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Code WL E22728
"British Teak Wallahs in Northern Thailand from 1876-1956"
By :: Prof. Kittichai Wattananikorn
Bangkok, 2018 325 pp., illus. 7 pp. maps, 145 x 205 mm
Price :: US$22.00
British Teak Wallahs in Northern Thailand from 1876-1956" is a comprehensive study of the colorful lives of the European teak foresters, especially the British, active in Lanna, northern Siam, the region where the indigenous peoples were called Lao. It looks at social aspects of northern Thai life, Read More :::
Code WL E22677
Aesthetics of Power, the: Architecture, Modernity from Siam to Thailand
By :: Koompong Noobanjong
Bangkok 2013 504 pp., illts. 150 x 210 mm.
Price :: US$30.00
The Aesthetics of Power : Architecture, Identity and Modernity from Siam to Thailand comprehensively examines the politics of representation in architecture and urban space from the 1850s to the present time. By utilizing the built environment as a mode of problematization for studying the Thai nati Read More :::
Code WL E22659
Akha and Phu Noi Minorities in Laos in the 1920s
By :: Roux, Henri
Bangkok 2011 192 pp., 23 pp. illus. 145 x 210 mm.
Price :: US$20.00
This first English translation presents a wealth of data and a number of unique period photographs collected by a French military administrator of the area around Phongsaly, then the Fifth Military territory in northern Laos. It is fair to say that this is one of the rare views of the original condi Read More :::
Code WL E22696
Among the Burmese in 1902: French impressions of a Buddhist Country
By :: Chevrillon, Andre
Bangkok 2014 139 pp., 150 x 215 mm
Price :: US$17.00
Among the Burmese in 1902. French Impressions of a Buddhist Country
documents the travels of a Frenchman, member of the Académie française, undertaking a journey towards understanding the religions and customs of the peoples of the Indian Empire. This book gives an overview of his thoughts on the Read More :::
Code WL E22664
Ancient Khmer Sites in Eastern Thailand
By :: Mollerup, Asger
Bangkok 2012 197 pp., fully illus. in col. 9 pp. chatrs. with CD, 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$25.00
Ancient Khmer Sites in Eastern Thailand This book is the first comprehensive inventory of ancient Khmer sites in eastern Thailand since the now more than one century-old works of Étienne Aymonier, Étienne Lunet de Lajonquière, and Major Erik Seidenfaden, describing ninety-six sites in the provinc Read More :::
Code WL E22727/CD
Ancient Khmer Sites in North-eastern Thailand
By :: Mollerup, Asger
Bangkok, 2018 288 pp., fully illus. in col, 150 x 215 mm
Price :: US$32.00
Ancient Khmer Sites in North-Eastern Thailand is the 2nd of three volumes of Ancient Khmer sites outside the present-day Cambodia. It is the first Comprehensive inventory of ancient Khmer sites in north-eastern Thailand since the now more than one century-old works of Étienne Aymonier, Étienne Lun Read More :::
Code WL E22704
Ancient Postcards on Rice in the Golded Peninsula
By :: Poupon, Roland
Bangkok 2016 214 pp., illus, 150 x 215 mm.
Price :: US$25.00
Poupon, Roland; Ancient Postcards on Rice in the Golden Peninsula focuses on rice
cultivation in mainland Southeast Asia, encompassing Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia,
Laos, and Myanmar. Through the analysis of old postcards, this book shows all aspects of rice culture from landscaping to trading, inc Read More :::
Code WL E22491/1-2
Archaeology of the Mons of Dvaravati
By :: Dupont, Pierre
Bangkok 2007, 366+220 pp., Vol. I, 9 pp. figures, 3 pp. maps, 22 pp. plans, Vol. II, fully illus., 41 pp. in col., 210 x 297 mm
Around Laos in 1900, Vol. 2: The 288 Photographs, A Photographer's Adventures
By :: Raquez, Alfred
Bangkok 2013 200 pp., 170 pp. illus., 145 x 210 mm.
Price :: US$18.00
Around Laos in 1900, A photographer's Adventures Vol. 2 is the compendium volume to Around Laos in 1900 which was printed without the photos. This volume contains 280 photos Raquez made during his seven months trip through Laos. Raquez travelled in Laos from 1898 – 1906.
He was the first photogra Read More :::
Code WL E22665
Around Laos in 1900: A Photographer's Adventures
By :: Raquez, A.
Bangkok 2012 559 pp., 1 pp. illus. 1 fold map, 150 x 210 mm.
Price :: US$25.00
This extensive report presents information on the daily life and livelihood of various groups of people in Laos. First published in 1902 as a travelogue around Upper, Central and Lower Laos, this book also includes an assessment by a Frenchman critical of development work already undertaken by the F Read More :::
Code WL E22680
Around Southeast Asia in 1897
By :: Isabelle, Massieu
Bangkok 2013 374 pp., 40 pp. illus. 150 x 210 mm.
Price :: US$22.00
Around Southeast Asia in 1897: A Frenchwoman’s Observations in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, and Laos documents the travels of a Frenchwoman. Published in 1901 as a travelogue of a rare female traveler undertaking a journey by herself, at her own rhythm, and using her time as she saw fit, to Read More :::
Code WL E22710
ASEAN Looks West: ASEAN and the Gulf Region
By :: Hermann, Wifried A. & Peter Lehr
Bangkok, 2016 288 pp., 12 pp., illus, 3 pp. maps, 150 x 205 mm,
Price :: US$20.00
ASEAN Looks West: ASEAN and the Gulf Region is the first major study analyzing the relationship between ASEAN and the Gulf region. A newly formed international team of eleven scholars and experts from seven different countries under the umbrella of the Thai-registered nonprofit organization Human De Read More :::
Code WL E22620
Back Blocks of China, the
By :: Jack, R. Logan
Bangkok 2008, repr. from 1904; 303 pp., 16 pp. illus., 1 folded map, 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$18.00
The book offers narratives of experiences among the Chinese, Sifans, Lolos, Tibetans, Shans and Kachins, in the lands between Shanghai and the Irrawaddy. In 1900, a party of British citizens fleeing the Boxer Rebellion left China using the back-door. This unusual group of escapees, consisting of bus Read More :::
Code WL E22701
Bangkok Tramways Eighty Years 1888-1968
By :: Spek, Dick Van Der, Wisarut Bholsithi & Wally Higgins
Bangkok 2015 180 pp., 65 pp. illus, 56 pp. in col, 24 pp. maps, 210 x 300 mm.
Price :: US$32.00
Trams of Bangkok, Eighty Years 1888-1968, is the first work tracing the history of trams in Bangkok, a pioneering work with Danish and Belgian involvement.
Thailand was the second country in Southeast Asia with trams. First, horse-drawn trams appeared in 1888. But as horse-drawn trams were not very Read More :::
Code WL E22485
Bangkok's Foodscape: Public Eating, Gender Relations, and Urban Change
By :: Yasmeen, Gisele
Bangkok 2006, 305 pp., 14 pp. illus., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$25.00
This book provides an overview and analysis of the habit of “public eating” in Thai society with specific attention paid to the case study of Bangkok where the phenomenon has been particularly widespread for several decades. Using the well-established ethnographic approach of “thick descriptio Read More :::
Code WL E22635
Bangkok: Its Life and Sport
By :: Forty, C. H.
Bangkok 2010, repr. from 1929; 218 pp., 13 pp. illus., 150 x 215 mm
Price :: US$18.00
This book is a good guide of the late 1920s for newcomers in Thailand when Bangkok had a population of 450 000 inhabitants. The first three chapters deal with all aspects of life in Bangkok and the rural area in central Thailand as perceived by the author, a Lieut.-Col. of the British army who was c Read More :::
Code WL E22493
Bark-cloth in Southeast Asia
By :: Howard, Michael C.
Bangkok 2006, 327 pp., illus., 79 pp. illus. in col., 210 x 300 mm
Price :: US$52.00
The first comprehensive survey of Southeast Asian bark-cloth. Followed by chapters discussing the archaeological evidence of bark-cloth in the region and in the collection of the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde in Leiden. Further chapters deal with bark-cloth in Vietnam, Southern Thailand and Peninsula Read More :::
Code WL E22513
Bayon of Angkor Thom, the
By :: Sahai, Sachchidanand
Bangkok 2006, 160 pp., 48 pp. illus., 32 pp. illus. in col., 210 x 295 mm
Price :: US$25.00
This book offers offers an in-depth analysis of the temple which holds the key to the understanding of Khmer civilization. Its role as the geometric centre of the city of Angkor Thom and as a veritable microcosm of the Khmer world has been lucidly explained in this monograph. How did this center-pie Read More :::
Code WL E22699
Behind the Folding Fan
By :: Matics, Kim
Bangkok 2014 404 pp., 150 x 210 mm.
Price :: US$22.00
The co-owner of a NYC art gallery embarks on a life-altering around-the-world trip. His first destination is Japan where he follows in the footsteps of his deceased father, a renowned but inscrutable artist and poet who was significantly influenced by Japanese culture. Along the way the protagonist Read More :::
Code WL E22649
Belgian Tourists in Burma, Siam, Vietnam and Cambodia (1897 & 1900)
By :: Chaudoir, Georges & Mr. & Mrs. Emile Jottrand
Bangkok 2011 298 pp., 34 pp. illus., 2 pp. maps, 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$23.00
This first English translation presents two travelogues of Belgian travelers around the turn of the twentieth century. First there is part of a world tour by Georges ‘Puck’ Chaudoir that covers an overland journey through the Nagaland Hills in present-day India, Burma and Siam to Bangkok in Thai Read More :::
Code WL E21832
Betel and Miang
By :: Reichart, P. A. & Philipsen, H. P.
