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MDTech Black USB Keyboard

MDtech Black USB Thai-English Keyboard

Slim silent lightweight keyboard design. For Windows 9x/2000/XP/Vista/7 and Linux with a USB connector and 107 keys.

This keyboard has both Thai and English characters screen printed on the keys. In Windows you are usually able to switch between languages with either a single key stroke or by a mouse click.

After Dark Issue 13

After Dark Volume 13

Thailand Nightlife Magazine

Full color glossy magazine.

Inside: The Girls Of -

Nana Plaza
Anglewitch
Spankys
Pretty Lady
Hollywood
Carousel
Mandarin

Plus new articles by

Dean Barrett
Stephen Leather

Magazine
Thailand 2010
52 pages

The Big Mango by Jake Needham

What happened to the Bank of Vietnam's $400 Million?

From the Big apple, to the Big Orange, to the Big Mango. It had a kind of nutty logic to it, he figured. Bangkok was about as far as he could get from California without falling off the edge of the world. Although at times, he thought that was exactly what he had done.

Eddie Dare was a middle-aged San Francisco lawyer with a sinking feeling that the best part of his life was behind him. But back in 1975, when Saigon slid down the toilet, he'd been a young marine guarding a warehouse behind the U.S. Embassy.

As it happened, that was where Captain Harry Austin had temporarily stashed $400 million, slipped out of the Bank of Vietnam in a shadowy, CIA-run operation. The money vanished after the American evacuation; and so did Harry Austin - at least until his body turned up 20 years later in a muddy street outside a Bangkok massage parlor. When a man calling himself 'the General' dangled a million dollars at Eddie to find out what really happened to Austin - and to all that money - the adventure was too alluring to pass up.

Sucked into the jagged netherworld of Bangkok, the promise of a benign ramble through lavish hotels and low-life bars quickly turned sour. Eddie was soon hurtling breathlessly through a corkscrewed realm where big-time crooks tangoed with small-time hustlers, and the downright scary jostled with the merely raffish for center stage in the big leagues of crime.

Eddie was running for his life; and there was only one way out. He had to find out what really happened to Harry Austin - and where ten tons of money went.

"As good as it gets." The Bangkok Post

"A great read." Stephen Leather, bestselling author of Private Dancer

"A heady, bloody, luxurious, sordid fictional romp." The Nation

Paperback
This edition Singapore 2009
Marshall Cavendish Editions
400 pages
ISBN 9789814276603

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After Dark 2010 Calendar

The After Dark 2010 Wall Calendar

This Year's Best of the Girls from the Go-Go Bars

Beautiful full colour glossy 2010 calendar opens up into 24 x 12 inch (62 x 31 cm) monthly pages. The following girls are featured.

January - Por - from Sisterz (Pattaya)
February - Golf - from Secrets (Pattaya)
March - Beer - from Champagne (Pattaya)
April - Mil - from Gentlemen's Club (Pattaya)
May - Farn - from Sakura (Pattaya)
June - Put - from Lollipop (Pattaya)
July - Wen - from Spankys (Bangkok)
August - Oh - from New Living Dolls (Pattaya)
September - Meao - from Shark Club (Pattaya)
October - Vun - from Angelwitch (Bangkok)
November - Tik - from Dollhouse (Pattaya)
December - Pu - from Living Dolls Showcase (Pattaya)

Wall Calendar
Pattaya 2009
310 x 310 mm (12 in. x 12 in.)
28 pages

Thai Democracy in Crisis - 27 Truths

Thai Democracy in Crisis: 27 Truths

By Chaturon Chaisang

In this book, Chaturon Chaisang addresses key issues head on. Among other things, he shares his thoughts on the activities of former Prime Minister Dr. Thaksin Shinawatra. He presents a thought-provoking analysis of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD - the Yellow Shirts") and its proposal called "New Politics". He offers the same level of analysis ofthe United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD - the "Red Shirts").He looks at the role of the courts and the role of the military in modern Thailand.He also looks at the challenges facing political parties in Thailand.He questions the objectivity of the Thai press.In all, he addresses the current problems facing Thailand in a comprehensivemanner and presents elements for a lasting solution. This is a "must read" book for readers who are interested in the development of democracy in Thailand.

