Dive into the richly diverse region of Southeast Asia! This social studies book details the growth and change happening throughout the eleven countries that make up Southeast Asia. From the mainland zone to the maritime zone, Southeast Asia is a beautiful and varied region. This teacher-approved book offers students the chance to understand the lives of people from Southeast Asia, including the history of indigenous peoples in the region. The book covers the geography, history, economics, and civics of Southeast Asia in an easy-to-follow way. With a glossary and index, meaningful discussion questions, and other engaging features, this book brings the wonders of Southeast Asia to life for students.
Explore the vast and varied continent of Asia! This social studies book describes the diverse governments, landscapes, and cultures of the world’s largest continent. Asia is home to billions of people and a kaleidoscope of cultures. This teacher-approved book provides students with the chance to understand life in Asia, including the history of indigenous peoples across the continent. The book covers the geography, history, economics, and civics of each of the 48 countries in Asia in an easy-to-use way. With a glossary and index, important discussion questions, and other key features, this book brings the wonders of Asia to life for students.
The enhanced edition of Asian Dumplings offers an enriched cookbook experience, including video guidance on key dumpling techniques combined with the convenience of having a portable learning tool at your fingertips. Shaping dumplings can be intimidating, so it’s no wonder that students in Andrea’s classes pay the most attention to her detailed and encouraging how-to demonstrations. With the enhanced Asian Dumplings ebook, you get an on-demand dumpling-making class in your own home that covers everything from entry-level shapes such as the half-moon and pea pod to the mesmerizing wrist swirl used to create Shanghai Spring Roll Skins. Featuring eleven videos that demystify dumpling shaping for cooks of all levels, the enhanced audio-visual component of Asian Dumplings brings Andrea into your kitchen to guide you through each master technique--any time, as many times as you need. Plump pot stickers, spicy samosas, and tender bāo (stuffed buns) are enjoyed by the million every day in dim sum restaurants, streetside stands, and private homes worldwide. Wrapped, rolled, or filled; steamed, fried, or baked–Asian dumplings are also surprisingly easy to prepare, as Andrea Nguyen demonstrates in Asian Dumplings. Nguyen is a celebrated food writer and teacher with a unique ability to interpret authentic Asian cooking styles for a Western audience. Her crystal-clear recipes for more than 75 of Asia’s most popular savory and sweet parcels, pockets, packages, and pastries range from Lumpia (the addictive fried spring rolls from the Philippines) to Shanghai Soup Dumplings (delicate thin-skinned dumplings filled with hot broth and succulent pork) to Gulab Jamun (India’s rich, syrupy sweets). Organized according to type (wheat pastas, skins, buns, and pastries; translucent wheat and tapioca preparations; rice dumplings; legumes and tubers; sweet dumplings), Asian Dumplings encompasses Eastern, Southeastern, and Southern Asia, with recipes from China, Japan, Korea, Nepal, Tibet, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Throughout, Nguyen shares the best techniques for shaping, filling, cooking, and serving each kind of dumpling. And she makes it easy to incorporate dumplings into a contemporary lifestyle by giving a thorough introduction to essential equipment and ingredients and offering make-ahead and storage guidance, time-saving shortcuts that still yield delectable results, and tips on planning a dumpling dinner party. More than 40 line drawings illustrate the finer points of shaping many kinds of dumplings, including gyōza/pot stickers, wontons, and samosas. Dozens of mouth-watering color photographs round out Asian Dumplings, making it the most definitive, inviting, inspiring book of its kind.
There’s new mystery in the neighborhood. Miss Puffy’s toy mouse is missing. Will Ick and Crud be blamed – or will the doggie duo solve the CATastrophic crime?
It's time for Ick and Crud to start school. But who is really learning the lessons? Bob or the boys? Readers will relate to the setbacks and successes of the first day at school.
Ick and Crud are surprised when to discover the first big snowfall of the season. It’s fun to play in the white fluffy stuff. But then Bob takes the boys to Mrs. Martin’s house to warm up. They can’t wait to get back to their cat-free home!
“A good read for anyone who wants to understand what actually determines whether a developing economy will succeed.” —Bill Gates, “Top 5 Books of the Year” An Economist Best Book of the Year from a reporter who has spent two decades in the region, and who the Financial Times said “should be named chief myth-buster for Asian business.” In How Asia Works, Joe Studwell distills his extensive research into the economies of nine countries—Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, and China—into an accessible, readable narrative that debunks Western misconceptions, shows what really happened in Asia and why, and for once makes clear why some countries have boomed while others have languished. Studwell’s in-depth analysis focuses on three main areas: land policy, manufacturing, and finance. Land reform has been essential to the success of Asian economies, giving a kick-start to development by utilizing a large workforce and providing capital for growth. With manufacturing, industrial development alone is not sufficient, Studwell argues. Instead, countries need “export discipline,” a government that forces companies to compete on the global scale. And in finance, effective regulation is essential for fostering, and sustaining growth. To explore all of these subjects, Studwell journeys far and wide, drawing on fascinating examples from a Philippine sugar baron’s stifling of reform to the explosive growth at a Korean steel mill. “Provocative . . . How Asia Works is a striking and enlightening book . . . A lively mix of scholarship, reporting and polemic.” —The Economist
