Drawing from Thai history, cultural studies, Buddhist religion, and yogic practices, as well as a modern understanding of anatomy and physiology, this book finally bridges the gap between the theory and practice of Thai massage.
Author: C. Pierce Salguero
Paperback:
250 pages
Company: Findhorn Press
(2004-10-01)
ISBN: 1844090299 List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $15.47 Used Price: $15.47
This practical guide to the traditional herbalism of Thailand contains an overview of the history, theory, and spirituality of traditional Thai medicine, with a focus on the application to modern Western life.
Author: C. Pierce Salguero
Paperback:
196 pages
Company: Findhorn Press
(2003-06-01)
ISBN: 1844090043 List Price: $15.95 Amazon Price: $9.53 Used Price: $9.59
This practical and highly illustrated introduction to the principles and techniques of Thai massage discusses the theories of Thai medicine and its Chinese and Ayurvedic influences. It offers clear and easy-to-follow descriptions for all Thai massage techniques accompanied by full color photographs and drawings, with arrows to indicate direction of movement. Basic explanations describe how massage therapists can use elements of these techniques and apply them immediately in their own practice. The book includes a DVD with 45 minutes of video showing techniques and routines in real time, to demonstrate appropriate pacing.
Gives clear and easy-to-follow descriptions for each technique.
Techniques can be used alone, in conjunction with other forms of massage, or to facilitate Yoga and other meditation practices.
Clinically valuable and practical explanations of how to use elements of the procedures make it easy for therapists to enrich their practice with these techniques -- whether applying all of the methods, or starting with stretches alone.
Features an icon throughout the text that calls attention to precautions therapists must be aware of for safe and effective sessions.
Includes a 45-minute DVD presenting video of techniques and routines in real time, to demonstrate proper pacing.
Photographs, drawings, and illustrations of techniques are now in full color, for greater clarity of concepts.
More historical background provides a deeper understanding of this ancient medical art.
An accompanying DVD offers a 45-minute video of a Thai massage session in real time - demonstrating procedures with proper pacing. The visual approach along with its step-by-step narration helps viewers understand how the concepts discussed in the book translate to actual practice. The book also includes DVD icons that indicate which techniques are demonstrated on the DVD.
Increased coverage of body mechanics helps readers understand the difference between correct and incorrect technique.
Legends below the photographs provide specific information on the muscles being pressed or stretched with each technique to help therapists understand how this art of Asian healing corresponds to Western anatomy. A new Muscle Atlas appendix helps to further identify muscles mentioned in these legends.
A new chapter, Correlations to Yoga, outlines the correlations between specific Thai massage procedures and yoga postures to help therapists incorporate Yoga into their practices.
A new chapter, Suggested Sequences, provides guidelines for 60-, 90-, and 120-minute sessions - taking the guesswork out of planning Thai massage sessions.
Author: Richard Gold
Paperback:
240 pages
Company: Mosby
(2006-10-11)
ISBN: 0323041388 List Price: $37.95 Amazon Price: $27.14 Used Price: $33.89
Healing by Heart is a book of stories--stories of people's search for culturally responsive health care from U.S. providers. It offers resources to providers and institutions committed to delivering culturally responsive health care, paying special attention to building successful relationships with traditional Hmong patients and families. It makes available extensive information about the health-related beliefs, practices, and values of the Hmong people, including photographs of traditional healing methods.
Ranging in age from young infants to older adults, the patients in the stories present a wide range of health problems. The clinicians are from family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, emergency medicine, surgery, obstetrics-gynecology, psychiatry/psychology, and hospice.
Each of the fourteen case stories is accompanied by discussion questions as well as two or three commentaries. The commentaries--written by patients, family members, shaman, Western clinicians (including Hmong physicians, nurses, and social workers), medical anthropologists, health care ethicists, social workers, psychologists, and clergy--are rich in personal reflections on cross-cultural health care experiences. Readers are rewarded with a combination of perspectives, including those of Hmong authors who have not previously published in English and scholars with years of professional experience working with the Hmong in Laos, Thailand, and the United States.
The editors offer a model for delivering culturally responsive health care with special attention to matters of cross-cultural health care ethics. The model identifies questions health care providers can focus on as they seek to understand the health-related moral commitments and practices prevalent in the cultural groups they serve, ethical questions that arise frequently and with great poignancy in cross-cultural health care relationships, and points to consider when a patient's treatment wish challenges the provider's professional integrity.
By sharing stories of suffering, confusion, and success, Healing by Heart couples an accessible method of learning about others with concrete recommendations about how to enhance cross-cultural health care relationships.