Paperback
Bangkok 2009
145 x 210 mm.
286 pages, 44pp. illus
ISBN 9789749672846

Addicted to Love

Addicted to Love by Randy Nightwalker

Exploring the Nightlife in Cambodia

Addicted to Love, Exploring the Nightlife in Cambodia is essential reading to assist you to discover, understand and enjoyyour evenings in Cambodia. It's for everyone from the first-timer trying to find out what it is all about, to the experienced expat traveler. The insight and guidance you gain from the stories will help you prepare for the evening's maze of girls, bars and discos, and everything that follows.

Author Randy Nightwalker is a seasoned and accomplished denizen of the hostess-bar scene in Cambodia; being motivated by his hopeless addiction to the night life and all it has to offer. In Addicted to Love,he shares his secrets with you.

Paperback
Bangkok 2009
Edition Bamboo Sinfonia
130 x 190 mm.
146 pages
ISBN 9786167111063

Live Fire by Stephen Leather

Live Fire by Stephen Leather - Author of Private Dancer

Fast-paced action thriller partly set in Pattaya

"The real terror is yet to come!"

A Dan Shepherd Thriller

Mickey and Mark Moore are hard men who live by their own code and are leaders of a gang that has made millions at the point of a gun. Now they're enjoying a life in the sun in Thailand.

Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is sent to infiltrate the team of bank robbers. But when he does, he discovers that he has more in common with them than he first thought. While he and his Serious Organised Crime Agency colleagues are plotting the downfall of the Moore brothers, a far more sinister threat is stalking the streets of London.

A group of home-grown Islamic fundamentalist fanatics embarks on a campaign of terror the like of which Britain has never seen. Car bombs and beheadings are only the beginning...

And Shepherd is the only man who can stop them.

Customers in the UK, Australia and New Zealand can probably obtain this novel locally without the shipping costs we have to charge.

'Pacy read...totally convincing.' - BBC Radio 5 Live

'This is not only an aggressively topical novel but a genuinely thrilling one, too.' - Daily Telegraph

Paperback
London 2009
Hodder
ISBN 9780340921753
470 pages

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Thai Hit Songs Vol. 1

Thai Hit Songs Volume 1 - Thailand Fever

The unique method for learning Thai

Paiboon Publishing presents Thai Hit Songs Vol. 1 as a unique innovative program to help you learn the Thai language as never before. It can be used alone or as a supplementary tool to our other Thai language learning materials. The music on the CD will get you excited and motivated to learn the Thai language.

This is the Booklet & Music CD version of Thai Hit Songs Vol. 1 that includes a music CD and a printed booklet containing all the song lyrics with detailed explanations, a synopsis of each song and translations of all the words in the songs.

All the songs are entertaining with catchy tunes and witty play-on-word lyrics in a pop song style that are new and refreshing to dance and sing to. Not only will you learn about Thai language and vocabulary, each song teaches a specific aspect of the Thai language. An excellent resource for Thai learners of all levels and a must have for lovers of Thailand and the Thai language.

Audio CD and Booklet
Bangkok 2009
Paiboon Publishing
ISBN 9781887521024

After Dark Issue 12

After Dark Volume 12

Thailand Nightlife Magazine

Full color glossy magazine.

Inside: The Girls Of -

Living Dolls Showcase
Sisterz
Tiger Lounge
Gentelmen's Club

Plus:

Interview with racing driver Jack Lemvard
Fiction - by Dean Barrett

Magazine
Thailand 2009
48 pages

The Farang Wife

The Farang Wife by Tony Crossley

"A sizzling and oft-amusing tale of gender rivalry"

An English graphic designer in Bangkok loves his lovely if prim wife, but he finds models at the photography studio he part-owns too much to resist. On the wife finding her marriage under threat, to cure her husband's habitual philandering she decides to be more 'sexy'. Little did she know the effect this would have on her psyche.

