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The Women Of Rural Asia

By: Robert Orr Whyte,Pauline Whyte

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This study looks at the social and economic status, family and workforce roles, and quality of life of women in the rural sectors of monsoonal and equatorial Asia, from Pakistan to Japan, where life often is characterized by unemployment, underemployment, and poverty.

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251

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Routledge

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ISBN 10

1000612473

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9781000612479

China

Its Environment and History

By: Robert B. Marks

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China

Its Environment and History

By: Robert B. Marks

This deeply informed and beautifully written book provides a comprehensive and comprehensible history of China from prehistory to the present. Focusing on the interaction of humans and their environment, Robert B. Marks traces changes in the physical and cultural world that is home to a quarter of humankind. Through both word and image, this work illuminates the chaos and paradox inherent in China’s environmental narrative, demonstrating how historically sustainable practices can, in fact, be profoundly ecologically unsound. The author also reevaluates China’s traditional “heroic” storyline, highlighting the marginalization of nature that followed the spread of Chinese civilization while examining the development of a distinctly Chinese way of relating to and altering the environment. Unmatched in his ability to synthesize a complex subject clearly and cogently, Marks has written an accessible yet nuanced history for any reader interested in China, past or present. Indeed he argues successfully that all of humanity has a stake in China’s environmental future.

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462

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1442212772

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9781442212770

Reflections on the Collapse of Democracy in Thailand

By: Robert F. Zimmerman

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Reflections on the Collapse of Democracy in Thailand

By: Robert F. Zimmerman

This paper examines the three-year attempt by the Thai people to establish a viable democratic political process. It focuses on the primary reasons for their failure: excessive right-left student activism, political polarization, intellectual-academic irresponsibility, status quo conservative and communist inspired subversion of the political process, ineffective civilian political leadership, excessive number of political parties, the impact of communist success in Indochina, and US foreign policy twards Thailand during this period. The paper also examines basic attitudes and patterns of action of traditional Thai political culture that may have indirectly contributed to the failure of democracy in Thailand. A central theme of the paper, however, is that old Thai bureaucratic polity that governed Thailand from 1932 to October 1973 collapsed because its political process could not cope with the rise of new economic and social pressures tht its earlier development 'successes' created. Thailand, in short, is seen as a case study of the hypothesis that long term economic development and political stability cannot occur and be maintained without corresponding development of the political structure and process that ultimately will develop and define the policies and processes most conducive to steady economic and social progress.

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128

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Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

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9814377392

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9789814377393

Above the Bottom Line

An Introduction to Business Ethics

By: Robert C. Solomon

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Above the Bottom Line

An Introduction to Business Ethics

By: Robert C. Solomon

ABOVE THE BOTTOM LINE focuses on the issues of the individual in the business environment, rather than focusing on large-scale, ethical decision making. Solomon's emphasis on corporate culture gives students direction in making personal decisions and relating those decisions to the personal concepts of social responsibility, employer rights, and other timely topics.

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Cengage Learning

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0155010514

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9780155010512

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The Women Of Rural Asia

The Women Of Rural Asia

China

China

Reflections on the Collapse of Democracy in Thailand

Reflections on the Collapse of Democracy in Thailand

Above the Bottom Line

Above the Bottom Line

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