Month: March 2011
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PhotoMazing Thailand: How to Become a Travel Photographer from Your Trip to Thailand
PhotoMazing Thailand is a DSLR camera user’s guide to “Amazing Thailand.” In this example-rich photography guidebook, legendary Los Angeles video artist / photographer H. Kim walks you through an array of techniques on how to make the most out of your digital camera under various circumstances and delivers practical insights with inspiring example images that…
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Paradise in Limbo
Paradise in Limbo is a semi-fictionalized account of what happens when West meets East and the often bizarre experiences which ensue. It relates tales of bluff and double bluff, deception and intrigue perpetrated by both the protagonists and antagonists. Unlike many of the tomes of a similar genre, it is relatively balanced in that it…
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Lady of Isan: The Story of a Mixed Marriage from Northeast Thailand
A 19-year old rice farmer’s daughter from Isan meets a middle-age Canadian financial professional in the night scene of Pattaya. An eventful romance begins, sharing a sense of excitement and adventure in Thailand ending in suspense. “I couldn’t put the book down. I read it on a six and a half hour flight from Bangkok…
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Bangkok Breaks
In search of happiness, would-be hedonist Andy Wright arrives in Thailand for another season of excess. Immersed again in the everyday chaos of Bangkok, he’s back where he belongs, where he feels most alive: a city of old friends, long nights and strong drinks. But soon there are complications: he can’t get his best friend’s…
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Thailand, Men’s Paradise?
Every year, millions of men travel to Thailand looking for love. Many fall hard for the women they find and leave behind everything—jobs, houses and families—to start new lives with partners whose language and culture they don’t understand. Unlike Western women, they say, Thai women give them everything they want and need. Written by a…
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Ladyboy – Adult Cartoon Book
These cartoons are outrageous, saucy, bawdy, raunchy and risque. From Asia’s Number 1 expat cartoonist Mike Baird. “I think Mike Baird`s cartoons are in the same class of those of Bamforth`s saucy seaside postcards of the 1970`s and some of the artistic content rivals that of the late Beryl Cook’s work. Anyone who has stayed…
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Living in Thailand – What is it Really Like?
Living in Thailand is a book about moving to Thailand and making it work. Author, Mike Fook has made it work for nearly 6 years. This, and Mike’s other book, “Thai Black Book” are must-reads for anyone moving to Thailand for any amount of time. What is Living in Thailand LIKE? Eating bugs is as…
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Blue Falcon
Set in Thailand & Laos Why make a deal with the devil when you’ve got God on a technicality? For Bangkok Security Consultant and James Bond wannabe Richard Falcone, that technicality grants him immortality as long as he remains a blue falcon. blue falcon / n / (slang, derog) 1(a) A code phrase coined by…
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The King Never Smiles
Thailand’s Bhumibol Adulyadej, the only king ever born in the United States, came to the throne of his country in 1946 and is now the world’s longest-serving monarch. The King Never Smiles, the first independent biography of Thailand’s monarch, tells the unexpected story of Bhumibol’s life and sixty-year rule—how a Western-raised boy came to be…