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You're never going to stop war. It's the biggest business on the planet. But we can abate war. - Tim Page
Wounded four times, and twice pronounced dead, Tim Page…
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Martin Stuart-Fox
New in the Short History of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a readable, well-informed and comprehensive short history of China’s relationships with its Southeast Asian neighbours from…
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Martin Stuart-Fox (University of Queensland)
The book highlights Laos’ complex and shifting political alliances.
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The third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Laos-through its chronology, introductory essay, appendixes, maps, bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, and institutions and…
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Its chapters on Laos especially make significant contributions to their field. Engaging Asia is thus a volume that will stimulate and satisfy, while also honouring a scholar whose unusual career…
This history traces events in this developing country from ancient monarchy, through its establishment as a French colony, to independence in 1953, through the course of the People’s Democratic Republic…
This is more than a hagiography, however. Its chapters on Laos especially make significant contributions to their field. Engaging Asia is thus a volume that will stimulate and satisfy, while…
Roderick Bucknell,Martin Stuart-Fox
Explores the nature of Buddha’s enlightenment and the meaning of Buddhist symbolism, discussing the relationship between Buddhist meditative techniques and examples of Buddhist symbolism found in early Pali texts and…
Martin Stuart-Fox,Simon Creak,Martin Rathie
Historical Dictionary of Laos, Fourth Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1.000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as…
In this collection of essays, historians discuss the applications of evolutionary theory to cultural, social, economic and political phenomena. Contributors include anthropologist Donald Brown, archaeologist Albert Naccache and demographer Noel…
