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Author : Kenneth Barrett
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462913806
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book 22 Walks in Bangkok written by Kenneth Barrett and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ING_08 Review quote
Author : Christopher G. Moore
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802196861
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Asia Hand written by Christopher G. Moore and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shamus Award Winner: A disbarred American lawyer-turned-PI tracks down a killer: “Think Dashiell Hammett in Bangkok” (San Francisco Chronicle). It’s the Year of the Monkey in Bangkok. But expat Vincent Calvino’s Chinese New Year celebration has been interrupted. Thai cops have fished the body of a farang—foreign—cameraman from Lumpini Park Lake, and CNN is running dramatic footage of several Burmese soldiers on the Thailand border executing students. Calvino follows the trail of the dead man to a feature film crew, where he hits the wall of silence. On the other side of that wall, Calvino and Colonel Pratt discover an elite film unit of old Asia hands with connections to influential people in Southeast Asia. They are about to find themselves matched against a set of farangs conditioned for urban survival and willing to go for a knockout punch. “Highly recommended to readers of hard-boiled detective fiction, including series set in Bangkok (especially John Burdett’s Sonchai Jitplecheep novels) as well as the classic American tough-guy authors (Raymond Chandler or, more recently, Robert B. Parker).” —Booklist “When Americans discover Christopher G. Moore, they’re going to strip the bookstores bare of his work.”—T. Jefferson Parker
Author : Lenore Manderson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226503035
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Sites of Desire/Economies of Pleasure written by Lenore Manderson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-08-18 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Sites of Desire/Economies of Pleasure in Asia and the PacificLenore Manderson, Margaret Jolly. Ch. 1: Educating Desire in Colonial Southeast Asia: Foucault, Freud and Imperial Sexualities Ann Staler Ch. 2: Contested Images and Common Strategies: Early Colonial Sexual Politics in the Massim Adam Reed Ch. 3: Gaze and Grasp: Plantations, Desires, Indentured Indians, and Colonial Law in Fiji John D. Kelly Ch. 4: From Point Venus to Bali Ha'i: Eroticism and Exoticism in Representations of the Pacific Margaret Jolly Ch. 5: Parables of Imperialism and Fantasies of the Exotic: Western Representations and Thailand - Place and Sex Lenore Manderson Ch. 6: Primal Dream: Masculinism, Sin and Salvation in Thailand's Sex Trade Annette Hamilton Ch. 7: Kathoey > Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Christopher Moore
Publisher : Black Cat
ISBN 13 : 0802170730
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Asia Hand written by Christopher Moore and published by Black Cat. This book was released on 2010 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body an American acquaintance of Calvino's is fished out of the lake in Lumpini Park. Around his neck is a string of wooden amulets, the kind upcountry Thais wear to protect themselves from evil spirits. Only, rather than saving the man, these have killed him.
Author : Leela Punyaratabandhu
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
ISBN 13 : 0399578315
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Bangkok written by Leela Punyaratabandhu and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the most respected authorities on Thai cooking comes this beautiful and deeply personal ode to Bangkok, the top-ranked travel destination in the world. WINNER OF THE ART OF EATING PRIZE Every year, more than 16 million visitors flock to Thailand’s capital city, and leave transfixed by the vibrant culture and unforgettable food they encounter along the way. Thai cuisine is more popular today than ever, yet there is no book that chronicles the real food that Thai people eat every day—until now. In Bangkok, award-winning author Leela Punyaratabandhu offers 120 recipes that capture the true spirit of the city—from heirloom family dishes to restaurant classics to everyday street eats to modern cosmopolitan fare. Beautiful food and location photography will make this a must-have keepsake for any reader who has fallen under Bangkok’s spell.