Paperback:
368 pages
Company: Vanderbilt University Press
(2003-09)
ISBN: 0826514316 List Price: $34.95 Amazon Price: $19.24 Used Price: $30.00
Illustrated throughout with attractive photography and diagrams, this book provides an overview of the spiritual practices of Thailand, with particular emphasis on healing rituals and meditations that can be practiced in the modern West.
Author: C. Pierce Salguero
Paperback:
144 pages
Company: Findhorn Press
(2006-04-01)
ISBN: 1844090728 List Price: $19.95 Amazon Price: $12.25 Used Price: $13.47
The first overview of the tradition, including the origins and modern practice. A broad-brush history from the 3rd millennium BC to the present day, including contemporary practice of this fascinating art. The culmination of 8 years of field study and academic research on traditional Thai Medicine, this book traces a rich cultural heritage from its origins in Buddhism, animism and Ayurveda to the formation of a unique syncretic healing tradition which continues to be practiced today in both rural and urban Thailand. Thai medicine has been influenced by Vedic India, Khmer mysticism, Chinese medical theory and the indigenous beliefs in spirits and ghosts, a fascinating time capsule of practices and beliefs from many historical eras.
Author: C. Pierce Salguero
Paperback:
142 pages
Company: Hohm Press
(2007-07-15)
ISBN: 1890772674 List Price: $14.95 Amazon Price: $8.25 Used Price: $8.50
Explore the powerful secrets of Thai massage--a vigorous technique that will enhance your health, happiness, and wholeness, and create a fresh, stimulating, giving-receiving relationship between you and your partner. Like other forms of massage, you employ a flowing sequence of stretches, but instead of using only your fingers, pressure is applied with thumbs, palms, elbows, knees, and feet. It has been called "yoga in action," with its emphasis on relaxing your mind, restoring your energy, and conditioning your body. A detailed program for complete body massage covers ten lessons, each concentrating on a particular part of your body. Full-color photographs of every move match still shots with superimposed artwork that indicates the directions of the movements you make. Each technique is clearly explained and its benefits detailed. Many have names as calming and as invigorating as the actions: Spiraling Arms, Opening the Energy Gates, Rainbow Dance, Flying Wild Goose, and The Longest Yawn and Stretch in the Universe. More than most massage techniques, Thai massage enhances the bond between partners, with its unity of mind and body, and its harmony of body and body. As you become familiar with the sequences, you'll experience the coming-together of the precise positions and postures to create a cumulative impact. Besides the principal program, there's a section on ways to devise your own approach for addressing specific healing needs such as stress, chronic pain, postural problems, and insomnia. Another feature: brief sessions for busy days. 144 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 11.
Author: Maria Mercati
Paperback:
144 pages
Company: Sterling
(1998-12-31)
ISBN: 0806917555 List Price: $17.95 Amazon Price: $8.10 Used Price: $5.49
This book applies a sustainable development framework to the planning and managing of an intermediate size city in a developing region of a developing nation, and assesses the potential of such a framework to effectively guide the city's development. It identifies issues and recommends approaches to assist local governments to enhance their capacity, improve their management efficiency, and facilitate a course toward sustainable development. The focus is on the many intermediate size cities emerging in Asia and elsewhere as the nucleus of new urbanization and more efficient urbanization management, instead of on the few primate mega-cities. The entire book studies one city and region from multiple perspectives, allowing multiple comparisons. This reflects the unique composition of the book's contributors, representing fifteen disciplines, four universities, and three countries. The book is intended for those interested in applications of sustainability to the management of urban growth and development at the local level, including development professionals, elected officials, academic researchers and teachers, and university students.
Hardcover:
356 pages
Company: Springer
(2002-10-31)
ISBN: 140200818X List Price: $143.00 Amazon Price: $143.00 Used Price: $79.92
This engaging and vivid book investigates the course of the HIV epidemic in seven countries of South East Asia: Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Vietnam and China’s Yunnan Province. Emphasising the impact of the cultural and political landscapes of these countries on the progress of the disease, the book is the product of both working and travelling in the area. Not merely a commentary on obfuscating government statistics, the author draws upon his encounters with people dealing with the effects of the epidemic and opponents of the regimes of the countries he describes. The epidemic is seen as being vitally linked to the general condition of human rights in the societies.
