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Thai vocabulary
Ithaca, Spoken Language Services 1982 xiv + pp.217-589, 23cm., in the series "American Council of Learned Societies. Program in Oriental Languages. Publications, Series A, texts" vol.2, softcover, G, [bilingual: Thai-English], X68992
Thai-English student's dictionary
Stanford, Stanford University Press 1998 xxix + 638pp., 26cm., text printed in 2 columns, cloth, [bilingual: Thai-English], VG, X69037
Interlingual world taboos
American Anthropologist Brochure 1951 In-8, (24.5x16 cm), brochure, paginé 339 à 344, texte en anglais ; plats insolés, assez bon état général. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
Thai-English Student's Dictionary
Standford University Press, 1964, in-4 rel. toile (16,5 x 25,5), XXIX-638 p., bon état.
"This is the first new Thai-English dictionary by an American Scholar to appear in over twenty years. It includes many new words and new uses of old words that have entered the language since Wold War II, an it employs the latest official spellin of words (based on the Thai-Thai Government Dictionary of 1950), with some older spellings cross-referenced to the present spelling. Its 20,000 entries are presented in a sinle alphabetical listing : standard vocabulary items, names of people and organizations, place names, and abbreviatiions. The pronunciation of words is shown in a scientific writing which includes five tones, stress within rhythm groups, and intonation whenever clauses or sentences are cited. The pronunciation guide is not a translation; rather it is the standard pronunciation used by educated speakers in Bangkok, which often differs from the traditional spelling in tone and vowel length. Levels of usage-vulgar, common, colloquial, elegant, royal, and sacerdotal-are indicated whenever pertinent. Slang terms and idioms are included, and for words that American students find difficult there are grammatical comments and ample examples of usage. ,"
Falkland Road: The Prostitutes of Bombay
, Steidl Publishers, 2008 Hardcover, 124 pages, ENG, 325 x 285 x 18 mm, dustjacket ( has some minor scratches, book itself is in perfect condition) Full page coloured photographs. ISBN 9783865211286.
Falkland Road is a notorious street of prostitutes in Bombay. It is like any busy lower-class street in Bombay, densely populated by vendors, merchants and shops, but also overcrowded with girls, from 11-year-olds to 65-year-old ex-madams. The street is lined with old wooden buildings, which teem with prostitutes hanging out of the windows, in the viewing cages on the ground floor, and on the steps. From sunrise to sunset the customers pass down the street to survey the girls. Mary Ellen Mark's extraordinary portrait of Falkland Road was first published in 1981 and has long been recognized as one of the major bodies of work in the canon of this significant Magnum photographer. The book contains 65 photographs made over six weeks that show the daily life lived by the women (and men) of the street. Mark's images are beautiful, electric, shocking and remarkable for their emotional power and for the visceral brilliance of their color. Together with Mark's captions and introductory text, Falkland Road is an astonishing work of insight into a raw and frightening world, made accessible by the completeness of the photographer's involvement, by her humanity, and by the way she captures the variety of individual life and the color, passion and tenderness that still abide there.
