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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: Twefic El-Sawy, Andy Brouwer (Editor), Kim Fay (Editor)
Publisher: Things Asian Press/Global Directions
Publishing Date: November 1, 2010
Paperback: 240 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1934159085
ISBN-13: 978-1934159088
Format: Paperback
Series: To Asia with Love
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To Cambodia with Love (To Asia with Love)

By Admin | Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Author: Daniel White
Publisher: Frommers
Publishing Date: 1st Edition, March 1, 2010
Paperback: 352 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470497785
ISBN-13: 978-0470497784
Format: Kindle Edition, Paperback
Series: Frommer's Complete Guides (Book 729)
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Frommer's Cambodia and Laos (Frommer's Complete Guides)

By Admin | Monday, February 13, 2012

Author: DK Publishing
Publisher: DK Travel
Publishing Date: June 20, 2011
Paperback: 304 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0756669774
ISBN-13: 978-0756669775
Format: Paperback
Series: EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE
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Cambodia & Laos (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE)

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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)

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Author: Graham Saunders
Publisher: Kuperard
Publishing Date: October 7, 2008
Paperback: 168 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 185733471X
ISBN-13: 978-1857334715
Format: Kindle Edition, Paperback
Series: Culture Smart!
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Book Description
Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships.

Culture Smart! offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit-whether on business or for pleasure-into a memorable and enriching experience. Contents include:

* customs, values, and traditions
* historical, religious, and political background
* life at home
* leisure, social, and cultural life
* eating and drinking
* dos, don'ts, and taboos
* business practices
* communication, spoken and unspoken

"Culture Smart has come to the rescue of hapless travellers." Sunday Times Travel
"... the perfect introduction to the weird, wonderful and downright odd quirks and customs of various countries." Global Travel
"...full of fascinating-as well as common-sense-tips to help you avoid embarrassing faux pas." Observer
"...as useful as they are entertaining." Easyjet Magazine
"...offer glimpses into the psyche of a faraway world." New York Times

Cambodia - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture

By Admin | Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Author: Ghillie Basan
Publisher: Anness
Publishing Date: January 31, 2008
Paperback: 96 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 184476351X
ISBN-13: 978-1844763511
Format: Paperback
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Book Description
Ancient Cambodia was a kingdom with an Indian culture, which then expanded into Burma and Vietnam, later becoming a territory claimed by both Vietnam and Siam. As a result, the Cambodian cuisine has Indian roots, with strong influences from both China

The Food & Cooking of Cambodia: Over 60 authentic classic recipes from an undiscovered cuisine, shown step-by-step in over 250 stunning photographs; ... using ingredients, equipment and techniques

By Admin | Sunday, January 15, 2012

Author: Helen Ibbitson Jessup, Barry Brukoff
Publisher: Vendome Press
Publishing Date: November 1, 2011
Hardcover: 248 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0865652627
ISBN-13: 978-0865652620
Format: Hardcover
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Book Description
The temples of Cambodia are among the most complex and imposing architectural creations in the world. This book invites the reader to experience those extraordinary sites through remarkable photographs and a text by a leading Khmer cultural historian. From modest brick structures in the seventh and eighth centuries, the temples became increasingly ambitious, setting the stage for the apogee of the Khmer empire and with it, the supreme architectural creation of Cambodia, Angkor Wat. Barry Brukoff’s splendid photographs not only record temples that have been destroyed but also offer a uniquely intimate insight into the Cambodian idiom, and with Helen Ibbitson Jessup’s expert text, allow readers to penetrate to the heart of the temples’ mystery.

Praise for Temples of Cambodia:
"Part of what makes Temples of Cambodia: The Heart of Angkor so appealing is its photographer's long-term vision and commitment." --The New York Times

'Temples of Cambodia: The Heart of Angkor' is a magnificent journey through the remnants of the least-known of the great world civilizations. . . .Though they take ruins as their subject, Mr. Brukoff's images capture the most timeless elements of Khmer ingenuity. Choosing a perspective above that makes the colonnades of Bayon, a Angkor temple, seem endless, he shows the plan behind the beauty." --The Wall Street Journal

Temples of Cambodia: The Heart of Angkor

By Admin | Saturday, January 14, 2012

Author: David M. Ayres
Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr
Publishing Date: April 2000
Hardcover: 256 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0824822382
ISBN-13: 978-0824822385
Format: Hardcover
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Book Description
In this exacting and insightful examination of the crisis in Cambodian education, David M. Ayres challenges the widespread belief that the key to Cambodia's future development and prosperity lies in overcoming the dreadful legacy of the Khmer Rouge. He seeks to explain why Cambodia has struggled with an educational crisis for more than four decades (including the years before the Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975) and thus casts the net of his analysis well beyond Pol Pot and his accomplices. Drawing on an extensive range of sources, Ayres clearly shows that Cambodia's educational dilemma--the disparity between the education system and the economic, political, and cultural environments, which it should serve--can be explained by setting education within its historical and cultural contexts.

