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Author : Richard West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Thailand, the Last Domino written by Richard West and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charlie Plumb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Last Domino? written by Charlie Plumb and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arne Kislenko
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313058385
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Culture and Customs of Thailand written by Arne Kislenko and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-05-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thailand is rapidly industrializing, dramatically improving the living standards of its people, and gradually developing a more democratic society. Despite such profound changes, traditional Thai culture has not only survived, but has also, in many respects, prospered. Although famous for its food, and despite its increasing popularity as a tourist destination, Thailand remains relatively unknown to most Westerners. Culture and Customs of Thailand presents the traditional culture and customs against the backdrop of modern times. Thailand has always been an important Southeast Asian country. With a long-reigning monarchy, it is the only country in the region that has never been colonized by a Western power or suffered bloody revolutions and wars. It was the first Asian country to establish diplomatic relations with the United States, and has remained a constant ally. Thailand has emerged as a considerable economic force as the world's largest rice and rubber producer and remains a regional political power. Against this historical framework, Kislenko deftly introduces the traditional and modern strands of the dominant Buddhist faith and other religions, such as animism. Coverage includes literature, the arts, architecture-including the Thai Wat-food and dress, gender and marriage, festivals and fun, and social customs. Kislenko also balances the portrait with discussions of threats from globalization, AIDS and sex tourism, the drug trade, and corruption in business and government. Evocative photos, a country map, a timeline, and a chronology complete the coverage. This reference is the best source for students and general readers to gain substantial, sweeping insight into the Thais and their land of smiles.
Author : Pavin Chachavalpongpun
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9814279196
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Reinventing Thailand written by Pavin Chachavalpongpun and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2010 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 2001 to 2006, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra transformed Thailand's international role from one of obscurity into a kind of regional hegemon. Thaksin's diplomatic ambitions were reflected in his myriad of grandiose foreign policy initiatives, designed to locate Thailand at the forefront of regional politics and reinstall the Thai sphere of influence over weaker neighbouring states. He abolished the traditional bending-with-the-wind foreign policy, revamped the Thai Foreign Ministry, and empowered Thai envoys through the CEO Ambassadors programme. But in this process, Thaksin was accused of exploiting foreign policy to enrich his business empire. Thaksin's reinvention of Thailand as an up-and-coming regional power was therefore tainted by conflicts of interest and the absence of ethical principles in the country's foreign policy.
Author : Compiled by Sarah Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351958399
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Anderson’s Travel Companion written by Compiled by Sarah Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of the best in travel writing, with both fiction and non-fiction presented together, this companion is for all those who like travelling, like to think about travelling, and who take an interest in their destination. It covers guidebooks as well as books about food, history, art and architecture, religion, outdoor activities, illustrated books, autobiographies, biographies and fiction and lists books both in and out of print. Anderson's Travel Companion is arranged first by continent, then alphabetically by country and then by subject, cross-referenced where necessary. There is a separate section for guidebooks and comprehensive indexes. Sarah Anderson founded the Travel Bookshop in 1979 and is also a journalist and writer on travel subjects. She is known by well-known travel writers such as Michael Palin and Colin Thubron. Michael Palin chose her bookshop as his favourite shop and Colin Thubron and Geoffrey Moorhouse, among others, made suggestions for titles to include in the Travel Companion.
Author : David Koh Wee Hock
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9812304681
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Legacies of World War II in South and East Asia written by David Koh Wee Hock and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2007 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates how the political and social fallout from the World War II is still alive and divisive in South and East Asia.
Author : Tim Forsyth
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295800259
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers written by Tim Forsyth and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this far-reaching examination of environmental problems and politics in northern Thailand, Tim Forsyth and Andrew Walker analyze deforestation, water supply, soil erosion, use of agrochemicals, and biodiversity in order to challenge popularly held notions of environmental crisis. They argue that such crises have been used to support political objectives of state expansion and control in the uplands. They have also been used to justify the alternative directions advocated by an array of NGOs. In official and alternative discourses of economic development, the peoples living in Thailand's hill country are typically cast as either guardians or destroyers of forest resources, often depending on their ethnicity. Political and historical factors have created a simplistic, misleading, and often scientifically inaccurate environmental narrative: Hmong farmers, for example, are thought to exhibit environmentally destructive practices, whereas the Karen are seen as linked to and protective of their ancestral home. Forsyth and Walker reveal a much more complex relationship of hill farmers to the land, to other ethnic groups, and to the state. They conclude that current explanations fail to address the real causes of environmental problems and unnecessarily restrict the livelihoods of local people. The authors' critical assessment of simplistic environmental narratives, as well as their suggestions for finding solutions, will be valuable in international policy discussions about environmental issues in rapidly developing countries. Moreover, their redefinition of northern Thailand's environmental problems, and their analysis of how political influences have reinforced inappropriate policies, demonstrate new ways of analyzing how environmental science and knowledge are important arenas for political control. This book makes valuable contributions to Thai studies and more generally to the fields of environmental science, ecology, geography, anthropology, and political science, as well as to policy making and resource management in the developing world.
