Author: Duncan McCargo
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Keywords: southern, thailand, legitimacy, islam, apart, land, tearing
Number of Pages: 235
Published: 2008-09
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 080147499X
ISBN-13: 9780801474996

Since January 2004, a violent separatist insurgency has raged in southern Thailand, resulting in more than three thousand deaths. Though largely unnoticed outside Southeast Asia, the rebellion in Pattani and neighboring provinces and the Thai government’s harsh crackdown have resulted in a full-scale crisis. Tearing Apart the Land by Duncan McCargo, one of the world’s leading scholars of contemporary Thai politics, is the first fieldwork-based book about this conflict. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of the region, hundreds of interviews conducted during a year’s research

Author: Duncan McCargo
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: contemporary, societies, japan, states
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0312227426
ISBN-13: 9780312227425

Japan is one of the world’s most important societies, yet one of the least understood. This book is designed to fill the gap for a concise but thought-provoking introduction to all aspects of its political, economic, and social life set in a clear historical context. The author provides a range of alternative perspectives-mainstream, revisionist, and culturalist to seeing Japan as a unique society and to emphasize the similarities between Japan and other advanced democracies. He then explores the history, economy, government, politics, society and culture.

Author: Duncan McCargo
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: contemporary, societies, states, second, japan
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-05-07
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0333961927
ISBN-13: 9780333961926

Now fully revised and updated, this widely-praised introductory text explores Japan through the prism of three alternative perspectives: mainstream, revisionist, and culturalist. Beginning with the noting of Japan as a ’contested territory’ the book focuses on debates about the real nature of Japan’s successes and shortcomings.

Author: Duncan McCargo
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: rethinking, asia, vietnam, southeast
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-06-19
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 041533585X
ISBN-13: 9780415335850

A uniquely comprehensive overview of a fascinating and rapidly changing country, dealing with the politics, economics, society and foreign policy of Vietnam from the Doi Moi reforms of market socialism in 1986 to the present day. Drawing on fieldwork and analysis by an international team of specialists this book covers all aspects of contemporary Vietnam including recent history, the political economy, the reform process, education, health, labour market, foreign direct investment and foreign policy. The contributors show how the blurring of old and new pressures and traditions within Vietnam

Authors:Duncan McCargo, Ukrist Pathmanand,
Publisher: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
Keywords: asian, history, contemporary, studies, thailand, nias, thaksinization
Number of Pages: 277
Published: 2004-11-30
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 8791114462
ISBN-13: 9788791114465

Prior to the 1997 economic crisis, for around 20 years Thai politics was characterized by a pluralistic political order, featuring unstable coalition governments, competing interests, and a gradual displacement of bureaucratic and military influence by the rising power of elected politicians (who in turn were closely linked to a range of business actors). A major reform package was enacted in 1997, coinciding with the promulgation of a new constitution. However, the country’s financial problems helped create the conditions for the emergence of the Thai Rak Thai (Thais love Thai, or TRT)

Authors:Terry E. Duncan, Susan C. Duncan, Lisa A. Strycker,
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Keywords: quantitative, methodology, issues, applications, series, concepts, modeling, latent, variable, growth, curve, introduction
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-05-23
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0805855475
ISBN-13: 9780805855470

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to latent variable growth curve modeling (LGM) for analyzing repeated measures. It presents the statistical basis for LGM and its various methodological extensions, including a number of practical examples of its use. It is designed to take advantage of the reader’s familiarity with analysis of variance and structural equation modeling (SEM) in introducing LGM techniques. Sample data, syntax, input and output, are provided for EQS, Amos, LISREL, and Mplus on the book’s CD. Throughout the book, the authors present a variety of LGM techniques t

Authors:Wilbur H. Duncan, Marion B. Duncan,
Publisher: A Wormsloe Foundation Publication
Keywords: states, united, southeastern, trees
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2000-05-31
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0820322717
ISBN-13: 9780820322711

This popular guide enables users to quickly and confidently identify any of the trees of the southeastern United States, from the common loblolly pine or red mulberry to the rare Pinckneya (fever-tree) or goat willow. The guide treats more than 300 species--every one known to occur in the region, from the Coastal Plain to the highest elevations. Included are trees native to the region as well as those introduced and now reproducing. Helpful features include easy identification keys, common and scientific names, distribution maps, an introductory section on basic leaf, flower, and stem struc