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    Rusty’s Silent Space Adventure: The Secret of Solar Snooze

    by Alan Nguyen ...
    Narrated by AI Voice Voice Ian Cartwell ...
    Series Audiobook 10.0 - The Adventures of Rusty the Robot

    Unabridged

    15 min

    This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Does your little explorer have too much energy when the stars come out?Meet Rusty, a curious little robot with springy legs and a heart made of starlight. Rusty lives on a glowing planet where the fun never ends, but even the most active robots need to recharge!"The Secret of Solar Snooze" is the first installment in the Rusty’s Cosmic Lullabies series—a ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Water Powers

    Sacred Aquatic Animals of the Asia-Pacific

    by Aike P. Rots, Florence Durney, Lindsey DeWitt Prat, Sonja Åman, Barbara R. Ambros, Darmanto Darmanto, Susan M. Darlington0, Georgina Drew1, Kathryn Dyt2, Fynn Holm3, Andrew Alan Johnson4, Tuan Anh Nguyen5, Evan Nicoll-Johnson6, Dr. Marius Palz7, Gerard Persoon8, Victoria C. Ramenzoni9, Veronica Walker Vadillo0 ...
    Water Powers is an interdisciplinary collection that presents timely, original research on sacred aquatic animals—from dragons and nagas to crocodiles, eels, dugongs, and whales—and environmental change. Contributors examine the past and present significance of these creatures in Nepal, India, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Japan, Okinawa, Indonesia, and Aotearoa-New Zealand to explore ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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    The Power of Sympathy (UNABRIDGED)

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    by William Hill Brown ...
    Narrated by Patricia Nguyen, Sharon Couey, Alan West, Jacqueline Rubio ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 11 min

    The Power of Sympathy was the first American novel, published in Boston in January 1789. An epistolary novel, it tells the tragic story of the relationship of an orphan girl and a man of good family, with a dramatic twist and tragic ending. It was inspired by an actual scandal in the Apthorp family of Boston, the "Ophelia" and "Martin" related within the story. It was published anonymously, and ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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    by Michael D. Coe, Damian Evans ...
    An authoritative survey of Angkor and the Khmer civilization which incorporates revelations from new discoveries in the past decade that are rewriting history.The ancient city of Angkor in Cambodia has fascinated scholars and visitors alike since its rediscovery in the mid-nineteenth century. All are wonderstruck by the beauty and multiplicity of the sculptures that adorn its temples and ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Perfect Order

    Recognizing Complexity in Bali

    by J. Stephen Lansing ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Complexity
    Along rivers in Bali, small groups of farmers meet regularly in water temples to manage their irrigation systems. They have done so for a thousand years. Over the centuries, water temple networks have expanded to manage the ecology of rice terraces at the scale of whole watersheds. Although each group focuses on its own problems, a global solution nonetheless emerges that optimizes irrigation ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Living House

    An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia

    by Roxana Waterson ...
    The Living House is a pioneering work by respected anthropologist Roxana Waterson that has become a classic in its field. It is first book of its kind to present a detailed picture of houses within the complex social and symbolic fabric of indigenous South-East Asian peoples.The main focus of the book is on Indonesia, but in tracing historical links between architectural forms across the region, ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Alchemy in the Rain Forest

    Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area

    by Jerry K. Jacka ...
    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    In Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea's highlands struggle to create meaningful lives in the midst of extreme social conflict and environmental degradation. Drawing on theories of political ecology, place, and ontology and using ethnographic, environmental, and historical data, Jacka presents a multilayered examination of the ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Everyday Life in Southeast Asia

    by Lorraine Aragon, Andrew Causey, Holly High, Judith Nagata, Harold C. Conklin, Hjorleifur Jonsson, John Clammer, Christina Schwenkel, Susan Darlington, Nancy Smith-Hefner, Katharine Wiegele, Pattana Kitiarsa, Sandra Cate, Nir Avieli, Shaun Kingsley Malarney, Elizabeth Traube, Eve Zucker, Chris Lyttleton, Robert Dentan, Anthony (Bah Tony) Williams-Hunt, Juli Edo, Michele Ford, Lenore Lyons, Gene Ammarell ...
    This lively survey of the peoples, cultures, and societies of Southeast Asia introduces a region of tremendous geographic, linguistic, historical, and religious diversity. Encompassing both mainland and island countries, these engaging essays describe personhood and identity, family and household organization, nation-states, religion, popular culture and the arts, the legacies of war and recovery, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk

    Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand

    by Justin McDaniel ...
    Stories centering on the lovelorn ghost (Mae Nak) and the magical monk (Somdet To) are central to Thai Buddhism. Historically important and emotionally resonant, these characters appeal to every class of follower. Metaphorically and rhetorically powerful, they invite constant reimagining across time.Focusing on representations of the ghost and monk from the late eighteenth century to the present, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Changing World of Bali

    Religion, Society and Tourism

    by Leo Howe ...
    Series series The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia
    The glossy guide book image of Bali is of a timeless paradise whose people are devoutly religious and artistically gifted. However, a hundred years of colonialism, war and Indonesian independence, and tourism have produced both modernizing changes and created an image of Bali as ‘traditional’.Incorporating up-to-date ethnographic field work the book investigates the myriad of ways in which the ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The Camphor Tree and the Elephant

    Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia

    by Faizah Zakaria, K. Sivaramakrishnan ...
    Series series Culture, Place, and Nature
    Uncovers a spiritual dimension in the transition to the AnthropoceneWhat is the role of religion in shaping interactions and relations between the human and nonhuman in nature? Why are Muslim and Christian organizations generally not a potent force in Southeast Asian environmental movements? The Camphor Tree and the Elephant brings these questions into the history of ecological change in the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Priests and Programmers

    Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali

    by J. Stephen Lansing ...
    For the Balinese, the whole of nature is a perpetual resource: through centuries of carefully directed labor, the engineered landscape of the island's rice terraces has taken shape. According to Stephen Lansing, the need for effective cooperation in water management links thousands of farmers together in hierarchies of productive relationships that span entire watersheds.Lansing describes the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD