Subjects:  1. Cross-cultural studies    2. Government policy    3. International Relations - General    4. Military - Other    5. Political Freedom & Security - International Secur    6. Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism    7. Political Science    8. Politics / Current Events    9. Politics/International Relations    10. Prevention    11. Terrorism    12. Egypt    13. France    14. Germany    15. History / Military / Other    16. International relations    17. Italy    18. Sri Lanka    19. Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle    20. USA   

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Good Introduction with photos, illustrations and facts
I was searching for a good book on India, with a historical bent, as a gift for a friend here in the US. This book provides a very good introduction with pictures, illustrations and relevant facts. The book provides a general outline of history and more importantly also introduces the reader to the general mindset & prevailing conditions ("cultural atlas") in India. It also provides some basic information on the states and neighbouring countries like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bhutan & Burma. Excellent reference book!
As an Indian, I'm wary when "outsiders" put together a book on my country, but this book is exceptional.It gives facts and general descriptions of anything and everything when one thinks of India.Lots ofpictures makes it an easy read.Worth every penny.This is the bookteachers in America should use when trying to give an overview on INDIA. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Asia - India & South Asia    2. Atlases    3. Civilization    4. Culture    5. India    6. Maps    7. Reference    8. Sociology    9. Sociology - General    10. Asian / Middle Eastern history    11. Bhutan    12. Cultural studies    13. Nepal    14. Pakistan    15. Reference works    16. Social history   

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Only book we needed
We bought a second reference because it's hard to know which plates will help amateurs like us identify the species in a place we've not previously visited. However, with the plates, the maps, and the generally brief, but accurate descriptions, this was the only book we needed to quickly identify the over 100 species we spotted on our trip. The soft cover made it easier to stuff into one of our binocular bags.

The birder's companion to India
Going to India? BUY THIS BOOK. Truly a definitive guide to the birds of India, absolutely user-friendly in the field. Accurate slates and distribution diagrams will help you determine, very briskly, the bird you are looking at. This is important in India because there are tons of birds. Morphological and behavioural characteristics are also defined in this intense field guide. Importantly, this is easy to access, it doesn't make you bounce back and forth 3 times from the slate. Pointers on the slate also help you to quickly make distinctions between similar birds. This field guide makes birding fun and an ease. Colourful slates, smart layout, if only all field guides could be this good.

At long last...
Finally, a complete, comphrensive FIELD guide to the birds of India! Gone are the days of hauling 2 or 3 hardcover bird books to the subcontinent just to be able to identify relatively common species. The drawings in thisbook are excellent, the descriptions very detailed, and the range maps veryhelpful. My two criticisms are that birders familiar with the common namesin Salim Ali's "The Book of Indian Birds" will be confused withthe revised nomenclature in this guide (based on the Inskipp's IndianChecklist); some changes are relatively minor, while others are sodramatically different (and frankly puzzling) that cross-referencing is achore. The second involves the seperation of many of the range maps fromthe plates and descriptions, sometimes by many pages. This was due to thelarge number of species featured on some plates- there just wasn't enoughroom for the maps also. A better strategy might have been to put them allin the back of the book. But the benefits of this book far outweigh theshortcomings- my next trip to India promises to be more rewarding andproductive bird-wise (as well as easier on my back)due to this excellentand overdue field guide. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Birds    2. Birds & Birdwatching - General    3. Birds & Birdwatching - Guides    4. Identification    5. India    6. Nature    7. Nature/Ecology    8. Ornithology    9. Pictorial works    10. Biological Sciences    11. Birds and Natural History    12. Nature / Birds & Birdwatching   

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Disappointed As Well
I have to concur with the first reviewer, this book was a big disappointment.I was looking for a resource that would allow me to identify mammals in the field.This book does not do that.If you have even the most rudimentary knowledge of animals (e.g. you can identify an elephant) then you can probably get by without this book.
Quite Disappointed
I found this book to be overall pretty disappointing.First off, the illustrations are horrible.They look like children's cartoon drawings.Why don't the editors of mammal-books hire the same artists who do bird guides?The latter are generally really good. Good field guide - bad entertainment
This book covers the land mammals of the Indian Subregion or in other words it cover: India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan. However, it also does exclude the smaller and often inconspicious mammals like baths, schrews, and most rodents. A number of small but often conspicious mammals are included. For instance both squirrels and pikas are included. In total it depicts and describes 106 species in deatail. It starts in the typical manner with an introduction to the region, mammals, and mammal observing. This section is highly usefull to the unexperienced reader, but will probably seem quite borring to most, as it is short and only mentiones the most bassal things. The next fourty pages is devoted to the mammal species themselves. This means that there is 2-3 species per page. About each species the book descibes identification, habitat, range (no range maps!), behavior, diet, breeding, status, and similar species. The text is not for pleasure reading, but it is highly usefull in the field. A thing to remember - not mentioned in the book - is that the status refers to subregion only, not the intire world. An example is the Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) which is described as endangered. The next pages are assigned to 12 colour plates with drawings of the mammals. The drawings are not especialy beautiful, but all the important details usefull in identification are remembered. The next 12 plates are devoted to animal tracks. The last third of the book describes 23 national parks/reserves in the region including the famous Chitwan NP and Sunderbars NP. These pages are the highlight of the book. In this part there is a map of each park and a quite thorrow descibtion of acces, accomodation facilities, season to go there, larger mammals of the area etc. Sadly similar chapters in other books have been shown to go quickly out of date. At the end of the book there is a chapter called "futher reading" which obviously seems equal to bibliograpy. Read more

