Month: July 2011

The author is convinced that the flavour of Thai society can only really be appreciated when taken with a large dose of salty humour. Writing with a robust, biting humour that is at once deeply sympathetic …

Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys: Male and Female Homosexualities in Contemporary Thailand offers methods that will help social workers, researchers, and students create HIV/AIDS intervention services for gay men, lesbians, and transgender individuals in or …

Product Details Paperback: 212 pages Publisher: Silkworm Books (June 1999) Language: English ISBN-10: 9747100312 ISBN-13: 978-9747100310 Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.6 inches Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces

This elegant Thai and English compendium of the world-renowned orchids of Thailand features 685 species in full-color photographs. With its detailed information on the locations, flowering seasons, and distinctive features of the kingdom’s spectacular wild orchids, …

Wild Thailand is the fifth volume in a series celebrating the earth’s great wilderness areas, illustrated by one of the world’s leading natural history photographers. Like its companion volumes on Indonesia, India, Malaysia, and New Zealand, …

First published in 1988, Bruce Cost’s Asian Ingredients was immediately hailed as one of the most comprehensive and fascinating books on Asian foodstuffs ever written. Now fully revised and updated, Asian Ingredients offers a wealth of …

Product Details Paperback: 142 pages Publisher: Breakout Productions (June 1996) Language: English ISBN-10: 1559501391 ISBN-13: 978-1559501392 Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches Shipping Weight: 8 ounces

Product Details Reading level: Ages 9-12 Library Binding: 48 pages Publisher: Benchmark Books (NY) (February 28, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 0761419896 ISBN-13: 978-0761419891 Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 9.1 x 0.4 inches Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces

Through the lives of three kathoey, male transvestites, this introduction to transgender in Thailand places a cultural, historical, religious, biological, and psychological emphasis on international traditions of sexuality. A fascinating anthropological and sociological exploration, the context …

Product Details Paperback: 192 pages Publisher: Singapore University Press (April 30, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 9971693623 ISBN-13: 978-9971693626 Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches Shipping Weight: 12 ounces

Burma (or Myanmar as it is now called) is in the news for all the wrong reasons. It has been ruled for many years by a ruthless, repressive junta, it suffers regular earthquakes and the cyclone …

One of a series of short books, each one on a different country, that provide much-needed cross-cultural and global material for instructors to use to supplement their introductory sociology text, as well as courses in social …

This extraordinary book offers intimate details of the lives that they’ve never publicly revealed. They talk about the choices they’ve made, their relationships, families, frustrations and hopes. The stories include those of an exotic cabaret performer, …

Introduces the culture, religion, landscape, and beliefs of the Thai people of Thailand. Product Details Reading level: Ages 4-8 Hardcover: 24 pages Publisher: PowerKids Press; 1st edition (August 1998) Language: English ISBN-10: 082395126X ISBN-13: 978-0823951260 Product …

The saffron of monks’ robes, the iridescent green of the fields, the fierce red of a boxer’s gloves…Thailand’s colors show the essence of its many characters. It is a country alive with a myriad of striking …

Faced with turning 30 and a failing marriage, life could not be worse for disenfranchised journalist Tom Banner. His glamorous estranged wife Kacey has secretly borrowed 20,000 Pound from her former boss and lover, and fled …

Am I a bad girl? Today I slept with a man for money for the first time. He was an American called David and he was thirty-five years old, exactly ten years older than me. Am …

The kamikaze pilots or “Winds of God” were created in 1945, during Japan’s twilight year of the Second World War. The world looked upon this monstrous creation of “human bombs” with disbelief but the young patriotic …

Dr Tambiah describes the religious practices and beliefs of the people of a remote village in north-east Thailand, relating them to the wider context of the civilization in which they are embedded, and examining the relationship …

In 1945 as the Japanese Empire in South East Asia started to crumble, the Japanese communities began desperate scrambles for passages on any available vessels back to Japan. A Japanese hospital ship, the Awa Maru was …