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Book The Cambodian Agony

Download or read book The Cambodian Agony written by David A. Ablin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1987 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, experts provide both a comprehensive introduction to the Bosnian crisis, and a detailed case study of the attempts of the conflicting parties, external powers, and international organizations to resolve it. It draws out the long and short-term implications of the Bosnian case.

Book Revival  the Cambodian Agony  1990

Download or read book Revival the Cambodian Agony 1990 written by David A. Ablin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 1990: Cambodia, it has been said, has gone through the most radical social upheaval and transformation of any country in recorded history. From the overthrow of Prince Sihanouk, who ruled for 29 year, in 1970 to the victory of the Cambodian Communist Party in 1975, Cambodia suffered massive saturation bombing and an unusually violent civil war. It is estimated that half a million people of the seven million total population died. From 1975 to the end 1978 as many as another three million perished because of the brutal policies of the government, and spurred the civil war that has been simmering ever since. In this book, the world's leading experts on Cambodia and the politics of Indochina address the major issues facing Cambodia since the overthrow of the Pol Pot regime in 1978.

Book Revival  The Cambodian Agony  1990

Download or read book Revival The Cambodian Agony 1990 written by David A. Ablin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 1990: Cambodia, it has been said, has gone through the most radical social upheaval and transformation of any country in recorded history. From the overthrow of Prince Sihanouk, who ruled for 29 year, in 1970 to the victory of the Cambodian Communist Party in 1975, Cambodia suffered massive saturation bombing and an unusually violent civil war. It is estimated that half a million people of the seven million total population died. From 1975 to the end 1978 as many as another three million perished because of the brutal policies of the government, and spurred the civil war that has been simmering ever since. In this book, the world's leading experts on Cambodia and the politics of Indochina address the major issues facing Cambodia since the overthrow of the Pol Pot regime in 1978.

Book The Cambodian Agony

Download or read book The Cambodian Agony written by David A. Ablin and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Violence

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catherine Besteman
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2002-06
  • ISBN : 0814799000
  • Pages : 335 pages

Download or read book Violence written by Catherine Besteman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-disciplinary anthology explores the topic of violence from a wide variety of perspectives. It looks at state violence, anti-state violence and criminal violence such as armed robbery.

Book Flooding and Management of Large Fluvial Lowlands

Download or read book Flooding and Management of Large Fluvial Lowlands written by Paul F. Hudson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pressure on large fluvial lowlands has increased tremendously during the past twenty years because of flood control, urbanization, and increased dependence upon floodplains and deltas for food production. This book examines human impacts on lowland rivers, and discusses how these changes affect different types of riverine environments and flood processes. Surveying a global range of large rivers, it provides a primary focus on the lower Rhine River in the Netherlands and the Lower Mississippi River in Louisiana. A particular focus of the book is on geo-engineering, which is described in a straight-forward writing style that is accessible to a broad audience of advanced students, researchers, and practitioners in global environmental change, fluvial geomorphology and sedimentology, and flood and water management.

Book Angkor Wat     A Transcultural History of Heritage

Download or read book Angkor Wat A Transcultural History of Heritage written by Michael Falser and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 1169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book unravels the formation of the modern concept of cultural heritage by charting its colonial, postcolonial-nationalist and global trajectories. By bringing to light many unresearched dimensions of the twelfth-century Cambodian temple of Angkor Wat during its modern history, the study argues for a conceptual, connected history that unfolded within the transcultural interstices of European and Asian projects. With more than 1,400 black-and-white and colour illustrations of historic photographs, architectural plans and samples of public media, the monograph discusses the multiple lives of Angkor Wat over a 150-year-long period from the 1860s to the 2010s. Volume 1 (Angkor in France) reconceptualises the Orientalist, French-colonial ‘discovery’ of the temple in the nineteenth century and brings to light the manifold strategies at play in its physical representations as plaster cast substitutes in museums and as hybrid pavilions in universal and colonial exhibitions in Marseille and Paris from 1867 to 1937. Volume 2 (Angkor in Cambodia) covers, for the first time in this depth, the various on-site restoration efforts inside the ‘Archaeological Park of Angkor’ from 1907 until 1970, and the temple’s gradual canonisation as a symbol of national identity during Cambodia’s troublesome decolonisation (1953–89), from independence to Khmer Rouge terror and Vietnamese occupation, and, finally, as a global icon of UNESCO World Heritage since 1992 until today.