Subjects:  1. Guidebooks    2. Identification    3. Mammals    4. Nature    5. Nature/Ecology    6. South Asia    7. Wildlife    8. Wildlife viewing sites    9. Wildlife watching    10. Bangladesh    11. Bhutan    12. Biological Sciences    13. Birds and Natural History    14. India    15. Nature / Mammals    16. Nepal    17. Pakistan    18. Sri Lanka    19. Wild animals    20. Zoos & wildlife parks   

Subjects:  1. Art    2. Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900    3. Cultural studies    4. Furniture & cabinetmaking    5. History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800    6. History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900    7. India    8. Sri Lanka    9. c 1700 to c 1800    10. c 1800 to c 1900   

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - Cultural    2. Anthropology - General    3. Archaeology / Anthropology    4. Economic Conditions    5. Economic aspects    6. Ethnic conflict    7. Social Science    8. Sociology    9. Sri Lanka    10. War    11. War and society    12. Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -    13. Asian studies   

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Slightly Flawed But Excellent
Let me first say that both volumes in the Bloody Shambles series are excellent and far superior to ANY other text on the subject of air warfare in the first six months of the Pacific War that I've ever seen.
invaluable for the historian
Christopher Shores is an international treasure, a man who has made it his task to suss out the truth about aerial combats in far corners of the globe, usually with the assistance of a fellow historian or two from the countries most involved. In this particular case, he is one of the few who have accessed Japanese records, and he compares them with Allied accounts on a day-by-day basis. This is great stuff, especially for those of us who already know something about the campaigns. My particular interest is the Flying Tigers of Burma, and I was delighted to have Shores's version, especially since he gives equal time to the RAF squadrons that fought alongside the AVG. But I confess that it took a great deal of concentration for me to slog through the Philippines campaign, about which I knew very little. So my conclusion is this: the more you know already, the more you will learn from this account. -- Dan Ford

Christopher Shores/Brain Cull
This book, yet another in the wonderful series of air war accounts done by Christopher Shores and Brian Cull is a great review of the early air war in the Pacific Theater. Mr. Shores and Mr. Cull use interviews with the participants as well as the actual unit reports to bring an idea of the constant struggle that the air war represented. Rather than being dry, these books are easy to read and a great resource. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Aerial Operations    2. Asia, Southeastern    3. Campaigns    4. History - Military / War    5. History, Military    6. History: World    7. Military - World War II    8. Military History - World War II    9. Southeast Asia    10. World War, 1939-1945    11. Air forces & warfare    12. Asian / Middle Eastern history: Second World War    13. Australasian & Pacific history: Second World War    14. Australia    15. Europe    16. European history: Second World War    17. History / Military / Aviation    18. Myanmar (Burma)    19. Philippines    20. Second World War, 1939-1945    21. Sri Lanka    22. War & defence operations   

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Comprehensive and excellent, but not a field guide
Ali and Ripley's masterwork cannot be touched in terms of the completeness of individual descriptions, but this volume is amazing in that it draws together all the subcontinent's spp. into one book. Even so, the tome istoo heavy to carry to the field. The taxonomy is updated, as is the specieslist. The colour illustrations are of a very high quality; my quibble isthat the individual species are too small to be very useful. The maps areminiscule and that limits their utility; the use of two colours would havehelped under the circumstances. Otherwise, this book is a long-awaitedtreasure.

The best guide forthe birds of the Indian Subcontinent.
Simply the best available guide to the birds of the Indian Subcontinent. Subcontinental birders have long awaited a comphrehensive guide to the birds of this region. The best available book on birds of Indian subcontinent.
This is the best one-volume book on the market at this time.It has very good illustrations and good species accounts that include excellent range maps. It is the only book of one volume that covers all the birds of theIndian subcontinent with this quality of illustration.The range maps arevery good and there is an adequate amount of information about each bird. It's too heavy to take into the field on your trip to India, but it is anexcellent reference. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Birds    2. Birds & Birdwatching - General    3. Birds & Birdwatching - Guides    4. Identification    5. Nature    6. Nature/Ecology    7. Ornithology    8. Reference    9. South Asia    10. Biological Sciences    11. Birds (ornithology)    12. Birds and Natural History    13. India    14. Nature / Birds & Birdwatching    15. Nepal    16. Pakistan   

