The Atlas of Cambodia: National Poverty and Environment Maps is the first atlas devoted entirely to Cambodia providing publicly available cross-sectoral thematic maps, statistics and text giving and socio-economic aspects of the country. The Atlas of Cambodia project aims to provide a wide array of people such as professionals working for development agencies, government officials, educators and the academia as well as other individuals with high-quality background information which will enable them to better understand the relationship between natural resources and economic and social development in Cambodia. The Atlas could also be used as a frame of reference for planning departments within ministries when developing strategies for utilization of Cambodia's natural and human resources. It is hoped that the atlas will be particularly useful in effectively disseminating information to those important historical document, whereby comparisons of subsequent editions will clearly outline that improvements made in the capacity to collect, analyze and disseminate data in Cambodia.

This is a wonderfully entertaining read and hugely germane to many of our present preoccupations in International Relations. Against the background of the beautiful yet tragic country of Cambodia, Leslie Fielding paints a vivid picture of the life of a diplomat abroad: usually arduous, sometimes uncomfortable and wildly unexpected; occasionally maddening, invariably fascinating. 

Leslie Fielding’s book is at once a perceptive account of Cambodia at a critical juncture in its modern history, an instructive insider’s story of diplomatic management and a revealingly honest personal memoir. With his capacity to combine these themes in a seamless fashion, he has given his readers an eminently readable insight into life in Cambodia before tragedy washed over that ancient kingdom.

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This ambitious cross-disciplinary study of Buddhist modernism in colonial Cambodia breaks new ground in understanding the history and development of religion and colonialism in Southeast Asia. In one of the first studies of colonial Buddhism based largely on Khmer-language sources, Anne Hansen argues for the importance of Theravada Buddhist ethics for imagining and articulating what it means to be modern in early twentieth-century Cambodia. The 1920s in Cambodia saw an exuberant burst of new printed writings by self-described Khmer Buddhist modernists on the subject of how to behave (as good Buddhists and moral persons) and how to purify oneself in everyday life in the modern world. Hansen explores their new interpretations of traditional doctrines and values, and how they represent Southeast Asian ethical and religious responses to the modern circulation of local and translocal events, people, ideas, and anxieties. Hansen begins her study in the mid-nineteenth century with a Buddhist purification movement that had been set in motion by the Khmer king Ang Duang. She follows Khmer monks to Siam as they sought out Buddhist scriptures and examines how they carried ideas back to Cambodia and shaped their own reformist movement in a colonial society influenced by French discourses of modernization. Hansen introduces readers to modernist worldviews through translations of sermons, ritual manuals, ethics compendia, and vernacular folktales, drawing on literary and ethical forms of analysis as well as historical.

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Rock Climbing in Cambodia© is the origi­nal guide book for climbing in Cambodia. This books features detailed site maps, directions to many sites in Cambodia, considerations for travel­ers, and suggestions of things to see and do in the same areas as the climbing sites. A small group of avid climbers have spent many weekends for the past few years developing the sites high-lighted in this book, and this is a compi­lation of that work. We hope that others will follow in our footsteps and continue to develop the sites for years to come. Rock Climbing in Cambodia© is intended to introduce those interested in another location in South East Asia to climb. We hope that you'll join us.

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