thailand

Shares the story of the Thai soccer team of twelve boys and their coach trapped in a flooded cave miles underground for three weeks. Including the team's time in the cave, failed plans and mistakes from the rescue team, and the mission that saved them.

"Follows the true story of Tony, an eight-year-old boy whose family owns an elephant sanctuary in Thailand and the relationship he forges with two young elephants that he rescued from an urban setting"--OCLC.

"Information accompanies step-by-step instructions on how to cook Thai food"--Provided by publisher.

Follows the life of Mai Ya Xiong, a young Hmong woman, from her childhood in Thailand's Ban Vinai Refugee Camp to her current home in Wisconsin.

Contains twenty-four esays in which the authors debate the issue of modern slavery, providing an overview of marginal workers and global slavery; discussing slave labor, child labor, and the maquiladores; and considering economic growth and human rights in relation to the global economy.

Eric Lomax was in Malaya during World War II and was taken prisoner and put to work on the infamous Burma-Siam Railway After the radio he illicitly helped build was discovered, he was subjected to two years of torture. He never forgot the interpreter at these sessions. At the end of the war he returned to England. Fifty years later he learned the interpreter was still alive. Moving beyond bitterness with the help of his wife, and knowing that he had to find some peace, he found out the man was still alive and they met once again.

The author, a Dutchman who escaped the Nazis in 1940, leaving his homeland for London, then Indonesia, chronicles his three and a half years as a prisoner of war to the Japanese, forced to build a railroad through the jungle on the border of Thailand and Burma.

Text and photographs describe cultural traditions in Thailand and the celebration of holidays.

Television personality Jeff Corwin takes the reader on a expedition to Thailand, and introduces some of the diverse wildlife found there, including a python in a rice paddy, an Asian elephant, a flying lizard, crabs and cobras.

A Thai folktale in which a male and a female rice bird die, but meet again when they are reincarnated as a farmer and a princess.