In July 2014, Chulalongkorn University launched a lecture series in honor of Nelson Mandela (1918–2013), the South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who won the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize and served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
2014 was also the 20th year since the end of apartheid – South Africa’s former system of racial segregation – and the Thammasat University Libraries made a timely acquisition of The Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela.
The British, the Great War, and Yod Sangrungruang.
A new book in the Thammasat University U Libraries collection arrives just in time for the centenary of the outbreak of World War I:
Nureyev: the life by Julie Kavanagh.
Fans of traditional Thai dance may be interested to learn about other types of world dance.
To celebrate Thailand’s fourth ASEAN Cup title
If you were among those people watching with excitement as Thailand broke the hearts of Malaysian fans, a further way to commemorate the occasion might be to learn more about the sport by reading one of the books in the collection of the TU Libraries.
The Thammasat University Libraries have acquired two highly interesting new collections of the writings in English translation of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891).
A new book in the Thammasat University Libraries collection should appeal to all readers who care about the international image of Thailand in world history.
The Lives of Chang and Eng: Siam’s Twins in Nineteenth-Century America by Joseph Andrew Orser is published by the University of North Carolina Press.