Anatomy of a Crisis: Education, Development, and the State in Cambodia, 1953-1998

By Admin | Thursday, December 29, 2011

Author: Justin Corfield
Publisher: Greenwood
Publishing Date: October 13, 2009
Hardcover: 165 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0313357226
ISBN-13: 978-0313357220
Format: Hardcover
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Book Description
Includes narrative histories that provide a chronological examination of the political, cultural, philosophical, social, and religious continuities in each nation's long rich history.

The History of Cambodia (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations)

By Admin | Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Author: John A. Tully
Publisher: University Press Of America
Publishing Date: January 20, 2003
Paperback: 592 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0761824316
ISBN-13: 978-0761824312
Format: Paperback
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Book Description
Based on largely unexploited archival sources, France on the Mekong is the first comprehensive history of the colonial era in Cambodia. The book takes as its point of departure Marx's early appraisal of colonialism's "double mission" in Asia. Tully argues that King Norodom's decision to invite in the French in 1863 was a "Faustian bargain" for Cambodia. While the Protectorate did ensure the continued existence of the Cambodian state, and did much to preserve Cambodia's crumbling cultural legacy, the downside was that authoritarian rule was entrenched rather than weakened, and that the country was left seriously underdeveloped when the French left in 1953. Colonialism disturbed the foundations of traditional society, but did not replace them. This was to have disastrous consequences for post-colonial Cambodia-- a point that the author develops at the end of the book.

France on the Mekong: A History of the Protectorate in Cambodia, 1863-1953

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Author: Helen Churchill Candee, Kent Davis (Editor), Randy Bryan Bigham (Afterword)
Publisher: DatASIA, Inc.
Publishing Date: 1st Edition, June 30, 2008
Format: Kindle Edition, Hardcover, Paperback
File Size: 2475 KB
Print Length: 376 pages
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Language: English
ASIN: B001W6Q6G8
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Product Description
"The tale of it is incredible; the wonder which is Angkor is unmatched in Asia." So begins Helen Churchill Candee's classic tale of Asian adventure. Today, readers can again experience the mystery of Cambodia's vast jungle temples through her eyes. Although Helen Candee is best known for surviving the sinking of the RMS Titanic, she walked with kings, presidents, the wealthy and the powerful. entertaining, educating and influencing them. This independent woman championed feminine equality and fought tirelessly for woman's rights. And, as a single woman, she traveled the Far East with a keen eye for detail, an inquisitive mind, and a sensitivity for local culture. Helen Candee's travelogue remains one of the most evocative English language accounts of the ancient Khmer capital. This expanded hardcover edition marks the first reissue of her complete 1924 work with more than 100 antique illustrations, an index and bibliography. For the first time in print, this edition also features an original biography of Helen Candee by historian Randy Bryan Bigham, and a reprint of Candee's original account of the Titanic disaster itself.

Angkor the Magnificent - Wonder City of Ancient Cambodia

By Admin | Tuesday, December 27, 2011

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: John Burgess
Publisher: River Books Press Dist A C
Publishing Date: December 16, 2010
Paperback: 198 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 6167339015
ISBN-13: 978-6167339016
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Book Description
A personal and historic account of Sadok Kok Thom Temple, weaving in the archaeology of Angkor with the political turmoil of Cambodia during the 1960s-70s.

Stories in Stone: The Sdok Kok Thom Inscription and the Enigma of Khmer History

By Admin | Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Author: Anne Ruth Hansen, Judy Ledgerwood
Publisher: Cornell Univ Southeast Asia Program
Publishing Date: May 16, 2008
Paperback: 248 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 087727746X
ISBN-13: 978-0877277460
Format: Hardcover, Paperback
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Book Description
Inspired by the groundbreaking work of David Chandler on Cambodian attempts to find order in the aftermath of turmoil, these essays explore Cambodian history using a rich variety of sources that cast light on Khmer perceptions of violence, wildness, and order, the "forest" and cultured space, and the fraught "edge" where they meet. Taken together, the essays offer a post-colonial analysis of Cambodia's emergence from genocide that explores the relationship between narrative, history, and perplexing problems of meaning.

At the Edge of the Forest: Essays on Cambodia, History, and Narrative in Honor of David Chandler (Studies on Southeast Asia)

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Author: Helen Ibbitson Jessup
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publishing Date: June 2004
Paperback: 224 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 050020375X
ISBN-13: 978-0500203750
Format: Paperback
Series: World of Art
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Book Description
A useful introduction to the culture, history and monuments of Cambodia, a country which is increasing in popularity as a tourist destination for the more adventurous traveler.