In the first part of the book the author travels to each country in turn chronicling the different approaches adopted to the epidemic. The second part covers issues involving specific groups at risk - among other topics, women and contraception, prostitution and the traffic in women, HIV and the US military, the Heroin trade, gay sex workers, prisoners, and the work of local activists. The third part of the book looks at policy and the general effect of culture on public health care, stressing the need for local empowerment of populations, and in particular women, to effect social changes that would go hand in hand with improvements in the handling of the HIV epidemic. Both passionate and well-informed, this book is a labour of love that discusses the HIV epidemic while giving an intimate, and ultimately celebratory account of South East Asia and asserting the real possiblity for affirmative action.
Author: Chris Beyrer
Paperback:
256 pages
Company: Zed Books
(1998-02-15)
ISBN: 1856495329 List Price: $29.95 Amazon Price: $14.43 Used Price: $6.74
The book covers the various aspects of the use of pesticides, their behavior, degradation, and impacts in wetland ricefields, and presents the results of surveys conducted in the Philippines and Thailand. It includes both bibliographic reviews and selected aspects of the experimental results of a research project on pesticide impacts in wetland ricefields. The first phase of the `Pesticide Impact' project was developed in the Philippines from 1989 to 1991. It was a multidisciplinary/collaborative approach involving scientists from IRRI, NRI (England), ORSTOM (France), UPLB (Philippines) who studied the effects of pesticides on the environment and on farmers' health, and the economical aspects of their use.
Hardcover:
688 pages
Company: Springer
(1995-09-30)
ISBN: 0792395212 List Price: $299.00 Amazon Price: $274.00 Used Price: $332.90
New thinking about the management of public health services has stimulated a widespread movement for health sector reform across the world. This book examines the feasibility and desirability of common reforms in low-income countries, based on in-depth case studies in Ghana, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand, and asks whether governments possess or can develop the capacities needed for these new and often complex roles. The book challenges conventional reform wisdom, and argues that reform approaches that are most .
Author: Anne Mills, Sara Bennett, Steve Russell
Hardcover:
261 pages
Company: Palgrave Macmillan
(2001-03-07)
ISBN: 0333736184 List Price: $105.00 Amazon Price: $82.00 Used Price: $289.98
Unknown Binding:
111 pages
Company: Bee Biology Research Unit, Research Affairs Division, Chulalongkorn University
(1991)
ISBN: 9745795992 List Price: Amazon Price: Used Price: $49.98
Author: Wallapa Devahastin
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101 pages
Company: Regional Institute of Higher Education and Development
(1984)
ISBN: 9971911035 List Price: Amazon Price:
Author: Wichai Posayachinda
Unknown Binding:
26 pages
Company: Drug Dependence Research Center, Institute of Health Research, Chulalongkorn University
(1982)
ISBN: 9745616699 List Price: Amazon Price:
Finch Univ. of Health Sciences, North Chicago, IL. Papers from the 45th Nestle Nutrition Workshop, Nutrition, Immunity, and Infection in Infants and Children, held in Bangkok, Thailand, March 29-April 1, 1999. A reference for researchers and clinicians. DNLM: Infant Nutrition Disorders--immunology--Congresses
Author: Thailand) Nestle Nutrition Workshop 1999 (Bangkok
Hardcover:
445 pages
Company: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
(2001-01-15)
ISBN: 0781730791 List Price: $92.00 Amazon Price: $69.00 Used Price: $7.89
Author: Charles Nash Myers
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144 pages
Company: Harvard Institute for International Development, Harvard University
(1985)
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Author: Chaloem Varavithya
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89 pages
Company: Published by Maruzen Asia for the Regional Institute of Higher Education and Development
(1982)
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Author: Milton I. Roemer
Paperback:
87 pages
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Company: WHO Regional Office for South East Asia
(1981-01-01)
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Author: Chanya Sethaput
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32 pages
Company: Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University
(1977)
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Siam in 1930: General and Medical Features was written as an introduction to Siam for delegates attending the Eight Congress of the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine, held in Bangkok. The publication was compiled by a committee comprising several Thai and foreign experts in various fields of society and especially in medicine. The general information provided consisted of a wide variety of subjects: a brief introduction to the history, government, administration, arts and crafts of Siam; Siamese theatre and noteworthy buildings in Bangkok, Bang Pa-In, Ayuthia and Lopburi-and the railway lines to travel to them-are described, many with photographic material. Developments in the public health sector have, of course, received special attention. Thus all aspects of medical care, nursing, and health administration in Thailand are described, with sections on medicine in the army, veterinary services, school health, missionary work in the medical services,! and the Siamese Red Cross Society. Thus we are able to obtain a rare glimpse of a field of development that is often not readily accessible to visitors, or even not widely known among professionals. (Bangkok 2000, repr. of 1930)
Author: Executive Committee of the Eight Congress of the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine
Paperback:
330 pages
Company: White Lotus Co.
