Vanishing Bangkok

Vanishing Bangkok
Author:
Publisher: River Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9786164510340

A unique angle on a city popular with tourists This stunning black and white photographic book takes us on a journey through the forgotten backstreets and hidden neighborhoods of Bangkok revealing the fragile beauty and faded charm of the city that is about to disappear forever beneath a tidal wave of development. From the splendid Old Customs House perched on the banks of the Chao Phraya river to the vibrant communities of Chinatown and sleepy canals lost in time, it evokes a city that despite successive waves of modernization still boasts an extraordinarily rich and diverse cultural heritage.

Betel and Miang, Vanishing Thai Habits

Betel and Miang, Vanishing Thai Habits
Author: Peter A. Reichart
Publisher:
Total Pages: 146
Release: 1996
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

On habits of chewing piper betal leaf with dried areca-nut and miang, fermente tea in northern Thai people.

The Landlady in Bangkok

The Landlady in Bangkok
Author: Karen Swenson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN:

The poetry of travels in Southeast Asia. In My Lai, she writes: "We walk / to the museum cordoned by eyes / of farmers who live in road dust as did the dead. My eyes, not meeting / theirs, follow a man, middle-aged now, / once an eighteen-year-old Grunt, and our / woman guide, once a survivor at age six." By the author of A Sense of Direction.

This Sacred Earth

This Sacred Earth
Author: Roger S. Gottlieb
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 782
Release: 2003-11-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 113691546X

Updated with nearly forty new selections to reflect the tremendous growth and transformation of scholarly, theological, and activist religious environmentalism, the second edition of This Sacred Earth is an unparalleled resource for the study of religion's complex relationship to the environment.

Confessions of a Bangkok PI

Confessions of a Bangkok PI
Author: Warren Olson
Publisher: Monsoon Books
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2006-07-28
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9814358002

''Two-timing bargirls, suspicious spouses, and lesbian lovers''—it was all in a day''s work for Bangkok Private Eye Warren Olson.” Fluent in Thai and Khmer, Olson walked the mean streets of Bangkok and was able to go where other Private Eyes feared to tread. The stories are based on Olson''s case files, fictionalized (to protect the innocent, and the guilty) by bestselling author Stephen Leather.

Thailand

Thailand
Author: Jim Goodman
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2002
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780761414780

Describes the geography, history, government, economy, people, religion, language, and culture of Thailand, a predominantly Buddhist country located in Southeast Asia. Includes several recipes.