Bangkok 2005, expanded repr. from 1996; 171 pp., fully illus. in col., 210 x 295 mm
Price :: US$48.00
The chewing of betel and of miang (fermented tea leaves) is peculiar to Thailand. These habits and the paraphernalia associated with them have fascinated western observers since the earliest travelers visited Siam in the seventeenth century. This work provides a comprehensive examination of all aspe Read More :::
Code WL E22533
Birds of the Bangkok Area, the
By :: Round, Philip
Bangkok 2008, 320 pp., 48 pp. illus. in col., 210 x 295 mm
Price :: US$32.00
This book offers the most thorough account ever of the avifauna of Thailand’s Lower Central Plain (Lower Chao Phraya Delta). It comprehensively lists all the birds found in this region. 237 species are treated in full biological detail, and illustrated. This book highlights the Bangkok area’s su Read More :::
Code WL E22607
Buongiorno Mio Grande Grande Amore
By :: Walker, Dave & Richard S. Ehrlich
Bangkok 2008, 210 pp., 130 x 195 mm
Price :: US$12.00
“Buongiorno Mio Grande Grande Amore!” presenta una ras-segna, mai vista prima, della vita sentimentale delle bar-girls di Bangkok e degli stranieri che le “noleggiano”—raccontata dalle loro stesse parole. Una raccolta di lettere d’amore provenienti da tutto il mondo, scritte alle signore Read More :::
Code WL E22587
Burmanization of Myanmar's Muslims
By :: Berlie, Jean A.
Bangkok 2007 190 pp., 16 pp., illus., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$18.00
This book deals with Burmanization, a cultural process similar to what is known as Sinicization in China and Sanskritization in India. It copes with selected aspects of the Burmanization process, linguistic integration, citizenship, rate of culture change and changes in value systems. The Tatmadaw g Read More :::
Code WL E22609
Burmese Buddhist Murals: Vol. 1-Epigraphic Corpus of the Powin Taung Caves
By :: Munier, Christophe & Myint Aung
Bangkok 2007, 524 pp., illus., 56 pp. illus. in col., 210 x 295 mm
Price :: US$50.00
book offers a systematic study of a preeminent site in the artistic and cultural heritage of Southeast Asia. With over five hundred caves, Powin Taung has for centuries attracted pilgrims and today houses eleven monasteries providing a home for about a hundred monks, novices and nuns. The caves, dug Read More :::
Code WL E22693
By Motorcar from Saigon to Angkor Wat in 1908
By :: Montpensier, Duc de
Bangkok 2014 288 pp., 70 pp. illus. 8 pp. in col. 1 folded map, 150 x 210 mm.
Price :: US$18.00
By Motorcar from Saigon to Angkor Wat in 1908. A French Vintage Car Adventure tells the incredible story of one of the first car expeditions in Vietnam and Cambodia. A scion of the prominent French d’Orléans family took his car, a Lorraine-Dietrich—a 24/30 HP monster of 3,700 kilograms—throug Read More :::
Code WL E22454
Cave-temples of Po Win Taung, Central Burma Architecture, Sculpture and Murals, The
By :: Chew, Anne-May
Bangkok 2005, 333 pp., 2 maps, 70 pp. illus. in col., 210 x 300 mm
Price :: US$42.00
This is the first comprehensive book about Po Win Taung, a soft volcanic rock hill, situated to the north-west of Central Burma. It is a huge, multi-level religious complex with about 800 rock-cut caves, which vary from a simple meditation cell to an imposing temple. The facades are decorated in low Read More :::
Code WL E22487
Cicadas of Thailand,The Vol.1
By :: Boulard, Michel
Bangkok 2006, 142 pp., illus., 22 pp. illus. in col., 2 folded, 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$22.00
The first of two volumes on Thai cicadas, the most fascinating and also least known representatives of a family of sonorous insects. Cicadas neither sing, nor stridulate, but tymbalize. The volume reveals the existence and the double life, larval and imaginal, of cicadas encountered during six years Read More :::
Code WL E22613
Colonial Good Life, the
By :: Vann, Michael G. & Joel Montague
Bangkok 2008 120 pp., illus., 295 x 215 mm
Price :: US$22.00
This book reproduces and analyzes a collection of crucial primary documents from the early Twentieth-Century. These simple yet rich visual sources provide us with a clever insight into the nature of the colonial order of things. Joyeux was a French artist who served in the colonial service as an art Read More :::
Code WL E22721
Confessions of A Eurasiam Women
By :: Chivas-Baron, Clothilde
Bangkok, 2018 176 pp., 150 x 210 mm, pbk.
Price :: US$22.00
Confessions of a Eurasian Woman. A Destiny in 1920s Vietnam is the story of the emotional life of a mixed-blood Franco-Vietnamese woman. The story is also a vehicle for the author, a long-time resident of French Indochina, who arrived there in 1909, to campaign on behalf of the better treatment of m Read More :::
Code WL I9584
Connectivity and Beyond, Indo-Thai Relations Through Ages
By :: Ghosh, Lipi
Kolkata, 2009 264 pp., 35 pp. illus., 3 pp. maps, 145 x 220 mm
Contemporary Laos: Development Path and Outlook of a Nation
By :: Kham Vorapheth
Bangkok 2015 632 pp., 1 map, 155 x 220 mm.
Price :: US$28.00
Contemporary Laos: Development Path and Outlook of a Nation provides a critical look at obstacles to the development of the Laos state. It explores different facets of its political, economic, societal, and cultural history and focuses on the current period of unfinished transition. The author offe Read More :::
Code WL E22676
Cultural Revival and the Peoples of Ta Van Commune, Sa Pa, Northern Vietnam
By :: Nong Quoc Binh & Michael C. Howard
Bangkok 2013 157 pp., 9 pp., illus, 16 pp. in col, 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$22.00
Cultural Revival and the Peoples of Ta Van Commune, Sa Pa, Northern Vietnam includes 20 chapters mainly by Vietnamese authors associated with the Vietnamese Ethnic Minorities Arts and Literature Association describing the cultural traditions of the Hmong, Dao, and Giay people of Ta Van Commune, loca Read More :::
Code WL E22643
Cultural Roots of Violence in Malay Southern Thailand, the Comparative Mythology: Soul of Rice: Vol. 1: The Tutelary Figures of Malay Political Heroism
By :: Ivanoff, Jacques
Bangkok 2010, 358 pp., 57 pp. illus., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$25.00
This book gives a voice to the Malays of southern Thailand by offering readers a rich and original corpus of their oral literature. The storyteller Wo Seng is the guardian of the Malay oral tradition. It is thanks to him that the great South (Patani, Yala, and Narathiwat Provinces) has been able to Read More :::
Code WL E22611
Culture and Development in Southeast Asia
By :: Wangsgard, David B.
Bangkok 2008, 266 pp., 32 pp. illus. in col., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$28.00
A collection of papers presenting new field research undertaken throughout the region. Five of the chapters report original findings on Thailand’s main ethnic groups, which include the Lahu, the Lue, the Palaung, the Thai and Black Tai. Further chapters address the Toraya of Sulawesi, Indonesia; t Read More :::
Code WL E22726
Dancing for The Gods
By :: Guelden, Marlane
Bangkok, 2018 425 pp., 24 pp, illus. 145 x 210 mm,
Price :: US$25.00
The Nora Bird Dance of Southern Thailand is the first comprehensive book in English to explore the Nora (Manora) kinship gropu, an ancient community of southern Thai Buddhists. Through song, dance, and spirit possession, the colorful Nora performance has become a symbol of the Thai South in a region Read More :::
Code WL E22729
Dancing for the Gods. Vol. 2
By :: Guelden, Marlane
Bnagkok, 2019 424 pp. 33 pp. illus. 150 x 205 mm.
Price :: US$25.00
Dancing for The Gods, Volume 2: The Endangered Spirit Lineage of Nora Dance in Southern Thailand tells the back story of a centuries-old Nora (Manora) lineage, famous in the South for its spirit possession and loud, colorful dance-drama. It is considered the basis of ancient Thai classical dance. Us Read More :::
Code WL I9583
Defeat of Ava, The First Anglo-Burmese War 1824-26, The
By :: Blackburn, Terence R.
New Delhi, 2009 446 pp., 3 pp. maps, 14 pp. illus. in col., 215 x 300 mm
This report was published by the Institute of Security and International Studies at Chulalongkorn University in co-operation with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation of Germany and brought together a number of experts on the interactions between civil government and the military. Countries covered are Ba Read More :::
Code WL E22632
Development and Dominion: Indigenous Peoples of Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos
By :: Bourdier, Frederic
Bangkok 2009, 502 pp., 24 pp. illus., 7 pp. maps, 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$28.00
This book deals with prevailing development ideologies and their impacts on indigenous societies with a particular focus on Cambodia, Laos and the central highlands of Vietnam. It reinforces the idea that development, as it is conceptualized and implemented, radically undermines local communities’ Read More :::
Code WL E22717
Directory for Bangkok and Siam 1913, the
By :: Bangkok Times Press
Bangkok, 2017 395 pp., 145 x 210 mm.
Price :: US$32.00
The Directory for Bangkok and Siam 1913 is one of a series that Bangkok Time Press produced over a period of many years. The originals are fairly rare, as they were printed on acidic paper, which becomes brittle. Therefore, most originals have deteriorated or been destroyed. This reprint in slightly Read More :::
Code WL E22716
Directory for Bangkok and Siam 1925, the
By :: Bangkok Times Press
Bangkok, 2017 371 pp., 1 map, 145 x 210 mm.
