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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 took an eccentric interest in a teenage peasant boy who had the unusual gift of writing and one day…
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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, sacred tortoises mate on the streets of a small town, and Fertility Goddesses are wooed with massive phalluses. In…
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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? Take a closer look and you will see the face of a young Meiji era Japanese woman looking serenely…
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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 futures. He sells his life insurance benefit to the highest bidder. An investor is waiting for him to die,…
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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 place during a period in history when the “Black Ships” arrived in Japan and changed many lives, especially those…
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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 old when her father decided to uproot the family from traditional and beautiful Kyoto and migrate to Hawaii. “You…
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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 market as you bargain for everything from silk to spices at Chatuchak Weekend Market Slurp up a storm over…
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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 lives, the deadly action was traced back to a cult called Aum Shinrikyo. What lay behind this ferocious lashing…
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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: English ISBN-10: 9749863135 ISBN-13: 978-9749863138 Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7 x 1.2 inches Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
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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 unexpectedly she found her prayers were being answered. The foretelling of good fortune, pleasing words that at first she…
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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 significant ways: it has radical jihadist overtones, and it has been marked by an unprecedented level of violence. Drawing…
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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 life of commuter trains, a messy divorce, and an egotistical boss to undertake an assignment that changes his life…
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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 like borrowing – and the diamond scam was extra pocket money. To them, it was Thailand Honey: it made…
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Village Girl’s Life of redemption in the jungle of Bangkok
in THAI language only: A story of a Thai peasant girl who had to make a choice between her family’s survival, and her own. Her uncle gave her no choice: the saddest decision of her life. From scrubbing floors to the sordid nightlife of the Venice of the East, deceptions of every stripe have torn…
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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 Wat Phra Kaew in Bangkok and Wat Phumin in Nan, are brought to life through expert text and more…
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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 social status is sliced open like a fish. Her meager beginnings are placed in plain view for all to…
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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 region, Nicks focuses his attention on the major relationship issues affecting foreigners and their Thai partners. Product Details Paperback:…
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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 eighty years of age: mortality trumpets its ugly head. It’s time to return to the nest to lick the…
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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 the hearts of all the forest temple monks. Both English and Thai text. Full colour book suitable for children…
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Thailand’s Secret War: OSS, SOE and the Free Thai Underground During World War II
Despite its 1941 alliance with Japan, Thai leaders managed to establish clandestine relations with China, Britain and the United States, each of which had ambitions for postwar influence in Bangkok. Based largely on recently declassified intelligence records, this narrative history thoroughly explores these relations, details Allied secret operations and sheds new light on the intense…