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12/2005
No. 1
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Welcome to our first newsletter. We are a New Jersey-based
publisher and distributor of fine books on Asia, especially on
East Asia. We carry over 1,200 titles in all major categories
of Asian studies. In this holiday special, we offer free
gift items to our customers. For offer
detail, please click here.
Frankfurt and
"100 Books from Korea"
To participate in Frankfurt
Book Fair 2005 (October 19-23, Frankfurt, Germany) where Korea
is the Guest of Honor country, a committee of Korean experts selected
100 fiction and nonfiction books to be published in six languages.
The chosen works are representative of traditional as well as
modern Korean culture, and are deemed important to Korea and the
understanding of Korea. Of the 46 English titles, six were published
by Homa & Sekey Books in the area of Korean and Asian Studies.
Click
here to view the titles.
Frankfurt
Book Fair is the world¡¯s largest book fair, whose annul event
is attended by about 8,000 publishers and book industry professionals.
Click
here to visit its website.
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China's
Generation Y
First
English book to look into all aspects of China's young generation
-- their life styles, relationships with family and society,
views, dreams and development.
Hardcover and paperback available. |
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Price:
$45.00 |
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Dragons of China
To celebrate 2000 - the year of Dragon in the
lunar calendar, the album was published and displays various
kinds of art works on dragons.
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Price:
$59.50 |
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The
Tibetan Museum
The pictorial album depicts the first large-size
comprehensive modern museum in the Tibet autonomous region
which has a rich collection of cultural relics on Tibetan
history and culture starting from the prehistoric period.
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Price:
$35.20 |
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Dunhuang
Grottoes
Dunhuang Research Institute specialists have
selected the best of the cave¡¯s cultural relics and compiled
them into this album. |
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History and Civilization of China
The book traces the country's fate from pre-history
to the present age. It is divided chronologically into eleven
chapters. Hundreds of vivid photographs and illustrations
accompany the text. |
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Price:
$99.50 |
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Tibetan Paintings
The album comprises more than 90 representative
works by 11 Tibetan painters and one Naxi painter, encompassing
new Tibetan paintings, paintings on cloth (modern thangka),
woodblock prints and oil paintings. They depict a variety
of themes and reflect the consummate artistry of contemporary
Tibetan paintings. |
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Price:
$67.75 |
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Encounters
with Ancient Beijing: Its Legacy in Trees, Stone and Water
An interesting and informative account of many
of the architectural and landscape details of Beijing. The
pages are crammed with useful information about the city,
featuring interviews with what the author calls 'Unforgettable
People': ordinary Beijing folk who have some link with the
trees, stone and water of the city. |
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$37.75 |
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Communicate in Chinese
(in 4 volumes)
Price: $19.95/volume
The set of the book have 40 scenarios (each
volume contains 10) concentrating on spoken Chinese throuh
the characters' daily activities as presented in the situational
dialogues. Audio cassettes accompanying the books are also
available. |
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Price:
$1,195.00 |
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Compendium
of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) (In 6 Volumes)
Considered one of ancient China's key achievements
for its wealth of information on medicine, mineralogy, botany,
zoology, and natural science, Compendium of Materia Medica
covers the long period between remote antiquity and the Ming
dynasty when the book was first published in 1593.
This is first full English translation of the
entire Compendium of Materia Medica. It is a careful rendition
of the original text and explanatory notes place the contents
in the context of modern scientific research. |
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Price:
$63.00 |
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China's
Tibetan Medicine
Traditional Tibetan medicine, created by people
living on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, is becoming known worldwide.
This English monograph - the first of its kind ever published
in China - deals with the theoretical and practical aspects
of Tibetan medicine. |
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Price:
$37.95 |
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Chinese-English
Medical Dictionary
This dictionary is the result of a national
research project conducted at the Sun Yatsen Medical University.
It contains 140,000 medical entries, of which 9,000 very new
and not available in comparable dictionaries. This dictionary
is compiled on the basis of the standardization of English
translation of Chinese medical terminology. With standard
English pronunciation, indicating sources in etymology, anatomy,
medical subject headings, pharmacy, mental disorder, etc. |
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Gift
Offer Detail (Dec. 19-24, 2005)
The applicable gift item will be added to your order
automatically at shipping. You do not need to do anything about
it. The above free gift offer ends on December 24, 2005.
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