Price :: US$29.00
The Directory for Bangkok and Siam 1925 is one of the thirty six editions published. It is a rare book and the paper of the original is brittle and therefore hard to find. It is a source book of life and business in Bangkok at the time. It contains the useful information one needed at that time and Read More :::
Code WL E22515
Doing Thailand: The Anthropologist as a Young Dog in Bangkok in the 1960s
By :: Mulder, Niels
Bangkok 2008, 122 pp., 8 pp. illus. in col., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$17.00
This book recounts the often hilarious tale of an aspiring researcher who struggles to find his footing in bewildering Bangkok. Based on raw data and experiences—that tend to lose their flavor through ivory-tower manipulation—the narrative offers glimpses on the Thai capital during the time of t Read More :::
Dr. Muller's Asian Journey: Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Yunnan (1907-1909)
By :: Kersten, Carool
Bangkok 2005, 258 pp., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$25.00
This work is based on one of the travel books by the Dutch scholar and diplomat Hendrik Muller, written after a lengthy sojourn in various parts of Asia. As a member of the Netherlands’ commercial elite, he was able to gain access to the highest circles in the countries he visited. There are accou Read More :::
Code WL E22658
Dress and Tai Yai Identity in Thoed Thai, Northern Thailand
By :: McLean, Maya
Bangkok 2012 162 pp., 80 pp. illus, 210 x 295 mm
Price :: US$32.00
Dress and Tai Yai Identity in Thoed Thai, Northern Thailand examines the changing identity of the Tai Yai people of Thoed Thai who migrated to northern Thailand from Burma as seen through dress as a symbol of their ethnic identity. It examines the influence of drug warlord Khun Sa, the subsequent r Read More :::
Code WL E22633
Dress, Textiles and Identity of the Black Tai of Loei Province, Northeast Thailand
By :: Amantea, Franco
Bangkok 2009, 108 pp., 40 pp. illus. in col., 215 x 295 mm
Price :: US$22.00
This book examines the contemporary role of traditional and tradition-based Black Tai textiles and dress as material and symbolic representations of the Black Tai’s ethnic and socio-cultural identity. The analysis of textiles and ethnic dress reveals that dress and textiles play a crucial role in Read More :::
Code WL E22568
East River New York
By :: Jeffrey, Derrick John
Bangkok 2007, 424 pp., 105 x 175 mm
Price :: US$17.00
An adventure story about a UN official sent to Thailand to assassinate a Thai village Chief on the Thai-Cambodian border during the Vietnam War. This covert operation orchestrated by rogue elements within the UN and the US Department of Defense was intended to send the message that the American drug Read More :::
Code WL E22703
Eating in Northeastern Cambodia
By :: Istasse, Manon
Bangkok 2015 417 pp., 64 pp. illus. in col, 2 pp. maps, 150 x 215 mm,
Price :: US$22.00
Eating in Northeastern Cambodia. A Socio-AnthropologicalApproach to Highland Food in Ratanakiri investigates food among societies practicing swidden agriculture in Ratanakiri province, Northeastern Cambodia. The author provides a qualitative and anthropological description of food habits, practices Read More :::
Code WL E22725
Economic Conditions of North-Eastern Siam (1929), the
By :: Ministry of Commerce and Communications
Bangkok, 2018 192 pp., 150 x 210 mm.
Price :: US$18.00
The Economic Conditions of North-Eastern Siam is the report of the first economic survey of Isan, conducted by Reginald Stuart Le May in 1929. Prior to 1929, not much was known of neglected Northeast
Siam, previously called Laos. The population, almost 4 million, 1/3rd of the Kingdom’s, was prima Read More :::
Code WL E22634
Elephant-Lore of the Hindus, The
By :: Edgerton, Franklin
Bangkok 2010, repr. from 1931; 148 pp., 150 x 215 mm
Price :: US$13.00
This book is a translation of the Matanga-Lila by Nilakantha. It is the best available Sanskrit work on Elephantology. The introduction covers the significance of elephant-lore in Indian literature, both the theoretical and practical elements of the “science”, modern elephant-lore which covers t Read More :::
Code WL E22638
Elephants in Thailand Vol. 1: Mahouts and their Cultures Today
By :: Schliesinger, Joachim
Bangkok 2010, 232 pp., 32 pp. illus. 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$22.00
This is the first of two volumes about Thai elephants. This volume portrays the plight of wild and domesticated elephants in modern Thailand. It shows how domesticated elephants are employed both in the timber industry and in the many elephant camps for tourists around the country. It describes in d Read More :::
Code WL E22671
Elephants in Thailand Vol. 2: Through the Ages
By :: Schliesinger, Joachim
Bangkok 2012 180 pp., 40 pp. illus. 16 pp. in col, 150 x 215 mm
Price :: US$22.00
Volume 2 of our series portrays the association between elephant and man since the dawn of history and the importance of elephants in Thai history. It describes the deep roots of the elephant in my theology, describes the important position of the elephant at court, especially as battle elephant, an Read More :::
Code WL E22670
Elephants in Thailand Vol. 3: White Elephants in Thailand and Neighboring Countries
By :: Schliesinger, Joachim
Bangkok 2012 174 pp., 32 pp.,illus. in col, 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$22.00
Elephants in Thailand Vol.3; White Elephants in Thailand and Neighboring Countries, defines the “white elephant”, recounts the myths about white elephants in ancient Indian lore(the Jatakas) and their transmission to Southeast Asia, presents reports of early Western travelers on the white elepha Read More :::
Code WL E22589
Environmental Identity
By :: Nakanishi, Nao
Bangkok 2008, 140 pp., 6 pp. illus., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$13.00
The book examines the different concepts of a unified environment including living things as well as the natural surroundings like forests, rivers, rocks, etc. Westerners tend to rely more on cognition and a separating view distinguishing between nature and culture. Aborigines with a 50 000 year con Read More :::
Code WL E22660
Ethnic Groups of Cambodia, Vol.1: Introduction and Overview
By :: Schliesinger, Joachim
Bangkok 2011, 358 pp., 16 pp. illus. in col., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$25.00
Ethnic Groups of Cambodia, Introduction and Overview, is the first of a comprehensive three-volume work that provides a detailed account of the ethnic groups of Cambodia. All three volumes are lavishly illustrated in color and contain relevant references. The present volume looks first at the effect Read More :::
Code WL E22661
Ethnic Groups of Cambodia, Vol.2: Profile of Austro-Asiatic Spaking People
By :: Schliesinger, Joachim
Bangkok 2011, 313 pp., 16 pp. illus. in col., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$25.00
Ethnic Groups of Cambodia, Profile of Austro-Asiatic-Speaking Peoples,is the second of a comprehensive three-volume work that gives a detailed account of the ethnic groups of Cambodia. All three volumes are lavishly illustrated in color and contain relevant references. The present volume provides in Read More :::
Code WL E22662
Ethnic Groups of Cambodia, Vol.3: Profile of Austro-Thai and Sinitic Speaking People
By :: Schliesinger, Joachim
Bangkok 2011 350 pp., 32 pp. illus. 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$25.00
Ethnic Groups of Cambodia-Profile of Austro-Thai and Sinitic-Speaking Peoples, is the final volume of a compreehensive three-volume work that provides a detailed account of the ethnic groups of Cambodia. All three volumes are lavishly illustrated in color and contain relevant references.
This volum Read More :::
Code WL I9504
Executions by the Half-Dozen: The Pacofication of Burma
By :: Blackburn, Terence R.
New Delhi 2008, 144 pp., 14 pp. illus., 190 x 250 mm
Price :: US$25.00
In the First Anglo-Burmese war of 1824-26 the British could plead, with a certain amount of justification that they were sorely provoked. Whether they were goaded sufficiently to undertake a war lasting two years, where the dead were counted in thousands, and in the case of the Europeans and the Ind Read More :::
Code WL E22724
First Queer Voices from Thailand
By :: Jackson, Peter A.
Bangkok, 2017 301 pp., 10 pp. illus, 150 x 230 mm,
Price :: US$16.50
This is a fully revised and substantially expanded edition of Peter Jackson's highly regarded pioneering study of an Asian gay culture, Male Homosexuality in Thailand (1989). The hero of Jackson's fascinating narrative is "Uncle Go", which was the pen name of a popular magazine editor who, despite Read More :::
Code WL E21201
Flowering Plants of Thailand: A Field Guide
By :: McMakin, Patrick D.
Bangkok 2009, 4th rev. ed.; 283 pp., 120 pp. illus. in col., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$32.00
This expanded edition includes a new chapter and over sixty additional plates of Thailand’s most representative flora. Color plates and descriptions of over five hundred species make plant identification an enjoyable pastime for serious students, nature lovers, tourists or others who wish to learn Read More :::
Code WL N4482
Forest Trees of Southern Thailand Vol. 1. (Acanthaceae to Escalloniaceae)
By :: Gardner, Simon & Pindar Sidisunthorn & Kongkanda Chayamarit
Bangkok 2015 765 pp., fully illus. in col, 175 x 245 mm.
Bangkok 2014 279 pp., 16 pp. illus. 1 pp. folded map, 150 x 210 mm.
Price :: US$22.00
A French Engineer in Burma and Siam (1880), With a Discussion on the Kra Canal Controversy contains a number of discussions on all that a French engineer, hired by the English in Burma, met with during his stay. He was a municipal engineer in Bassein to deal with the aftermath of an earthquake, an e Read More :::
Code WL E21767
French Wolf and the Siamese Lamb, The
By :: Tuck, Patrick
Bangkok 2009, repr. from 1995; 481 pp., 29 pp. illus. in col., 5 maps, 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$28.00
This book explains how narrowly Siam survived the French menace to her independence during the period of the European scramble for colonies. For half a century after arriving in Cochinchina in 1858, the French encroached on Siamese territory and interests in a variety of ways. By the 1890s, French c Read More :::
Code WL E20886
From Ancient Thai to Modern Dialects
By :: Brown, J. Marvin
Bangkok 2007, repr. from 1985; 270 pp., 11 folded charts, 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$20.00
Standard comparative studies usually stop with phoneme correspondence lists, which illustrate neither the phonological system of the languages not the systematic nature of the changes. In this book, “transformation charts” of modern phonemes in the ancient arrangement reveal both of the above me Read More :::
Code WL E22647
From Dashes to Dragons: the Ikats-Patterned Textiles of Southeast Asia
By :: Howard, Michael
Bangkok 2010, 280 pp., 34 pp. illus., 94 pp. illus. in col., 210 x 295 mm
Price :: US$42.00
This works provides a comprehensive survey of Southeast Asia's ikat-patterned textiles. These include some of the most dramatic textiles from the region such as the famous warp ikat-patterned textiles of Sumba along with many textiles that are of great importance to the cultural heritage of the regi Read More :::
Code WL E22239
From Peking to Mandalay
By :: Johnston, Reginal F.
Bangkok 2000, repr. from 1908 510 pp., 36 pp. illus., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$23.00
This reprint describes a journey during January to July 1906, from Weihaiwee, a Treaty Port situated at the easternmost tip of Shantung Province to Rangoon in Burma, with the purpose of gratifying his own desire to visit those parts of China least known to Europeans, and gain knowledge of the tribes Read More :::
Code WL E22646
Fruits and Vegetables in Southeast Asian Markets
By :: Danell, Eric & Anna Kiss & Martina Stoehrova
Bangkok 2010 202 pp., illus. in col., 120 x 235 mm
Price :: US$23.00
This guidebook is your companion on visits to markets, restaurants and orchards. In this first volume we have selected 120 species of fruits, vegetables and mushrooms commonly found in Southeast Asia, Southern China and India. Thereby you will be sure about what you eat, which is important to fully Read More :::
Code WL E22574
Geology and Gem-stones of the Mogok Stone Tract, Burma
By :: Iyer, L. A. N.