An expat Pattaya estate agency manager married in the UK believing that his former mini-celebrity wife would serve his social aspirations. He combines his photography hobby with his penchant for skirt-chasing. The wife attempts to jump-start her flagging marriage by reviving her modelling career.

"Not a book a man would want his wife to read." Frank Maddox (Raconteur)

"A riotous romp that kept making me want one." Wilkins McQueen (Novelist)

Paperback
Pattaya 2009
Tighe Books
ISBN 9786119019003
352 pages

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Thaksin - Second Expanded Edition

Thaksin

By Pasuk Phongpaichit & Chris Baker

In the early 1990s, Thaksin Shinawatra came from nowhere to become a multi-billionaire in just four years.

In 2001, he was elected prime minister on a single-minded promise to accelerate Thailand to first-world status through unrestrained capitalist growth.

In 2009, over video link from exile in Dubai, he urged thousands of red-shirted supporters to revolution, provoking days of street fighting and the biggest-ever domestic operation by the Thai army.

From 2001 to 2009, Thaksin�s tenure gave new meaning to the role of prime minister and transformed Thai politics. It is an extraordinary story involving four landslide elections, a military coup, a demonstration lasting half a year, the popular mobilization of people in color-coded street armies, the occupation of Bangkok�s international airports, assassination plots, and the flight of Asian leaders from a regional meeting by helicopter.

The first edition of this book was published in 2004, and the original chapters remain unchanged. They trace Thaksin�s family background, his meteoric success as a telecommunications entrepreneur, his bid for the premiership, and the key polices and achievements of his years in power.

In the expanded second edition, four new chapters and a conclusion trace in detail the protracted story of Thaksin�s downfall. He was opposed by social activists critical of his neoliberal policies, by human rights defenders appalled at his callous authoritarianism, by royalists who imagined him as a threat to Thailand�s revered monarch, by businessmen who resented his nepotism and cronyism, and by a broader middle class who saw him as corrupt, untrustworthy, and dangerous. But at the same time, he drew passionate support from farmers and provincial businessmen who welcomed his policies to spread wealth, expand social services, and empower the common man.

Thaksin exposed the deep divisions in Thai society and made them matter in politics. This theme has echoes in the divided politics of many other middle-income countries including Venezuela, Turkey, and Iran.

About the Authors
Pasuk Phongpaichit is professor of economics at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. Chris Baker is an independent writer. Together they have also written Thailand: Economy and Politics, Thailand�s Boom and Bust, and Thailand�s Crisis.

Paperback
Chiang Mai 2009
Silkworm Books
424 pages
ISBN 9789749511794

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Red vs. Yellow Volume 1 by Nick Nostitz

Red vs. Yellow Volume 1

By Nick Nostitz

Red vs. Yellow, Volume 1: Thailand's crisis of identity describes, both in photos and in text, the political turmoil and violent street protests that took place during the first elected administration in Thailand after the 2006/2007 coup period, its government led by the PPP (People Power Party) a place holder party of the TRT (Thai Rak Thai) which had been ousted by the military coup. The anti-government and nationalist-royalist PAD ( People's Alliance for Democracy) entered Government House, the seat of Thailand�s cabinet, and occupied it for months, before its protests culminated in the invasion of Bangkok's airports, the dissolution of the PPP and the overthrow of the government by forces seen as sympathetic to the PAD.

In the course of the year the police, the PAD and their opponents - the Red shirts, an alliance of government supporters and pro-democracy groups - clashed on several occasions. Incidents involving at times shocking violence laid bare Thailand's long neglected social, political and regional divisions and left it a deeply unstable nation. Nick Nostitz covers this significant period of Thai History from the center of events. His articles on which this book is based caused considerable controversy when first published.

The second volume will be published at a later date, and describes the events of 2009, including the clashes in Bangkok over the Songkran Holiday.

Hard Cover
Bangkok 2009
White Lotus
158 pages, heavy 190g paper, fully illus., in col.
ISBN 9789744801500

The Railways of Thailand by R. Ramaer

New 2009 revised and extended edition of R. Ramaer's definitive book on the Thai Railways

The Railways of Thailand was originally intended to describe the development of the locomotive stock of the State Railway of Thailand, and published as such in 1984.

