Lords of Things: The Fashioning of the Siamese Monarchy's Modern Image

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Lords of Things offers an intriguing interpretation of modernity in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Siam by focusing on the novel material possessions and social practices adopted by the royal elite to refashion its self and public image in the early stages of globalization. It examines the westernized modes of consumption and self-presentation, the residential and representational architecture, and the public spectacles appropriated by the Bangkok court not as byproducts of institutional reformation initiated by modernizing sovereigns, but as practices and objects constitutive of the very identity of the royalty as a civilized and civilizing class.

Bringing a wealth of new source material into a theoretically informed discussion, Lords of Things will be required reading for historians of Thailand and Southeast Asia scholars generally. It represents a welcome change from previous studies of Siamese modernization that are almost exclusively concerned with the institutional and economic dimensions of the process or with foreign relations, and will appeal greatly to those interested in transnational cultural flows, the culture of colonialism, the invention of tradition, and the relationship between consumption and identity formation in the modern era.

LORD OF THINGS: The Fashioning of the Siamese Monarchy's Modern Image.(Book Review): An article from: Pacific Affairs
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LORD OF THINGS: The Fashioning of the Siamese Monarchy's Modern Image.(Book Review): An article from: Pacific Affairs
Fred R. Von Der Mehden
Manufacturer: University of British Columbia
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000822D96
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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Title: LORD OF THINGS: The Fashioning of the Siamese Monarchy's Modern Image.(Book Review)
Author: Fred R. Von Der Mehden
Publication: Pacific Affairs (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2003
Publisher: University of British Columbia
Volume: 76 Issue: 3 Page: 499(2)

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Lords of Things: The Fashioning of the Siamese Monarchy's Modern Image.(Book Review) : An article from: The Historian

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Lords of Things: The Fashioning of the Siamese Monarchy's Modern Image.(Book Review) : An article from: The Historian
Tamara Loos
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000B9DVWY
Release Date: 2005-09-03

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This digital document is an article from The Historian, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2004. The length of the article is 594 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. 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.

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Title: Lords of Things: The Fashioning of the Siamese Monarchy's Modern Image.(Book Review)
Author: Tamara Loos
Publication: The Historian (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 66 Issue: 2 Page: 383(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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In this eye-opening guide, consulting expert Ron Tepper shows you how basic changes in the business climate have revolutionized the consulting industry, enabling you to earn big bucks in one of the fastest-growing occupations of the 1990s. Tepper gives you an inside view of today's hottest consulting practices through the eyes of ten of the top independent consultants in the nation. Each of these peak performers has sliced off a generous chunk of this $17 billion pie without spending a fortune on advertising and promotion, without sinking their life savings into posh offices, and, in most cases, without hiring any permanent employees.

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Great Ideas.......2000-06-20

As a potential consultant, I found this book quite useful for idea developemt. It helped to shorten the elusive search for skills that I not only had, but that I could sell. I would suggest this as a starting point for anyone looking to make the jump from employee to consultant.

The 10 Hottest Consulting Practices: What They Are, How To Get Into Them

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The 10 Hottest Consulting Practices: What They Are, How To Get Into Them
Ron Tepper
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N66IN4

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This book gives you the answers and the tools to move from being a good employee to succeeding as an entrepreneur. Making It Your Business: The Personal Transition from Employee to Entrepreneur is packed with practical ideas and examples that you can use immediately. If it is your business, then this is your book.

Buy this easy to read and easy to understand book and learn:
-The #1 reason for business failure and how to avoid it.
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great to start a business or to stay in business.......2003-11-14

As a person going through the struggles of starting my own business, had I had this book in the beginning, I believe that many of the struggles I faced would have been diminshed. Melvin Gravely has absolutely captured the essence of the "going into business" experience. All entrepreneurs go through the same stages and fears. Melvin has given me insight into the challenges I had and still do struggle with. Now I have insight and tools to understand and work through those issues. I highly recommend this book for anyone contemplating going into business or anyone wishing to stay in their business.