Subjects:  1. Art    2. Art & Art Instruction    3. Asian    4. Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum    5. General    6. Art / History / Asian    7. California    8. Exhibition catalogues and specific collections    9. Oriental art    10. South East Asia    11. Sri Lanka   

Subjects:  1. General    2. History    3. History: World    4. Satanism & demonology    5. Sri Lanka    6. Wicca   

Subjects:  1. Art of indigenous peoples    2. History of specific subjects    3. Painting & paintings    4. Sri Lanka   

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a key part of the Cold War elucidated
Gray's book does a masterful job of elucidating a key part of the Cold War.In looking at the Cold War in Europe,historians, both academic and popular/armchair, often overlook what America's allies were doing as they fought their own fronts in the larger Cold War.While NATO allies like Britain, Germany, and Italy were loyal supporters of the U.S., and they played a role in Washington's strategy, they also had their own agendas.Nowhere was this more important than in West Germany.
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Subjects:  1. 1945-    2. Economic policy    3. Europe - Germany    4. Foreign relations    5. General    6. Germany (East)    7. Germany (West)    8. Hallstein, Walter,    9. History    10. History: World    11. International Relations - General    12. Politics / Current Events    13. Recognition (International law)    14. World politics    15. East Germany, DDR    16. European history: postwar, from c 1945 -    17. Germany    18. Hallstein, Walter    19. History / Germany    20. International relations    21. West Germany    22. West Germany; Hallstein Doctrine; East Germany; Konrad Adenauer; Walter Ulbricht; German identity; German nationalism; Cold War; Third World; Ludwig Erhard; Willy Brandt; Ostpolitik; Yugoslavia; Egypt; Syria; Iraq; Guinea; Ghana; Tanzania; India; Indonesia; Ceylon; Cambodia    23. c 1945 to c 1960    24. c 1960 to c 1970   

Subjects:  1. Asia - General    2. General    3. History    4. History - Military / War    5. History: World    6. India    7. Military - Strategy    8. Pakistan    9. Sri Lanka    10. Terrorism    11. Urban warfare    12. Non-Classifiable    13. Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle   

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Asia - General    3. Asia - Southeast Asia    4. Buddhism    5. Buddhism - History    6. Eastern - Buddhism    7. Eastern - General    8. Ethnic conflict    9. History    10. Just war doctrine    11. Philosophy    12. Religion - World Religions    13. Religious aspects    14. Social aspects    15. Sri Lanka    16. Philosophy / Eastern    17. Warfare & Defence   

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Exploring the power of non-violent social transformation
Buddhism At Work: Community Development, Social Empowerment, And The Sarvodaya Movement by George D. Bond examines how the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement in Sri Lanka has sought to enlighten society through Buddhist and Gandhian ideals. Exploring the power of non-violent social transformation and the enduring strength of grassroots efforts, Buddhism At Work offers contemporary readers with a moving testimony to the positive power of collective will and labor. Buddhism At Work is a core addition to any dedicated Buddhist Studies personal reading list or academic library collection. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Buddhism    2. Buddhism - General    3. Buddhism - History    4. Buddhism and social problems    5. Community development    6. General    7. Lanka Jatika Sarvodaya Shramad    8. Religion    9. Religion - World Religions    10. Religious aspects    11. Sarvodaya movement    12. Sri Lanka    13. Social groups & communities   

Subjects:  1. Asia - General    2. Asia - India & South Asia    3. General    4. History    5. History - General History    6. History: World    7. Sri Lanka    8. Asian / Middle Eastern history    9. History / Asia   

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - Cultural    2. Ethnic relations    3. History: World    4. Politics and government    5. Sociology    6. Sri Lanka    7. Asian / Middle Eastern history    8. Revolutions & coups    9. Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural   

Subjects:  1. 1978-    2. Ethnic relations    3. Government - Comparative    4. Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights    5. Political Science    6. Political aspects    7. Politics and government    8. Politics/International Relations    9. Sri Lanka    10. Political Science / General    11. Political control & freedoms    12. Sri Lankan Ethnic Crisis: Towards a Resolution,R.B. Herath,1-55369-793-6,02-0606,Sri Lanka,Politics of Sri Lanka,Tamil separatist war,Sinhala-Tamil conflict,Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam,History of Sri Lanka,Tranformation of Buddhism in Sri Lanka,Buddh   

Subjects:  1. 1978-    2. Asia - India & South Asia    3. Ethnology    4. History - General History    5. Minority Studies - General    6. Philosophy    7. Political Ideologies - Democracy    8. Political violence    9. Politics and government    10. Social Science    11. Sociology    12. Sri Lanka    13. POLITICS & GOVERNMENT    14. Social Science / Minority Studies   

Subjects:  1. Asian / Middle Eastern history    2. India    3. Regional geography    4. Sri Lanka