DCO Thai Books

Thais say it Best� by Annie Leo

Thais say it Best when they say Nothing at all!

By Annie Leo

An eye-opening resource for foreigners who want to live, work and build meaningful relationships with the Thai people. Whether you are a newcomer, or have been working in Thailand for sometime, or you are in a leadership position, this book will help you answer your questions about how Thais express themselves and understand each other without saying a word � through nonverbal communication.

Paperback
Bangkok 2008
Bangkok Book House
136 Pages
ISBN : 9789748280271

Thailand Dream - Isaan Passion

By George Koinakov

This is how this inexplicable passion started. If I had read the books on Thailand which I bought much later, my life would have been different, maybe. I couldn�t even imagine that I had fallen victim to the most incredible scheme, which had ruined the dreams and lives of thousands of tourists who had gone to Thailand searching for happiness.

And I was an experienced man who had had hundreds of women. Bullshit, I was simply yet another stupid farang. Yet another one you can get money out of � the more the better. Naturally, I have nothing to regret � nothing that happened to me and nothing I did. I had thought about everything, I had weighed up the risk and took it with all the responsibility of an adult man.

But I could have at least tried to learn more. I did so in the end, but it was too little, too late. I suffered damage beyond measure in emotional terms. Financial loss was something I let go of much easier, and it was something I could control. But a broken heart and shattered dreams can never be made up.

Paperback
Bangkok 2008
Edition Bamboo Sinfonia
137 Pages
ISBN : 9789741374335

Pattaya by Night - 4th. Issue

The Original Pattaya Nightlife Magazine

Pattaya By Night; in this issue exclusive photos from Angelwitch, Baby Dolls, Casino Club, Club Boesche, Club Oasis, Diamond, Heaven Above, Secrets, Super Baby, Super Girl plus cartoons and stories.

Note:
I'm afraid that there are certain countries in the world where customs prohibit some imports. We can not send the magazine to these countries.

Below are some pictures from the magazine.

Magazine Format
11.5 x 8 Inches (30 x 21 cm)
56 pages
Pattaya 2008

Flucht von David McMillan

Die wahre Geschichte des einzigen Ausländers, dem es gelang, aus dem berüchtigten Gefängnis Bangkok Hilton auszubrechen.

Flucht � Die wahre Geschichte des einzigen Ausländers, dem es gelang, aus dem berüchtigten Gefängnis Bangkok Hilton auszubrechen.

Im Klong Prem Gefängnis in Thailand, besser bekannt unter dem Namen „Bangkok Hilton”, vermodern unter den 12.000 Gefangenen 600 Ausländer. Einer der Vergessenen ist ein Mann, der nur ein Ziel kennt: Flucht! Dies ist die wahre Geschichte des australischen Drogenschmugglers David McMillan, der über seinen gefährlichen Ausbruch aus dem berüchtigtsten Gefängnis Asiens berichtet. Von seiner Verhaftung auf dem Flughafen in Bangkok bis zur Urteilsverkündung schildert er aus erster Hand das Leben von Briten, Australiern, Amerikanern und anderen ausländischen Gefangenen, die durch Krankheit, Verwahrlosung und Verzweiflung zerstört werden. Der Tod ist der einzige Ausweg. Zwei Wochen vor seiner fast sicheren Hinrichtung floh McMillan. Er lebt heute in England

Paperback
Bangkok 2008
Edition Bamboo Sinfonia
337 Pages
ISBN : 9789741373833

Speak Like a Thai CD Vol. 4

Speak Like a Thai Volume 4 CD by Benjawan Poomsan Becker

Heart Words

Jai, which means 'heart' and also 'mind', is an important word in the Thai language. It is a special concept in the Thai culture and is included in many descriptive Thai words. Heart Words contains 300 entries of common contemporary heart words and phrases. They are recorded on the audio CD and explained in the booklet with a brief translation, a literal translation and used in a sample phrase or sentence. Listen and learn how Thai people express their feelings and thoughts. The sample sentences or phrases provided are often used by the Thai people. You will be able to apply them to your situation right away.

