Month: June 2011

Thailand Chic (Chic Collection)

Thailand Chic is the definitive guide to the most alluring and stylish hotels and spas in Thailand. All the retreats featured – whether an urban boutique hotel or a secluded beach resort – have been specially …

Japanese Magnolia

Can a Japanese samurai of impeccable lineage in Edo period Japan get away with being gay? Can he break all the rules of society and get away with it? It all started when an aging samurai …

Bizarre Thailand : Tales of Crime, Sex and Black Magic

Bizarre Thailand takes readers off the well-rutted road of tourist hotspots into the darkest and sexiest hinterlands. Welcome to a twilight zone where travellers become soldiers and cowboys, a black magician courts politicians and film stars, …

A Note from Ichiyo

Behind every face is a life and a story… The Japanese 5,000 yen note circulates round the world and changes hands every minute but has anyone really stopped to look at the face on this note? …

Stage IV: Healing in Thailand Can Also Be Murder

American Lawson Banks is terminally ill with stage IV cancer and wants to spend the last days of his life on a beach in Thailand. Where does he get the money? Viatication, also known as death …

Butterfly in the Wind

This is the true story of the tragic life of Okichi Saito who became the pawn to placate Townsend Harris, the first American Consul to Japan in the turbulent mid 1800’s . This poignant story takes …

Like A Willow Tree

A willow tree, soft and flowy on the outside, unbreakable and strong on the inside, left to brave the lashings and extremities of wind and storm but never quite breaking. Hanako Ishigaki was just 9 years …

Lonely Planet Bangkok (City Guide)

Watch the sun set whilst sipping a cocktail at one of Bangkok’s rooftop bars, and gear up for a magic night out in Asia’s capital of cool Explore the labyrinthine bustle of Southeast Asia’s biggest open-air …

Aum Shinrikyo – Japan’s Unholy Sect

On the 26th of March 1995, sarin gas was released in a Tokyo subway station crammed with morning rush hour commuters and all hell broke loose. In the aftermath of anguish, death, painful injuries and broken …

Caves of Northern Thailand

Brings together for the first time diverse aspects of caves in northern Thailand with chapters on geology, archaeology and much more. Product Details Hardcover: 392 pages Publisher: River Books Press; 1 edition (February 1, 2007) Language: …

The Pole Dancer

Just as thousands of other impoverished country girls in the Land of Smiles were doing, Joy eked out a living the only way she knew how. Trapped within the microcosmic world of her vocation, suddenly and …

A Conspiracy of Silence: The Insurgency in Southern Thailand

A sectarian-based insurgency has raged in southern Thailand since January 2004, leaving three thousand dead and thousands more injured. Although southern Thailand has witnessed numerous periods of secessionist conflict, the present insurgency is different in two …

Bangkok Express

Bangkok Express is an often hilarious, always dangerous, fast moving tale of the tricks and turns in an exotic land where what meets the eye often fools, if not confuses, the observer. Joe leaves behind a …

Thailand Honey

It was all about diamonds; always had been – right from the start. A package worth some 400k in US dollars had been stolen by Chelsea’s little sister Anni. To these gorgeous Thai girls, theft was …

Buddhist Temples of Thailand

The Buddhist Temples of Thailand explores the Buddhist temple s historical position in Thai culture and the dynamic role it continues to play in everyday life. The kingdom s best-known sites and rare gems, such as …

Cherished Love Once Lost in the Land of Smiles

book is in THAI language: Love has so many pitfalls, meanings, depths and directions. A peasant girl finds herself lodged between the jaws of parental love and true love: an awesome challenge when her farm girl …

Love Entrepreneurs: Cross-Culture Relationship Deals in Thailand

In the style of Freakonomics, Bangkok-based economist Phil Nicks explores the economic aspects of cross-cultural relationships in Thailand with his new book, Love Entrepreneurs. Supported by original research, facts and interviews with high-profile residents of the …

Dream Girl’s Wings of Wisdom Return to the Nest, A

in THAI language as ebook Seeing one’s life gradually vanishing, brings stark jolts of anxiety to anyone nearing retirement age. When your father dies before you were able to speak, and your mother is close to …

Little Pong

Little Pong, a forest temple monk, suddenly gets his head stuck inside an alms bowl. Through fiction, the writer gives an hilarious tale of a naughty little monk who, in the end, wins the day and …