This is a support group in a book!!!!!.......1999-02-02

Mel Gravely manages to demystify entrepreneurship with this easy to read, thought provoking book. The contribution of this book is unique in that it addresses the mind-set shift needed to successfully make the transition from employee to entrepreneur. The book is built on his highly insightful premise that the majority of business owners don't fail, they quit. He makes some powerful points when looking at the mistakes business owners commonly make. While the mistakes business owners make over and over may be common knowledge, the answers provided in the book on how to stop making them apparently isn't. I find his thinking and research on what causes people to quit to lead to some very proactical, doable advice. He will challenge you to do things that don't necessarily come naturally to entrepreneurs, like focusing your resources, and working toward your goals by stretching yourself, not straining yourself. One quick and dirty test I measure the quality of a book by is in answering one question, "did it change my behavior?" The answer to the question after reading this book for me was, "YES IT DID."

The 7 Powers of Questions: Secrets to Successful Communication in Life and at Work
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Personal Development Primer!

What a helpful book!!!

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Excellent and helpful

Hey MOM, WHAT? WHEN? is Dinner?

The 7 Powers of Questions: Secrets to Successful Communication in Life and at Work
Dorothy Leeds
Manufacturer: Perigee Trade
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0399526145
Release Date: 2000-09-12

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A smart way to find the answers we need to succeed-in business, relationships, and life.

Questions...

demand answers
stimulate thinking
give us valuable information
put us in control
get people to open up
lead to quality listening
get people to sell themselves

They're an essential tool of the seeker and the problem-solver, and in our personal and professional lives, they can make the difference between getting what we want and going without. Questions have power-and by harnessing that power, we can change our world. This unique book reveals the seven powers of questions-and shows how to use them most effectively. Learn how questions can improve relationships, help determine what people really want, uncover opportunities, persuade others, and get more out of every business or personal encounter.

"Impressive in its insights and practical applications, The 7 Powers of Questions gives us an entirely new way to turn an ordinary conversations tool into a formidable ally."--Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder & CEO of Bloomberg LP

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Personal Development Primer! .......2006-03-04

Great book that should be a part of every professionals library who is serious about their development. This book will prompt most to start asking more (and ultimately higher quality) questions. Many readers will make their 'questions' a new and powerful habit! For 14 bucks, what more can you ask for? Great job Dorothy!

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What a helpful book!!!.......2002-03-29

I am a college senior job hunting right now and decided to get this book to improve my communication skills. I'm only through about half of this book and already love it. It has so much great information about improving communication. I have actually started using some of the information in the book...asking a lot more questions than I used to, and I have seen excellent results!

Top Notch.......2001-07-24

I saw Dorothy Leeds at a book talk and was so impressed that I had to buy her book. I am very impressed at the breadth of occupations and life situations to which her writing applies. It is very practical information that almost anyone can use. I am in the field of education, and it will certainly help me to ask better questions as a teacher. You won't be disappointed.

Excellent and helpful.......2001-01-25

This book is easy to read and full of great examples. I've started asking better questions already and I've noticed my job performance getting better. My wife read the book, too, and I think our marriage will benefit more and more as we communicate better -- all because of asking good questions.

Hey MOM, WHAT? WHEN? is Dinner?.......2000-12-14

GOOGOO Gogga! This book is great for teaching people in general to ask WHY? The problem with many institutions is the shunning of questions and replying with "that is just the way it is!" This book spurs one on to ask till you reach the meat of the situation that one encounters in this uncertain world. Why am I here? What is my objective? Great questions to spur individuals to a higher level of learning: synthesis or ownership of knowledge. This book helps people to stop "going with the flow of ordinary life."

Yes, You Can! Raise Financially Aware Kids
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Fun, Entertaining and VERY HELPFUL

Yes, You Can! Raise Financially Aware Kids
Jack Jonathan , Sheelagh Manheim , Jim Stowers , Sam Goller , and Alexis Preston
Manufacturer: Stowers Innovations, Inc.
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Binding: Turtleback

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ASIN: 0962978833

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Fun, Entertaining and VERY HELPFUL.......2003-09-16

Let me begin by saying I helped create this book. Even so, I also use it on a regular basis. We have two kids and this book helped us teach them about money. Each chapter has two parts - information and activities. The activities are fun and are designed for kids ranging from 3 to 18 years old.