As a bonus, more than a hundred heart words that are less common and Thai tidbits that contain the word "jai" are also included in the booklet for your reference. You will gain significant insight about the Thai people and their social context while increasing your vocabulary.

This volume of Speak like a Thai is appropriate for Thai learners of all levels.

Audio CD and Booklet
Bangkok 2008
Paiboon Publishing
ISBN 9781887521765

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Last Escape by Paul Garrigan

Last Escape

By Paul Garrigan

This is the true story of how a hopeless drunk found redemption in a Thai temple. He went there out of desperation and knew it to be his last hope. The Buddhist monks offered him what other treatment centers couldn�t.

The odds were stacked against him. All his previous attempts to quit his addiction ended in failure. Why should this time be any different?

The temple program was harsh but he quickly realises that his body and mind are rapidly healing. He dares to hope that maybe this could really work.

Paperback
Bangkok 2008
Bangkok Book House
198 Pages
ISBN : 9789741342426

Revenge of Axel Trink by Mitch Vladimir

The Revenge of Axel Trink

By Mitch Vladimir

It is 1980, and the security of the American Embassy in Bangkok is under threat - from one of its own…

Diplomat Axel Trink's career is tainted with wrongdoings and an obsession with gaining revenge on his boss , Josephine Bateman, who years earlier took advantage of him to jump-start her own Foreign Service career. This obsession takes a deadly turn when Trink gets involved with local terrorists and gangsters.

His life and career are already at risk when he falls for a beautiful Thai terrorist and absconds with C-4 explosive and a cache of drugs intended to finance a coup d'état; all in the name of revenge.

Will Axel succeed with his revenge plot and flee to paradise or will his misdeeds come back to haunt him? Bangkok provides the ideal backdrop for the unraveling of a man who has sworn to protect the American flag -- but who instead takes the deadly paths of deceit and wrongdoing.

Paperback
Bangkok 2008
Bangkok Book House
238 Pages
ISBN : 9789741381593

Genuine Thai Copies by Sean Bunzick

Genuine Thai Copies

By Sean Bunzick

Lek is just another beautiful 'working girl' in a seedy Phuket town full of working girls. But when she is kidnapped by a crazed genetic scientist and taken to his Bangkok laboratory, her life takes some very original twists and turns. The scientist is insane, but he is also brilliant, and before long he has made history by cloning Lek and turning out five identical replica 'Leks', each with distinct characteristics of her own.

As the real Lek remains imprisoned in Bangkok, the clones are released and sent on wildly different paths. One takes over a bar on Soi Cowboy. Another ends up working for a Russian gangster and his Islamic allies in Pattaya. A third is a lesbian who is forced to work in a heterosexual bar in Bangkok's Nana Plaza. Yet another finds herself in Chiang Mai where she dedicates herself to slipping in and out of Burma and creating havoc among the Burmese military. The last clone is perhaps the scariest of all � a psychopathic killer who relishes torturing and murdering her victims.

As the tale progresses, the clones team up to combat Muslim terrorists who are intent on targeting Bangkok's sex industry with a series of lethal bombs. Can Lek's five clones work as one girl to stop the terrorists?

Paperback
Bangkok 2008
Bangkok Book House
288 Pages
ISBN : 9789741317004

Cyber Girl by Neville Allen

Cyber Girl

By Neville Allen

Nittaya Siriwadana's life takes a whole new course when a friend introduces her to the intriguing, seductive world of the 21st Century Cyber Girl.

Suddenly, this naive, out-of-work university graduate smells a small fortune. And all she needs do to reap the rewards is invest an hour or two each day snaring lonely, unsuspecting western men by e-mail.

It isn't long before Nid, as she is known, outshines her mentor -- but her new-found wealth doesn't come without a price. Excitement and suspense enter Nid's life as she is forced to balance time between western lovers and Kwan, her new Thai boyfriend. Kwan's criminal activities shatter Nid's dreams, exposing her to Bangkok's vicious underbelly of drugs, murder and revenge. Nid ultimately finds true love only to have its promise snatched away as her life hangs by a thread in a violent, action-filled ending to an emotion-packed story.

