Nury Vittachi Knihy

400 More uproariously amusing and amazing tales about Asia ex pats you’ll love … The 3rd volume of this best-selling Asia expat books series (69,000 copies sold already).Paying for shags with Tetley tea bags in Indonesia!The Aussie whose job it was to get UN tanks back from Cambodian soldiers!The guy with Bali Belly who used Rupiah notes for toilet paper!The American who hid $2 million cash under his mattress!The rugby tour whore handcuffed to a blue goat!The Thai taxi driver who played Yellow Polka Dot Bikini 20 times over!The site inspector who parked his car in 2-feet of wet cement!The Irishman loose with an AK-47 in Vietnam!Keeping Malay pirates at bay with a flare gun!The gent who left a 500 baht tip under his wife’s pillow!The bar owner ridden home with a pig in a wheelbarrow!And hundreds more funny stories from expats, military and contractors in all parts of Asia and the Far East … plus some really crazy cartoons from Hugh Harrison and Mike Baird.All colourfully narrated by notorious sexpat Colonel Ken, and curated/edited by best-selling author Stu Lloyd who has lived and worked in Asia for 30 years.

Open the pages of this book, and discover Hong Kong as seen from the air: a land as rich in green rugged mountains and remote shores as it is in new office complexes and crowded urban living..

Marko and Miranda learn that Journey to the West--a magical books about a man traveling with the Monkey King--is based on a true story that's just as amazing. Join them as they go on an unforgettable trip to learn the secrets of ancient India and China.

There was once a kingdom in Asia known for its storytelling. But the peaceful inhabitants had to fight the unbeatable Mongol Horde, whose hands held a new invention: the first guns on Earth. Join Miranda and Marko in another thrilling adventure as they journey through time to the ancient Majapahit Empire, with its line of "trickster" princes.

- What if the moon disappeared when no one was looking at it? - What if time worked differently for each of us? - What if things you could touch were made out of ideas? - What if a decision you made now changed history 10 billion years ago? - What if experiments showed that another dimension exists? Quantum physics and relativity, two of the most important advances in modern science, are normally presented as a series of technical discoveries in 20th century Europe. Yet this brief, easy-to-read volume shows how they were underpinned by centuries of observations about the nature of reality from the great philosophies and faiths of humanity, from China to India to the Middle East. At each stage, the people involved found themselves saying: That's impossible! That makes no sense. And yet...

A photographic record of Hong Kong after its establishment as a Special Administrative Region of China.

Hong Kong, 1980. A British police officer minutes away from being arrested by colleagues for sex crimes is found dead in his locked bedroom. There are multiple wounds to his chest; his used service revolver by his side. There's only one possible suicide. Yet a painstaking reinvestigation uncovers a different one involving a secret pedophile ring servicing the city's most powerful men, high-level cover-ups, international geopolitics and the involvement of a secretive unit of police officers tasked with tracking down and arresting homosexuals—the Witchhunters. The operation ultimately resulted in the tragic death of police inspector John MacLennan—a watershed moment leading to the eventual decriminalization of homosexual acts in Hong Kong in 1991. For decades, many people have suspected that the young officer died because of information he possessed. This book reveals for the first time what MacLennan knew.

A man lost in time, a mysterious portal, and a mountain of poems. Marko and Miranda must deliver an urgent message to the mysterious Cold Mountain. But how does one communicate with a mountain, why do the people they meet refuse to speak, and who is the eccentric stranger who writes poems on trees and rocks? Marko and Miranda might be faced with their most challenging adventure yet.

Scientists are often presented as old men in white coats, but this series shows that great discoveries have been made by people of all ages and cultures - some are young people, and many are female.

A dangerous supervillain is on the warpath and the terrified townsfolk need a hero to save them! Nerdy, homework-obsessed Jeri Telstar, the boy who did Good Things at Bad Times, seems like the world's least-likely until he discovers The Biggest Secret in the World. Jeri Telstar is a hero for today, balancing his need to get good grades with his desire to save the universe. This book is the first of a new series that gives modern youngsters a hero with whom they can identify. It will delight with the message that the most powerful forces in the universe are not flying fists but secrets found in books. Aimed at children (boys) aged 6 11 years.