Questions and suggestions from readers and the present publisher made the story grow, not only in length, but also in scope. In this third edition it covers the development of locomotives, carriage and wagon stock as well as the rail network itself since the beginnings of rail transportation in what was then Siam during the last decade of the 19th. century.

It also includes secondary, partly non-government lines as well as a short overview of industrial lines. These are not treated in detail, they form a subject in itself and should not be limited to an appendix in a book on common-carrier railways.

The text has been revised and extended and is supported by several maps, 200 largely unpublished photographs, both in black-and-white and colour, and 70 diagrams.

List of locomotives pictured in the book (from the 1994 edition)
1894, 2-4-0, Dubs & Co., UK
1897, 0-6-0ST, Peckett & Sons, UK
1894, 0-6-0, Dubs & Co., UK
1898-1910, 2-4-0, Hanomag, Germany
1898-1902, 2-6-0, Krauss & Co., Germany
1906-10, 2-6-0, Hanomag, Germany
1909-14, 0-6-0T, Henschel, Germany
1913, 0-10-0, Hanomag, Germany
1901-12, 2-6-0, Krauss & Co., Germany
1914, 2-6-0, Krauss & Co., Germany
1901-12, 2-4-2, Krauss & Co., Germany
1910-11, 0-6-0T, Brush Elec. Eng., UK
1912-20, 4-6-0, North British, UK
1923-25, 2-8-2, Baldwin, USA
1924, 2-8-2, Nasmyth Wilson, UK
1924, 4-6-2, Batignolles, France
1924, 2-8-2, Batignolles, France
1925-29, 4-6-2, Baldwin, USA
1926, Steam Railcar, Baldwin, USA
1926, 2-8-0, Swiss Locomotive & Machine
(ex-Rhaetian Railway), Switzerland
1928-29, 4-6-2, Hanomag, Germany
1929, 2-8-2+2-8-2, Henschel, Germany
1936, 2-8-2+2-8-2, Henschel, Germany
1936-42, 2-8-2, Japanese Loco. Makers' Ass.
1928, 0-4-0 Diesel, S.L.M., Switzerland
1931, Diesel, Sulzer/Oerlikon/Henschel, Swiss/German
1931, Diesel, Frichs, Denmark
1932, Diesel double loco., Frichs, Denmark
1932, Diesel railcar, Frichs/Scandia, Denmark
1941-42, 4-6-2, Hitachi/Nippon Sharyo, Japan
1949-50, 4-6-2, Kawasaki/Nippon Sharyo, Japan
1949-50, 2-8-2, Various makers, Japan
1947, Diesel, Sulzer/Oerlikon/Henschel, Swiss/German
1951, Diesel, Sulzer/Oerlikon/Henschel, Swiss/German
1952, Diesel, Davenport, USA
1955, Diesel, Davenport, USA
1958-61, Diesel, Hitachi, Japan
1963-65, Diesel, GE, USA
1955, Diesel shunter, Krauss-Maffei, Germany
1963, Diesel, Plymouth, USA
1963-64, Diesel, Henschel, Germany
1965, Diesel shunter, Hunslet
1969, Diesel, Krupp, Germany
1974-75, Diesel, Alsthom, France
1986, Diesel shunter, Henschel, Germany
(Not shown on this list are the private railway locomotive pictures, the war surplus locomotive pictures or the pictures of other rolling stock. Most of the locomotives have line drawings as well as photographs.)

Paperback
Bangkok This edition 2009, original 1994
White Lotus
Large A4 size
258 pages
illustrated, 24 pp in color
ISBN 9789744801517

Below is a photograph of the new airport express train during testing in Germany.

