Davidson arranged for their translation and added much useful material explaining Lao foods and cookery. The text is ornamented by drawings, mainly by the Lao artist Soun Vannithone. ...
Paperback. Price US$17.95

Environmental Changes and Human Occupation in East Asia during OIS3 and OIS2 OIS2
edited by Akira Ono and Masami Izuho
The Japan Association for Quaternary Research (JAQUA) and the Geological Survey of Japan (GSJ), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), celebrated their 50th and 125th anniversaries, respectively, with an international ...
Paperback. Price US$72.00

The Archaeology of the Hellenistic Far East: A Survey
by Rachel Mairs
This book is intended as an introduction to the archaeology of the easternmost regions of Greek settlement in the Hellenistic period, from the conquests of Alexander the Great in the late fourth century BC, through to the last Greek-named kings of ...
Paperback. Price US$65.00