Bangkok 2007, repr. from 1953; 102 pp., 4 pp. illus., 2 pp. maps, 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$13.00
This reprint offers historical material on the geology and gem-stones of the Mogok stone tract in Burma. The other works on the subject that have been reprinted are Rubies of Mogok, Book of the Silken East by V.C. Scott O’Connor, with an additional article On the Ruby Mines near Mogok by Robert Go Read More :::
Code WL E22684
German Surgeon's Siamese Army Diary (1909-1911), A.
By :: Schaefer, Friedrich
Bangkok 2013 436 pp., 1 pp. map fold, 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$23.00
is the diary of a Prussian army doctor recruited by the Siamese to build up a medical services department for the army. The army had been reorganized and greatly expanded, but in line with the general state of medicine and especially surgery in the country, the troops were not adequately cared for. Read More :::
Code WL E22720
Going Places, Letting Go...A Novel
By :: Matics, Kim
Bangkok, 2017 766 pp,. 150 x 210 mm.
Price :: US$33.00
Going Places, Letting Go is a slice of life about friends and acquaintances unable to make firm commitments to their dead-end careers and arid relationships. In addition, as the specter of mortality hangs over their heads like the sword of Damocles, the narrative reveals how particular individuals Read More :::
Code WL E22616
Great Mosque of Banda Aceh, the
By :: Bouwsema-Raap, Wilhelmina
Bangkok 2009, 128 pp., illus., 150 x 220 mm
Price :: US$18.00
This book presents the complete history of the iconic monument of Aceh, Sumatra, a crucial symbol of Acehnese identity. We follow the Great Mosque (Masjid Beit ur-Rahmari) from its first incarnation four centuries ago, during Aceh’s Golden Age, through to the local response to colonialism in the 1 Read More :::
Code WL N4749
Handbook of Asclepiads of Thailand
By :: Obchant Thaithong & Aroonrat & Manit Kidyoo
Bangkok, 2018 326 pp., fully illus. in col, 150 x 210 mm.
“Hello My Big Big Honey” ist eine bis dahin nie erzählte Darstellung der Liebesleben von Bangkoker Barmädchen und den Ausländern, von denen die Mädchen gemietet werden - und sich dazu in ihren eigenen Worten bekennen. Eine Sammlung von Liebesbriefen aus der ganzen Welt, an die Ladies of the Read More :::
Code WL E22674
History of Phuket and the Surrounding Region, A.
By :: Mackay, Colin
Bangkok 2013 450 pp., illus. 12 pp. maps, 175 x 250 mm.
Price :: US$50.00
is the first book to comprehensively examine the little-known history of the Phuket region. It incorporates over 1000 direct contemporary writings and quotes from commentators and visitors over the last 2,000 years. The book is divided into 38 chapters and is illustrated with over 100 maps, pictures Read More :::
Code WL N4481
Hoard of Thunder Philippine Short Stories in English 1990 to 2008, Vol. 1. 1990-2008
Ikat Weaving and Ethnic Chinese Influences in Cambodia
By :: Ter Horst, John
Bangkok 2011 111 pp., 21 pp. illus. 16 pp. in col., 1 map. 210 x 295 mm
Price :: US$25.00
It is said that the contemporary Cambodian silk industry is centuries old and can be traced back to the 12th century courts of Angkor. The hand-woven ceremonial dress, the sampot hol, is even considered a national costume and provides the war-stricken Cambodians great pride. However, little is known Read More :::
Code WL E22629
Illustrated Eco-History of Mekong River Basin, An
By :: Akimichi, Tomoya
Bangkok 2009, 211 pp., illus. in col., 1 map, 210 x 295 mm
Price :: US$50.00
This is a broad-ranging study of the interactions transforming people’s livelihoods and their environment in a rapidly-developing yet ecologically diverse region. Encompassing scientific material on climate, health and habitat through to social studies on the large number of ethnic groups, the new Read More :::
Code WL E22438
Indigenous Peoples and Migrants of Northern Papua, Indonesia
By :: Howard, Michael C. and Naffi Sanggenafa
Bangkok 2005, 263 pp., illus. in col., 1 map, 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$28.00
This study provides a contemporary look at social, cultural, and economic aspects of the lives of these peoples. While political problems associated with Indonesia’s western province of Papua (formerly Irian Jaya) have received a great deal of international media attention, studies of the people o Read More :::
Code WL E22641
Indochina
By :: Sarraut, Albert
Bangkok 2010, repr. from 1930; 183 pp., 149 pp. illus., 210 x 295 mm, pbk. (12 pp. in Eng. & 12 pp. in French)
Price :: US$28.00
Indochina is a reprint of the 1930 edition, with photographs mostly from the turn of the century. The French colonizers used the term Indochine to denote their political expansion of five bordering countries, namely, Laos, Cambodia, Cochinchina, with its capital at Saigon, Annam, with its capital at Read More :::
Code WL N3616
Innosense: A Journey of Love
By :: Langat, Nick
Bangkok 2011, 196 pp., fully illus. in col., 295 x 195 mm
Bangkok 2009, 450 pp., 16 pp. illus. in col., 150 x 220 mm
Price :: US$22.00
This book traces the course of Japan’s rising trade relations with Thailand that grew in three decades from insignificance before World War I to making Japan the single biggest exporter to Thailand by the mid-1930s. Trade between the two countries grew even more important as Japan’s increasing p Read More :::
Code WL E22621
Japanese Naval Vessels at the End of World War II
By :: Fukui, Shizuo
Bangkok 2009, repr. from 1947; 248 pp., fully illus., 295 x 215 mm
Price :: US$25.00
This is a very simple form of a record of all combatant vessels and the representative minor miscellaneous vessels, inclusive of special attack crafts of the ex-Imperial Japanese Navy at the end of the war. Some army crafts which had more or less combatant value have also been included. The aim of t Read More :::
Code WL E22694
John Thomson: The Early Years-In Search of the Orient
By :: Montague, Joel & Jim Mizerski
Bangkok 2014 247 pp., illus, 225 x 300 mm.
Price :: US$28.00
John Thomson: The Early Years - In Search of the Orient Presents the early work of one of the greatest figures of nineteenth century photojournalism, the very first man to photograph the exotic and overpowering ruins of Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Born in Edinburgh in 1837, Thomson started his photograp Read More :::
Code WL E22551
Journalist in Siam, A
By :: Freeman, Andrew A.
Bangkok 2007, repr. from 1928; 354 pp., 3 pp. illus., 140 x 210 mm
Price :: US$18.00
This book is an account of Andrew Freeman’s time spent at The Bangkok Daily Mail, an English language newspaper published in Siam during the 1920s. Freeman is asked by King Pradjadhipok himself to take over as editor and encounters a world where pride is the name of the game for Bangkok’s small Read More :::
Code WL E22436
Journey in Siam (1863), A
By :: Bastian, Adolf
Bangkok 2005, 273 pp., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$25.00
A Journey in Siam (1863) contains the travelogue written by Dr Adolf Bastian during his travels in Thailand. Bastian was a renowned ethnographer, who founded both Berlin’s Museum für Völkerkunde (Ethnological Museum) and the Berlin Anthropological Society, and his work contains valuable observat Read More :::
Code WL E22707
Karen Language Phrasebook: Basics of Sgaw Dialect
By :: Rhoden, T. F.
Bangkok 2016 126 pp., 19 pp. illus, 150 x 210 mm.
Price :: US$12.00
Comprehensive guide to the basics of Sgaw dialect of Karen language. Learn key phrases and words to use with any Karen companion, whether they live in Myanmar, Thailand, or wherever in the world. Phrasebook is for more than just learning to survive in a Karen-speaking environment. The goal is also t Read More :::
Code WL N4748
Khmer Rouge Nationalism and Mass Killing: Perception of The Vietnamese
Khon Muang Music and Dance Traditions of North Thaialnd
By :: Shahriari, Andrew C.
Bangkok 2006, 158 pp., fully illus., 24 pp. illus. in col., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$25.00
This work describes in detail the traditional music and dance of northern Thailand—the area of the former Lanna kingdom and its legacy. The author has researched and performed the various musical instruments individually and in ensembles in Thailand and the United States. This book is invaluable f Read More :::
Code WL E22678
Knights of the Realm: Thailand's Military and Police Then and Now
By :: Chambers, Paul
Bangkok 2013 738 pp., 35 pp., illus, 150 x 215 mm,
Price :: US$42.00
Represent the first systematic account of the political history of Thailand’s security sector and the main actors involved. The military and police find their legitimacy through law, a safeguarding of monarchy, or a more ambiguous protection of national security ̶̶ ̶̶ NATION, RELIGION, MONARCH Read More :::
Code WL E22731
Kulap Saipradit ('Sriburapha')
By :: Smyth, David
Bangkok, 2019 255 pp., illus. in back & white, 145 x 207 mm
Price :: US$18.50
Kulap Saipradit (Siburapha) : Journalist and Writer in early 20th Century Siam is the first book-length, English-language account of his work as a journalist and fiction writer. Kulap emerged in the mid-1920s as part of a new generation of fiction writers which rejected the popular trend of translat Read More :::
Code WL E22663
Lao Cooking and the Essence of Life
By :: Fischer-Zernin, Vincent
Vientiane 2010 206 pp., illus., 1 map, 13 pp. in col., 1 cd, 190 x 275 mm
Price :: US$30.00
How the book happened
Ten years ago,after having spent the better part of my time in Thailand, life sent me to laos.