(2000-10)
ISBN: 9747534339 List Price: $17.00 Amazon Price: Used Price: $137.26
HIV is the leading cause of premature death in Thailand. Since the first case of AIDS was reported in 1984 more than one million Thais have been infected. The social, human and economic costs of this burden are enormous. The Thai government has shown a strong commitment to providing care and support to persons living with HIV/AIDS by launching the National Access to Care Program (NAPHA) in 2003, which provides for publicly financed antiretroviral therapy (ART) to all HIV-infected people. This book documents through interviews how ART has radically changed the lives of those living with HIV. In the words of an HIV positive 29-year old man, ART is a "miracle". The book then develops an innovative analytical framework and uses it to show how the future sustainability and cost-effectiveness of this ambitious program depend critically on Thai government choices of AIDS treatment policy, HIV prevention policy and AIDS drug pricing. For the most likely assumptions, the book estimates that ART will save years of healthy life at a cost of between $700 and $2,400 per year. Successful AIDS treatment accumulates ever-increasing numbers of patients who need subsidized ART. Despite the magnitude of the resulting fiscal burden, the authors judge this expenditure to be a worthwhile public health investment for Thailand, However, they show that the future sustainability of the program will hinge critically on how well the government manages the quality of ART service delivery, on whether it is able to sustain its past successes in HIV prevention and on its negotiations with multinational pharmaceutical manufacturers on the prices of new AIDS drugs.
Author: Ana Revenga, Mead Over, Emiko Masaki, Wiwat Peerapatanapokin, Julian Gold
Paperback:
272 pages
Company: World Bank Publications
(2006-09-11)
ISBN: 0821367552 List Price: $25.00 Amazon Price: $24.99 Used Price: $13.99
The primary audience for this report is managers involved with the highest levels of the strategic planning process, and consultants who help their clients with this task. The user will not only benefit from the hundreds of hours that went into the methodology and its application, but also from its alternative perspective on strategic planning in Thailand.
This report helps executives evaluate strategic investment and entry alternatives in Thailand. In order to evaluate Thailand, Icon Group International, Inc. draws on a methodology developed by Professor Philip Parker at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. The methodology decomposes a country's strategic potential along two key dimensions: (1) latent demand, and (2) accessibility. A country may have very high latent demand, yet have low accessibility, making it a less attractive market than many smaller potential countries having higher levels of accessibility.
This report provides a strategic profile of Thailand along these lines. Throughout the discussion, literally hundreds of statistics on Thailand are benchmarked against regional and global averages. The reader can thus quickly understand where Thailand fits into the regional and global perspective. The report first investigates the economic fundamentals affecting Thailand. These fundamentals are the source for Thailand's latent demand. Then, the subsequent chapters detail Thailand's accessibility. This evaluation covers a number of entry alternatives, including export strategies, and local direct investment strategies. If a firm decides to have a local presence in Thailand, this requires a strategic understanding of local business conditions. The conditions investigated in this report include local marketing (advertising, distribution, pricing issues) and entry strategies (opening an office, joint venturing, etc.), as well as human resources management (labor laws, costs, regulations). Because...
Author: The Healthcare Research Group
Ring-bound:
144 pages
Company: Icon Group International, Inc.
(1999-04-07)
(2005-09-30)
ISBN: 0741810522 List Price: $99.95 Amazon Price: $72.96
Introduction This databook is a detailed information resource covering all the key data points on Pet Health Care in Thailand. It includes comprehensive value volume segmentation and market share data. The databook supplies actual data to 2005 and full forecasts to 2010. Scope of this report Contains information on 5 categories: External parasite treatments, Grooming products, Pet supplements, Worming treatments, Other pet healthcare. Provides market value, volume, expenditure and consumption data by market, segment and subsegment. Includes company and brand share data by category, as well as distribution channel data. Contains market value segmentation by demographic and socioeconomic group. Research and analysis highlights The market for Pet Health Care in Thailand increased between 2000-2005, growing at an average annual rate of 3.1%. The leading company in the market in 2005 was Pokphand Animal Feed Co., Ltd.. Key reasons to read this report Discover the major quantitative trends affecting the Pet Health Care markets. Understand consumers' consumption and expenditure patterns. Understand the future direction of the market with reliable historical data and full five year forecasting.