Author : Pitchaya Sudbanthad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0525534768
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Bangkok Wakes to Rain written by Pitchaya Sudbanthad and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A house in the center of Bangkok becomes the point of confluence where lives are shaped by upheaval, memory, and the lure of home. Witness to two centuries' flux in one of the world's most restless cities, a house plays host to longings and losses past, present, and future. A nineteenth-century missionary doctor pines for the comforts of New England even as he finds the vibrant foreign chaos of Siam increasingly difficult to resist. A post-war society woman marries, mothers, and holds court, little suspecting the course of her future. A jazz pianist is summoned in the 1970s to conjure music that will pacify resident spirits, even as he's haunted by ghosts of his former life. Not long after, a young woman gives swimming lessons in the luxury condos that have eclipsed the old house, trying to outpace the long shadow of her political past. And in the post-submergence Bangkok of the future, a band of savvy teenagers guides tourists and former residents past waterlogged, ruined landmarks, selling them tissues to wipe their tears for places they themselves do not remember. Time collapses as these stories collide and converge, linked by blood, memory, yearning, chance, and the forces voraciously making and remaking the amphibian, ever-morphing city itself"--Provided by publisher.
Author : John Burdett
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 1400040914
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bangkok 8 written by John Burdett and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2003-06-03 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thriller with attitude to spare, Bangkok 8 is a sexy, razor-edged, often darkly hilarious novel set in one of the world’s most exotic cities. Witnessed by a throng of gaping spectators, a charismatic Marine sergeant is murdered under a Bangkok bridge inside a bolted-shut Mercedes Benz. Among the witnesses are the only two cops in the city not on the take, but within moments one is murdered and his partner, Sonchai Jitpleecheep—a devout Buddhist and the son of a Thai bar girl and a long-gone Vietnam War G.I.—is hell-bent on wreaking revenge. On a vigilante mission to capture his partner’s murderer, Sonchai is begrudgingly paired with a beautiful FBI agent named Jones and captures her heart in the process. In a city fueled by illicit drugs and infinite corruption, prostitution and priceless art, Sonchai’s quest for vengeance takes him into a world much more sinister than he could have ever imagined.
Author : Bonnie Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789814382076
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Postcards of Old Siam written by Bonnie Davis and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The postcards in this book cover the period from the turn of the 20th century during the last reign of King Chulalongkorn to the early 1930s, into the final years of King Prajadhipok's reign.
Author : Robert Cooper
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9814408980
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book CultureShock! Thailand written by Robert Cooper and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CultureShock! Thailand provides a valuable crash course on the who’s who, and the whats and hows of the country, guiding readers through a wide range of topics for day-to-day living including how to interact with the local people and fit into Thai society. Discover when and how to wai as well as how to use the bathroom upcountry. Pick up useful information for settling in like where to stay, study and play and find out more about the Thai language and how to conduct business the Thai way. Full of humour and practical tips.
Author : Chawadee Nualkhair
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462922147
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Thailand's Best Street Food written by Chawadee Nualkhair and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To be fortunate enough to visit Thailand--to eat in Thailand--is a deep dive into a rich, many-textured, very old culture of flavors and colors ranging far beyond the familiar spectrum." --Anthony Bourdain Thailand is known for its incredible street food and specialty stalls. With the help of this book, visitors can experience the very best of streetside dining. Writer, food blogger, and Bangkok resident Chawadee Nualkhair guides you throughout the country--recommending everything from popular favorites to off the beaten path must dos. Divided by region, Nualkhair successfully debunks the myth that Bangkok is the only place to find great Thai street food. By eating her way across the country, from Phuket in the south to Chiang Mai in the north, she ensures all travelers will have a tasty, authentic experience. Nualkhair draws on her vast experience to provide essential tips on and logistic help in locating the best street food stalls, including: An introduction to and pronunciation guide for common ingredients and dishes Directions to each location Street maps for each area Serving options Ordering tips Seating and bathroom facilities Photos of the best dishes This edition has been updated and revised, and includes 11 new street stall recommendations. In case you want to recreate your favorite finds at home, this book also includes 12 recipes for popular dishes, adapted for Western kitchens and ingredients.