Contrary to knowing everything, with only a river separating these two countries, I knew nothing. There is to this day no book available about Laos which is written with insigh Read More :::
Code WL E22690
Lao Legends
By :: Mixay, Somsanouk & Fleur Brofos Asmussen
Bangkok 2013 136 pp., 51 pp., illus. in col. 200 x 220 mm
Price :: US$33.00
“Once upon a time…..Laos!” Lao Legends,
a collection of magnificent Lao tales
traditionally passed down orally, now particularily
well captured on paper by Somsanouk Mixay and deliciously illustrated
by Fleur Brofos-Asmussen, both of Lao origin, takes one on a voyage through the
imaginary Read More :::
Code WL E22681
Lao Postcards by Alfred Raquez A Collection of His 166 Postacards from 1906
By :: Ande, Diethard
Bangkok 2015 334 pp., illus, 32 pp., in col, 210 x 295 mm
Price :: US$48.00
Lao Postcards by Alfred Raquez is a first attempt to bring together the 166 postcards that were produced in six series of 25 each as Collection Raquez and 16 out-of-series postcards produced by Decoly as Cliché Raquez and later also under his brand La Pagode.
Raquez was the first traveler who syst Read More :::
Code WL E22718
Lao Postcards by Houel, Barbat, Mottet, & Others: Old Postcards Series Vol. 2: Laos
By :: Ande, Diethard
Bangkok, 2017 200 pp.,illus, 16 pp. in col, 210 x 295 mm.
Price :: US$42.00
Lao Postcards by Houel, Barbat, Mottet, and others is the volume 2 of the Old Postcard
Series. This volume covers five postcard publishers who produced Lao postcards: Houel, G.
Barbat, Mottet & Cie, La Maison d’Art Colonial,
Edition de la Cie Coloniale du Laos and a collection of Lao maps on po Read More :::
Code WL E22610
Laos in 1893
By :: Lemire, Charles
Bangkok 2008, first English trans. of 1894; 112 pp., 16 pp. illus., 2 folded maps, 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$18.00
This compelling study by bureaucrat, explorer, traveler, art collector, and guidebook writer, Charles Lemire (1839-1912), offers a highly colored portrait-in-miniature of late-Nineteenth-Century French Indochina vividly documenting the intense Siamese (Thai) and French rivalry in this region. A robu Read More :::
Code WL E22650
Laos in the 1920s: The Gods, Monks and Mountains of Laos
By :: Renaud, Jean
Bangkok 2011, 144 pp., 72 pp. illus., 1 map, 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$18.00
The book presents data and a number of unique photographs in a near-pamphlet published in 1930 to attract investors and tourists to the fledgling French colony of Laos. The book also includes an assessment of development work done there and challenges for the future by staunch colonialist Pierre Del Read More :::
Code WL E22691
Legendes du Laos
By :: Mixay, Somsanouk & Fleur Brofos Asmussen
Bangkok 2013 136 pp., 51 pp. illus. in col, 200 x 220 mm.
Low’s mission was meant to enlist Siamese support for the British invasion of Burma. His mission was a failure, but the report he produced, published here in full for the first time, provides a fascinating picture of the whole area. The Andaman Sea coast of Thailand, from Phuket to the Malaysian b Read More :::
Code WL N4402
Maintaining the Union of Burma 1946-1962: The Role of the Ethnic Nationalities in A Shan Perspective
Bangkok 1996, repr. from 1907; 470 pp., fully illus., 8 pp. illus. in col., 4 folded maps+plans, 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$29.00
First published in 1907, this book is still an important source of information for all who are curious about this fascinating country that has only recently begun the process of change. V.C. Scott O’Connor served in Burma at the turn of the century as a British colonial officer. His extensive trav Read More :::
Code WL E22627
Mandalay to Momien
By :: Anderson, John
Bangkok 2009, repr. from 1876; 522 pp., 16 pp. illus., 2 pp. maps, 2 pp. folded maps, 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$25.00
This account provides a fascinating eye witness summary of two expeditions made in pursuit of what can only be described as a misconceived dream. The idea of a “back door” to China, which excited British speculative greed from the late 1860s, seemed determined to ignore both economic realities a Read More :::
Code WL E22655
Measured Art, the: A Proportional Analysis of Early Khmer Sculpture
By :: Dowling, Nancy
Bangkok 2011 174 pp., 9 pp. illus., 34 pp. in col. 210 x 295 mm.
Price :: US$33.00
The Measured Art: A Proportional Analysis of Early Khmer Sculpture Offers an innovative approach to interpreting early Khmer sculpture. This book presents a proportional analysis in which measurements are taken directly from the images. In the absence of historical evidence about artistic practices Read More :::
Code WL E22560
Meet the Akhas
By :: Goodman, Jim
Bangkok 2008, 196 pp., 48 pp. illus. in col., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$18.00
A comprehensive introduction to the Akha hill tribals of Northern Thailand and their way of life includes a language section to enable you to talk to your hosts. Read More :::
Code WL N3514
Mysterious Bangkok: Ten days in the City of Angels
By :: Frei, Robert
Bangkok 2010, 390 pp., illus., 30 pp. in col., 2 pp. maps, 145 x 210 mm
Price :: US$22.00
Mysterious Bangkok is a lovingly-written cultural and historical city guide which portrays the citizens of Bangkok with heartfelt sensitivity and as such is intended to contribute towards a mutual understanding between our cultures. Read More :::
Code WL E22630
Naypyidaw: The New Capital of Burma
By :: Dulyapak Preecharuhh
Bangkok 2009, 196 pp., illus., 145 x 215 mm
Price :: US$18.00
This book examines the possible factors involved in the current relocation of the capital in order to enrich and enhance an understanding about contemporary Burma, or the Union of Myanmar, in various aspects—including History, Geography, Political Science, Military Science, Economics, Sociology an Read More :::
Code WL E22550
Nick Knatterton Vol.2: 100 Neue Abenteuer des Beruehmten Meisterdetektivs Erzaehlt und ezeichnet
The earliest comprehensive study of the animal shaped weights from Burma, comonly referred to as Opium Weights. It was first published in 1983 in three languages and is now available again in a smaller version in English only. (A print-on-demand edition from Myanmar (Burma) Read More :::
Code WL E22686
Pagan and Burma in 1899: A Millennium of Buddhist Temple Art
By :: Thomann, Th. H
Bangkok 2014 314 pp. illus. 8 pp. in col, 1 pp. folded map,150 x 210 mm.
Price :: US$25.00
Pagan and Burma in 1899. A Millennium of Buddhist Temple Art documents the research and travels of a German scholar-collector of Buddhist art. The ethnologist, connected with the Hamburg Museum for Ethnology, spend years studying Pagan in present-day Myanmar, one of the largest collections of Buddhi Read More :::
Code WL E22437
Participatory Approaches for Sustainable Land use in Southeast Asia
By :: Neef, Andreas
Bangkok 2005, 428 pp., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$28.00
This work comprises in-depth analyses and discussion of Participatory Research and Development in action, with emphasis on the needs of rural communities in marginal regions of Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao P.D.R., Nepal, the Philippines, South China, Thailand and Vietnam. 38 scientists and development p Read More :::
Code WL T28291
Pasa Phu-Thai puer Sukkapab Phu Thai-Thai-English: Phu-Thai Language for Health, Phuthai-Thai-English
By :: Mollerup, Asger and Thanyalak Chaisuk Mollerup
Bangkok 2013 80 pp., illus. in col., 1 map, 210 x 295 mm
People, Livelihoods, and Development in the Xekong River Basin, Laos
By :: Baird, Ian G. & Bruce Shoemaker
Bangkok, 2008 497 pp., 36 pp. illus., 2 pp. maps, 150 x 220 mm
Price :: US$22.00
This is a wide-ranging study that provides an overview of the area’s history and geography as well as the cultures and livelihood systems of the people living there. Central to the study is a detailed description of the acute social, cultural, economic and ecological challenges that locals are fac Read More :::
Code WL E22723
Phuket Days, Life in the Island Fast Lane
By :: Campbell, Patrick
Bangkok, 2017 215 pp., 147 x 210 mm,
Price :: US$16.50
Phuket Days is a “must-read” for anyone who visits, lives, or plans a ride on this island roller-coaster. Knowledgeable, affectionate and funny, this new book - part story, part guide, opens up a wide-ranging perspective, with fresh insights into one of the worlds’ top tourist attractions. Bas Read More :::
Code WL E22651
Picture Postcards of Cambodia 1900-1950
By :: Montague, Joel G.
Bangkok 2010, 337 pp., illus., 19 pp. in col., 210 x 300 mm
Price :: US$38.00
An ambitious study of Cambodia's colonial history, this book examines picture postcards, a novel visual source that exploded as a revolutionary form of popular communication during the first half of the twentieth century. French military, civil servants and tourists bought thousands of exotic pictur Read More :::
Code WL E22666
Plumeria in Thailand: A Guide to 235 Varieties
By :: Pein, Joerg
Bangkok, 2012 205 pp., 79 pp. illus. in col. 150 x 215 mm.
Price :: US$32.00
Plumeria in Thailand : A Guide to 235 Varieties lists and illustrates 235 horticultural varieties and species of mainly Thai origin-many of them never described before. The plumeria of frangipani is a magnificent flowering tropical tree, unrivalled for its exquisite colors and fragrances. Written fo Read More :::
Code WL E22439
Political Struggles in Laos (1930-1954)
By :: Gunn, Geoffrey C.
Bangkok 2005, 382 pp., 6 pp. illus., 3 maps, 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$25.00
This is the first detailed history of the origins of communism, ethno-nationalism and nationalism in the former French colony. Communism first took root in Laos under Vietnamese auspices in 1930, the year Ho Chi Minh’s Indochinese Communist Party was founded. Anti-French nationalism under the Lao Read More :::
Code WL E22711
Politics of (no) Elections in Thailand: Lessons from the 2011 General Election, the
By :: Merieau, Eugenie
Bangkok, 2016 278 pp., 145 x 210 mm.
Price :: US$23.00
The book was borne out of the idea that the 2011 election represents a paradigm shift
in the history of Thai electoral politics. Data collected by King Prajadhipok’s Institute
before and after the 2011 election, mostly through face-to-face interviews, came to
substantiate this claim. The data p Read More :::
Code WL E22490
Pre-Angkorian Temple of Preah Ko, the
By :: Falser, Michael S.