Author: Datamonitor
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127 pages
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(2006-07-04)
(2006-07-04)
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Author: Jean Mulholland
Paperback:
448 pages
Company: Australian National University, Faculty of As
(1997-02)
ISBN: 0731507916 List Price: $35.00 Amazon Price: $24.99 Used Price: $13.49
On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on oral or dental hygiene preparations and denture fixative pastes and powders in Thailand face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying oral or dental hygiene preparations and denture fixative pastes and powders to Thailand? How important is Thailand compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of oral or dental hygiene preparations and denture fixative pastes and powders vary from one country of origin to another in Thailand? On the supply side, Thailand also exports oral or dental hygiene preparations and denture fixative pastes and powders. 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 oral or dental hygiene preparations and denture fixative pastes and powders 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 oral or dental hygiene preparations and denture fixative pastes and powders 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 oral or dental hygiene preparations and denture fixative pastes and powders. 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.
Author: Parker, Philip M.
Paperback:
32 pages
Company: ICON Group International, Inc.
(2006-11-21)
(2006-11-21)
ISBN: 0546049001 List Price: $62.00 Amazon Price: $62.00
Author: Howard Higginbotham
Paperback:
296 pages
Company: Univ of Hawaii Pr
(1984-05)
ISBN: 0824808940 List Price: $25.00 Amazon Price: Used Price: $124.95
Author: Milton Irwin Roemer
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87 pages
Company: World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia
(1981)
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Author: Chinda Singhanet
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17 pages
Company: Dept. of Christian Education and Literature, Church of Christ in Thailand
(1962)
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The author provides a vivid and original study of what it means to be a woman in a village in rural Thailand. As a study on health, this book concentrates on the intimacies of women's bodies while simultaneously exploring how experiences of health and illness are shaped by the wider context of the developing Thai state.
Author: Andrea Whittaker
Paperback:
224 pages
Company: Allen & Unwin Pty., Limited (Australia)
(2001-03)
ISBN: 1865082163 List Price: $35.00 Amazon Price: Used Price: $66.72
Introduction This databook is a detailed information resource covering all the key data points on Bird, Fish and Rodent Care in Thailand. It includes comprehensive value volume segmentation and market share data. The databook supplies actual data to 2006 and full forecasts to 2011. Scope Contains information on 3 categories: Bird, Fish and Rodent. Provides market value, volume, expenditure and consumption data by market, segment and subsegment. Includes company and brand share data by categories. Highlights The market for Bird, Fish and Rodent Care in Thailand increased between 2001-2006, growing at an average annual rate of 3.8%. The leading company in the market in 2006 was Pokphand Animal Feed Co., Ltd.. The second-largest player was Ed Farmer with Perfect Companion Co., Ltd. in third place. Reasons to Purchase Discover the major quantitative trends affecting the Bird, Fish and Rodent Care markets. Understand consumers' consumption and expenditure patterns. Understand the future direction of the market with reliable historical data and full five year forecasting.
Author: Datamonitor
Digital:
105 pages
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(2007-08-02)
(2007-08-02)
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Author: Alan Gray
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103 pages
Company: Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University
(1999)
ISBN: 9746620908 List Price: Amazon Price:
Author: Therese M Caouette
Unknown Binding:
194 pages
Company: Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University at Salaya
(2000)
ISBN: 9746636561 List Price: Amazon Price: $105.13 Used Price: $40.89
This volume contains selected papers presented at the Fourth Asian Symposium on Computer Mathematics. 39 peer-reviewed original contributions together with full papers and extended abstracts by the four invited speakers, G H Gonnet, D Lazard, W McCune, and W-T Wu, cover some of the most recent and significant advances in computer mathematics, including algebraic, symbolic, numeric, and geometric computation, automated mathematical reasoning, mathematical software, and computer-aided geometric design. Researchers, teachers, students, and engineers interested in doing mathematics using computers will find this volume good reading and a valuable reference.
Hardcover:
324 pages
Company: World Scientific Publishing Company
(2001-04)
ISBN: 9810244983 List Price: $97.00 Amazon Price: $97.00 Used Price: $97.00
Introduction This databook is a detailed information resource covering all the key data points on Cat Care in Thailand. It includes comprehensive value volume segmentation and market share data. The databook supplies actual data to 2006 and full forecasts to 2011. Scope Contains information on 4 categories: Cat food, Cat litter, Cat toys and Cat treats & milk. Provides market value, volume, expenditure and consumption data by market, segment and subsegment. Includes company and brand share data by categories. Highlights The market for Cat Care in Thailand increased between 2001-2006, growing at an average annual rate of 4.6%. The leading company in the market in 2006 was Pokphand Animal Feed Co., Ltd.. The second-largest player was Mars, Inc. with Nestle S.A. in third place. Reasons to Purchase Discover the major quantitative trends affecting the Cat Care markets. Understand consumers' consumption and expenditure patterns. Understand the future direction of the market with reliable historical data and full five year forecasting.