It's not a book for kids. It's a book for the parents to read and then spend time with their kids doing the activities.

Good chapters on allowances, earning money, smart shopping, differences between needs and wants and teaching kids that money isn't everything. Lots of information on how to incorporate your "family values" into money practices.

The cartoons by Paul Coker are very funny and really make this easy-to-read.

YES, YOU CAN RAISE FINANCIALLY AWARE KIDS
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YES, YOU CAN RAISE FINANCIALLY AWARE KIDS
JACK JONATHAN
Manufacturer: STOWERS INNOVATIONS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000S74SHG

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Although many businesspeople may not yet be familiar with Dave Longaberger and the hugely successful basket company that bears his name, they probably should be. The story of the man and his enterprise, as told in Longaberger: An American Success Story, is as informative and inspiring as any likely to pass their way. In fact, this plainspoken memoir--prepared with business writer Robert Shook shortly before Longaberger's death from cancer in 1999--ought to be required for all entrepreneurs who think they really know what makes the business world go round.

In its pages, Longaberger candidly relates how he first learned to share and do his part as one of 12 children in a small house in tiny Dresden, Ohio--and how seemingly major drawbacks like epilepsy, stuttering, learning disabilities, and lack of a college education never deterred him. He tells how he kicked off his entrepreneurial career with a restaurant and grocery-drugstore before opening the basket company in 1973 as a part-time family affair, and how its workforce ultimately grew to 8,000 while revenues hit $1 billion. Longaberger fully explains overcoming his difficulties and learning the real secrets of business by shoveling snow and toiling in a grocery store as a youngster, and then selling baked goods and working in a factory as a young man. He also shows how this knowledge, and his penchant for the unconventional, became invaluable when he went into business for himself. The story includes Longaberger's rationale for the moves he parlayed into success, and offers his specific management principles along with advice on how and why to implement them. At its heart, though, Longaberger's message is deceptively simple. "If you remember nothing else about this book," he writes, "I hope you realize that if a small-town boy like me can make it, anyone in America who's willing to work hard should be able to earn a darn good living." --Howard Rothman

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Dave Longaberger was one of the most remarkable entrepreneurs of his generation. His vision, his unorthodox business methods, and his belief in people resulted in the creation of one of the largest and most successful private companies in America.

Longaberger: An American Success Story is Dave's fascinating firsthand account of how he created and grew his company into the largest basket manufacturer in the United States, employing thousands of people, revitalizing his community, and inspiring everyone involved with a commitment to quality, craftsmanship, and a unique management philosophy.

As Dave himself admits in this moving and compelling memoir, he was an unlikely success story. In addition to having epilepsy and a stutter, Dave suffered from a learning disorder, finally graduating high school at the age of twenty-one. Yet, he ran two profitable businesses, a restaurant and a grocery store -- which, to the horror of bankers and friends, he then sold in order to finance his struggling basket company.

Dave was a business maverick who only let adversities make him stronger and more versatile. He became renowned for his managerial skills -- and his sense of humor. More than once he started a food fight at a company event or launched a wild idea -- like the basket-shaped headquarters building -- that just happened to work perfectly.

This engaging story shows how Dave Longaberger shared his life and unconventional business sense to create what is now the $1 billion-in-sales Longaberger Company. Join him on his journey as he takes his own unique route to success. Learn about the many original and highly unusual management practices that not only contributed to the strength of the Longaberger enterprise but can make any business run more profitably. Follow Dave's example and develop the entrepreneurial skills necessary for business success.

Longaberger: An American Success Story is an affirmation of the American values of independence, hard work, and business ethics. Inspirational as well as informative, this is a moving portrait of an enterprise and an entrepreneur, both of whom are loved and revered by the thousands of people whose lives they have enriched.

About The Longaberger Company

From a bare-bones beginning with a handful of part-time employees in 1972, Longaberger today, under the leadership of president and CEO Tami Longaberger, employs some 8,700 people and inspires some 70,000 independent sales associates across the United States. The Longaberger Company has a sprawling campus of office facilities, production plants where basket makers create more than 40,000 high-quality baskets every day, and tourist attractions in and around central Ohio.

