"Hello, My Big Big Honey!": Letters to Bangkok Bar Girls and Their Revealing Interviews |
 Richard Ehrlich, Dave Walker
ISBN: 0867194731
TIME magazine hailed its interviews, documentation and investigative journalism as "...an intimate portrait..." of Bangkok's West-meets-East sex industry and added, "Does love conquer poverty, cultural barriers and the fear of AIDS?...(read more) |
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Bangkok: Place, Practice and Representation |
 Marc Askew
ISBN: 0415188547
Bangkok is one of Asia's most interesting, varied, controversial and challenging cities. It is a city of contradictions, both in its present and its past. This unique book examines the development of the city from its earliest days as the seat of the...(read more) |
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Pure and Simple: Extraordinary Teachings of a Thai Buddhist Laywoman |
 Upasaka Kee Nanayon
ISBN: 086171492X
Practicing meditation under difficult conditions, Upsasika Kee eventually broke through to complete inner peace. Here is her achievement -- direct, plain-spoken talks on how to deal with sickness, how to allow suffering and stress to always 'disband,'...(read more) |
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Thai Ways |
 Denis Segaller
ISBN: 9749575733
"Thai Ways" is a delightful collection of almost everything the curious visitor might want to know about Thai customs and beliefs, engagingly explained by a long-time English resident of Thailand. Compiled from a series of articles published...(read more) |
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Thailand in Pictures |
 Stacy Taus-Bolstad
ISBN: 0822509393
Describes the geography, history, government, economy, people, and cultural life of Thailand. |
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The Elephant in Thai Life and Legend |
William Warren, Ping Amranand
ISBN: 9748630293
Thailand's shape on a map has been likened to that of an elephant, with the long southern peninsula forming the trunk. The comparison is apt for the elephant has been an intricate part of Thai culture. This volume examines the various aspects of this...(read more) |
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Traditional Thai Medicine: Buddhism, Animism, Ayurveda |
 C. Pierce Salguero
ISBN: 1890772674
In Thailand today, traditional folk medicine competes successfully with Western hospital-based medicine, and represents a popular approach to healing even in modern cities such as Bangkok. This book offers a broad-brush history of medicine in Thailand...(read more) |
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Village Vignettes: Portraits of a Thai Village |
 Michael Smithies
ISBN: 9745240311
A series of "portraits" of the people who comprise the mosaic of a typical north-eastern Thai village, this text describes such characters as "the half-Chinese", "the fortune teller", "Miss cotton bud",...(read more) |
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Welcome to the Bangkok Slaughterhouse: The Battle for Human Dignity in Bangkok's Bleakest Slums |
 Joe Maier
ISBN: 0794602932
For twenty-five years, Father Joe Maier, a Catholic priest, has lived and worked in Bangkok's bleakest slums, establishing more than thirty schools, five shelters for street kids, and the city's first AIDS hospice and home for AIDS mothers with AIDS...(read more) |
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