Paperback
Bangkok 2008
Bangkok Book House
246 Pages
ISBN : 9789740909064

Illicit Islands by John Daysh

Illicit Islands

By John Daysh

Have you ever had such an amazing holiday that you wanted to call your boss, resign, and just carrying on? Ever wondered if you could make a life of it?

Nick, a respectable young professional, has a life changing epiphany on a beach in Thailand. He quits his job and blunders his way to the south of Thailand on the back of a series of edgy encounters, spontaneous interactions and an airport cavity search. A slide from respectability follows as he stumbles into the illicit underworld of island life.

Illicit Islands is a humorous but thought provoking exploration of the fine balance that operates between travel and escape and the ways in which individual responsibility and morality can become blurred.

Paperback
Bangkok 2008
Bangkok Book House
310 Pages
ISBN : 9789740988663

Dansk-Thai

Dansk-Thai Parlør

Danish-Thai phrasebook, 2 colours for easy reference.

Tal, dage og datoer
Indkøb
Spise ude
Rejse
Vejret
Fritid og sport
Sightseeing
Bank, posthus og politistation
Læge, hospital
Små snak

Paperback
Bangkok 2008
Bangkok Book House
122Pages
ISBN : 9789741358977

Dansk-Thai with CDs

Dansk-Thai Parlør + 2 CDs

Danish-Thai phrasebook, 2 colours for easy reference.

Tal, dage og datoer
Indkøb
Spise ude
Rejse
Vejret
Fritid og sport
Sightseeing
Bank, posthus og politistation
Læge, hospital
Små snak

Paperback with 2 Audio CDs
Bangkok 2008
Bangkok Book House
122Pages
ISBN : 9789741358922

Tagalog-Thai

Tagalog-Thai Phrasebook

Mahigit kumulang 1,500 na mga mahahalagang salita at pararila
Pagkain ng Thai at pagkain sa labas
Doctor, dentista, ospital at emergency
Pamasyal, pamimili at pagbibyahe
Pera, tanggapan ng korea at himpilan ng pulisya
Mga numero, mga araw at petsa
Panahon, katuwaan at mga laro
Mga maiiksing pananalita at pakikipagkaibigan

Paperback
Bangkok 2008
Bangkok Book House
120Pages
ISBN : 9789740404743

Tagalog-Thai with CDs

Tagalog-Thai Phrasebook + 2 CDs

Paperback with 2 Audio CDs
Bangkok 2008
Bangkok Book House
120Pages
ISBN : 9789740404651

Norsk-Thailandsk

Norsk-Thailandsk Book

Over 1000 nøkkelord og fraser med lydskrift som hjelper deg i alle situasjoner.

Hilsninger, spørsmål og svar
På flyplassen og hotellet
Tall, dager, måneder og dato
Reiser, rundturer og utflukter
Shopping og pruting
På restauranten og i baren
Været, sport og fritid
Penger, post og politi
Ulykker, lege og tannlege
Småprat og få nye venner

Paperback
Bangkok 2008
Bangkok Book House
120Pages
ISBN : 9789740416258

Norsk-Thailandsk with CDs

Norsk-Thailandsk book +2 CDs

Over 1000 nøkkelord og fraser med lydskrift som hjelper deg i alle situasjoner.

Paperback with 2 Audio CDs
Bangkok 2008
Bangkok Book House
120Pages
ISBN : 9789740416166

Private Dancer by Stephen Leather

Private Dancer by Stephen Leather
New Second Edition

Love, Lies and Death in the Land of Smiles

"I don't know if it was love at first sight, but it was pretty close. She had the longest hair I'd ever seen, jet black and almost down to her waist. She had soft brown eyes that made my heart melt, long legs that just wouldn't quit and a figure to die for. She was naked except for a pair of black leather ankle boots with small chrome chains on the side. I think it was the boots that did it for me."