Author: Datamonitor
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(2007-06-11)
(2007-06-11)
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Author: Amara Sunthonthada
Unknown Binding: Company: Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University
(1987)
ISBN: 9745861235 List Price: Amazon Price:
Author: James Nelson Riley
Unknown Binding:
71 pages
Company: [Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University]
(1974)
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92 pages
Company: Center for Health Policy Studies, Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Mahidol University
(1991)
ISBN: 9745873004 List Price: Amazon Price:
This synthesis of studies in Ghana and Thailand explores questions of availability, rational drug use, and factors influencing the promotion and use of herbal medicines.
Author: Amanda Le Grand, P. Wondergem, Peter Wondergem Amanda le Grand
Paperback:
80 pages
Company: Koninklijk Instituut Voor De Tropen
(1990-09)
ISBN: 9068320335 List Price: $8.95 Amazon Price: $8.95 Used Price: $8.06
Author: Frederick Albert Day
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107 pages
Company: Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University
(1977)
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Author: Robert B Textor
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65 pages
Company: Published for the Ministry of Public Health by the Thai-American Audiovisual Service
(1958)
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Author: Yaowarat Po??rapakkha?m
Unknown Binding: Company: Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University
(1982)
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Author: Louis Golomb
Paperback:
314 pages
Company: University of Illinois Press
(1985-05-01)
ISBN: 0252011708 List Price: $23.95 Amazon Price: Used Price: $9.58
This book is the first book that deals with motherhood and reproduction in northern Thailand. The book covers a wide range of issues issues relating to pregnancy, birth, postpartum practice, motherhood, infant feeding and infant care issues.
Author: J Bierdrager
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73 pages
Company: Regional Office for the Western Pacific of the World Health Organization
(1967)
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Author: Dirk Fordeyn
Unknown Binding: Company: Division of Human Settlements Development, Asian Institute of Technology
(1985)
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Author: Jean Mulholland
Paperback:
332 pages
Company: Australian National University, Faculty of As
(1997-02)
ISBN: 0731500164 List Price: $30.00 Amazon Price: $14.50 Used Price: $10.38
Most Asian countries have shown a strong commitment to rapid economic development. Economists have argued that the fruits from economic development will be spread equitably throughout the population. In the absence of a strong tradition of social rights, social development in Asia has long been taken for granted. This collection documents social development in the Asian countries of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand and India and concludes that social development has lagged behind economic development. This has given rise to `distorted development' in many countries. Serious development problems of poverty and inequalities have lingered even in these economically advanced countries of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore. These problems have been exacerbated in the wake of the Asian economic crisis. In order to harmonize social development with economic growth, Asian states ought to be more proactive in their development agendas. As a text on social development in Asia, this book is primarily intended for practitioners and students of social work, social administration, and social policy. It is also relevant for students and practitioners of sociology, economics, and public policy.
Hardcover:
186 pages
Company: Springer
(2000-06-15)
ISBN: 079236256X List Price: $109.00 Amazon Price: $128.97 Used Price: $134.97
Introduction This databook is a detailed information resource covering all the key data points on Bird, Fish & Rodent Care in Thailand. It includes comprehensive value volume segmentation and market share data. The databook supplies actual data to 2005 and full forecasts to 2010. Scope Contains information on 3 categories: Bird, Fish & Rodent. Provides market value, volume, expenditure and consumption data by market, segment and subsegment. Includes company and brand share data by category, as well as distribution channel data. Contains market value segmentation by demographic and socioeconomic group. Highlights The market for Bird, Fish & Rodent Care in Thailand increased between 2000-2005, growing at an average annual rate of 3.9%. The leading company in the market in 2005 was Pokphand Animal Feed Co., Ltd.. The second-largest player was Vitakraft-Werke. Reasons to Purchase Discover the major quantitative trends affecting the Bird, Fish & Rodent Care markets. Understand consumers' consumption and expenditure patterns. Understand the future direction of the market with reliable historical data and full five year forecasting.
