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Books available for review are listed here. If you are interested in reviewing a book for Crossroads, please contact the editor by email: seapeditor@niu.edu.
Abinales, Patricio, ed.  
The Revolution Falters: The Left in Philippines Politics after 1986. Reviewed by David Wurfel
  
Area:

Ackerman, Susan E., and Raymond L.M. Lee  
Heaven in Transition: Non-Muslim Religious Innovation and Ethnic Identity in Malaysia. Reviewed by Daniel Regan
  
Area:

Appleton, Ann L  
Acts of Integration, Expressions of Faith: Madness, Death and Ritual in Melanau Ontology. 2006. Phillips, ME: Borneo Research Council
  
Area: General Southeast Asia

Arka, I. Wayan and Malcolm Ross, eds  
The Many Faces of Austronesian Voice Systems: Some New Empirical Studies. 2005. Canberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics
  
Area: Philippines

Askey, Marc, William S. Logan and Colin Long   
Vientiane: Transformations of a Lao Landscape. Asia Transformations Series. 2007. London: Routledge
  
Area: Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia

Baer, A  
Vital Signs: Health in Borneo’s Sarawak. 2006. Phillips, ME: Borneo Research Council
  
Area: General Southeast Asia

Baer, A  
Genes, People, and Borneo History: A Review. 2005. Phillips, ME: Borneo Research Council.
  
Area: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei

Barry, Kathleen, ed.  
Vietnam’s Women in Transition
  
Area:

Boellstorff, Tom  
The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia. 2006. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
  
Area: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei

Boellstorff, Tom  
A Coincidence of Desires: Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia. 2007. Durham, NC: Duke University Press
  
Area: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei

Bosma, Ulbe, and Remco Raben  
Being 'Dutch' in the Indies: A History of Creolisation of an Empire, 1500-1920
  
Area: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei

Brummelhuis, Hanten   
King of the Waters: Homan van der Heide and the Origin of Modern Irrigation in Siam. 2005. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press
  
Area: Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia

Burr, Rachel  
Vietnam’s Children in a Changing World. 2006. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press
  
Area: Vietnam

Chaloemtiarana, Thak  
Thailand: The Politics of Despotic Paternalism. 2007. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Publications
  
Area: Thailand, Burma, Laos Cambodia

Chandler, David  
A History of Cambodia, 4th edition
2007   
Area: Thailand, Burma, Laos Cambodia

Chou, Cynthia and Vincent Houben, eds.  
Southeast Asian Studies: Debates and New Directions. 2006. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
  
Area: General Southeast Asia

Collins, Steven  
A Pali Grammar for Students. 2007. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press
  
Area: Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia

Constable, Nicole, ed.   
Cross-Border Marriages: Gender and Mobility in Transnational Asia. 2005. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
  
Area: General Asia

Costa, LeeRay and Andrew Matzner  
Male Bodies, Women's Souls: Personal Narratives of Thailand's Transgendered Youth. 2005. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press
  
Area: Thailand, Burma, Laos Cambodia

Davis, Sara L.M  
Song and Silence: Ethnic Revival on China’s Southwest Borders. 2005. New York: Columbia University Press
  
Area: General Southeast Asia

Dijk, Wil O  
Seventeenth-century Burma and the Dutch East India Company, 1634-1680. 2006. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press
  
Area: Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia

Dove, Michael R., Percy E. Sajise, and Amita A. Doolittle, eds.  
Conserving Nature in Culture: Case Studies from Southeast Asia. 2005. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asian Studies
  
Area: General Southeast Asia

Forsyth, Tim, and Andrew Walker, with foreward by K. Sivaramakrishnan  
Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers: The Politics of Environmental Knowledge in Northern Thailand
2008   
Area: Thailand, Burma, Laos Cambodia

Gravers, Mikael, ed.  
Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Burma. 2007. Copenhagen: NIAS Press
  
Area: Thailand, Burma, Laos Cambodia

Hardy, Andrew   
Red Hills: Migrants and the State in the Highlands of Vietnam. 2005. Copenhagen/Singapore: NIAS Press/Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
  
Area: Vietnam

Harris, Ian  
Cambodian Buddhism: History and Practice. 2005. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press
  
Area: Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia

Hasan, Noorhaidi  
Islam, Militancy and the Quest for Identity in Post-New Order Indonesia. 2006. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Southeast Asia Program
  
Area: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei

Hedman, Eva-Lotta E., ed.  
Conflict, Violence, and Displacement in Indonesia
2008   
Area: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei

Henley, David   
Fertility, Food and Fever: Population, Economy and Environment in North and Central Sulawesi, 1600-1930. 2005. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press
  
Area: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei

Hitchcock, Michael and I Nyoman Darma Putra  
Tourism, Development and Terrorism in Bali. 2007. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing
  
Area: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei

Hosen, Nadirsyah  
Shari'a and Constitutional Reform in Indonesia (ISEAS)
2007   
Area: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei

James, Helen  
Security and Sustainable Development in Myanmar. 2006. London and New York: Routledge
  
Area: Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia

Jonsson, Hjorleifur   
Mien Relations: Mountain People and State Control in Thailand. 2005. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press
  
Area: Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia

Joost Cote, ed. and trans.  
Realizing the Dream of R. A. Kartini: Her Sisters' Letters from Colonial Java
2008   
Area: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei

Jordt, Ingrid  
Burma's Mass Lay Meditation Movement: Buddhism and the Cultural Construction of Power
2007   
Area: Thailand, Burma, Laos Cambodia

Kahn, Joel S  
Other Malays: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the Modern Malay World. 2006. Singapore and Honolulu: Singapore University Press with North American publishing by University of Hawai’i Press
  
Area: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei

Kerkvliet, Benedict   
The Power of Everyday Politics: How Vietnamese Peasants Transformed National Policy. 2005. Singapore and Ithaca, NY: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and Cornell University Press
  
Area: Vietnam

Klima, Alan  
The Funeral Casino: Meditation, Massacre and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand. 2002. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
  
Area: Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia

Kratoska, Paul H  
Locating Southeast Asia: Geographies of Knowledge and Politics of Space. 2005. Singapore: Singapore University Press with U.S. distribution by University of Ohio Press
  
Area: General Southeast Asia

Kuipers, Joel and Ray McDermott  
Fine Description: Ethnographic and Linguistic Exercises by Harold C. Conklin. Monograph 56. 2007. New Haven, CT: Yale Southeast Asia Studies.
  
