Thailand and Laos
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I Little Slave: A Prison Memoir from Communist Laos
by Bounsang Khamkeo  Synopsis Seized by the Laotian communists in the wake of the 1975 revolution, Bounsang Khamkeo survived more than seven years in prison under extremely harsh conditions before he was finally released during the communist thaw of the 1980s. Told with dignity and...
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Calling in the Soul: Gender and the Cycle of Life in a Hmong Village
by Patricia V. Symonds Synopsis "Calling in the Soul" ("Hit Plig) is the chant the Hmong use to guide the soul of a newborn into its body on the third day after birth. Based on extensive original research conducted in the late 1980s in a village in northern "Thailand, this ethnographic...
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A History of Thailand
by Christopher Baker Publisher Comments This lively, accessible book is the first new history of Thailand in English for two decades....
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Field, forest, and family :women's work and power in rural Laos
by Carol Ireson Publisher Comments After the Vietnam War, socialist governments ascended to power in all the countries of the former Indochina. In Laos, more than a decade of socialist reorganization was followed by economic liberalization in the late 1980s. Laotian women had...
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Wave of Destruction: The Stories of Four Families and History's Deadliest Tsunami
by Erich Krauss Publisher Comments This exquisitely written book puts a human face on the tragedy of last year’s Southeast Asian tsunami through the heartbreaking and heroic stories of four who survived this cataclysmic natural disaster Erich Krauss arrived in the Thai village of...
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Bangkok: Angelic Allusions
by Barry Bell Publisher Comments Cities today, especially those undergoing rapid growth and transformation, seem to defy traditional principles of urbanism and urban analysis. Bangkok, the City of Angels, the capital of Thailand, and an international metaphor of development gone wrong...
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Wild Thailand
by Belinda Stewart Cox Publisher Comments Photographs by Gerald CubittWild Thailand is the fifth volume in a series celebrating the earth's great wilderness areas, illustrated by one of the world's leading natural history photographers. Like its companion volumes on Indonesia, India, Malaysia...
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Harvesting Pa Chay's Wheat (00 Edition)
by Keith Quincy Synopsis America's secret war in Laos from the mid-1950s to the early 1980s sounds like the stuff of conspiracy theories, but it actually happened. Keith Quincy uncovers the secret war America denied for over 30 years. From the Hmong's war of independence with...
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Thailand: A Travel Adventure
by John Hoskins Publisher Comments The tropical paradise of Thailand has extraordinarily vivid beauty. Shimmering temples seemingly rise up to the sky, while bustling streets and waterways contrast with lovely beaches and lagoons. Amidst the fast pace of the modern age, Thailand still...
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Laos: A Country Between Yesterday and Today
by Ann Helen Unger Synopsis A beautifully produced photographic essay on the reclusive country of Laos capturing the grandeur of its terrain and the rich ancient cultures of its people....
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Thailand's Boom and Bust
by Pasuk Phongpaichit Book News Annotation Examines the causes and consequences of the ten-year boom and bust economic cycle that took place in Thailand from after 1985 to 1995, including discussion of the political, social, and cultural context in which it occurred. Distributed by University...
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Welcome To the Bangkok Slaughterhouse : the Battle for Human Dignity in Bangkok's Bleakest Slums (05 Edition)
by Joe Maier Publisher Comments For twenty-five years, Father Joe Maier, a Catholic priest, has lived and worked in Bangkok's bleakest slums, establishing more than thirty schools, five shelters for street kids, and several projects for women and children with AIDS, working with and...
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Thailand: A Short History
by David K Wyatt Publisher Comments This highly acclaimed book, the standard history of Thailand for almost twenty years, has now been completely revised by the author. David K. Wyatt has also added new sections examining the social and economic changes that have transformed the country in...
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A Short History of Laos: The Land in Between (Short History of Asia Series)
by Grant Evans Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-244) and index....
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Thailand: A Short History; Second Edition
by David K. Wyatt Publisher Comments "A very readable account. . . . We come away from reading it with a clearer understanding of where Thailand stands in relation to its neighbors, who the Thai people are, how the Thai government evolved into its present form."--James Stent, Asian Wall...
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The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej
by Paul M Handley Publisher Comments Thailand’s Bhumibol Adulyadej, the only king ever born in the United States, came to the throne of his country in 1946 and is now the world’s longest-serving monarch. The King Never Smiles, the first independent biography of Thailand's...
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Jim Thompson the Unsolved Mystery
by William Warren Synopsis On Easter Day, 1967, American businessmen and founder of the modern Thai silk industry James H. W. Thompson disappeared while supposedly on a stroll in the jungle-clad Cameron Highlands in Central Malaysia. Neither Jim Thompson nor his remains has ever...
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Women and Politics in Thailand
by Kazuki Iwanaga Synopsis This is the first study in English to analyze in detail the position of women in Thai politics. It subjects various dimensions of women and politics in Thailand to both theoretical and empirical scrutiny; in so doing, it draws together into one volume...
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Truth about Anna...... and Other Stories
by William Warren Publisher Comments William Warren's writings on Asia have entertained and informed readers for over 40 years. He has always preferred 'the unusual to the ordinary, the little-known to the familiar' and the essays in this book, all of them about Asia and collected here for...
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Guns, Girls, Gambling, Ganja
by Pasuk Phongpaichit Synopsis Gambling, prostitution, drugs, arms trading, oil smuggling, and trafficking in people -- these six illegal businesses are large and getting larger. They distort the economy and victimize people. They are increasingly linked together through networks of...
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