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Same Same but different
A sometimes funny, sometimes sad, sometimes romantic and sometimes shocking story of the last eight month’s of Steve Lake travelling around Thailand.
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Mini Heart Talk: How can you “Break A Heart” in Thai
In mini Heart Talk: How can you “Break A Heart” in Thai, you will learn Thai mean words and expressions used for breaking someone’s heart and describe mean actions. The “Break A Heart” edition will show you how and how much jai or heart can be mean in Thai. Heart Talk is a unique study…
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Muay Thai Kickboxing
In the most comprehensive guide available for entry into the fast-growing sport of Muay Thai kickboxing, personal trainer, Thai boxing coach and experienced fighter Chad Boykin leads you through every aspect of the game. Whether you long to test your mettle in the ring or simply get in the best shape of your life, this…
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200 Thai Recipes
This book contains 200 delectable, easy to make Thai recipes. The directions are very straightforward and are easy to follow…it has never been easier to create scrumptious Thai food in your own kitchen! Some of the recipes found in this book include Thai Chicken and Coconut Milk Soup, Thai Chicken with Fresh Basil, Thai Fried…
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A Thai Herbal
A practical guide to the traditional herbalism of Thailand, written for the beginning herbalist, or for the general reader with a curiosity about the fascinating topic of holistic health and Asian medicine. Contains an overview of the history, theory and spirituality of traditional Thai medicine, with a focus on the application to modern Western life.
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Sons Of Isan
A touching and comical adventure of spirit and grit, an American man trades it all for the heat and mind-bending solitude of a rural Buddhist temple in north east Thailand A modern day “Mai Pen Rai”, William Reyland’s adventurous memoir chronicles his personal experiences as he fumbles through the intricacies of Thai culture, vicious temple…
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Thai Cookery Secrets
Discover how to create delicious Thai dishes using easily available ingredients and with surprisingly little effort. Kris Dhillon explains the basic principles of Thai cooking – fresh, flavoursome ingredients, correctly combined and quickly cooked – so that you can achieve the wonderful flavours Thai cooking is famous for. Many Thai restaurants in the Western world…
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Encyclopedia of Thai Massage
Thai massage is an increasingly popular healing modality, and many American and European massage schools offer at least introductory, if not more, courses to their students these days. Drawing from Thai history, cultural studies, Buddhist religion, and yogic practices, as well as a modern understanding of anatomy and physiology, this book finally bridges the gap…
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Junk: The Back Streets of Bangkok
JUNK: The Back Streets of Bangkok is a gritty first-person tale of pulp literature. This book details the life of a California artist who relocates to Bangkok, Thailand where he is seduced into the seedy underworld of sex and drugs. Part literary fiction, part poetry, this book is not designed for the faint of heart.…
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Thai Vignettes – Phuket and Beyond
Phuket and Beyond Poignant, ironic, heartbreakingly sad, savagely funny. Brims with a host of keenly-observed characters cast adrift on Phuket’s sunny shores and beyond.
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Western Thai Dream True Thai Toys and Nok Story
‘Farang’ help my family need tang.. (Money) Children, the gateaway into paradise As a farang it is not easy to get a Thai into your bed, because she love you more then her first boyfriend, but because its’ maybe a child and then… ‘Thai Toy Dreams’
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Bangkok and the Nights of Drunken Stupor
Bangkok and the Nights of Drunken Stupor presents the gritty, street-wise, and thought provoking poetry and prose of Scott Shaw — composed during his years of living in Bangkok, Thailand. About the Author Scott Shaw is a prolific poet, author, actor, and filmmaker. Shaw was born and spent his formative years in Hollywood, California and…
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Summer in Siam – Tales of Thai & other lands
“I walked out the door, a bit dazed. I had ten dollars and two not-quite diamonds, and it was summer in Siam.” John Borthwick’s first day in Thailand seemed far from auspicious — but it has been uphill from then on. Dropping him in the middle of everything from three-day tribal weddings, elephant polo follies…
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Siam Six
In this action/adventure novel set in Thailand, a special team is formed; six people drawn from the military services. Their name is Siam Six, and their purpose is to combat those threats and crises which can’t be dealt with by Thailand’s conventional armed forces. Siam Six soon find themselves facing dangers which test their special…
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The Gospel of Father Joe
Three decades ago in a cordoned-off corner of the developing world an angry Catholic priest armed only with pencil, paper, and crayons, declared a revolution. From a shanty school shared with Buddhists and Muslims in Bangkok’s squatter slums, Father Joe Maier began his advance on abject poverty. Today, his Human Development Foundation and Mercy Centre…
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Thai Mangoes
An extremely evocative collection of stories set in contemporary Thailand by an award-winning author. Trirat Petchsingh’s masterfully-crafted stories are quirky, interesting, and always fun to read. His language is often beautiful and powerful. He has a first-rate ability to keep his readers in suspense and then surprise them with unexpected endings. There are intriguing stories…
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Thai Massage: Sacred Body Work
A uniquely relaxing yet energizing way to achieve balance and healing. Traditional Thai massage is a dynamic yet comparatively little-known form of bodywork that combines elements of acupressure, stretching, reflexology, the application of herbal compresses, prayer, and meditation. This therapy has benefits for anyone-young or old, active or inactive, healthy or not. Sometimes called “lazy…
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Lady of Pattaya
An Old Thailand Hand twice over (40+ years) covering the nitery entertainment scene, I learned the basics early on: that prostitutes chose the profession, with few exceptions, because it offered substantial rewards for little work. And they might well get a farang [foreign] husband out of it. The vast majority of them came from Isan.…
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Bangkok Days
Bangkok is the sponge that absorbs those who have lapsed into dilettantism, writes Osborne (The Accidental Connoisseur) in recounting his time in the fabled city of recreational sex and Buddhism. As he encounters characters questing for sensation and knowledge, he muses on how easy it is for Westerners to remake themselves in the East—much as…
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Thai Insights
Living in Thailand can in turn be both rewarding and frustrating. But it is always enlightening, and the Thai people will extend a genuine welcome to westerners who are prepared to accept their way of life and unique culture. This book gives a light-hearted insight into Thai ways and customs and everyday Thai life, based…