Matt - Libros y biografía

Some Christmas Reading on Thai lifestyle and social culture by MattOwensRees.Quite a selection from four of my most popular books.  Over 35,000 words in total .The Death of a Thai Godfather is a novel...

We discuss whether the Thais are patriotic or xenophobic. The ego of the Thai is considered with comparisons with other countries of the Far East and the rest of the world. There are cultural reasons...

"End of a Life" is taken from one of the chapters of Thailand Take Two and describes the customs and traditions of a Buddhist funeral in the northern Thai province of Chiangmai. It was the most popular...

Some suggestions on books on Thai culture, lifestyle, and light social anthropology. Well worth browing over Christmas and the New year

Matt von Drein ist seit fünf Jahren Vater von Drillingen. Wie überlebt man das als Vater, ohne verrückt zu werden? Matt von Drein lässt uns teilhaben am täglichen Wahnsinn seines Lebens mit Drillingen....

When Micah Stone left work late one night he had no idea he started down a path that would change the fates of more worlds than his.Micah Stone is a poor man working on the toxic world of Caustik, a world...

The Semids are a peaceful people and staunch friends and trade partners of the League since the formation of their Federation of Worlds. When a group of interstellar terrorists detonates a nuclear bomb...

Robin Macy is a data technician more comfortable in the virtual world than in the real one. Shy and mild-mannered, she shows her true skill when her online boyfriend desperately sends her a file then...

The end has come! The world of Epigaea, once ravaged by the Great Storm that nearly destroyed her, now faces one even stronger. A festering, pustulent evil from a past remembered only by the Elves has...

The world of Epigaea is old and filled with promise and peril. In their pride and arrogance the magic-wielders of old unleashed a storm so powerful that Epigaea herself rebelled and rose against them....

It's a royal wedding to lift the heaviest of hearts! When newlyweds Micah and Jenn Stone depart on their honeymoon cruise it is with expectation of many wonderful surprises and delicious desserts. They...

Dirk d'Argent is a man of many talents, swordsmanship chief among them. Upon reaching manhood he wandered the Seven Kingdoms of Epigaea plying his sabre in the service of merchants and generals eager...

Illegal drug smuggling is a huge and persistent problem between the League and the Metazan Republic, especially in the Lost Angels sector which borders it. Matters reach a head when the niece of the sector...

Last year 14-year-old Jason Taggart and their classmates left childhood behind. Now back in Wisdom, they struggle both with who and what they are and with the usual struggles of growing up. Unknown to...

The Coalition of Grakis Major has a long-standing custom of inviting League volunteers to help monitor and collect data for its elections. Now, though, its economy is near-disaster and only getting worse....

For once school is going well for Jason Taggart and the students of Lincoln High. Two years ago fourteen-year-old Jason and a handful of his classmates discovered the awful truth about themselves and...

Jason Taggart is a junior high student in the small town of Wisdom, Arizona. His life is full of study, friends and the lovely Darla Jansen on whom he has a major crush. Follow along as he works to gain...

Failing a mission can cost Micah Stone his life, nothing new about that, but this time success might cost him his best friend! Of late, the League Navy has suffered a suspicious increase in the number...

When an innocent girl dies trying to get an autograph from her favorite movie stars it is a tragedy and a crime. When sensitive League military data is discovered in her possession it is a call to action...

The world of Epigaea sleeps uneasy, troubled by nightmares of disaster past. The rumblings of that catastrophe foreshadow the future as darkness looms, from whence she knows not. A few of the creatures...

SOLIDWORKS Professional Advanced Surface Modeling (CSWPA-SU) Exam Preparation Book  The most complete and comprehensive book on CSWPA-SU Exam available Based on the actual CSWPA-SU  Exam Easy and comprehensible...

The Death of a Thai Godfather is a fictional story spanning three generations of the Parin family in Bangkok and northern Thailand.While the word mafia conjures up, in the minds of most readers, images...

Thailand is known as the Land of Smiles. But never assume that smiles mean the same as they do in the West. Smiling is quite automatic in Thailand. A monk once told me that Thais were born with smiles...

Ubonwan is a Thai academic who wrote a 400 page doctoral thesis on the 9 characteristics of the Thai and why that contributed to the total failure of the early Christian missionaries to convert the Thais....

A Thailand Diary is a lighter read than my flagship book on Thai lifestyle and social culture, Thailand Take Two, which is a more detailed work of 10 chapters and with 42,000 words.The diary is a lighter...

A Thailand Diary takes you into the lives of ordinary Thais through its 365 entriesThailand Take Two is a comprehensive analysis of Thai lifestyle and culture over 10 chapters

Thailand Take Two looks at Thais and Thailand in a unique way. It is not a politically correct travel guide written to promote tourism and showing only the rosy side of Thailand. Real characters are introduced...

Hidden Thailand comprises 5 books on Thai Lifestyle and CultureA Thailand Diary shows, through its 365 pages, a real Thailand that many do not see.The 10 chapters of Thailand Take Two look at the main...

With real people and real events, take a virtual tour of everyday life in the Land of Smiles by browsing this selectopm of Diary Entries.Meet some interesting characters (only names have been changed)...

Escape to Thailand is an account of an Englishman's dream of emigrating to Thailand and how it turned out. There are twists and turns throughout the 14 chapters. He first "met" Toy, a Thai teacher, on...