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This digital document is an article from Countries and Their Cultures, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 4211 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Covers the broad range of popular religious culture of the United States at the close of the twentieth century. Beliefs, practices, symbols, traditions, movements, organizations, and leaders from the many traditions in the pluralistic American community are represented. Also includes cults and phenomena that drew followers, such as Heaven's Gale and UFOs. ... Read more

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Children discover and explore the rich heritage of ancient cultures around the world through fascinating myths, legends, festivals, and stories of the culture. Detailed maps and vivid illustrations show how various people lived and what they accomplished. Each book in this popular series contains five easy-to-do art projects- complete with unique punch-out stencils for making many of the traditional arts and crafts still produced today. Ages 8+ ... Read more

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tour-de-force of pedantic, coma-inducing childrens' history
From primitive 'zao pao' ritual sacrifice and the often ignored 'offay'dances to communal scarification and endogamous incest taboos, this book has it all and more! The ideal tool to teach geography, customs and oral literature of the lesser-studied indigenous peoples of the So Mei Penninsula and beyond. Bartok-Baratta has provided an ordurous, penetrating review of Southeast Asian society.Ideal for all beginning haruspicators! ... Read more

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"In dessiminating the knowledge of diversified Thai traditional arts and culture, the Fine Arts Department therefore was pleased to introduce a series of 25 booklets on this topic. It is hoped that these publications will provide opportunity for foreigners to study, understand and appreciate Thai culture in a simplified way prior to visiting Thailand."Taveesak SenanarongDirector General Fine Arts Department ... Read more

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On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on human blood, prepared animal blood, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms, and similar products excluding yeasts in Thailand face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying human blood, prepared animal blood, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms, and similar products excluding yeasts to Thailand? How important is Thailand compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of human blood, prepared animal blood, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms, and similar products excluding yeasts vary from one country of origin to another in Thailand? On the supply side, Thailand also exports human blood, prepared animal blood, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms, and similar products excluding yeasts. Which countries receive the most exports from Thailand? How are these exports concentrated across buyers? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers?

This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for human blood, prepared animal blood, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms, and similar products excluding yeasts in Thailand. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view. Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact. I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for human blood, prepared animal blood, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms, and similar products excluding yeasts for those countries serving Thailand via exports, or supplying from Thailand via imports. It does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models.

In what follows, Chapter 2 begins by summarizing where Thailand fits into the world market for imported and exported human blood, prepared animal blood, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms, and similar products excluding yeasts. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for Thailand in particular, is estimated using a model which aggregates across over 150 key country markets and projects these to the current year. From there, each country represents a percent of the world market. This market is served from a number of competitive countries of origin. Based on both demand- and supply-side dynamics, market shares by country of origin are then calculated across each country market destination. These shares lead to a volume of import and export values for each country and are aggregated to regional and world totals. In doing so, we are able to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of both the value of each market and the share that Thailand is likely to receive this year. From these figures, rankings are calculated to allow managers to prioritize Thailand compared to other major country markets. In this way, all the figures provided in this report are forecasts that can be combined with internal information sources for strategic planning purposes. ... Read more

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In many tropical countries mangrove forests are a crucial component of coastal resources. Nowhere is this more evident than in Thailand where their continued destruction due to shrimp farm expansion is impacting upon forestry, fisheries and the quality of the coastal environment.

In addition to the environmental damage caused, mangrove loss is also a serious social problem. Many people live and work among the mangrove forests and the destruction of the resources and ecological functions these forests provide affect the economic livelihoods and cultural heritage of many communities. Against these losses must be weighed the considerable commercial and foreign exchange benefits of shrimp aquaculture and production, which is a major export industry in Thailand. Through in-depth case studies of local communities in four distinct coastal areas in Southern Thailand, the authors are able to assess objectively the underlying economic causes, and consequences, of mangrove deforestation due to the expansion of shrimp farms.

Economists, ecologists, sociologists and coastal management specialists will all welcome this unique inter-disciplinary appraisal of the ecological, economic and social implications of shrimp farm expansion and mangrove conversion. It will also be of particular value to international and national policymakers concerned with coastal management in tropical countries. ... Read more

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Covers many aspects of life and culture in Thailand. ... Read more

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Subjects covered include:archaeology, architecture, art buddhism, ceremonies, crafts, customs and culture, dance, fashion, folktales, hilltribes, history, music, natural history, sociology, and sport. ... Read more

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The global growth of Internet based Business toBusiness (B2B) e-commerce, particularly B2B e- marketplace technologies, has promoted a new hopefor developing countries aiming to exploit theircompetitive advantages in the digital economy.Nevertheless, over the past decade, there is littleevidence to indicate that developing countries havegained any substantial net benefits fromimplementing B2B. While Information Systems researchoften notes the lack of technological and socialinfrastructure contributing to such sub-optimal B2Bvalue creation, this book presents a new paradigm onthe diffusion of B2B in developing countries bypresenting an important shift in the study oftechnology and culture. The book's thesis movesbeyond the task-technology alignment to introducethe concept of cultural-technology congruence,empirically investigated in the Thai tourismcontext. The book should be of particular interestto researchers in the fields of Information Systems,Culture, Tourism, and Management, as well aspractitioners and decision makers considering thesuccessful implementation of organisational andnational e-strategies. ... Read more

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In Thai and English. ... Read more