Author : Pailin Chongchitnant
Publisher : Appetite by Random House
ISBN 13 : 0147529921
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Hot Thai Kitchen written by Pailin Chongchitnant and published by Appetite by Random House. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive Thai cookbook from a YouTube star! Growing up in Thailand, Pailin Chongchitnant spent her childhood with the kitchen as her playground. From a young age, she would linger by the stove, taking in the sight of snowy white coconut being shredded, the smell of lemongrass-infused soups, and the sound of the pestle pounding against the granite mortar. Years later, as a Cordon Bleu–educated chef in San Francisco, Pailin vividly remembered the culinary experiences of her youth. And so, on YouTube, Hot Thai Kitchen was born. Combining her love of teaching with her devotion to Thai food, Pailin immediately connected with thousands of fans who wanted a friend and educator. In this much-anticipated cookbook, Pailin brings her signature warmth and impressive technique to Thai food lovers everywhere. She begins by taking readers on a beautifully photographed trip to Thailand to explore the culinary culture and building blocks central to Thai food. With foolproof and easy-to-follow instructions, Pailin breaks down the key ingredients, flavours, equipment, and techniques necessary to master authentic Thai cooking. Then, she shares her must-make recipes for curries, soups, salads, and stir-fries, including entire chapters on vegetarian and vegan dishes, dips and dipping sauces, and sumptuous Thai desserts. With QR codes to video tutorials placed throughout the book, you’ll be able to connect with Pailin online, too. Both a definitive resource and an extraordinary exploration of Thai cuisine, Hot Thai Kitchen will delight and inspire you in your Thai cooking journey.
Author : Janet Brown
Publisher : ThingsAsian Press
ISBN 13 : 1934159123
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Tone Deaf in Bangkok written by Janet Brown and published by ThingsAsian Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From her first bewildered hours to the moment that she reluctantly leaves, Janet Brown describes her experience of falling in love withand inThailands largest city. Short, absorbing personal essays give a frank and intimate view of Bangkok, taking readers away from the typical tourist scene and describing what it is like to live a Thai life in a foreign body. Nana Chens evocative photographs provide illustrations of daily living in Bangkok with images that go behind the postcards to a world that travelers rarely see.
Author : Richard Harris Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1599216582
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (992 download)
Download or read book OSS written by Richard Harris Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The best book about America’s first modern secret service.” --Washington Post Book World In the months before World War II, FDR prepared the country for conflict with Germany and Japan by reshuffling various government agencies to create the Office of Strategic Services--America’s first intelligence agency and the direct precursor to the CIA. When he charged William (“Wild Bill”) Donovan, a successful Wall Street lawyer and Wilkie Republican, to head up the office, the die was set for some of the most fantastic and fascinating operations the U.S. government has ever conducted. Author Richard Harris Smith, himself an ex-CIA hand, documents the controversial agency from its conception as a spin-off of the Office of the Coordinator for Information to its demise under Harry Truman and reconfiguration as the CIA. During his tenure, Donovan oversaw a chaotic cast of some ten thousand agents drawn from the most conservative financial scions to the country’s most idealistic New Deal true believers. Together they usurped the roles of government agencies both foreign and domestic, concocted unbelievably complicated conspiracies, and fought the good fight against the Axis powers of Germany and Japan. For example, when OSS operatives stole vital military codebooks from the Japanese embassy in Portugal, the operation was considered a success. But the success turned into a flop as the Japanese discovered what had happened, and hastily changed a code that had already been decrypted by the U.S. Navy. Colorful personalities and truly priceless anecdotes abound in what may arguably be called the most authoritative work on the subject.
Author : Warren Olson
Publisher : Monsoon Books
ISBN 13 : 981435807X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Thai Private Eye written by Warren Olson and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume - the follow-up to Olson’s bestselling "Confessions of a Bangkok Private Eye" - serves up more juicy portions of what goes on under the veneer in Thailand and includes stories deemed too hot to include in the first book for fear of repercussions. It also includes recent cases, where state-of-the-art surveillance devices and other advances in the dark arts of private investigation have made it easier to uncover dirt deep below the surface. This is a book that reads like exciting fiction, with one big difference: every story is true. Only the names and related identifying details have been changed to protect the innocent along with the guilty. These chronicles of a decade lived dangerously in the Land of Crooked Smiles will, by turns, entertain, shock, inflame and inform you.