Area: Philippines

Lansing, J. Stephen  
Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali. 2006. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press
  
Area: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei

Lee, Susan Hagood   
Rice Plus: Widows and Economic Survival in Rural Cambodia. 2006. New York and London: Routledge
  
Area: Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia

Leong, Ho Kai, ed  
Reforming Corporate Governance in Southeast Asia: Economics, Politics, and Regulations. 2005. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
  
Area: General Southeast Asia

Leong, Ho Khai and Samuel C.Y. Ku, eds  
China and Southeast Asia: Global Changes and Regional Challenges. 2005. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
  
Area: General Southeast Asia

Lont, Hotze  
Juggling Money: Financial Self-help Organizations and Social Security in Yogyakarta. 2005. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press
  
Area: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei

Mahdi, Waruno  
Malay Words and Malay Things: Lexical Souvenirs from an Exotic Archipelago in German Publications Before 1700. 2007. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag
  
Area: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei

McCarthy, Stephen  
The Political Theory of Tyranny in Singapore and Burma: Aristotle and the Rhetoric of Benevolent Despotism. 2006. London and New York: Routledge
  
Area: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei

Morrell, Elizabeth   
Securing a Place: Small-Scale Artisans in Modern Indonesia. 2005. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program
  
Area: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei

Nguyen, Quang Van, and Marjorie Pivar  
Fourth Uncle in the Mountain: The Remarkable Legacy of a Buddhist Itinerant Doctor in Vietnam
2007   
Area: Vietnam

Peleggi, Maurizio  
Thailand: The Worldly Kingdom. 2007. London: Reaktion Books
  
Area: Thailand, Burma, Laos Cambodia

Pholsena, Vatthana   
Post-war Laos: The Politics of Culture, History and Identity. 2006. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
  
Area: Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia

Pompe, Sebastiaan   
A Study of Institutional Collapse. 2005. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Publications
  
Area: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei

Poulsen, Anders  
Childbirth and Tradition in Northeast Thailand: Forty Years of Development and Cultural Change
2007   
Area: Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia

Quimpo, Nathan Gilbert  
Contested Democracy and the Left in the Philippines after Marcos
2008   
Area: Philippines

Reid, Anthony   
Verandah of Violence: The Background to the Aceh Problem. 2006. Singpore and Seattle: Singapore University Press in association with University of Washington Press
  
Area: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei

Reynolds, Craig J  
Seditious Histories: Contesting Thai and Southeast Asian Pasts. 2006. Seattle and Singapore: University of Washington Press in association with Singapore University Press
  
Area: Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia

Roosa, John  
Pretext for Mass Murder: The September 30th Movement and Suharto’s Coup D’Etat in Indonesia. 2006. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press
  
Area: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei

Sears, Laurie, ed.  
Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects. 2007. Seattle: University of Washington Press
  
Area: General Southeast Asia

Sedgwick, Mark  
Saints and Sons: The Making and Remaking of the Rashidi Ahmadi Sufi Order, 1799-2000. 2005. Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill
  
Area: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei

Sellate, Bernard Stephanie Morgan, trans  
Nomads of the Borneo Rainforest: The Economics, Politics, and Ideology of Settling Down
  
Area:

Selvaraj Velayutham  
Responding to Globalization: Nation, Culture and Identity in Singapore (ISEAS)
2007   
Area: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei

Seow, Francis T.  
Beyond Suspicion: The Singapore Judiciary. Monograph 55. 2007. New Haven, CT: Yale Southeast Asia Studies
  
Area: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei

Singh, Daljit  
Political and Security Dynamics of South and Southeast Asia (ISEAS)
2007   
Area: General Southeast Asia

Strange, Morten  
A Photographic Guide to Birds of Indonesia. 2003. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
  
Area: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei

Strobridge, William and Anita Hibler  
Elephants for Mr. Lincoln: American Civil War Era Diplomacy in Southeast Asia. 2006. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press
  
Area: General Southeast Asia

Van der Velde, Paul   
A Lifelong Passion: P.J. Veth (1814-1895) and the Dutch East Indies.2006. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press
  
Area: General Southeast Asia

Van der Veur, Paul  
The Lion and the Gadfly: Dutch Colonialism and the Spirit of E.F.E. Douwes Dekker. 2006. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press
  
Area: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei

Vickers, Adrian   
Journeys of Desire: A Study of the Balinese Text Malat. 2005. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press
  
Area: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei

Wah, Francis Loh Kok and Joakim Ojendal, eds.  
Southeast Asian Responses to Globalization. 2005. Singapore/Copenhagen: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies/NIAS Press
  
Area: General Southeast Asia

Waterson, Roxana, ed.  
Southeast Asian Lives: Personal Narratives and Historical Experience
2007   
Area: General Southeast Asia

Willbanks, James H  
The Vietnam War. 2006. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co
  
Area: Vietnam

Winter, Tim  
Post-Conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism
2007   
Area: Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia

Wolters, O.W., with Craig J. Reynolds, ed.  
Early Southeast Asia: Selected Essays
2008   
Area: General Southeast Asia