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Editor’s Choice
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Print Language Courses
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Thai for Beginners
by Benjawan Poomsan Becker
Comment:
Part one of Becker's three-part, comprehensive, modern, and accessible course that covers it all right from page 1: reading, conversation, writing (including important practice forming letters). CD are available, don't forget to order them also.
One of the most popular items here, highly recommended.
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Lonely Planet Thai Phrasebook (4th Ed)
Comment:
Brilliant, as we have come to expect from all of Joe's work. Includes a non-trivial section on grammar, a handy menu decoder where the Thai script is listed first, and now includes hill tribe languages (previously a separate book).
Essential.
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Thai für Anfänger by Benjawan Poomsan Becker (paperback)
Auf mehrfachen Wunsch unserer Schüler hin, haben wir nun endlich die deutsche Version von “Thai for Beginners” entwickelt. “Thai für Anfä?nger” macht Sie mit drei sprachlichen Grundprinzipien vertraut – sprechen, zuhören (mit den entsprechenden Tonbandkassetten) und lesen. Falls Sie auch schreiben lernen mö?chten, finden Sie die entsprechenden Anleitungen in der englischen Version “Thai for Beginners”.
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Lao for Beginners by Buasawan Simmala & Benjawan Poomsan Becker. ( paperback)
Designed for either self-study or classroom use. Teaches all four language skills — speaking, listening (when used in conjunction with the cassette tapes), reading and writing.
Offers clear, easy, step-by-step instruction, building on what has been previously learned. Used by many Lao temples in America. Three cassette tapes follow along with lessons in the book.
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Dictionaries
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The Bua Luang Compact Wysiwys English-Thai Dictionary
by E. G. Allyn
Comment:
The best pocket Thai language tourist dictionary I have encountered; it betters most bulkier works. Includes both Thai script and an excellent, well-documented transliteration system, with tone markings. A joy.
Highest recommendation.
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Audio Courses
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Teach Yourself Thai Complete Course Audiopack (Audio CD)
by David Smyth Bestselling language courses now with audio CDs ! From Catonese to Thai, Gaelic to Modern Persian, learning the languages of the world is attainable for any beginning student. Learners can use the Teach Yourself Language Courses at their own pace or as a supplement to formal courses. These complete courses are based on thievery latest learning methods and designed to be enjoyable and user-friendly. Prepared by experts in the language, each course begins with the basics and gradually promotes the student to a level of smooth and confident communication, including: Up-to-date, graded interactive dialogues Graded units of culture notes, grammar, and exercises Step-by-step guide to pronunciation Practical vocabulary Regular and irregular verb tables Plenty of practice exercises and answers Bilingual glossary The new editions also feature: Clear, uncluttered, and user-friendly layout Self-assessment quizzes to test progress Website suggestions to take language study further
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Welcome To Hell : An Irishman's Fight For Life Inside The Bangkok Hilton by Colin Martin’s
Maverick House is delighted to announce that Welcome to Hell, Colin Martin’s best selling autobiography, is now available in Thailand. This gripping book chronicles an innocent man’s struggle to survive inside the Bangkok Hilton, one of the world’s most dangerous prisons.
Honest and often disturbing – but told with a surprising humour – Welcome to Hell is the remarkable story of how Colin was denied justice again and again. In this extraordinary account he describes the swindle, his arrest and vicious torture by police, the unfair trial, and the 8 years of brutality and squalor he was forced to endure.
'Reads like an unputdownable work of fiction...' - Kieran Meeke, Metro
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4,000 Days : My Life and Survival in a Bangkok Prison by Warren Fellows
Warren Fellows spent 12 years inside some of Thailand’s most horrific prisons suffering the most inhumane treatment possible from the hands of brutal guards.
Warren survived the experience and was eventually returned to Australia a stranger in a strange land. The world had changed much since Warren last saw it.
Warrens story is one of courage and survival.
There have been two publications by War
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The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison by Warren Fellows (Paperback)
Customer Review (Matthew P. Arsenault)
There are very few things in this world that could be worse than being sentenced to a long stretch in a Thai prison. I picked up The Damage Done while on holiday in Bangkok and my trip certainly took a turn for the frighteningly paranoid.