Author : Ellen Boccuzzi
Publisher : Silkworm Books
ISBN 13 : 162840566X
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Bangkok Bound written by Ellen Boccuzzi and published by Silkworm Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the acceleration of global migration, literature by migrant writers has emerged as a powerful medium for describing the ways in which global forces are experienced at the personal level. Migrant literature offers a compelling counter‐narrative to abstract visions of globalization, grounding large‐scale processes in real‐life stories of individuals. In Thailand, migrant writers have documented the social and cultural impacts of fifty years of rural‐urban migration through hundreds of stories, poems, and novels. Bangkok Bound is the first book to examine this body of literature and the messages that Thai migrant writers convey about their experiences. These stories powerfully describe the ways in which migrants who leave their homes bound for Bangkok are quickly bound to Bangkok through the transformative force of modern city life. And they show the ways in which those who remain behind in the village are transformed, too, as they struggle to maintain a rural way of life in a rapidly urbanizing world. Bangkok Bound will be of interest to anyone working on migration or urbanization, as well as to scholars of Thailand and Thai literature. Specialists in migration will find it a welcome addition to the growing field of migration studies through examination of narrative fiction. What others are saying “This is an engaging and authoritative study of literary representations of migration from the provinces to Bangkok based on wide reading of short stories written over the last four decades and interviews with major writers and critics. It will be of interest not only to students of literature, but also to anyone interested in social change in Thailand in the late twentieth century and the way that it has been perceived and recorded by local writers.” —David Smyth, SOAS, University of London Highlights - Useful for an introductory course on Thai or Southeast Asian studies; offers a springboard for conversations on development, rural‐urban inequality, migration, and the impacts of rapid urbanization in Asia - First book to examine the theme of migration in Thai literature, a significant contemporary genre - Contributes to the growing field of migration studies through examination of narrative fiction - Provides a window into how migration and urbanization are experienced at the personal level of interest to migration scholars as well as scholars of Thailand, Thai cultural studies, and Thai literature
Author : Anatoly Kurchatkin
Publisher : Glagoslav Publications
ISBN 13 : 1911414313
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Tsunami written by Anatoly Kurchatkin and published by Glagoslav Publications. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anatoly Kurchatkin’s novel, set in Russia and Thailand, ranges in time from the Brezhnev years of political stagnation, when Soviet values seemed set to endure for eternity, through Gorbachev’s Perestroika and the following tumultuous and disorientating decades. Under the surface, ancient currents are influencing the destinies of mathematician Rad, art gallery owner Jenny, entrepreneur (and spy?) Dron, American investor Chris, redundant Soviet diplomat Yelena and Thai playboy Tony in a rapidly globalizing world of laptop computers, mobile phones, credit cards and international finance. The fourteenth-century battle in which the Prince of Muscovy, inspired by St Sergius of Radonezh, defeated the Golden Horde of the Mongol Empire foreshadows a modern struggle for the soul of Russia. Tsunami was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize and the Russo-Italian Moscow-Penne Prize. Translated by Arch Tait.
Author : Michael Herzfeld
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022633175X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Siege of the Spirits written by Michael Herzfeld and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-03-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when three hundred alleged squatters go head-to-head with an enormous city government looking to develop the place where they live? As anthropologist Michael Herzfeld shows in this book, the answer can be surprising. He tells the story of Pom Mahakan, a tiny enclave in the heart of old Bangkok whose residents have resisted authorities’ demands to vacate their homes for a quarter of a century. It’s a story of community versus government, of old versus new, and of political will versus the law. Herzfeld argues that even though the residents of Pom Mahakan have lost every legal battle the city government has dragged them into, they have won every public relations contest, highlighting their struggle as one against bureaucrats who do not respect the age-old values of Thai/Siamese social and cultural order. Such values include compassion for the poor and an understanding of urban space as deeply embedded in social and ritual relations. In a gripping account of their standoff, Herzfeld—who simultaneously argues for the importance of activism in scholarship—traces the agile political tactics and styles of the community’s leadership, using their struggle to illuminate the larger difficulties, tensions, and unresolved debates that continue to roil Thai society to this day.
