Utopia" is a word not often associated with the city of Bangkok, which is better known for its disorderly sprawl, overburdened roads, and stifling levels of pollution. Yet as early as 1782, when the city was officially founded on the banks of the Chao Phraya river as the home of the Chakri dynasty, its orientation was based on material and rhetorical considerations that alluded to ideal times and spaces. The construction of palaces, monastic complexes, walls, forts, and canals created a defensive network while symbolically locating the terrestrial realm of the king within the Theravada Buddhist cosmos. Into the twentieth century, pictorial, narrative, and built representations of utopia were critical to Bangkok's transformation into a national capital and commercial entrepot. But as older representations of the universe encountered modern architecture, building technologies, and urban planning, new images of an ideal society attempted to reconcile urban-based understandings of Buddhist liberation and felicitous states like nirvana with worldly models of political community like the nation-state. Bangkok Utopia outlines an alternative genealogy of both utopia and modernism in a part of the world that has often been overlooked by researchers of both. It examines representations of utopia that developed in the city-as expressed in built forms as well as architectural drawings, building manuals, novels, poetry, and ecclesiastical murals-from its first general strike of migrant laborers in 1910 to the overthrow of the military dictatorship in 1973. Using Thai- and Chinese-language archival sources, the book demonstrates how the new spaces of the city became arenas for modern subject formation, utopian desires, political hegemony, and social unrest, arguing that the modern city was a space of antinomy-one able not only to sustain heterogeneous temporalities, but also to support conflicting world views within the urban landscape. By underscoring the paradoxical character of utopias and their formal narrative expressions of both hope and hegemony, Bangkok Utopia provides an innovative way to conceptualize the uneven economic development and fractured political conditions of contemporary global cities.

In solid state physics and in materials science the investigation of the connection between the properties of solids and their microstructure is of major importance. For crystalline materials this connection is related to the lattice structure, and it can be shown convinc ingly that the material properties depend on deviations from the ideal lattice structure in the majority of cases. For this reason a reliable detection and analysis of defects in "nearly perfect" crystals is necessary, and a sufficient spatial resolution of the methods applied is required. Because electrons on the one hand strongly interact with the matter to be investigated and on the other hand can easily be focused electron-optical methods are very advantageous for this purpose. They are used in the diffraction mode, in the imaging mode and in the spectroscopic mode. The attainable high lateral resolution in the imaging mode makes the application of electron microscopy especially effective. Although already valuable information on crystal defects can be gained by using the routine technique of diffraction contrast imagingl-3) which has a resolution of some 4 10 nm - in the special weak-beam technique ) of some nm -, the detection of crystal defects and inhomogeneities, resp. on an atomic or molecular level by the aid of high resolution electron microscopy gets increasing importance."

Discover the rarified Peranakan (native-born Chinese of Southeast Asia) aesthetics that are today highly sought-after for their beauty: distinctive furniture and ceramics, textiles and jewelry, and many other art objects. Peranakan Chinese Home displays these extraordinary objects, visible markers of a highly developed culture. The broad range of beautiful objects which the Peranakan Chinese created and enjoyed in their daily lives is astounding. Each chapter in The Peranakan Chinese Home focuses on a different area and presents objects used or found in those spaces. Each piece is described in the context of their utility as household objects, as part of periodic celebrations to mark the Chinese New Year and other holidays, or in important life passage rituals relating to ancestor worship, birth, marriage, mourning and burial. The meaning of the rich symbolic and ornamental motifs found on the objects is discussed in detail, and key differences are highlighted between Peranakan objects and similar ones found in China. A fascinating mix of Chinese, European and Southeast Asian influences, the distinctly Peranakan identity of a people and their culture is beautifully portrayed through objects and archival photographs in this lovely and exotic book.

Two contrary metaphors have been used to speak of the salvation of God. SAVING SALVATION champions the "Highway to Heaven" metaphor rather than the "Ticket to Heaven" one. Salvation is more of a love-drenched, life-yeilding, journey in the will of God than a doctrinal, quick-fix, pass into glory. As part of this journey, SAVING SALVATION argues for faith and works as cooperative partners (not opposing doctrines) in the salvation by grace process. This is because faith generates works, and works generate faith. The two have a symbiotic relationship. It's time Christianity got this right, instead of resting on the thin ice of exclusive positions. SAVING SALVATION also argues that Jesus as "the way" does not automatically exclude those of other religions from the salvation of God. Other book features include a review of the classic atonement theories; an analysis of various traditional doctrinal themes; a look at the Devil from two points of view: biblical and anthropological; an Index of Scripture use, totalling more than 600 entries; a General Index; an Index of Lists and Exhibits; a Glossary; and a Bibliography. This twenty-chapter text includes suggested chapter couplings for study groups. If you are a seeker trying to get to new heights of understanding, SAVING SALVATION may be the theological climbing rope you need. It aims to help the reader get over some difficult terrain of theological confusion and uncertainty, so as to reach summits where the light of saving truth is shining more brightly.

This report describes the universe, methods, and editing procedures used in the 2011-12 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) data collection.

With Divine love as its basis for good parenting, this thoughtful and practical text features the application of Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development to the wise discipline of children. Other interesting and helpful chapters address the following themes: readiness for parenting; parenting special needs, adoptive, and foster children; parenting in relation to school; developing critical thinking skills; money handling; sexuality; motivation for the fulfillment of potential; and the role of the faith-community in child rearing.

Lomita's First Church . . . A Century Remembered recounts the history of St. Mark's Presbyterian Church which began as a Brethren Mission in 1907. As the narrative moves through the decades, it stops along the way to highlight the work of the ten major pastorates, each with its own unique challenges. The story is told from the perspective of the elders who, as pastors came and went, kept the focus on Christ, church and community.

This provisional First Look report is a revised version of the preliminary report released on October 9, 2012. It includes fully edited and imputed data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) spring 2012 data collection, which included four survey components: Enrollment for fall 2011; Graduation Rates within 150 percent of normal program completion time for full-time, first-time degree/ certificate-seeking undergraduate students beginning college in 2005 at 4-year institutions or in 2008 at less-than-4-year institutions; Graduation Rates within 200 percent of normal program completion time for full-time, first-time degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students beginning college in 2003 at 4-year institutions or in 2007 at less-than-4-year institutions; and Finance for fiscal year 2011.

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone