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Nepal Women in Culture, Business & Travel
World Trade Press 2010; US$ 7.45Women often occupy different roles in a foreign culture. Avoid offensive assumptions and behavior by understanding the position of women in Nepalese society: their legal rights; access to education and health care; workforce participation; and their dating, marriage, and family life. more...
New Nepal
SAGE India 2010; US$ 24.95This book analyses the tumultuous situation in post-republic Nepal, with spot diagnosis of the major issues facing the country such as federal structure, security sector reform, armed movement in the terai, and religious clashes that have wide implications for India and China. While there is no disagreement over the issue of state restructuring itself,... more...
The Rough Guide to Nepal
Rough Guides 2009; US$ 24.99A new edition of the Rough Guide to Nepal , ranging from the easternmost tea hills of Ilam to the grasslands of the Far West, from Tibet to the Indian Border and from Everest to Kathmandu Valley. There are in-depth accounts of all the attractions, from Hindu temples and Buddhist stupas to wildlife reserves and spectacular mountain viewpoints. For... more...
Snake Lake
Counterpoint 2010; US$ 28.00In a circular valley beneath the looming peaks of the Himalaya lies Kathmandu, Nepal. It?s a city of shimmering prayer flags, sacred cows, lavish festivals, and violent political turbulence?and a world that journalist Jeff Greenwald has come to call home. Snake Lake unfolds during 1990?s dramatic ?people power? uprising against Nepal?s long-entrenched... more...
High Frontiers
Columbia University Press 2010; US$ 44.99An ethnographic and ecological history of Dolpo, a culturally Tibetan region in western Nepal that is home to some of the highest villages on earth; almost ninety percent of the region lies above 10,000 feet in elevation. Its inhabitants wrest survival from this inhospitable landscape by creatively exploiting agriculture, animal husbandry, and trade.... more...
A Beard In Nepal 2
John Hunt Publishing 2012; US$ 7.99The Major Arcana's Fool was reincarnated in 1961 into a council house scheme in Glasgow.. a Weegie! What a journey! more...
Sherpas
University of California Press 1990; US$ 12.95James Fisher combines the strengths of technical anthropology, literary memoir, and striking photography in this telling study of rapid social change in Himalayan Nepal. The author first visited the Sherpas of Nepal when he accompanied Sir Edmund Hilary on the Himalayan Schoolhouse Expedition of 1964. Returning to the Everest region several times during... more...
Nepal and Bangladesh
ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 55.00Often overshadowed on the world stage by issues surrounding India and Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh are nonetheless vital players in the theatre of Asia. This volume brings a refreshing level of clarity to a wide variety of topics surrounding both nations. more...
DK Eyewitness Books: Everest
Dorling Kindersley 2001; US$ 15.99Here is an original and exciting new guide to the enthralling challenges of life and death on the world''s greatest mountain ranges. Spectacular, full-color photographs of secret mountain kingdoms and scenes of courageous climbers as they conquer the summits present an inspiring "eyewitness" view of the majesty of mountains. See castles among the... more...