Book The Cambodian Agony

Download or read book The Cambodian Agony written by Marlowe Hood and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Khmer Monk Education in the Thai Border Camps

Download or read book Khmer Monk Education in the Thai Border Camps written by Peter Gyallay-Pap and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study on the current conditions of monk education in Khmer refugee camps and the role of Buddhism in the psychological survival of refugees. The study begins with background information on the role of Buddhism as a centering force in rural Khmer society. The author notes that Buddhism was a primary target for destruction by the Khmer Rouge regime between 1975 and 1979. He examines the situation of education in the border camps, giving special attention to the organization of the religious life within the camps and the communication between the monks in the major camps. The daily schedules of the monks are presented, as well as the curriculum and quality of the monks education within the camps. Various international efforts to improve the educational situation for the monks are described. In addition, the study examines the lay devotee nuns. The author goes on to discuss the specific situation of the monk education problem in the three major camps: Site 2; Site B; and Site 8. The study concludes that international support for Khmer Buddhist Sangha in the border camps has become increasingly recognized as a way of addressing the psychological and social problems of the displaced Khmer. The appendices include: statistics on the Khmer Buddhist Wats in the Thai Border camps in April-May 1990; a report of the programme activities and proposals developed by the Khmer-Buddhist Educational Assistance Project (KEAP) with and on behalf of the Khmer Buddhist monks in the Thai border camps; an English summary of Ven. Hok Savann's three talks to Khmer monks and novices at the University of Massachusetts in January 1990; a background paper providing an overview of the history of Buddhism in Kampuchea; a selected bibliography in Western languages of Buddhism in Kampuchean and South East Asian culture and politics.

Book Minorities in Cambodia

Download or read book Minorities in Cambodia written by International Centre for Ethnic Studies and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Psychology of Genocide and Violent Oppression

Download or read book The Psychology of Genocide and Violent Oppression written by Richard Morrock and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth century was one of the most violent in all of human history, with more than 100 million people killed in acts of war and persecution ranging from the Herero and Namaqua genocide in present-day Namibia during the early 1900s to the ongoing conflict in Darfur. This book explores the root causes of genocide, looking into the underlying psychology of violence and oppression. Genocide does not simply occur at the hands of tyrannical despots, but rather at the hands of ordinary citizens whose unresolved pain and oppression forces them to follow a leader whose demagogy best expresses their own long-developed prejudices and fears. The book explains how birth trauma, childhood trauma, and authoritarian education can be seen as the true causes of genocidal periods in recent history.

Book Retreat from Doomsday

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Mueller
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9781934849170
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book Retreat from Doomsday written by John Mueller and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rogue State

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  • Author : William Blum
  • Publisher : Zed Books
  • Release : 2006-02-13
  • ISBN : 9781842778272
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book Rogue State written by William Blum and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2006-02-13 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rogue State and its author came to sudden international attention when Osama Bin Laden quoted the book publicly in January 2006, propelling the book to the top of the bestseller charts in a matter of hours. This book is a revised and updated version of the edition Bin Laden referred to in his address.

Book Civilizations of the World

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  • Author : Richard L. Greaves
  • Publisher : HarperCollins College
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780065006803
  • Pages : 488 pages

Download or read book Civilizations of the World written by Richard L. Greaves and published by HarperCollins College. This book was released on 1993 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The End of Poverty

Download or read book The End of Poverty written by Jeffrey D. Sachs and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Book and man are brilliant, passionate, optimistic and impatient . . . Outstanding." —The Economist The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists Hailed by Time as one of the world's hundred most influential people, Jeffrey D. Sachs is renowned for his work around the globe advising economies in crisis. Now a classic of its genre, The End of Poverty distills more than thirty years of experience to offer a uniquely informed vision of the steps that can transform impoverished countries into prosperous ones. Marrying vivid storytelling with rigorous analysis, Sachs lays out a clear conceptual map of the world economy. Explaining his own work in Bolivia, Russia, India, China, and Africa, he offers an integrated set of solutions to the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that challenge the world's poorest countries. Ten years after its initial publication, The End of Poverty remains an indispensible and influential work. In this 10th anniversary edition, Sachs presents an extensive new foreword assessing the progress of the past decade, the work that remains to be done, and how each of us can help. He also looks ahead across the next fifteen years to 2030, the United Nations' target date for ending extreme poverty, offering new insights and recommendations.

Book Practical Ethics

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  • Author : Peter Singer
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2011-02-21
  • ISBN : 1139496891
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Practical Ethics written by Peter Singer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-21 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the classic introduction to applied ethics. For this third edition, the author has revised and updated all the chapters and added a new chapter addressing climate change, one of the most important ethical challenges of our generation. Some of the questions discussed in this book concern our daily lives. Is it ethical to buy luxuries when others do not have enough to eat? Should we buy meat from intensively reared animals? Am I doing something wrong if my carbon footprint is above the global average? Other questions confront us as concerned citizens: equality and discrimination on the grounds of race or sex; abortion, the use of embryos for research and euthanasia; political violence and terrorism; and the preservation of our planet's environment. This book's lucid style and provocative arguments make it an ideal text for university courses and for anyone willing to think about how she or he ought to live.

Book A Short History of Cambodia

Download or read book A Short History of Cambodia written by John Tully and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this concise and compelling history, Cambodia's past is described in vivid detail, from the richness of the Angkorean empire through the dark ages of the 18th and early-19th centuries, French colonialism, independence, the Vietnamese conflict, the Pol Pot regime, and its current incarnation as a troubled democracy. With energetic writing and passion for the subject, John Tully covers the full sweep of Cambodian history, explaining why this land of contrasts remains an interesting enigma to the international community. Detailing the depressing record of war, famine, and invasion that ha.