Bangkok 2006, 261 pp., illus., 48 pp. illus. in col., 210 x 300 mm
Price :: US$42.00
The temple of Preah Ko, built in the 9th century AD, represents a unique transition point between the Pre-Angkorian and the Angkorian periods. It is undoubtedly one of the most important temple structures in Khmer architecture, if not in whole South-East Asia. This temple gave a whole range of 9th c Read More :::
Code WL E22687
Preah Vihear: A Guide to the Thai-Cambodian Conflict and Its Solutions
By :: Charnvit Kasetsir, Pou Sothirak, Pavin Chachavalpongpun
Bangkok 2013 127 pp., 8 pp. illus, 150 x 210 mm.
Price :: US$16.00
Why does the old wound between Thailand and Cambodia since 1962 reopen again in the 2000s? This time it is potentially more dangerous than half a century earlier. This book offers not only the explanations of the conflict -- from the legacies of the colonial era to the political situations that led Read More :::
Code WL E22623
Professional Stranger
By :: Mulder, Niels
Bangkok 2009, 210 pp., 16 pp. illus., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$18.00
This study relates the adventure of doing anthropology in an unruly period, whose events sometimes affected the research. The story is basically concerned with the process of coming to grips with the logic of Thai life, such as formally recorded in Everyday Life in Thailand; An Interpretation and In Read More :::
Code WL E22719
Pwo Karen in Focus: Photographs, field notes and memoirs, Dong Luang, 1960s North Thailand
By :: Hinton, Elizabeth
Bangkok, 2017 365 pp., illus, 145 x 210 mm,
Price :: US$22.00
Pwo Karen in Focus: Photographs, field notes and memoirs, Dong Luang, 1960s North Thailand, records sixteen months in 1968 - 69 that anthropologist Peter Hinton and his wife Elizabeth spent in Dong Luang, a Pwo Karen village in the hills of North Thailand. Peter was specifically studying Karen swidd Read More :::
Code WL E22673
Rails of the Kingdom: The History of Thai Railways
By :: Kakisaki, Ichiro
Bangkok 2012 228 pp.,53 pp. Figures, 80 pp., illus. 16 pp. Plates, 210 x 295 mm
Price :: US$28.00
Rails of the Kingdom is an outline of railway history in Thailand intended for general readers, summarizing the author’s previous research in transport in Thailand. It aims to present a general history of Thai railways from the latter half of the nineteenth century to the present, focusing on chan Read More :::
Code WL E22637
Railway Atlas of Thailand, Laos & Cambodia
By :: Whyte, Brendan
Bangkok 2010, 280 pp., 40 pp. illus., 16 pp. illus. in col., 32 pp. maps in col., 210 x 270 mm
Price :: US$32.00
The atlas presents detailed maps of three Southeast Asian countries, depicting every known railway, tramway and mass-transit line, public or private, past and present. The bilingual maps locate and name every station in both local and Romanized scripts. In addition, the extensive text describes the Read More :::
Code WL E22669
Railways of Tramways of Viet Nam, the
By :: Doling, Tim
Bangkok 2012 423 pp.,illus. 17 pp. maps, 210 x 295 mm
Price :: US$42.00
The Railways and Tramways of Việt Nam is the result of two years of research and is the first in-depth English language history of Việt Nam’s rail and tram networks, from their inception to the present day.
Drawing on both French and Vietnamese archival materials__many only recently made avai Read More :::
Code WL E22612
Rangda, Bali's Queen of the Witches
By :: Fossey, Claire
Bangkok 2008, 118 pp., 8 pp. illus., 4 pp. illus. in col., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$17.00
This book presents a distinctive and revealing new approach to this Bali Hindu figure. For decades, Rangda has been presented to the world as a terrifying and monstrous old woman who rules the dark forces and is the enemy of all things good. Relying on a series of interviews with men and women livin Read More :::
Code WL N4888
Reamker: The Cambodian Ramayana: Gods Demons and Heroes, The Ancient Inscriptions from the Mural Paintings of the Temple of the Emerald Buddha Part I: Khmer Inscriptions
By :: Stevens, Arjay
Phnom Penh, 2019 (Cambodian + English + French) 394 pp., fully illus. in col, 280 x 310 mm. 54 pp., 210 x 290 mm (slip case)
Red Vs. Yellow Vol. 2: Thailand's Political Awakening
By :: Nostitz, Nick
Bangkok 2011, 224 pp., fully illus. in col., 1 map, 155 x 220 mm
Price :: US$33.00
The second volume of Nostitz’s “Red vs. Yellow” covers the protests of the Red Shirts against the Abhisit Vejajiva government in 2009, culminating in the Songkran riots in April 2009, the defeat and eventual transformation of the Red Shirt movement into a social mass movement by autumn 2009. N Read More :::
Code WL N4477
Revolving Doors: A Novel
By :: Matics, Kim
Bangkok 2015 398 pp., 150 x 210 mm,
Price :: US$22.00
The main character impulsively changes his travel plans and lands in Bangkok seeking a long-lost acquaintance for whom he has carried a torch many years, without admitting this fact to himself until now. Since Thailand is a completely new country for him, he has several unusual adventures, some plea Read More :::
Code WL E22700
Royal Siamese State Railway Southern Line 1917
By :: Ministry of Communication
Bangkok, 2016 215 pp., illus, 3 pp. folded maps, 210 x 300 mm,
Price :: US$28.00
The seven parts deal with
1 Souvenir of the Opening of the Royal Siamese State Railway, Southern Line, 1917
2 Royal State Railways Siam, Southern Line, 1915
3 Photographs Relating to the Siamese Railway, 1898-1904
4 Railway Stations
5 Thirtieth Annual Report on the Administ Read More :::
Code WL E22571
Rubies of Mogok: Thabeit-Kyin, Capelan, Mogok
By :: O'Connor, V. C. Scott
Bangkok 2008, repr. from 1904; 158 pp., text illus., 8 pp. illus., 8 pp. in col., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$18.00
This reprint covers book 12 (chapters 44-48) of The Silken East: A Record of Life and Travel in Burma, which was published in 1904. This reprint has five additional photographs from Natural History 1928, the Journal of the American Museum of Natural History. These pictures show scenes from Mogok and Read More :::
Code WL E22572
Ruby Mine District
By :: George, E. C. S.
Bangkok 2007, repr. from 1962; 166 pp., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$18.00
This is the third historical reprint in the series on this subject. The other two reprints are Rubies of Mogok, which covers book 12 (chapters 44-48 of The Silken East by Scott O’Connor, published in 1904) and “Ruby Mine District” of the Burma Gazetteer. This reprint includes prints from The I Read More :::
Code WL E22706
Sacred Caves of Tam Ting (Pak Ou), Luang Prabung of Tam, Laos Mystery, Splendor, and Desecration
By :: Egloff, Brian & Kristin Kelly
Bangkok 2015 166 pp., illus. 32 pp. in col, 4 pp. maps. 150 x 210 mm.
Price :: US$17.00
Sacred Caves of Tam Ting (Pak On), Luang Prabung, Laos: Mystery, Splendor, and Desecration is the story of the eaves, of the collabora¬tive international conservation project, and of what happened after the project closed in 1997. It places the caves in context and explains their significance and b Read More :::
Code WL E22626
Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese Warrior and Merchant in Early Seventeenth-Century Siam
By :: Polenghi, Cesare
Bangkok 2008, 108 pp., 16 pp. illus. in col., 150 x 220 mm
Price :: US$18.00
A fascinating account of the life and the times of a unique historical character: a mysterious Japanese merchant-warrior who made his fame and fortune in the bustling city that was Ayutthaya in the early Seventeenth-Century. His deeds—historical and fictional—have been narrated in Japan for more Read More :::
Code WL N3489
Sanskrit-English Philosophical Wordlist
By :: Freeland, Christopher
Chiang Mai 2007, 432 pp., 225 x 285 mm
Price :: US$63.00
Intended for students of Indian philosophy and language, this wordlist is a compendium of about three thousand five hundred terms compiled to help in the study of Indian philosophical systems, with a special emphasis on Shankara’s Kevaladvaita system. Logically enough, the lexicon refers to terms Read More :::
Code WL E22730
Scramble for Rails :
By :: Kakizaki, Ichiro
Bangkok, 2019 303 pp., illus. 12 pp. in col, 210 x 295 mm, pbk.
