Bangkok Babylon |
 Jerry Hopkins
ISBN: 079460224X
The Real Life Exploits of Bangkok's Legendary Expatriates Are Often Stranger Than Fiction: Among these 25 profiles of amazing members of Bangkoks expatriate community who transformed themselves after leaving home are an advertising executive who...(read more) |
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Buddhadasa: Theravada Buddhism and Modernist Reform in Thailand |
 Peter A. Jackson
ISBN: 9747551918
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu (1906-1993) is widely regarded as modern Thailand's most influential Buddhist philosopher. His thought had a profound intellectual impact in Thailand in the second half of the twentieth century. His life mission was to undertake a...(read more) |
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Farang: Thailand Through the Eyes of an Ex-pat |
 Iain Corness
ISBN: 1905379420
Dr Iain Corness fell in love with Thailand on a holiday in 1975, and finally managed to move there permanently in 1997. As a settled farang, or foreigner, he enjoys a unique perspective on Thai life and all its eccentricities; looking in from the...(read more) |
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Forest Recollections: Wandering Monks in Twentieth-century Thailand |
 Kamala Tiyavanich
ISBN: 0824817818
Combining interviews and biographies with archive materials and ephemeral popular literature, this text documents the monastic lives of three generations of forest-dwelling ascetics and challenges the stereotype of Thai Buddhism. |
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Forget You Had a Daughter: Doing Time in the Bangkok Hilton - Sandra Gregory's Story |
 Sandra Gregory, Michael Tierney
ISBN: 1904132278
Sandra Gregory was living a life in Bangkok that many only dream of - until illness, unemployment and political unrest turned it into a nightmare. Desperate to get home, she agreed to smuggle an addict's personal supply of heroin. She didn't even make...(read more) |
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Jai Yen Means Keep A Cool Heart: Life Among The Mountain Tribes Of Thailand |
 Rupert Nelson
ISBN: 1425945805
When I moved from that blank space on the map known as Northeast Montana to Thailand in 1963 with a pregnant wife and a three year old daughter, I knew there would be some changes in my life, but I had no idea how great those changes would be and how...(read more) |
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Little Angels: Real Life Stories of Thai Novice Monks |
 Phra Peter Pannapadipo
ISBN: 009948448X
The real-life stories of the novice monks in "Little Angels" reflect the lives of many youths in rural Thailand who are trapped in the vicious cycle of poverty, broken homes, illiteracy and drug abuse. When all else fails, Buddhism becomes...(read more) |
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Memoirs of a Bangkok Warrior: A Novel of Thailand |
 Dean Barrett
ISBN: 0966189922
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Miss Bangkok |
 Bua Boonmee (author), Nicola Pierce (collaborator)
ISBN: 1905379439
"Miss Bangkok" uncovers the hidden world of a go-go dancer in Thailand's vice city, Bangkok. Bua Boonmee gives us an insight into the life of one of the capital's bar girls and exposes the 'Sometimes I wonder was I born to be unfortunate; is...(read more) |
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Paradise Lust: An Erotic Travelogue |
 Kit McCann
ISBN: 0753512661
Everywhere you look, for heaven's sake, there are ladies. Never mind for heaven's sake, this is heaven. It is the Garden of Eden, where you are allowed to eat all the apples you want. The air itself is sexy. Never mind meanderings on hill tribes and...(read more) |
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Phra Farang: An English Monk in Thailand |
 Phra Peter Pannapadipo
ISBN: 0099484471
At forty-five, successful businessman Peter Robinson gave up his comfortable life in London to ordain as a Buddhist monk in Bangkok. But the new path he had chosen was not always as easy or as straightforward as he hoped it would be. In this truly...(read more) |
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Singing to the Dead: A Missioner's Life Among Refugees from Burma |
 Victoria Armour-Hileman
ISBN: 0820323586
It is 1992, and the Burmese government's current war on its indigenous people runs into its fourth year. In neighboring Thailand, a small band of Buddhist monks harbors refugees from Burma inside their modest temple in the slums of Bangkok. The monks...(read more) |
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Sons of Buddha: The Early Lives of Three Extraordinary Thai Masters |
 Kamala Tiyavanich
ISBN: 0861715365
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The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison |
 Warren Fellows
ISBN: 184018275X
In 1978 Warren Fellows was convicted of heroin trafficking between Thailand and Australia. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the notorious Bang Kwang prison - better known as the Bangkok Hilton. It was the beginning of 12 years of hell in a place...(read more) |
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