Travels in Laos and Among the Tribes

Travels in Laos and Among the Tribes of Southeast Indochina

The Pavie Mission Indochina Papers 1879�1895, Vol. 6

By P. Cupet

This tome provides an overview of exploration work done in parts of Central Laos and on the borders of Laos with Cambodia and Vietnam, parts of French Indochina. The various itineraries in Laos cover the search for passages between the Mekong and the Vietnamese coast, the country of the Puan people and territories inhabited by tribes which were either under Vietnam�s or Siam�s sovereignty or called themselves independent. The book also documents lifestyles and customs of various Moi, Bahnar, Djiarai, Sedang, and other primitive tribes. Some of these forgotten ethnic groups had already been visited by French Catholic missionaries who contributed valuable ethnic data to the reports of the Pavie Mission. The explorations were often politically motivated and resulted in French occupation of territories belonging to the primitive tribes of southern Laos and Vietnam.

Paperback
Bangkok 2000
White Lotus
Size 150 x 210 mm
458 pages, 40 pp. illus.
ISBN 9789748434834

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Minorities of the Sino-Vietnamese Borderland

Minorities of the Sino-Vietnamese Borderland, with Special Reference to Thai Tribes

By Maurice Abadie

This overview presents comprehensive ethnographic introductions to the tribes found in northern Vietnam and China�s Yunnan Province. A brief sketch of historical migration patterns and ethnic affiliations with tribes in Yunnan is provided and a systematic overview given of many tribes of each of four main groups, the Thai, Man (Yao), Meo, and Lolo. Maurice Abadie, a French officer in the Muong Khuong-Pha Long region of the Sino-Vietnamese border (northwest of Lao Kay) just before the First World War, furnishes first-hand information. He discusses each tribe�s origins and settlement, physical characteristics, family life and ancestral cults, livelihood and farming methods, customs related to marriage, childbirth, and death, and trade and crafts, with special reference to textiles. The study includes detailed descriptions of every group, supported by 120 unique photos. Abadie also discusses the growing Chinese and Vietnamese influence that would unmistakably modernize these tribes that today mostly preserve only their special costumes as the inalienable characteristic of their original identity.

Paperback
Bangkok 2001
White Lotus
Size 150 x 210 mm
299 pages, 76 pp. illus.
ISBN 9789747534573

Epilogue in Burma 1945�1948

Epilogue in Burma 1945�1948 by John H. McEnery

The Military Dimensions of British Withdrawal

This book presents the first fully-researched account of the Army�s dramatic role in war-torn Burma from Japanese surrender to final evacuation. It presents the achievements of the British, African, Indian Army and Burma Army units of Burma Command. The most important of these was the suppression in February�April 1947 of an incipient "dacoit dictatorship" in central Burma aimed at subverting the moderate government of Aung San, the Burman national hero. The book also records what happened to the losers, the 70,000 surrendered Japanese troops. Beyond that, new light is thrown on the tragic assassinations of Aung San and most of his ministerial colleagues in July 1947, absolving the British authorities and HQ Burma Command of any vestige of responsibility or blame. The work sets out an accurate statement of force levels in Burma in 1945�48. In so doing it discredits the lamentably false picture presented by the HM Stationery Office official history, Burma - The Struggle for Independence 1944�1948. Using a hitherto unpublished and revealing Top Secret document, the author gives a badly needed re-appraisal of the last two British Governors of Burma. Finally General Briggs, the General Officer Commanding, emerges as the unsung hero whose quiet determination avoided a Vietnam in Burma. This account of a peaceful transfer of power in difficult and dangerous circumstances may help a new generation in Burma on their hard road to democracy and national reconciliation. It is an absorbing and long-overdue tribute to the men and women who served in the armed forces of the Crown in post-war Burma.

Paperback
Bangkok 2000 (reprint from 1990)
White Lotus
Size 150 x 210 mm
168 pages, 8 pp. illus., 2 maps
ISBN 9789747534450

The Throne of the Gods

The Throne of the Gods by Arnold Heim and August Gansser

An Account of the First Swiss Expedition to the Himalayas

Originally published in German in 1938 and in English in 1939, this account was written by two geologists whose eight months journey in the Himalayas took them through the then "forbidden" lands of Nepal and Tibet, culminating at Mt. Kailas, "The Throne of The Gods." Apart form their geological studies, altitudes were measured by using barometric observations. The lives of the people, animals, and plants were recorded, both among the crags and glaciers of the high mountains and also on the way there through the plains and foothills of India. The return journey included a visit to the source of the Ganges. A wealth of period photos and maps makes this book a valuable resource for naturalists, geologists, and mountaineers. With a new foreword by A. Gansser.

