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The Vegetarian Taste of Thailand
Product Details Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: SLG Books (May 15, 1997) Language: English ISBN-10: 0943389135 ISBN-13: 978-0943389134 Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 7.5 x 0.6 inches Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
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Hell under the Rising Sun
Late in 1940, the young men of the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment stepped off the trucks at Camp Bowie in Brownwood, Texas, ready to complete the training they would need for active duty in World War II. Many of them had grown up together in Jacksboro, Texas, and almost all of them were…
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Fodor’s Thailand, 7th Edition
No matter what your budget or whether it’s your first trip or fifteenth, Fodor’s Gold Guides get you where you want to go. In this completely up-to-date guide our experts who live in Thailand give you the inside track. Color planning sections help you decide where to go, with region-by-region virtual tours and cross-referencing to…
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Buddhist Monk, Buddhist Layman
Most anthropological and sociological studies of Buddhism have concentrated on village and rural Buddhism. This is a systematic anthropological study of monastic organization and monk-layman interaction in a purely urban context in the countries where Theravada Buddhism is practised, namely, Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon, Laos and Thailand. The material presented is based on fieldwork carried out…
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Male Bodies, Women’s Souls
Get a detailed look at the Thai sex/gender system–through analysis of the personal stories from transgendered youth in Thailand The Thai term sao braphet song (a “second type of woman”) describes males who reject the gender of masculinity for femininity. Male Bodies, Women’s Souls: Personal Narratives of Thailand’s Transgendered Youth uses the narrative method, stories…
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Prostitution in Thailand: Myth and Reality
Prostitution in Thailand: Myth & Reality is a comprehensive research work about prostitution in Thailand. The study looks into the historical evolution of female prostitution in Thailand; discusses the social, economic, political, institutional, & ideological factors which underpin the growth of Thai sex-industry in contemporary times; submits an organized presentation of the Thai commercial sex…
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Thailand’s Luxury Spas: Pampering Yourself in Paradise
No other country in the world offers such an incredible range of luxury spa and wellness destinations than Thailand. Thailand’s Luxury Spas takes you inside this alluring world and reveals the best facilities and spa treatments, new trends in relaxation and holistic wellness therapy, plus well-researched information on Thai traditional healing and herbal lore. Thailand’s…
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Islam, Education and Reform in Southern Thailand: Tradition and Transformation
“This is a remarkable piece of scholarship that illuminates general and specific tendencies in Islamic education in South Thailand. Armed with an enormous amount of rich empirical detail and an elegant writing style, the author debunks the simplistic Orientalist conceptions of Wahhabi and Salafi influences on Islamic education in South Thailand. This work will be…
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Reinventing Thailand: Thaksin and His Foreign Policy
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…
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Essential Guide for Living and Retiring in Thailand (Edition)
Product Description Contents “On my arrival in Thailand” – a short story Thailand’s geography Geographical regions • Northern • Northeast • Central • Eastern • Western • Southern The people of Thailand • Festivals • Thai food • Do’s and don’ts • The Thai family • Buddhist temples and monks • Superstitions • Marriages •…
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Disaster Risk Assessment and Mitigation: Arrival of Tsunami Wave in Thailand (CDRM Monograph)
Product Details Paperback: 98 pages Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers (December 1, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 0784410127 ISBN-13: 978-0784410127 Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.3 inches Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
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Mien Relations: Mountain People and State Control in Thailand
Thailand’s hill tribes have been the object of anthropological research, cultural tourism, and government intervention for a century, in large part because these groups are held to have preserved distinctive ethnic traditions despite their contacts with “modern” culture. Hjorleifur Jonsson rejects the conventional notion that the worlds of traditional peoples are being transformed or undone…
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Endangered Relations: Negotiating Sex and AIDS in Thailand
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HIV and AIDS are having a profound impact on contemporary life in Thailand, generating complex issues with far-reaching implications for both the Thai people and on a global level. AIDS has become an increasingly prominent symbol of modernity in Thailand, yet ways of dealing with AIDS and HIV draw on time-honored understandings of fate and…
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Guns, Girls, Gambling, Ganja: Thailand’s Illegal Economy and Public Policy
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 protection and organized crime. They help to fund Thailand’s corrosive ‘money politics’ and to sustain corruption in the police.…
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Materializing Thailand (Materializing Culture Series)
Thailand has become well known throughout the world for wonderful cuisine, great package holidays, sumptuous temples and textiles. Noticeably absent from glossy tourist brochures but equally well known throughout the Western world is Thailand’s seedier side – the world of child exploitation, rampant prostitution and AIDS. Thailand maintains its appeal by slipping the ugly and…
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Taste of Thailand (Read-It! Chapter Books)
Product Details Reading level: Ages 4-8 Library Binding: 80 pages Publisher: Picture Window Books (January 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 1404816771 ISBN-13: 978-1404816770 Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
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A Description of the Kingdom of Siam 1690 (Itineraria Asiatica: Thailand)
The writer of this account of Siam in 1690, Engelbert Kaempfer, is not well known today. This is Partly because his account of Siam was not published separately, but appeared as the first chapters of his ‘History of Japan’, first published in 1727 and reprinted in 1906. The value of his account lies in it…
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Peoples of the Golden Triangle: Six Tribes in Thailand
The fascinating area of Southeast Asia known as the Golden Triangle is home to six culturally distinct peoples–the Karen, Hmong, Mien, Lahu, Akha, and Lisu–who struggle in a hostile environment to maintain the integrity of their beliefs, customs, and way of life against all the pressures of the rapidly changing society around them. Paul and…
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The Ambiguous Allure of the West: Traces of the Colonial in Thailand
Product Details Hardcover: 268 pages Publisher: Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications (June 30, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 0877276072 ISBN-13: 978-0877276074 Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1 inches Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds