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Little Angels: The Real Life Stories of Thai Novice Monks

by Phra Peter Pannapadipo.

 

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The real life stories of the novice monks in Little Angels reflect the lives of many youths in rural Thailand who are trapped in the vicious cycle of poverty, broken homes, illiteracy and drug abuse.

When all else fails, Buddhism becomes their last resort: providing them with physical shelter and spiritual refuge. It heals their childhood traumas and gives them a moral framework for living and a better outlook on life.

Each individual story, heartrending as it may be, subtly shows what Phra Peter sees and hopes to show to others: the 'human face' of Thai Buddhism.

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Jesus The Son Of Man by Kahlil Gibran.

 

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Still one of Gibran’s most well loved works over 70 years after its original publication, Jesus the Son of Man is a striking fictional portrait of Christ as seen through the eyes of his contemporaries.

Depicting a variety of famous figures, from Mary Magdalen to Pontius Pilate, Gibran’s spellbinding collection of narratives combines historical authority with the supreme eloquence that his admirers hold so dear.

Fully conscious of the social, political, and religious realities of Palestine and Rome at the time, and at home with the local traditions and language, Gibran effortlessly evokes the spellbinding power of Christ’s presence upon his associates. Presented in an attractive gift format and accompanied by Gibran’s original artwork, this new edition allows Gibran’s inspirational account of Christ to be read once more.

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Nadia's Song by Soheir Khashoggi.

 

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"You will have great sorrow in your life, and loss," the old woman foretold.

"But you will also have great triumph and joy.

And only Allah knows in what measure."

 

Alexandria, Egypt.

Born a humble servant girl on a cotton plantation owned by a wealthy British family, Karima Ismail never imagined how far her dreams would take her, nor the heartache and passion in store.

Although her doomed love for her employer's handsome son ends in tragedy, their brief romance leaves her with a beautiful daughter who is the joy of her life.

 

In time, Karima's heavenly voice brings her stardom as she becomes one of the most admired and successful singers of her generation, the world famous "Nightingale" of Egypt.

But all her success counts for nothing when, in one terrible night of flame and revolution, little Nadia suddenly disappears, leaving Karima bereft.

 

Given a new name and identity, Karima's lost daughter grows up thousands of miles away.

It is only when an unexpected chain of events leads "Gaby" back to Egypt that she can begin to unravel the mystery of her past and discover the happiness she longs for.

 

Set against five decades of turbulent Middle Eastern history, from World War II to the first Gulf War, Nadia's Song is a moving saga of mothers and daughters and the unbreakable bond between them.

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Wanderings: History of the Jews by Chaim Potok.

 

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A fascinating history of the Jews, told by a master novelist, here is Chaim Potok's fascinating, moving four thousand-year history.

Recreating great historical events, exploring Jewish life in its infinite variety and in many eras and places, here is a unique work by a singular Jewish voice.

 

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S.O.S. by Joseph Connolly.

 

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It takes just six days and nights to cross the Atlantic on a luxury liner, but during that time, lives can be changed forever. Amidst the seething melting pot of 1600 passengers on the 'Transylvania' are David and Nicole.

Nicole and her two teenage children, Rollo and Marianne, are keen on the voyage, but not David, or his mistress, Trish.

Also on board are Jennifer, a youthful 39 and her 20 year old daughter, Stacy.

If she can shake off the attentions of the maddening couple, Nobby and Aggie, veterans of the cruise world, Jennifer would like to fall for Earl, the young son of American couple Dwight and Charlene.

By the time the 'Transylvania' docks in New York, the lives of all have been jarred, bruised and sexed up, knocked out or just plain shredded and what seemed to be a set of inviolate futures now lies in utter disarray on the watery decks of this singular, castaway, floating city.

S.O.S. is another wildly inventive black comedy from one of Britain's funniest writers.

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The New Wellness Revolution: How to Make a Fortune in the Next Trillion Dollar Industry by Paul Zane Pilzer

 

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Five years ago, Paul Zane Pilzer outlined the future of an industry he called "wellness" and showed readers how they could get in on the profitable bottom floor.

The New Wellness Revolution, Second Edition includes more guidance and business advice for entrepreneurs, product distributors, physicians, and other wellness professionals.

It's an industry that will only grow, so get in while you can.

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How Men Have Babies: The Pregnant Father's Survival Guide

by Alan Thicke.

 

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There are books written especially from the male perspective on how to parent, and how to participate in the birth, but none on how to be pregnant.

Until now.

What you hold in your hand is a combination sage advice, expert opinion, and side splitting truths on the up and downside of pregnancy for men.

Alan Thicke, one of America's favorite funny men and father of three, with a little help from father friends including Ray Romano, Wayne Gretzky and Dave Barry, has written the ultimate how to guide for dads to be.

Alan provides the real information and comic relief necessary to assure that your sense of humor doesn't fall victim to your pregnancy, as he expertly guides you through each step of the nine months.

From Breasts to Birthing Class, How Men Have Babies is about pregnancy from a man's perspective, intended to get him involved early and fully.

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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

by Dai Sijie, Ina Rilke.

 

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In this enchanting tale about the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic awakening, two hapless city boys are exiled to a remote mountain village for re education during China's infamous Cultural Revolution.

There they meet the daughter of the local tailor and discover a hidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translation.

As they flirt with the seamstress and secretly devour these banned works, they find transit from their grim surroundings to worlds they never imagined.

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How to Drive Your Man Wild in Bed

by Graham Masterton & Liz Coldwell.

 

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ARE YOU REALLY GOOD IN BED?

Women are capable of getting more fun out of sex than men. Even if you're not the world's most confident lover, the pleasure potential is within you.

Read this book and find out how you can: realise your erotic potential; discover what a man wants from you in bed and how to give it to him; find out how to get and keep the man you want.

This book is a course in sexual self improvement.

It tells you how erotic technique, diet, psychology and understanding can build the sex life you already have into something even more satisfying and successful.

So, stimulate your sexual imagination, fling off your inhibitions and set in motion all the passion, sensuality and fun at your command.

SURPRISE YOURSELF - AND DRIVE HIM WILD?

How to drive Your Man Wild in Bed has sold over 100,000 copies.

This completely updated edition has been rewritten and edited by Liz Coldwell, editor of Forum, Britain's best-known magazine about sex.

'Superb. A godsend. Spells out all the techniques of being a good lover.' Kate Taylor, GQ.

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Spiritual Healing of Traditional Thailand

by C. Pierce Salguero

 

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Both Buddhism and shamanism continue today to play a role in the healing practices found throughout traditional Thai culture.

Drawing upon the author's extensive academic research and practice of these arts, this book will provide an overview to the spiritual practices of Thailand, with particular emphasis on healing rituals and meditations that can be practiced in the modern West.

Illustrated throughout with attractive photographs and diagrams, The Spiritual Healing of Traditional Thailand is intended to be a visual experience, drawing the reader into the colourful world of Thai spirituality.

The photographs were taken between 1997 and 2004, as the author traveled the countryside of Thailand engaging with monks, shamans, and healers of every stripe.

Interspersed among the images are traditional meditations, prayers for healing, instructions for practice of Thai ceremonies, and biographies of famous Thai healers.

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Mind Power: Secret Strategies for the Martial Arts (Achieving Power by Understanding the Inner Workings of the Mind)

by Kazumi Tabata.

 

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Learn to harness your spiritual and mental energy to acquire the tools for survival and success in martial arts.

 

In Mind Power: Secret Strategies for the Martial Arts, Kazumi Tabata, Grandmaster in the Shotokan and Shorinji styles of Karate, offers his personal teachings as to how martial arts students can reach the point where time seems to slow down, quick movements are seen in slow motion, and the full potential of one's inner power can be harnessed.

 

Chapters include:

Strategy, basic physical and mental approaches to combat

Basic Laws of the Mind and Body, How to harness and maximize the power of one's mind and body.

Strategy of a Virtuous Man, How, with honorable approaches, to approach and win confrontations.

How to Interpret Your Mind, Insights into our mind's workings

Words and Deeds of a Virtuous Man.

Approaches and actions of a man seeking higher ground

Strategy of the Mind.

Best application of our cognitive instincts

The Law of Anger and the Law of Snapping.

How anger manifests and how to work with it

How to Interpret Wavelengths, Insight into understanding others

Strategy of Mu, How to build upon a very Eastern approach; the concept of emptiness.

The Pinnacle of Spiritual Attainment, Translations and interpretations of ancient writings.

The Heart of Sutra, Translations and interpretations of ancient writings.

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Kama Sutra of Vatsayana by Vatsayana.

 

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The 1964 publication of Sir Richard Burton's translation marked the first wide appearance in English of the Kama Sutra and was celebrated as a literary event of highest importance.

As vital to an understanding of ancient Indian civilization as the works of Plato and Aristotle are to the West, the Kama Sutra has endured for 1,700 years as an indisputable classic of world literature.

Written with frankness and unassuming candor, the Kama Sutra remains one of the most readable and enjoyable of all the classics of antiquity.

A work of philosophy, psychology, sociology, Hindu dogma, scientific inquiry, and sexology, the Kama Sutra's importance is so great that it has at the same time both affected Indian civilization and remained an indispensable key to understanding it.

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A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future

by Charles Van Doren

 

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A one volume reference to the history of ideas that is a compendium of everything that humankind has thought, invented, created, considered, and perfected from the beginning of civilization into the twenty-first century.

Massive in its scope, and yet totally accessible, A HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE covers not only all the great theories and discoveries of the human race, but also explores the social conditions, political climates, and individual men and women of genius that brought ideas to fruition throughout history.

"Crystal clear and concise.

Explains how humankind got to know what it knows."

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Hello My Big Big Honey!: Love Letters To Bangkok Bar Girls And Their Interviews.

by Dave Walker & Richard S. Ehrlich.

 

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Veteran reporter Richard Ehrlich and Dave Walker unfold a tale of love and lust in Bangkok's notorious red light district. These interviews and correspondence with working girls and their patrons draw an intimate and touching portrait amidst the blaring lights and pounding music of Bangkok.

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In This Very Life by Sayadaw U. Pandita.

 

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Burmese tradition master Sayadaw U Pandita is the rarest kind of teacher, one who can show us that freedom is as immediate as breathing, as fundamental as a footstep.

In this book he describes the path of the Buddha and calls all of us to that heroic journey of liberation.

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The ravens: Pilots of the secret war of Laos

by Christopher Robbins.

 

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The Ravens were American forward air controllers who directed strikes from vulnerable, low flying spotter planes, mainly in support of a Meo general named Vang Pao in Laos. "Advised" by the CIA, this fierce warlord fought to keep the North Vietnamese out of the strategic Plain of Jars.

Robbins (Air America) conveys the unique flavor of Raven style combat and also explains how the diplomatic military dynamics of the clandestine war in Laos fit into the overall American effort in Southeast Asia.

The cast of characters is memorable: a swaggering, rowdy bunch of mavericks whom their parent service (the U.S. Air Force) had great difficulty controlling, they seemed to get by on sheer cussedness.

According to the author, they suffered the highest casualty rate of the Indochinese War.

Robbins describes the poignant plight of displaced Meo/Hmong tribespeople who have settled uneasily in the United States, including General Pao and their ongoing struggle to "propitiate the alien spirits of America."

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Thaksin: by Pasuk Phongpaichit & Chris Baker.

 

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In the early 1990's, 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.

 

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 airport, 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.

In this expanded second edition, four new chapters and a conclusion trace in detail the protracted story of Thaksin's downfall.

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The Great Philosophers by Frederic Raphael & Ray Monk.

 

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The Great Philosophers in one volume: the widely acclaimed series on the greatest philosophers by specialists writing for the general reader.

The Great Philosophers brings together in one volume and in chronological order the best from our hugely successful series: Anthony Gottlieb on Socrates; Bernard Williams on Plato; John Cottingham on Descartes; Roger Scruton on Spinoza; David Berman on Berkeley; Anthony Quinton on Hume; Terry Eagleton on Marx; Ray Monk on Russell; Jonathan Ree on Heidegger; Peter Hacker on Wittgenstein; Frederic Raphael on Popper Andrew Hodges on Turing.

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Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths

by Bruce Feiler.

 

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Both immediate and timeless, Abraham tells the powerful story of one man's search for the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Traveling through war zones, braving violence at religious sites, and seeking out faith leaders, Bruce Feiler uncovers the defining yet divisive role that Abraham plays for half the world's believers.

Provocative and uplifting, Abraham offers a thoughtful and inspiring vision of unity that redefines what we think about our neighbors, our future, and ourselves.

This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

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Wild Girls, Wild Nights: True Lesbian Sex Stories

by Sacchi Green.

 

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There are the fabled urban myths of lesbians who fill up a U Haul on the second date and lead sweetly romantic lives of cocoa and comfy slippers.

Safe and sound.

A lot of cozy and not much crazy.

These are NOT those stories, these are wild women with dirty minds, untamed tongues, and even the occasional cuff or clamp.

A lotta crazy and no cozy slippers to be seen.

These Wild Girls tell stories of their own Wild Nights (and days,) memories too hot to keep undercover.

Real women with real needs and overwhelming desires find the courage to reveal intimate, unrestrained details of their sex lives, the need to share their stories second only to the urgent impulses that drove the action in the first place.

There are first times, life long commitments, and fleeting encounters to savor for a lifetime.

Tenderness merges with edge play; scenes shift from Caribbean islands to desert battlefields to the ultimate privacy of home; and the writers range from well known names to newcomers driven to share fresh memories they'll never forget.

 

In Evan Mora's "The Insatiable Travel Itch," repression in public drives her wild.

"Transported, transplanted, we are transgressors.

And it makes me fucking wet.

Angel Propps struggles to face her deepest desires.

The word Daddy had a familiar shape on my tongue, but not in my head, and for one second I was sure I was going to Hell and then I came." She'd found, of course, "The Daddy I didn't know I needed." Anna Watson, in "Tamago," gives a poignant and sizzling view of being a lesbian femme who loves butches.

"I know being femme is what makes the breath blow out of me when she calls and says, Babe, I just wanted you to know that I was driving along here, thinking about your breasts."

 

Reality doesn't have to be prosaic.

Real sex can be wet, messy, frenzied, sometimes even awkward, but never boring.

With these writers and seventeen more, Wild Girls, Wild Nights: True Lesbian Sex Stories is the proof of that.

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Angkor: An Introduction to the Temples by Dawn Rooney.

 

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Essential information on where to stay and how to get there make up the practical side of this guide but the first part contains background details on Khmer history and religion. The second part is a monument by monument guide to the sites themselves.

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Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman

by Minoo Dinshaw.

 

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ECONOMIST AND SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016.

 

The biography of one of the greatest British historians, but also of a uniquely strange and various man.

 

In his enormously long life, Steven Runciman managed not just to be a great historian of the Crusades and Byzantium, but Grand Orator of the Orthodox Church, a member of the Order of Whirling Dervishes, Greek Astronomer Royal and Laird of Eigg.

His friendships, curiosities and intrigues entangled him in a huge array of different artistic movements, civil wars, Cold War betrayals and, above all, the rediscovery of the history of the Eastern Mediterranean.

He was as happy living in a remote part of the Inner Hebrides as in the heart of Istanbul.

He was obsessed with historical truth, but also with tarot, second sight, ghosts and the uncanny.

 

Outlandish Knight is a dazzling debut by a writer who has prodigious gifts, but who also has had the ability to spot one of the great biographical subjects.

This is an extremely funny book about a man who attracted the strangest experiences, but also a very serious one.

It is about the rigours of a life spent in the distant past, but also about the turbulent world of the twentieth century, where so much that Runciman studied and cherished would be destroyed.

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The Way to Nirvana in This Life: Buddhism Kindle Edition

by Ekachai Chulacharitta.

 

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The Buddha realized nirvana with his mind during his lifetime. So did all of his arahant disciples, who also realized nirvana after him in their lifetime.

Likewise, the attainment of nirvana in this very life is possible if we are constantly mindful to abandon what is evil, always do what is good and purify our own mind like all the arahants. This can be achieved through the study and practice of the dharma according to the four noble truths, correctly, fully and consistently.

This little book therefore brings to you the four noble truths, plainly and clearly explained, complete with the three aspects of learning, namely, theory, practice and evaluation.

You will certainly experience nirvana at each and every moment in this life without any limitation as to time and place. And there is no need to wait until the next life either.

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Vulture Peak by John Burdett.

 

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Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, and there is no one quite like Sonchai: a police officer who has kept his Buddhist soul intact more or less, despite the fact that his job shoves him face to face with some of the most vile and outrageous crimes and criminals in Bangkok.

But for his newest assignment, everything he knows about his city and himself will be a mere starting point.

 

He’s put in charge of the highest-profile criminal case in Thailand, an attempt to bring an end to trafficking in human organs.

He sets in motion a massive sting operation and stays at its center, traveling to Phuket, Hong Kong, Dubai, Shanghai, and Monte Carlo.

He draws in a host of unwitting players that includes an aging rock star wearing out his second liver and the mysterious, diabolical, albeit gorgeous co-queenpins of the international body parts trade: the Chinese twins known as the Vultures. And yet, it’s closer to home that Sonchai will discover things getting really dicey: rumors will reach him suggesting that his ex-prostitute wife, Chanya, is having an affair.

Will Sonchai be enlightened enough, forget Buddha, think jealous husband to cope with his very own compromised and compromising world?

 

All will be revealed here, in John Burdett’s most mordantly funny, propulsive, fiendishly entertaining novel yet.

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Last Letters Home by Tamasin Day-Lewis

 

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A collection of letters written from the Front to those left behind in World War II.

The book introduces the reader to the recipients of these letters, and those who wrote them and made it home.