We recently published a new volume from Jomo K.S., After the Storm: Crisis, Recovery and Sustaining Development in Asia, and offered it at his ARI Lecture, Wed, Nov 24, 2004. Jomo's lecture was entitled "Growth, Crisis and Recovery in East Asia: Capital, Markets and Government -- A Heterodox Perspective". Jomo was introduced by Prof Tommy Koh, Chairman of the ARI International Advisory Board.

This has the potential to be a very interesting tool indeed. It does index citations, and so gives a measure of impact... it will be interesting to see how this feature stacks up against Thomson Web of Science and other citation analysis measures. The site also links to OCLC's World Cat, so you can check library holdings in your city for any book you locate through Google Scholar.

We met Google at the Frankfurt Bookfair and had a preview of this. We are now in communication with them to ensure that NUS Publishing materials are indexed by the Google Scholar crawlers.

Peter, Paul and Winnie will be attending a meeting of the International Association of Historians of Asia in Taipei during the second week of December. We look forward to meeting colleagues, potential authors and business contacts during this period.

by Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy & Joel Meissonnier, with a preface from Stéphane Douvert.
The abuse of methamphetamines in Southeast Asia has become a major problem over the past decade. Thailand has been particularly hard hit: methamphetamine abuse now affects all sectors of Thai society. In the early 1990s, methamphetamine manufacturers moved their laboratories across the border into Burma, and began large-scale production. The new cheaper product, yaa baa or 'madness medicine', flooded the local market and it has also been found in Europe and the United States.

According to well-known research Bertil Lintner, "the authors analyze the growth of methamphetamine production in its rightful political context".

The book is co-published with IRASEC, Bangkok.

Paul Kratoska is away from the office for a week, attending meetings of the AAS Board and stopping by in Japan to see colleagues from the University of Tokyo Press, as well as authors and colleagues in Tokyo.