Library Resources on Thailand in Singapore


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One thousand three hundred entries from holdings of the National Library, Royal English Language Centre, Regional Institute of Higher Education and Development, Asian Mass Communication and Information Centre and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.







International and National Library and Information Services


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International and National Library and Information Services: A Review of Some Recent Developments 1970-80 is the second in a series that surveys developments in specific types of library and information services and subject fields over a period of 5 to 15 years, according to the nature of the topic. The survey is from the point of view of the role of national libraries in national and international library and information systems. Organized into 10 chapters, this book begins with a description of intergovernmental organizations; international library and information associations; and conference of directors of national libraries. Subsequent chapters discuss developments in this field of interest in the Americas, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North Africa, Asia, and Oceania. This book will be useful to public, school, and university libraries, and to schools of librarianship and information science.




International Encyclopedia of Information and Library Science


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This eagerly awaited new edition, has been fully revised and updated to take full account of the many and radical changes which have taken place since the Encyclopedia was originally conceived.




The Asian Village


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An investigation of the potential for rural progress of the Asian village, especially in monsoonal and equatorial areas. Contents include distinctions and relations between rural and urban, origin and evolution of ecosystems involving rural man, location and morphology of villages, social and agrarian patterns, the sociology of labour, land use, rural water use, nutrition, health, child-rearing and rural evolution at present. With 20 diagrams.




The Chettiar and the Yeoman


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Investigates rural indebtedness in the Malay States and the role in it of chettiar money-lenders from the economic and socio-historical viewpoint.




The Malay World of Southeast Asia


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Over 5,000 entries arranged in four parts. Part I comprises reference and general works to provide a guide to information on Southeast Asia. Part II provides the setting of space and time. Part III features the people and Part IV the many facets of culture and society — language; ideas, beliefs, values; institutions; creative expression; and social and cultural change. Within each section, the arrangement is geographical, beginning with Southeast Asia as a whole followed by the various countries in alphabetical order.




The Lives of SEATO


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Examines the background of SEATO, noting that the organization's "usefulness as a weather-vane of its members' shifting security priorities goes to the very origins..." traces developments since its coming into being on 8 September 1954 to the decision on 24 September 1975 to phase it out of existence within two years. A concluding section looks at the consequences in the future.




Directions in Thai Foreign Policy


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Analyses the problems in external relations, delving into the background of the recent trends, and examines relations with China, USSR, US, Japan, Indochina and ASEAN partly in the light of internal events.




Foreign Acquisitions Newsletter


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