Asia/Pacific

EXIT into a World of Powerful and Engaging Experiences showcases 38 projects drawn from Pico's vast portfolio of work from around the globe. Innovative and sometimes breathtaking in their ambition, these project 'case studies' represent the full spectrum of experiential marketing - including events, exhibitions, themed environments and interiors - that comprise the immersive world of 'Total Brand Activation'.

Computer Aided Drawing software has changed the world of architecture dramatically. It now allows designers to create curvilinear buildings without hesitation. Consultants, builders and architects themselves are now pressured to seek innovative solutions and sketching techniques to compliment this new path. This book aims to teach designers on how to understand the procedures of complex sketching. It is not about how to sketch. It is to share Errol's approach, one which may seem difficult and one that oftentimes permeates subtle visions within the captured sketch.

This multimedia publication brings together, for the first time, song texts, audio recordings, and a documentary video on muk'yu and the singer Uncle Ng. The song texts have been transcribed into Chinese and translated into English. Two essays provide background material on the singer and the songs; the third reminisces on the hardships faced by early Chinese American immigrants.

Mermaid only appears in legends because she is neither human nor fish. Nella the mermaid is unhappy and she meets a pink dolphin in the ocean. This encounter changes her. A story with an appeal to nature and environmental care.

From the onset of industrialization, first in Europe and North America and then in the Southern hemisphere, to today's neoliberal, developer-driven global city, the history of urban transformation processes unfolds as a sequence of critical situations. Gardening and informal settling are indicative of these crises. Taking root from below, these self-organized, self-help practices are dynamic and inspiring agencies of change.

this room is not still is a monograph of works by Ivy Ma. With essays and interviews by colleagues and cultural writers, generously illustrated with documentations of her installation, photographic works to palimpsest drawings, this catalogue explores Ma's art in six different themes over a decade.

The Americans Kouzes and Posner have expounded their Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership for some 25 years. Here they draw on case material and other experience to discuss and demonstrate how their ideas have been successfully applied in Asian companies and other contexts. Reading list.

Perfect for book clubs, Mr Chen's Emporium is an enchanting historical love story, as East meets West in a sleepy NSW gold rush town. In 1872, seventeen-year-old Amy Duncan arrives in the Gold Rush town of Millbrooke, having spent the coach journey daydreaming about glittering pavilions and gilded steeples. What she finds is a dusty main street lined with ramshackle buildings. That is until she walks through the doors of Mr Chen's Emporium, a veritable Aladdin's cave, and her life changes forever. Though banned from the store by her dour clergyman father, Amy is entranced by its handsome owner, Charles Chen. This is a mesmerising story of forbidden love and following one's heart.

Within the pages of this book lies the diary of a girl called Nao. Riding the waves of a tsunami, it is making its way across the ocean. It will change the life of the person who finds it. It might just change yours, too.

Julie Otsuka's second novel - winner of the Pen Faulkner Award for Fiction 2012 - tells a powerful story of a group of Japanese immigrants on their journey to America for marriage. Julie Otsuka tells their extraordinary, heartbreaking story in this spellbinding and poetic account of strangers lost and alone in a new and deeply strange land.

Brilliant new budget cookbook series, each with 45 stunning recipes giving step-by-step instructions and ingredients list.

Brilliant new budget cookbook series, each with 45 stunning recipes giving step-by-step instructions and ingredients list.

Brilliant new budget cookbook series, each with 45 stunning recipes giving step-by-step instructions and ingredients list.

Brilliant new budget cookbook series, each with 45 stunning recipes giving step-by-step instructions and ingredients list.

Brilliant new budget cookbook series, each with 45 stunning recipes giving step-by-step instructions and ingredients list.

More popular than ever, oriental food is healthy, can be prepared very quickly and tastes wonderful. Combining some of the best recipes from Thai, Chinese and Indian cookery, Taste of Asia gives a single, well-designed and easy to follow source for your favourite spicy dishes.

The 2013 edition of The Miele Guide features 500 restaurants across 17 Asian countries: Brunei, Cambodia, China (including Hong Kong and Macau), India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. The Miele Guide 2013 edition lists the Top 5 restaurants for each country in the guide. There is also the new inclusion of box stories into the guide, to give a more holistic view of the dining scenes in these Asian cities. Richard Ekkebus, Culinary Director of The Landmark Mandarin Oriental, writes about his personal top 5 local dining haunts in Hong Kong, and the 5 hidden gems in Tokyo according to Chef Trevor Blyth from White Fox. There are stories on the recent trend of temple cuisine in Korea, the truth behind China's farmed caviar and where to find Kuala Lumpur's favourite bowl of bak kut teh.

Pipeline is an independent art magazine based in Hong Kong with editorial content open to international themes and a regional gallery calendar at the back. The publication serves as a brainstorming platform for artists, art researchers, curators and art lovers, with an open mind and room for dialogue, committed to serious art making but not elitist. Some issues offer a playground for artists and experimental initiatives. All issues aim at linking different contemporary art practices across regions. Pipeline is published six times a year.

The Joy Luck Club was formed of four Chinese women recently moved to San Francisco who meet to eat dim sum, play mah-jong and to share stories. Forty years on they and their daughters tell wise and witty tales of hope, loss, family and history. Spanning pre-Revolutionary China to 1980s San Francisco, the women talk as secrets are spilled, mothers boast and despair and daughters struggle with tangled truths.

These 29 papers are selected from those given at the 2011 Kuala Lumpur 2nd Asia Pacific Dance Conference which explored Dance Hybridity. Three preliminary papers offer different perspectives on hybridity in dance and its historical and contemporary presentation. Twenty-four case studies from Southeast Asia/Pacific and other contexts follow. Three writers contribute to the Epilogue which explores aspects of hybridity in performance, research and dance writing. With biographical summaries, black-and-white photo insets and index.