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Author: Michael D. Coe
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publishing Date: February 17, 2005
Paperback: 240 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0500284423
ISBN-13: 978-0500284421
Format: Hardcover, Paperback
Series: Ancient Peoples and Places
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Angkor and the Khmer Civilization (Ancient Peoples and Places)

By Admin | Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Author: Steven Yang
Publisher: Full Moon Books
Publishing Date: 1st Edition, March 20, 2005
Mass Market Paperback: 430 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9749270509
ISBN-13: 978-9749270509
Format: Kindle Edition, Paperback
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Butterfly: An Erotic Odyssey - Thailand, Cambodia, Philippines (Sex in Southeast Asia)

By Admin | Monday, February 13, 2012

Author: Spalding Gray
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Publishing Date: April 1, 2005
Paperback: 160 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1559362545
ISBN-13: 978-1559362542
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Book Description
“It took courage to do what Spalding did—courage to make theatre so naked and unadorned, to expose himself in this way and fight the demons in public. In doing so, he entered our hearts—my heart—because he made his struggle my struggle. His life became my life.”—Eric Bogosian

“Virtuosic. A master writer, reporter, comic and playwright. Spalding Gray is a sit-down monologist with the soul of a stand-up comedian. A contemporary Gulliver, he travels the globe in search of experience and finds the ridiculous.”—The New York Times

In 2004, we mourned the loss of one of America’s true theatrical innovators. Spalding Gray took his own life by jumping from the Staten Island ferry into the waters of New York Harbor, finally succumbing to the impossible notion that he could in fact swim to Cambodia. At a memorial gathering for family, friends and fans at Lincoln Center in New York, his widow expressed the need to honor Gray’s legacy as an artist and writer for his children, as well as for future generations of fans and readers. Originally published in 1985, Swimming to Cambodia is reissued here 20 years later in a new edition as a tribute to Gray’s singular artistry.

Writer, actor and performer, Spalding Gray is the author of Sex and Death to the Age 14; Monster in a Box; It’s a Slippery Slope; Gray’s Anatomy and Morning, Noon and Night, among other works. His appearance in The Killing Fields was the inspiration for his Swimming to Cambodia, which was also filmed by Jonathan Demme.

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Swimming to Cambodia

By Admin | Sunday, January 15, 2012

Author: David Hill
Publisher: iGroup Press
Publishing Date: January 1, 2005
Paperback: 232 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9749823109
ISBN-13: 978-9749823101
Format: Kindle Edition, Paperback
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Book Description
To ensure that you, the foreign resident, fleeting visitor or armchair traveller, enjoy your stay in Cambodia, this is a light hearted but practical guide to the Dos & Don’ts of this country.

Dos & Don'ts in Cambodia

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Author: Peter Maguire
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publishing Date: 2nd Edition, March 23, 2005
Hardcover: 280 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0231120524
ISBN-13: 978-0231120524
Format: Paperback, Hardcover
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Book Description
The Khmer Rouge regime took control of Cambodia by force of arms, then committed the most brazen crimes since the Third Reich: at least 1.5 million people murdered between 1975 and 1979. Yet no individuals were ever tried or punished. This book is the story of Peter Maguire's effort to learn how Cambodia's "culture of impunity" developed, why it persists, and the failures of the "international community" to confront the Cambodian genocide. Written from a personal and historical perspective, Facing Death in Cambodia recounts Maguire's growing anguish over the gap between theories of universal justice and political realities.

Maguire documents the atrocities and the aftermath through personal interviews with victims and perpetrators, discussions with international and NGO officials, journalistic accounts, and government sources gathered during a ten-year odyssey in search of answers. The book includes a selection of haunting pictures from among the thousands taken at the now infamous Tuol Sleng prison (also referred to as S-21), through which at least 14,000 men, women, and children passed -- and from which fewer than a dozen emerged alive.

What he discovered raises troubling questions: Was the Cambodian genocide a preview of the genocidal civil wars that would follow in the wake of the Cold War? Is international justice an attainable idea or a fiction superimposed over an unbearably dark reality? Did issues of political expediency allow Cambodian leaders to escape prosecution?The Khmer Rouge violated the Nuremberg Principles, the United Nations Charter, the laws of war, and the UN Genocide Convention. Yet in the decade after the regime's collapse, the perpetrators were rescued and rehabilitated-even rewarded-by China, Thailand, the United States, and the UN. According to Peter Maguire, Cambodia holds the key to understanding why recent UN interventions throughout the world have failed to prevent atrocities and to enforce treaties.

Facing Death in Cambodia

By Admin | Monday, December 26, 2011

Author: Karen J. Coates
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Publishing Date: March 2005
Paperback: 392 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0786420510
ISBN-13: 978-0786420513
Format: Kindle Edition, Paperback
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Book Description
Cambodia has never recovered from its Khmer Rouge past. The genocidal regime of 1975–1979 and the following two decades of civil war ripped the country apart. This work examines Cambodia in the aftermath, focusing on Khmer people of all walks of life and examining through their eyes key facets of Cambodian society, including the ancient Angkor legacy, relations with neighboring countries (particularly the strained ones with the Vietnamese), emerging democracy, psychology, violence, health, family, poverty, the environment, and the nation’s future.

Along with print sources, research is drawn from hundreds of interviews with Cambodians, including farmers, royalty, beggars, teachers, monks, orphanage heads, politicians, and non-native experts on Cambodia. Dozens of exquisite photographs of Cambodian people and places illustrate the work, which concludes with a glossary of Cambodian words, people, places and names, and an appendix of organizations providing aid to Cambodia.

Cambodia Now: Life In the Wake of War

By Admin | Saturday, December 17, 2011