The Malay World of Southeast Asia
The Malay World of Southeast Asia

Author: Patricia Lim Pui Huen

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 469

ISBN-13: 9971988364

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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
The Lives of SEATO

Author: Justus Maria van der Kroef

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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.

ASEAN
ASEAN

Author: Hans H. Indorf

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Analyses the ASEAN Organization, tracing its development from inception in 1968 to 1975. Includes discussion of the political climate, the various comittees, the National Secretariat and the ASEAN modus operandi

Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science
Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science

Author: Allen Kent

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1979-08-01

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 9780824720278

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science provides an outstanding resource in 33 published volumes with 2 helpful indexes. This thorough reference set--written by 1300 eminent, international experts--offers librarians, information/computer scientists, bibliographers, documentalists, systems analysts, and students, convenient access to the techniques and tools of both library and information science. Impeccably researched, cross referenced, alphabetized by subject, and generously illustrated, the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science integrates the essential theoretical and practical information accumulating in this rapidly growing field."

The Asian Village
The Asian Village

Author: Robert Orr Whyte

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian

Published:

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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.