Author : James I Jouppi
Publisher : Liberty Hill Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781662813016
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Nakhon Phanom written by James I Jouppi and published by Liberty Hill Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-03 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After graduating with Cornell's civil engineering class of 1971 and a five-week stint as a taxi driver in New York City, Jim Jouppi shipped out for a Peace Corps adventure in Thailand. After completing his two-year tour, he was ready to go back home when, after meeting a flirtatious Thai jownatee, he decided to take a home leave and return for one more year. Upon his return to Thailand, he found himself immersed in a very personal dilemma while trying to escape the confluence of Thai government, Peace Corps, and counterinsurgency politics in the Communist sensitive province where he was stationed. Jouppi was later employed in America as an engineer-in-training, carpenter apprentice, refugee worker, and postal worker, spent three years in the Army as a medic, and earned a master's degree in tropical public health civil engineering in England. His first sustained attempt at memoir writing was critiqued by the late Dr. John Shade of the Pearl S. Buck Foundation in 1979 as "a statement of the times which has to be presented as other than the truth because too many people are not ready for the truth." His self-published Peace Corps survival manual was later critiqued by Buckminster Fuller protégée James (Jay) Baldwin as "part of your basic homework if you are considering the Peace Corps or any other government-sponsored assistance program." Prior to writing this latest version of his memoir, he learned as much as possible from people with different perspectives in an effort to understand the larger mosaic. He concludes with a plan for a post-pandemic Peace Corps with enhanced pre-training; independent, so far as is possible, from American Intelligence, a Peace Corps which can build on its sixty-year history and continue to be a viable vocational option for Americans into the future.
Author : N Ganesan
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9814620416
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Bilateral Legacies in East and Southeast Asia written by N Ganesan and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume examines the concept of overhangs or legacies or negative stereotypical images in international relations and their impact on bilateral relations between geographically proximate states in East Asia. The case studies chosen — Japan-Korea, Japan-China, Vietnam-China, Thailand-Myanmar and Thailand-Cambodia — demonstrate conclusively that bilateral overhangs or legacies have a significant impact on contemporary international relations. Such images are regularly replicated and stoked by a variety of constituencies including state agencies for their own selfish interests. The evidence also points to the fact that such bilateral relationships are relatively self-contained and often operate with their own dynamics. Powerful condensation symbols are appropriated to weave a story of the virtuous self and the stereotypical other. This negative image and its replication is important to an understanding of turbulent bilateral relations in East Asia and also helps to inform how such relations can be brought to an even keel.
Author : Thomas N. Wisley
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 197366657X
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (736 download)
Download or read book Living on the Edge written by Thomas N. Wisley and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2019-07-10 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living on the Edge is risky advice for living an adventurous life. I begin with a brief sketch about my life and the influences that took me in the direction it did. I discuss communication models and paradigms that have helped me live in cross-cultural risky environments. I learned to validate people without endorsing values that are counter to my own. I’ve learned how to create a space to put things I haven’t understood or about which I didn’t yet have enough information to make an informed decision. I’ve learned that it’s not a bad thing to be a “child of the light” in times of darkness. These and more comprise advice, some of it risky, I’d like to give my millennial friends. I suggest that God is the great Recycler and that he doesn’t make junk, and there’s more.
Author : Pavin Chachavalpongpun
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9814459607
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book "Good Coup" Gone Bad written by Pavin Chachavalpongpun and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did the 2006 military coup show us? It demonstrated that the crux of the Thai crisis is far more serious and much wider in scope than had previously been thought. The monarchy is surely not a victim in the protracted conflict, but the root cause and continuing factor that has eroded Thai politics. The coup set in motion more prejudicial uses of the lèse-majesté law, and in the process, has led to more political prisoners. It has also shredded the military into several segments, turning generals into desperate royalists who continue to live off the monarchy in order to survive. Issues of violence in the Thai south and the Thai-Cambodian dispute became greatly intensified in the age of militarized politics. The coup also produced unique colour-coded politics and created crises of legitimacy. This book is a collection of essays that reflect developments in Thai politics in the post-coup period.
Author : Paul Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781858283418
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Thailand written by Paul Gray and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Thomas Cook Best Guidebook Award, this Rough Guide covers one of Asia's most popular destinations in incredible detail. It offers sensitive, practical advice on everything from trekking in the northern hills to diving in the waters of the Andaman Sea. From comfortable Bangkok hotels to raft houses on the River Kwai, the listings have something for every budget. 12 pages of color photos and 64 maps.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Thailand, Domino by Default? written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dittmer Lowell
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814464589
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Burma Or Myanmar? The Struggle For National Identity written by Dittmer Lowell and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010-10-20 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burma, also known as Myanmar, strategically located between China and India, is one of the largest and most richly endowed states in Southeast Asia. Yet it remains both economically and politically underdeveloped. Why is this so? We argue that much of the reason has to do with an ongoing struggle for national identity. This struggle involves not only whether the state should be authoritarian or democratic, but how Burma's myriad ethnic minorities should be accommodated within it, what external reference national reference groups the country should identify and align with, and how it should move forward. Identity formation normally occurs much earlier in the national developmental process, but Burma has had unusually intransigent problems that were never successfully resolved during the colonial period and have simply been suppressed by force since then. This protracted divisiveness has stunted the nation's modernization and growth.Written from a unique perspective, this book on Myanmar deviates from the traditional authoritarian versus democratic rhetoric. Although that is certainly part of the picture, this multifaceted analysis focuses rather on the issue of identity formation — an issue that has all too often failed to make the headlines. Much can be learned from Myanmar's identity problems, making this book essential reading for all students and professionals interested in development studies or comparative politics. By whatever name, Burma is not only a fascinating country but one likely to play an increasingly vital role in Asia's future.
Author : Malcolm Booker
Publisher : Sydney : Collins
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Last Domino written by Malcolm Booker and published by Sydney : Collins. This book was released on 1976 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Thailand Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 880 pages
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Download or read book Thailand, Indochina & Burma Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
