This book provides detailed empirical data regarding chambers of commerce, their peak organizations, and trade associations of Thailand that has moved away from a pure form of bureaucratic polity to liberal corporatism.

This outstanding contribution to our understanding of Thailand's political economic system is perhaps the first major English-language work that provides an up-to-date analysis of the country widely hailed as Asia's next newly industrialized country. Dr. Laothamatas argues that, at least in the realm of economic decision-making, Thailand has moved away from a pure form of bureaucratic polity to a system he refers to as liberal corporatism. He presents detailed empirical data regarding chambers of commerce, their peak organizations, and the nation's trade associations, all of which will have a profound influence on the direction Thailand's political economy takes. The book should be of great interest to students of Thai politics, as it directly challenges Fred Riggs' aEUROoebureaucratic polityaEURO model, which has so long dominated the thinking of both Western and Thai scholars. Policymakers and development specialists interested in the state-business relationship also will find the study useful, given the author's deft placement of the Thai case in the context of the debate on modernization theory and the recent spate of writings on the role of the state in newly industrializing countries.

Set in Stalinist-era Central Europe, GraveLarks is a triumphant intellectual thriller navigating the fragile ambiguity between sado-masochism, black humor, political satire, murder, and hope. Zderad, a noble misfit, investigates a powerful party figure i

Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, and Diana Prince of Remnant fight alongside Team RWBY in RWBY/Justice League! A new Grimm is running rampant across the island of Patch, and Ruby and Yang must team up with a red and blue-clad farm boy to stop it! Meanwhile, Blake meets a mysterious woman who s suddenly appeared on Menagerie, but her purpose for being there remains a secret. And why does she act like she hasn t been around modern society? This incredible manga/superhero collision collects RWBY/Justice League #1-14!

Der Kirchenhistoriker Hermann Dörries (1895-1977) durchlebte die Bandbreite der politischen Systeme Deutschlands, vom Kaiserreich über Weimar und den Nationalsozialismus bis zur BRD. Nationalprotestant und NSDAP-Mitglied, später Anhänger der Bekennenden Kirche und stiller Unterstützer der Bonner Demokratie - Dörries steht repräsentativ für die Entwicklung, die der Protestantismus im 20. Jahrhundert durchlief. Auch sein kirchenhistorisches Arbeiten war stets geprägt von der Suche nach politischer, ethischer und religiöser Orientierung. Er fand sie in den Homilien des Einsiedlermönchs Makarios, den mittelalterlichen sächsischen Kaisern und Martin Luther. Aneke Dornbusch nutzt Dörriesʼ umfangreichen (und bisher unerschlossenen) Nachlass, insbesondere seine Briefe, und vereint biografische und werkgeschichtliche Aspekte. Sie beleuchtet die vielfältigen Zusammenhänge zwischen Dörriesʼ kirchenhistorischer Arbeit und seiner (politischen) Umwelt.

The present book entitled 'Recent Discoveries and Perspectives in Human Evolution' is the outcome of the International conference panel BH13 'Exploring Human Origins: Exciting Discoveries at the Start of the 21st Century' organized by Dr A.R. Sankhyan under the auspices of the 17th IUAES in August 2013 at Manchester (U.K.). The scholars who attended the conference came from many countries and the contributions included here represent almost all continents. The book covers a wide range of topics of special interest to researchers in human evolution in the field of palaeoanthropology. They include new hominoid and hominin discoveries, ancient genomics, prehistoric archaeology, bio-stratigraphy, palaeoecology, palaeo-environments, Palaeo-habitats, ancient cranial surgical practices across continents and archaeo-astronomy. There are special critical observations on the prehistoric Denisovans, on the origins of the Andaman pygmies and Indonesian Hobbits, on Indian prehistoric rock art and concerns for the biosphere reserves. Overall, it also attracts social and cultural historians and general readers interested in the evolvution of man and the expansion of humanity.

Africa is today missing in the technology radar of the world, but very visible in the corruption index. This represents a clear road map to perpetual underdevelopment, subjugation, and perdition. While no country or continent has ever developed without recreating industrial revolution in its own way, African countries, by omission or commission are attempting to develop by embracing corruption and ignoring the revolutionary powers of science and technology. Africa cannot develop without their own well developed science and technology, and cannot develop with the level of corruption in the continent as we know it today. While western nations continue to advise African leaders to stop stealing the AID they send to them, they have never and will never advise them to embrace technology in order to create their own wealth. The author has done a great deal of work exposing the ills of African leaders and their western collaborators which brought Africa to this pitiable state of underdevelopment. Until corruption is greatly minimised in the continent and science and technology embraced; Africa will never achieve sustainable development. No one can do it for Africa except Africans themselves.

This book investigates the way in which themes from the Robinson Crusoe novel have been elaborated variedly in cinematic Hollywood Robinson Crusoe adaptations released in the first decade of the 21st century. The films The Beach; Cast Away; Jurassic Park III; Madagascar; Swept Away and The Breed are analysed in order to provide a definition of the term "contemporary cinematic Robinsonade" and to interpret what cinematic Robinsonades reflect about contemporary political, environmental and cultural issues in the West.