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Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys: Male and Female Homosexualities in Contemporary Thailand
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 from Thailand. Many of these methods can also be used by practitioners or HIV/AIDS educators in North America and…
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Corruption and Democracy in Thailand
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
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A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand
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, it is an indispensable companion for both professional and amateur naturalists, as well as for nature lovers on their…
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Wild Thailand
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, it is richly illustrated with over 400 full-color photographs. Chapters focus on each area of the country in turn,…
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Asian Ingredients: A Guide to the Foodstuffs of China, Japan, Korea, Thailand and Vietnam
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 information on identifying and using the often unfamiliar ingredients in traditional bottled condiments. This book’s clear black-and-white photographs make…
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I Walked Away: An Expatriate’s Guide to Living Cheaply in Thailand
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
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Thailand (Discovering Cultures)
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
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The Third Sex: Kathoey: Thailand’s Ladyboys
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 of transgender is detailed through the challenges and joys found in Manat, Lek, and Akorn as they travel through…
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Rethinking Thailand’s Southern Violence
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
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A Land Like None You Know
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 of May 2008 left more than a hundred thousand people injured, homeless or dead. Yet this is a magical…
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Modern Thailand: A Volume in the Comparative Societies Series
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 stratification, comparative societies, comparative politics, comparative economics and other courses that are enriched by a global perspective. The opening…
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Ladyboys: The Secret World of Thailand’s Third Gender
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, a sex worker and even a Muay Thai boxing champion. “Ladyboys” will leave you amused, saddened, and entertained. Product…
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The People of Thailand (Celebrating the Peoples and Civilizations of Southeast Asia)
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 Dimensions: 8 x 7.5 x 0.3 inches Shipping Weight: 6.9 ounces
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The Colours of Thailand
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 images. Renowned travel photographer Barbara Lloyd captures the heart of this country–its temples, hill tribes, ancient sites, festivals, silks,…
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Delicate Traffic
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 to the US. Tom is sent on assignment to South East Asia and meets Ashleigh, an Irish clairvoyant whose…
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Diary of a Thai Escort
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 I a bad girl? I don’t think so. I just want to do what is best for my parents…
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Japanese Rose
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 men of Japan who signed up for the terrifying attack missions of the kamikaze program were unstoppable. Women looked…
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Buddhism and the Spirit Cults in North-east Thailand
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 of the religious practices of the villagers to the classical Buddhist tradition. Because they have based their studies on…
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Awa Maru – Titanic of Japan
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 given a guarantee of safe passage to 2007 Japanese civilians and military personnel who had been “fortunate” enough to…
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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 selected for their unique and charming qualities. These pristine getaways are destinations in their own right, rather than just…