Private Dancer, the on-line cult novel chronicling the disastrous relationship between a travel writer and a Bangkok bargirl, is finally available in print. The on-line version of the novel, written by best-selling thriller writer Stephen Leather, has been downloaded more than sixty thousand times over the past five years. Now Leather has decided to publish the book in Thailand.

The novel is set in Thailand in 1996.Pete, a young travel writer, wanders into a Bangkok bar and meets the love of his life.Pete thinks that Joy is the girl of his dreams: young, stunningly pretty, and one of the top-earning go-go dancers in Nana Plaza. What follows is a roller-coaster ride of sex, drugs, lies and murder, as Pete discovers that his very own private dancer is not all that she claims to be. And that far from being the girl of his dreams, Joy is his own personal nightmare.

Often described as the best book ever written about the Bangkok bar scene, Private Dancer has been a huge hit around the world, and has been downloaded in more than forty countries.

"I have been getting dozens of emails a week asking for the novel to be published, as most people seem to prefer a book they can hold, and put on their shelves," said Leather. "Now that the whole bar scene here is changing, it seemed a good time to finally publish a hard copy."

The striking cover photograph, of a naked girl holding a cut-throat razor behind her back, was taken in Anglewitch Bar in Nana Plaza and features one of the bar�s top showgirls.

Leather, a frequent visitor to the Land of Smiles, is the author of seventeen thrillers that have been translated into more than a dozen languages, including The Tunnel Rats, set in Bangkok and Vietnam, and The Solitary Man, set in Thailand and Hong Kong. He has sold more than a million books worldwide. Two of his novels, The Bombmaker and The Stretch, have been filmed for television in the UK and he has written for TV shows such as London�s Burning and the BBC�s Murder In Mind.

Paperback
Bangkok 2005
Three Elephants
ISBN 9749275535
370 pages

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Mammals of Thailand and South-East Asia

A photographic guide by Charles M. Francis.

Distinctive thumbnail colour tabs outlining each family group to enable quick identification.
Compact, easy-to-use format; the ideal pocket-size travelling companion.
Authoritative text describing key identification features.
Full-colour photographs illustrating 192 key species.

Paperback
Pocket Book
Bangkok 2001
Asia Books
128 pages
ISBN 9781859745076

Thai Massage Manual

Thai Massage Manual by Maria Mercati

Oriental therapy for flexibility, relaxation and energy balance.

It has treated people for over 1,000 years ...
One of the most ancient of the healing arts, Thai massage harmonizes the energies of body and mind. By pressing, stretching and manipulating the body, powerful healing forces are released to ease pain and stress, and correct postural alignment.

Through increasing flexibility, Thai massage helps maintain health and youthful vitality, and improves sports performance. Its exquisite yoga-like techniques enable you to give your family and friends a profoundly relaxing, healing massage.

Paperback
Large Format
Bangkok 1998
Asia Books
144 pages
ISBN 9789748303376

Bangkok Babylon by Jerry Hopkins

The real-life exploits of Bangkok's legendary expatriates are often stranger than fiction.

In the colorful tradition of Orwell and Hemingway, Maugham and Theroux, Jerry Hopkins recalls his first decade as a Bangkok expatriate by profiling twenty-five of the city's most unforgettable characters. Among them are the man thought to be the model for Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, an advertising executive who photographs Thai bargirls for Playboy, an Oscar-winning screenwriter who moved there to die, a Catholic priest who has lived and worked in the Bangkok slums for 35 years, a circus dwarf turned computer programmer turned restaurateur, three Vietnam war helicopter pilots who opened a go-go bar, a pianist at one of the world's best hotels who ended up on the FBI's Most Wanted list, a gem dealer who smuggles antiquities from Burma and Cambodia, a detective who tracks runaways who fake their deaths, and a documentary filmmaker who lives with elephants. All of them "escaped" to Thailand to re-invent themselves and live out their fantasies in one of the world's most notorious cities.

Paperback
Periplus Editions
Singapore 2005
224 Pages
ISBN 9780794602246

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