Author: Datamonitor
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89 pages
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(2006-07-10)
(2006-07-10)
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Author: K. Chindavijak, N. Martin, H. Sriplung, V. Vatanasapt
Paperback:
178 pages
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Company: World Health Organization
(1993-12-01)
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Introduction This databook is a detailed information resource covering all the key data points on Pet Health Care in Thailand. It includes comprehensive value volume segmentation and market share data. The databook supplies actual data to 2006 and full forecasts to 2011. Scope Contains information on 5 categories: External Parasite Treatments, Grooming Products, Worming Treatments, Pet Supplements and Other Pet healthcare. Provides market value, volume, expenditure and consumption data by market, segment and subsegment. Includes company and brand share data by categories. Highlights The market for Pet Health Care in Thailand increased between 2001-2006, growing at an average annual rate of 3.1%. The leading company in the market in 2006 was Pfizer Inc. The second-largest player was Church & Dwight Co., Inc. with Novartis AG in third place. Reasons to Purchase Discover the major quantitative trends affecting the Pet Health Care markets. Understand consumers' consumption and expenditure patterns. Understand the future direction of the market with reliable historical data and full five year forecasting.
Author: Datamonitor
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167 pages
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(2007-08-24)
(2007-08-24)
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Author: Viggo Schumacher Brun
Hardcover:
369 pages
Company: Univ of California Pr
(1987-10)
ISBN: 0520052714 List Price: $75.00 Amazon Price: $64.95 Used Price: $55.00
HIV and AIDS are having a profound impact on contemporary life in Thailand, generating complex issues with far-reaching implications for both the Thai people and on a global level. AIDS has become an increasingly prominent symbol of modernity in Thailand, yet ways of dealing with AIDS and HIV draw on time-honored understandings of fate and misfortune, disease and contagion, gender and pollution. Endangered Relations provides a crucial analysis of how public health has attempted to control the threat of HIV infection, and how this has combined with local understandings of identity and sexuality; it sets in place a broad range of personal and social responses to the ongoing epidemic. An illuminating study of the way in which Thai social relations, and in particular Thai sexualities, shape the history of HIV and AIDS in Thailand, Endangered Relations offers a unique perspective on the complicated ways that disease is negotiated in cultural, political, and human terms.
Author: Christopher Lyttleton, Chris Lyttleton
Paperback:
367 pages
Company: White Lotus Co Ltd
(2000-12)
ISBN: 9747534428 List Price: $19.50 Amazon Price: Used Price: $14.89
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This practical and highly illustrated introduction to the principles and techniques of Thai massage discusses the theories of Thai medicine and its Chinese and Ayurvedic influences. It offers clear and easy-to-follow descriptions for all Thai massage techniques accompanied by full color photographs and drawings, with arrows to indicate direction of movement. Basic explanations describe how massage therapists can use elements of these techniques and apply them immediately in their own practice. The book includes a DVD with 45 minutes of video showing techniques and routines in real time, to demonstrate appropriate pacing.
Healing by Heart is a book of stories--stories of people's search for culturally responsive health care from U.S. providers. It offers resources to providers and institutions committed to delivering culturally responsive health care, paying special attention to building successful relationships with traditional Hmong patients and families. It makes available extensive information about the health-related beliefs, practices, and values of the Hmong people, including photographs of traditional healing methods. 
The first overview of the tradition, including the origins and modern practice. A broad-brush history from the 3rd millennium BC to the present day, including contemporary practice of this fascinating art. The culmination of 8 years of field study and academic research on traditional Thai Medicine, this book traces a rich cultural heritage from its origins in Buddhism, animism and Ayurveda to the formation of a unique syncretic healing tradition which continues to be practiced today in both rural and urban Thailand. Thai medicine has been influenced by Vedic India, Khmer mysticism, Chinese medical theory and the indigenous beliefs in spirits and ghosts, a fascinating time capsule of practices and beliefs from many historical eras.
Author: Graham Fordham
This book applies a sustainable development framework to the planning and managing of an intermediate size city in a developing region of a developing nation, and assesses the potential of such a framework to effectively guide the city's development. It identifies issues and recommends approaches to assist local governments to enhance their capacity, improve their management efficiency, and facilitate a course toward sustainable development. The focus is on the many intermediate size cities emerging in Asia and elsewhere as the nucleus of new urbanization and more efficient urbanization management, instead of on the few primate mega-cities. The entire book studies one city and region from multiple perspectives, allowing multiple comparisons. This reflects the unique composition of the book's contributors, representing fifteen disciplines, four universities, and three countries. The book is intended for those interested in applications of sustainability to the management of urban growth and development at the local level, including development professionals, elected officials, academic researchers and teachers, and university students.
