Catalog January 2010

January 2010 Catalog
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Coming Soon
What’s What in a Wat
Thai Buddhist Temples: Their Purpose and Design

Carol Stratton
B395

Buddhist Murals of Northeast Thailand
Reflections of the Isan Heartland

Bonnie Pacala Brereton and Somroay Yencheuy
B695

Reinventing Thailand
Thaksin and His Foreign Policy

Pavin Chachavalpongpun
B725

Tort, Custom, and Karma
Globalization and Legal Consciousness in Thailand

David M. Engel and Jaruwan S. Engel
B595

Gods of Angkor
Bronzes from the National Museum of Cambodia

Edited by Louise Allison Cort and Paul Jett
B1300

Than Shwe
Unmasking Burma’s Tyrant

Benedict Rogers
B625

Mapping Thai Muslims
Community Dynamics and Change on the Andaman Coast

Wanni W. Anderson
B495

Professional Office English for Thailand
ภาษาอังกฤษเพื่อการสื่อสารในสํานักงาน

Hugh Leong and Kidd Pongsadhat
B350, including audio CD
Recent
Bombay Anna
The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the King and I Governess

Susan Morgan
B595
Recent
Through the Eyes of the King
The Travels of King Chulalongkorn to Malaya

P. Lim Pui Huen
B1600 For sale in Thailand only
Recent
Your Investment Guide to Thailand
Bruce Bickerstaff
B695
Recent
The Politics of Decentralization
Natural Resource Management in Asia

Chusak Wittayapak and Peter Vandergeest, editors
B625
Recent
Education and Knowledge in Thailand
The Quality Controversy

Alain Mounier and Phasina Tangchuang
B695
Recent
Festivals of Laos
Text by Martin Stuart-Fox and Somsanouk Mixay
Photographs by Steve Northup

B795

Imaging Muslim Women in Indonesian Ramadan Soap Operas
Rachmah Ida
B250

Islamic Law in Southeast Asia:
A Study of Its Application in Kelantan and Aceh

Kamaruzzaman Bustamam-Ahmad
B250

Islamic Statehood and Maqasid al-Shariah in Malaysia:
A Zero-Sum Game?

Kim Beng Phar
B250

Perspectives on Polygamy in Post-Reform Indonesia
Wenty Marina Minza
B250

Divided Over Thaksin:
Thailand’s Coup and Problematic Transition

Edited by John Funston
B695

Sky Train:
Tibetan Women on the Edge of History

Canyon Sam
B695

Living Silence in Burma:
Surviving under Military Rule

Christina Fink
B895

Rethinking Karma:
The Dharma of Social Justice

Jonathan S. Watts, Editor
B695

Burmese Painting:
A Linear and Lateral History

Andrew Ranard
B2500

Thaksin
Second edition, expanded
Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker
B695

The Wisdom of Sustainability:
Buddhist Economics for the 21st Century
Sulak Sivaraksa
B395

The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia
Second Edition
Donald K. Swearer
B625


Thai Forestry:
A Critical History

Ann Danaiya Usher
B625


The Living Mekong
Photography by Joe Garrison
Text by Delia Paul

B850

Historical Walks in Yangon:
A Myanmar Heritage Trust Guide Map

Myanmar Heritage Trust
B250


The Brightened Mind
Sumano Bhikkhu
B60

Reissue
Gathering Leaves & Lifting Words
Justin McDaniel
B595
For sale in Southeast Asia
Reissue
Calling in the Soul:
Gender and the Cycle of Life in a Hmong Village
Patricia V. Symonds
B625
For sale in Southeast Asia

Murder and Mayhem in Seventeeenth-Century Cambodia: Anthony van Diemen vs. King Ramadhipati I
Alfons van der Kraan
B395

Cocktail: A Play about the Life and HIV Drug Development Work of Dr. Krisana Kraisintu
Vince LiCata and Ping Chong
B295

The Great Elephant Escape
Antoinette van de Water and Liesbeth Sluiter
B550

Hot Spots to Shop Bangkok
Wendy  D.Johnson
B295

Merchants of Madness:
The Methamphetamine Explosion in the Golden Triangle

Bertil Lintner and Michael Black
B595

History of the Shan State:

From Its Origins to 1962

Sai Aung Tun
B1,395

The Last Century of Lao Royalty:
A Documentary History

Grant Evans
B1,850

Jungle Book:
Thailand’s Politics, Moral Panic, and Plunder, 1996–2008

Chang Noi (pseudonym)
B550

Dreams of an Idealist
M.R. Nimitmongkol Navarat, David Smyth, trans.
B550

Professional Hotel English for Thailand
Hugh Leong & Kidd Pongsadhat
B350 Includes CD
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Killer Karma:
A Father Ananda Mystery
Nick Wilgus
B395

Reissue
Cult, Culture, and Authority:
Princess Lieu Hanh in Vietnamese History

Olga Dror
B695
For sale in Southeast Asia

Development and Decline of Beijing’s Hui Muslim Community
Zhou Chuanbin and Ma Xuefeng
B325

Sultans, Shamans, and Saints
Howard M. Federspiel
B625
For sale in Southeast Asia

The Shift in Zakat Practice in Indonesia
From piety to an Islamic socio-political-economic system

Arskal Salim
B250

Defending the Majesty of Islam:
Indonesia’s Front Pembela Islam (1998–2003)

Jajang Jahroni
B250

Muslims and Tolerance
Non-Muslim Minorities under Shariah in Indonesia

Pramono U. Tanthow
B250

Cambodge:
The Cultivation of A Nation, 1860–1945

Penny Edwards
B625
For sale in Southeast Asia

Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers:
The Politics of Environmental Knowledge in Northern Thailand

Tim Forsyth & Andrew Walker
B695
For sale in Southeast Asia

The Tây Son Uprising:
Society and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Vietnam

George Dutton
B695
For sale in Southeast Asia

 

Islam and Southeast Asia

Fiction from Southeast Asia



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Nature/Field Guides

History of Laos


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