The Shan Conundrum in Burma is the personal account of historical and political events over a span of sixty years from 1940s to the early 2000s. The author, a son of the Shan politician Namkham U Htun Aye who had served as Member of Parliament, state minister, and head of Shan State from the late 19 Read More :::
Code WL E22653
Shivapada in Khmer Art
By :: Sahai, Sachchidanand
Bangkok 2011 138 pp., illus. 19 pp. in col. 7 pp. maps, 210 x 295 mm
Price :: US$22.00
Shivapada in Khmer Art offers a fascinating account of Shiva, the enigmatic god of the Hindu pantheon, ever present on the earth as ascetic, householder, and even as cultivator. Based on the original Sanskrit and Khmer literary sources, and the most recent archaeological research, the narrative deve Read More :::
Code WL E22639
Siam on the Meinam From the Gulf to Ayuthia
By :: Sommerville, Maxwell
Bangkok 2010, repr. from 1897; 292 pp., 52 pp. illus., 1 folded map, 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$18.00
This reprint comes in two parts. The first part covers all aspects of life in Bangkok in 1897. The author describes his trip from Singapore to Bangkok; the hotel, the city, the bazaars, Wat Poh, evening on the Meinam, the library, the museum, Wat Cheng, prison and shop (with interesting remarks on w Read More :::
Code WL E22173
Siam's Rural Economy under King Chulalongkorn
By :: Dilok Nabarath, Prince
Bangkok 2000, first English trans. of 1908 354 pp., 24 pp. illus., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$18.00
This dissertation by Prince Dilok Nabarath, Prince of Siam, son of HM King Chulalongkorn and Chao Chom Manda Dibakesorn of Chiang Mai, was submitted at the University of Tübingen, Germany. The book covers virtually every aspect of the agricultural base of Thailand’s economy at the turn of the pre Read More :::
Code WL N4879
Slices of Thai History from the Curious & Controversial to the Heroic & Hardy
By :: Stearn, Duncan
Bangkok, 2019 178 pp., 36 pp. illus. 150 x 215 mm,
Attempting to identify the European artistic roots of some of his father's paintings, the art dealer flies to France to soak up the ambiance. While exploring Paris, an old flame turns up unexpectedly. Sharing a kindred interest in Cathar history, the couple embarks on a life-changing journey throu Read More :::
Code WL E22518
Spirit Houses of Thailand, The
By :: Reichart, Peter A. & Pathawee Khongkhunthian
Bangkok 2007, 132 pp., illus., 40 pp. illus. in col., 210 x 295 mm
Price :: US$32.00
This book provides a comprehensive overview of this custom, describing the different types of spirit houses in Thailand. It devotes one chapter to the worship of the Lord of the Land and what to offer him to keep him satisfied and in good moods. The ceremony how to install a spirit house is describe Read More :::
Code WL E22466
Spirits and Souls
By :: Sparkes, Stephen
Bangkok 2005, 291 pp., 8 pp. illus. in col., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$25.00
An anthropological study of the complex and rich cosmology of the Isan. The interrelationship between gender concepts and religious practices is analyzed through the symbolism of some of the most important Buddhist and household rituals in the setting of a large village in Loei Province. This approa Read More :::
Code WL E22692
Spirits in the Loom: Religion and Design in Lao-Tai Textiles
By :: Findle, Ellison Banks
Bangkok 2014 320 pp., illus. 31 pp., in col, 1 map, 210 x 295 mm
Price :: US$43.00
Spirits in the Loom: Religion and Design in Lao-Tai Textiles is the first study of Lao-Tai textiles to focus specifically on the relation between the figural designs of the textiles and their religious meaning and use. Based primarily on interviews with weavers and shamans from Hua Phan province, La Read More :::
Code WL E22465
Spirits of the Yellow Leaves: The Enigmatic Hunter-Gathers of Northern Thailand, The
By :: Bernatzik, Hugo Adolf
Bangkok 2005, 272 pp., 56 pp. illus., 2 pp. maps, 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$25.00
A colorful travel account and documentary work by the Austrian ethnographer and photographer Hugo A. Bernatzik. First published in German in 1938 under the title Die Geister der gelben Blätter it is long since out of print. This is an important work for several reasons and it is certainly worth pub Read More :::
Code WL N3461
Street Map of the Cities of Ubon Ratchathani & Warin Chamrap, Scale: 1:14,200 with Enlargements of Central Ubon Rathchathani and Warin Chamrap at 1:6,500., 1 Kilometre grid.
Bangkok 2006, repr. from 1906; 448 pp., 7 pp. illus., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$15.00
This reprint presents an exhaustive study on an aspect of cultural heritage that can be found in many different cultures across Asia, America and Europe. There seem to be two main groups. In the European and Asiatic type two strings pass around the back of each hand and the crossing loops are taken Read More :::
Code WL E22514
Ta Prohm: A Glorious Era in Angkor Civilization
By :: Kapur, Pradeep Kumar & Sachidanand Sahai
Bangkok 2007, 240 pp., 102 pp. illus., 34 pp. plans, 215 x 295 mm
Price :: US$45.00
The authors offers a new look at the biography of Jayavarman VII, focusing on the ideology of abnegation followed by this Angkorian monarch. With his well-developed policy of public welfare, the king surpassed the contemporary European kings. The monograph shows how Ta Prohm was intricately connecte Read More :::
Code WL E21866
Tai Race, Elder Brother of the Chinese, The
By :: Dodd, William Clifton
Bangkok 1996, repr. from 1923; 388 pp., fully illus., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$25.00
This book was of great importance for the intellectual and political history of Thailand during the first part of the century. Its traces can still be found in those chapters of Thai schoolbooks that deal with the original homeland of the Thais. The account of Dodd’s explorations in the southern p Read More :::
Code WL N4758
Taking it up the Blindside
By :: Prichard, Jon
Bangkok, 2019 272 pp., 31 pp. illus, 5 pp. maps, 150 x 215 mm.
Tending the Spirits: The Shamanic Experience in Northeadtern Laos
By :: Findly, Ellison Banks
Bangkok 2016 266 pp., fully illus. in col, 210 x 295 mm.
Price :: US$42.00
This study of shamans in northeastern Laos details the call, training, and ritual practice of female and male healers, as well as of male funeral shamans who guide the deceased's spirit to heaven.
Based almost exclusively on interviews with shamans and weavers in mountain and urban villages of Hua Read More :::
Code WL E22657
Textile Traditions in Contemporary Southeast Asia
By :: Howard, Michael C.
Bangkok 2012 175 pp., 67 pp., illus. in col. 210 x 295 mm.
Price :: US$33.00
Textiles Traditions in Contemporary Southeast Asia includes eight chapters that examine different aspects of the cultural role of textiles in Southeast Asia today. The topics include the relationship between textiles and art with case studies of Tai peoples and Indonesia, The revival of natural dyei Read More :::
Code WL E22575
Textiles and Identity in Brunei Darussalam
By :: Wahsalfelah, Siti Norkhalbi Haji
Bangkok 2007, 142 pp., 35 pp. illus. in col., 210 x 295 mm
Price :: US$28.00
This book examines the role of traditional hand-woven textiles in modern Brunei Darussalam. It examines the types of textiles and the roles that they have played in different situations, such as indicators of social status, wealth, and political prominence. The study focuses on how locally woven tex Read More :::
Code WL E22443
Textiles of the Highland Peoples of Burma Vol. I: The Naga, Chin, Jingpho, and Other Baric-speaking Groups
By :: Howard, Michael C.
Bangkok 2005, 372 pp., fully illus., 4 pp. maps, 215 x 295 mm
Price :: US$52.00
Volume 1 focuses on the speakers of Tibeto-Burma languages that are classified as Baric. These include numerous groups of Naga, Chin as well as the Mru, Jingpho, Kado, Riang, and Meithei. The majority of these peoples live in the western highlands of Burma as well as in neighboring areas of Banglade Read More :::
Code WL E22685
Textiles, Crafts and Customs of Burma's Women World (1910)
By :: Scherman, Lucian & Christine
Bangkok 2014 191 pp., 64 pp., illus, 1 map, 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$16.00
Textiles, Crafts and Customs of Burma’s Women World (1910) documents the travels of a German couple researching Burma’s tribal women in 1910-1911. Published in 1922 as a complement to scientific articles with the purpose of making available unique photographic material it has long remained obscu Read More :::
Code WL N3496
Thai Democracy in Crisis: 27 Truths
By :: Chaturon Chaisang
Bangkok 2009, 286 pp., 44 pp. illus., 145 x 210 mm
Price :: US$17.00
In this book, Chaturon Chaisang addresses key issues on Thai Democracy in a head-on manner. Among other things, he offers his views on the activities of former Prime Minister Dr. Thaksin Shinawatra. He presents a thought-provoking analysis of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD—the “Yello Read More :::
Code WL E22679
Thai Food Complex, the
By :: Poupon, Roland
Bangkok 2013 353 pp., 5 pp. maps, 150 x 210 mm,
Price :: US$25.00
The Thai Food Complex: From the Rice Fields to Industrial and Organic Foods
Constitutes a fascinating paradox. Global companies such as CP and Red Bull have emerged side-by-side with more traditional rice growers. And not only are they all thriving together, they actually strengthen each other. Read More :::
Bangkok 2009, 240 pp., illus., 24 pp. in col., 150 x 215 mm
Price :: US$25.00
This is the first comprehensive survey of all aspects of Thai mural painting. It includes short versions of the most important Buddhist stories extensively illustrated by depictions from temple murals. The historical overview includes all regions and periods, based on materials from nearly two-hundr Read More :::
Code WL E22636
Thai Mural Paintings Vol. 2: Society, Preservation and Subjects
By :: Jaiser, Gerhard
Bangkok 2010, 268 pp., 64 pp. illus. in col., 1 CD-ROM in pocket, 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$26.00
This is a continuation of Thai Mural Painting, Volume 1: Iconography, Analysis and Guide. Together these volumes provide a concise overview of all aspects of Thai mural painting. The main body of this second volume considers important aspects of Thai everyday life and culture as reflected in mural p Read More :::
Code WL E22625
Thai Native Orchids 1
By :: Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden
Chiang Mai 2008 310 pp., fully illus. in col., 215 x 305 mm
Bangkok 2012 289 pp., 16 pp. illus. in col. 150 x 210 mm.
Price :: US$22.00
Thai Popular Music is an analysis of luk krung, luk thung, phleng phuea chiwit, and Thai pop, forms of music played for both rural and urban audiences in Thailand. Luk thung is used also as a political tool, as rural Thais become more politically aware. Music plays an extremely important role in Tha Read More :::
Code WL E22714
Thai Soaps: An Analysis of Thai Television Dramas
By :: Jaiser, Gerhard
Bangkok, 2017 240 pp., 16 pp. illus. in illus, 150 x 210 mm.
Price :: US$23.00
Thai Soaps, An Analysis of Thai Television Dramas is the first study to describe
their full significance as a culture-specific narrative formula. Thai soap operas
are one of the most prominent aspects of present-day Thai popular culture.
Based on a substantial corpus, the book analyses f Read More :::
Code WL N3407
Thailand Easy: Guide to Travel, Language, Retirement & Relationships
By :: Klein, Ken
Bangkok 2009, 141 pp., 145 x 210 mm
Price :: US$8.00
“I have to say that I’ve never read anything quite like Thailand Easy. Don’t expect to sit back and be a placid observer, along for the ride. This book helps you to dive in head-first and explore what it means to be Thai. And when you come out on the other side, you find that you know a lot mo Read More :::
Code WL N3529
Thaksin's Thailand: Populism & Polarisation
By :: Funston, John
Bangkok 2010, 145 pp., 145 x 210 mm
Price :: US$13.00
This report was published by the Institute of Security and International Studies at Chulalongkorn University in co-operation with the National Thai Studies Centre of the Australian National University and brings together six papers on the former prime minister’s governments. The papers include exp Read More :::
Code WL E22071
The Country and People of Siam
By :: Doehring, Karl
Bangkok 1999 206 pp., 142 pp. illus., 210 x 290 mm
Price :: US$25.00
Photographic Impressions of Siam is the first English translation of Siam, Land und Volk, accompanied by 142 pages of original photographs. The architect Karl Dohring lived and worked in Siam during King Chulalongkorn's Reign. He was involved in many different projects for the king as well as for go Read More :::
Code WL E22713
The Nagas: Memories of Headhunters, Indo-Burmese Borderland Vol. 1
By :: Drouyer, Isabel Azevedo & Rene
Bangkok, 2016 267 pp., 272 images, 112 figures, 160 plates, 215 x 305 mm
Price :: US$25.00
'THE NAG AS - Memories of Headhunters - Indo-Burmese Borderlands - Volume 1'
gives voice to the last protagonists of an almost vanished world. For the first time, former Naga headhunters and families talk extensively about their past, their fears and their hopes. Based on fieldwork and in-depth int Read More :::
Code WL E22722
Three Women of Annan
By :: Chivas-Baron, Clothilde
Bangkok, 2018 220 pp., 145 x 210 mm.
