We also have the books on Asia General, Burma, Cambodia,
Economic and Social, Ceramics, Dictionary, etc.

         A Journalist in Siam is an account of Andrew Freeman's time spent at The Bangkok Daily Mail, an Enkglish Language newspaper published in siam during the 1920s. Asked by the King Pradjadhipok himself to take over as editor, Freeman steps into a world where pride is the name of the game for Bangkok's small community of foreigners, the local police department has a direct hand in the trafficking of Chinese women , and love struggles against powerful social forces which seek to keep men and women from different coutures apart.

         "[A Journalist in Siam] is as exciting as a corking detective story,and ten times as colorful. Beachcombers,bewitching Siamese girls.dissolute princes, and white elephants march through its pages in a way that makes the book absolutely irresistible. I have never read anyting more fascinating."

         The Bayon of Angkor Thom 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-piece of the Angkor art gradually succumb to the dense tropical forest after Angkor was abandoned in the fifteenth century? How did it re-emerge as a bewildering complex of face-towers as a result of a century of patient research and restoration? The monograph addresses a number of such crucial questions.

This enigmatic creation of Angkor art has been studied in its manifold dimensions, critically analyzing the Sanskrit and Khmer epigraphic sources and extensive secondary sources available exclusively in French scholarly writings, and providing an easier access to the vast technical literature to both the general readers and researchers.

In a lucid and straightforward style with a firm grip over the issues invloved, the author delves deep in the process of rediscovery of the temple of Bayon, unveiling of its layout and architectural features, the reconstitution of its central image from innumerable fragments and the enigma of its colossal face-towers. As the map of the expansive Khmer empire with its complex symbolism and exquisite bas-reliefs, the Bayon is within the reach of every inquisitive mind. Through the presence of the Sakabrahmana at the Bayon, the reader will rediscover Iranian elements in Khmer civilization via Indian channels. A careful examination of ideological shifts explains how the temple served the Mahayana, Shaivite and Theravada faith in various phases of its existence.

The Bayon or the dream of a summer night undedr the tropics becomes a palpable reality as the culmination of the Angkor art in this well-documented monograph which offers an indispensable reading to every researcher and visitor to Angkor.

(Bangkok, 2006) Barcode 978-974-4800-98-5
160 pp., 29 pp., 32 pp. in col., 215 x 295 mm, pbk

         Colons and Coolies recounts the history of the development of Cambodia's rubber industry during the 1920s and 1930s. Using archival material from the era of the French Protectorate, it examines how French capital combines with Khmer land and Tonkinese labour to transform the red lands of the eastern plateaux of Cambodia into vast plantations. The book argues that the model of capitalistic colonisation - rational, bureaucratic, profit-driven, and divorced from traditional agricultural practices - established by the French remains the model for indigeneous colonisation by ruling elite in Cambodia today for large scale agribusiness involving logging, fishing, cash and export crops such as palm oil and cashews, and rubber plantations.

(Bangkok, 2007) Bar code 978-974-4801-01-2

         This book is 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 tymbolize. The volume reveals the existence and the double life, larval and imaginal, of cicadas encountered during six years of research in Thailand's sub-mountainous forests. The body of the text includes two chapters discussing general characteristics, acoustic and procreative ethnology, and exceptional or enigmatic aspects and behaviour. The text in enriched by drawings and photographs, mostly of living insects. It is accompanied by a CD comprising forty cicada sound productions (or tymbalizations), the acoustics made visual in ID and ethological cards, which form an original feature of pioneering study.

(Bangkok, 2006) Bar Code 978-974-4800-80-0
142 pp., illus. 22 pp. in col. 2 pp. folded. 150 x 210 mm, pbk.

         The Spirit Houses of Thailand focuses on the ubiquitous spirit abodes found all over Thailand. 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 described as well as what to do when one has to dispose of a spirit house. The Erawan shrine in Bangkok and the city pillars of some cities of thailand are described as well as spirit houses in neighbouring countries of Thailand. The book is richly illustrated by both black and white and color photographs showing the different styles of spirit houses around the country.The interested reader will get important background information and thus will understand the significance of the spirit house in present day Thailand in much more detail.

(Bangkok, 2007) Barcode 9789744801036
131 pp., 33 pp., illus, 40 pp. in col, 210 x 295 mm,, pbk.

         Tribal Worlds of the Eastern Himalaya and Indo-Burma Borderlands 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 regerred to what are now the Indian states of Bihar, Orissa, West Bengal, Jharkhaand, Tripura, Assm, Arunachal Pradesh, Megalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, and Nagaland, and the present-day country of Bangladesh. The new title is a more geographically precise description of the lands and people treated in this classic ethnography.
Each tribe described by Dalton is portrayed in stunning lithographs that convey a sense of immediacy free of the staging common to Victorian ethngraphic photography.The reader will discover a precious record of a tribal word now all but vaished. As languages and cultures disappear,books like Dalton's become sole reminders of our immensely rich human diversity.
Jon Miceler, a conservationist who has worker among the tribes of Arunachal Pradesh for the last seven years, has writen the introduction to this reprint. A companion volume by Miceler will follow which assesses the present day situation of the tribes of the Indo-Tibetan and Indo-Burma borderlands.