In The Damage Done, Warren Fellows readily admits to smuggling drugs between South East Asia and his native Australia. He further admits to the many criminal indiscretions of his youth which brought him to his most unenviable predicament. However, Fellows never begs for the sympathy of the reader but rather recaptures his not so anomalous tale of traversing an Asian court system and subsequently its notorious prisons.
Fellows captures the rancid food, drug abuse and violence found in a Thai prison and the consequences such an environment plays on a captive's mental and physical state. Still, Fellows abstains from turning his experience into a preachy tale of woe, and keeps his work cuttingly sharp and extremely interesting. A Must.
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Murder at the Horny Toad Bar: & Other Outrageous Tales of Thailand (Paperback)
by Dean Barret
Editorial Review: (from the inside flap)
Among several exotic and erotic tales of Thailand, readers are introduced to Bangkok’s sexiest, most daring and least principled detective, Harry Boroditsky, who solves not one but two bizarre cases including, Murder at the Horny Toad Bar. Hard Bones Haggerty is a haunting tale of the Vietnam War, and, in Obsession, a man obsessed with his Thai girlfriend seeks revenge.
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Humour
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The Go Go Dancer Who Stole My Viagra & Other Poetic Tragedies Of Thailand (Paperback)
by Dean Barret
Customer Review: (Daniel Hodkins, Florida)
I almost didn't buy this book as I thought it might be too superficial but although it is uneven (it would have to be given the number of styles the author uses) most of the poems are very well written, some are moving, and some are very humorous. The one on fates of writers (mostly suicides) is interesting and poems on Thailand show the author's knowledge of and love for the country. Not all pieces are poems, but all are thoughtful and well written. If you like irreverent poetry, try this - you'll be glad you did.
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Thai Cooking
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Thai Food by David Thompson, Earl Carter (Photographer) - (hard cover)
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"Thai cooking is a paradox," writes Australian restaurateur David Thompson in his comprehensive and thus aptly named Thai Food. "It uses robustly flavoured ingredients--garlic, shrimp paste, chilies, lemongrass--and yet when they are melded during cooking they arrive at a sophisticated and often subtle elegance." Pursuing this transformation in depth, his book presents hundreds of recipes that celebrate the Thai meal while exploring its historical and cultural context. Readers will delight in the wide selection of authentic dishes like Duck and Spring Onion Soup, Grilled Beef Salad, and Green Chicken Curry with Baby Corn, and relish Thompson's vast appreciation of his subject.
Though the recipes are straightforward and workable once ingredients are assembled and techniques understood, those new to Thai cooking may want a less rigourous introduction to the subject. However, anyone with an appetite to explore it on Thompson's terms will benefit immensely.
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Thai Cooking Made Easy by Sukhum Kittivech
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Famous for its exotic flavors and aromas, Thai cuisine offers culinary delights too numerous to describe. Suffice to say that the blending of the cuisines of the Chinese, Indian, Indonesian and Vietnamese cultures produces the delightful mouthwatering contrasts of sweet, sour, and hot spicy tastes. Master chef, Sukhum Kittivech, the owner of the popular Chan Dara restaurants, has selected 100 authentic and popular Thai dishes that are sure to please the palates of those who partake of the exotic dishes. Among the recipes offered are Pad Thai, Beef Panang, Shrimp & Pineapple Curry, Chicken Coconut Soup to Fried Bananas and more.
Most of the recipes are very easy to follow, with special sections on frequently used ingredients, seasonings, condiments and special sauces.
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Maps of Thailand
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Thailand Map (International Series) (Map) by Hammond World Atlas
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Description
The Hammond International Series of travel maps feature state-of-the-art digitized mapmaking to ensure an unparalleled degree of accuracy. All city maps feature regional insets and all country maps feature city insets. Both maps and atlases are printed on high quality paper, with sturdy covers for increased durability. Each map also contains a comprehensive index.
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