Price :: US$18.00
Three Women of Annam. Womanhood in 1920s Vietnam was written by a French feminist of the early hours. She tells the story of three local women, contrasting their destinies as they belonged to different social strata. They are the daughter of a high-placed official called against her will to the impe Read More :::
Code WL E22667
Tibetan People and Their Stories in the 20th Century
By :: Zhang Xiaoming & Jin Zhiguo. Etc.
Beijing 2012 221 pp., illus. 92 pp. in col. 165 x 240 mm.
Price :: US$18.00
Is a brief version in 41 chapters from the Chinese point of view. It starts with the anti British war, the prelude to the 20th century. The British attacks in late 19th century in Tibet. It deals with the 13th Dalai Lama, the Simla Conference, the 9th, 10th, 11th Panchen Lama, founding of the Tibeta Read More :::
Code WL E22715
Titillating Tales from Northern Thailand
By :: Brun, Viggo
Bangkok, 2017 263 pp.,145 x 210 mm,
Price :: US$16.50
Titillating Tales from Northern Thailand is an unusual and fascinating collection of tales from Northern Thailand containing - besides myths, legends, trickster tales, fairy tales, anecdotes etc - also a number of tales where sex is a central theme. The author of this volume spent several years in Read More :::
Code WL E22688
Tor Chor Dor: Thailand's Border Patrol Police (BPP) Vol, 1
By :: Desmond, Ball
Bangkok 2013 767 pp., 128 pp. illus. in col, 150 x 220 mm.
Price :: US$52.00
Volume 1 of an exhaustive two-volume study of Thailand’s Tamruat Trawen Chaidaen, or Border Patrol Police (BPP), provides a general history of the corps, its organization and deployment throughout Thailand, its personnel structure, and a discussion of the equipment it has on hand. To exemplify the Read More :::
Code WL E22689
Tor Chor Dor: Thailand's Border Patrol Police (BPP) Vol. 2
By :: Desmond, Ball
Bangkok 2013 922 pp., 4 pp. maps, 128 pp. illus. in col, 150 x 215 mm,
Price :: US$55.00
Tor Chor Dor: Thailand’s Border Patrol Police (BPP) is an exhaustive two-volume study of the Tamruat Trawen Chaidaen (Tor Chor Dor or BPP), which is clearly the most professional of all Thailand’s paramilitary organizations. Volume 2 provides detailed information about the BPP’s current activi Read More :::
Code WL E22644
Trade in Human Beings for Sex in Southeast Asia, The
By :: Le Roux, Pierre & Jean Baffie & Gilles Beullier (Eds)
Bangkok 2010, 512 pp., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$25.00
This collection of papers brings together 28 senior scholars and experts hailing from all over the world in various disciplines: ethnology and social anthropology, sociology, geography, political science, psychology, pscho-criminology, medicine, law, economics, history as well as humanitarian assist Read More :::
Code WL E21729
Traditional Herbal Medicine in Northern Thailand
By :: Brun, Viggo and Trond Schumacher
Bangkok 2007, repr. from 1987; 390 pp., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$25.00
This study is a pioneering work offering a comprehensive analysis of the herbal medical tradition in rural Northern Thailand. The focus of the research is the description and classification of local disease concepts and the complex relationships between diseases, plants, drugs, and prescriptions. Th Read More :::
Code WL E22709
Traditional Thai Medicine: Buddhism Animism, Yoga, Ayurveda
By :: Salguero, C. Pierce
Bangkok, 2016 136 pp., 17 pp. illus, 1 map, 150 x 210 mm.
Price :: US$17.00
Traditional Thai Medicine, Revised Edition presents readers with the definitive overview of the history and contemporary practice of TTM. This is an updated, re-organized, and mostly re-written edition of the 2007 book that provided English-language readers with the first comprehensive overview of t Read More :::
Code WL E22117
Travels in Siam, Cambodia, Laos and Annam Vol, 1
By :: Mouhot, Henri
Bangkok 2009, repr. from 1864; 424 pp., illus., 24 pp. illus. in col., folded map in pocket, 1 map, 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$25.00
Originally published as: Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam, Cambodia and Laos during the Years 1858, 1859 and 1860)
This travelogue is a classic description of parts of Cambodia, Laos, and Siam in the Reign of King Mongkut. Henri Mouhot is best known for re-discovering the ruins of A Read More :::
Code WL E22628
Travels in Siam, Cambodia, Laos and Annam Vol. 2: Natural History Observations
By :: Mouhot, Henri
Bangkok 2009, 142 pp., 3 pp. illus., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$12.00
Originally published as Travels in the Central Parts of lndo-China: Siam, Cambodia and Laos during the Years 1858, 1859 and 1860, this book offers a classic description of parts of Cambodia, Laos and Siam during the reign of King Mongkut. Volume 2 covers Mouhot’s scientific research that included: Read More :::
Code WL E22531
Tribal World of the Eastern Himalaya and Indo-Burma Borderlands
By :: Dalton, Edward Tuite
Bangkok 2007, repr. from 1872; 446 pp., 37 pp. illus., 210 x 300 mm
Price :: US$50.00
This is the first complete reprint of Edward Tuite Dalton’s Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal in more than 130 years. The term “Bengal” in Dalton’s time referred to what are now the Indian states of Bihar, Orissa, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Tripura, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Megalaya, Manipur, Mi Read More :::
Code WL E22698
Twentieth Century Impressions of Burma
By :: Wright, Arnold & H. A. Cartwright & O. Breakspear
Bangkok 2015 (Originally in 1910) 416 pp., illus. 230 x 310 mm.
Price :: US$58.00
Twentieth Century Impressions of Burma is part of a series on the British Empire that deals with the empire’s history, people, commerce, industries, and resources. This publication is one of a now lengthy series, designed to give a literary survey of the various component parts of the British Empi Read More :::
Code WL E22618
Ultimate Guide to Chinese Tea, the
By :: Hinsch, Bret
Bangkok 2008 155 pp., 31 pp. illus., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$15.00
This is the first comprehensive and accurate book in English on the fine art of Chinese tea. Given its light taste and wholesome properties, Chinese tea is the ideal natural beverage. The book clearly explains how to intelligently buy, prepare, and appreciate the world’s healthiest drink. There ar Read More :::
Code WL I9579
Vaishali and the Indianization of Arakan
By :: Singer, Noel F.
New Delhi 2008, 233 pp., 2 pp. maps, 28 pp. illus. in col., 190 x 250 mm
Price :: US$25.00
A rather comprehensive description of a little-known Indianized kingdom in Arakan. The book includes history, traces of Buddhism, inscriptions, court rites, coins, religious beliefs and museum introductions. Read More :::
Code WL E22683
Vanishing Traces, The: Vernacular Housing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts
By :: Ahmed, Iftekhar
Bangkok 2013 105 pp., illus, 150 x 210 mm.
Price :: US$13.00
is a study of eleven minorities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region of Bangladesh and their dwellings. It is a unique documentation of this architecture. The region in the southeast of Bangladesh, facing the Arakan region of Burma, is a hilly part of this otherwise largely flat country. It is the Read More :::
Code WL E22656
Village-based Silk Production in Northeast Thailand
By :: Patcharin Lapanun & Barbara Earth, Benjawan Narasaj, Patcharin Ruchuwarara , Soutthanome Keola
Bangkok 2012 177 pp., 73 pp., illus. in col. 210 x 295 mm.
Price :: US$28.00
The book is an important study of the silk industry in Thailand. It provides a brief history of the industry and examines the role of the Thai government, private companies, and non-government organizations in promoting the industry. The authors study six villages that are integrated into the indust Read More :::
Code WL N3554
War Crimes in Gaza and The Zionist Fifth Column in America
By :: Petras, James
Atlanta, 2010 132 pp., 23 pp. illus., 155 x 230 mm
Bangkok 2010, repr. from 1986; 412 pp., 16 pp. illus., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$25.00
This is a political history of Republican Sinkiang 1911-1949 and provides a detailed study of Sinkiang (Xinjiang)—China’s largest province, and of great strategic importance on the Russian border during the Warlord and Kuomintang Eras. It is written to present an analysis of the internal warlord Read More :::
Code WL E22483
Ways of Perception
By :: Durrer, Hans
Bangkok 2006, 158 pp., 150 x 210 mm
Price :: US$13.00
This book comprises three essays that will give you a good understanding of intercultural communication, of linguistic relativity, and of documentary photography. These texts will help you to communicate effectively across cultures by making you aware of the various verbal and non-verbal forms in w Read More :::
Code WL E22007
Wondering Into Thai Culture or Thai Whys and Otherwise
By :: Redmond, Mont
Bangkok 2012 361 pp., 145 x 210 mm,
Price :: US$17.00
Wondering into Thai Culture explores the many facets of the debate about culture and one which can never be fairly resolved on Western terms alone. It shows what these and many other issues mean from a Tahi point of view. Newcomers and tourists will encounter nuggets of information and insight that Read More :::
Code WL E22617
World Between The Warps, A: Southeast Asia's Supplementary Warp Textiles
By :: Howard, Michael C.
Bangkok 2008, 227 pp., 135 pp. illus. in col., 210 x 295 mm
Price :: US$48.00
This is the first comprehensive study of Southeast Asia’s weaving techniques and supplementary warp and warp float patterned textiles. Such textiles have received relatively little attention in the past even though they are an important part of the textile legacy of the region, linking peoples to Read More :::
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