Paperback
Bangkok 2000 (reprint from 1939)
White Lotus
Size 150 x 210 mm
385 pages, 120 pp. illus., 1 col. map, 1 foldout chart, 1 foldout panoramic view
ISBN 9789747534306

Vietnam and American Doctrine for Small Wars

By Wray R. Johnson

This tome is the first comprehensive treatment of the evolution of U.S. military doctrine for countering guerillas and other irregular forces in small wars. Since its inception, the United States has been engaged in small wars, or low intensity conflict, and has contested irregular opponents in each. The end of World War II ushered in what has since become known as the "counterinsurgency era", its genesis arguably the containment strategy of the Truman Doctrine of 1947, upon which policy-makers and military planners constructed rudimentary counterinsurgency doctrine for combating communist guerrillas in Greece. Yet Vietnam was the real test for counter-insurgency doctrine, and the war in Vietnam has remained the touchstone for American involvement in small wars ever since. With the end of the Vietnam War, small wars doctrine has risen or fallen according to the perceived threat to the national security interests of the United States, concurrent with the success or failure of scholars and military professionals in persuading the national security bureaucracy to make qualitative changes in doctrine and force structure. In that light, this study examines the roots of American military doctrine for small wars and its subsequent evolution from "counterinsurgency" in the 1960s to "stability and support operations" in the 1990s, and concludes with an analysis of the legacy of Vietnam and the implications for emergent military doctrine in the post-Cold War era.

Paperback
Bangkok 2000
White Lotus
Size 150 x 210 mm
352 pages
ISBN 9789747534504

Shans at Home

Shans at Home by Leslie Milne

Burma�s Shan States in the Early 1900s

This reprint offers a colorful account of the Shan States, where the author, Mrs. Leslie Milne, lived from 1906�1907, six months in Hsipaw and then fifteen months in the Namkhain valley of the Shweli River. For most of the time she was the only foreign resident; being a member of the Royal Asiatic Society and Bombay Natural History Society no doubt prepared her to live the life of an explorer to the full. She studied most aspects of Shan life, particularly family life, illustrating her observations with a host of remarkable photos. Language, folklore, villagers at work, crafts, medicine and charms, Shan cosmology, are all discussed in lively anecdotes, peppered with astute observations. Blessed with such a keen interest in all that crosses her path, she happily sprinkles her account with critical remarks about this simple life, and of the British for their failure to cash in on their empire building. Her passion for textiles and her other preferred pastime�natural history�led her to record natural dyes and products, and nature in general, noting that both were already losing out, albeit to German rather than British traders. The book is enhanced by two chapters on the history and literature of the Shan States by the Reverend Wilbur Willis Cochrane.

Paperback
Bangkok 2001 (reprint from 1910)
White Lotus
Size 150 x 210 mm
383 pages, 72 pp. illus.
ISBN 9789747534269

A Guide to the Temple of Banteay Srei

A Guide to the Temple of Banteay Srei at Angkor

By Louis Finot, Henri Parmentier and Victor Goloubew

Originally published in 1926, this is the first study of the temple that many consider the crown jewel of the entire Angkor Wat complex. Written a decade after the temple�s rediscovery, these three groundbreaking essays by eminent French scholars discuss its architecture, iconography, history, and dating. The section on the Sanskrit and Khmer inscriptions found at the site is an invaluable tool for understanding this period of Khmer history and for illuminating aspects of its religious and daily life. Line drawings and photographs illustrate the study. Indispensable for the specialist, the volume will also appeal to the general reader interested in Southeast Asian architecture, history, and religion.

Paperback
Bangkok 2000
White Lotus
Size 250 x 340 mm
241 pages, 72 pp. illus.
ISBN 9789747534221