The book covers the various aspects of the use of pesticides, their behavior, degradation, and impacts in wetland ricefields, and presents the results of surveys conducted in the Philippines and Thailand. It includes both bibliographic reviews and selected aspects of the experimental results of a research project on pesticide impacts in wetland ricefields. The first phase of the `Pesticide Impact' project was developed in the Philippines from 1989 to 1991. It was a multidisciplinary/collaborative approach involving scientists from IRRI, NRI (England), ORSTOM (France), UPLB (Philippines) who studied the effects of pesticides on the environment and on farmers' health, and the economical aspects of their use. 
Author: Anthony Aikman
HIV is the leading cause of premature death in Thailand. Since the first case of AIDS was reported in 1984 more than one million Thais have been infected. The social, human and economic costs of this burden are enormous. The Thai government has shown a strong commitment to providing care and support to persons living with HIV/AIDS by launching the National Access to Care Program (NAPHA) in 2003, which provides for publicly financed antiretroviral therapy (ART) to all HIV-infected people. This book documents through interviews how ART has radically changed the lives of those living with HIV. In the words of an HIV positive 29-year old man, ART is a "miracle". The book then develops an innovative analytical framework and uses it to show how the future sustainability and cost-effectiveness of this ambitious program depend critically on Thai government choices of AIDS treatment policy, HIV prevention policy and AIDS drug pricing. For the most likely assumptions, the book estimates that ART will save years of healthy life at a cost of between $700 and $2,400 per year. Successful AIDS treatment accumulates ever-increasing numbers of patients who need subsidized ART. Despite the magnitude of the resulting fiscal burden, the authors judge this expenditure to be a worthwhile public health investment for Thailand, However, they show that the future sustainability of the program will hinge critically on how well the government manages the quality of ART service delivery, on whether it is able to sustain its past successes in HIV prevention and on its negotiations with multinational pharmaceutical manufacturers on the prices of new AIDS drugs.
The primary audience for this report is managers involved with the highest levels of the strategic planning process, and consultants who help their clients with this task. The user will not only benefit from the hundreds of hours that went into the methodology and its application, but also from its alternative perspective on strategic planning in Thailand.
On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on oral or dental hygiene preparations and denture fixative pastes and powders in Thailand face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying oral or dental hygiene preparations and denture fixative pastes and powders to Thailand? How important is Thailand compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of oral or dental hygiene preparations and denture fixative pastes and powders vary from one country of origin to another in Thailand? On the supply side, Thailand also exports oral or dental hygiene preparations and denture fixative pastes and powders. 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 oral or dental hygiene preparations and denture fixative pastes and powders 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 oral or dental hygiene preparations and denture fixative pastes and powders 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 oral or dental hygiene preparations and denture fixative pastes and powders. 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.
The author provides a vivid and original study of what it means to be a woman in a village in rural Thailand. As a study on health, this book concentrates on the intimacies of women's bodies while simultaneously exploring how experiences of health and illness are shaped by the wider context of the developing Thai state.
Author: Therese M Caouette
This volume contains selected papers presented at the Fourth Asian Symposium on Computer Mathematics. 39 peer-reviewed original contributions together with full papers and extended abstracts by the four invited speakers, G H Gonnet, D Lazard, W McCune, and W-T Wu, cover some of the most recent and significant advances in computer mathematics, including algebraic, symbolic, numeric, and geometric computation, automated mathematical reasoning, mathematical software, and computer-aided geometric design. Researchers, teachers, students, and engineers interested in doing mathematics using computers will find this volume good reading and a valuable reference.
This book is the first book that deals with motherhood and reproduction in northern Thailand. The book covers a wide range of issues issues relating to pregnancy, birth, postpartum practice, motherhood, infant feeding and infant care issues.
Most Asian countries have shown a strong commitment to rapid economic development. Economists have argued that the fruits from economic development will be spread equitably throughout the population. In the absence of a strong tradition of social rights, social development in Asia has long been taken for granted. This collection documents social development in the Asian countries of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand and India and concludes that social development has lagged behind economic development. This has given rise to `distorted development' in many countries. Serious development problems of poverty and inequalities have lingered even in these economically advanced countries of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore. These problems have been exacerbated in the wake of the Asian economic crisis. In order to harmonize social development with economic growth, Asian states ought to be more proactive in their development agendas. As a text on social development in Asia, this book is primarily intended for practitioners and students of social work, social administration, and social policy. It is also relevant for students and practitioners of sociology, economics, and public policy.