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Not A Very Helpful Book!.......2004-05-28

As stated by another reviewer, this is a book for "Longaberger fans" (pretty much a waste of time and money for anybody else). The wholesome, made-in America image that the Longaberger family is trying to convey seems ironic to me now, since the company is outsourcing a large amount of their products in China. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone except the die-hard Longaberger enthusiast!

Have you ever had a dream that was draining you dry?.......2003-04-08

That was Mr.Longaberger's problem. He knew that handcrafted baskets had a place in Americana, but he didn't know how to make it profitable. But he never gave up. While it was running in the red, he was taking money from his business that was running in the black.

Those entrepreneurs that are working full time jobs, as well,know the feeling.

I picked up this book to gain perspective on how to not get discouraged in my own business. It worked.

I have never had to work in a building that had no roof. I have never had to pay employees with IOUs. I have never had to go into a store and see my handmade baskets tossed in the back of a shelf collecting dusts while cheaper made, inferior baskets go whizzing by.

What I took away from this book is to constantly persist and innovate. The cliche "Where there is a will there is a way" readily applied to Mr.Longaberger. He gained my utmost admiration as a businessman and as a philanthroper.

From day one he shared is wealth, with his employees, with his community, and with strangers. I am shopping around to purchase one of his baskets, solely as an inspiration piece, and if you do the same, after reading this book, you will find out what I found out, they are expensive and you have stiff competition among the collectors. He created a $7billion company from an abandon building. Could you do the same.

Do you have what it takes to get through your hard times, up beat, to really see your business blossom? I do. I look forward to seeing you at the top.

Wonderful Business Tips If you are a real businessman.......2003-04-03

If a book's name is success story it will not be a business textbook to explain business strategy or corporate finance. In this book you can see the optimism (which we need right now), persuasion(every entreprenuer needs), and a soft touch to people ( key element to create successful business). So as you understand this book do not make you understand hard business issues but make you understand that the realization of dreams are not restricted to business educated people... It shows you a person who has learning disabilities can create a company of 1 billion dollar worth... it shows you the importance of caring customers and touching customers and caring their families...

So people who needs business books they need to go text books not success stories... ... if i need a screwdriver and if i get a hammer, hammer will be useless for me but this does not change the effectiveness of the hammer for the person who needs it... so only problem is the person who selects it...

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This is not a business book.......2002-05-10

If you are looking for a book celebrating the life and times of David Longaberger, this is the book for you. If you are looking to learn more about how he built his businesses, look elsewhere. I was very disappointed in this book. Hindsight is supposed to be 20/20, not wear rose colored glasses.

I'm surprised at all the ultra positive reviews here for this book, but I guess they are all "Longaberger Fans". I enjoy reading about successfully business people and looked forward to reading about how Longaberger built his unique marketing method.

Ask any entrepreneur and they'll tell you that they learned far more from their failures than their successes. Either Dave Longaberger is the luckiest business person ever or he has really selective memory. The history of the Longaberger company and his earlier businesses is written as a series of successes with no discussion of any failures.

The working conditions of the early basket production were horrible. Unpaid employees working in a dilapidated building without even bathroom facilities. While this may sound like something out of the turn of the century, this OSHA nightmare happened in the mid 70's. Still, Longaberger writes lovingly about it recalling his "devoted" employees, even patting himself on the back for allowing these workers flexible time.

The "business tips" other reviewers have referred to are nothing new or interesting nor are the anecdotes on how practices like "listening to your employees" contributed to the success of the company.

After reading this book I do understand the cult-like following that Longaberger enjoys. The selective history, overly positive attitude, and constant emphasis on a team attitude that Longaberger runs his businesses with are very similar to methods used by religious and other cult leaders.

Longaberger - An American Success.......2002-01-24

This is such a great book. If owners and managers of companies had the same knowledge that Dave had with no college education, there would be a lot more people with better morale in the workplace. His techniques prove to be successful. This was a very touching book too. He went from nothing to something.

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longaberger - an american success story
dave longaberger
Manufacturer: Collins
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Binding: Paperback
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Longaberger an American Success Story
David H Longaberger
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