Art & Architecture of Cambodia (World of Art)

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Author: National Gallery of Art (U. S.), Helen Ibbitson Jessup (Editor), Thierry Zephir (Editor)
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publishing Date: September 1997
Hardcover: 400 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0500237387
ISBN-13: 978-0500237380
Format: Paperback, Hardcover
Series: Millennium of Glory
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Book Description
The 1000-year artistic legacy of Cambodia, including some of the most beautiful works of art and architecture, is displayed in the pages of this encyclopaedic, illustrated volume. Published to coincide with the exhibition opening in Paris in 1997 which then travels to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, it examines the mysterious culture that flourished on the mainland of Southeast Asia between 600 and 1600 AD. Centred on the northern shores of Cambodia's Great Lake, the Tonle Sap, and extending westward into eastern Thailand, the civilization reached its climax in the early 12th century AD, with the construction of Angkor Wat. Recent peace accords and a new democratic assembly have made this historic study possible. Embracing both Buddhist and Hindu traditions, the sculpture ranges from monumental works in sandstone representing gods and goddesses, guardians, female dancers and legendary creatures, to refined ritual and ceremonial bronzes. The religion, iconography, architecture and symbolism of this mysterious country is described against a historical background, depicting the various cultural environments through the decades. Together with a catalogue, stylistic analysis, glossary, timeline, bibliography and index, this work reveals insights to a culture that is still relatively unknown.

Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory

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Author: Gregor Mueller (Editor)
Publisher: Routledge
Publishing Date: May 25, 2006
Hardcover: 312 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415355621
ISBN-13: 978-0415355629
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Book Description
Colonial Cambodia's "Bad Frenchmen" provides a captivating analysis of the gradual establishment of French colonialism in the late nineteenth century. Drawing on new materials from French, Vietnamese and Cambodian archives, it reconstructs a time during which France struggled to give meaning and substance to its Protectorate over Cambodia.

It traces the lives of failed colonists – most notably Thomas Caramen, who all constituted a challenge to the colonial enterprise by muddling its social, cultural and racial boundaries. In its consideration of the critical role played by these colonists, this compelling book shifts away from governor-generals, grand discourses and the simple view of colonialism as ‘colonizers’ versus ‘colonized’, to explore how things actually worked themselves out on the ground. It examines in particular the 'civilizing mission' and educational initiatives; the slow destruction of the indigenous justice system; the policing of sexual relations between colonisers and colonized; the theft of Cambodian land and taxes by the colonizing power; and the brutal repression of resistance wherever and whenever it appeared.

Overall, Muller reveals the crucial role played by indigenous middlemen and marginal Europeans in the rise of the colonial state, and tells the fascinating tale of a Frenchman who came to represent everything that the colonial state dreaded.

Colonial Cambodia's 'Bad Frenchmen': The rise of French rule and the life of Thomas Caraman, 1840-87 (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)

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Author: Alexander Laban Hinton, Robert Jay Lifton
Publisher: University of California Press
Publishing Date: 1st Edition, December 6, 2004
Paperback: 382 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0520241797
ISBN-13: 978-0520241794
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Series: California Series in Public Anthropology
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Book Description
Of all the horrors human beings perpetrate, genocide stands near the top of the list. Its toll is staggering: well over 100 million dead worldwide. Why Did They Kill? is one of the first anthropological attempts to analyze the origins of genocide. In it, Alexander Hinton focuses on the devastation that took place in Cambodia from April 1975 to January 1979 under the Khmer Rouge in order to explore why mass murder happens and what motivates perpetrators to kill. Basing his analysis on years of investigative work in Cambodia, Hinton finds parallels between the Khmer Rouge and the Nazi regimes. Policies in Cambodia resulted in the deaths of over 1.7 million of that country's 8 million inhabitants--almost a quarter of the population--who perished from starvation, overwork, illness, malnutrition, and execution. Hinton considers this violence in light of a number of dynamics, including the ways in which difference is manufactured, how identity and meaning are constructed, and how emotionally resonant forms of cultural knowledge are incorporated into genocidal ideologies.

Why Did They Kill?: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide

By Admin | Saturday, December 17, 2011

Author: Loung Ung
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publishing Date: April 11, 2006
Paperback: 268 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060733950
ISBN-13: 978-0060733957
Format: Kindle Edition, Library Binding, Paperback
Series: P.S.
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Book Description
After enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten-year-old Loung Ung became the "lucky child," the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother to America while her one surviving sister and two brothers remained behind. In this poignant and elegiac memoir, Loung recalls her assimilation into an unfamiliar new culture while struggling to overcome dogged memories of violence and the deep scars of war. In alternating chapters, she gives voice to Chou, the beloved older sister whose life in war-torn Cambodia so easily could have been hers. Highlighting the harsh realities of chance and circumstance in times of war as well as in times of peace, Lucky Child is ultimately a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and to the salvaging strength of family bonds.

Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind

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