This hightly acclaimed book, the standard history of Thailand for more than twenty years, has now been completely revised by the author, with new sections examining the social and economic changes that have transformed the country in the last two decades.
The Prague Pilgrim is a book, which apart from instructions on tourist walks, fills in these routes with fascinating story-telling about the history of individual places, buildings and other interesting subjects.
In Reformation of Islamic Thought, the prominent Egyptian scholar Nasr Abu Zayd examines the positive, liberal, and inclusive reaction embedded in the writings of Muslim thinkers. He takes the reader on a critical journey across the Muslim World, where Muslim thinkers from Egypt and Iran to Indonesia seek to divest Islam of traditionalistic and legalistic interpretations.
A lavish volume published to mark the first half-century of the Court. It provides a well-documented and abundantly illustrated retrospective of the Court's activities from its origins to the present day, and also investigates the history of the development of the law, from the early notions of justice and equity as they originated in municipal spheres to their assembling on an international le…
Without neglecting political history, it contains more social history than any other book of similar size. It treats of popular sports and pastimes, such as shooting, fishing, horse racing, and sail- ing: eating and drinking customs; devel- opments in fine arts, music, and medicine; deals with the revolution in sexual mores, and pays particular attention to the American Indian. The parallel his…
This volume comprises three essays on the city of Malacca and its society, during the first decades of Portuguese rule, when the social structures inherited from the Sultanate days were yet to undergo major changes.
Do you know in Brunei we used to have a festival called 'Berjanawari'? Or that the Brunei word for great-great-great grandparents is the same as the action describing shaking your head? Or that Brunei's largest export used to be derived from mangrove trees? Or that 'Hua Hui' a gambling game was widely played in Brunei? Or the many facts that you have never known about Brunei? This is the second…