cambodia

"Heroes come in all shapes, sizes, and species! Discover how human deminers are working with specially trained rats to locate land mines and make Cambodia safe for everyone"--Provided by publisher.

Cambodia is home to the largest lake in Southeast Asia! Tourists and locals alike travel to honor the importance of the country?s lakes and rivers at Cambodia?s annual Water Festival! This title offers an engaging introduction to Cambodia?s landscape, wildlife, and culture. Colorful photos support the leveled text. Features and a full-spread fact page help highlight Cambodia?s animals, food, landmarks, and more!.

Sam and his team of archaeologists find and study ancient objects while on a dig at Angkor Wat, and later in the lab they use dating techniques to calculate the age of the artifacts they find.

"Provides an up-close look at the history and construction of Angkor Wat as well as what the site is like today"--Provided by publisher.

Nothing has shaped my life as much as surviving the Pol Pot regime. I am a survivor of the Cambodian holocaust. That's who I am," says Haing Ngor. And in his memoir, Survival in the Killing Fields, he tells the gripping and frequently terrifying story of his term in the hell created by the communist Khmer Rouge. Like Dith Pran, the Cambodian doctor and interpreter whom Ngor played in an Oscar-winning performance in The Killing Fields, Ngor lived through the atrocities that the 1984 film portrayed. Like Pran, too, Ngor was a doctor by profession, and he experienced firsthand his country's wretched descent, under the Khmer Rouge, into senseless brutality, slavery, squalor, starvation, and disease--all of which are recounted in sometimes unimaginable horror in Ngor's poignant memoir. Since the original publication of this searing personal chronicle, Haing Ngor's life has ended with his murder, which has never been satisfactorily solved. In an epilogue written especially for this new edition, Ngor's coauthor, Roger Warner, offers a glimpse into this complex, enigmatic man's last years--years that he lived "like his country: scarred, and incapable of fully healing.".

Pin Yathay recounts his experiences hiding from the Khmer Rouge guerrillas who murdered more than two million Cambodians in his native country during the late 1970s, reflecting on the terror he felt and the loss of seventeen members of his family who were killed in the genocide.

Explores the country of Cambodia, including its people, culture, animals, and more.

In 1975, the Khmer Rouge had overthrown the Cambodian government, and the country was in upheaval. Mae Taing and his family acclimated to living under an authoritarian regime, but everything changed when Khmer Rouge soldiers began forcing the residents of their municipality to evacuate. Told they would be temporarily relocated, the Taing family had their homes confiscated. Those who resisted were sent for reeducation or executed. Eventually detained, Taing found himself at the mercy of cruel soldiers.

Sang Ly lives at Cambodia's city dump where survival is a daily struggle, but when she develops an unlikely friendship with the ill-tempered rent collector, Sopeap, who teaches her to read, Sang embarks on a life-changing journey to give her son, Nisay, a better life and future.

Denise Affon?o chronicles the experiences of her family in the years following the Khmer Rouge's take over of Cambodia in April 1975, describing how she, her husband, and her children, were deported to a labor camp where they endured hard labor, famine, sickness, and death.